Barclay Davis - Lover Of Mine, Cold Open

 

Art by Scopedog

Frida was in the bathroom brushing her teeth. She takes very good care of them, brushing, flossing, whitening them, and finally rinsing them. It helps her overcompensate with having an overbite, which she despises.

Frida spent her whole life dealing with people who made fun of her teeth. And even though she's become an adult, she can still feel the sting of those who made fun of her. She hears the words "Bucky" and "Little Miss Beaver Puss" from her former classmates, as well as her own mother mocking her, during her drunken sprees. Not to mention Archie Sanders making fun of them while out on a date, because he can.

When she was done brushing her teeth, Frida looked at them in the mirror, and became sad and depressed about them.

Frida then went into the living room, where Max and Victor were on the couch watching television, and plopped down next to Max's right, sulking.

When Max sees Frida making that face, he says "Ok Frida, what's the problem?"

"What problem?" Frida says, with a lousy tone in her voice.

"You just sat down on the couch with a sour look on your face." Max tells Frida. "That means you're upset about something."

"It's nothing!" Frida says, very unconvincingly.

"Frida!" Max says, the tone in his voice a little whinny.

After looking at Max for a bit, Frida answers "Fine...it's my teeth."

"What about them?" Max asks her.

"I hate them!" Frida answers with a bit of a bite in her tone. "My upper teeth stick out like a sore thumb. I look like a jackass with them!"

Max looks at Frida's teeth, and says "I don't see what the problem is. It's barely recognizable. You're just being a bit paranoid is all." Frida was quite surprised to hear that from Max, and felt quite offended by it, as Max continued. "No one really cares if your teeth stick out a bit. In fact, they make you look rather cute with the way they..." At that point, Frida got quite incensed over what she thought was Max being condescending towards her. She then turned to confront Max about it.

"Cute? CUTE?!!" Frida say to Max rather furiously "You think I'm being paranoid about what you call CUTE?!!" The tone in Frida's voice grew angrier as she spoke. She points at her mouth and screams at Max "LOOK AT THESE TEETH, MAX EDWARDS!!! CAN YOU ACTUALLY SIT THERE AND TELL ME YOU LOVE THE WAY THEY ARE?!!" She then drew her lower jaw in so that Max could get a better look at her upper teeth.

Max was taken back by the way Frida reacted to his opinion of her teeth. Victor was sitting on the top of the couch, to Max's left and was concerned Frida was piling on him for no good reason.

After an awkward moment, Max says, rather meekly, "Well...yeah, I do."

Frida was enraged by Max's answer. She replied by slapping his face hard, while screaming "DON'T YOU FUCKING LIE TO ME!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬" Frida's slap was so hard, Max head was twisted to his right, and he collapsed his face into the back cushions, while rubbing the left side of his face with his hand. Victor went over to check on Max, to see if he was alright, while giving Frida a dirty look for slapping him. Frida didn't care. At that point, she was furious at Max for what she believed was him talking down to her.

Frida kept screaming angrily at Max, saying "WHAT FUCKING EXCUSE COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE FOR LOVING MY TEETH?!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬"

Max's face was still in the cushions, and he was still rubbing his face from Frida's hard slap at him. Finally, Max says "Because Frida..." as he then lifts his head from the couch to look at her and continues. "Your teeth...are what makes that smile of yours stand out more beautiful and lovely than it has any right to be." Frida's face slowly started going from angry to surprised when she heard that, as Max continued. "And you teeth causes you to leave your mouth open a bit. And when I see it open like that, with your lips all full and puffy...I so badly want to kiss them!"

After Max had said all that, Frida's face grew bigger in shock. She couldn't believe what Max was telling her. That her own teeth, that she spent her whole life hating, was honestly and genuinely loved by him.

After staring awkwardly at Max, who's head was bowed down and looking pained and sorrowed at her🥺, Frida started crying her eyes out, as she buried her face in her own hands.

When Frida started crying, Max instantly got concerned for her. He said, "Frida?!!" and quickly got off the couch and on his knees in front of her, with his hands on her knees, as his concern for her was growing. Max continued, "What's wrong Frida, why you crying?"

Speaking with her face buried in her hands, Frida cried out, "...because I grew up DESPISING my teeth!" She lifted her head up to look at Max while she was speaking, as her face was drenched with her own tears. "All the kids at school used to make fun of me, calling me names, like 'Bucky' or 'Little Miss Beaver Puss!' My mother couldn't be bothered to get me braces, she thinks I deserved to look ugly! Even Archie made fun of them! He said I should be so lucky to be going out with him, with teeth like this!" Max made a disgusted look when hearing that about Sanders.

As she continued to cry uncontrollably, Frida said "My teeth have been the bane of my entire life!"

Frida stopped crying for a moment to look at Max, who was on his knees in front of her, looking very concerned for her. She then cupped her hands on his face and gently raised it up so that she can look right at him. She then said to Max "But you...you're the very first person who ever told me they loved my teeth just the way they are!

"The man I love so very much!!!💘💖💗💓💞💕"

Max could only stare at Frida's tear covered face, as she went from being angry and upset at Max, to remembering why she was so madly in love with him in the first place.

After looking at her, tears still coming down her face but with a smile on it, Max puts his hands up through Frida's arms, places them on her face, and tells her "Oh Frida..." Frida then hugs Max tight, and starts kissing him, passionately, which left Max unable to move his arms because they were caught in Frida's hug. It didn't help Max when Frida pulled his body up to her and wrapped her legs around him, tightly, so she could continue to wildly kiss him. As soon as Frida started kissing Max's face all over, Max struggles to say to her, "Frida...I can't BREATHE!!!"

When Max said that, Frida quickly let go of him so that he could breathe, holding his face and saying to him with concern, "Oh Max, I am so sorry! Are you all right my love?"

After catching his breath, Max looks at Frida, and says to her, with a sly look on his face "...I am now!"😈 He then pounces on Frida and starts kissing her passionately. But Frida pushes him off her and onto the other side of the couch where she gets on top of Max and starts kissing him passionately. Frida then starts kissing Max's face all over, until she sees a small red mark on his face from when she had slapped him hard. After seeing that, Frida starts crying again.

Max, getting a little frustrated with Frida's crying, leans up and says to her "FRIDA...now what?!!"

Frida says through her tears "I'm sorry Max...I slapped your face so hard!" After a couple of sobs from her, Frida continued "I don't deser..."

"Hey, that ok!" Max softly assured a still visibly upset Frida, while putting his hand on her face. "You just got a lotta hurt in you, is all. But I know how to SAAAALVE that hurt of yours!😈" Max then sticks his tongue out at Frida and starts wildly wiggling it in front of her.

When Frida sees that, she bites her lower lip, and makes a little excitable squeek. Max then gets up, picks Frida up by her waist, and takes her straight to the bedroom, where the door was loudly shut.

Victor, having witnessed all that, breaks the fourth wall down and says "Ya know. Normally, I'm not that big on their overheated sexcapades, but uhh...I think I'll let this one pass!"🦀😁

And after Victor says that, he could hear Frida screaming, from the bedroom "OH MY FUCKING GAAAuhAAAuhAAAAAAd!!!"

Coming up: Barclay Davis, Lover Of Mine con't