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  • Summer In Maine: Part 2
    Lesson Two, and Two and a half.
    A 7-part series by Member389. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Stories.



    This summer job wasn't turning out the way I'd thought. So far I'd mowed the lawn, done the dishes, (thankfully there's a dishwasher) hauled trash, done laundry, dusted and vacuumed. When Summer asked if I wanted to help her out for a few weeks I sort of expected there would be fringe benefits to go with, or instead of, getting paid. Instead it was actual work. She wasn't shy, about her body or mine, she often would wrap her arm around my waist to help with her balance. She occasionally stroked my ass through my jeans. I didn't hesitate to return the favor but I always ended up with only a smile in return. I figured after that first day when I took the job I might get some more personal time with her. The other night I helped her to run a bath, and she shooed me out of the bathroom. One night we watched a late movie I slept over, and ended up on the couch. Something didn't seem right about all of this. Nearly a week had gone by, and it was as if that first day hadn't even happened, and I was too shy to say anything. I hitched the grocery bag I was carrying a little higher, tonight, I'd say something tonight.

    I walked up to the kitchen stoop and pulled open the screen door and I heard a gasping cry. I dropped the bags on the table and darted into the living room, she wasn't there. Another cry, and I looked to the right and saw the bedroom door was open. I walked quietly towards the door, and Summer was laying back on the bed naked except for her bandaged ankle. She was sliding a pink vibrator up and down between her thighs. She tilted it slightly and slid it into her, her other hand pulling on her nipple. I was instantly hard watching her pleasure herself. She let go of the nipple and slid her hand down and began flicking her clit, rubbing it fast. She arched her back crying out "Yes!" She pulled the vibrator out slipping her fingers in as she came. She continued rubbing her clit slowly and stroked her fingers in and out for a few before falling flat to the sheets like a deflated balloon. Her breathing was fast and shallow.

    "How long have you been watching?" She asked, not looking up. She looked absolutely radiant, her skin flushed pink through her tan. Her hair was a tangled mess of sun streaked gold, she looked fantastic.

    "Just a couple minutes." I said quietly looking down at the floor. I heard the old brass headboard creak and I peeked up. She had raised her head and was looking at me.

    "What's the matter?" She asked gently. I shrugged and walked out to the kitchen, and started putting away the groceries.

    "I picked up some local shrimp for lunch. I'll put them on ice in the fridge." I said loudly from the kitchen. I turned and Summer was leaning against the doorway to the kitchen watching me with her arms crossed in front of her, buck naked. She gave me a shrewd glance.

    "Please tell me what's bothering you."

    I looked at her for a moment, then turned away and put a couple other items in the fridge.

    "Nothing." I said, unconvincingly.

    "It's just..." I started. I looked over at her and said.

    "Never mind." I walked out to the yard looking around to see if I should mow the lawn again already or not. I heard the screen door bang shut behind me. I felt her hand on my shoulder as she stepped up beside me.

    "I love it here. The salty sea air, the big sky, everything seems so much simpler." She said softly. I instinctively wrapped my arm around her waist, her skin was warm and damp.

    "Why?" I asked softly.

    "Why what, Pete?" She asked with surprising sincerity. "Why haven't we had sex since Monday? Is that what you want to know? Are you asking me if you were a one afternoon-stand? What Pete? Ask me." She urged.

    Her words inflamed me and my frustration flared. "Yes!" I turned to face her, her arm sliding down from my shoulder. "Was I just a one shot deal? Screw me, then have me cook and clean for you?" I immediately sensed I'd gone too far and full well expected a slap. I'd deserve it if she did. I opened my eyes wide.

    She stood there looking at me, her eyes smoldering. She coolly pointed out. "Which one of us is the one standing here naked?" I stood there a moment longer, every muscle in my body taut like a drawn bow. I snapped and took hold of her and kissing her hard as our lips parted, tongues lashing out at each other like sparring fencers. Her arms wrapped around my waist pulling us together.

    "Damn, I thought I you'd never come around." She said between kisses. I leaned back and gave her a queer look.

    "What?" I asked, completely confused. She grinned ear to ear.

    "Lesson number 2, confidence is sexy. Hell it took me walking around naked to get your damned attention. What the hell is wrong with you?" She bopped me on the forehead. I shrugged, feeling completely confused. I had no idea what she was talking about.

    "This exercise, which you nearly failed miserably I might add, was to see if you would take the lead. I personally tend to be a bit passive. Therefore, as the guy, you need to learn to take the lead, just like dancing." She held my hand up and snugged her hand around my back and gave a little sway.

    "The other night when you fell asleep on the couch I laid awake waiting for you for nearly an hour. I finally took matters into my own hands, maybe I should have made more noise."

    "I knew girls were crazy. I honestly was hoping to get more insight from you, not more confused." I said smiling. "You were waiting for me?"

    "You haven't seen crazy yet, give me a week." She winked.

    I groaned, then kissed her again, holding her against me, my hands stroking down her back to her ass massaging it as I pulled her to me. Holding her was like holding a flame, seductive, hypnotizing and hot, and I didn't care if I got burned.

    "Tell me you've had the good sense to pick up some protection." Summer mumbled between kisses. Without breaking our kiss I reached back for my wallet and held it up.

    "Please tell me you bought more than one." She growled. I felt her hands come between us resting on the waist of my jeans unbuttoning them and grabbing for the zipper. She pushed my jeans and boxers down far enough for me to escape captivity. She let out an appreciative hum as she ran her hand up and down my hardened length. She broke our kiss long enough to grab the hem of my polo shirt and drag it up pulling it over my head. She leaned down and took one of my nipples into her mouth. I gasped out loud at how the sensation shot through me. It felt as if my cock was getting even harder and I didn't think that was possible.

    "Holy shit! Does it feel this way when I do this to you?" I gasped.

    She hummed an agreement as she switched to the other side, then stepped back and looked at me smiling.

    I stood dumb-founded for a moment. I quickly realized she was waiting for me to do something. She placed her hands on her hips and gave them a slight tilt. "I'm all yours, all you need do is tell me how you'd like me, or better yet, show me." She winked. I kicked off my shoes and pushed my pants the rest of the way off and looked at her for a moment. The sun kissed her body so exquisitely, her pink nipples hard and pointing straight at me. Her hair was blowing in the breeze surrounding angelic face like a golden halo. I stepped forward, wrapped her up in my arms again and kissed her deeply. I ran my hand up between us taking her breast in my hand cupping it twirling the nipple in my fingers. I work my mouth down her jaw, kissing her neck and I feel her shudder and gasp. I moved down the center of her chest trailing kisses to the other nipple and teased it with my tongue before taking into my mouth suckling it gently. A moan escaped her lips. Her hand was pulling me towards her, fingers running through my hair. I wanted her so badly but I didn't want this to end. I pulled away looking up at her face, her mouth hung open her eyes half closed.

    "Your ankle has to be killing you right now." I said, noting she'd been standing for a while now. I walked over and brought one of the Adirondack chairs over and set it behind her and she smiled. I laid my clothes on it to keep her from burning her ass on the sun heated wood. She just looked at me without sitting. "Sit down." I told her, and she tilted her head in assent and sat. I knelt down in front of her and kissed her nipple again and began trailing kisses down her stomach. She took the cue and leaned back on the chair. I flicked her little belly button ring aside and licked her belly button. She let out a whoop and jumped, chuckling.

    "Ticklish?" I chuckled. She grasped a handful of my hair and gave me a little push further down, but I was going at my own pace and I made my way down nuzzling her little blond stripe. I kissed my way around her pouting lips, my tongue darting out giving little licks. She tasted sweet, the scent of her was driving me mad, I couldn't take it any longer and slipped my tongue into her as I massaged her clit.

    She arched her back and moaned. "Yes!" I lapped up to her clit taking it in my lips and giving it due attention. Her cries got louder and I stepped up the assault on her. Her leg came up over my shoulder and she pulled me hard into her with her heel. I let up a bit, I didn't want this to end too soon, it seemed that I wasn't the only one enjoying it. I slipped my middle finger into her, and felt her grip it tightly. Her hips started rocking forward. I was pretty sure I could finish her off quickly if I had a mind to, but I didn't. I continued bathing her clit, varying the pressure on it. She let out a few short gasps. "Please?!" She begged. I knew then I had to finish her and slipped another finger in to join the first and intensified my tongue lashing. Her hips lifted off the chair as she climaxed. She held on to me, still moaning, finally collapsing back into the chair panting.

    "You sir, are a natural." She gasped. I returned her smile and licked my fingers.

    "Am I mistaken, or is there a very hard cock in my immediate future?" I grinned even wider and nodded. "How would you like me?"

    "Over hard." I said smiling. Her eyes lit up like a fire had been kindled.

    "Well then, dig that little party hat out and show me how easy it is to put on."

    I chuckled and dove for my wallet lying on the grass a few feet away. I dug out the foil wrapper and crawled back. I tore open the packet holding the ring carefully and reaching down, putting in place and unrolled it carefully.

    "Very good." She said her eyes flashing. She stood up and knelt down on the grass facing the chair. "Over like this? I'm sure you'll supply the 'hard' part." She added with a wink.

    "Yes." I said, my breath shallow. I had to have her and scooted up behind her and lined up pushing the head in. I took her hips and pushed forward in a single motion burying myself in her.

    We both gasped loudly. In moments she started moving her hips back and forth and I pulled out and began taking slow strokes at first, but I knew I wasn't going to last. She leaned back pushing hard against me and I responded in kind driving forward, the sound of our bodies coming together pushed me into a frenzy. Her gasps were coming in short cries of, "Yes!" She began shaking in my hands, her moans coming from deep in her throat as she arched back into me and climaxed again pushing me over the edge. I drove her forward nearly knocking her and the chair over as I stiffened arching my back. I froze in place for what seemed an eternity, and not long enough both at the same time as I came deep in her.

    She leaned back against my chest, the heat of her skin against me was incredible, she reached behind us grasping my ass pulling our hips tight together. "I love how you feel inside me." She whispered. I leaned down and began kissing her shoulder, working my way up to her neck and nibbled on her ear.

    "I love how you feel too." I said, my voice a little weak.

    She breathed a deep contented sigh. "What now?" A small smirk spread across her lips.

    "I don't know about you but I worked up an appetite." I said. "Those shrimp sound good about now."

    "All this and you cook too. You're not going to be single long." She chuckled and reached up behind her and stroked my cheek. "I think we may need to move for that though." She said lightly, reminding me that I still had her pinned against the chair. I leaned back, pulling free of her. I stood stepping back, I gathered up my clothing. Summer put her good foot down and stood, steadying herself on the arms of the chair. "Let's go clean up and have lunch." She smiled slipping an arm around my waist and we went into the house.

    I started a pan for the shrimp, a little olive oil, some garlic and some red pepper flakes tossed on top of fresh spinach. My killer homemade vinaigrette to top and she would be mine. Well she already seemed to be. I stopped and stared out the little window above the sink out over the water. That thought caught me by surprise. What exactly was going on here? An hour ago I was pissed off for being shunned, now I was making her lunch with a silly, satisfied grin on my face.

    Summer hobbled into the kitchen wearing a pale blue tank top and panties with little pink hearts on them.

    "Don't you own pants?" I asked smiling.

    "Sure, would you rather I be fully dressed, or comfortable?" She asked.

    "Oh I don't mind your outfit, as long as you don't mind your lunch burnt to a crisp." I laughed.

    "What are you making?" She replied chuckling.

    "I'm going to woo you with my culinary skills. My own special shrimp and spinach salad with homemade vinaigrette." I said.

    "Wow, sounds awesome. You're a man of many talents. I think you're a little late in the wooing department though." She said smiling.

    My chest tightened at that. Nobody ever thought of me as a man before. Everybody has always treated me as a kid until now. The shock of it must have been evident in my expression.

    "What?" She asked, her eyes widening. I didn't answer her, I just leaned forward and kissed her softly, she responded in turn.

    "Nothing." I said, my grin returning.

    "Need a hand?" I handed her two lemons with directions to squeeze the hell out of them then juice them for me into a bowl. I diced up the shallot, and garlic tossing them into the big bowl, salt and pepper followed. In went a huge dollop of spicy mustard, I looked at how much juice Summer had squeezed out of the lemons and eyeballed it pouring it into the bowl, straining out the seeds. I dug a whisk out of the drawer and started whisking in olive oil.

    "Most vinaigrette recipes ask for vinegar, obviously. I like mine with lemon juice, especially with seafood." I said. I stopped whisking dribbling a little onto my finger to try it. "That's the ticket." I said offering a taste to Summer who agreed with a little sound. I set the big bowl aside and had her start splitting the cherry tomatoes. The shrimp were rinsed and patted dry on a towel, and I threw some garlic into the pan starting it with some of the olive oil. I salted and peppered the shrimp and in they went tossing them around to coat them all with the hot oil. They were ready in a couple minutes and the kitchen smelled terrific. I stacked the plates with spinach and started building the salads with the tomatoes, red onions, shrimp and as a topper sliced almonds.

    "If this tastes like it looks, you're staying on as cook after this heals." She said lifting her foot behind her.

    "Prepare to have your mind blown." I said handing her a plate and a fork. I had brought a small baguette with me which I'd sliced up and we ate.

    "A girl could get used to this." She smiled popping a shrimp into her mouth. Cooking for a girl is a sure way into her panties."

    I laughed. "Even if she wasn't wearing any?"

    "Well she's wearing some now." Her eyes flashed.

    "But for how long?" I said playing along.

    "You have your driver’s license don't you?" She asked, changing the subject.

    "Yea, I just don't have a car of my own yet." I said, wondering why she asked.

    "Do you know of anybody that would loan you one, like your folks?"

    "Yea I'm sure I can get one. Why, do you want to do it in the backseat?" I wiggled my eyebrows at her.

    "Hell yea, but I'd also like to get a ride to go get my Jeep. It's been down at the clinic for a week now. They told me it would be safe but I'm getting a little stir crazy stuck here in the house." She replied.

    I looked out the window. "I can ride down and bring it back, it's only about four or five miles." I said.

    "Ride?" She asked.

    "I have a bike, I can put it in the back and haul it back if you don't mind."

    "Not at all." She smiled.

    I did the dishes and cleaned up after lunch, and Summer kicked back on the sofa folding a load of laundry I'd done earlier. I took a look at the grass, yea the lawn could wait a couple more days. "What else needs to be done?" I asked from the kitchen. I got no answer. I walked into the living room and she was bobbing her head as I walked around the edge of the couch I noticed she'd put in earbuds and was listening to her mp3 player. She was lip syncing some unknown song. She looked up at me and grinned, pulling one of the buds loose.

    "I couldn't live without my music." She threw a towel at me to fold.

    "Listening to anything good?" She mentioned a band I'd never heard of, and moved the folded stuff from beside her and patted the seat beside her. I sat and she handed me the ear bud.

    "Check it out, you might like it." I put it in my ear and listened for a song or two, folding another towel. A hard rock song started and she turned it up a bit and started singing along. She got to the chorus and really joined in full blast. The lyrics were pretty explicit. I was thinking you wouldn't hear music like that on the radio around here. There was a pause, then a soft intro began. The ballad was soft and low, and Summer stopped and closed her eyes, her lips barely moving with the lyrics. When I noticed I stopped and listened intently to the lyrics, it was about intense, heart-felt, you are my world, kind of love. The kind of love that lasts longer than a lifetime. When it ended she reached down and stopped the playback. She looked straight out the window for a moment and turned to me, a shy sweet smile on her lips.

    "Do you believe in love Pete?" She asked me. I stared at her in wide-eyed amazement for a minute, and began slowly nodding.

    "I do now." I said, my voice barely above a whisper. I wanted to kiss her so badly, but something in her eyes made me hesitate. There was sadness there, and they welled up as if she were doing her best to hold back tears. A wash of emotion swept over me like a storm driven wave, and I leaned forward lifted her chin and kissed her softly. Our lips brushed, our tongues sought out one another, delicately probing. Something wet touched my cheek making me break the kiss long before I wanted to. I pulled back and a tear streamed down Summer's cheek. I reached for one of the towels and daubed it. I took a deep breath and was about to ask why she was crying when a curt little head shake waved off the question.

    "Please don't ask, not yet anyway." She said, her voice thick with emotion. "I'm sorry." She said wiping the remaining tear with the heel of her hand.

    "You don't have anything to be sorry about." I replied softly.

    She inhaled deeply and let it out slowly. She turned to me with a smile on her mouth but sadness in her eyes.

    "I saw there's a free concert in the park tonight. Want to go? A rock blues cover band is playing. Sounds like they might be good."

    I knew they were good, my friends brother was in the band, and I'd heard them before. I smiled and nodded. "Sounds like fun, and they are good, I've heard them before."

    "I should ride down and get the Jeep. There's no way you're walking that far." I said sternly.

    "Yes dear." Summer rolled her eyes at me. She giggled, and got up hobbling off to the bedroom and came back with a set of keys handing them to me.

    "It's black, and I'm guessing the only one with West Virginia plates. It's at the walk-in clinic on Route 12."

    I nodded. "I know exactly where you mean. I'll go get it. You relax, take a nap if you want. I should be back in an hour or so." I smiled. I kissed her again, the underlying want in our embrace was nearly too much. She placed her hand on my chest, with the barest hint of pressure. She was right, if I kept it up we weren't going anywhere. I reluctantly stepped back, picked up the folded towels and put them away. I walked back out and she had laid down on the couch with her foot up on a pillow. I smiled that she'd taken my suggestion.

    "Can I get you anything before I go?" I said softly leaning over the arm of the couch. She just smiled and gave her head a little shake. She reached up pulling me down closer for a quick upside-down kiss. I headed for the kitchen door, pausing as I closed it quietly, looking back into the house. I turned and started walking home.

    I walked, lost in thought. This week had been a week of firsts for me. I grinned at the thought of the first day when I lost my virginity to an amazing woman. The aggravation of the following days of not knowing exactly what was happening. If I had just opened my eyes I would have noticed she was waiting for me. Then today when she all but pushed me into making love to her again. I wondered why, well why me anyway. I knew so little about her. What was going on here. We'd known each other about a week, what was that question about believing in love. I could easily fall in love with her, I had to admit. Was I doing just that? So many questions came to mind as I walked up my driveway, I grabbed my bike out of the garage and hopped on. I made my way down to the coast road and started pedaling in earnest up the first rise. The traffic drifted past me as I sought answers to my questions. I pedaled harder nearly coasting up the next rise. Why was I over analyzing this? I was living out a fantasy any red-blooded male would die for. A beautiful, sexy woman wanted to have sex with me, repeatedly. Isn't that enough for me? I laughed out loud at that thought because I realized, it isn't.

    I rolled down the long slope of the hill seeing the clinic up ahead. I pulled into the parking lot and rode around looking for the Jeep and found it near the side of the building. I checked the plate and got off my bike, took out the keys and opened up the driver's side door. The heat billowed out of it from being parked in the sun so long. The smell of a roasted sweet smelling air freshener poured out and nearly gagged me. I walked to the back and looked at how I was going to get my bike in there and noticed there was a folding bike rack on the spare tire mount. I figured it out in a few minutes and had my bike on it and strapped it into place. I got in and got myself familiar with everything. Started it up and turned up the air conditioning. Once I felt comfortable with everything I pulled on my seat belt and headed out of the parking lot. I got back to town and figured I'd go drop off my bike first. I pulled up in front of the house, and killed the engine. I hopped out and took my bike off the back, then ran inside for some clothes to wear tonight since I was kind of sweaty from the ride. I picked through some stuff and grabbed a bag and tossed it in. I was glad mom wasn't home, I didn't want to have to explain what I was doing, and who owned the Jeep out front. She knew I was working for a tourist that needed help, and unless Paula at the store said anything, Mom had no idea who it was. I made my way back to the house.

    "Thank you for getting my Jeep."

    "It's no problem. I haven't had much practice with a stick."

    "Ouch! Do I still have a clutch?" She teased.

    I just rolled my eyes in imitation of her.

    "The concert is in a few hours and I want to take a bath, you could probably use one too." She scrunched up her nose at me sniffing and making a face.

    "It's your fault I got all sweaty earlier." I said smiling and gave her a quick peck. I got up and went into the bathroom and started the water running.

    "Actually you smell pretty good, like good clean sweat. Let's wash it off."

    I turned to face her. She looked at me for a moment and raised her arms in silent admonition to undress her. I took the hem of her tank top and lifted it up baring her chest. She never broke my gaze as I knelt and slid her panties over her taut thighs. I took her ankle and she rested her hand on my shoulder for balance as I unwound the bandage and set it up on the counter. She didn't wait for me to get undressed, she reached for my tee and lifted it and I raised my arms in time for her to sweep it off. I kicked off my shoes as she undid the button of my jeans pushing them down. She leaned her head towards the bath and motioned me to get in first. She got in sitting gently between my upraised knees and leaned back against me. She sighed and just closed her eyes and relaxed for a minute. I kissed her on the temple softly and a little smile spread across her lips.

    "We don't need to go to the concert, you know." I whispered in her ear giving it a little nibble.

    "I know, but anticipation will make it better. Trust me. Call it lesson two and a half." She chuckled. She turned and picked up the little scrubby puff sitting in the corner and the bottle of body wash and handed them to me and sat back. I lathered up and began soaping down her chest, working my way down one arm, then the other. I worked down her stomach, making sure not to tangle her little belly button ring in the puff. Her thighs glistened as she raised first one to be washed, then the other. For a moment she liberated the puff and did her calves and feet, being better able to reach them. While there, she did mine as well, working her way back up my thighs. She turned and knelt facing me, lathering up the puff once more. She began washing my chest, and down my stomach eventually making her way down to my now hard cock. She washed it well but didn't linger as she worked her way back up to my arms. She washed my face gently. Her hand rested gently on the back of my neck and drew me to her as she ran the soapy puff over my shoulders and down my back. I wrapped my arms around her hips and pulled her to me. I kissed her navel flicking her little heart dangle. She immediately jumped, and I smiled.

    "Hey I warned you." She said. Before I could respond the soaked puff smacked me on the head, soap suds ran down my face. Summer laughed. "Don't open your eyes." She said, massaging it through my short hair. I heard the water turn on again and she fiddled with the knobs and turned on the hand held sprayer. After a moment I felt her holding it over my head rinsing me off. I stood letting her finish the job, and took the sprayer and began rinsing her off as well. I watched the suds give up their hold on her curves, and I could imagine their sadness from letting her go as they pooled at her feet. She reached down and rinsed the suds down the drain and turned off the water. I stepped out and helped her so she needn't put undue weight on her ankle. I dried Summer off before getting around to me. She headed into the bedroom as I rummaged through the clothes I'd brought. I put on my good jeans and pulled on a polo shirt. Summer passed me in jeans and a little black bra, a shirt slung over her arm. She eyed me up and down as she sauntered past. I followed her into the bath to see what she was up to. She shooed me out claiming she needed to 'put on her face'. Despite my protests that her face was beautiful as is. I got the boot anyway.

    She came out a few minutes later wearing her long sleeve top with the buttons undone, nearly showing her bra. A little silver pendant hung down her chest of a little sea turtle. I looked at her face and it glowed. Her hair brushed but slightly curly. Her eyes somehow seemed larger and deeper color, and her lips pinker and more inviting. I didn't realize I had been holding my breath until I exhaled sharply.

    Her smile disappeared. "What?" She looked at me.

    "Nothing!" I said quickly. "It's just that you're so... you're beautiful."

    She softened at the compliment, the glow returning to her face. "Thank you. You're too sweet." She gave me a quick kiss. "I have a cooler, let's pack something for dinner." We headed into the kitchen and put together a little picnic in the cooler of cheese, veggies and the rest of the baguette from lunch.

    "Damn, I need to make some more tea. Oh well we can swing by the market before they close and see what they have." She said.

    We gathered up our little cooler and she grabbed a sweatshirt for when it cooled off later, and we headed out. I helped her up into the Jeep and went around and got in the driver’s seat.

    "Does it feel odd being chauffeured around?" I asked smiling.

    "No it's kind of nice actually." She smiled back and gave my thigh a squeeze. We stopped in at the store and she hobbled down the aisles and picked up some grapes, and she found a bottle of sparkling cider.

    "If you want they have wine and beer too. I'm driving so you're safe." I smiled.

    "I'm not much of a drinker, this will be fine, and we can share it." She smiled slyly back at me. I took the grapes behind the counter and gave them a good rinse and set them on some paper towels to drain.

    "Do you always walk around like you own the place?" Summer asked.

    "Don't knock it. If it weren't for that, I would never have been so lucky to deliver your groceries last Monday." I wiggled my eyebrows at her making her giggle. "Hey Paula, do you have any cups I can snag for our champagne?"

    "What?" Paula said, shocked.

    "It's just cider!" Summer added quickly holding up the bottle.

    "You know where that stuff is Pete, take what you need." Paula waved me off.

    "Ooh!" I heard behind me as I gathered up the grapes and bagged them up. I looked over my shoulder to see Summer going over a small display of locally made chocolates. She picked up a small back of chocolates to add to the pile.

    We got up to the counter and Paula was keying everything in.

    "Did you want to settle your bill while you're here Miss Lynne?" Paula asked.

    "Sure it's Friday, no better time." She smiled. "Let's put this on it too." She waved at the pile on the counter. She handed over her card, signed the pad and got her receipt, stuffing it into her wallet. "Oh we don't need a bag, we're going to toss it into the cooler."

    "Where are you kids off to?" Paula asked innocently. I knew Paula and she was digging for dirt. Luckily I cut in before Summer did.

    "I'm taking Mrs. Lynne down to the concert in the park. She still can't drive her standard with her foot." I said doing my best to sound as innocent as I could. We made our way out and put the rest of the food in the cooler.

    "I'm guessing she's a bit of a gossip?" Summer whispered. "Gotta love small towns. It's the same back home."

    "Yea well she has an ear for dirt, and she's centrally located to redistribute anything she thinks is juicy enough to share. Let's just put it this way, if she thought I was doing anything besides your lawn you wouldn't live it down with the locals."

    We both had a good laugh at that as I pulled the Jeep around and headed into town. The street down to the park was going slow, traffic was moving though and people were walking down the sidewalks with blankets and coolers. I pulled up right at the entrance and got a nasty look from a cop.

    "I'm just dropping off the handicapped!" I yelled out the window. Summer gave me an offended look and gave me a punch on the shoulder. "Play it up a bit, maybe I'll get to park closer." I said under my voice. "Go towards the center if you can, maybe about twenty or thirty yards from the stage for the best sound. I'll bring the cooler."

    "Okay, grab the blanket from behind the back seat while you're at it." She added, and hopped down onto her good foot and hobbled off dramatically. Sure enough, the officer called out and told me to park at the end lot where the police and ambulance were. I made my way back with the cooler and blanket.

    As I made my way to where I hoped to find Summer I bumped into a few people I knew, swapping quick hello's as I moved through the gathering crowd. I noted at least two admiring stares and noticed they were aimed right where I was headed. I wasn't sure if that made me happy or not. Yes I was here with the lovely lady, and just the thought of that made me grin.

    "What are you smiling at?" She asked seeing me. I shrugged setting down the cooler and spreading out the blanket, and Summer scooted onto it. Recorded Fifties music was playing softly over the sound system from the stage.

    I leaned in close and said in her ear. "I just noticed that you're drawing attention and I'm wondering how many guys are wishing they were me right now." Her cheeks went pink as she looked up and around looking to see who looking at her.

    "Don't get many women-folk in these parts, do you?" She asked softly. I laughed.

    "Beautiful women don't usually go out on their own. This town is known for eligible bachelors swooping down on unsuspecting fair maidens and making off with them." I said softly, playing along. "Don't worry, I'll protect you." She giggled.

    "Good, I'd hate to be made off with by some 'other' handsome guy, oh the horror!" She said rolling her eyes at me. She leaned in and gave me a peck on the cheek. "Thank you." She smiled. I blushed furiously realizing we were in public and that kiss was a blatant admission that she was without a doubt, with me.

    The lights facing the crowd began to flash slowly signaling that the show would start in a moment. They went down and the lights on the stage came up slowly in blue. The Fifties music got a little louder and there were couples dancing on the stage.

    All of a sudden a spot came on in the center of the stage and two guys stood there. John, my buddy Jeff's older brother was one of them. The other guy must have been one of his music school buddies.

    "I can't play like this?" He said holding up a red rag wrapped around his hand. "You did this, now you gotta play for me."

    John stared at him for a moment and reached for the guitar on the stand and walked to the front of the stage. "This is an oldie, well where I come from it is." He turned to the band. "Watch me for the changes and try to keep up." He started playing Chuck Berry's, Johnny B. Good. He really got into it, dancing around the stage, ending with a huge jump and dropped to his knees with the final note.

    John stood, to loud applause, and introduced himself and the band, and said they'd be taking a walk down a musical memory lane with us tonight, and he hoped we enjoyed the show. The show was choreographed like a play, as actors appeared on stage to join in the songs and period costumes of the Fifties and Sixties. Everything they played was some sort of blues rock, everything from Ray Charles and Ben E. King, to Marvin Gaye. He stopped to tell us that despite the invasion of British music, American music was still a very powerful influence, and the Sixties weren't only about the Beatles and the Stones.

    "That brings us to the mid-Sixties. We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back, don't go anywhere. We're watching you." He pointed at people in the crowd, then laughed. The crowd joined him. "This concert is sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce, but I'd also like to direct you down to our tent over here where we're selling CD's and gear, because we artists need beer and pizza like the rest of the world."

    "Wow they're good!" Summer said cracking the cooler open and digging out some snacks. "Here, open that would you please?" The plastic cork popped sounding like a champagne bottle. Causing a few people to turn and smile and one to clap. I poured the cider into the cups and we nibbled on the snacks in the cooler. She popped a cherry tomato in my mouth then took one herself.

    "You build a heck of a picnic." I said, causing her to laugh.

    "I slaved over a hot stove all day."

    The lights on the crowd began to flash again, announcing the end of the intermission. A lone guitar started in on something bluesy.

    The lights came back up and there were summer of love trappings on stage. The backup singers were dressed in bell bottoms and headbands and long flowing sleeves. John took center stage again and the spot came up on him.

    "Now you may have construed that my earlier remarks about the Sixties not being about the British invasion as a criticism. It wasn't in the least. A lot of bands came out of Britain then, and most of them were excellent to say the least. A good many of these performers sited their love of American jazz and blues as their influence. One such performer was a gentleman named Van Morrison." Quite a few people gave in to a round of applause. "I'd like your help in convincing one of our audience members to give us a hand with the next couple songs. You see my little brother Jeff works the sound board." He pointed down at the front to where Jeff waved. "A good buddy of his from school is one of the best sax players I've ever heard, which is saying a lot when you consider my fellow musicians."

    "Pete! I know you're out there, Jeff spotted you with a lovely young lady earlier. Maybe we can convince you to break away from her for a few songs."

    Summer turned to me her eyes wide. "Does he mean you." I was still staring at the stage.

    "Folks let's hear some support to get him up here and get on with the show!" He yelled.

    Applause erupted through the crowd. I looked at Summer who was clapping furiously and reached over and gave me a push. I stood up and made my way to the sound board through the crowd, people encouraged me as I walked by.

    I got up to Jeff and said, "Thanks buddy, I owe you one." I'm sure the sarcastic edges wasn't lost on him.

    "I figure if this doesn't impress her panties off, nothing will." He replied.

    If he only knew, I thought to myself. I stepped up to the edge of the stage and climbed the steps. John was center stage clapping over his guitar. I walked up and shook his hand. I whispered something into his ear, then walked back to where the horns were and picked up a sax, and a mouthpiece. I wet the reed down and mounted it up as the bass player started the riff for Tupelo Honey. The audience started clapping.

    "Pete made a request of me, which is only fair since I dragged him away from his lovely lady friend, so we're dedicating this to her. Summer this is for you." He pointed out to the crowd. The song began and I joined in like I'd been playing every day since school got out. I walked up beside John and played the sax solo like a pro. When we were done serenading Summer we moved on to Days Like This, and segued right into Moondance, my favorite by far. I found myself singing alongside John when I didn't have a solo. The flute player a tall, pretty girl was really getting into it. John improvised the lyric to 'Underneath the cover of June, Rockport skies'. The flutist and I stepped forward next to John and took a bow as the song ended, as he yelled our names into the mic. I was feeling pretty awesome at that point taking off the sax and placing it back on the stand and shaking the hand of its owner thanking him for the use. I made for the steps and waved once more as John started in on the turn of the decade and started on Clapton's Bell Bottom Blues next.

    I found Summer sitting next to Jeff at the sound board with the biggest grin she could muster without hurting herself.

    "Thanks for the seat." She said to Jeff and stood up and wrapped her arms around my neck giving me a long hard kiss. As we broke our lip lock I saw Jeff give me a thumbs up sign without even looking over at me. I just smiled and turned Summer back to our blanket.

    "Oh my God! That was awesome. Why didn't you tell me you were a musician?" She said as people around us thanked me. I just shrugged.

    "I don't know, I've been playing for six or seven years. I've always loved jazz and blues. It's like a hobby to me." I said. "My grandfather and his brother were trombone players in the Maine state band."

    John went on to laud bands from the Seventies and picked out Steely Dan as the set went a smoky blue color as they played on. Summer curled into me leaning on my chest as we listened. I was about ready to explode with happiness. They moved on and a girl stepped forward from the backup singers with a microphone and John introduced her and mentioned the influences of the west coast moving up to the Seventies bringing us groups like Heart and they started playing Barracuda. They played a few others ending up with a Billy Joel mash up as their last song. They did Rockport State of Mind to the music of New York State of Mind. People were standing up applauding. I had to admit, John and the band did a hell of a job. They got such a long ovation that they played a two song encore, to another long round of applause.

    "That was awesome!" Summer shouted over the applause. "I wish they did things like this back home!"

    "Welcome to Maine." I said smiling.

    We packed up the cooler with the remains of our picnic and Summer folded the blanket tossing it over her arm. As we made our way back to the Jeep. I looked over to see her grinning ear to ear again.

    "What?" I asked.

    "I feel like a groupie who's going home with one of the band." She said, causing both of us to laugh.

    To be continued in part 3, by Member389 for Literotica
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  • Summer In Maine: Part 1
    Summer Arrives on the Atlantic Coast of Maine, in time for his first time.
    A 7-part series by Member389. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Stories.




    I was finally glad to be out of school. My buddy Jeff got out last year. He went off and joined the military and left our little town. I figured I'd work the summer here and see what was what after the tourists left. It was still early yet, they hadn't started arriving yet, clogging the roads with their luxury cars, acting as if they owned the place. Truth be told, they did. If it weren't for them, the rest of us wouldn't have a living. Fishing wasn't cutting it anymore, and the old quarries down coast were barely running now. Luckily we had the tourists.

    I walked down into the village near the docks, and popped into the little corner store.

    "Hey Peter." I heard as I walked in. Paula nodded at me and smiled. She and her husband ran this little place, and did well by the locals and tourists alike. I waved and smiled at her as I headed to the back and grabbed a soda from the cooler.

    "You headed over to see Davy about work?" She asked.

    "Yea, I figure I gotta do something before mom tosses me out of the house." I chuckled.

    "Would you do me a favor? Chip is out on a delivery and we're short-handed. Is there any chance you could make a delivery for me, it's on your way. The lady has an account so you don't need to collect any money. It's just, I heard she twisted her ankle on the beach and I told her that if she needed anything to call us and I'd get it over to her."

    "Sure, where is it going?" I said.

    She handed me two canvas sacks from the cooler, and gave me the address. It was just a couple blocks over from where I was headed. Paula refused to let me pay for my soda before leaving. I walked the few blocks turning up onto the driveway that led to a house facing the water. I walked around the house looking for the kitchen door. As I turned the corner I saw a woman lying on a towel on the lawn. She lay there basking in the morning sun completely naked. A small pile of fabric beside her looked like a swimsuit she may have been wearing. I stopped and looked around, the spot was well sheltered on the curve in the road. Her long blonde hair trailed out above her on her towel, her arms down at her sides, her deep pink nipples pointing up to the sun. Her stomach was flat and a little glint of something shiny hinted at a belly button ring. From this distance I couldn't be sure. A small strip of hair dipped down between her thighs. Her legs were long toned and pale, but getting red. She had just started tanning by the color she'd turned already. She was going to look like a freshly boiled lobster in a very short time.

    I realized she hadn't heard or seen me, so I turned and cleared my throat loudly. I looked over my shoulder, and she hadn't moved. I decided I'd just put the groceries in the house for her. I set the bags on the kitchen table and peeked to make sure nothing needed to be put in the icebox. Thankfully I did or the cold stuff would have spoiled. I put them away and left the rest. I walked towards the back door again and looked out the screen at her. She was beautiful, like she'd just stepped out of a magazine centerfold. She still hadn't moved, and it wouldn't be long before she burned badly. So I took it upon myself to rescue her, that's just the kind of guy I am. I opened the back door and pushed it open as far as possible and let it swing shut. The loud rap of the wood on the frame did the trick. She jumped, then the realization that somebody was near and she was naked came on her and she rolled onto the grass pulling the towel over her covering up. I saw why she hadn't heard me as an earbud fell out onto the grass.

    She peeked over the top of her big sunglasses, and in an accent I hadn't heard around here, she asked. "Can I help you?" The scolding tone of her voice saying that she didn't appreciate being peeked at while she was sunbathing.

    I scrunched up my face. "Where are you from?" I asked, curious about her accent.

    "Right here buster, I'm renting this place. Where in hell did you come from?" She replied.

    "Oh! Paula down at the market asked me to deliver your groceries. They were shorthanded and I was headed this way."

    She just stared at me for a moment, and I returned the stare taking in the scene with a dumb-founded look.

    "Would you be a gentleman and please turn around?" She said a little testily. I did as she asked. Unfortunately for her I'd turned and was looking directly at her reflection in the kitchen window. She stood up cursing quietly, putting her weight on one foot, and wrapped the towel around her and tucked it in above her breasts. She was tall, and though her breasts weren't large they were nicely shaped, and red. The little stripe of hair ended neatly where I thought. The towel was just long enough to cover her modestly. She hobbled over to the little pile of cloth and swept up her bikini and started hobbling towards the house like a wounded animal. She passed me and got to the step and hobbled up the half step, and opened the door using it for stability and hopped up the step into the kitchen.

    She hobbled back to the screen door and said. "Well come on in."

    I walked over and stepped into the kitchen. She was sitting down on one of the chairs one leg splayed out in front of her the other tucked under the chair. The smooth skin was kissed with a flush of pink. I knew she was going to regret falling asleep out there later, but I'm glad I happened to wake her up so she didn't get severely burned. She was fumbling with her towel to keep it up, and digging through a big pocket book.

    "Paula said that you have an account." I held up my hand. "I'm not going back to the store anyhow."

    She peeked up at me from her purse through a tangle of long blonde hair. "Thank you, but I was going to give you something for the trouble. She mentioned that you wouldn't be here until afternoon because it was busy today." A pink nipple peaked over the top of the polka dot beach towel. She caught me staring. "Though it could be surmised that you already got your tip." She said an eyebrow going up, and a small grin turning the corners of her mouth up. She shook her head as she pulled the towel back into place and tossed the purse onto the table. She held her arm out straight with a folded bill in it. I just shook my head once and waved it off.

    "Thanks, but you don't need to do that." I said.

    "Don't make me get up, my ankle hurts like hell, and I'm in no shape to use it to kick your ass for being a peeping tom." She replied grinning. She waved the money again. I shrugged and took it slipped into my jeans pocket. I was hoping she hadn't noticed they were tighter in front than a moment before.

    "Thanks." I nodded.

    "No, thank you Chip, I would have come into town to get them later but she insisted on having you deliver them."

    I smiled. "I'm not Chip. He was doing another delivery. I'm Pete."

    "Nice to meet you." She said holding out a hand. "I'm Summer."

    I shook her hand. She had a firm grip and didn't let up until I did. I just stood there for a moment looking at her. She had mesmerizing blue eyes and a crooked little smile. I realized I was staring when her brow went up. I felt myself blush.

    "Are you thirsty? I could use something cold." Summer asked. I nodded.

    "If you don't mind, there's a pitcher of iced tea in the fridge. I'm going to go put something on besides a towel."

    "Not on my account I hope?" Why not, I figured, she seemed to have a sense of humor about getting caught. I smiled over my shoulder at her as I reached for the cupboard door. She laughed aloud at that.

    She stood again, wobbling, and took her bikini in hand and walked towards the living room and gasped grabbing for the door jamb. In the process the towel let go and she stood there grasping the towel in one hand the door in the other. Her long smooth back tapered to a narrow waist and flared back out to beautifully curved hips. On her back was a pretty sunflower tattoo with vines around it. There looked to be a figure in the center of it.

    "Oh to hell with it. I don't think I've got anything left to hide at this point." She muttered and hobbled out of the room. I opened up the freezer and got a tray of ice out, and filled the glasses. I heard her fumbling around a bit and she started to hobble back out. She'd pulled a light blue flowered sundress on, and taken a minute to brush out her hair. She hobbled over to an easy chair in the living room and sat down. "Would you be a doll and bring that in here?"

    I walked into the living room and she was gingerly setting her foot on the coffee table. I handed her a glass and set the other down. I took the towel she'd tossed on the sofa and folded it up into a little bundle and went to take her leg. I stopped myself and looked up at her, from under fallen bangs.

    "May I?" I asked. She held her glass with both hands, licking tea from her upper lip, and nodded. I lifted her calf, the skin smooth and warm in my hand, and slipped the folded towel under her ankle to pad it from the table. I set it down carefully and she let out a sigh. I sat down on the sofa and took up my glass. I was looking into the glass at the ice cubes floating around. I set it back down and went to the kitchen, found a plastic bag and filled it with the rest of the ice. I looked down at her, she sat there wide eyed as I reached to carefully set it on her ankle.

    "Thank you," She said softly, with a smile "again."

    "You slammed the door on purpose didn't you?" She asked.

    "Well you were beginning to look like a lobster out there, fresh from the pot. I wasn't sure if you were asleep and I didn't want you to burn, or worse." I said.

    She smiled. "Thank you." She said, and after a moment she added, "West Virginia."

    "Rockport here, welcome to Maine." I toasted her with my tea, and we clinked glasses. Neither of us said anything we just sat there enjoying our tea.

    "You said this was on your way? Where were you going?" Summer asked.

    "I was headed down to Davy's marina down the road." I said. Then pointed. "If you go down Sea Road and bear right. He runs a couple of boats for fishing, sightseeing and whale watching. I was going to see if he needed any help this summer."

    She nodded, and looked down at her ankle. Water running down her leg from the condensation on the bag.

    "If he doesn't give you a job on a boat, you might want to consider going to medical school." She chuckled. "You're a quick thinker and have a gentle touch. I don't mean to keep you from where you were headed but since this is really feeling like hell." She pointed at her foot. "I was wondering if you could do me another favor before you leave."

    "Sure, what else do you need, lunch?" I asked.

    She laughed. "Well that would be nice, but I was just going to ask you to go into the bathroom and grab the ace bandage that's rolled up on the counter and the bottle of pain killers for me. I want to get this wrapped again, now that I'm not worried I'll look like a cat with one white paw."

    I set my glass down, and went to the bath and found the items. I found a bottle of sunburn lotion on the counter and brought that too.

    "I see you came prepared to burn." I looked at the bottle.

    "Well when you're as white as I am, it happens often, especially this early in the season." Summer said as she reached up for the items. She reached down and took the ice off, and dried her foot off on the towel. She crossed her legs, her dress riding up high as she reached to start unrolling the bandage.

    I laughed. "That looks more awkward than a lobster trying to climb a tree." I reached out for the bandage and took it from her. "Let me show you how it's done." I sat on the edge of the coffee table and laid her leg across mine. I wrapped her ankle neatly slipping the clips on at the end with a flourish. I looked at her toes peeking up, the nails a sparkly pink color. A small throat clear broke me out of my reverie, only to notice that I'd been absently stroking her shin and calf. I snatched my hand away, and felt my face turn bright red again. I looked down at the rug and apologized.

    "For what? Doing a better job than I would wrapping my ankle? Or maybe the lame lobster jokes." She flipped a hand at me and took the bottle and popped it open. She poured out her dose and knocked them back with a swallow of her tea.

    "I should take these with food." She took her foot off my lap and set it gingerly on the floor, grabbing the arms of the chair preparing to get up.

    "Whoa! Where are you going?" I asked.

    "I was going to go see what was in those bags to eat." She said.

    "Sit down. I'll get you something." I answered quickly.

    She rolled her eyes at me. "You've done far more than you should have for a tired, broken down old lady." She rolled forward again, and I put my hand on her shoulder to keep her balance back.

    "I'll get it." I said firmly. "What would you like?"

    "You are too sweet." She said, relaxing back into the chair. "What did you bring?"

    I went into the kitchen to rummage through the bags. Given a little creativity and a few minutes time I whipped up a sandwich and chips. I peeked around the door jamb to ask if she wanted mustard or mayo on her turkey. The sight that greeted me stopped me in my tracks. Summer had sat forward on the chair, and slipped the straps off the sundress pushing it down to her waist. She sat there slowly rubbing in the sunburn cream into her skin. She finished her arms and began working on her chest rubbing slowly giving each nipple a pinch and tug. My jeans felt about ready to explode at the sight of her. I popped my head back around the door and called out asking my question. She replied, mustard. I responded that it was ready then, to give her time to cover up.

    I walked into the room with the plate in front of me and the bag of chips dangling beneath to try and hide my arousal. I sat quickly as I handed her the plate, hoping I'd covered myself well enough.

    "Ooh thanks!" She said setting the plate down and reaching for half the sandwich. She just stopped and looked at me. "You didn't make one for yourself?" I shook my head. "Here," she handed me the other half, "I hate eating alone."

    I shrugged and took the other half, and we ate quietly. I asked her how she twisted her ankle. Exploring wet rocks on the outbound tide, she'd slipped and thought she'd broken it. She had gotten an X-ray and it was only a bad sprain.

    "Ironic. I ended up having to postpone starting work at the very hospital that I was going to be starting at next week." She said.

    "Oh? You a doctor?" I asked.

    "RN, and I was serious earlier, you have a gentle touch, and you wrap a mean ankle." She followed with a smile.

    "Sports." I said by way of explanation. She nodded.

    She opened her mouth laying a chip on her tongue and took it in whole giving it a crunch. I didn't know why, but she fascinated me on an entirely new level. I'd seen naked girls before, well in magazines and movies, anyway. Here sat a woman who, unlike those from around here, wasn't scandalized by having her body admired. This isn't the end of the world, but not far from it.

    "How old are you Pete." She asked. I told her the truth, that I was nineteen, and I'd just graduated last month. She offered me the chips, and I took a few.

    "What are your plans from here?" She asked.

    "I honestly don't know. I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up." I said chuckling.

    She set the chips aside and wiped her hands on the towel. She took up the bottle of cream and popped the cap up. She nonchalantly pulled up the hem on her dress to a nearly indecent level and leaned forward and began rubbing the cream into her leg. She continued to ask me about the area, what there was to do after school got out. She worked her hand further up her thigh, the warm pink flesh supple under her fingers. She pulled back again, the hem of the dress slid up, and a peek of pink lace appeared. She asked if I had a girlfriend. Which made me pause. She started on the other leg working from the ankle up to the knee. She stopped and looked at me when I didn't reply.

    "No?" She asked, no doubt noticing that I'd been watching every movement she made.

    I just shook my head looking down at the floor. "No. I've gone out a few times, but never really had a girlfriend."

    She looked down her leg again, massaging her up her thigh slowly. Watching her was not helping the situation in my jeans one bit.

    "That's too bad. Seems an awful waste of resources if you ask me." She smirked.

    "Huh?" I said looking up at her with a quizzical look.

    She bit her lower lip and looked me in the eye for a moment, then down at my lap, and nodded.

    I must have turned deep red, she looked up at me and smiled, then busted out laughing.

    "Oh my God! You're as innocent as the day you were born, aren't you?" She asked grinning ear to ear.

    I stammered.

    "Oh hell." She waved her hand. "Don't be embarrassed hon. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get you a hard time." She reached over and gave my wrist a quick squeeze. The feel of her warm hand sent a shock up my arm. She leaned back in the chair, not bothering to adjust her dress. The little pink lace peeking out kept drawing my eye. I could feel her eyes studying me as I tried not to look.

    She started softly. "Am I the first woman you've ever seen naked?" She followed with, "in person?"

    I cleared my throat. "Well, that close, yea." I said softly. "Last summer, my friend and I found a cove where some girls go to tan in the summer, but we stay well back. They mostly only took their tops off. Jeff had binoculars." I felt my ears turn red.

    Summer smiled again biting her lip. "So, the peeping tom thing isn't new." She giggled. She was enjoying teasing me. A moment of silence passed while I looked anywhere but at her. "Stand up Pete, and come here." I looked at her and did as she asked. She slowly reached up, and tugged the straps of her dress to the side, and looped her arms up through, pushing it down her torso. Her breasts popped free, the cherry red nipples stiff in the cool breeze coming through the house. She looked up at me from under a lock of hair, still biting her lip. Time seemed to stop, and I wasn't sure what to do next, but instinct pushed me to reach out and cup her breast. It was warm and soft in my hand, and I stroked it gently. I reached up with my thumb and rubbed the nipple. A sigh as she inhaled deeply, her eyes were closed while I explored. I rolled it between my thumb and finger it was as hard as a pencil eraser.

    "That feels nice." She said softly. I stroked the curve up to her chest, and back down between them following it around.

    Time started again when I jumped back startled. I hadn't expected it when her hand reached up and pressed against the front of my jeans.

    "Oh!" She giggled. "I didn't mean to scare you. I just thought you might enjoy a little rub too." She nodded at my jeans. "Let me see it."

    I went wide eyed like a deer in caught in headlights.

    "Come on. It's only fair, you saw mine." She urged. Her hand slid down raising the hem of her dress showing off the pink lace panties with black lace trim. She circled the front with her finger, pressing as she did. She reached over and took the last swallow of her tea and caught an ice cube from the glass. Swirling it around her mouth. She opened her mouth showing me that she was rolling the cube around with her tongue.

    Without conscious thought my hands reached for my zipper to release the pressure built up behind it. I pulled it down as she watched intently. I unbuttoned the fly of my boxers and the pressure was gone as my hard cock pushed its way out seeking relief.

    Summer made an approving sound deep in her throat at the sight of it. "Ooh that's nice." The ice cube clicked on her teeth and she crushed it quickly, chewing the bits of ice. She looked up at me and made a come hither motion with her free hand, the other still working on the pink lace. I stepped forward as if she were drawing me towards her with an invisible tether. She reached up slowly this time and took me gently into her hand. Stroking the shaft and rubbing the tip with her thumb. I gasped, my breath coming in short panting breaths. "That's it, easy now." She said in a soothing voice, as if calming a frantic animal. "You aren't going to last very long."

    My body was humming like a taut wire as she gently stroked me. In a move that surprised me, she leaned forward and took me into her mouth. The cold sensation from her chewing the ice nearly pushed me over the top. I gasped. She licked my cock like a kid with an ice cream cone, her icy tongue dragging away at me. I knew I was about to cum, and she did too. She stepped up the pace of her licking, and took me into her mouth once more sliding down further until I lost it. I felt my hips jerk forward and she put her hand on my thigh to keep me from choking her. I grabbed for the first thing at hand, and it happened to be the back of her head, and I erupted. My body stiffened as I gasped for air. I felt as if she was drawing me inside out. I exploded in her mouth, her tongue cleaning up the mess I'd made.

    "Is that the first time a girl has done that to you?" She asked softly, lapping my still hard cock. I nodded between gasping breaths.

    "You poor thing. Have you ever thought of what it would be like to lick a girl down there?" She asked innocently. I looked down to find her fingers had slipped into the panties and were making deep circular motions. I had to think, because if I hadn't before now, I certainly was beginning to. She kept darting her tongue out, giving me soft licks and quick flicks with her tongue and thought I could do that.

    She stood up awkwardly not putting her weight on her bad ankle, and reached up beneath her sundress tugging at the fabric. Soon her panties were around her knees. She turned and tossed the towel onto the chair and spread it out.

    "Oh screw it." She said pushed down the fabric of her sundress as it slid over her hips. She sat down pushing her dress and panties off and tossed them on the couch. She leaned back on the chair as I watched her chest rise and fall with her slow deep breathing. My eyes followed down her taut stomach, a small silver heart dangled from her belly button on a chain. My eyes scanned further down and found the top of her little narrow strip, the soft tuft of dark blonde hair leading to deep pink lips. I stood there with my mouth hanging open as she set her leg back up on the coffee table, opening up a little more for me. I licked my dry lips, which must have been a sign.

    "That's what I like to see. A willing student." She smiled and winked at me. "Grab a pillow and kneel down. I'll give you a quick lesson on the special anatomy of a girl." She chuckled. I did as she asked and knelt before her. She proceeded to point out the highlights softly, in an encouraging voice. Explaining how best to please a woman down there.

    I leaned forward, my nose filling with the scent of her. I reached forward licking upward between her spread fingers. She let out a deep sigh and I began licking and nibbling. I tilted my head up and began swirling her clit with my tongue like she'd done to my cock. She threw her head back and her jaw dropped as a low moan escaped her lips.

    She panted quickly. "Slip your finger inside me, and make a come here motion." She mimed it with one finger.

    I did as she asked, slipping my middle finger into her as far as I could. It was wet, and warm and I could feel her tighten down on me. I started off slowly stroking in and out of her, then remembered how she'd shown me and I rubbed up and forward and back again. I had forgotten what I was doing and noticed she'd reached down to start stroking her clit with incredible speed. I leaned down putting my tongue to it again, and began flicking it with my tongue as fast as I could. Summer arched up off the chair and began yelling, 'Oh my God.' She stayed that way for nearly a minute before collapsing back into the chair gasping for air. My hand was soaked with her juices. I wasn't sure, but I figured I'd done well. I used the corner of the towel to wipe my hand. I looked at her swollen, wet and deep pink lips and just leaned forward and began lapping up the mess she'd made, slowly with the tip of my tongue. She inhaled sharply and her legs came together quickly.

    "Easy there." She said pushing my head away gently. "It's very sensitive after." She released the grip she had of my hair and ran her fingers through it. She was just looking at me smiling while I licked my lips.

    "So how did I do teach?" I asked.

    She chuckled. "I'd say you did pretty damn well for a first-timer. I'll give you an A plus for effort and an A for technique." She smiled. I was hard as a rock, and wondered if I was going to be allowed to follow through with the next thing that came to my mind.

    "Are you a typical young guy with a raincoat in your wallet?" She asked, reading my mind. I looked at her with my quizzical look again. She just rolled her eyes and shook her head. I sighed looking down, and shook my head slowly. I got a slightly scolding look in reply. I wasn't sure if it was because I didn't have one, or that she was unhappy about it as well.

    "Get up." She said giving a slight push to my forehead. I leaned back and stood in a single motion. I nearly fell over backwards when I realized I still had both legs caught with my jeans around my knees. Summer leaned forward to grab my arm and help me balance. She nodded down at them and without saying a word let me know that I should get them off. She gripped my hand solidly and pulled herself carefully out of the chair and hobbled a step aside. She reached down taking the rumpled beach towel off the chair and flipped it in half and lay it on the center cushion of the sofa. She turned me back to and gave me a push so I fell back onto it.

    "Don't move." She said leveling a serious gaze at me. She hobbled back off to the bedroom. A little rustling later she came back with something closed in her fist. She pulled the coffee table up close and sat gently on the edge of it facing me.

    "First things first. It's never her responsibility to make sure you're prepared." She said holding up a little foil packet. "If you aren't prepared, then keep it in your pants, or her hand if you're lucky enough." She smiled. "The only time it'll be up to her to help is now. If she'd like to." She reached forward and began slowly stroking me, her fingers firm and soft at the same time. "You see, you can't wrap the rascal unless he's primed and ready." She smiled. "I'll show you how best to use this so you don't end up a daddy too soon, or worse."

    I smiled and rolled my eyes.

    "Hey, we can stop right now if you like." She said levelly at me. The shock on my face must have been plain as day. "That's what I thought." She smiled and looked down at my hard cock. "I'd hate to stop now myself." She peeled the wrapper down the side pulling out the little ring. She held it close for me to see. "See how it's rolled up? Place it with the rolled side up over the tip like this." She reached holding my cock in one hand and setting the condom on the tip. "Unroll gently down the shaft like this." She said sliding her fingers down my shaft unrolling it fully. "All the way down. That's important since she's not going to want to fish the thing out of her if it comes off in the middle of your good time. It also makes it pretty useless if that happens." She gave the base of my cock a little squeeze. She pulled my knees together, and stood up kneeling on the sofa straddling me.

    "This is a good position for us to start with. It gives a woman the ability to control the depth and speed with which you entering her. Missionary isn't bad, but if you get a little over zealous it can end up hurting her. If you want to her to ever want you back in her again then it's best to make sure she has a good time too." She said reaching down between us she ran her finger up and down her swollen lips.

    "Remember to open her gently beforehand, the more care you take with her, the more likely she'll be calling you for more." She sat up, and lined herself up over my cock and took my shoulders as I took her by the hips. She looked down at me for a moment, one eyebrow going up.

    "Oh." I said reaching between us and stroking her still wet lips placing fingers on either side and gently opening her up. As I did she lowered herself on me. The sigh that escaped my lips was loud. I nearly passed out from the feeling of the warmth and tightness, as she slowly rode the entire way down my length. A soft purr came from her throat.

    She sat there for a moment and proceeded to just tighten herself around me and relax. I started pushing urgently with my hips.

    "Easy does it." She whispered into my ear then licked her way down nibbling the lobe and kissing my neck. "A woman's nipples are very sensitive, and shouldn't be neglected." She took my hand and ran it up to her small breast. Lifting it away slightly and rubbing her nipple with my fingers. She bit her lower lip as I took the hint and stroked her breasts and rolled the nipples between my fingers. I leaned forward taking it in my mouth rolling it around, lashing it with my tongue. Summer sighed deeply and rolled her hips forward and started rising up and lowering herself on me. My other hand found its way behind her gripping her ass and pulling her down onto me with each stroke. She started a long deep stroking rhythm that I thought was going to drive me over the top again. She must have noticed my urgency as my hips rose to meet her down stroke hard. She stopped on an upstroke and let me slip out of her and I thought I was going to die when my eyes popped open pleading with her. She smiled at me.

    "What's your hurry? Aren't you enjoying yourself?" She said sweetly.

    I nodded furiously. "Yes I am." I gasped.

    "Good. The journey can be as much fun as the destination, so take your time." She got off the couch. I looked at her pleading with her not to stop now. "Let's see how well you improvise." She said.

    She turned around and knelt down on the pillow that was on the floor, and leaned forward setting her elbows on the chair she was sitting in before. Her beautiful ass, up in the air her lips open and pouting in invitation. I scrambled off the couch and knelt behind her, nearly ready to drive my cock into her when I paused and opened her up slipping back into her

    She whipped her hair over one shoulder and looked at me over the other. "You're in the drivers' seat now. It's going to be up to you to be aware of the clues a girl is giving you. If she's pulling away from you, you're fucking her to hard. If she's pushing against you, well she wants you to put the pedal to the metal, so to speak." I pushed forward feeling myself fall into her and never wanting to leave. I began pushing and she met me stroke for stroke as I sped up. I couldn't take it any longer. Summer let out several long high pitched moans followed by a gasping, 'Harder!' and I went into overdrive. Plunging her depths with abandon I finally drove her forward hard, pushing her hips against the chair as I exploded. I stiffened as I felt every ounce of strength drain from my body. Summer shuddered hard in my hands bringing me out of my daze.

    "Are you okay?" I gasped between breaths.

    She rose up slightly, hair a complete mess covering her face. She started to laugh, gasping for air. "I was just thinking, this vacation started off lousy, but it's improving nicely."

    I chuckled. "Welcome to Maine, Vacationland." She busted out laughing at that. I backed away falling free of her, the cool breeze came in from the screen, cooling the sweat on my skin.

    "Let's get cleaned up." She stood shakily, with the help of the arms of the chair. I stood as well. She turned and slipped an arm around my shoulders. "Help me to the bathroom, would you please?" I looked at her, and turned slightly and reached down picking her up off the floor. She let out a whoop of surprise. "I only needed a shoulder to lean on honestly." She said smiling.

    "So lean on it." I said smiling. I negotiated the narrow path to the bathroom and brought her in careful not to bang her against the doorjamb. I set her on a little stool next to a big claw foot bathtub.

    "Let me get that." Summer reached over and popped up a tissue and reached up sliding the condom off of me and wrapping it and tossing it in the trash. She looked up at me, her hair still a mess. I reached down pushing it off her forehead. She smiled. "Grab a washcloth for me, would you please?" She nodded at a small shelf, and I took one down and handed it to her. She reached over to the bath running water onto it and a little squirt of her bath gel. She frothed it up and began washing herself off. She rinsed and repeated. She dried herself with another towel hanging from the bar. She looked up at me from under her bangs, scanning down. "Really?" She said in a resigned voice as she saw that I was once again ready.

    I shrugged. "The benefit of youth?"

    She laughed. "I guess!"

    She rinsed the cloth again and began gently washing me with it. The cool water and warm hands were soothing but not doing a thing for the fact that it was loaded and ready to go yet again.

    "Would you hand me that light blue bottle there." She asked. She poured a small amount into her palm and set the bottle aside. She rubbed the oil between her hands and rubbed it between her legs oiling herself up. The sight of this was not doing me any good either. A crooked smirk spread across her face as she watched me watching her in fascination.

    She reached up with her oily hand and began stroking my shaft. The hardness slipping through her firm grip with little friction. The other hand began fondling my balls. They were already tight, and ready to go again. She slid her hand further under and began massaging me underneath in a tight circle. The feeling blew my mind as I couldn't contain myself and came hard, with a loud splatter, on Summer's chest.

    "Not sure if it's good for burns, but I've heard it does wonders for the skin." She said, leaning forward cleaning the last few drops off with her tongue. She then used her cloth to wipe up the cum I'd splashed on her chest.. I just watched her, her movements so graceful and efficient.

    She looked up at me with a smirk. "Pete, how would you like to give me a hand for a couple weeks while this ankle heals?"

    My eyebrows went up. "How?" I asked.

    "The usual mow the lawn, grocery runs, cleaning, maybe even an occasional turkey sandwich. It'll allow me to keep off this as much as possible and not feel like I'm an invalid. I'll warn you now though it's not only doctors that make lousy patients."

    It was my turn to smirk. "What's it pay?" I asked wiggling my eyebrows.

    Her mouth dropped open. "You little shit! I'm not hiring you to be a gigolo!" She laughed. "But there's always the possibility of a bonus. I could continue your lessons. Practice makes perfect they say." She smiled at that.

    "I don't know." I said, my spent cock hanging inches from her lips. Oh I knew alright, but I played along. "I'll have to see what Davy has to offer this year. Those rich folks that come in to fill up can be pretty good tippers too."

    She raised an eyebrow at me again. "Okay if you'd rather work for him I'll understand." She said in mock resignation. She stood on her good foot, testing the floor with her bad. I instinctively wrapped my arm around her waist.

    "You drive a hard bargain." I said pulling her to my side so she could put her arm over my shoulder.

    She looked me up and down me and smiled. "This vacation isn't turning out bad at all."

    To be continued in part 2, by Member389 for Literotica
    Summer In Maine: Part 2
    Lesson Two, and Two and a half.

    A 7-part series by Member389. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Stories.

    This summer job wasn't turning out the way I'd thought. So far I'd mowed the lawn, done the dishes, (thankfully there's a dishwasher) hauled trash, done laundry, dusted and vacuumed. When Summer asked if I wanted to help her out for a few weeks I sort of expected there would be fringe benefits to go with, or instead of, getting paid. Instead it was actual work. She wasn't shy, about her body or mine, she often would wrap her arm around my waist to help with her balance. She occasionally stroked my ass through my jeans. I didn't hesitate to return the favor but I always ended up with only a smile in return. I figured after that first day when I took the job I might get some more personal time with her. The other night I helped her to run a bath, and she shooed me out of the bathroom. One night we watched a late movie I slept over, and ended up on the couch. Something didn't seem right about all of this. Nearly a week had gone by, and it was as if that first day hadn't even happened, and I was too shy to say anything. I hitched the grocery bag I was carrying a little higher, tonight, I'd say something tonight.

    I walked up to the kitchen stoop and pulled open the screen door and I heard a gasping cry. I dropped the bags on the table and darted into the living room, she wasn't there. Another cry, and I looked to the right and saw the bedroom door was open. I walked quietly towards the door, and Summer was laying back on the bed naked except for her bandaged ankle. She was sliding a pink vibrator up and down between her thighs. She tilted it slightly and slid it into her, her other hand pulling on her nipple. I was instantly hard watching her pleasure herself. She let go of the nipple and slid her hand down and began flicking her clit, rubbing it fast. She arched her back crying out "Yes!" She pulled the vibrator out slipping her fingers in as she came. She continued rubbing her clit slowly and stroked her fingers in and out for a few before falling flat to the sheets like a deflated balloon. Her breathing was fast and shallow.

    "How long have you been watching?" She asked, not looking up. She looked absolutely radiant, her skin flushed pink through her tan. Her hair was a tangled mess of sun streaked gold, she looked fantastic.

    "Just a couple minutes." I said quietly looking down at the floor. I heard the old brass headboard creak and I peeked up. She had raised her head and was looking at me.

    "What's the matter?" She asked gently. I shrugged and walked out to the kitchen, and started putting away the groceries.

    "I picked up some local shrimp for lunch. I'll put them on ice in the fridge." I said loudly from the kitchen. I turned and Summer was leaning against the doorway to the kitchen watching me with her arms crossed in front of her, buck naked. She gave me a shrewd glance.

    "Please tell me what's bothering you."

    I looked at her for a moment, then turned away and put a couple other items in the fridge.

    "Nothing." I said, unconvincingly.

    "It's just..." I started. I looked over at her and said.

    "Never mind." I walked out to the yard looking around to see if I should mow the lawn again already or not. I heard the screen door bang shut behind me. I felt her hand on my shoulder as she stepped up beside me.

    "I love it here. The salty sea air, the big sky, everything seems so much simpler." She said softly. I instinctively wrapped my arm around her waist, her skin was warm and damp.

    "Why?" I asked softly.

    "Why what, Pete?" She asked with surprising sincerity. "Why haven't we had sex since Monday? Is that what you want to know? Are you asking me if you were a one afternoon-stand? What Pete? Ask me." She urged.

    Her words inflamed me and my frustration flared. "Yes!" I turned to face her, her arm sliding down from my shoulder. "Was I just a one shot deal? Screw me, then have me cook and clean for you?" I immediately sensed I'd gone too far and full well expected a slap. I'd deserve it if she did. I opened my eyes wide.

    She stood there looking at me, her eyes smoldering. She coolly pointed out. "Which one of us is the one standing here naked?" I stood there a moment longer, every muscle in my body taut like a drawn bow. I snapped and took hold of her and kissing her hard as our lips parted, tongues lashing out at each other like sparring fencers. Her arms wrapped around my waist pulling us together.

    "Damn, I thought I you'd never come around." She said between kisses. I leaned back and gave her a queer look.

    "What?" I asked, completely confused. She grinned ear to ear.

    "Lesson number 2, confidence is sexy. Hell it took me walking around naked to get your damned attention. What the hell is wrong with you?" She bopped me on the forehead. I shrugged, feeling completely confused. I had no idea what she was talking about.

    "This exercise, which you nearly failed miserably I might add, was to see if you would take the lead. I personally tend to be a bit passive. Therefore, as the guy, you need to learn to take the lead, just like dancing." She held my hand up and snugged her hand around my back and gave a little sway.

    "The other night when you fell asleep on the couch I laid awake waiting for you for nearly an hour. I finally took matters into my own hands, maybe I should have made more noise."

    "I knew girls were crazy. I honestly was hoping to get more insight from you, not more confused." I said smiling. "You were waiting for me?"

    "You haven't seen crazy yet, give me a week." She winked.

    I groaned, then kissed her again, holding her against me, my hands stroking down her back to her ass massaging it as I pulled her to me. Holding her was like holding a flame, seductive, hypnotizing and hot, and I didn't care if I got burned.

    "Tell me you've had the good sense to pick up some protection." Summer mumbled between kisses. Without breaking our kiss I reached back for my wallet and held it up.

    "Please tell me you bought more than one." She growled. I felt her hands come between us resting on the waist of my jeans unbuttoning them and grabbing for the zipper. She pushed my jeans and boxers down far enough for me to escape captivity. She let out an appreciative hum as she ran her hand up and down my hardened length. She broke our kiss long enough to grab the hem of my polo shirt and drag it up pulling it over my head. She leaned down and took one of my nipples into her mouth. I gasped out loud at how the sensation shot through me. It felt as if my cock was getting even harder and I didn't think that was possible.

    "Holy shit! Does it feel this way when I do this to you?" I gasped.

    She hummed an agreement as she switched to the other side, then stepped back and looked at me smiling.

    I stood dumb-founded for a moment. I quickly realized she was waiting for me to do something. She placed her hands on her hips and gave them a slight tilt. "I'm all yours, all you need do is tell me how you'd like me, or better yet, show me." She winked. I kicked off my shoes and pushed my pants the rest of the way off and looked at her for a moment. The sun kissed her body so exquisitely, her pink nipples hard and pointing straight at me. Her hair was blowing in the breeze surrounding angelic face like a golden halo. I stepped forward, wrapped her up in my arms again and kissed her deeply. I ran my hand up between us taking her breast in my hand cupping it twirling the nipple in my fingers. I work my mouth down her jaw, kissing her neck and I feel her shudder and gasp. I moved down the center of her chest trailing kisses to the other nipple and teased it with my tongue before taking into my mouth suckling it gently. A moan escaped her lips. Her hand was pulling me towards her, fingers running through my hair. I wanted her so badly but I didn't want this to end. I pulled away looking up at her face, her mouth hung open her eyes half closed.

    "Your ankle has to be killing you right now." I said, noting she'd been standing for a while now. I walked over and brought one of the Adirondack chairs over and set it behind her and she smiled. I laid my clothes on it to keep her from burning her ass on the sun heated wood. She just looked at me without sitting. "Sit down." I told her, and she tilted her head in assent and sat. I knelt down in front of her and kissed her nipple again and began trailing kisses down her stomach. She took the cue and leaned back on the chair. I flicked her little belly button ring aside and licked her belly button. She let out a whoop and jumped, chuckling.

    "Ticklish?" I chuckled. She grasped a handful of my hair and gave me a little push further down, but I was going at my own pace and I made my way down nuzzling her little blond stripe. I kissed my way around her pouting lips, my tongue darting out giving little licks. She tasted sweet, the scent of her was driving me mad, I couldn't take it any longer and slipped my tongue into her as I massaged her clit.

    She arched her back and moaned. "Yes!" I lapped up to her clit taking it in my lips and giving it due attention. Her cries got louder and I stepped up the assault on her. Her leg came up over my shoulder and she pulled me hard into her with her heel. I let up a bit, I didn't want this to end too soon, it seemed that I wasn't the only one enjoying it. I slipped my middle finger into her, and felt her grip it tightly. Her hips started rocking forward. I was pretty sure I could finish her off quickly if I had a mind to, but I didn't. I continued bathing her clit, varying the pressure on it. She let out a few short gasps. "Please?!" She begged. I knew then I had to finish her and slipped another finger in to join the first and intensified my tongue lashing. Her hips lifted off the chair as she climaxed. She held on to me, still moaning, finally collapsing back into the chair panting.

    "You sir, are a natural." She gasped. I returned her smile and licked my fingers.

    "Am I mistaken, or is there a very hard cock in my immediate future?" I grinned even wider and nodded. "How would you like me?"

    "Over hard." I said smiling. Her eyes lit up like a fire had been kindled.

    "Well then, dig that little party hat out and show me how easy it is to put on."

    I chuckled and dove for my wallet lying on the grass a few feet away. I dug out the foil wrapper and crawled back. I tore open the packet holding the ring carefully and reaching down, putting in place and unrolled it carefully.

    "Very good." She said her eyes flashing. She stood up and knelt down on the grass facing the chair. "Over like this? I'm sure you'll supply the 'hard' part." She added with a wink.

    "Yes." I said, my breath shallow. I had to have her and scooted up behind her and lined up pushing the head in. I took her hips and pushed forward in a single motion burying myself in her.

    We both gasped loudly. In moments she started moving her hips back and forth and I pulled out and began taking slow strokes at first, but I knew I wasn't going to last. She leaned back pushing hard against me and I responded in kind driving forward, the sound of our bodies coming together pushed me into a frenzy. Her gasps were coming in short cries of, "Yes!" She began shaking in my hands, her moans coming from deep in her throat as she arched back into me and climaxed again pushing me over the edge. I drove her forward nearly knocking her and the chair over as I stiffened arching my back. I froze in place for what seemed an eternity, and not long enough both at the same time as I came deep in her.

    She leaned back against my chest, the heat of her skin against me was incredible, she reached behind us grasping my ass pulling our hips tight together. "I love how you feel inside me." She whispered. I leaned down and began kissing her shoulder, working my way up to her neck and nibbled on her ear.

    "I love how you feel too." I said, my voice a little weak.

    She breathed a deep contented sigh. "What now?" A small smirk spread across her lips.

    "I don't know about you but I worked up an appetite." I said. "Those shrimp sound good about now."

    "All this and you cook too. You're not going to be single long." She chuckled and reached up behind her and stroked my cheek. "I think we may need to move for that though." She said lightly, reminding me that I still had her pinned against the chair. I leaned back, pulling free of her. I stood stepping back, I gathered up my clothing. Summer put her good foot down and stood, steadying herself on the arms of the chair. "Let's go clean up and have lunch." She smiled slipping an arm around my waist and we went into the house.

    I started a pan for the shrimp, a little olive oil, some garlic and some red pepper flakes tossed on top of fresh spinach. My killer homemade vinaigrette to top and she would be mine. Well she already seemed to be. I stopped and stared out the little window above the sink out over the water. That thought caught me by surprise. What exactly was going on here? An hour ago I was pissed off for being shunned, now I was making her lunch with a silly, satisfied grin on my face.

    Summer hobbled into the kitchen wearing a pale blue tank top and panties with little pink hearts on them.

    "Don't you own pants?" I asked smiling.

    "Sure, would you rather I be fully dressed, or comfortable?" She asked.

    "Oh I don't mind your outfit, as long as you don't mind your lunch burnt to a crisp." I laughed.

    "What are you making?" She replied chuckling.

    "I'm going to woo you with my culinary skills. My own special shrimp and spinach salad with homemade vinaigrette." I said.

    "Wow, sounds awesome. You're a man of many talents. I think you're a little late in the wooing department though." She said smiling.

    My chest tightened at that. Nobody ever thought of me as a man before. Everybody has always treated me as a kid until now. The shock of it must have been evident in my expression.

    "What?" She asked, her eyes widening. I didn't answer her, I just leaned forward and kissed her softly, she responded in turn.

    "Nothing." I said, my grin returning.

    "Need a hand?" I handed her two lemons with directions to squeeze the hell out of them then juice them for me into a bowl. I diced up the shallot, and garlic tossing them into the big bowl, salt and pepper followed. In went a huge dollop of spicy mustard, I looked at how much juice Summer had squeezed out of the lemons and eyeballed it pouring it into the bowl, straining out the seeds. I dug a whisk out of the drawer and started whisking in olive oil.

    "Most vinaigrette recipes ask for vinegar, obviously. I like mine with lemon juice, especially with seafood." I said. I stopped whisking dribbling a little onto my finger to try it. "That's the ticket." I said offering a taste to Summer who agreed with a little sound. I set the big bowl aside and had her start splitting the cherry tomatoes. The shrimp were rinsed and patted dry on a towel, and I threw some garlic into the pan starting it with some of the olive oil. I salted and peppered the shrimp and in they went tossing them around to coat them all with the hot oil. They were ready in a couple minutes and the kitchen smelled terrific. I stacked the plates with spinach and started building the salads with the tomatoes, red onions, shrimp and as a topper sliced almonds.

    "If this tastes like it looks, you're staying on as cook after this heals." She said lifting her foot behind her.

    "Prepare to have your mind blown." I said handing her a plate and a fork. I had brought a small baguette with me which I'd sliced up and we ate.

    "A girl could get used to this." She smiled popping a shrimp into her mouth. Cooking for a girl is a sure way into her panties."

    I laughed. "Even if she wasn't wearing any?"

    "Well she's wearing some now." Her eyes flashed.

    "But for how long?" I said playing along.

    "You have your driver’s license don't you?" She asked, changing the subject.

    "Yea, I just don't have a car of my own yet." I said, wondering why she asked.

    "Do you know of anybody that would loan you one, like your folks?"

    "Yea I'm sure I can get one. Why, do you want to do it in the backseat?" I wiggled my eyebrows at her.

    "Hell yea, but I'd also like to get a ride to go get my Jeep. It's been down at the clinic for a week now. They told me it would be safe but I'm getting a little stir crazy stuck here in the house." She replied.

    I looked out the window. "I can ride down and bring it back, it's only about four or five miles." I said.

    "Ride?" She asked.

    "I have a bike, I can put it in the back and haul it back if you don't mind."

    "Not at all." She smiled.

    I did the dishes and cleaned up after lunch, and Summer kicked back on the sofa folding a load of laundry I'd done earlier. I took a look at the grass, yea the lawn could wait a couple more days. "What else needs to be done?" I asked from the kitchen. I got no answer. I walked into the living room and she was bobbing her head as I walked around the edge of the couch I noticed she'd put in earbuds and was listening to her mp3 player. She was lip syncing some unknown song. She looked up at me and grinned, pulling one of the buds loose.

    "I couldn't live without my music." She threw a towel at me to fold.

    "Listening to anything good?" She mentioned a band I'd never heard of, and moved the folded stuff from beside her and patted the seat beside her. I sat and she handed me the ear bud.

    "Check it out, you might like it." I put it in my ear and listened for a song or two, folding another towel. A hard rock song started and she turned it up a bit and started singing along. She got to the chorus and really joined in full blast. The lyrics were pretty explicit. I was thinking you wouldn't hear music like that on the radio around here. There was a pause, then a soft intro began. The ballad was soft and low, and Summer stopped and closed her eyes, her lips barely moving with the lyrics. When I noticed I stopped and listened intently to the lyrics, it was about intense, heart-felt, you are my world, kind of love. The kind of love that lasts longer than a lifetime. When it ended she reached down and stopped the playback. She looked straight out the window for a moment and turned to me, a shy sweet smile on her lips.

    "Do you believe in love Pete?" She asked me. I stared at her in wide-eyed amazement for a minute, and began slowly nodding.

    "I do now." I said, my voice barely above a whisper. I wanted to kiss her so badly, but something in her eyes made me hesitate. There was sadness there, and they welled up as if she were doing her best to hold back tears. A wash of emotion swept over me like a storm driven wave, and I leaned forward lifted her chin and kissed her softly. Our lips brushed, our tongues sought out one another, delicately probing. Something wet touched my cheek making me break the kiss long before I wanted to. I pulled back and a tear streamed down Summer's cheek. I reached for one of the towels and daubed it. I took a deep breath and was about to ask why she was crying when a curt little head shake waved off the question.

    "Please don't ask, not yet anyway." She said, her voice thick with emotion. "I'm sorry." She said wiping the remaining tear with the heel of her hand.

    "You don't have anything to be sorry about." I replied softly.

    She inhaled deeply and let it out slowly. She turned to me with a smile on her mouth but sadness in her eyes.

    "I saw there's a free concert in the park tonight. Want to go? A rock blues cover band is playing. Sounds like they might be good."

    I knew they were good, my friends brother was in the band, and I'd heard them before. I smiled and nodded. "Sounds like fun, and they are good, I've heard them before."

    "I should ride down and get the Jeep. There's no way you're walking that far." I said sternly.

    "Yes dear." Summer rolled her eyes at me. She giggled, and got up hobbling off to the bedroom and came back with a set of keys handing them to me.

    "It's black, and I'm guessing the only one with West Virginia plates. It's at the walk-in clinic on Route 12."

    I nodded. "I know exactly where you mean. I'll go get it. You relax, take a nap if you want. I should be back in an hour or so." I smiled. I kissed her again, the underlying want in our embrace was nearly too much. She placed her hand on my chest, with the barest hint of pressure. She was right, if I kept it up we weren't going anywhere. I reluctantly stepped back, picked up the folded towels and put them away. I walked back out and she had laid down on the couch with her foot up on a pillow. I smiled that she'd taken my suggestion.

    "Can I get you anything before I go?" I said softly leaning over the arm of the couch. She just smiled and gave her head a little shake. She reached up pulling me down closer for a quick upside-down kiss. I headed for the kitchen door, pausing as I closed it quietly, looking back into the house. I turned and started walking home.

    I walked, lost in thought. This week had been a week of firsts for me. I grinned at the thought of the first day when I lost my virginity to an amazing woman. The aggravation of the following days of not knowing exactly what was happening. If I had just opened my eyes I would have noticed she was waiting for me. Then today when she all but pushed me into making love to her again. I wondered why, well why me anyway. I knew so little about her. What was going on here. We'd known each other about a week, what was that question about believing in love. I could easily fall in love with her, I had to admit. Was I doing just that? So many questions came to mind as I walked up my driveway, I grabbed my bike out of the garage and hopped on. I made my way down to the coast road and started pedaling in earnest up the first rise. The traffic drifted past me as I sought answers to my questions. I pedaled harder nearly coasting up the next rise. Why was I over analyzing this? I was living out a fantasy any red-blooded male would die for. A beautiful, sexy woman wanted to have sex with me, repeatedly. Isn't that enough for me? I laughed out loud at that thought because I realized, it isn't.

    I rolled down the long slope of the hill seeing the clinic up ahead. I pulled into the parking lot and rode around looking for the Jeep and found it near the side of the building. I checked the plate and got off my bike, took out the keys and opened up the driver's side door. The heat billowed out of it from being parked in the sun so long. The smell of a roasted sweet smelling air freshener poured out and nearly gagged me. I walked to the back and looked at how I was going to get my bike in there and noticed there was a folding bike rack on the spare tire mount. I figured it out in a few minutes and had my bike on it and strapped it into place. I got in and got myself familiar with everything. Started it up and turned up the air conditioning. Once I felt comfortable with everything I pulled on my seat belt and headed out of the parking lot. I got back to town and figured I'd go drop off my bike first. I pulled up in front of the house, and killed the engine. I hopped out and took my bike off the back, then ran inside for some clothes to wear tonight since I was kind of sweaty from the ride. I picked through some stuff and grabbed a bag and tossed it in. I was glad mom wasn't home, I didn't want to have to explain what I was doing, and who owned the Jeep out front. She knew I was working for a tourist that needed help, and unless Paula at the store said anything, Mom had no idea who it was. I made my way back to the house.

    "Thank you for getting my Jeep."

    "It's no problem. I haven't had much practice with a stick."

    "Ouch! Do I still have a clutch?" She teased.

    I just rolled my eyes in imitation of her.

    "The concert is in a few hours and I want to take a bath, you could probably use one too." She scrunched up her nose at me sniffing and making a face.

    "It's your fault I got all sweaty earlier." I said smiling and gave her a quick peck. I got up and went into the bathroom and started the water running.

    "Actually you smell pretty good, like good clean sweat. Let's wash it off."

    I turned to face her. She looked at me for a moment and raised her arms in silent admonition to undress her. I took the hem of her tank top and lifted it up baring her chest. She never broke my gaze as I knelt and slid her panties over her taut thighs. I took her ankle and she rested her hand on my shoulder for balance as I unwound the bandage and set it up on the counter. She didn't wait for me to get undressed, she reached for my tee and lifted it and I raised my arms in time for her to sweep it off. I kicked off my shoes as she undid the button of my jeans pushing them down. She leaned her head towards the bath and motioned me to get in first. She got in sitting gently between my upraised knees and leaned back against me. She sighed and just closed her eyes and relaxed for a minute. I kissed her on the temple softly and a little smile spread across her lips.

    "We don't need to go to the concert, you know." I whispered in her ear giving it a little nibble.

    "I know, but anticipation will make it better. Trust me. Call it lesson two and a half." She chuckled. She turned and picked up the little scrubby puff sitting in the corner and the bottle of body wash and handed them to me and sat back. I lathered up and began soaping down her chest, working my way down one arm, then the other. I worked down her stomach, making sure not to tangle her little belly button ring in the puff. Her thighs glistened as she raised first one to be washed, then the other. For a moment she liberated the puff and did her calves and feet, being better able to reach them. While there, she did mine as well, working her way back up my thighs. She turned and knelt facing me, lathering up the puff once more. She began washing my chest, and down my stomach eventually making her way down to my now hard cock. She washed it well but didn't linger as she worked her way back up to my arms. She washed my face gently. Her hand rested gently on the back of my neck and drew me to her as she ran the soapy puff over my shoulders and down my back. I wrapped my arms around her hips and pulled her to me. I kissed her navel flicking her little heart dangle. She immediately jumped, and I smiled.

    "Hey I warned you." She said. Before I could respond the soaked puff smacked me on the head, soap suds ran down my face. Summer laughed. "Don't open your eyes." She said, massaging it through my short hair. I heard the water turn on again and she fiddled with the knobs and turned on the hand held sprayer. After a moment I felt her holding it over my head rinsing me off. I stood letting her finish the job, and took the sprayer and began rinsing her off as well. I watched the suds give up their hold on her curves, and I could imagine their sadness from letting her go as they pooled at her feet. She reached down and rinsed the suds down the drain and turned off the water. I stepped out and helped her so she needn't put undue weight on her ankle. I dried Summer off before getting around to me. She headed into the bedroom as I rummaged through the clothes I'd brought. I put on my good jeans and pulled on a polo shirt. Summer passed me in jeans and a little black bra, a shirt slung over her arm. She eyed me up and down as she sauntered past. I followed her into the bath to see what she was up to. She shooed me out claiming she needed to 'put on her face'. Despite my protests that her face was beautiful as is. I got the boot anyway.

    She came out a few minutes later wearing her long sleeve top with the buttons undone, nearly showing her bra. A little silver pendant hung down her chest of a little sea turtle. I looked at her face and it glowed. Her hair brushed but slightly curly. Her eyes somehow seemed larger and deeper color, and her lips pinker and more inviting. I didn't realize I had been holding my breath until I exhaled sharply.

    Her smile disappeared. "What?" She looked at me.

    "Nothing!" I said quickly. "It's just that you're so... you're beautiful."

    She softened at the compliment, the glow returning to her face. "Thank you. You're too sweet." She gave me a quick kiss. "I have a cooler, let's pack something for dinner." We headed into the kitchen and put together a little picnic in the cooler of cheese, veggies and the rest of the baguette from lunch.

    "Damn, I need to make some more tea. Oh well we can swing by the market before they close and see what they have." She said.

    We gathered up our little cooler and she grabbed a sweatshirt for when it cooled off later, and we headed out. I helped her up into the Jeep and went around and got in the driver’s seat.

    "Does it feel odd being chauffeured around?" I asked smiling.

    "No it's kind of nice actually." She smiled back and gave my thigh a squeeze. We stopped in at the store and she hobbled down the aisles and picked up some grapes, and she found a bottle of sparkling cider.

    "If you want they have wine and beer too. I'm driving so you're safe." I smiled.

    "I'm not much of a drinker, this will be fine, and we can share it." She smiled slyly back at me. I took the grapes behind the counter and gave them a good rinse and set them on some paper towels to drain.

    "Do you always walk around like you own the place?" Summer asked.

    "Don't knock it. If it weren't for that, I would never have been so lucky to deliver your groceries last Monday." I wiggled my eyebrows at her making her giggle. "Hey Paula, do you have any cups I can snag for our champagne?"

    "What?" Paula said, shocked.

    "It's just cider!" Summer added quickly holding up the bottle.

    "You know where that stuff is Pete, take what you need." Paula waved me off.

    "Ooh!" I heard behind me as I gathered up the grapes and bagged them up. I looked over my shoulder to see Summer going over a small display of locally made chocolates. She picked up a small back of chocolates to add to the pile.

    We got up to the counter and Paula was keying everything in.

    "Did you want to settle your bill while you're here Miss Lynne?" Paula asked.

    "Sure it's Friday, no better time." She smiled. "Let's put this on it too." She waved at the pile on the counter. She handed over her card, signed the pad and got her receipt, stuffing it into her wallet. "Oh we don't need a bag, we're going to toss it into the cooler."

    "Where are you kids off to?" Paula asked innocently. I knew Paula and she was digging for dirt. Luckily I cut in before Summer did.

    "I'm taking Mrs. Lynne down to the concert in the park. She still can't drive her standard with her foot." I said doing my best to sound as innocent as I could. We made our way out and put the rest of the food in the cooler.

    "I'm guessing she's a bit of a gossip?" Summer whispered. "Gotta love small towns. It's the same back home."

    "Yea well she has an ear for dirt, and she's centrally located to redistribute anything she thinks is juicy enough to share. Let's just put it this way, if she thought I was doing anything besides your lawn you wouldn't live it down with the locals."

    We both had a good laugh at that as I pulled the Jeep around and headed into town. The street down to the park was going slow, traffic was moving though and people were walking down the sidewalks with blankets and coolers. I pulled up right at the entrance and got a nasty look from a cop.

    "I'm just dropping off the handicapped!" I yelled out the window. Summer gave me an offended look and gave me a punch on the shoulder. "Play it up a bit, maybe I'll get to park closer." I said under my voice. "Go towards the center if you can, maybe about twenty or thirty yards from the stage for the best sound. I'll bring the cooler."

    "Okay, grab the blanket from behind the back seat while you're at it." She added, and hopped down onto her good foot and hobbled off dramatically. Sure enough, the officer called out and told me to park at the end lot where the police and ambulance were. I made my way back with the cooler and blanket.

    As I made my way to where I hoped to find Summer I bumped into a few people I knew, swapping quick hello's as I moved through the gathering crowd. I noted at least two admiring stares and noticed they were aimed right where I was headed. I wasn't sure if that made me happy or not. Yes I was here with the lovely lady, and just the thought of that made me grin.

    "What are you smiling at?" She asked seeing me. I shrugged setting down the cooler and spreading out the blanket, and Summer scooted onto it. Recorded Fifties music was playing softly over the sound system from the stage.

    I leaned in close and said in her ear. "I just noticed that you're drawing attention and I'm wondering how many guys are wishing they were me right now." Her cheeks went pink as she looked up and around looking to see who looking at her.

    "Don't get many women-folk in these parts, do you?" She asked softly. I laughed.

    "Beautiful women don't usually go out on their own. This town is known for eligible bachelors swooping down on unsuspecting fair maidens and making off with them." I said softly, playing along. "Don't worry, I'll protect you." She giggled.

    "Good, I'd hate to be made off with by some 'other' handsome guy, oh the horror!" She said rolling her eyes at me. She leaned in and gave me a peck on the cheek. "Thank you." She smiled. I blushed furiously realizing we were in public and that kiss was a blatant admission that she was without a doubt, with me.

    The lights facing the crowd began to flash slowly signaling that the show would start in a moment. They went down and the lights on the stage came up slowly in blue. The Fifties music got a little louder and there were couples dancing on the stage.

    All of a sudden a spot came on in the center of the stage and two guys stood there. John, my buddy Jeff's older brother was one of them. The other guy must have been one of his music school buddies.

    "I can't play like this?" He said holding up a red rag wrapped around his hand. "You did this, now you gotta play for me."

    John stared at him for a moment and reached for the guitar on the stand and walked to the front of the stage. "This is an oldie, well where I come from it is." He turned to the band. "Watch me for the changes and try to keep up." He started playing Chuck Berry's, Johnny B. Good. He really got into it, dancing around the stage, ending with a huge jump and dropped to his knees with the final note.

    John stood, to loud applause, and introduced himself and the band, and said they'd be taking a walk down a musical memory lane with us tonight, and he hoped we enjoyed the show. The show was choreographed like a play, as actors appeared on stage to join in the songs and period costumes of the Fifties and Sixties. Everything they played was some sort of blues rock, everything from Ray Charles and Ben E. King, to Marvin Gaye. He stopped to tell us that despite the invasion of British music, American music was still a very powerful influence, and the Sixties weren't only about the Beatles and the Stones.

    "That brings us to the mid-Sixties. We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back, don't go anywhere. We're watching you." He pointed at people in the crowd, then laughed. The crowd joined him. "This concert is sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce, but I'd also like to direct you down to our tent over here where we're selling CD's and gear, because we artists need beer and pizza like the rest of the world."

    "Wow they're good!" Summer said cracking the cooler open and digging out some snacks. "Here, open that would you please?" The plastic cork popped sounding like a champagne bottle. Causing a few people to turn and smile and one to clap. I poured the cider into the cups and we nibbled on the snacks in the cooler. She popped a cherry tomato in my mouth then took one herself.

    "You build a heck of a picnic." I said, causing her to laugh.

    "I slaved over a hot stove all day."

    The lights on the crowd began to flash again, announcing the end of the intermission. A lone guitar started in on something bluesy.

    The lights came back up and there were summer of love trappings on stage. The backup singers were dressed in bell bottoms and headbands and long flowing sleeves. John took center stage again and the spot came up on him.

    "Now you may have construed that my earlier remarks about the Sixties not being about the British invasion as a criticism. It wasn't in the least. A lot of bands came out of Britain then, and most of them were excellent to say the least. A good many of these performers sited their love of American jazz and blues as their influence. One such performer was a gentleman named Van Morrison." Quite a few people gave in to a round of applause. "I'd like your help in convincing one of our audience members to give us a hand with the next couple songs. You see my little brother Jeff works the sound board." He pointed down at the front to where Jeff waved. "A good buddy of his from school is one of the best sax players I've ever heard, which is saying a lot when you consider my fellow musicians."

    "Pete! I know you're out there, Jeff spotted you with a lovely young lady earlier. Maybe we can convince you to break away from her for a few songs."

    Summer turned to me her eyes wide. "Does he mean you." I was still staring at the stage.

    "Folks let's hear some support to get him up here and get on with the show!" He yelled.

    Applause erupted through the crowd. I looked at Summer who was clapping furiously and reached over and gave me a push. I stood up and made my way to the sound board through the crowd, people encouraged me as I walked by.

    I got up to Jeff and said, "Thanks buddy, I owe you one." I'm sure the sarcastic edges wasn't lost on him.

    "I figure if this doesn't impress her panties off, nothing will." He replied.

    If he only knew, I thought to myself. I stepped up to the edge of the stage and climbed the steps. John was center stage clapping over his guitar. I walked up and shook his hand. I whispered something into his ear, then walked back to where the horns were and picked up a sax, and a mouthpiece. I wet the reed down and mounted it up as the bass player started the riff for Tupelo Honey. The audience started clapping.

    "Pete made a request of me, which is only fair since I dragged him away from his lovely lady friend, so we're dedicating this to her. Summer this is for you." He pointed out to the crowd. The song began and I joined in like I'd been playing every day since school got out. I walked up beside John and played the sax solo like a pro. When we were done serenading Summer we moved on to Days Like This, and segued right into Moondance, my favorite by far. I found myself singing alongside John when I didn't have a solo. The flute player a tall, pretty girl was really getting into it. John improvised the lyric to 'Underneath the cover of June, Rockport skies'. The flutist and I stepped forward next to John and took a bow as the song ended, as he yelled our names into the mic. I was feeling pretty awesome at that point taking off the sax and placing it back on the stand and shaking the hand of its owner thanking him for the use. I made for the steps and waved once more as John started in on the turn of the decade and started on Clapton's Bell Bottom Blues next.

    I found Summer sitting next to Jeff at the sound board with the biggest grin she could muster without hurting herself.

    "Thanks for the seat." She said to Jeff and stood up and wrapped her arms around my neck giving me a long hard kiss. As we broke our lip lock I saw Jeff give me a thumbs up sign without even looking over at me. I just smiled and turned Summer back to our blanket.

    "Oh my God! That was awesome. Why didn't you tell me you were a musician?" She said as people around us thanked me. I just shrugged.

    "I don't know, I've been playing for six or seven years. I've always loved jazz and blues. It's like a hobby to me." I said. "My grandfather and his brother were trombone players in the Maine state band."

    John went on to laud bands from the Seventies and picked out Steely Dan as the set went a smoky blue color as they played on. Summer curled into me leaning on my chest as we listened. I was about ready to explode with happiness. They moved on and a girl stepped forward from the backup singers with a microphone and John introduced her and mentioned the influences of the west coast moving up to the Seventies bringing us groups like Heart and they started playing Barracuda. They played a few others ending up with a Billy Joel mash up as their last song. They did Rockport State of Mind to the music of New York State of Mind. People were standing up applauding. I had to admit, John and the band did a hell of a job. They got such a long ovation that they played a two song encore, to another long round of applause.

    "That was awesome!" Summer shouted over the applause. "I wish they did things like this back home!"

    "Welcome to Maine." I said smiling.

    We packed up the cooler with the remains of our picnic and Summer folded the blanket tossing it over her arm. As we made our way back to the Jeep. I looked over to see her grinning ear to ear again.

    "What?" I asked.

    "I feel like a groupie who's going home with one of the band." She said, causing both of us to laugh.

    To be continued in part 3, by Member389 for Literotica
    Summer In Maine: Part 3
    Leave them wanting more

    A 7-part series by Member389. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Stories.

    We made our way to the Jeep and I put our stuff in the back and walked around to give her a hand into her seat. The look in her eyes was dreamy as I closed her door and walked around to the driver's side. We drove back in silence, her hand on my thigh giving it an occasional squeeze. When I pulled into the driveway she looked over at me, the expression in her eyes was full of longing. I got out and walked around the Jeep and grabbed the cooler from the back and walked around and opened her door.

    "Do you need a hand?" I asked softly. She just nodded looking into my eyes. She slid off the seat landing on her good foot and wrapped her arm around me.

    "Hang on." I said softly. I opened the door up, turned on the light and set down the cooler. I went back out and picked her up in my arms and brought her inside. I carried her into the living room and went to set her on the couch and she tightened her arms around my neck and shook her head gently. She lifted her chin towards the bedroom.

    I looked into her eyes and saw her expression, it looked like a mix need and desire. I carefully passed through the bedroom door and stood beside the bed. I had a split second notion to dump her on the bed laughing, but the look on her face told me that tenderness was needed. I set her down on her feet instead looking into her eyes. That look wrenched my heart, it said to me, "love me." I placed my hands on her hips and drew us slowly together and I leaned forward, her hands came up and lay on my chest, grasping lightly at the fabric of my shirt as she leaned into our kiss.

    "Go turn off the lights." She whispered to me. I looked into her eyes for a moment longer and noticed the corner of her mouth rise slightly as she gave me the slightest push. I nearly ran out to the kitchen, made sure the door was closed and smacked the light switch. I turned the corner from the kitchen into the living room and saw her turning to stand right where she was when I'd left the room.

    A small lamp with a dim bulb cast a golden glow over the room. She looked up at me standing in the doorway and the corner of her mouth twitched and she bit her lower lip and looked away. I walked back into the room and saw that she'd kicked off her shoes but nothing else had changed. I followed suit and kicked mine off as I approached her. She looked up from under a fall of hair at me still biting her lip. I reached up taking her gently by the chin and releasing the lower lip from her bite, only to capture it with mine. Her arms came up around my neck as I encircled her waist with mine as our mouths explored. Her tongue danced like a flame in a fire, scalding hot one moment and gone another. My hands slid up her waist bringing the shirt with them and I ran my hand around behind her, running my fingers gently up her spine, her skin was so soft and warm. I felt the tremor as she shivered at my touch and it brought a small smile to my lips. She kissed me deeply, our tongues twirling like skilled dancers, before she leaned back slightly raising her arms in surrender.

    The fabric slid up her curves giving up every beautiful inch grudgingly. The shirt was laid aside as I drank in her beauty. My fingers traced down the smooth curve of her waist, then back up her soft flat stomach with its little silver and pink heart bangle. The thin lace did nothing to hide her excitement, her nipples pressed easily through the flimsy fabric, the small pink areola swelled slightly. The invitation was conveyed, yet I decided to wait on responding. I looked up into her eyes, her expression, soft but willing me onward, yet not giving direction. I was on a voyage of discovery, and Summer was letting me find my own way.

    I took her in my arms and kissed her again willing myself to go slowly. I broke from her lips, trailing kisses up her jaw as she tilted her head back giving complete freedom for my lips to roam. I made it to her ear, teasing the lobe with the tip of my tongue. Summer inhaled sharply as traced down her neck with the tip of my tongue. She reached up under my shirt running her hands over my back, pulling us together, rubbing her chest to mine. The scent of her perfume urged me on, and I surrendered greedily kissing my way down her chest. I followed the top of her bra with the tip of my tongue before sliding across the fabric and taking the nipple fully into my mouth and sucking it greedily as my hand massaged its twin. I made my way across to the other, offering the same attention to the right. Summer's breathing was ragged, her head tilted slightly back offering herself to me.

    "Take it off." Came the urgent whisper. I pulled her towards me making my way up the other side of her neck while liberating her from the confines of lace. I pulled the fabric slowly down, dragging the lace across her hard nipples, with a whimper she bit her lower lip. Her hands slid up my back, taking my shirt with them as she lifted it over my head and threw it aside. Our skin touched, her nipples poking my chest, it felt like the heat between us was enough to start a fire.

    She leaned forward taking the upper hand, and in no uncertain terms let me know that it was her turn as she kissed her way from my mouth down my jaw , her hands drawing down my chest as her mouth blazed a trail to my nipple. She toyed with it, flicking it with her tongue before taking it into her mouth, causing me to gasp from the heat that enveloped me. She worked her way from one nipple to the other achingly slow.

    I reached between us and grasped the front of her jeans fumbling to get them unbuttoned and the zipper pulled. She took my forearms in her hands willing me to slow down.

    "Easy, there's no hurry." She whispered. I calmed myself with a deep breath and unbuttoned her jeans sliding the zipper down. I parted the waist, just as she leaned down pulling them from my grasp. She trailed kisses down my chest as she began shedding my own jeans. She didn't appear to be moving quickly but had mine pushed down to my thighs quicker than I realized. My cock was as hard as old hickory, and it raised a tent in my boxers. She ran her hands down my stomach, and placed them on my hips as she knelt in front of me looking up into my eyes. I know my eyes begged urgently for satisfaction but Summer wouldn't have it. She saw my hands flexing as if looking to grab hold of something and took them in her hands pinning them to my hips before she leaned forward and began nuzzling my hard cock through the fabric of my boxers. She nibbled her way up the underside of my cock, her tongue occasionally lashing out for a lick. She looked up at me smiling as she pushed my hands away and began peeling my boxers down freeing me from the confines. She ran her cheek down my length, she kissed the base as she reached up beneath and took my balls in her hand massaging them as she began kissing her way up the shaft, her tongue leaving a wet trail.

    She stopped at the tip and cleaned up the moisture that had already begun leaking. I willed her to take me in her mouth, grab me with her hand, but she didn't, she just slowly lapped at the tip and stroked my balls. She was building me up to go off like a cannon and she knew it. Finally she relented and took the tip in her mouth, slowly swirling her tongue around me. I pushed forward hoping she would take more of me and she backed away in equal measure. She looked up at me with a raised eyebrow as if to say, "Did you really think that would work?" She took her time making sure she never missed a spot with her tongue and lips, but never drawing me out. She just kissed and caressed her way down my length. I didn't think I could take much more when she stopped and looked up at me, her eyes smoldering in the dim light. Without a word she tilted her head slightly and bent forward taking one my balls into her mouth and began stroking it with her tongue, rolling it around her mouth. I gasped at the sensation, and I thought I would lose it right then as she let it drop from her lips.

    It was only then that I realized that I was shaking in anticipation. Summer stood slowly looking into my eyes, her lips parted slightly and I instinctively leaned into her kiss. Her arms came up around my neck and my hands went to the waist of her jeans, two could play this game. I pushed them down to her hips, breaking our kiss with a smile. I pushed my jeans all the way off before kneeling before her and sliding her jeans down to her knees. I smiled a little wider at the pink panties with the tiger stripes and noted a large damp spot, I pushed the jeans down and she stepped out of them, they landed next to mine when I tossed them aside. She stood still, her hands at her sides as I drank in the sight of her long sun kissed legs. I ran my hands up her thighs, she was trembling under my hands. I leaned forward, placing a soft kiss on the damp spot, a soft sigh escaped her lips, as I kissed downward pushing my tongue against her through the fabric. I traced my tongue back up, she grasped my wrists urging me to pull the flimsy fabric down her hips and be done with it. I had sufficiently quelled my desire to throw her down on the bed and take her fast and hard. I was learning to enjoy taking my time.

    I nuzzled her tugging the panties up pulling them tighter into her crease, pressing my tongue into her through the fabric, soft moans escaped from deep in her chest. Her grip on my wrists tightened urging me to take them off, but I held fast teasing her through the fabric until she let out a pleading moan. I loosened my hold and let her hands push mine down, her panties sliding down with them. The scent of her arousal caused a wave of urgency to hit me, and I inhaled deeply reigning it in. I turned her slightly setting her on the edge of the bed. I slipped between her spread legs and began teasing her kissing my way down and stopping, working my way down the other side of her. It wasn't long that I felt her leg wrap around my head, and her fist grab my hair that she'd had enough teasing and she needed release.

    She laid back pulling me down into her, as soon as I dipped my tongue to her molten center her back arched and she let out a feral growl. Her hips lifted grinding herself into my probing mouth, and I did my best to stoke the fire, tongue dancing over slippery flesh, relishing every moment of pleasure I could give her. Her hips began to buck as I locked my lips around her clit attacking it with my tongue and she began to cry out as her back arched. I did my best to keep her at that edge and let the pleasure wash over her. She slowly settled back down her body relaxed while she gasped for air.

    She took my head in her hands and drew me up over her languid body. I took the time to kiss my way up as she drew my face to hers. Her eyes were still closed but her lips didn't miss their mark as kissed my forehead first and worked her way down my face, our tongues wrestling like lovers.

    "Well you've certainly become skilled at that." She sighed.

    "To become truly skilled at anything, you must love what you're doing." I replied softly, conveying an adage one of my old teachers used often.

    "Do you love what you're doing?" She asked between kisses.

    I smiled and let out a low chuckle. Our bodies melted together, her legs parted and wrapped around my hips, and I entered her slippery warmth. Neither of us were in a hurry as we sampled each other’s body. The heat kept building like a fanned fire and I began stroking longer, and pushing deeper, her legs urging me on, her tongue tracing down my ear as she whispered encouragement. I kissed and nibbled down her neck, as I reached beneath her, taking her shoulders in my hands I held her in place as the pace of my strokes became more insistent. She started to whimper, her lips parting and she began moaning, spurring me on. She gasped, and cried out arching her back offering herself even wider to me and began shaking. The end was near for me as I too groaned and drove forward, pulling on her shoulders, pressing into her as hard as I could. I erupted deep inside her, arching my back as we both gasped for breath.

    I slid off lying beside her still gulping air. Summer rolled up onto her elbow and laced her leg between mine, rubbing her knee against my thigh as she leaned down and kissed me. Her hand ran up and down my sweat slicked chest as she stole every gasp for air I made.

    "I'm not sure if I'm an excellent teacher or you're an excellent student, but wow!" She said. She rolled off the side of the bed saying she'd be right back. A cool breeze blew and I felt myself shiver.

    "Oh shit!" I whispered looking down and my spent cock laying on my stomach drying. So many things started racing through my mind.

    Summer padded back into the bedroom, a towel in her hand. She crawled up onto the bed smiling at me, and leaned down for a kiss.

    "I'm so sorry." I nearly cried. She just looked at me, one eyebrow raised.

    "See how easy it is to forget?" She replied softly, knowing instinctively what I meant. "Why do you think I just went and washed up. I didn't want to be sleeping on the wet spot." She grinned.

    "What if..." I started and she leaned down covering my mouth with hers.

    "Don't worry," she whispered, "the lesson I wanted you to take away from that first day was that it's your responsibility to remember to cover your member." She giggled.

    She let out a deep sigh. "I don't exactly go around jumping into bed with just anybody, despite what you may think of me." Her expression turned serious. "I'm disease free, I got checked out a few months ago, and don't worry, I can't get pregnant." There seemed to be something left unsaid, she just sighed again.

    She proceeded to use the towel to clean me up, without saying anything more. I reached up and gently lifted the hair away from her face, but she didn't look up from what she was doing. She was looking at what she was doing, but she was a million miles away. I slowly slipped the towel from her hand and pulled her down to me wrapping my arms around her. She nestled herself against me hugging me tightly as I turned off the lamp. I ignored the wet feeling on my chest.

    "Are you awake?" She whispered. I had been in one my half-awake moments when she asked. I opened my eyes, and noticed it was still dark outside.

    "Yea." I replied softly as I kissed her shoulder. I realized I was spooning her and tightened my hold just a bit.

    "I'm sorry about earlier, how I reacted." She sighed deeply.

    "You've got nothing to be sorry for." I whispered softly in her ear before giving it a nibble.

    She started playing with my hand, tracing the fingers with hers, slipping hers beneath mine and I closed my hand around hers gently.

    "If you don't want to talk about it..." I started.

    "No. I don't mind." She replied twisting her head speaking over her shoulder. I ran my fingers down the length of hers resting where the ring would be, and rubbed slow circles. I felt her little smile and quick gust of breath rather than saw it. "Right to the point. Ten years, damn that sounds like a long time. I just realized you probably don't have any idea how old I am, do you?"

    "Doesn't matter." I said kissing her shoulder and up the side of her neck.

    "Last summer I came home from my shift at the hospital early, nearly caught him in the act with a friend of mine. It was pretty obvious what was going on. I found out it had been going on for a while by then."

    "What a dirt bag." I said, my grip upon her tightened a little in response. "A guy like that doesn't deserve someone like you. Did you leave him that day?"

    "Leave him? I threw him out, both of them actually." She said. A few moments went by before she started again softly. "One woman wasn't enough for him, or maybe I wasn't enough for him."

    "Hey now. Don't start talking like that. Where one man sees a rock, another sees a diamond."

    Summer busted out laughing. "Where in the hell did you hear that?"

    I started laughing along with her. "Probably on TV or in a magazine." I took her hand in mine and ran it down her stomach and began circling slowly with our fingers entwined.

    She took a deep breath. "You're a subtle one, you are. She's ten, her name is Emily, and she's the most wonderful little girl in the world."

    "Where is she now?" I asked, scared to hear bad news.

    "Summer camp in western Pennsylvania. My folks are picking her up when the session ends."

    I kept rubbing slow circles, and flicked her little silver heart belly button ring gently. "No more?"

    "No." She said softly. "After Emmy something went wrong with the plumbing, I had to have surgery."

    "It sounds like it's time to move on, start over."

    "Yea, it's taken a year and a lot of prodding from family and friends, but I think it's time. This trip was going to be a little solo adventure. My total lack of grace and dexterity landed me on my ass for two weeks." She chuckled.

    "Well it looks like you're doing well. You've had a passionate love affair with a hot, young stud. What else is there?"

    She giggled. "I'm not sure I'm done with that part yet." She ran her hand down behind her finding my hardness in the dark gently rubbing it.

    "Yay for me." I whispered. She wiggled away from me and rolled over to face me, our lips met in a deep kiss.

    "Me too." She said between kisses.

    She pushed my shoulder back laying me flat on the rumpled sheets, she climbed on me straddling my hips as we made out like teenagers. I must have nudged her just right a few times.

    "Somebody is looking for a little more action." She grinned as she reached down between us lining me up and slipping down slowly. A soft hum of approval vibrated from her throat, or was that me? I couldn't tell. Our bodies rocked slowly like a boat on a gentle swell. Our pace built slowly, savoring the feeling of just being together. She sat up and began pushing herself down harder on me as I raised my hips to meet each with a firm thrust. We were in no hurry, but passion quickly set the pace and we were both moaning loudly, her body began to shake in my hands. I knew I wouldn't last much longer, and was thankful as she leaned forward and tightened her grip on me. She threw her head back and moaned deeply as she ground herself on my cock. Her whole body shook as the wave of her orgasm crashed over her, I couldn't hold out any longer and lifted my hips and erupted in her again.

    She laid down on my chest panting.

    "I love you." I whispered softly, kissing the top of her head.

    I woke to an obnoxiously loud seagull squawking outside. I took a deep breath and stretched and felt rumpled sheets next to me. I blinked away the fog from my eyes and noticed I was alone. I tugged my jeans on and walked out to the kitchen. I felt right away that something was wrong. I jogged out the kitchen, the screen door banged against the porch rail. The Jeep was gone. I ran back inside to the bedroom, her clothes were gone, in the bath her toiletries were gone. The coffee table in the living room had a magazine or two on it. I looked in the kitchen and nothing was different except for the note on the counter.

    Dear Pete,

    I feel like a complete and total asshole right now, because I know when you read this you'll be pretty upset. When I woke up I checked my messages and my Mom had called yesterday. Emmy was in an accident at camp and broke her arm. She's okay, but I didn't feel right staying with you while my folks took care of her.

    I heard what you said last night and it scared me. I wanted so badly to say I love you too. I'm just not sure if it's real or not. We come from different worlds, we're at different places in our lives, it would be impossible for us both. You should move on, and remember everything I taught you. I have no doubt you're going to make some girl very happy. You did this one.

    Love,

    Summer

    Hugs & kisses

    Summer hated herself for the lie about Emmy breaking her arm, but she'd hope it would ease the sting of her running off. She was sure there was no other way to end it. The tear was drying leaving a cool streak down her face.

    The traffic was getting heavier as she neared Portland, so she decided to get off the highway and start west along back roads. She still had a couple weeks of her vacation, so she wasn't worried about getting home right away.
    Road Trip

    It had been over a year now.

    I was working support in Warren down along the Camden road. There was a large blueberry farm there that was burning their fields. It's common practice to keep the other plants from taking over, blueberries grew like weeds out here, the fall burning helped increase the crop, and here in down east Maine blueberries are big business.

    I sat on the back of Fire Engine number 3, looking out over the fields, we were just here to make sure that the fires didn't get away from the farmers. Dark smoke rolled along on the breeze as the low flames crept eastward. These were the worst times. Normally I was too busy to think about it, too busy to dredge up the past and go over it like a raccoon pawing through a trash bin. Unfortunately, I tended to hold on to things like that. I could see Summer in my mind as if I'd seen her yesterday. The blue eyes, and that crooked little smile, her straw colored hair blowing in the breezes off the water. She hadn't tanned so much as she just glowed, as if reflecting the sun's color and warmth on to you.

    Fifteen months. That's how long it had been since she left. I still had the note carefully folded in my wallet. A few times frustration nearly got the better of me and I almost threw it away, but sentiment always seemed to win out.

    After she left I stewed for weeks, mom and friends kept trying to shake me out of my funk and none of them succeeded. I talked to Davy about a job but he'd already given my spot to someone else since I hadn't gone down to see him early enough. He told me that the city was looking for recruits for the fire department, and after my level headed rescue of a boater last year I should apply for it. The boater in question thought it was a smart idea to smoke his cigar while refueling, and the fumes caught. I got to him with a fire extinguisher before the place went up. He got burned up his arm and some around his neck but he survived. I didn't have any other prospects and it seemed like a good idea.

    The chief remembered the story about my fast thinking the summer before and looked over my paperwork. Before I knew it I was getting a ride up to Fairfield to the fire training academy. After six months I'd gotten my certification in firefighting and my first aid training. I requested further EMT training but the chief said it would have to wait until the new budget year before he could send me back.

    The summer had been busy with the tourists, the occasional fire, plenty of rescues, but now that the season was over it had quieted down. It was the quiet times, like now, that I'd fall into this pensive mood. Some of the older guys would try to rouse me, ruffling my hair to snap me out of it. I remembered Herb, the engineer for #3, sat next to me beside the fire house a few days ago. He didn't say anything for a few minutes.

    "She must have been something."

    I just nodded. "She was everything."

    He nodded. "You know, when the smokes thick, sometimes you have to check the line between you and your partner. Make sure he's still there. If he pulls, and you don't tug back he doesn't know if he's snagged, or lost you."

    I smirked. "Yeah."

    He stood up and wandered back into the station. He was right, she tugged, but I didn't tug back. I let her leave. I won't lie and say I didn't cry out her name while I kicked the gravel in the driveway. I couldn't understand how she could leave like that without even a goodbye.

    Herb was right, and it's time to respond to the tug. We finished out the day walking the line to make sure there weren't any hot spots that would flare up before heading back to the station. Tonight was the end of my shift, I'd be headed home when we got back to the station, and I was off for the next couple days. I told the guys I'd see them on Friday and grabbed my duffel and headed to my truck.

    I walked into the house and it smelled wonderful. Mom said hi to me and told me dinner would be ready in a little bit. I went to my room and unpacked my bag. I remember when I told her that I was joining the fire department, she was torn between being happy that I'd found a direction after school, and sad that I'd be getting into a dangerous line of work. When I mentioned moving out and finding my own place she had convinced me to stay, and to put my money away. The house was plenty big, and she didn't like the idea of living alone, even though half the week I spent at work.

    I went into the kitchen and after a little silence she asked me what was wrong. I just raised my eyebrows at her.

    "What makes you think something is wrong?"

    "First of all, that response, second, you're not usually so quiet around dinner time." She chuckled. I didn't reply at first.

    "What if I told you that I was thinking about moving? I don't mean getting my own place, like to another state?"

    She stopped what she was doing and looked at me for a moment. "Chasing your dream girl?" She asked. She had correctly deduced that last year’s crashing depression was brought about by a girl, but I never told her who it was. She figured it was some girl I'd known in school that left for college.

    "How will I ever know she's only a dream if I don't try to catch her?"

    She didn't say anything for a minute and went back to setting the table.

    "I just don't want to see you get hurt. I mean, what if she's got a boyfriend or she didn't see things the way you did. It's not as if you were dating her long, I never even got to meet her."

    That idea shot through my mind, my mother meeting Summer sent a chill up my spine. I nearly forgot that mom thought this was some high school girlfriend. Then her statement rang a bell as if my head were in it. What if Summer had moved on, and was seeing someone or worse, remarried. My heart leapt into my throat and I swallowed.

    "If that's the case then I may be back sooner than later."

    "Don't you get vacation time from work now that you've been there a year?"

    I nodded.

    "Then why not take it and find out. Don't burn your bridges Smokey."

    She had a point. If I quit and headed into the wild unknown I'd be risking a decent future. I chuckled.

    "Thanks." I replied with a little more sarcasm than necessary to get my point across.

    "What?"

    "I actually expected you to tell me to not go chasing dreams. It never works out like you hope it will, blah, blah, blah."

    "Is that what you want to hear?" She asked. "Best thing you did was joining the fire department. If nothing else, it's a job you can get pretty much anywhere you go. I'm not going to try and scare you out of living your life. You're smart, you'll always land on your feet, I've never really worried about you like that."

    "I think I'll talk to the chief about taking a vacation." I said smiling.

    When I got back to the station on Friday I went to the office and put in my request, I decided to take the week of my birthday off. I got the okay the next day. I spent the next couple weeks making calls and doing a little detective work. I found the rental agent in town that handled the house rental and inquired about Summer's address. It took a little finagling to get the woman to give me an address, but I got it.

    The next couple of weeks went by slowly, thankfully nothing major happened, and my vacation began. I'd packed up my duffel and headed south then west. I burned up the highway arriving at the state line in only a couple hours. I crossed New England by mid-afternoon, and drove on into New York state, making it to the Pennsylvania state line just after dinner time. I was beat, so I found a motel and ordered some take out.

    I dreamt of her. The last night we spent together, she opened up, telling me so many things. She had cried, I remembered. There was pain there that was barely hidden.

    The next morning I checked out and found the little diner on the edge of town recommended by the clerk. I had breakfast and pored over a map to plan the rest of my trip. Having pushed myself yesterday I'd made it more than half way to my destination, at this rate I'd be there by dinner time. After breakfast I hit the road again, skirting the cities and burning up the miles I found myself looking up at a sign, 'Welcome to West Virginia; Wild and Wonderful'. That caused a chuckle as I thought about Summer. It was a good description of the natives if she was any indication.

    I skirted the edge of town and found myself a motel room. I laid back on the bed and I wondered what I was doing. I came all this way to see her, and I hadn't spent a single moments thought on how I was going to go about it. Show up at her home and say, 'Hey, how's it going? Remember me?'

    I decided the best way was to let her know I was here and to let her come to me if she wanted to see me. It sounded conceited at first, but it also felt right. If she didn't want to see me, she'd only have to call me and say so, and I'd go home. That thought sent a cold chill through me, and I did my best to brush it away. I rummaged through the little desk and found some stationery and wrote her a note.

    Dear Summer,

    I thought it best to let you know I had come here to see you, and let you decide if you wanted to see me, rather than showing up at your door unannounced. Please, give me a call and let me know if I should stay or go.

    Pete

    I put my number on the bottom of the note, and decided the best time to drop it off would be in the morning. Emmy would likely be in school and Summer would probably be at work. I put the note into an envelope and sealed it and wrote Summer's name on the front.

    The next morning I decided I'd grab some breakfast in the coffee shop of the motel, before I made the trip across town. Where she lived seemed to be on the outskirts of the city on the other side of the river. I took my time making my way carefully through commuter traffic. Then across the river and up into the hills. I found the house and pulled up in front, a small stone retaining wall held back the front lawn from the road, and a mailbox stood sentinel at the head of the driveway. There were no cars in it, and I looked at the little house with its small windows and front porch. A few last die hard flowers held out against the October cold. I smiled, as I imagined her sunbathing naked on the front lawn, causing accident after accident on what seemed to be a busy road. I pulled up and left the note in the mailbox, and hoped that if there were someone else, that it was vague enough not to cause trouble.

    As I drove away the anxiety began. I had no idea the kind of reception I'd get. I drove around the outskirts of town killing time. The area reminded me of home, more up towards the mountains not along the coast. I roamed down tree lined roads passed a few farms, cows and horses sunning themselves in fields. I turned back towards the city after noon and made my way back to my motel. I figure if I'm lucky enough for her to want to see me, I should at least be presentable.

    After my shower I stood in front of the sink looking into the mirror and noted that I'd firmed up since becoming a firefighter. My face looked a little more angular, my shoulders and arms were a lot stronger. I didn't look like a skinny kid any more.

    I got dressed and laid back on the bed, channel surfing for anything to watch while I waited for the phone to ring. Time passed slowly, the tedium of lousy TV shows wasn't helping. It was after 4, and I was getting anxious. I grabbed my phone and took a walk around the outside of the motel so I wouldn't go stir crazy.

    I was on my second lap, thinking about how this trip was a big mistake when my phone rang, jolting me out of my reverie. I yanked my phone out of my pocket and noted it was a local number calling.

    "Hello?"

    Silence.

    "Summer?"

    "You're really here?" She asked softly.

    "I am here. I'd really like to see you." I stopped knowing that if I said any more I'd probably break down. She didn't respond at first. "I'll understand if you don't want to. I'll just go home if you say no."

    "No, I mean yes! I mean don't go, I want to see you. Meet me at RJ's, it's a little bar not far from you. I'll see you in an hour." She gave me directions from the motel, and told me that she called from her cell to just call her if I got lost.

    To be continued in part 4, by Member389 for Literotica
    Summer In Maine: Part 4
    Face To Face

    A 7-part series by Member389. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Stories.

    My heart was pounding in my chest. She had sounded conflicted, like she wanted to see me, but had reservations. I forced myself to take slow deep breaths before I ducked into my room and got my jacket. I tried to calm down, and keep from speeding there but I also knew I'd need to find the place. I followed the directions and found it easily. I was about twenty minutes early. I asked for a booth in a quiet area, and let the hostess know a friend was meeting me.

    The waitress asked what I was having, and since it was my birthday I decided to have a drink. Hopefully I wasn't going to need it. She carded me and wished me a happy birthday. She returned with my drink and set it down with a smile.

    "This one's on me."

    I smiled back thanking her. I started twirling the cold glass in my hands looking into the amber liquid. I was lost in thought until I heard a familiar voice say thank you. I looked up to see Summer walking towards me. I slid out of the booth and she kept walking, a smile spreading across her face as she got closer. She didn't stop, hitting me in the chest full force as she wrapped her arms around my neck pulling me into a fierce hug. My arms resumed their position as if she'd always been there.

    "I almost didn't believe it when I saw the note. It was a bit of a shock after all this time." She said softly into my ear.

    "I don't know why I didn't come right away."

    She didn't let go of me, and I didn't let go of her either. She just smiled as she looked at my face. I noticed her hair was darker than I remembered, summer had long since passed. Her eyes were bright, even in the dim light of the room. She flicked her eyes over my shoulder.

    "Sorry." She blushed.

    "Oh don't be." The waitress said with a sly grin. "Let me know when you're ready and I'll grab your drink order."

    "What are you having?" Summer asked me.

    "In honor of our last day together I got a cider."

    She smiled and told the waitress she'd have what I was having. We finally separated and sat down.

    "What are you doing here?" She asked, more curious than concerned.

    I gave her a smirk and shrug. "I've missed you."

    "That's sweet, but why now? I honestly thought if you were going to chase me down you would have done it right away."

    The waitress set down her drink, and asked if we wanted to order any food. Summer ordered us a couple appetizers.

    "The truth is I've missed you ever since the day you left. I knew it wouldn't do me any good to chase after you. The last thing you needed was a puppy following you home. So I moved on, or so I convinced myself. I went to see Davy, and he'd already given my summer job to somebody else. You saved me from a summer of boredom pumping fuel, and hauling ice."

    "What did you do?"

    "I caught a break, and went to school on the city's dime." I lifted my jacket from beside me showing the logo I'm sure she would recognize. Rockland FD,

    "You're a fireman?" She asked, her eyes widened. "That explains that."

    "Explains what?" I asked.

    She just grinned. "Have you looked in a mirror lately?"

    I rubbed my chin. "I did shave before coming, so yea."

    Summer rolled her eyes. "You can't tell me that you haven't noticed that you've filled out a little. You still look like a young 'un. You must have to beat the girls off with a stick."

    "What girls?" I asked.

    She looked at me for a moment, a look of shock crept across her face. "Pete, don't tell me you haven't moved on. Tell me you've been out with girls your own age since I left." She said the last part softly, but insistently.

    "I've been on dates since you left." I said chuckling. "I missed you, and I sought solace in the arms of other women. I'm such a cad."

    She let out a sigh of relief. "So why here? Why now? It's not that I'm not happy to see you, honestly it isn't, but I'm getting the feeling there's something more going on here."

    "I've been out with a few girls, but I've only ever been in love with one." I looked her in the eyes. I didn't need to tell her who I meant. It was plain on her face that she realized it as soon as I said it.

    She looked at me her head tilting slightly, and reached over and took my hands in hers. She took a deep breath.

    "What we shared was amazing, but you need to move on and live your life. You can't be in love with me. You're not even old enough..."

    I looked at her for a moment, and purposely raised an eyebrow and lifted my glass and took a long pull off my cider.

    "Okay, you're old enough to drink, but you're still so young. What do you want with an old lady like me?"

    "Whoa, hang on a minute. You're old? I wish you'd told me when we were rolling around in the sheets like a couple of horny teenagers."

    "You WERE a horny teenager!" She growled at me.

    "That hasn't been the case now for two years, to the day." I replied. "I'd like to think I've had time to work it out, think on it, and grow up a little."

    She looked at me for a moment. "To the day? Your birthday is today?"

    I nodded.

    "What about you? Have you been dating, are you in a relationship?" I asked. I felt my heart sink as I waited for the blow.

    "Happy Birthday." She said and lifted herself up leaned across the table and kissed me.

    The shock lasted a split second, her lips lingered in front of mine. I didn't hesitate and leaned in and I closed the gap, this time unhurried. Her kiss was soft and warm as her tongue brushed my lip tentatively asking for permission to enter.

    There was a soft shuffling noise and the close clink of a plate. I was loath to part from her. Summer's eyes popped open looking into mine shocked as she pulled back and sat down, her cheeks bright pink. I just grinned. She peeked up at the waitress, who had a huge grin on her face as she set the plates down on the edge of the table, rather than between us.

    "You two lovebirds want another round?"

    "Not just yet." I replied looking at our half-filled glasses. As soon as the waitress walked away Summer started giggling, and I quickly joined her.

    "Oh those smell so good." She reached for a plate and scooped a couple little dumplings onto it. She broke one in half and steam rose out of it, after dousing it with mustard she blew on half of it, then rather than eat it, she leaned over the table and offered it to me.

    "Careful it's hot." She said stabbing the other and popping into her mouth, chewing carefully.

    It was hot, I gasped some air trying to cool it off as I bit down. "What is this?" I asked tasting onion and bacon.

    "Deep fried pierogis. They're so bad for you, but they taste so good." Her eyes rolled up as chewed.

    I hadn't let the fact that she didn't respond to my question slip past.

    "They are good," and I paused a moment to see if she'd respond.

    She let out a small sigh. "After a while... one of my friends kept prodding me to get out of my funk. Trust me when I say, I was in a bad way when I got home. I cried my eyes out for a week. There was a new doctor that worked on C South. She kept pushing me at him, I guess because he'd been asking about me. He asked me out, and after a couple invitations I finally accepted."

    She shrugged and made a grimace.

    "So..."

    "So? So what you want to know is whether or not I'm still seeing him, or if things got more serious. Is that right?" She said, a little smirk tugged at the corner of her mouth.

    I just raised my eyebrows, in imitation of her expression, which made her chuckle.

    "If I were, would I be here feeding you, and swapping' spit?" She said with a sharp twang.

    I nearly choked on the bite she'd just fed me.

    "Well I know you as the type who would let someone down easily. You don't like to hurt people, least of all those you care about." I said.

    She nodded slowly. "How long did it take you to figure out Emily hadn't broken her arm?"

    I just grinned at her attempt to change the subject. "So what happened with doctor wonderful?" At this point it wasn't just an assumption that the doctor was history, it was more a matter of how. She poked at the last bit on her plate with a fork before answering.

    "It didn't work out. Once we'd done the deed, he seemed to lose interest. Come to find out, he's got a reputation of burning through coworkers. The reason he was new here was because he was asked to leave his old hospital because of a harassment lawsuit brought by several women that he worked with."

    "So you dumped him?"

    "Like a hot potato." She grinned. "Besides Emmy hated him from day one. I should have taken her appraisal to heart."

    The grip in my chest relaxed. "Was he..."

    She raised her eyebrows at me this time, causing us to both laugh at the mirrored expression.

    "What? Was he the only one? Yes. I haven't been playing bedroom bingo since I got home Pete. There, are you happy?"

    I just smiled at her.

    "You smug little shit." She said laughing. "You are happy aren't you?"

    I just nodded.

    "You think I'm just going to fall into your bed like nothing has changed? Is that it?" She said, still smiling.

    I stopped smiling and shook my head gently. "No, and technically, it was never my bed we fell into."

    She got a shrewd look. "What then?"

    I wasn't prepared for her to ask outright what it was that I expected, but I didn't hesitate with my response.

    "I'm in love with you, and I have been for over a year, and I want to know how you feel about me."

    She sat there wide eyed for a moment, her mouth hanging open.

    "Are you trying to catch flies?" I asked with a smirk.

    "You're serious?" She said softly.

    I just nodded. "I'd move here, find a place, get a job and hopefully start my training to become a paramedic. I can get into the university as a resident, cheaper tuition, but mostly I just want to be with you."

    "You're crazy." She said softly.

    "I've heard love does that to people."

    "Hon, there's so much more to consider than just that." She said, reaching across the table laying her hand on mine.

    "I know, that's why I'm here now." I waited, looked away from her for a moment and took a deep breath. "If it was just... a summer fling. I'm okay with that, really I am. That doesn't mean I don't want us to be friends."

    Her hand gripped mine. "It wasn't like that at all. You have to understand what was going on in my life at the time. You showed up at a time when my self-esteem was crushed. I needed to feel loved, even wanted again. You did that in a single afternoon. Sure at first I was upset with you for being a peeping tom, but then I kind of liked the idea of a young guy getting excited seeing me in all my glory. I felt desired. When you brought my sorry, broken ass inside and made me lunch, got me the lotion for my sunburn, and ice for my ankle. You cared about me, and you didn't even know me. I didn't prompt you, you did it out of compassion, and that's something I needed right then."

    "And now?" I interjected.

    She tightened her jaw as she thought about her response. "It's different now. I'm different now. I came home and began rebuilding. I like being self-sufficient for the first time in my life, I like knowing that I can stand on my own two feet. I can be a good mother, make sure that dinner gets on the table and the bills get paid. It's empowering." She looked into my eyes. "I have you to thank for that."

    "Me?"

    "Yes, you. You picked me up and dusted me off, figuratively and literally." She said, a tear slipped down her face.

    I reached up and brushed it away, and she grinned. "See? That's exactly what I'm talking about. You care about me, and it scared the hell out of me when I realized I felt the same way about you. That last night you nearly crushed my rib cage while we talked, but I didn't want to say anything because I was more afraid you'd let go, and I didn't want you to ever let go."

    "I was scared. Here I am a grown woman and I fell for a teenager because he was infatuated with me after I took his virginity." She said softly. "You were 19 for crying out loud, I should never have let it happen."

    I forced myself not to smile at that last statement. "Do you think that if I can carry you across a lawn and through a house, that I couldn't have stopped you? We didn't do anything that I didn't want to do. We were both consenting adults, you didn't take advantage of me."

    Summer just blinked her eyes and gave her head a little shake. "I just want to make sure I'm understanding all of this. You want to know if there's a chance for you and I to have a relationship, and you're willing to uproot and move here. You want to know if I'm okay with that, is that what you're really asking?"

    "In short, yes." I said.

    It took her a while to respond. "What if I said no?"

    "I could hope we'd remain friends. Maybe with a little communication once in a while. Who knows, you might even want to come back to Maine and visit, bring Emmy. There's a big summer camp just north of Camden. Just as friends." I said, waving off the shrewd look that she gave me, as if I were saying that we'd hustle Emmy off and get back to old times.

    "What would happen if I said yes, and after you get settled in, you get tired of hanging out with an old lady? Where does that leave us then?" She countered. "You're a thousand miles from friends and family, resenting my very existence."

    I just smiled. "If I were worried about that, I wouldn't be here right now."

    I had the feeling her resolve was weakening when the corner of her mouth turned upward. "You know, the real test isn't me, it's Emmy. She knew Phil, the doctor I told you about, was a loser almost immediately. If you don't make the cut with her..." She just shook her head.

    "So I must win over the princess to have the hand of the queen. It's a little backwards, but I like it. When can I set up my interview?" I said laughing.

    A sly smile crept across her face. "How long are you here for?"

    "Forever, starting after Christmas. I have to work a full year at RFD or I'll have to pay back the tuition for school. I can be back just after the holidays." I said. "I'm on two weeks’ vacation so I don't really need to head back until the end of next week."

    "I think I have just the thing then. Emily and I often go down to the firehouse on Fridays where they have a fish fry. You can meet my uncle while you're there, he's a fireman too."

    "That would be fine. What about us?"

    "What about us?" She mimicked, not understanding my question.

    "Would you do me the honor of going out on a date with me?" I asked formally.

    Her face lit up. "I'd love that. I'll find someone to watch Emmy on Saturday. If Saturday is okay with you."

    "Saturday will be fine." I said. The grin on my face mirrored hers. Just then I realized that this meeting couldn't have gone any better if I'd planned it this way.

    Summer looked at her phone to check the time and said she had to go pick up Emily at her mom's and get her home to bed. She insisted on picking up the tab because it was my birthday.

    "We'll make Saturday your real birthday dinner." She winked as she set down the pen.

    "C'mon walk me to my car." She said.

    "Still have the Jeep?"

    "Yup, not many warm days now, so I can't run around topless." She said.

    I chuckled, and got a punch in the arm before she joined in. She tossed her handbag across to the passenger seat, as I watched her jeans hugging that beautiful backside. I wanted to take things slow, but the overwhelming sensation of everything going so well came over me. When she turned back to face me I took her in my arms and kissed her like I hadn't in years. Our lips met, her arms slipped around my neck pulling me deeper into her as our tongues danced a familiar dance. My hands crept up the back of her pullover, pulling us tighter together.

    "I've been wanting to do that since you walked in the door." I gasped.

    "Pete?" She asked softly.

    "Yea?" I tilted my head, wondering at her questioning tone.

    "Is this..." She stuttered. "I don't..." She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She slipped a hand off my shoulder and reached down between us grabbing the front of my jeans in a soft grip.

    "Is this why your here?" She asked, her eyes bright in the dim light of the street lamp. The look on her face told me that this was a very important question, and nothing short of the truth would be accepted.

    I reached down between us taking her hand in mine and brought it up and laid it on my chest. "This is why I'm here. It's been empty for over a year, and I want to fill it again."

    Without moving her hand she leaned in and kissed me again. "Right answer." She whispered.

    "I'll call you tomorrow. Happy birthday." She leaned out and we kissed again.

    She gave me a little wave as she drove off. I returned it. I just looked down the road for a minute before I drove back to my motel.

    I woke the next morning squeezing the pillow against my chest tightly. I immediately sat up knowing there was a reason I woke this fast, and the ringer went off again. I dove for my phone to answer it.

    "Good morning sleepy head." Came the soft sweet voice.

    "Good morning sweets." I replied.

    "I'm sorry, I know it's early and you're on vacation, but I wanted to know what you had planned today."

    I yawned. "Well I was going to go to the city and pick up an application for the fire department for one. I might take a look at what kind of apartments there are around. Get to know the place a little. Why, did you have something in mind?"

    "Well I was wondering if you'd like to come join me for lunch. It'll have to be at the hospital cafeteria. I won't have time to go far. Don't worry the food's not bad." She said with a chuckle.

    "I'd love to." I said, and she gave me directions on how to find her once I got there.

    I got ready for the day, and headed into the city to get things rolling. I found a realty office that handled rentals, and picked up a business card letting them know what I was looking for and when. I found a small florist shop and stopped in to get Summer some flowers before meeting her for lunch.

    I made my way into the hospital and up one floor following the signs through the labyrinth of hallways. I pushed through a set of doors into a small ward of a dozen rooms set up in a semi-circle around a large nursing station. I peeked around looking for Summer and didn't see her.

    "Thanks honey, you can set them on the counter there." I heard from behind me. I turned to find a nurse coming from one of the rooms rubbing her hands.

    "What room?" She asked, with a slight drawl in her voice.

    "Christa." I said smiling.

    The nurses eyes went wide, and her mouth formed a surprised O-shape. "You're him, the guy she's been going on about all morning! Pete, right?"

    I nodded, grinning bigger. "I certainly hope so."

    "Just a minute and I'll get her, I think she's down the hall here." She trotted off, more excited than I thought she had reason to be. She returned a couple minutes later saying Summer would be right there after she was done with her patient. A minute later I noticed a head peek out of the room down the hall, but the hair was dark, not Summer's blond mane. I nearly bust out laughing, instead I just winked, turned slightly and leaned on the counter.

    She slid her hand along my back above my belt. I turned and kissed her without even a hello.

    "Hi! That was mean. Sandy is going to have inappropriate thoughts about you for the rest of the day now." She kissed me again.

    "Don't you know that can spread infection and disease, take that somewhere else." The first nurse said.

    "This stick in the mud is Sam, a complete pain in the ass, and good friend. This is Pete, the friend I told you about." Summer said.

    " Hmm, the hot fireman that rescued your clumsy ass from nearly drowning, you mean." Sam held out her hand. "Don't you make any mistake Pete. You hurt this girl and I'll find you, then nobody will find you. You got that?"

    I chuckled. "Deal."

    Summer just rolled her eyes at us both.

    "Come on, let's go spread some germs away from prying eyes." Summer winked at Sam and took my hand leading me down the hallway. She turned before we made it to the main hallway and led me down a side hall. She tapped a code into the door lock and pulled me in flipping on the light. The racks of linens, and supplies lined shelves. She turned and wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled me into her kiss. After a few minutes of oral calisthenics I came up for air.

    "Are you what I'm having for lunch?" I asked, grinning.

    "Just the appetizer, I'm actually kind of hungry for food too." She replied reaching for the front of my jeans.

    "Wow, what happened to dating a while, you know, getting to know each other." I chuckled.

    We eventually walked into the cafeteria and hopped into line with everyone else, then made our way to a table in the back.

    "Funny thing happened last night after I got home I called a friend of mine who has a daughter in Emily’s class, and she invited Emily to a sleep over on Saturday." She said.

    "What a stroke of luck. What did you have to promise her for that?" I grinned.

    "She had some sordid request involving you that I won't even entertain. I told her she'd have to settle for a similar return favor in the future. She threw in that she wanted to meet you. The only way I'll allow that is supervised. You're not safe with her."

    I laughed aloud, causing a few people to look over at us.

    "You know, I've noticed no shortage of guys around here. What gives?" I asked.

    "Nothing, it's just a matter of quality over quantity." She said giving me a wink. "As I remember it, I was far from the only girl in Maine, though calling myself a girl is a bit of a stretch."

    "No. There were plenty of girls around, and you shouldn't hesitate at all. After a complete and thorough examination, on more than one occasion, I can verify that you have all the requisite parts to be a girl." I returned her wink.

    "Smart ass." She said.

    "Actually, though nice as it is, that wasn't one of the parts in question." I said, just before getting a swift kick in the shin.

    The leaves had turned and were falling, the breeze lifting them up in swirls of gold, orange and red. It may be autumn, but it felt like spring to me. This is going to happen, I thought, and my excitement began to build anew. I'm sure that when I stopped for a coffee, the girl behind the counter thought I was crazy because of the silly grin on my face.

    I found myself killing time the best I could. Before I knew it I was scoping out dinner before I headed back to the motel. I stopped into a little café and had something light. I did a little research online, found a nice place with good reviews and called and made reservations for Saturday. I flipped on the TV and surfed around aimlessly for a while. I must have nodded off because I was startled awake by the room phone. I answered a little groggily.

    "Did I wake you? I'm sorry hon." She said.

    "No no, I just dozed off watching a little TV that's all." I paused, not wanting to ask why she called, because the truth was, I was just glad she had.

    "So." She said drawing it out a bit. "Are you stretched out on that big old bed?" She giggled, and it sounded like she was nervous.

    "Yup, I didn't go off and find another girl after lunch. I did expect to have them throwing themselves at me, but it just didn't happen. Odd huh?"

    She laughed genuinely at that. "You know how independent and head-strong West Virginia girls can be."

    "Do I ever. Wild and wonderful, I wouldn't have it any other way." I added quickly.

    "Uh huh." She replied, not buying my bullshit. "What are you watching, some cheesy motel porno?"

    "No! Some cheesy mystery movie."

    "Don't act like you didn't check it out. I bet you at least looked at the titles."

    I blushed, and even though she couldn't see, I knew that she was aware of my reaction.

    "What are you wearing?" She said, her voice deep and husky.

    I paused before replying. "Jeans and a t-shirt. Why?"

    "Take them off." She said.

    Without thought I reached for my belt. "What are you wearing?" I asked.

    "I was wearing an over-sized t-shirt and a cute blue thong with polka dots."

    "You were?" I gulped.

    "Uh huh." She said the smile in her voice came through loud and clear.

    "So you're..."

    "As the day I was born." She said cutting me off.

    I suddenly found myself with an obstacle to getting my boxers off quickly.

    "When I got out of my bath I used this lotion I have, and it smells so nice, and my skin is so soft I can't help but stroke it."

    I dropped the phone and yanked the t-shirt off, nearly tearing it in the process.

    "What are you stroking?" I asked, flipping off the TV.

    "What would you like me to?" Came her cheeky reply.

    "Start at the top, those cheeks, how I'd love to be kissing my way back to your ear to nibble on it and kiss my way down your neck."

    "Sounds nice. I absolutely love having my neck kissed."

    The vision of her naked body lying on rumpled sheets came back to me as if it were yesterday. "I'd take my time working my way along your collarbone and kiss those beautiful freckles on your shoulder."

    "You're going the wrong way."

    "Patience." I said. "I'd kiss my way down the faint little tan line, tracing it with the tip of my tongue. Follow along with your fingertips."

    "Sorry I was getting ahead of you."

    "I had a feeling. I can't wait until I can take those stiff pink nipples into my mouth again and taste you. They're hard, aren't they."

    "Hmm."

    "Pinch them, tug on them like you know I will."

    "Yes!" She hissed into the phone.

    "Let go, and trace the soft skin down your stomach. Go slowly. I'd tickle my way down your tummy laying a trail of soft kisses down to your little strip."

    "Oh, it's gone."

    "Oh? Why did you do that?"

    "Shaving accident. It's not as easy as you'd think to shave a straight line." She giggled.

    "Smooth is nice too. Spread your legs." I said.

    "You think I'm that easy do you?"

    "No, not easy, just horny."

    "You know me so well." She said.

    "Are you wet?" I asked.

    "Are you hard?" She tossed back.

    "Touché. Slip your finger in, get it good and wet." I replied.

    "You don't know how much I wish it was something else that was getting slipped in."

    "What would you rather have in there right now?"

    "Your hard cock, which I'm hoping is in your hand right now."

    She was right, my cock was hard as an iron pipe and I was stroking it slowly.

    "Slip another finger in, imagine I was there to slip my hard cock into you ever so slowly."

    "Yea." She gasped.

    "Slow down, what's your hurry?" I asked.

    Her breathing was fast and ragged.

    "Please."

    "Please what, Summer?"

    "Hurry!" She pleaded.

    "You want me to drive my cock into you hard, filling you up with every stroke? Is that what you want?" I was working my cock quickly, my breath coming in short gasps.

    "Yes, yes, yes!" She said as she began panting.

    I couldn't hold back any longer myself.

    I heard Summer say, "Hon are you there?"

    I shook my head and grabbed the phone. "Sorry I dropped the phone."

    "Oh, were you busy doing something?" She giggled.

    "I'm going to need a shower now."

    "Need a hand with that?"

    "Yes please! Would you come over and wash my back?" I asked.

    "I'd love to, but I can't tonight." I heard her sigh.

    "Let me grab a towel, I made a bit of a mess over here." I said. Summer just chuckled.

    I grabbed the phone again, the question forming in my mind. "Does Emily know that you're going to have company tomorrow night?"

    "Uh huh. I told her my knight in shining armor made a road trip to come see me."

    I chuckled. "So the same story you told Sam? I'm the fireman who rescued you when you took a spill on the rocks?"

    "If all it takes is a little white lie to protect my reputation then I'll take it." She said.

    "What sort of reputation would you have without it?" I asked.

    "Oh, please. If anybody knew the real story, let's just say it would be unpleasant. Besides you did come to my rescue, even if you didn't have the uniform yet."

    "I can go along with that. So do I get any info about my interview tomorrow? You know, what she likes, interests, hobbies, what to expect."

    Summer laughed. "Nope. I want first impressions from both of you. Come to the house around 5 and we'll go from here."

    "Okay sweets, get some sleep. I love you." I said.,

    "Goodnight hon, and I love you more." She said hanging up quickly, getting the last word.
    A night out on the town.

    The next morning I grabbed breakfast at a local coffee shop, and called home. Mom asked how things were going, and I said that they were going better than expected and I'd catch her up when I got back. I didn't tell her any more than that, but it was the complete truth. I still couldn't believe that things had gone so well.

    I looked into some after dinner entertainment four my date with Summer on Saturday, and realized I didn't have anything appropriate to wear. I decided to go shopping and find something worthy of a night to remember.

    I was in town and not far from the hospital from what I could tell so I gave Summer a call and asked if she wanted to have lunch again. I walked into the wing where she worked and leaned against the nurse's station looking up and down each hall to see if I could spot her. A woman behind a short partition looked up hearing me moving around.

    "Hi. Can I help you?" She asked.

    "I'm looking for Christa." I said.

    "Oh, you must be Pete." She stood and walked over to the counter holding out her hand. "I'm Joan. She mentioned you'd be by."

    "I was hoping to sneak her away for a few minutes for lunch." I smiled.

    "It's going to probably be another fifteen before she'll be able to. I have to wait for one of the other nurses to come back before I can release her into your care." She smiled.

    "Okay well I can just grab a coffee in the cafeteria for a few to keep out of the way. Thanks." I said and turned to walk down the hallway and saw her in a room through a crack in the door. She was bent over a patient talking to them with a smile on her face. I looked at my watch and headed to the cafeteria to wait.

    I watched the coming and going of people through the windows for a while when I felt arms wrap around my neck and hands cover my eyes.

    "Guess who?" She asked.

    "Bob, is that you? Your hands are so soft." I replied.

    She buried her face in my hair and gave me a kiss on the top of the head before pulling my head back against her chest.

    "Does Bob have these?" She said softly, and gave a subtle rub of her chest against my head.

    "Well he has put on some weight so yea I'm guessing he does."

    She bent down and kissed my cheek. "Come on you clown, I'm hungry."

    I stood wrapping my arms around her waist and drew her tight against me giving her a long kiss. "Me too, but I'll have to settle for food."

    Her eyes flashed at me and her grin widened. "For now." Her cheeks turned pink at the sound of several muffled giggles. "Come on let's eat before you get me in trouble for sexually harassing a visitor."

    "I won't be the one filing a complaint. In fact I was just wondering in a place this size how many available beds there might be." I said, as I walked with her to the line. We settled in at the table and Summer attacked the giant salad she had in front of her.

    "So no hints, nothing to go on tonight? I'm kind of nervous." I said.

    "That's normal, weren't you nervous when you interviewed for your job at the fire department?"

    "No, not really. It was more like signing up for a class than a job interview. He asked me some questions, I asked him a few, and before I knew it he was shaking my hand and welcoming me aboard."

    "It's not going to be like that, I assure you. She's pretty much your standard 12 year old girl." Summer just froze, the fork half way to her mouth and looked at me.

    "What?" I asked worried.

    "I just did the math." She looked around to see who was within earshot. "You're closer to her age than mine." She set down her fork and looked out the window for a minute.

    I reached out and took her hand. "Don't let it bother you. It sure as hell doesn't bother me."

    She snorted. "You'll still be in your twenties when I'm forty."

    "Don't worry, I'm a firefighter. I can put the candles out before the house burns down." I chuckled. Summer tried hard to look unamused and failed.

    "I can imagine the news now. 'Aging spinster in torrid affair with young stud, more at 11.' My friends are going to think I'm trying to recapture lost youth. Let alone what my family..."

    "Stop." I said sharply but softly. "You're worried about ten years from now more than you're worried about ten hours from now. Relax, there are only three people that have any input in this, and two of them are right here. I'm going to be interviewed by the other in just a few short hours."

    Summer looked at me seriously for a moment then burst out laughing.

    "What?" I asked.

    "The look on your face. You'd think you were facing a firing squad at sundown. I can assure you that you have nothing to worry about."

    We finished and Summer had to rush to get back, she tugged me along back as far as the nurses station. She turned and looked at me for a moment then gave me a quick wink.

    "So you'll meet us at the house around 5? We can just take one car that way."

    I nodded. "Sounds good. I'll see you then."

    I began to lean in for a quick kiss when Summer snaked her arm around my neck and practically gave me a tonsillectomy with her tongue.

    I just chuckled and smiled, and let her get back to work.

    I spent a little time wandering around downtown window shopping before I went back to the motel. I took a little time to reflect on everything that had happened in just a few short days, and I realized I couldn't be luckier if I won the lottery. My only hurdle left is tonight. How would Emily see me, as someone invading their lives, as someone trying to fill her dad's shoes. I let out a sigh and decided that the best thing I could do is to set all of that aside and get to know her and let the chips fall where they may. Summer didn't seem overly concerned. Why should I?

    I grabbed a quick shower, dressed and grabbed my jacket before I headed up to Summer's house in the hills.

    To be continued in part 5, by Member389 for Literotica
    Summer In Maine: Part 5
    Hot Date

    A 7-part series by Member389. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Stories.

    The tires hissed along the gravel drive as I pulled alongside her Jeep. I walked to the door, bouquet in hand and rang the bell. I took a deep breath, just as the door opened. A pretty girl stood there, dark hair and piercing eyes stared intently at me for a moment. In a flash of an eye a familiar crooked little smile crossed her face.

    "Mom, your hot date is here!" She yelled over her shoulder.

    "Well don't make him stand on the step, let him in!" Summer hollered back. I just started chuckling as Emily opened the door. Emily cracked open the outside door and opened the inside door further.

    "Come on in." She said.

    "Hi Emily, I'm Pete." I said holding out my hand. Already over five feet I could tell she was going to be tall like her mother.

    "Are those for my mom?" She asked nodding at the flowers. I just shook my head.

    "No, they're for you." I said presenting them to her. Her eyes grew wide and her expression got serious for a moment before she took them with a smile.

    "I'll be right out." Came the call from another room. She laughed a bit after saying it. I began to think this was a calculated move.

    Emily set the flowers down and disappeared head first into a low cupboard coming up with a vase. She filled it with water and put the flowers into it, preening them to get them the way she wanted.

    Summer came out of a short hallway dressed in jeans and a blue and gray striped sweater. Her hair freshly brushed and a big smile on her face.

    "Hi." She said giving me a quick hug, and more notably a slight push-off after. She noticed the flowers on the counter. "They're beautiful. Thank you."

    Emily turned and interjected with a grin. "He brought them for me."

    "Oh he did, did he?" She looked at me, the eyebrows lifting.

    I gave Summer a slight shrug and a wink. She just gave me a quick eye-roll in return. "Score one for the visiting team." She said, in a low voice.

    "You're the fireman that saved my mom from drowning in the ocean, huh?" Emily asked.

    "Actually we responded to a fall victim that was out on the rocks. If I hadn't braved the wild winds and pounding surf, she might not have made it." I said. "She could have been lobster chow."

    "Oh lord, the story gets more dramatic with the telling." Summer joined in. "I fell on the rocks, luckily I had a cell signal, and called for help. Pete here was one of the first responders and promptly hauled me back to the sand and brought me to the walk-in clinic to get X-rays. See? Not nearly as dramatic as you two make it sound."

    "She was laid up for a week after, and I kept an eye on her. I didn't want her to starve because she couldn't feed herself." I added, a wicked glint in my eye.

    "Yes, you can cook, and I certainly didn't want for anything." She gave me a warning look that I should stop before more questions began. "Is your stuff in the car Em?" Emily nodded at her mother. "Grab your jacket, let's go I'm hungry." She said grinning. Emily trotted up the hallway, and Summer stepped closer and we kissed deeply. "Nice job with the flowers you clown." She ran her thumb across my lip wiping away any telltale lip gloss.

    "I do what I can." I grinned, and stepped back a half step before Emily walked back into the kitchen.

    We left, Emily yelled 'Shotgun!' and her mother quickly squashed that plan, though I graciously got in the back seat and let her have the front. Summer giving me a sidelong look, knowing I was indulging Emily for my own sake.

    "Is this your guitar in the back Emily?" I asked. She turned as far as she could in her seat to reply.

    "Yup, my teacher is going to be there tonight and we're going to play."

    "That's awesome! What are you going to be playing?"

    "You'll just have to wait and hear." She smiled, a mirror of her mother’s impish grin.

    Summer pulled up beside the fire house and parked between a couple pickup trucks. We walked inside to the din of what sounded like a school cafeteria. The engine sitting outside had made room for folding tables and chairs to be set up in the bay. People were already seated and others milled about talking and laughing.

    "I'm going to find Jen." Emily said, wrestling her guitar case through the crowd.

    Summer was saying hi to people as we passed through the crowd, but she kept moving like she was on a mission.

    "Dale!" She called out. A large guy turned around, he must have been six and a half feet tall. She wrapped an arm part way around his waist and hugged him. "Come here I've got someone I want you to meet. This is my rescuer, remember when I took that spill a couple summers back. Pete, this is my uncle Dale."

    "Hi there. Thanks for making sure she didn't end up as fish bait." He said smiling, shaking my hand.

    "Pete is applying to the fire department here, looking to get hired for the new year." She added.

    Dale's eye turned on me appraising openly. "Looking to move to our neck of the woods are you?"

    I nodded. "Yes sir." I didn't add anything so that rumors wouldn't begin. The look in his eye got shrewd, and he knew exactly why I was willing to pick up and move a thousand miles away from home. The reason was standing right next to him.

    "Hell don't call me sir, save that for her dad." He said tilting his head towards Summer. "Call me Dale, good luck to you Pete. Now go on and get some food before the kids clean us out." He said smiling. We made our way through the crowd, Summer greeting people as she passed, stopping a few times to introduce me around. We eventually found ourselves in the chow line. Summer insisted on paying for us at the little card table. She mentioned that hurricane Emily might blow through any minute. The lady let her know that Emily had already come through the line.

    We found a place to sit and eat at one of the tables. People stopped to chat and moved on, the night had a familiar small town feel to it. Before long we could hear the sound of guitars, chords being strummed here and there. People started to grab seats, and there was Emily sitting on the left of another girl and a woman. They were sitting around a music stand and Emily and the other girl were watching the woman point things out on the sheet music. I felt a hand grip my thigh and looked at Summer who was beaming at Emily with a big grin on her face. A few moments later the woman began and the girls joined in playing Van Morrison's Moondance instrumental. My foot began tapping and Summer's grip tightened on my leg as I ran my arm over the back of her chair rubbing her back. She turned to me with the silliest grin. I only hoped she was reminiscing about when I played it for her at the summer festival. They gave way to the Beatles Eleanor Rigby, then played John Denver's Take Me Home, which they sang.

    Summer leaned in close to my ear and whispered. "Thank you." Before giving me a peck on the cheek. I just wrapped my arm around her and gave her a squeeze and smiled.

    As the group finished the crowd erupted with applause, the girls grinning ear to ear. The woman spoke up after the noise died down stating that she had room for one more student this year if anybody knew someone looking for lessons.

    Emily packed her guitar away, and put her chair back with the tables. She made her way back to where we were sitting and got caught up in a bear hug from Summer.

    "Alright, say goodbye to your friends, we need to get going."

    As we left I hollered shotgun and got front seat privileges on the way back to the house. We chatted on the way back about other songs Emily had learned, and how long she'd been playing. Coincidentally it had been just over a year. Summer pointed out that she was a natural, learning very quickly.

    "We learned Moondance this summer. I figure if mom liked it so much I wanted to learn it."

    "Your mom likes Van Morrison?" I prodded.

    "She's played his greatest hits until she practically wore out the CD." Emily replied. I just grinned wider. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Summer's expression and nearly bust out laughing as she tried to look aloof, the twinkle in her eye giving her away.

    "Well there are some other great musicians from that era you might like. Maybe I can suggest a few for you to listen to." I said.

    "Do you play too?" She asked surprised.

    "Not guitar. I play saxophone, clarinet, and dabble a little in piano." I said.

    "I can teach you." She said, excited.

    She didn't begin to know how much I would love that. "That would be awesome."

    "Not tonight." Summer chimed in. "You need to get ready for your sleep over, and that room of yours looks like a tornado touched down in there." As we entered the house she told Emily that she needed to get it cleaned up. Emily went down the hallway with a few sighs and several eye rolls.

    "Would you like something to drink?" Summer asked, with an unusual look in her eye.

    "Yes, please." I nodded, trying decipher it. She opened the fridge and pulled a wine bottle out and began opening it. Music started playing down the hall as Emily puttered around making more noise than necessary. I turned from looking down the hall to look at Summer. She had stopped opening the wine and I noticed her shoulders trembling slightly. I stepped closer my hand circling her waist.

    "Hey, what's the matter?" I asked softly.

    "I don't know, it all seems to be happening so fast, I feel like I'm waiting for the train to derail. You know? I get the feeling something is going to go wrong and it's all going to blow up in my face." She looked up, her eyes burning intently.

    I chuckled. "How do you think I felt when I put that note in the mail box and drove back down the mountain to wait and see if you'd respond."

    "Those were the scariest hours of my life." I added softly, staring down at the wine bottle. "I mean I had no idea if you'd call the cops, or call and tell me it was all a mistake and I should go home, or worse, just throw it away, and me with it."

    She spun around in my arms and wrapped her arms around my neck kissing me fiercely. "If you think for a moment that it didn't hurt to leave you like that, then you're crazy. I only did what I thought was best."

    "Ahem?" Came loudly from the hallway door. I tried to release Summer from my grip but she just held tighter and gave me another quick kiss.

    "Better let her get used to it." She whispered, before slowly letting go of me.

    "Ready for inspection." Emily said saluting as she stood at attention.

    Summer let out a snort. "I bet. How much of it is stuffed under the bed?" She asked as she spun Emily around and pointed her down the hallway giving her a nudge.

    As I watched them retreat down the hallway I felt a warm glow deep inside me, the feeling enveloped me, eventually making the hair on the back of my neck tingle. There was no other explanation for it, this just felt right. I turned and poured the wine into the glasses, putting the bottle back into the fridge as I listened to muffled conversation and shuffling as the last of the cleaning was directed.

    "Put the basket on the dryer, and I'll ask Pete if he wants to join us for movie night." Summer said. She walked back toward me, a grin on her face before she let out a dramatic sigh and rolled her eyes. "Still a disaster, but you can walk through it now." She smiled. "So, on Friday nights we usually pick a movie to watch. It's sort of a tradition, some mommy and me time. Care to join us?"

    "So long as it's not an intrusion on the mommy and me time." I said grinning back at her.

    "Like I said, she's going to have to get used to you being around. What better way to start."

    "Well we better find something family friendly, you know, no late night cable." I chuckled.

    Summer laughed. "No and I'll make sure we don't bore you with princesses and tiaras."

    "You don't have to change what you'd normally watch on my account." I replied.

    "Well it is nearly Halloween, horror movies have been popular the last few weeks, but they're getting old. What's your favorite?"

    I shrugged, giving her a non-committal look. "I'm pretty easy going, though ax wielding, chainsaw revving, slasher flicks are a little too much for me. I've decided a while back that I like being able to sleep."

    "I'm sure we'll find something." She smiled wrapping her arms around my waist.

    "So what's the verdict so far?" I asked softly kissing her ear.

    "Hmm?" She responded, running her lips up my cheek leaving a trail of kisses.

    "Emmy? Am I doing okay?" I prodded her.

    She let go of my earlobe long enough to whisper. "Oh, you're a shoe in. She asked me if you were my boyfriend, with a huge grin on her face."

    "Well?" I asked, wondering at her response.

    She pulled back laying her forehead against mine. I could see the little grin on her face, she bit her lip and said. "I think he just might be if you like him. She nodded like a bobble head doll."

    "Yes!" I whispered. "Easiest interview ever."

    "Am I going to walk into a room and find you two sucking face every time?" Emily said, clearly not as exasperated as she tried to sound.

    "Only if I'm lucky." I replied.

    "Go and get everything ready and I'll make the popcorn." Summer said.

    We sat down on the sofa, I ended up in the middle. "What are we watching?" I asked.

    "You choose." Emily said.

    I took the controller and thought a moment and keyed in a title to see if it was available, and it was.

    "Ever heard of this one?" I asked as the film poster popped up with a short synopsis.

    Both shook their heads. "Nope, any good?"

    "Well the book was fantastic, but I've never seen the movie." I hit play, and the credits began. The movie was a hit, the fantasy and magic captured Emily's imagination as she let out occasional exclamations. I chuckled inwardly when I realized I had both of them tucked under each arm. I don't remember when that happened but I certainly wasn't going to complain about it.

    "That was a good movie. I love when he went to find the falling star and found the girl." Emily said.

    "Sort of reminds me of how I found your mom on the beach." I said.

    "Oh please." Summer said, rolling her eyes and giving me a poke in the ribs. Emily broke into a fit of giggles. "Alright you, get ready for bed."

    "But it's not even ten yet!" Emily shot back.

    "It will be by the time you're done." Her mother replied. "Now scoot, get a move on." Summer uncurled herself and began to stand too. She reached into my lap to pick up the popcorn bowl and I waved her hand away and picked it up standing up too. I set the bowl and glasses on the counter as Emily trudged up the hallway with a sigh. An equal sigh came from Summer as she wrapped her arms around me from behind. I felt her soft warm lips meet the nape of my neck.

    "Thank you." She said.

    "For what?"

    "For everything. You don't think she snuggled up to you just because you had the popcorn, do you."

    "Well, it was really good popcorn." I smiled. I got another poke in the ribs for my comment.

    "No. She likes you."

    "She's pretty terrific, like a mini you." I said turning in her arms holding her closer.

    "Mom!"

    I just began chuckling as Summer buried her head in my neck. "God help us if we're out of toothpaste." She mumbled before giving me a kiss and turning to go find the source of the distress.

    "What babe." She said as she walked down the hallway, and turned into the bath.

    I washed the wine glasses by hand, returning to the cupboard she'd taken them from earlier. They both came back into the kitchen a few minutes later.

    "Goodnight Pete." Emily said.

    "Sweet dreams pumpkin." I said, not quite sure where that came from. She launched herself at me hugging me like she was holding on for dear life.

    "Thank you for saving my mom." She sniffled. I hugged her back just as tightly and gave her a peck on the top of the head.

    "You're welcome, but I think it was your mom that saved me. Hopefully we'll have time to figure that out."

    "Take all the time you want." She smiled up at me before she turned and trotted over to her mom, gave her a big hug and kiss and disappeared down the hallway with a parting goodnight.

    Summer stood across the room from me leaning back against the door jamb, her arms crossed over her chest as she looked side long down the hallway. A few minutes passed before she let out a sigh. "I have got to stop overestimating how smart I think I am."

    I chuckled at that.

    "Seriously! You know why she called me into the bathroom?" She asked.

    "I'm guessing it wasn't because she was out of toothpaste."

    "No! She gave me the kind of interrogation I'd expect from my mother! She asked stuff I hadn't even thought of yet." She chuckled nervously. "Is he moving in? Are you two getting married? If he's moving here, what does his family think of that. Does he know you can't have more kids? That last one threw me, not because I had thought of it when you and I spoke the other day, but that she thought of it!"

    I walked over to Summer and leaned down and kissed her softly. "Well, I've added another piece to the puzzle, she's just trying to figure out how it's going to fit."

    "She wanted to know if you were staying the night." Summer said glancing down the hall. "Damn she grew up fast."

    I laughed at that. "Yea they have a way of doing that while you're not watching them. What did you tell her?"

    She sighed again. "I told her that you were going home for a couple months to finish out your year at work and that you'd be coming back after Christmas. You'd be getting your own place, and that we hadn't planned anything beyond that!" Her eyes were wide like she'd just gotten the third degree.

    "Come here." I gathered her close and she uncrossed her arms and held on to me. "You're right on the money, everything you said was perfect. I mean hell, I'm not even sure I'm marriage material.

    She leaned back and looked me in the eye. "You're kidding right?"

    "Yup, actually I'm a hell of a catch. You should be lucky to have me." I grinned.

    "I am a lucky girl. I should pick up a lottery ticket." She smiled back at me.

    We sat down on the sofa, Summer leaned on me. "Sorry if all this seems a little strange, it's just that she's the most important thing in my life and I don't want to grow old knowing that I screwed her up before I turned her loose on the world."

    "I've only known her a few hours and I'd say that you're doing a hell of a job. She's smart, funny, warm, and just a bit sarcastic so she doesn't take life too seriously. All of which proves that you're doing a great job." I replied.

    "How are my panties still on?" She grinned throwing a leg over my lap, straddling me while we kissed.

    "These jeans don't want to let go of your incredible ass so they can escape." I said grasping her pulling her down onto my lap to feel the effect she was having on me. She twisted my shoulders slightly and pushed me flat on the couch.

    "How do you do it? You make me feel loved and cared for like I've never felt before. I mean you even did it when I first met you, and you were just a, a kid."

    "Well since I feel pretty much the same I think it comes from the fact that I love you, no ifs, ands or buts." As I finished, I gave her ass a firm squeeze through her jeans. "Okay, maybe one ass." I added pulling her up slightly, resting her on my hip. We kissed slowly, hands roaming where ever they would. I kissed my way down from her ear to her throat and felt her melt into me. She let out a soft moan. She responded by unbuttoning my shirt and sliding her hand inside. I had her sweater pushed halfway up her back.

    "Seriously, you two need to get a room." Emily said, from the kitchen doorway.

    I started giggling like a teenager, Summer tried hard not to join in. "Go to bed!" She said before burying her face into my shoulder in fits of laughter.

    "If he gives you a hickey, you'd better wear a turtleneck when Jesse and her mom come tomorrow." She said retreating down the hallway. "I don't want to have to explain that!"

    "It's been a while, come here." I said leaning down and nuzzling her neck.

    "Ah! Don't you dare!" She said pulling back.

    "I can't be held responsible for what I may do." I growled into her neck, and gave her a little kiss and lick. "If I don't get going soon I'll be making you breakfast in the morning."

    "Scrambled, toast, sausage and coffee regular." She said before slipping her tongue into my mouth.

    "What? No juice?" I asked, after coming up for air.

    "All out, need to pick some up at the store." She licked my lower lip before dipping into my mouth once again. Her thigh was rubbing between my legs, stroking my cock. It's a wonder it hadn't torn through my jeans.

    "Any bacon?" I said sliding her sweater over her head and unclasping her bra.

    She let out a soft moan as I began stroking her freed breast, thumbing the nipple into a similar state as my cock.

    "I don't think so, no." She said as she kissed down my chest pushing the t-shirt up and taking my nipple into her mouth. I was sure that the jeans didn't have much time left. In an effort to prove my point, Summer slid her hand down and stroked the bulge. I had to stop her.

    "I think we need to take this to the bedroom before Emmy finds us sprawled here naked in the morning."

    "Good idea." She said gasping. She stood up her neck and chest flushed pink, eyes bright and hair wild. She grabbed her clothes and reached down to grab my hand and pull me up, hauling me off the couch with more strength than I expected nearly causing me to knock her over. "Come on." She tugged me along into her bedroom, and turned on a small bedside lamp. She turned and kissed me again, while doing her best to tear my shirt off. I assisted in getting both off. Both arms wrapped around my neck, the heat of her pressed against my chest was intense. I reached between us and fought her jeans to let her free. She brought her hands down steadying mine and the button came free, the zipper went down swiftly as I ran my hands around behind her pushing them down over her ass. She pushed away and began tearing at my belt and jeans to get them off. We finally freed ourselves of our clothing, Summer reaching for my cock, stroking it softly. It was nearly torture.

    "Think with that head not this one before you answer. Have you had unprotected sex with anyone besides me." She looked up at me asked, her eyes wide with expectation.

    "No, I haven't. I had a good teacher." I said. Her grip tightened and her face lit with a little smirk. She snatched a throw pillow off the bed and dropped at my feet before kneeling down and laving my cock with her tongue. She took me into her mouth and began sliding more of me into her mouth with each stroke. She began massaging my balls while her rhythm increased. "Oh God, slow down I can't hold out much longer." That seemed to spur her on as the pace increased bringing me to the edge before she pulled back with just the tip in her mouth, she reached up and began massaging me behind my balls causing my immediate orgasm. The contractions lessened as Summer took it all in, swallowing quickly. I was nearly spent and ready to collapse when she started in again. She worked my cock deep into her mouth again, her efforts to keep me hard weren't wasted, and I was ready for more.

    She backed off and licked her way from base to tip. "There now that we have that out of the way, we can put this where it belongs." She stood and turned to pull down the covers and I scooped her up and set her on the bed, turning her so her legs were dangling off the edge. I punted the pillow so it was right in front of her and knelt down. She let out a soft moan as she wrapped her legs around my neck pulling me down to pleasure her.

    She was already soaked, the heat pouring off her body was intense. I teased and licked her swollen lips, her hips began to sway trying to make me hit a certain spot. I danced around her clit, gently lifting the hood with the tip of my tongue and retreating. Soon she had handfuls of my hair in her grip, pulling my face into her harder. "Stop teasing!" She said through gritted teeth. Her wish was my command. I pushed two fingers into her easily as I pulled back the hood and began sucking and licking her clit. Her body tensed as she arched her back and let out a yelp. Before she could make any more noise she'd grabbed a pillow and covered her face with it as she climaxed. She slowly relaxed and I cleaned up the incredible mess I'd just made of her. She pulled the pillow off and began gulping air as if she had been drowning. As she caught her breath she picked her head up and looked down at me. "You look like a kitten that's just finished an entire bowl of cream." She said grinning.

    I smacked my lips. "Surely not the entire bowl." I replied as I stood up and lifted her, turning her gently on the bed so she was laying comfortably in the center. I slid in next to her, she scooted over slightly and rolled up onto her side to make room. She leaned over and kissed me softly, still breathing hard.

    "You're going to be the death of me."

    "Yea, but what a way to go." I smiled up at her and kissed her again. She began softly stroking my still hard cock.

    "All tuckered out?" She asked.

    Without warning I rolled her onto her back, parted her thighs and sank deep into her. "Not at all. I was just letting you catch your breath."

    She wrapped her legs around me, lifting herself to meet each deep thrust. Our tongues began a slow tango as her hands roamed up and down my body.

    "I can't even describe how incredible this feels." She gasped.

    I slipped my arm around her waist and lifted her from the mattress, pushing a pillow under her ass. The slight shift in angle had my cock sliding along her upper wall.

    "Oh, oh, oh yes!" She cried, as I deliberately slowed down and pushed harder with each thrust. Her grip on me was getting to be too much, and I wasn't going to last much longer as I pumped away. She slid her hand down between us and began stroking her clit with quick fingers. It took only a moment before she started shaking, her legs clamping down and drawing me in as much as she could. Her walls contracting to milk me of every ounce I had to give. At that point I just leaned forward and erupted. Inhuman sounds escaped from deep in my throat. A long low guttural moan escaped Summer as she arched her back rising up to me. A few deep gasps and she collapsed back to the mattress, and I followed her, our mouths met, our tongues danced lightly as we tried to catch our breath. I slid to the side, breaking free of her lips for a moment and turned off the lamp.

    I woke early, pulled on my jeans and t-shirt quietly and made my way to the bathroom for a little relief. I walked out of the bathroom door to find Emily standing in what I guessed was her bedroom door. She rubbed her eye and just looked at me for a moment.

    "Hi." She said softly.

    I stood there unsure of just what to say. "Hi." I replied nervously. The pause began to get uncomfortable.

    "Are you done, can I get in there now?" She nodded towards the bathroom.

    "Oh sure." I stepped aside quickly and she plodded her way in closing the door quietly. I closed my eyes taking a deep breath. I walked back down the hall into the kitchen and noted it was about my normal wake up time. So I scouted for coffee. Emily padded into the kitchen in her sweats and socks.

    "What are you looking for?" She asked noting that I was peeking into different cupboards in search of the coffee.

    "Coffee first, then I was going to make breakfast, if you want." I said.

    "Can I help?" She asked. I just smiled and nodded. She pointed at a canister on the counter and smiled back. I opened it to find the coffee.

    "How about we make something special?" I opened the fridge and rummaged and found the eggs and sausage Summer had mentioned. I found some veggies in the drawer and pulled those out too. My real find was a box of ready pie crusts. I detailed my plans with Emily and after extensive prep work of dicing and browning we placed a sausage and pepper quiche into the oven.

    "Corn flakes are for chumps." She said looking at the door and smiled at me.

    "Can you set the table while I wake up your mom?" I asked.

    She nodded. "I'd bring coffee and lead with that. She can be grouchy in the morning."

    I chuckled and poured a cup, topped it with a splash of milk and spoonful of sugar. I opened the door slowly and walked to the bed. Summer was curled up, her hair a golden splash across the pillow, her expression was strained.

    "Don't try to fool me, that grin is a dead giveaway that you're not asleep." I said as she broke into a full smile and opened her soft blue eyes.

    "Good morning."

    "Good morning pretty lady." I said as I set the coffee on the nightstand and leaned down to kiss her.

    "If you don't mind, I've had to go to the bathroom for the last twenty minutes, but I didn't want to barge in on your bonding session." She slipped out of bed and grabbed a robe from the closet door and wrapped herself up and darted out of the room, leaving me chuckling. She didn't come right back and I was wondering what might be going on in the kitchen. I reached for the coffee cup as she walked back into the room shaking her head.

    "What?" I asked.

    She just grinned at me. "Oh nothing, you know that old saying 'out of the mouths of babes'? Well mine just asked why you were spending money on a motel when you could stay here." Summer just looked up and laughed and shook her head again. "She's right though. If she took this as well as it seems then why don't you check out and come up here for the rest of your stay?"

    I just smiled. "I wouldn't want to intrude."

    "Intrude my ass. All you've done since you've been here is make life better." She walked over and sat next to me on the bed and kissed me. "The invitation is sincere, from both of us. Oh and you're timer is nearly up on the stove." My eyes went wide as kissed her and trotted out of the room to save breakfast.

    Em started giggling as she saw me jog into the kitchen to look at the stove. The timer still had seven minutes to go. I squinted at her. "Gonna be like that is it?" She burst into a bigger fit of giggles.

    "You were right mom, he fell for it!" She yelled.

    A few minutes later Summer walked in wearing her college sweats and a long sleeve t-shirt, grinning ear to ear.

    "I'd nearly forgotten that you're a gourmet chef, besides a fireman. What have you done with breakfast?" She asked.

    "It's in the oven. It'll just be a few more minutes. Do you have any tomato sauce?" I asked.

    "There's some in the pantry there I think." She said as she topped her coffee off.

    I found it and opened it up, pouring some into a bowl to warm up in the microwave. She looked at me sidelong not sure what to make of what I was doing.

    "Okay shortcake, let's do this restaurant style, why don't we make a little assembly line here on the counter. Plates here, we need the spinach from the fridge, the bowl of sauce here, and do you have something to set the main course on?" She dug in a drawer and found a large pot holder and set it on the counter. As if on cue the timer went off. I checked in on it, and it was done. I slid it out and set it on the counter.

    "That smells fantastic. You found that in my fridge?" She chuckled.

    "The only special ingredient is imagination." I said as I winked at Emily who smiled and nodded. "Okay, so here's how we do it, do you know what the flag of Italy looks like?" Emily shook her head no. I sighed and rolled my eyes. "What are they teaching you kids in school these days? We're going to make the plates look like the Italian flag, green, white and red. So spinach on the side, then we're going to put a slice of the quiche in the middle for the white, and then a little sauce on the side for the red. Got it?"

    "Yup." She took the first plate and piled a handful of the spinach on one side while I sliced the quiche, and set a slice just on the edge of the spinach.

    "Okay, here's where we get all fancy." I whispered. "We take a little sauce and we make a little pool on this side. Don't tell anybody about this trick, everybody will be doing it." I said winking at her. Emily just rolled her eyes at me, the grin never leaving her face. "Two more like this and we have breakfast!"

    Emily made the other plates herself and set them on the table.

    "A little more caffe for a me, we'll warm up Mama's, and for the signorina, the juice of one cow." I said pouring her a glass of milk. "Finito!"

    Summer started clapping, and I took a bow, and caught Emily out of the corner of my eye joining me. We sat down and began eating.

    "Italy tastes really good." Emily said around a mouthful. Everybody nodded as we ate.

    "Oh, did you tell her?" I said leaning over asking Em. She just looked at me wide-eyed. "Well the deal usually goes, the cook doesn't do the dishes." I said winking. Emily grinned and looked at her mother who in turn gave her a gimlet eye.

    "So that was the deal? Why wasn't I given a vote in this plan?" She said.

    Emily replied with a shrug. "You were asleep." It was my turn to chuckle.

    "That'll teach you to sleep in." I said. She gave me the same gimlet eye with a smile thrown in.

    When she finished Emily cleaned up after herself and put away the milk and the rest of the cold food without being asked. I looked at Summer who had a smug look on her face as she popped the last bite into her mouth.

    "I'm going to get my stuff ready to go to Jesse's." Emily said as she headed for the hallway.

    Summer let out a quick, authoritative, "Hey," and raised an eyebrow at her, then looked at me and back. Emily rolled her eyes just like her mother and came back.

    "Thank you for making breakfast..." she stumbled unsure what to call me.

    My eyes went wide. "Just call me Pete, and I should be thanking you for your artful assistance."

    She beamed and turned and took off up the hallway. I just watched her grinning as I sipped the dregs of my coffee. Music floated down the hallway a few seconds later as I pondered just how things had unfolded since I'd gotten here. I must have been lost in thought for a few minutes.

    "Penny?" Summer asked, startling me out of my reflection.

    "Sorry, I was just thinking how scared I was that this whole trip was a bad idea, and how everything has gone so right. I'm still worried that something bad is going to happen to screw it up. You know, like waking up and finding that I'm dreaming this."

    She ran her instep up my leg. "Don't go looking for trouble, it'll find you all by itself in time."

    "So what do you have planned for me tonight?" She asked.

    "Oh a little dinner, maybe a show after." I grinned. "You have something nice to wear? No jeans, reservations are for seven o'clock." I said with a wink.

    "I'll see what I can manage." She rolled her eyes.

    "I can't wait." I said, the excitement in my voice coming through, bringing a smile to Summer's face.

    "What's next for you today?" She asked.

    "Let's see, I need to run back to my motel, pack and check out, stop by the dry cleaners, a couple errands. Most of all I want to start with a long hot shower." I said giving her a wink.

    "That last one sounds good." Summer's eyes wandered to the hallway and back, and her expression changed, turning apprehensive as she crossed her arms over her chest.

    "What's the matter?" I said as I took her arms and uncrossed them putting them on my hips.

    "I don't know, it just feels weird. I feel like I've got to sneak around to have a life of my own."

    I laughed at that. "If we didn't scare her last night then I think she'll be fine. You just need," I paused and corrected myself, "We just need to be straight up honest with her. Show her that she's not being cut out of your life, but I'm joining both of yours, with any luck for a long time."

    "You'd better be planning on a long time. I'm not a love 'em and leave 'em kind of girl."

    I just raised an eyebrow at her for a moment, and she turned bright red and looked down.

    "Okay there was that one time, but..." She began but I cut her off with a kiss.

    "Mom, when you come up for air can you help me find my blue sweater?" Emily said as she walked into the kitchen.

    We both busted out laughing. "Yes dear. I am ever your willing servant." Summer replied rolling her eyes up at me and gave me another quick peck.

    "Go get your stuff and get back here safe." She added as she made her way down the hallway.

    I got dressed and got ready to leave and wandered up the hall rapping on the door jamb before peeking around the corner of the door.

    "I'll see you ladies in a little while." I said smiling.

    "Hurry back, I want you to meet my friend Jesse when she gets here. She's really cool."

    "I'll do my best." I replied.

    To be continued in part 6, by Member389 for Literotica
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    School of Rock

    A 7-part series by Member389. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Stories.

    I made it back with plenty of time. I set up an online music account on Emily's laptop, and we sat at the table downloading songs by Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughn, BB King, some David Gilmour and Eric Clapton.

    "Are you turning my kid into a rock star?" Summer asked leaning on my shoulder, watching us select songs.

    I laughed. "Why not?" Emily hopped up out of her chair and started playing air guitar as I hit play on Johnny B. Goode. As it wound down she dropped to the floor kicking her feet. I laughed even harder. "I think I've seen that move before."

    Em got up breathing hard. "What about you, this is all guitars. Do you have any piano music?"

    "That I do." I popped open the browser and found a video of one of my favorites. The song started and a rap sounded on the door, Summer answered it. A shuffle of people and chattering was going on and a pretty girl shot out from around Summer and came over to the table where we were.

    "Hey Jessie, this is Pete," in an exaggerated whisper she followed up with, "he's my mom's boyfriend." I grinned at that.

    "How are you Jessie?" I asked. "Think you can help with Emily’s studying tonight?" Her expression froze on the word study.

    "Relax, we're just going to listen to some music, not do algebra." Emily said, calming her friend.

    I stood up as the ladies approached, a woman a few years older than Summer walked beside her with a big smile on her face. Summer made the introductions and hands got shaken the big grin remained.

    "Alright girls, are you ready? Let's get a move on we need to stop at the store and pick up some food on the way back to the house." Diane announced. "It's good to meet you Pete, hopefully we'll get to see more of you around here in the future." She winked playfully.

    "I'll be glad to oblige." I replied with an equal grin. Jesse helped Emmy gather up her gear and they headed for the door.

    Summer stepped back in the kitchen rolling her eyes. She stopped and looked into my eyes, and bit her lip. "Now what?"

    I grinned and shrugged. "What do you normally do on Saturdays?"

    "Clean, do laundry, run errands, the usual." She chuckled.

    "Where's the vacuum?" I asked. "Four hands are better than two."

    We cleaned the place up pretty quickly, with a hand reaching out to give a gentle back rub, or an occasional kiss in passing.

    "I might keep you around, you look damn sexy pushing a vacuum." She smiled as we sat and polished off the left-overs from breakfast for lunch. "You cook, you clean, you rescue damsels in distress, and you're amazing in the sack. Is there anything you can't do?"

    "Well when your mother is Martha Stewart and your father was Superman, no." I laughed.

    Summer smiled. "I almost wish we were staying in tonight, Clark junior."

    "With the depleted state of your fridge, we'll likely be eating bread and water." I replied.

    "Damn that's another thing we need to do."

    "Was that the towels in the dryer? They should be fine, let's go do it now. Do you have a list?"

    Summer shook her head and peeked into the freezer for a minute, then opened the pantry cupboard. "Was that all the eggs?"

    "Yup, and don't forget the OJ."

    We wandered through the store and I watched as Summer filled in the cart I had.

    "Do you do anything special on Sundays? You know, family dinner or anything like that?" I asked.

    "No not really. Sometimes I'll make something big that we can eat for a few days in left-overs. Why?"

    I just shrugged and smiled. As we picked out the groceries I picked out a few things, made an occasional inquiry as to what Emily and her liked to eat. A few more things got added to the cart and she gave me a shrewd look.

    "What are you planning?" She asked with a sly smile.

    I shrugged and smiled again. "Something going along with the theme. When do you think Emily will be home."

    We finished the shopping, and after a little head butting I slid my card and paid for the groceries.

    "You're saving me a hotel and eating out, it's the least I can do." I argued and gave her back her little scowl. "Besides, you're so cute when you're angry." I prepared to duck but all I got was a raised eyebrow. We got everything into the house and unpacked, Summer turned and leaned on the counter, blowing a loose strand of hair out of her face.

    "I hope I can keep awake during our date. What are we doing tonight?"

    "Dinner for one, but that's a given, I need you to build up your strength." I winked, the rest is a closely guarded secret.

    "I got it, no jeans or sneakers." She looked up at the clock. "Where are we going?" She sounded piqued. I just chuckled.

    "Well we do have about an hour drive to get there, so we should be ready before 6."

    She just looked at me wide-eyed for a moment and swiveled her head to look at the clock. "Crap, I'd better get a move on. It's not as easy for us girls to get ready as you guys. It takes time for us to be presentable."

    I smiled. "The only thing you need to do is change."

    "No jeans." She parroted with me, making us both laugh. She leaned in for a kiss. "I get the shower first." She got up and sashayed into the other room.

    "Damn, the only thing sexier than you in jeans, is you out of jeans." I called out.

    She came back in a long pink fuzzy robe a few moments later. "The same could be said for you." She leaned down and kissed me again. I took the liberty of slipping a hand up her leg, noting she was shower ready.

    "You sure you don't want to conserve water and shower together?" I said smiling.

    "If you join me, you may want to cancel the reservations now." She winked.

    "I guess I'll just have to restrain myself then." I sighed, then frowned.

    "Aww! You look like you lost your puppy." She said with a laugh.

    I gave her a light pat on the rump. "You'd better get in there before I lose my mind and take you right here."

    "Promises, promises." She said with a wink.

    I had been relegated to using Emily’s room to get ready, Summer didn't want me to see her getting ready, she wanted to make an entrance. She made her way from bath to bedroom, singing a song under her breath, pausing to smile at me as she passed, and continuing her song. "So let’s get it over and just get naked, With sweat dripping' down your little back." I recognized the song, she sang it when we were in Maine at the beach house, the lyrics were definitely not something you'd hear on the radio.

    I got my chance at the shower, the floral and fruity smell of soap and shampoo hung heavily in the humid air. I took a deep breath of it and closed my eyes a fleeting thought of kissing her neck, the scent of her intoxicating like a tropical flower. I finished and went across the hall and began dressing, keeping an eye to each detail as I donned the dark gray suit. The tailor at the shop that helped measure me told something I had no idea of, "a well-tailored suit is to women what lingerie is to a man." I had to trust her, she was a woman after all. I finished up getting the tie dimpled properly and setting the pocket square how she'd shown me. I remember something she said when she was kitting me out. "She must be a very special lady." I responded that, "she is a very special lady," with a smirk. I made my way out to the kitchen laying my overcoat across the back of one of the chairs and checked to make sure I had everything I needed. Spinning my wrist to check my watch, we had a few minutes before we needed to leave.

    "Do you need a hand in there? I could call in the Army or something." I hollered.

    "Oh hush! I'll be right out!" She answered through the door. A few more minutes passed before I heard the door open, only darkness beyond. "Prepare yourself, I hope you're not disappointed."

    "Oh stop..." I began as she walked into the kitchen light. She stopped tilting a hip, bringing one knee in front of the other like a runway model. She glowed in the dim light, her hair long, tucked back on one side with a silver barrette. Her eyes boring into me watching my every movement as I took her in. She wore a short sweater dress in wide gray and black stripes with knee high gray suede boots. Naturally tall, she was tall or taller than I was as my eyes slowly climbed back up to her face. The hint of a smile appeared as I took her all in.

    "Speechless, huh, that bad?"

    I cleared my throat quickly. "No, no! You look stunning." I said with complete honesty.

    "You look pretty handsome yourself." She responded, her voice husky as she looked me up and down.

    "The tailor was right." I thought with a smirk. The twinkle in Summer's eye was causing my heart to melt a bit.

    "Do you have a coat?" I asked, and she took one from the hall closet. I held my hand out for it and she smiled as I opened it for her to slip on.

    "Such a gentleman."

    "I'll do my best." I replied grinning as I took my coat and we left.

    We made our way north to the city. I ignored her gentle prods to find out where we were going. She reached over and took my free hand while I drove. She didn't grip it tightly, but ran her fingertips along the seams of my palm, her thumb rubbing lazy circles across the back. She was quiet, but I could feel the hum of anticipation. I only hoped things didn't fall short of her expectations.

    I pulled up in front of the restaurant and a valet came around opened Summer's door as mine opened at the hand of another. He walked her around the front of the Jeep and handed her over to me with a big smile. We walked towards the door slowly.

    "Are you nuts?" She said under her voice. "This is going to cost a fortune."

    "Don't worry," I replied, "haven't you ever heard of dine and ditch?" I said chuckling. "I'm not saying we're going to do this every Saturday, but you only live once. So let's relax and enjoy tonight." We stepped inside the lavish foyer where the host welcomed us. I gave him my name and he smiled checking off a list and asked if we'd like to check our coats before we were seated. I took Summer's before removing mine and handed them over to the coat room attendant. I turned to find Summer looking around with wide eyes, her lower lip held tightly in her teeth as she fondled her little heart pendant nervously.

    "This way please." He said turning towards the dining room. Without thought Summer's hand slipped around my arm. I smiled and led her to the table. She got more than one look of admiration as we passed other tables. The host held her chair for her as she sat with a little smile thanking him. I sat down as he told us who our server would be and left.

    Summer watched as he stepped away and ducked her head slightly whispering. "I feel like such a grown up." I had to stifle my laugh.

    We ordered cocktails and then dinner. Summer indulging her love of seafood, I sat watching her eyes roll back with every bite of her scampi. The food was delicious, the wine as well. We finished with dessert and cappuccinos. She noticed I peeked at my watch.

    "Already tired of me?" She said with a pout.

    "Just making sure we're on time for our next stop." I smiled.

    Her eyes opened wider. "There's more?"

    I nodded with a smirk. "Not to worry, we're doing good on time." I said sipping my coffee.

    She gave me a shrewd look, then shook her head with a smile. "I honestly don't know what I've done to deserve this kind of treatment, but I like it." I chuckled at that. I paid the check, we collected our coats and got the car headed towards our next stop. The club was in a converted warehouse, the brickwork old and worn as we entered and I picked up the tickets I'd ordered earlier in the week. Taking care of that, we were led to a small table a few rows back from the stage. I held Summer's chair for her as she sat. I sat beside her, the table set so we were practically side by side. She reached under the table squeezing my thigh as she smiled. She had seen the posters as we entered for the show and beamed at me knowing her love of music. We ordered drinks and the show started. We listened, she sang along under her breath to a few of the songs. At some point our chairs got much closer and my arm was wrapped around her shoulder and she leaned into me putting her head on my shoulder during one song. When it finished she looked up at me, our faces close. She just tilted her head slightly her lips parting as mine met hers in a deep kiss. The applause for the song was our backdrop for a moment. She pulled back slightly, a smile spread across her face, her skin aglow in the dim light. She excused herself and went off to the ladies room.

    She returned a few minutes later set her clutch on the table as she sat, slipped her hand out of it and slipped it into my jacket pocket and withdrew it as she leaned in for another kiss. I smiled at her but the curiosity got the better of me and slipped my hand into my pocket. I felt a warm damp lacy bit of cloth. When the realization hit me I looked sidelong at Summer wide eyed. She just looked up at the stage biting her lip again and slipping her gaze sideways to me with a knowing smirk. She was lucky the club was crowded or I would have double checked. I removed my hand from my pocket and rubbed my nose smelling the musky scent of her. It inflamed the feeling that had been smoldering in me since I'd seen her emerge from her bedroom earlier. I politely declined another round from the waitress, and wondered how we could make a hasty exit without it being obvious. As the set ended Summer leaned over and whispered in my ear.

    "There's a nice little park with a walk along the river not far from here."

    "That sounds nice." I said softly. I wasn't in the mood for an encore. I stood carefully buttoning my coat hoping my arousal didn't show. Summer stood gathering her things and we made our way out to the entrance to collect our coats.

    Once in the car she directed me through the streets down to the riverfront where found a place to park. We started down the walk to the waterfront, at one end of the park was a large brightly lit fountain, there were paths leading away down both river banks. She turned us toward the right which led us northward, lamp posts lighting the way, benches lay covered in autumn leaves, they lifted gently in the breeze off the water.

    "Tonight has been amazing." She said wrapping her arm around my waist pulling herself tightly under my arm. I smiled.

    "I couldn't agree more." I said.

    She stopped looking over her shoulder to make sure we weren't being followed. The city had the feeling of people huddling inside in this cold late hour. We were the only people around. She took my hand and led me away from the walk way up the lawn under the trees, leaves rustling under our feet. She stopped a few yards away and turned leaning against the trunk of a large maple tree. She laid her hands behind her against the trunk as she inhaled the scent of the dead leaves and smiled up at me in the dim light. I took her face in my hands and kissed her deeply. Her tongue slipped along mine as her hand gripped my neck pulling me down into her. I felt dizzy like the world had begun spinning around us and she was the only solid point which I could hold onto. I broke away gasping for breath.

    "How's a girl to keep from falling for you?" She asked breathing heavily.

    "I don't know, but don't let me stop you." I smiled and kissed her again. Her hand slid up the front of slacks stroking me firmly.

    "I want you, right now." She said as she reached for the zipper.

    "Here?" I asked chuckling as I looked around noting we were in darkness afforded by the leaves still clinging to the trees above us. My zipper was down and her chilly hand found what it was looking for and pulled me none to gently free of my clothing.

    "Here, and now." She said stroking me firmly.

    I slipped my hands under her coat pulling her dress up over her hips. She spread her legs for me as she slid me into her damp heat. I groaned deeply as she wrapped her long leather clad leg around my hip urging me deeper. I reached around her grasping her exposed ass in my hands lifting her slightly as I leaned into her and pulled her down as I thrust forward. We both grunted as our mouths locked together. Her back arched away from the tree as I plunged into her in short hard strokes. I had her other leg around me as I drove forward with an urgency that scared me. She leaned her head back and gasped letting out high pitched whispers urging me on. "Yes, yes!" Being on edge all night it didn't take me long before I pitched forward pinning her against the tree as I climaxed, all of the tension built up finally releasing.

    I gasped for breath, and opened my eyes realizing I was staring at her little silver heart pendant. I was still holding her hard against the tree, my fingers buried hard into her flesh. I relaxed slightly, her legs jerked as she tightened her grip around my hips. "Don't worry I won't let you fall."

    "Too late." She said. I felt her tug the hair on my head as she lifted my face up to hers and kissed me deeply. "I'm already too far gone." She said smiling. "You're stuck with me."

    "I wouldn't say stuck." I chuckled, my heart settling back down to a normal rhythm. My arms were burning from holding her up, but I had no intention of letting her go. It was a moment before she set first one foot down, then the other, the feeling she could still fall over kept her arms locked firmly around my neck. As our bodies separated a cool breeze shot between us causing a shiver to run through Summer. She snatched the cloth out of my breast pocket and tidied up as quickly as she could before yanking her dress down to keep out the cold. She tidied me up as well before tucking me back in. She grinned tucking it into the same pocket as her panties.

    "I'll pay for the dry cleaning." She grinned.

    "No need, I'm never cleaning this suit ever." I laughed.

    She leaned forward laying her head on my chest nuzzling up under my chin. "I don't know what cologne you're wearing but it's a real panty dropper."

    I couldn't help myself and busted out laughing at that. Laughter fizzed up from Summer as well.

    "Well that was the selling point, I'm glad it lived up to the advertising." I said. "It's getting cold, let's go home."

    "Tell me about it, you don't have an icy breeze blowing up your skirt." She said giggling.

    We made it home and stumbled into the house still chuckling about how the evening turned out. It wasn't long before we laid naked in bed, surrounded by the darkness and warmth.

    "Thank you." She said and kissed me.

    "For what?" I asked.

    "For what?" She said surprised. "For everything you do. You're so sweet to me, and you spoil me rotten. Tonight being proof of that."

    I shrugged. "It's how I envision being in love is supposed to be." I swallowed hard. "You matter to me, more than anything. There's nothing in the world I wouldn't do for you."

    There was an uneasy pause. "Just don't forget who you are. No matter how much you love someone, you can't stop being true to yourself." She whispered, then kissed me. I felt dampness on my face.

    "Hey, what's wrong?" I asked concern filling my voice as I pulled her closer.

    "Nothing is wrong, that's what scares me." She said. "Try to understand what I said. I've been there before."

    "That's what made you leave when you did, isn't it. You were afraid."

    She laughed and a inhaled with a sniffle. "You could say that. I debauched a local teen, I probably would have been stoned out of town if anybody had found out."

    "Don't worry, we haven't used that whole scarlet letter thing in at least five years. You're safe now, and everything seems to be turning out alright."

    She kissed me softly and rolled over in my grip leaning back against me and tucked my hand up beneath her chin with a deep sigh. I kissed her behind the ear, eliciting a soft purr, before nodding off myself.
    Good things come to those who wait.

    We both jolted awake at the sound of a phone ringing. Summer bolted out of bed to answer it.

    "Hello?" She said anxiously, after a moment she sighed. "Okay sweety, have fun, we'll see you this afternoon. Love you, bye."

    I looked over at the bedside clock and realized we'd slept late, it was after 9.

    "They're going to a matinee in town then Diane is going to drop her off around 3 o'clock."

    "What will we do until then?" I said sarcastically.

    She looked me up and down with the blankets thrown back. "Oh I'm sure we'll think of something." She wiggled her eyebrows at me, and I busted out laughing.

    She climbed back into the bed, we were instantly kissing and touching, there was no urgency, just the acknowledgment that we were both where we most wanted to be, and with whom we wanted to be. Lips teased, fingers caressed, and time floated pleasantly by without either of us noticing. Summer rolled me onto my back and threw a leg over me sliding down my legs, and began licking my cock. She looked me in the eye as she did it, the hunger I saw there was intense. My breathing was getting shallow as I watched her get me harder and wetter. I lifted my hips hoping she would take me in her mouth but she only smiled, and licked again, and again. The sweet torture nearing a fever pitch, and she only continued, long slow wet licks.

    "If you see something you want, take it." She said, her voice low and husky. She licked the length of me, then swirled her tongue around the tip. I gathered what little wits I had, and slid out from under her got up and walked to the foot of the bed seeing her beautiful ass pointing up in the air, moisture glinting off pink lips, I knew what I wanted. I placed my cock at her entrance and pushed slightly, eliciting a moan from each of us.

    "I want it, and I'll take it." I said as I pushed forward burying my hard cock deep inside her. Summer let out a sharp moan, as she threw her head back. I began long hard strokes, the moans synchronized quickly.

    "Pull my hair." She gasped. I reached up and gathered her hair and pulled her head back gently. Her moans increased and my tempo picked up, my hips driving her forward with every stroke. She began chanting, "yes, yes, yes, oh fuck" and I soon lost all control and took her hips in both hands driving forward a few last hard strokes exploding deep inside her. I could feel the walls of her cunt clamp down on me hard as spent myself in her. Summer collapsed face first into the sheets gasping for air. I still had her hips in a vice like grip as the spasms subsided.

    "I didn't think it was possible, but I think you're getting better at this." Summer gasped from the folds of the sheets. "Which is impressive considering you were damn good at it in the first place."

    I smiled, gasping for air. "I have a good teacher." I released my grip on her hips and pulled free of her, she let out a sad little moan and rolled onto her side. Her hair was a complete mess, covering her face I could see her peeking out from between the locks. "Nice hair." I laughed.

    "It has that freshly fucked look I was going for." She giggled. We cuddled for a while before she groaned. "We'd better get up, it's lunch time, and we'll need to be presentable when Emily gets home."

    I stripped the bed and got the sheets into the wash. Summer made coffee and whipped us up some brunch. A not so quick shower for the both of us and we were parked on the couch watching TV when Emily burst into the house, her friend Jesse hot on her heels.

    "Hi Mom! Pete we listened to all those guitar players you gave me to listen to, they were awesome. They all play electric guitar though. I'm not sure mom's going to let me get one."

    "Well let's look at some great acoustics then. No need to dive head long into your rock & roll career just yet, you've got a couple years." I said laughing.

    "We'd better get going Jesse." Her mother said.

    Em just sat next to me and I gave her a nudge. "Don't you think you should say thank you?" I murmured. She looked at me, smiled and jumped up and ran after Jesse and her mother. Summer and I hot on her heels to join in with thanks.

    She spent the afternoon apprising us of everything they did, and the movie they saw. At her insistence I gave her a short list of acoustic guitarists to research online. We ended up finishing our Italian food weekend with baked ziti for dinner. Bed time was a bit tougher, I had to promise to be there tomorrow when she got home from school before I got a hug.

    Summer poured the dregs of the wine off into our glasses and handed me mine. "You're doing it again."

    "Doing what?"

    "Thinking, the question is, what about."

    I just shook my head. "Nothing really... it's just that..." I let out a heavy sigh.

    Summer's eyebrows raised as she waited for me to spill my guts.

    "Promise me you won't laugh?" I said.

    She smiled. "Not a chance."

    "I was just thinking that I wondered what kind of step-dad I'd make."

    Summer's eyes popped open at that. A few expressions raced across her face, before quickly returning to a thoughtful look of her own. "Listen," she said, "don't get ahead of yourself. I don't want you to feel like you have to fill any role in that regard. Let's take it one day at a time. Besides, you have a lot on your plate to start with, a new job, a new city, a new life. The only thing she needs is a friend, and I think you've already proven that you can do that with little effort." She smiled at me, but there was worry in her eyes.

    "That's not going to be a problem." I smiled back at her and drew her closer. "I'm turning into a worry-wart like you." I got a quick poke in the ribs for that.

    We were up at the crack of dawn, well actually before it cracked. Summer kept telling me that I didn't need to be up so early and I just turned her towards the bathroom to get ready for work. While the girls did their thing, I did mine, and had lunches ready to go for both of them, and breakfast laid out before they even popped back into the kitchen.

    "Don't get used to this." Summer turned to lecture Em. "As soon as he's gone it's back to corn flakes and bananas." I laughed, as they dug into breakfast with a single minded urgency. Emily was soon bundled up and out the door with her book bag, Summer wasn't far behind her a deep kiss and a wish to play hooky from work. I patted her gently on the backside.

    "Your patients are waiting for that bright smile to make them feel better." I said.

    "Well if Mr. Brown makes a grab for my ass while I'm checking his vitals again, he may ended up for an extended stay with a few extra bruises." She said smartly. "I might just have to put him in restraints."

    "Sounds fun." I said wiggling my eyebrows.

    "Maybe I'll bring some home for you." She grinned. She bolted out the door, as I shouted for her to drive safe.

    The next days lent themselves to relative domesticity. I played house mate, making meals, keeping things organized and assisting with homework.

    It soon came time for me to head home. That morning I woke before the alarm staring at the glow of the clock. Our lovemaking the night before had been frantic as if we were never going to see each other again. I could feel the slight sting of scratches on my back which left me with a feeling of contentment. As I wallowed in bliss at the feelings flowing through me I was surprised when I felt her lips brush the knuckles of my hand.

    "You're awake." I whispered softly enough not to wake her if I was wrong. She responded with a gentle hum. I leaned forward and kissed behind the ear, a tremble flowed through her as she arched her neck gracefully inviting more of the same. I obliged her, a contented sigh was how she responded.

    "I don't know how I'm going to keep from going crazy for the next two months." She said, another sigh escaping her lips.

    "How so?"

    Laughter bubbled up from deep in her chest. "Despite what you may think, you're not the only horny one of this duo. I've kind of gotten used to this guy being ready and willing with little notice." She said as she snaked her hand over her hip grasping my cock.

    "I hope he's not all your after." I teased.

    She rolled over quickly, her hand slipping around my neck bringing us forehead to forehead. "You don't think that, do you?" She asked, concern evident in her voice.

    It was my turn to laugh. "If I were at all worried, I wouldn't be here. Remember, I'm the one who came looking for you." I said as I kissed her. She took control and rolled me onto my back and straddled me. I wasn't sure if it was her hips pinning me to the mattress, or me pinning her hips to mine as she kissed my chest, she worked her way up neck. Quickly our lips crashed together, bodies gripped tightly not wanting to let go. She slid forward slightly and settled herself on me as she took my face in her hands, willing herself to slow down. I wrapped my arms around her waist holding her in place as I lifted my hips plunging into her in long deep strokes.

    "Take me like you did the other night." She gasped into my mouth. "Take me like you want nothing else."

    "I want nothing else." I growled as I rolled her off me, she scooted onto all fours and snatched my pillow from the head of the bed hugging it tightly, her ass pointing straight up. I slid my hand down her ass and up between her legs, she was so wet and hot I thought she was melting. She pressed back against my hand and made a small yearning moan.

    "Please." She whispered urgently wiggling her ass in the air. I felt my cock throb at the sight of her, in the gray light. I couldn't take my eyes off her, but my body moved without conscious control as I slipped behind her, took her hips in my hands and slid into her. She whimpered into the pillow, she tried to pull away from me and I only pulled her back onto me. I held her like that for a long moment, her cunt gripping down on me, trying hard to get me moving. I closed my eyes and tried to keep my breathing steady as I began rolling my hips back and forth. She let out a long moan as I picked up the pace driving forward. I don't know when I did it but I had my hand on her neck, holding her in place while I filled her with deep hard strokes. I was barely aware of her fingers stroking her clit lighting fast , as she began to jerk and moan loudly into the pillow. Her cunt clenched hard, the spasms were more than I could take as I erupted in her one last time.

    I reached up beneath her cupping her breasts and lifted her up toward me, she shifted her head to one side, reached back, and pulled my face down to hers and kissed me deeply.

    "I don't deserve you." She said.

    "Shush, you deserve everything I can give you and more."

    "I don't think I can take much more and still be able to walk." She laughed. Just then the alarm clock went off.

    "Time to get up." I said softly into her mussed hair.

    "I'd say you already did a fine job of that." She leaned forward crawling on all fours to turn the alarm off. She turned back towards me and flipped her hair back out of her face. The light was brighter, and shone in her eyes, the look she gave me was nothing short of feral. My stomach did a little flip and I suddenly knew how the gazelle feels when the lioness has made her decision. Summer crawled back towards me and leaned down taking my half hard cock in her mouth bringing it fully to attention quickly. She wasn't stopping, she hungrily sucked and licked bringing me near the edge and stopped. She turned quickly and laid back with her legs spread wide. "If I have to wait two months for more then I plan on filling up now." She held up her finger beckoning me towards her. I reached down and circled her clit with my thumb, her sharp intake of breath was all I needed to hear as I pushed deep into her again. She waved her hand at me in an effort to speed me up as she covered her mouth with the other. Soon the waving stopped and she was pulling and massaging her nipple. I began to flick her faster with my thumb causing her to yelp into the back of her hand as her hips arched up and I exploded again, with less force, but no less desire.

    We collapsed into a heap on the bed panting like we'd just sprinted a mile, the alarm went off again.

    "I hate that thing already." I gasped. Summer chuckled before she rolled over and got up slowly, limping to her closet and pulled on her robe.

    "Shit. You're hard on a girl's anatomy. I'm going to have to come up with a cover story for limping today. I guess I could say I twisted my ankle again. C'mon sleepy head, time to face the music."

    "I... I don't think I can walk." I chuckled. A few minutes later we were sitting around the kitchen table.

    "Are you all right Mom?"

    "Yes hon, I just stubbed my toe." She said sitting gently with her cup of coffee. I buried my face in my cup so as not to be caught grinning. "I'm going in a little late this morning, so when you get off the bus, head over to Beth's and I'll pick you up there. Okay?"

    Em just nodded, and continued eating her cereal. It wasn't long before she was giving me a big bear hug imploring me to drive safe so I'd be back in a couple months to stay. I had her promise to work hard on her schoolwork, and if she needed any help with her to call me.

    Summer made her phone calls and turned to me, her robe falling open slightly. "I feel like a hot bath." She didn't move but looked at me sweetly, the invitation was clearly implied.

    "That sounds nice." I said pulling my shirt off. I looked up and her smile had gotten wider. I held out my hand and she stepped forward taking it in hers as I led her to the bath.

    She laid back against my chest, the warm water lapping around us, fingers glided down slippery skin. We didn't need to speak, our bodies were carrying on a conversation of their own.

    "You know." I started softly. Summer quickly shook her head shushing me. She took my hand in hers running her fingers up and down the lines in my palm the turned it over rubbing the knuckles and surprisingly brought it up and kissed them. She relaxed even more and melted against me and laid my hand over her heart holding it there. I wrapped my other arm slowly around her and pulled her tighter against me.

    "This is what love feels like." She whispered. I sighed and drew a wet heart between her breasts. She giggled as the water droplets slid down her chest. Time was moving far too quickly though and she stood up to rinse off, in the process she sprayed me in the face with a laugh. I reached up and gave her ass a wet smack which made her yelp. We dried off, Summer began applying lotion to her arms, and placed one foot on the edge of the tub and did one leg then the other. I don't think I'd ever seen anything more beautiful in my life. She took a bottle of baby oil and poured some into my hand. She looked me deep in the eye as she placed it between her legs. I took her cue and massaged it gently into her warm wet skin. She gasped, lifting gently away for a moment. Her hands were on my shoulders, holding herself steady as I massaged slowly, my middle finger slipped inside her. Her mouth fell open, her breath shallow and fast as I began pulling back and pushing forward in that little come hither motion she'd taught me years before. Her body tensed, her nails digging into my shoulders as she began to shudder. She was up on her toes now, as she moaned loudly. My fingers suddenly more slippery as I kept up my assault on her. She fell forward clutching me, her face buried in my neck.

    "Stop!" She gasped, drawing in air deeply. "Stop, please." She pleaded. I let my finger slip out of her and gently patted her lips.

    "You're not going to forget me in two months are you?" I said smiling.

    "Forget you? I'm going to need two months to rest." She said. "Besides, it's a long dark winter here in the mountains. We don't want to wear ourselves out too fast now do we?" She reached for another towel and handed it to me, pushing me out so that she could 'put her face on' and get to work.

    I walked to the bedroom and toweled off along the way. That little moment we had aroused me incredibly, my hard cock bounced in front of me. I stripped the bed, not for the first time since I'd been there and made my way to the washer with the rumpled damp sheets. When I walked into the bedroom again Summer was wearing the palest pink lace panties and was bent over a drawer rummaging around. My arousal, which had begun to subside, was back in spades. She turned and peeked at me from under her hair. "Brute, I look like I've been the main course at a vampire buffet. Now I have to find a turtleneck or face a lot of embarrassing questions all day."

    "Like why you're wearing a turtleneck, a silly grin, and walking funny?" I laughed. I ducked as she threw a balled up t-shirt at me, but started laughing too.

    "I get your point. Sandy and Sam will catch on quick, they've seen you, and won't be surprised." She found the shirt she was looking for tossed it on the bed. Pulled a bra out and whipped that on with practiced efficiency, she turned and noticed me standing there leaning against the doorway watching her, she just looked me up and down and sighed. "I'm sorry hon." Her eyes tilted and her mouth pulled down in a frown.

    "What?" I asked, my eyes opening wider.

    She looked down at my bobbing cock. I just chuckled. "Don't worry about me, you don't want to be any later."

    She stepped over took a pillow off the bed and knelt down on it in front of me. "Sweets, you're going to be late." I said with a lot less conviction now that my cock was slipping over her tongue.

    "Have faith in me." She said before swallowing me as far as she could drawing back with incredible suction, her cheeks hollowing as she drew me out. She began bobbing in earnest. I laid my hand gently on her head and began pumping furiously. She pulled back with just the tip in her mouth just before reaching up and massaging my balls. I couldn't take any more and filled her mouth, her throat bob as she swallowed. She cleaned me up quickly, and licked her lips clean, all the while giving me a look that said, "if I didn't have to get to work I could have kept you on edge all morning." I knew she could too. She stood up tossed the pillow back on the bed and grabbed the shirt pulling it on. She fluffed her hair out from the collar and smiled at me. She pulled on her scrubs, donned socks and her work shoes. She pinned on her badge and gave a little twirl, the smile still on her face.

    "Will you put some clothes on so I can get out of here." She said laughing. "I can't tear myself away with you standing there like that."

    "Sorry." I said, not feeling one bit sorry as I grabbed my jeans. She went out and filled her travel mug with the rest of the coffee.

    "Listen, if you feel tired you pull over. I don't want a call that they found you in a ditch. Drive safe okay?" She said in her best motherly voice.

    "I'm already tired. I didn't get much sleep last night." I said kissing her.

    "Make some more coffee, take a nap before you leave, stay until tomorrow, whatever you need to do. I'm serious." She said pausing to look at me. A moment passed and a tear rolled down her cheek.

    "Hey, hey." I said gently brushing the tear away and kissing her. "I will be careful, don't worry."

    "I wish you didn't have to go." She said wrapping her arms around me and hugging me tight.

    "It's only two months, and you'll be busy with Em, the holidays and work that it will be behind us before you know it."

    "Don't stand under any mistletoe before you get back here." She smiled though another tear followed the first.

    I smiled. "Consider yourself off the market. Your prince will return after the ball."

    "Don't you dare steal one of my shoes before you go." We both laughed at that.

    "Come on." I led her to the Jeep, opened the door for her and got her settled in. "Drive safe, go on about your daily routine. Call me, text me, send up smoke signals, any time." I leaned in and kissed her softly. We lingered for a moment and I stepped out closing the door. She lowered the window.

    "Smoke signals huh? Do you always run towards a fire?"

    "It's what I do." I said smiling.

    Her face turned serious. "I love you." Her eyes welled up again.

    "I love you more." I leaned in and kissed her again. "Now get going before you get fired."

    To be continued in part 7, by Member389 for Literotica
    Summer In Maine: Part 7
    Back To the Grind

    A 7-part series by Member389. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Stories.

    "You're quiet."

    I smiled. "Sorry, just thinking." I'd gotten home a few days before and promptly went back to work. This was my first night off, and sitting across the table from Mom, I thought that it was time to tell her, but unsure about how to go about it.

    "Your trip went well then." She asked, the questioning tone left hanging in the air between us.

    "It went very well." I said and looked her in the eyes. She knew, like mothers do, that there was a lot more to the story. She sat there with an expression that said, "when you're ready, tell me what you need to get off your chest."

    "Dinner smells terrific." I said.

    "Yea it does. Sorry it's going to be a bit late, I got it into the slow cooker later than I'd planned." She said, before getting up and setting the table.

    I'm not sure if it was the homely sounds of the kitchen but I relaxed. "Do you remember two years ago when I went down to see Davy about a job for the summer?"

    "Yes, when he'd given it to that Dylan boy." She said, knowing that the story was about to unfold.

    "Yea, the reason he gave it to Dylan was because I didn't make it there in time. I stopped down at Paula's and she asked me to make a delivery for her since I was going right near the place on my way to see Davy." I began. I let the story unfold, not going into the steamy details. After all it was my mother I was talking to, and she didn't need to hear about that, any more than I wanted to tell her. I told her about taking care of Summer for weeks. She mentioned that Paula told her about me taking her to the concert in the park. I said that I had, and a good many people had let her know that I had been on stage and played for some girl named Summer. I had totally forgotten about how public that was, and yet she never mentioned it to me even though she'd heard about it. Mothers can be the sneaky when they want to be.

    "So you already knew?" I said surprised.

    "Well not so much as you think, but when your son serenades a pretty girl at a crowded summer concert, people will ask you about it." She said with a smile. "I thought that you'd tell me when you were ready." She paused. "I knew something had happened though, and I didn't want to pry. You're an adult, and I respect the fact that you're not going to tell me everything that's going on in your life. Listen to me, that sounded like a huge guilt trip, it's not. I just want you to know that I respect your privacy. Paula tried to dig for dirt with me and I told her that you hadn't discussed your job with me."

    I told her about how abruptly Summer had left. The look on my face must have conveyed exactly how it felt. She walked over and rested a hand on my shoulder before running her hand down the back of my head and giving my neck a little squeeze. She knew somebody had broken my heart, now she knew who it was.

    "So you went to see her?" She asked.

    "It's nice there, kind of like west of here over towards the mountains. She lives in a decent sized city, like Augusta maybe. She's a nurse at the hospital there. She's got a terrific daughter named Emily." At that I spied mom's eyebrows lift a fraction.

    "So how did the first meeting go?" You hadn't seen her in over a year, the way she left I can't imagine you'd heard from her before that."

    "It was nerve wracking." I said with a laugh. I told her about leaving the note and finally meeting again. I mentioned meeting Emily and how they asked me to stay with them. I watched for a look of shock or surprise and didn't see one cross mom's face. Her head just bobbed as she took it all in.

    "So, when?" She asked, picking up the thread of a conversation we'd had weeks before.

    I just smiled. "First of the year. I'll be done with my one year duty here. I've already picked up the necessary forms to apply there. If I don't get in there, I'll look to nearby towns, or just go back to school and get a job doing something else. I'm going to get my EMT training one way or another." She smiled at that.

    "I hope I get to meet her someday." There's the guilt trip I thought.

    "Well, funny you should mention that, because I was thinking of the same thing." I replied, and let her know how I hoped we could make it happen. She was all smiles after that.

    "Oh my God, to have been a fly on the wall during that conversation." Summer said. Her voice sounded so sweet. It made my heart beat faster just to hear it.

    "I left out most of the lurid bits of the story. I didn't want her to keel over on me."

    "I'm sure any parts you left out, she figured out already. From the sounds of her, she doesn't seem like the type to fool easily." She replied.

    "That she isn't. Luckily I was a good kid so I didn't have to bullshit my way through many situations."

    We talked about little things, Emily was doing a little better in school, but still wasn't pushing for the all A's that Summer was looking for. I said to give her time, the music is helping I was sure of it. Emily insisted on talking to me, I could hear her bouncing like a jumping bean in the background. She was all excited to tell me about how her music teacher thought it was terrific she was so interested in everything I was showing her and her friends and how she was going to be in a holiday concert at school. I brought up school, asking how she was doing. She let out a little sigh.

    "One A, two B's and two C's" was her reply. "I just don't get algebra!" The other C was from a history class which had her bored to tears talking about 'boring dead people' as she put it.

    I made her a deal, no C's by the mid-term report card and I'd make it worth her while. It was after her mother chivied her off the phone and to bed that I brought up my idea. I was surprised that not only did she like the idea she was very excited.

    Thanksgiving day past with several calls on homes with scorched turkeys, and one unfortunate turkey frying experiment that cost a family their garage. Soon the snow was upon us. This early the snow usually didn't stick long, not this close to the ocean. It did make the driving difficult for the people who hadn't seen it in seven months. Luckily there were no major incidents. That is until I handed my notice into the chief.

    He was less than impressed, until I told him my plans. He said he'd push to get me EMT training the budgets would be out soon. I showed him a picture of Summer and Emily that I'd snapped with my phone. "Unless you can make that job happen where they are. It's not likely to change my mind." I said with a smile.

    "Would she be willing to move here?"

    I laughed. "Not nearly as I'm ready to move there. Don't worry I'm a first year greenhorn, I can't be that tough to replace."

    "No but that means I have to find one willing to relocate here or scrounge up another, get him up to Fairfield, and wait months to put him to work." He shook his head, then asked to see the picture again. "I'll say this, she looks worthy of a guy like you. Don't screw it up."

    "I like to think that I'm worthy of a girl like her. Trust me, I'll do everything I can to not screw it up."

    Christmas eve came quietly, the crackle of a log in the wood stove, the soft hum of the refrigerator in the kitchen and in the living room me rustling and muttering while attempting to wrap a gift.

    "Do you want a cookie?" Mom called out from the kitchen.

    "Of course, but did you make enough for Santa?" I said chuckling.

    "Don't you worry, I'm practicing for when the girls get here. What kind of grandma street cred would I have if I couldn't whip up cookies on the spur of the moment?"

    We had a quiet dinner earlier just the two of us. I started to doubt my gift choice and my mother put her hand on my arm. "Relax, she's going to love it, trust me."

    "I know, I'm just getting a little anxious." I said with a sigh. She chuckled at that.

    "She'll be here day after tomorrow. Breathe."

    Mom was going to pick her up at the airport since I'd swapped shifts with Mike so I could have the later part of the week off. I'd be working Christmas day and the day after and have the next three days off, then two more days and I was done. I'd already started packing. Mom kept trying to give me furniture, which was nice but wasn't going to travel well since I didn't know where I'd be living just yet. I asked Summer if I could stay with her for a few days while I looked at apartments to which she quickly said yes. I felt a hand on my shoulder rubbing it firmly.

    "Breathe." She said again.

    "You're going to like her."

    "I already do, because I trust you. You've always been a good judge of character." We did justice to the cookies leaving a couple out with a small glass of milk, just in case.

    Work went by slowly, we had a huge dinner at the engine house. We did have one call of a chimney fire from some overzealous wrapping paper burning. The next day had me so jumpy Herb said I should drink decaf from now on. When I told him why his face broke into a huge grin.

    "You finally tugged back, huh? Tell me you're going to bring her by so we can meet the woman you're dumping us for."

    "I might, just to show her why I'm leaving." I laughed ducking his backhanded slap. About mid-afternoon I got a text saying that they had landed and mom had found them. They should be in town in a little over an hour. I did an equipment check and spent some time polishing the chrome on #3 to keep myself occupied.

    "Hey Pete!" I heard from over by the kitchen. I walked around the corner and Summer was standing there, her arm on Emily’s shoulder. Allan, the lieutenant on duty laughed. "I haven't seen him smile like that since the time we ordered pizzas from next door and didn't make him cook." I walked up and Summer launched herself into my arms. Several kisses later I noticed we were getting a round of applause.

    "You may need to hose them off, they do this all the time." Emily announced to everybody, to a hale of laughter. I gave Summer another kiss before releasing my grip and reaching out to Em.

    "Come here smart ass and give me a hug." She gladly dove into my side and I kissed her on the forehead.

    "What are you feeding her? I used to be able to kiss the top of her head."

    "Everything, I think she's having another growth spurt." Summer replied. I showed them around, introducing them to the guys on duty. Herb gave me a sly wink, I don't think he had any doubts now as to why I was leaving.

    Allan walked over to us. "Damn, I'm sorry you're not feeling well Pete. Hopefully you'll feel better by Thursday. Danny is coming into the cover the overnight." I looked at him oddly. "Get outta here you three." He smiled and thumped me on the back and walked off.

    I wasn't sure what happened, but I wasn't about to argue the point. We all piled into my truck and I drove back to the house. I felt Mom's hand in this when I saw a big spread being worked on for dinner. I knew I was right. I asked her if she needed any help.

    "Maybe a little." She put her hand on Emily’s shoulder. "Would you mind giving me a hand Emily?" Mom gave me a look and raised an eyebrow in dismissal.

    "Don't work her too hard. We'll need some help to clean out under the tree later." I said chuckling.

    As soon as we made it through the doorway Summer turned me and fell into my arms. The kiss was sweet with an underlying urgency. Her body felt like a taught bowstring against me, the energy waiting to be unleashed.

    Em said a little louder than necessary. "If I know them, they're in there with their faces stuck together." Causing us both to laugh.

    "I hope we have a lot of potatoes to peel. I'm really hungry." I called back. Summer pulled me down onto the couch and kissed me again.

    "I have a special surprise for you." She said with a big grin.

    "Not here, my mother is right in the kitchen!" I said laughing.

    "Not that, maybe later if we can find a way to pull it off." She said as she gave the front of my pants a squeeze. "I've only had Bob to keep me company the last two months, and he's a lousy cuddler."

    My eyes went wide. "Who is Bob?" I asked.

    She snorted and leaned in to whisper in my ear. "Battery operated boyfriend." I busted out laughing.

    "Is this the same Bob you traveled with a few years ago?" I asked softly, not wanting the conversation to raise questions.

    Summer rolled her eyes. "Maybe, maybe not? You left me in a bad way two weeks ago when you called. It's not nice to ply a girl with pretty words and promises and then leave her to take matters in her own hands." I remembered the call, and I wanted so badly to ravish her until we both passed out.

    "Oh my God, look at you blush." She said with a smile. She leaned in and whispered in my ear. "Don't you worry, I'll get my due for that, and then some." She took my ear lobe in her mouth giving it a tug. Her hand slipped between my legs, she massaged the inside of my thigh and it was getting the reaction she expected.

    "I'm going to run upstairs and change, I'll be right back." I said, trying to steady my breathing.

    She grinned even further with a glint in her eye. "Want to show me your room?"

    I chuckled at that. "Sure." I stood taking her hand and led her upstairs. I led her into the room where she peeked out the door behind us before closing it quietly and began unbuttoning my shirt for me. In a flash I was shirtless and she was kissing her way down as she pushed my t-shirt up and off.

    "Are you nuts?" I chuckled.

    "I can't leave you like this through dinner." She said stroking my hard cock through my pants. She stepped back sitting on the edge of the bed and pulled me towards her by the belt and undid it. She had my pants and boxers around my knees and began licking my cock. She looked up catching my eye as she began taking it into her mouth. It's a wonder my knees didn't buckle at the sensation. She took me slowly at first, but sensed my mounting frustration and sped up, bobbing swiftly drawing me out until I exploded down her throat.

    I gasped catching my breath. "You're a little bit evil, you know that?"

    She dabbed at the corner of her mouth with a tissue she grabbed from the box on the nightstand.

    "I don't know about that. I think I'm more angelic, to relieve you from your suffering like that." She replied.

    "I can't wait to return the favor."

    "Neither can I." She said smiling. "Is there a bathroom up here?" I told her it was the last door on the right. "Good, let me go freshen up and head downstairs before you come down."

    I came down the stairs and stopped at the sight before me. Summer sat at the end of the couch, with a mug in her hands, eyes wide as she watched Em. Colored lights twinkled making the scene magical. She had the most beatific expression as she watched Emily scouting the presents under the tree. Emily sounded amazed that she had so many. Mom had pulled out the stops when she discovered she finally had a girl to shop for. Summer's gaze lit on me and her smile got even bigger as she beckoned me over. Just as I sat down Mom called out for a hand and I hopped back up and grabbed the tray she'd put together.

    "This one for Em, no rum in it." She pointed at one of the mugs of hot cider.

    "Going to be that kind of night is it?" I chuckled.

    "Hey, it's the holidays. Why not enjoy ourselves?" She followed me out with a huge platter of food and set it on the coffee table. We chatted while dinner cooked. Emily landed next to the platter and began nibbling away. I had a dread feeling that this meeting was going to be awkward for everybody involved. Trust Mom to treat Summer like a longtime girlfriend, not like someone she'd met a few hours before. Somehow discussion turned to what I was like when I was little and the embarrassing stories began. Before long the buzzer on the stove went off and we mobilized and soon we were sitting around the table, a feast laid out before us.

    "I wondered where he got his culinary skills from, now I know. Everything was delicious."

    "Thank you. I assure you that I only showed him the basics, he's more creative than I've ever been in the kitchen."

    Em piped in describing our weekend of Italian food when I was at their house a few months earlier.

    "Your lieutenant wasn't happy with me because of it either. I guess since you've been there they've eaten better than they had in years. Some of the guys said you were a better cook than their wives." Summer said laughing.

    "It's probably for the best, Earl was getting a paunch on him." I replied. "I have a gift. What can I say?"

    "You could say, don't move Mom, I'll take care of the dishes."

    Hearing my groan caused Emily to add, "You know the deal, the cook doesn't do the dishes, and you didn't cook."

    "I didn't cook, either I'll help you hon." Summer added as the laughter subsided. It wasn't long before we joined Mom and Emily in the living room again.

    "I now have a promise that you're going to practice your music so you don't forget it." Mom said. "Emily is going to teach you to play guitar too, so I hear."

    "I hope so." I replied as we got comfortable on the couch. I looked up and Emily's face was full of pent up excitement. Summer stifled a yawn behind her hand. "Maybe we should wait, your mom seems pretty tired."

    "Mom, do you need some coffee?" She asked with a longing in her voice. We all laughed as her mother declined.

    "Pete, get in there and play Santa for us." Mom said as she prodded me with a toe.

    It was surprising how little time it took to tear through the loot. Emily dancing around a pile hugging her new game. She pouted slightly because her mother said she'd lose it if her grades didn't stay up. I agreed, and reminded her we had a deal. We did our best to neaten up and make a pathway. Mom said she was going to go to bed and made her way upstairs. We had Emily's bed made up in Mom's office on a borrowed folding bed. Summer allowed her to take the game with her so she could try it out. A quiet settled over the house as we tucked in for the night.

    Summer emerged from Emily's makeshift bedroom. I had cleared the coffee table off and set the last gift in the middle of the table. A small velvet box with a little red bow on it. She stopped half way across the room, her eyes wide as she looked at the box then over at me. I knelt on one knee in front of the wood stove a stick in hand poking up the coals. She looked at me kneeling then at the box again. I was unsure of what was going on in her mind, but a wash of expressions made their way across her face in a fleeting moment. She finally broke eye contact with me and retrieved a similar box from her purse setting it next to the one that was on the coffee table. She sat on the couch and patted the spot next to her. My heart pounding because of the look she gave me. I was both worried and hopeful.

    She inhaled quickly as if to begin a speech. "Pete, remember when you came out to see me?"

    "Just open it first. Please." I interrupted her. She looked up sharply at me. "Please?" I said with a grin. She gave me a curious look and reached for the box like it might go off like a bomb if she moved to quickly. She lifted the lid gently and looked for a moment at the silver pendant. A grin crept across her face as she let out the breath she'd been holding.

    "It's beautiful!" She said turning to me and giving me a kiss.

    "It's one of a kind. The woman that made it said she wouldn't make another for at least three months. It was our deal after she saw the design I'd made for it." The pendant was a large silver heart with a smaller heart inside, and another smaller heart inside of that one. Along the edge where the three hearts joined, small stones were set. I chose our three birthstones and they worked well together in pale blue, clear and pink.

    I chuckled after a few more kisses. "I know what you were thinking. I was thinking the same thing myself. I spent weeks looking at rings." I said softly. "Then about a month ago, I don't know what reminded me of it, but I remembered how proud you sounded when you told me that you were back on your feet, and you were doing well. I didn't want to feel like I was trying to tie you down again, and become the old ball and chain."

    She drew a breath to say something and I turned looking deep into her eyes and saw the answer to the question I hadn't asked.

    "I want you to want it as much as I do. When I ask, you'll know it's coming." I said as I took her face in my hands and kissed her deeply. I pulled back to see her eyes welling up.

    "How is it that you understand me so well?" Her voice barely above a whisper.

    "I listen to what you say, and to what you don't say." I smiled at her and the first tear broke free and rolled down her face. I brushed them away with my thumbs and before I knew it she was straddling me and our lips crashed together. The frustration of the past two months apart trickled away gently. It took a loud pop from the wood stove to rouse us. Summer jumped, startled by the sound, then realizing what it was began to chuckle. She sat up slightly, still straddling my lap and whipped her hair to one side, with a deft motion she undid the necklace she was wearing and set it on the table. She reached into the box and lifted out the pendant and handed it to me. She turned and sat on my lap and lifted her hair. I clasped the necklace and leaned in kissing her softly on the neck, causing her to let out a sigh and tilted her head inviting me to have my fill.

    "You're distracting me." She mumbled.

    "Really?" I said. "From what?" She shivered in my arms as I continued my gentle assault on her neck.

    "We need to talk."

    I felt an icy bolt run down my spine. Those are words I never wanted to hear. She noticed I'd stopped nibbling her neck and patted the hand I had wrapped around her waist. She leaned forward and then slid off my lap and sat next to me. The other little box in hand. She was still smiling but looked at me with concern.

    "Are you okay?"

    "Yea," I said, "what do you mean we need to talk?"

    She laughed gently. "Relax. It's just that this needs a little explanation." She handed me the box and tucked her leg under her. She nodded at the box, urging me to open it. I looked up at her for a moment, her eyebrows went up as she urged me to open it with an impish grin. "Well go on." I pulled the ribbon off and tore the paper sliding out what looked like a jewelry box. I opened up to find a pewter key chain with my initials on it. I breathed a little better.

    "Emily and I decided we don't want you to come stay with us for a few weeks while you look for a new place."

    I looked up sharply at that. She had a devious smile on her lips. She motioned towards the box again. I picked up the heavy oval and keys dangled out from underneath it.

    "We decided we don't want you to look for a new home. You already have one if you want it."

    I turned it over, the inscription on the other side said, "Always Remember To Come Home."

    "That was Emily's idea. She knows being a firefighter isn't exactly the safest profession. She's close to Uncle Dale. So much so that sometimes I wonder which one is the kid." I turned and kissed her, smothering her next words. She pulled back gasping for breath. "Is that a yes?"

    I just nodded, too choked up to reply.
    Epilogue

    I sat on an old stump, steam rising off my coffee in the cool morning air. The clouds were heavy, a faint glimmer of the sun trying to break through near the horizon. The breeze kicked up, dried leaves skittered across the brown grass at my feet. I looked up, in the distance there was a V of southbound geese. I lowered my eyes and took in the little house with a grin and shook my head. So many things had happened in just a few short years. A blue jay called out just as the door opened and Emily barreled out headed for the school bus. She didn't even look up as she darted around the house to stand with the her friends down a few houses. She'd grown and was looking more like the beautiful woman she would soon become. I looked over at the kitchen window and saw a shadow move. A few minutes later the door opened again, Summer stood on the step scanning the yard, for me I assumed.

    "Pete?" She hollered.

    "I'm over here." I said, getting her attention. She walked over and stopped in front of me, her hair blew in front of her face, her arms crossed tight against the chill.

    "Are you okay?"

    "I'm fine."

    "What are you doing out here in the cold?" She said bumping my foot aside slightly so she could perch on my knee, her arm wrapped around my back as she nestled in to find some warmth.

    "Counting my blessings. The second one just dashed up the road to catch the bus, the first one is right here." I said running my hand up her back. "After that I lost count."

    "Today?" I asked. We'd gotten into a little routine over the past year, where I had asked her to marry me, and she said she'd tell me when she was ready. It had been over a year, nearly two, since I'd moved here, and the life agreed with me somehow. The area was rough, but the people strong and supportive. There were whisperings about us, but they all disappeared when people realized just how in love we were... we are. Our game was to the point where I wouldn't have to say anything more, and she knew what I wanted. I asked daily.

    "Happy birthday." She said, then leaned down and kissed me. The blue jay taking offense to our conversation decided to voice his opinion again. I raised my eyebrows at her. I never let her get away without answering me. She looked up over my head, her eyes scanning the yard, she looked up at the sky and slowly began nodding. She looked down at me with a smile. "Today."

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  • Lost in Eros Book III: The Return, part 6
    A Sea Captain Finds The Grotto.

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry, in 6 parts.  Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.



    Once

    they had finally reached the beach they were ready to take a nice rest.
    Seeing the rocky terrain that would keep them from easily proceeding to
    the grotto helped to take a bit of the wind from their sails as well.
    So they collapsed on the nearest empty beach blanket and quickly fell
    asleep in a cozy little pile. Perhaps because of the relatively high
    concentration of XYZ in the ocean, or sea, air, though, they were soon
    as randy as they had been at any time in Eros.

    They awoke very horny,
    and the nearby guys were more than happy to help out. Don was surprised
    at how thick and hard his cock was even after the vigorous orgasm he had
    just had – both in Toshia's sweet pussy and all over her back. He
    thought he would go over to offer himself to Shelonda's mouth, but just
    then was distracted as a woman sauntered toward them on her way down to
    the water.

    She

    was a leggy blonde, with long, wavy hair of gold, a phenomenal, curvy
    body with amazing tits, and her face... Don was certain he recognized
    her from somewhere. Noticing his attention, the woman smiled broadly at
    him and gave him a merry wink. Suddenly Don knew exactly where he had
    seen her. She was a model on The Price is Right back
    in what he thought of as the real world. He spent a long moment
    standing there stunned, before making the obvious choice and turning to
    follow the gorgeous blonde down to the water. He admired the way her
    hips swayed as she made her way to the water, and then continued to wade
    in. When she was up to her waist, which Don thought was a shame since
    he could no longer see her shapely ass, she dove forward and under the
    water.

    Don

    was up to his knees in the surprisingly warm water by the time she
    resurfaced, emerging from the water like Aphrodite, her thick hair
    darkened and hanging around her radiant face and water glistening as it
    ran off her shoulders and full breasts. She smiled again to Don, who
    hastened to wade in further. She waited for him, her nipples just above
    the water line. She batted her long lashes at him as he came up close
    enough to say, "Hello."

    She unleashed that dazzling smile again, and said, "Hello there. Have we met?"

    "Not really, no," he almost stammered.

    "Well,

    I'm Rachel," she continued to smile, as Don felt her hand touching his
    hip under the water and then move directly to his cock, which was the
    hardest it had ever been. Don also felt quite sure that it was bigger
    than it used to be.

    "I know," Don smiled back, moving closer and gently grasping her waist under the water.

    "You

    do?" She leaned in and kissed him lightly on the lips and then moved in
    even closer, brushing her lips over Don's collar bone and then along
    the side of his neck. Her grasp on his straining penis was tight as she
    pulled on it.

    "Yes..."

    Don shuddered a bit. His hands moved around her waist to slide down her
    lower back and then to hold her behind tightly. "Someone told me your
    name."

    Releasing

    her hold on his prick, Rachel slipped her arms around his neck and
    looked into his eyes. Her wonderfully full breasts were pressed against
    Don's chest as she asked, "Who?"

    "It was a long time ago," Don smiled, "and far away."

    She cocked her head to the side a bit, her smile a bit thoughtful, before she said, "Well, it's very nice to meet you..."

    "Don,"

    he said. He lifted her up as she pulled herself up and jumped a bit in
    the water, wrapping her perfect, long legs around his waist.

    Rachel

    managed to get her hand down between them, took hold of his straining
    prick, and positioned it just right. As she sank downward, enveloping
    him in her warm, welcoming embrace, she said, "Well, it's very nice to
    meet you, Don."

    Up

    to his chest in the XYZ sea, Don held on to the gorgeous Rachel,
    helping to raise and lower her as she slowly rode up and down on his
    thick and steely hard cock. Her lush, full breasts moved against his
    chest. His hands held her firm ass cheeks tightly. Their mouths met in a
    heated kiss that quickly grew in passion, their tongues slipping past
    each other's lips and teeth. Rachel worked herself on Don's shaft and
    against his body with increasing enthusiasm. The water splashed against
    and between them as she pushed up and then slammed down on him again and
    again. Rachel let out a low growl, and then bit Don's lower lip. Don's
    fingers squeezed her ass tighter, and he groaned deeply.

    "Oh fuck!" Rachel called out. "Oh fuck yes! I'm going to cum so hard! Goddamn, fuck, yes! Fuck me!"

    Then

    Rachel was holding on to him tightly in the water, pushing herself down
    on his rigid member, as she shook and trembled with what seemed to Don
    to be a very intense orgasm that rolled on and on. At some point she
    sank her teeth into his shoulder, but he barely noticed. Instead, he was
    intent on enjoying the moment – having this radiant beauty in his arms,
    wrapped around him and impaled on his cock.

    Eventually,

    she pulled back a little and smiled at him again, this time actually
    blushing a little. She kissed him again and said, "That was wonderful,
    Don. I'm very glad to have met you. Maybe we should move into shallower
    water."

    "Gladly!"

    Don grinned, and without letting her off his prick, he turned around in
    the water and began to carry her toward the beach.

    Rachel

    laughed and kissed him again. It was a friendly buss that quickly
    became passionate, as she held onto to him tightly. When the water was
    only up to his mid-calf, Don very slowly knelt down, and then carefully
    lowered Rachel back into the shallow water, being careful to keep
    himself inside her. Her hair spread out around her head in the water, as
    Don lay over her and began to fuck in and out of her steadily. They
    kissed again as their bodies moved together in the light surf. Rachel's
    hands moved over his wet body until they found his butt and then began
    to pull him into her forcefully.

    Don

    paused for a moment to lift her long legs up out of the water and put
    them on his shoulders. Rachel grinned up at him and cupped her tits in
    her hands, squeezing them and pinching her nipples, which were very hard
    and red. Don smiled down at her and proceeded to fuck her pussy
    vigorously, the XYZ-water splashing around them, and especially where
    their bodies were joined in sex.

    "God, yes!" Rachel exclaimed. "Fuck me just like that! It feels so good! Fuck my cunt, Don!"

    Don

    was rather amused that this gorgeous model would be so enthusiastic,
    and have such a dirty-talk streak, but was far too intent on working his
    cock in and out of her to laugh. Instead he slammed into her roughly,
    letting the water absorb the violence of their fucking, and losing
    himself in the carnal pleasure of her pussy squeezing and pulling at him
    and the visual stimulation of the beautiful woman lying in the water
    beneath him with her eyes half-closed in rising pleasure, a sexy smile
    on her lips and her luscious tits in her hands.

    "Ah! Yes!" she cried out. "I'm going to cum again! Fill my pussy with your cum!"

    Don

    was only too happy to oblige. He fucked her hard with short, deep
    strokes, and then, just as she threw her head back and her body arched
    up out of the water, he felt his cock swelling and then exploding deep
    into Rachel, spewing a thick fountain of cum up inside her. Don pushed
    up into her as she groaned loudly and her pussy squeezed his cock again
    and again, and as he pumped jet after jet of cum into her pussy and
    womb. His head swam with the intensity of his long orgasm.

    When

    he opened his eyes and looked down, Rachel was lying still, eyes
    closed, hands holding her breasts and a beatific smile on her face.
    Slowly, she opened her beautiful eyes and breathed, "Wow!"

    "Indeed!"

    Don grinned. He let her legs slide off his shoulders and into the
    water, and then leaned down over her to give her another kiss. His cock
    was still very hard and gave no indication that it was inclined to
    soften any time soon, but he suspected Rachel might need a little break.

    The

    quiet pause was interrupted though, by Shelonda's voice calling out,
    "There you are, Don!" This was followed by splashing and laughter as
    Toshia, Shelonda and the three men ... no, now there were four ... they
    had been playing with found their way into the water.

    Shortly,

    after introductions, and after Toshia and Shelonda had plunged into the
    water, things quickly developed into a surf-washed orgy. The blonde guy
    Toshia had been sucking earlier was now sitting in the water, as
    Shelonda straddled his lap riding up and down on his thick cock. Rachel
    was on her hands and knees, water up to the middle of her firm thighs,
    and her breasts dipping into the sea, while she was taken from behind by
    the new guy, a fit black male with mocha skin, and the Arabic fellow
    who had been fucking Toshia earlier worked his cock in and out of her
    lovely mouth. Toshia was kneeling in the water, leaning back against the
    black guy Shelonda had been with earlier. He had one arm wrapped around
    Toshia's upper body, squeezing her right tit in his left hand, while
    the fingers of his right hand reached down to play with her clit, all
    while he worked his rather large cock slowly in and out of her pussy
    from behind. Don, who had a mind to convince Toshia's current playmate
    to shift to her ass so he could enter her pussy from the front, moved
    over to stand in front of her. He was about to bend down to kiss her,
    but she saw him and grabbed for his achingly hard cock, pulling it to
    her mouth as she leaned forward a bit.

    Don

    smiled down at his best friend and lover as she eagerly took him into
    her mouth. He brushed a few wet strands of her hair out of her face as
    she wrapped her hand around the base of his cock and began to move her
    mouth up and down it, quickly easing it down into her throat, bit by
    bit. Taking her head gently in his hands, Don began to rock his hips,
    fucking her mouth and throat, and just enjoyed the sensations of this
    exquisite blow job. He glanced over at Shelonda and Rachel, then down at
    Toshia, quite happy with this visit to the beach. Then Don glanced out,
    over the head of the guy who was now quite vigorously fucking Toshia
    from behind. Out there on the water was a large dark shape, quite
    obviously a sailing vessel. Don thought it looked like a corsair, or
    some such ship. (Nautical issues were never Don's forte.) It was clearly
    sailing toward shore, and gave every appearance of making for
    Rendezvous.

    Don

    couldn't see any indication that the ship might be a threat, so I
    decided to wait until there was some kind of a break in the action
    before drawing Toshia's attention to it. However, he did keep a periodic
    eye on it as she continued to pull and suck on his almost painfully
    hard prick. Eventually, the guy behind Toshia had his big hands around
    her waist and was raising and lowering her vigorously, and she was
    obliged to let Don out of her mouth. Instead, she held on to his cock,
    and whimpered happily at the serious fucking she was receiving. Toshia
    cried out loudly as the big cock inside her erupted with a thick
    fountain of cum. Don bent down and kissed Toshia as the guy gently
    withdrew and backed up.

    "How do you want me, stud?" Toshia smiled.

    "Well,

    as good as that sounds..." Don directed her attention over to his
    right, where the sailing ship had dropped anchor and was lowering
    several longboats over the side.

    Toshia

    washed herself again, and they waited for Shelonda to have a
    particularly ear-splitting orgasm, as the longboats were rowed toward
    shore, making for what seemed to be low docks in the rockier part of the
    coastline between the beach and the mouth of the river. They said
    goodbye to Rachel and the guys (who quickly and happily ganged up on the
    cheerful blonde model) and headed back up the beach blankets. As Don
    and the girls gathered their belongings, without bothering to put on
    more than their shoes, they could see groups of people disembarking from
    the boats. These people climbed up over the rocks and headed for
    Rendezvous. Don thought they moved together more like a bunch of
    tourists on a cruise than any kind of threat. Once each longboat had
    discharged its passengers, the few remaining crew headed back out to the
    ship.

    "Maybe

    we can get them to take us to the Grotto," Don explained to Shelonda as
    they set off to intercept at least one of the shore parties.

    Captain Sage and the sailors.

    It

    was easy enough to follow the groups, particularly since they were
    making no effort at all to be stealthy. It seemed that all of them were
    heading for a large wooden building on the water-side edge of
    Rendezvous. It looked like nothing so much as a big, solid tavern, and
    the hanging sign outside the door suggested just as much.

    Pausing

    there to hastily throw on their clothes, they eyed the sign with some
    confusion. There were no words, and the sign featured a foaming flagon
    with prominent human breasts, and a rigid cock rising up out of the
    foam.

    "It's a tavern sign, alright, but I have no idea what the name might be," Don mused.

    "The Booby Mug?" Toshia offered.

    "The Foaming Cock?" Shelonda suggested, a bit weakly.

    Another

    shore party came up then. As had seemed to be the case with the others,
    this was all men. They were wearing simple, short, pants – breeches,
    really – and few of them bothered with shirts. They were all tanned and
    muscular, and a bit on the weathered side for denizens of Eros. For as
    much as they resembled the crew of an eighteenth century sailing, or
    outright pirate, vessel, they also seemed to be rather clean and
    well-behaved, if boisterous.

    Even if they hadn't had an ulterior motive, our heroes would have been drawn into the tavern just out of curiosity.

    Crossing

    the threshold was like crossing into another world, or at least milieu.
    On the outside, the late afternoon sun lit a cheerful seaside sex
    resort. On the inside, was a relatively dark great room lit by many,
    many candles. There were long, heavy tables in the middle of the room, a
    scattering of round tables off the various sides, and a big bar. In
    addition to the newly arrived seamen (and Don could see no seawomen),
    there were several actual barmaids – busty, unsurprisingly, and fully
    clothed, surprisingly, though they did each display generous cleavage –
    working behind the bar and moving around the sudden influx of
    "customers". While they seemed to be giving the bar maids plenty of
    attention, the seamen were primarily concentrating on ordering drinks
    from the bar.

    Since

    arriving in Eros, Don had not seen anyone drink anything but water, but
    the drink being handed out to the men was clearly not water. For one
    thing, each flagon was capped with a foaming head. Leading the way
    toward the bar, Don managed to stop a bar maid with an armful of flagons
    and asked, "What is that drink?"

    "'Tis

    grog, sir," she said with a tone that implied, "of course." She smiled
    and handed a flagon to Don before hurrying off to pass out the rest of
    her bounty to the seamen.

    The

    "grog" smelled like a cross between mead and beer, and tasted like a
    sweet beer, which made sense. There was no alcoholic aftertaste, though.

    "Hey,

    pass that around, Professor," Toshia laughed as she took the flagon
    from him. After a cautious sip, she promptly took a much longer drink.
    "Yum, now that's good stuff!"

    As Shelonda took her turn, Don turned to the closest seaman, and tapped him on the shoulder. "Excuse me."

    "Aye?" the fellow turned to Don with a quizzical eye and the beginning of a smile.

    "Hello, my name is Don, and these are my friends Toshia and Shelonda."

    "Yar, good day to ye ladies," the man grinned with a definitely twinkle in his eye. "I be Joseph."

    "I take it that you're the crew of the ship that just anchored offshore?"

    "Har! Wouldn't do to anchor on shore, now, would it?"

    Don chuckled, and said, "No, it wouldn't. Who would I talk to about arranging passage to the Grotto of Ishtar?"

    Joseph,

    who was more than a little distracted by Shelonda's breasts, took a
    short moment and then said, "Oh, for that kind of thing, ye'll be
    wanting to talk to the cap'n."

    "Excellent," Don smiled broadly. "Where can I find the captain?"

    "Oh,

    the cap'n'll be along shortly," Joseph said with some effort at
    restraining a laugh. One of his companions overheard his answer and did
    burst into a loud guffaw.

    "Thank

    you," Don nodded with a frown. He turned to talk to Toshia, but she had
    wandered off a bit. She was now talking with a couple of the other
    crewmen, who were quite happy to give her their undivided attention and
    to share their flagons of grog with her. Shelonda was still standing
    nearby, but was returning Joseph's flirtatious glances while
    occasionally drinking from the flagon Toshia had left in her care.

    Noticing Don's attention, Shelonda smiled broadly and repeated, "This is good stuff!"

    "That's

    good," Don nodded with a bit of concern. Apparently the grog was some
    kind of intoxicant – the first they had come across in Eros – and Don
    was a bit wary about mysterious consequences. He resolved to abstain
    from grog, as something of a designated adventurer.

    "Ye've got a lovely figure," Joseph said to Shelonda.

    "Thank you," she smiled and sidled over a bit closer.

    Don

    stepped back to get a little further out of the way. Looking around, he
    guessed that there were about twenty crewmen in the tavern, but there
    was no sign of anyone who might be the captain, or even an officer.
    Meanwhile, he saw that Toshia was now half sitting, half leaning on the
    edge of one of the big tables. She had a flagon of grog in her right
    hand, and was running her left along the taut, tanned bicep of one
    sailor, while a second man leaned in on her right to talk with her.

    Looking

    back to Shelonda, Don saw that Joseph had drawn her with him over to a
    chair at a side table. Don watched as Joseph pulled her into his lap and
    very efficiently exposed her full breasts. She laughed as he said
    something and began pinching and teasing her nipples.

    Over

    against the big table, Toshia was making out with the man on her left,
    who seemed to have his hand up between her legs and under her skirt. The
    man on her right looked like he had lowered his mouth to her breast on
    that side. In another moment, Toshia had set her flagon down on the
    table a bit to the side and behind her, so that she could busy her hands
    with reaching into the pants of the two men.

    "Can I get you a drink, sir?" said a pretty bar maid.

    "No, thank you," Don smiled, noticing her blue eyes and very inviting cleavage.

    "'At your service, sir," she grinned and moved on.

    Toshia

    was now making out with the man on her right, while the one on her left
    was taking his turn at her breast. Don could see his muscular forearm
    flexing as he worked his fingers up between Toshia's legs. Toshia had
    managed to work their pants down and now, rather obviously, was pulling
    on and stroking their cocks.

    Don

    looked around, found a likely chair, and sat up on the back of it,
    putting his feet on the seat. This way, he could better keep an eye on
    things. He saw that Shelonda was now kneeling between Joseph's thighs,
    and the back of her head was moving up and down in a steady motion that
    Don had become quite familiar with. A couple of Joseph's friends were
    also watching intently, but apparently patiently.

    Toshia

    was now leaning back on the table, supported by her left arm, as the
    man on her left moved between her legs, pushing himself into her. Toshia
    had her right arm around the neck of the man on her right, pulling him
    toward her so she could continue to make out with him. Quite a few of
    the men were watching this scene, many of them with a flagon in one hand
    as they adjusted their own hard-ons. Some had gone so far as to pull
    their cocks out and stroke them openly.

    Don was finding the urge to stroke his own persistent erection almost irresistible.

    Just

    then, though, the door opened, letting in a blinding swath of white
    sunlight along with a small group of individuals. Squinting, Don saw
    three women and a large, naked man who made every other man in the room
    look a bit scrawny and weak in comparison. Of the women, though, there
    was one who instantly drew Don's attention.

    She

    swept the room with an imperious look that took in the positions of
    every man and woman in the room, including Don, but accorded him no more
    attention than anyone else. She had her hands on her hips and stood
    there in her calf-hugging high-heeled boots as if she owned the place.
    She wore a long dark brown overcoat that almost dragged on the floor
    behind her, as well as a black tri-corn hat with a bright red feather
    sticking out of the folded up brim atop the coppery red hair that fell
    down around her face and shoulders in an unruly tumult. Underneath the
    coat, which was thrown open carelessly, her torso was encased in a rust
    colored corset that emphasized her charms to undeniable good effect. Her
    smooth, muscular thighs disappeared into a rather incongruous red
    miniskirt. The hint of a smile on her lips betrayed equal measures of
    amusement and contempt. Though she was probably less than a meter and a
    half tall, she commanded the room as soon as she entered it. Along with
    the Lady and India, she was one of the most palpably sexual creatures
    Don had ever seen.

    Confident

    that this was the captain he had been waiting for, Don took another
    moment to look at her a bit more carefully. He noted her long neck, her
    fair complexion, the spray of freckles across her cheeks, and the
    particularly adorable broad nose, upon which rode the only pair of
    glasses he had seen in Eros. As he slid off his chair, Don was vaguely
    aware that Shelonda was making happy swallowing noises as Joseph
    groaned, and that Toshia was being fucked vigorously on the table in the
    center of the room with a gang of men each waiting to take a turn
    coupling with her, but he was focused on the woman – the captain – who
    was now striding decisively toward a table in the corner of the room,
    her little entourage in tow. Don noticed that the crewman in her
    vicinity bowed their heads a bit and backed away to give her space.

    Whether

    or not either of the women with her or the big man noticed him, Don
    proceeded as if they weren't there. He ignored them and approached the
    table, arriving just as the captain sat down in a high-backed chair with
    arms, unlike the other chairs in the room.

    "Excuse

    me, ma'am," Don said, noticing that it suddenly felt very warm in the
    tavern. "I take it that you're the captain of the ship that just
    arrived."

    "Yar,"

    she nodded, as she gave Don a long look. He noticed that her eyes were
    gray with a hint of green. "I be Captain Sage of the Maidenhead."

    "'Pleased

    to meet you, Captain," Don nodded. "My name is Don. I was wondering if I
    might arrange a bit of passage aboard your ship for myself and my two
    friends."

    "The

    two wenches entertaining my men?" Don sensed that there was something a
    bit less genuine in her piratic accent when compared with Joseph's.

    "Aye," Don nodded, unintentionally slipping into the vernacular.

    "They do seem enthusiastic," she smiled, perhaps with a bit of disdain.

    Don chuckled, "They are that."

    "Have a seat, there, Don," Sage said. It was clearly intended as a command.

    As

    Don drew the indicated chair back and sat down, the big, naked man took
    up a position directly behind his captain, and the two women, at whom
    Don still hadn't had a good look, arranged themselves to either side of
    their leader. Before all of these arrangements were completed a bar maid
    hurried up with a platter bearing four flagons of grog.

    "Yer not from around here, are ye, Don?" the Captain asked as she took the first choice of the flagons.

    "Nay... No, I'm not," Don nodded. "We've come a long way."

    She

    looked at him from over the brim of her drink as she took a long
    swallow. She seemed to be examining him with an amused curiosity.

    "Do tell," she said as she lowered her grog.

    "Well,

    we started out in a place called the Manor," Don responded. "Since
    then, well, we've had some ... adventures. We came down the river from
    the Resort most recently."

    "And before then?"

    "Before the Resort?"

    "Before the Manor," she corrected, a clearly amused smile on her lips.

    "Um,

    Florida," Don answered, more than a little taken aback by her question,
    which was so atypical among the normal denizens of Eros.

    "Yar," Captain Sage nodded. "Ye are a long way from home, Don."

    Don

    opened his mouth to ask a question, but there was something about her
    downright smug expression that made him pause. He wasn't used to being
    so off balance. He struggled to work out what it was about this woman
    that was throwing him off.

    "How be the Lady?" Sage asked idly.

    "She is doing well," Don said, "or at least she was last time I saw her."

    Sage smiled, for the first time without any hint of contempt or derision, "She's quite a woman."

    Don

    noticed that her pirate had slipped quite a bit there, but decided to
    let it pass without any comment. "She is at that, Captain."

    "So, where is it ye be faring, Don?" she asked, her piratic accent even a bit stronger now.

    "We just need passage to the Grotto of Ishtar. Do you know where that is?"

    "Aye," she nodded. "I can take ye there, if that be where ye want to go."

    "You don't think it's a good idea."

    "I

    didn't say that," she shrugged. She leaned back and casually cast her
    right leg up over the arm of her rather throne-like chair.
    Unsurprisingly, Don felt the undeniable urge to look down along her firm
    thigh and see what she was exposing to him, but, with a huge effort of
    will, he managed to keep his eyes on hers. He thought he noticed a
    twitch of a reaction in her smile or her eyes.

    "My friend, Toshia, needs to get to the Grotto," Don said.

    "And ye don't?"

    "We go together."

    "I see," she said. "Well then, what be in it for me and my crew?"

    Don

    was surprised to realize that he hadn't thought about this in advance.
    After a moment, during which he noticed the ornate pendant that hung
    around Sage's neck and between the white mounds of her breasts, he said,
    "Well, perhaps we can provide some service."

    "Yar, I see what services your friends might be providing," she laughed cheerfully and gestured out to the room behind Don.

    He

    turned around in his chair to first see Shelonda, on her knees in the
    middle of half-circle of men being splattered with cum. Twisting further
    he saw Toshia in a similar state. She was now naked and lying back on
    the table, her butt hanging off the edge as one of the crewmen, but not
    one of the two who had been with her earlier, drove into her roughly,
    her legs up in the air. Several men were kneeling on the table on either
    side of her, so she could help them stroke their hard cocks. Don was
    pretty sure he could see that her chest and face were rather thoroughly
    covered in cum.

    When

    Don turned back around to Captain Sage, he saw that she had changed her
    pose again, and was now leaning on the table with her chin in her
    hands. He noticed that she was not wearing any rings. She was looking at
    him with playful curiosity.

    "What service might ye be offering, Don?"

    He smiled, for the first time feeling like the interview was going well. "I have some things to offer. If you would like to..."

    "Oh,

    not for me, Don," she laughed, "though it's sweet o' ye to think o' me.
    'Sides I don't know what ye might offer that I can't be getting from
    Sven here." With a slight toss of her head she indicated the man
    hovering behind her.

    Don

    looked at Sven and for the first time noticed the rather impressive
    cock on the muscular, blond giant. His eyes meeting Sage's again, he
    said, "Well, there are other things..."

    "Hmm,

    well, for such things, if I was of a mind, I have pretty Jasmine here
    and Megan," she said as she reached out to touch the women at either
    side. She nodded a bit to her left and then right as she spoke their
    names, indicating which was which.

    Don

    finally looked at the two women. Jasmine was a striking East Asian
    woman with jet black hair cut short and startling green eyes. She was
    quite tall, and had surprisingly full breasts, which were only barely
    covered by the diaphanous aquamarine top she wore. She smiled warmly at
    Don as he glanced at her. Megan, on the other hand, was a very young
    looking Caucasian girl with shoulder length, straight auburn hair. Like
    her mistress, Megan wore a form fitting corset that pushed her fuller
    breasts up in a quite distracting display – now that Don was actually
    looking at her. Not so tall as Jasmine, but taller than Sage, Megan only
    barely acknowledged Don's momentary attention. Both of the women had
    leather collars cinched around their throats.

    "But

    maybe ye could demonstrate those other things for us, Don," Sage
    suggested with a mischievous sparkle in her eye. She gave Jasmine's
    shoulder a squeeze, smiled at her and nodded over at Don. Jasmine rose
    from her chair and moved around the table.

    Don

    tried to get some kind of read on what exactly Sage was up to, but her
    expression, though cheerful, was completely enigmatic.

    Don

    scooted his chair back and let Jasmine sit on the edge of it, she
    smiled down at him as she hiked up her dark blue skirt and spread her
    long legs, exposing her bare pussy for him. Her position on the table
    blocked Don's view of Sage. He smiled up at Jasmine before leaning in to
    kiss the inside of her smooth thigh. Jasmine murmured her approval as
    his lips moved up her leg, and she edged herself forward a bit. When Don
    ran his tongue over her moist labia, Jasmine shuddered and reached down
    to pull his head in closer. Don obliged by pushing his tongue between
    her lips, tasting her juices. Jasmine leaned back on the table as Don
    slowly began to lick at her clit. He worked two fingers up inside her
    increasingly wet pussy as he focused his attention on her clit. Don was
    intent on what he was doing, so he was only barely aware of Megan as she
    came around and began to make out with Jasmine, kissing her
    passionately and playing with Jasmine's beautiful tits.

    Don

    gradually increased the pace of his licking and sucking, while
    simultaneously increasing the tempo of the fingering of Jasmine's pussy.
    Jasmine raised one long leg and wrapped it around Don's back, pulling
    him toward her. Without diminishing the pace or pressure on Jasmine's
    clit, Don began to move his free hand up along Megan's leg, idly
    caressing it, and slowly working his way higher. Glancing up, he saw
    that Megan had freed her tits from the corset and was offering them to
    Jasmine, who was sucking avidly on Megan's nipples.

    By

    the time Jasmine was shaking and groaning on the edge of the table with
    a long, drawn out orgasm, Don had been stroking Megan's pussy for a
    while, and she was rather happy to take Jasmine's place in front of Don.
    The transition happened so quickly that Don didn't have a chance to get
    more than a glance of Sage, who seemed to be just sitting back enjoying
    the show.

    In

    spite of her earlier display of indifference, Megan was more
    enthusiastic than Jasmine, holding Don's head in place as he lapped at
    her clit, and then coming more quickly and much more loudly.

    When

    Megan's trembling had subsided, Don pulled back and smiled up at her.
    The young woman leaned down to take hold of his head and pulled him up
    to her, kissing him violently. As soon as she was sure he wouldn't try
    to escape, she released his head and dropped her hands to his waist and
    promptly worked at freeing his straining cock. Don felt her fingers
    stroking and pulling on him, and then he was being positioned at the
    warm, waiting mouth of her pussy. He pushed into her in one motion, and
    Megan bit his tongue a bit for his effort. Don shoved up into her once,
    twice, and then a third time, and then she was coming again. Before she
    had even come down again, she fell back on the table, and pulled Don to
    her with her legs.

    Over

    to Don's right, on Sage's left, Jasmine was sitting in a chair turned
    toward Sage, sucking on Sven's very large cock. Don wondered how Toshia
    would deal with that monster. He thought about looking around to see
    what Shelonda and Toshia were up to, but his eyes were locked on Captain
    Sage's. She was watching him with what seemed like amused indifference.
    Don kept looking into her eyes as he began to fuck Megan on the table
    in front of her – for her. He was dimly aware that Megan was squeezing
    her own tits tightly and thrashing about wildly beneath him as she came
    again and again, but Don was intent on driving into her pussy repeatedly
    until he came, never taking his eyes off Sage, who never stopped
    watching him in return.

    When

    Don came, it was with a savage force. His cum gushed out of him in a
    fiery torrent, filling up Megan's pussy and spilling out of her. The
    groan that emanated from the depths of his throat was almost inhuman.

    As he caught his breath, Don heard Captain Sage say, "Aye, Don, we'll take ye and yours to the Grotto."

    Passages

    Toshia

    was not passive by nature. Even when she had been thrown to the men by
    the Sisterhood, she had taken an active role in orchestrating the
    various fuckings and suckings. Even at her most compliant, with the
    satyrs, who had had their way with her rather thoroughly, she had taken
    some measure of control of the situation by coaxing them on and
    occasionally by giving direction. In the tavern between Rendezvous and
    the sea, though, Toshia simply let things happen to her.

    She

    had moved over to the two sailors primarily to try some more of the
    tasty grog, which filled her with a lovely warm sensation, which in turn
    and unsurprisingly also spread to her horny little pussy. She quickly
    noticed that she was getting a little drunk but found that she really
    didn't care. Toshia found the two men ruggedly handsome and quite
    charming in their direct attention and manners. As she drank from the
    flagon they gave her, she moved her free hand appreciatively over the
    taut, sun browned arm of the sailor on her left, who had introduced
    himself as Marco.

    The

    fellow on her right – Alex – leaned in and said, "Yer the prettiest
    lass we seen in months, Toshia. Would ye be willing to enjoy a bit o'
    sport with us an' the lads?"

    Toshia smiled at him and asked, "All the lads?"

    "If ye like," he grinned back at her cheerfully.

    She

    looked to her left and saw that Marco was paying intent attention to
    the conversation. She smiled at him and then back to Alex and said,
    "Sounds like fun."

    "Aye," he laughed. "It does!"

    Toshia

    leaned to the right a bit to give Alex a quick kiss, and immediately
    felt his hand moving up her body over the thin fabric of her sundress.
    On her left, Marco similarly moved in closer and began to slide his hand
    up the inside of her leg. Toshia turned to him, intending to give him
    just a brief kiss too, but then found herself kissing him passionately,
    his thick tongue pushing into her mouth. She felt a bit of cool air on
    her right breast as it was exposed, and then, almost at once, she felt a
    moist tongue brushing over her nipple, just before it was sucked into
    an eager male mouth. Marco's fingers brushed over her moist pussy lips.
    When she moaned into his mouth in approval, he parted those lips and
    began to work his fingers up inside her. Toshia found herself reaching
    out to get her hand inside Marco's pants, intent on taking hold of his
    cock. She carefully set her flagon of grog on the table (behind her and
    to the right) against which she was half leaning and half sitting. She
    was already stroking the very stiff cock on her left by the time she
    managed to work her hand into the pants on her right. Meanwhile those
    fingers were moving in and out of her grasping cunt.

    When

    Marco broke their kiss, pulling back a bit, to lower his mouth to her
    breast on that side, which he had exposed with his left hand, Alex let
    her right nipple go and offered his mouth to Toshia's. Toshia began
    kissing him eagerly as she let go of their cocks and began to help them
    get their pants down far enough for their purposes. She quickly went
    back to stroking and squeezing their very hard cocks, completely
    oblivious to anything else going on in the big room.

    She

    didn't stop making out with Alex when Marco pulled away and moved in
    front of her. She felt fingers pulling out of her pussy and then the
    wonderful feeling of a fat cockhead being pushed slowly up into it.
    Slipping her arm around Alex's neck, to keep him from escaping, Toshia
    leaned back on the table a bit, to give Marco better access to her. She
    supported herself with her left arm as Marco began to shove into her
    more vigorously and Alex continued to make out with her, his hand
    squeezing and teasing her breast.

    It

    wasn't long before Toshia shuddered and gasped as an orgasm tore
    through her. And it didn't take much longer for Marco to fill her pussy
    with his cum, after which she was quite happy to have Alex take Marco's
    place, pushing his own cock into her, squeezing slippery juices into and
    out of her. It wasn't too long before Toshia found herself stripped
    naked, lying back on the big wooden table with her butt hanging off the
    edge as crewman after crewman took a turn fucking her. Most of them came
    inside her, but several had climbed up onto the table on either side of
    her and, with some help from Toshia's eager hands, had jerked
    themselves until they had sprayed showers of pearly cum all over her
    tits, throat and face. At some point, she was turned over, so she was
    facing the table and a number of the men took her from behind. She
    didn't object in the least when some of them decided to give her ass a
    try. She had long since given up on any attempt to keep track of the
    number of orgasms she had.

    At

    some point, after what seemed like well over an hour of non-stop
    fucking, Toshia actually drifted off to sleep – head on her crossed arms
    as sailors continued to use her body for their pleasure. She woke up
    some when she felt cool, moist cloths wiping dried and drying cum off
    her face, from between her legs and off her buttocks and back. She
    smiled at the buxom barmaids who were doing their best to clean her up,
    and even managed to cooperate with them as they coaxed her around so
    that they could get at the front of her. Toshia lay back in one girl's
    arms as the other gently wiped her pussy and then knelt between them to
    lick as much of the cum out of her as she could. Throughout all of this,
    Toshia was vaguely aware that the sailors had either collapsed about
    the tavern or had returned to their ship.

    Don came into view and smiled broadly at her, and said, "You looked like you were having fun."

    "Oh yeah," she murmured with a smile. "I've been a very naughty girl."

    "So I see," he laughed.

    Then

    she was coming one last time for the evening, shaking and trembling in
    the arms of the pretty barmaid. Toshia was dimly conscious of being
    lifted up in the arms of a very large and naked blond man with an
    impressively muscular chest and seriously broad shoulders. Without
    asking any questions, Toshia nestled her head in the crook of the big
    man's shoulder and promptly fell sound asleep.

    When

    she awoke the next morning, Toshia found herself gently swaying in a
    hammock in what she would shortly find out was the forward cabin of the
    Maidenhead. Shelonda was snoring quietly in a similar hammock on the
    other side of the small room, and there was a big bowl of fruit and
    pitcher of water on a small table between them. While she was eating,
    Toshia noticed a big tub of warm water in the corner of the room, as
    well as several big towels. There was no sign of the sundress she had
    managed to bring with her from the Wizard's house. Toshia shrugged – it
    really didn't seem important – and began to wash herself rather
    thoroughly. Before she finished, Shelonda woke up and joined her. They
    briefly compared notes about their experiences in the tavern with all
    the sailors.

    Toshia

    found out that Shelonda had given several men blowjobs before finding
    herself surrounded by hard cocks being jerked until they came, covering
    her in a deluge of semen. Shelonda had used her dress to try to clean
    herself up a bit, and then discarded it in a corner before moving over
    to basically serve as Toshia's fluffer, getting and keeping the men hard
    and ready for fucking Toshia.

    "I had no idea!" Toshia laughed.

    "Well, you were busy," Shelonda smiled.

    Noting

    that she was feeling extremely horny, in spite of all the sex she'd had
    the night before, Toshia ran her hand down Shelonda's lovely brown back
    and said, "I should thank you, shouldn't I?"

    Shelonda turned to Toshia and slipped her hands around Toshia's waist, and purred, "I think you should."

    Toshia

    was leaning in to kiss her friend when, without so much as knocking,
    someone opened the cabin door. The room was abruptly flooded with
    sunlight.

    "Now,

    now, girls, you might want to hold off on that sort of thing," Don
    laughed as he came in. Toshia noticed that he had managed to keep his
    clothes.

    "We'd let you join in," Toshia offered, with an attempt at a coy little pout.

    "As good as that sounds – and it sounds very good

    – I wasn't worried about me." He leaned in and gave them each a kiss,
    before continuing with, "Captain Sage is providing transportation to the
    Grotto, but we have to ... work for our passage."

    "Oh?" Toshia gave Don an amused and suspicious look.

    "What do we have to do?" Shelonda got right to the point.

    "Well,

    the two of you have to make yourself available to the men in whatever
    way they like, but only when they're not working themselves."

    "Oh really?" Toshia pretended to be shocked and appalled.

    "Yeah,

    you can stop faking," Don laughed. "You love it and we both know it.
    But, seriously, if you don't agree to the terms, they'll take us back to
    shore."

    "They all seemed pretty polite last night," Shelonda pointed out, "and I am really horny."

    Don nodded, "I've had a hard on since last night. I think it's from being on the water."

    "How long a trip is it?" Toshia asked.

    "She says we'll be there tomorrow."

    "It sounds fine to me. What do you have to do?" Shelonda asked.

    "Anything

    Sage tells me," Don shrugged. "So far she hasn't had me do much. She
    seems like the only person on the ship who isn't horny, which is odd."

    Toshia noted the interested tone in Don's voice, and said, "You like her."

    Don

    frowned, "She's different, that's all. We haven't met anyone who isn't
    horny all the time. Plus, she acts funny... She seems to know things,
    but she's kind of... evasive."

    Toshia

    shared a look with Shelonda that communicated well enough that they
    both thought it was Don who was being evasive. She asked, "Is she cute?"

    "Well, yeah, but that's hardly the point. She's an anomaly."

    "Uh huh," Toshia nodded. "You like her."

    Don rolled his eyes and quickly gave Toshia's butt a pinch. "Don't you two have things to do?"

    Toshia ignored the sting of the pinch and insisted, "You liiiiiiike her."

    "Yeah,

    yeah, whatever," Don said as he shook his head. "If you want to get to
    that grotto, you better get out there and make some sailor's happy."

    "Whoa!

    Shelonda, he's pimping us out!" Toshia laughed. The fact was she was
    finding this arrangement, to which she had clearly not agreed, rather
    titillating – though it might just have been the XYZ-sea air. She
    started to move toward the cabin door, as she said, "Don's a pimp and
    we're his whores."

    Don sighed and said, "OK, fine, but it'll get us to the Grotto."

    "I'm

    just teasing – sort of. We don't mind you pimping us out, do we
    Shelonda? But you don't get any of this while we're working, boss," she
    said over her shoulder as she shook her butt at him.

    "Mmm," Don said, "maybe we ought to renegotiate this deal..."

    "No,

    no... We're going. Come on, Shelonda, let's get to work. Oh, but Don,"
    Toshia said as she turned around in the doorway, and fixed him with a
    serious look, "don't forget..."

    "Yes?"

    "You like her."

    Don shook his head and muttered, "Sheesh!"

    Hooking for the team.

    Toshia

    stepped out onto the sun washed deck and looked around, wondering how
    best to start. She thought it made sense to first wander around looking
    for men who might not be working, and none of the ones she could see now
    qualified. Toshia decided they might have to go below decks and headed
    toward what looked like some stairs heading down through the deck.

    "Toshia," Shelonda asked as she followed along, "what's 'pimping out'?"

    Toshia couldn't resist laughing, "I'll try to explain, but we should get busy. Let's try down here."

    It

    didn't take long for Toshia and Shelonda to find a group of five
    off-duty sailors in the big room below deck where, judging from the many
    hammocks, most of the crew slept. After the briefest of introductions,
    Toshia simply said, "We need to work for our passage, so, um, would you
    guys like to fuck?"

    In

    less than a minute, Toshia was kneeling on the gently rolling deck with
    three hard cocks arrayed in front of her. She moved from one to the
    other, enjoying the feeling of the thick shafts moving over her lips and
    tongue, stroking the two that weren't in her mouth. She could hear the
    sounds of Shelonda moaning as two sailors were already fucking the
    pretty girl's pussy and ass.

    Having

    gotten the ball rolling, Toshia simply went with the flow. If there was
    a cock within reach she stroked it; if there was a cock in her face she
    sucked it; and, her pussy and ass were available to all for the taking.
    She cheerfully adjusted positions as the men requested or directed. She
    squatted on a cock, riding the man lying on the floor underneath her,
    while she stroked and sucked the cocks of the men around her. She leaned
    forward, kneeling, as someone pushed his cock into her butt. She let
    herself be lifted, turned around, and then lowered, so that her ass was
    filled from below while man after man took turns fucking her pussy.

    Before

    each of the men had come inside either Toshia or Shelonda, other
    sailors were drawn to the site of the action and joined in as soon as
    the opportunity presented itself. Toshia smiled up at Marco, one of her
    friends from the night before, as he shoved his prick up into her messy
    pussy. He actually said, "Good day to ye, Miss Toshia," before
    commencing his vigorous fucking. Alex made an appearance later, letting
    her deepthroat his cock enthusiastically until he pumped his cum into
    her mouth and down her throat.

    After

    a while, Toshia found herself lying back in a hammock, with her legs
    hanging off the side, in kind of a makeshift sex swing. The men took
    turns fucking her like that, swinging her back and pulling her toward
    them to drive their cocks into her.

    Throughout

    all of this, Toshia and Shelonda were experiencing an amazing number of
    orgasms. Toshia eventually found herself just rocking in the hammock
    with her eyes closed as her body trembled with sensory overload and cock
    after cock took its turn inside her.

    After several hours of this, there was the sound of a woman's voice saying, "Alright, fellas! Give the ladies a break."

    The

    man who had been unceremoniously fucking her, leaned down and gave
    Toshia's cheek a sweet little kiss and then, gently, pulled out of her.
    Toshia chuckled a bit to herself and moved a hand down between her legs
    to feel the slippery mess that was spilling out of her pussy. She sighed
    happily. A good day's work, she thought.

    Then the woman's voice, from much closer, said, "Here you go, Toshia; drink this."

    Toshia

    opened her eyes to see a young woman with auburn hair brushing her
    shoulders. She was wearing a greenish vest and a pair of light culottes,
    and was holding a cup out. In her other hand she had a plate of fruit.

    With some effort Toshia pulled herself up into a sitting position and took the cup of water and drained it in one go.

    The girl smiled a little and said, "Thirsty work, eh?"

    Toshia

    nodded and took the plate of fruit that was offered. As expected, she
    was already feeling rejuvenated. She looked around and saw that a very
    attractive woman with short black hair was in front of Shelonda, giving
    her some fruit too. Toshia smiled at the redhead and said, "Are you two
    part of the crew?"

    The girl laughed and said, "You could think of us as officers, I guess. I'm Megan and this is Jasmine."

    Toshia

    was about to offer their services to the two women when the big blond
    man who Toshia vaguely remembered from the night before came into the
    room, carrying a large basin of water in his muscular arms and towels
    over his shoulder. Toshia admired his tall, very fit body as well as the
    rather promising half-rigid cock between his thick thighs. He was like a
    bigger version of the Lord of the Manor. He set the basin down without a
    word and traded the towels for the empty cups. He immediately turned
    around and headed back the way he came. Toshia found herself watching
    his naked butt as he went.

    "Is he on the crew?" Toshia finally asked.

    "Sven?" Megan said as she drew a sponge out of the basin and began to help Toshia get cleaned up some.

    "Yeah, Sven," Toshia nodded, a bit distractedly as Megan leaned in close to run that moist sponge over Toshia's sensitive skin.

    "You don't need to worry about him," Megan chuckled. "He's sort of always on duty."

    Toshia

    groaned as Megan moved the wet sponge between her legs. Megan watched
    her reactions with a somewhat smug smile. Without lingering in one place
    too long, Megan quickly sponged Toshia fairly clean and also managed to
    get her libido seriously revved up again. When Sven returned with
    refilled cups of water, Toshia couldn't tear her eyes off the man's big
    prick.

    Megan

    chuckled as she handed Toshia her cup of water, and said, "If you do a
    good job this afternoon, maybe the Captain'll give you Sven to play with
    for a while tonight."

    "This afternoon?" Toshia blinked. Somehow she had gotten the impression she and Shelonda were done for the day.

    "Yep,"

    Megan nodded briskly as she took the empty cup back and stood up, at
    almost the same instant as Jasmine. "Feel free to move around the ship
    some. Have fun!"

    Toshia

    was a bit daunted by the prospect of more fucking and sucking, but she
    was also glad she would soon be having much more sex. The humid air
    really had her sex drive going wild. Toshia smiled over at Shelonda and
    said, "I guess we better get back to work."

    They

    moved to the next chamber, which was apparently the hold, where Toshia
    spent some time being bent over a big barrel as three different men took
    turns fucking her pussy and then her ass. In the ship's galley, they
    made good use of the benches and tables. Toshia convinced the ship's
    cook to take a break so she could give him a quick and sloppy blowjob,
    smiling as he sprayed his cum all over her throat and chest. By the time
    they made their way back up on deck, the sun was low in the sky and
    both Toshia and Shelonda were covered in cum, and had it running down
    the insides and backs of their legs as it leaked out of their pussies
    and asses.

    They

    were given another break, but this time buckets of water were also
    dumped over their heads and soap was added to the mix. Men gathered
    around to watch Megan and Jasmine help their playmates du jour bathe.
    As she was relaxing and eating an apple, Toshia saw Don on the poop
    deck leaning over a railing smiling down at her. There was a short,
    fully clothed redhead next to him, and Toshia could tell that this must
    be Captain Sage. Toshia couldn't hear what they were saying to each
    other but Don nodded and grinned back down at Toshia as the captain said
    something over her shoulder. She watched Sven come up, listen to Sage,
    and then nod curtly before coming down the short stairs onto the main
    deck. Megan and Jasmine quickly gathered up their things and cleared out
    of the way. The men on the deck grew a bit quieter and seem to draw
    closer, while still giving the girls room.

    Sven

    came directly up to stand in front of Toshia. He was taller than the
    Lord, but not quite as tall as the Player, and nowhere near as tall as
    the Bull. Toshia's head came up to about the middle of his chest. She
    smiled up at him and reached out to run her hand over his cock. Not
    wanting to be left out, Shelonda came up and joined Toshia in stroking
    and caressing the big sex organ, which rapidly responded to the
    attention. Both girls bent down and lowered their mouths to it, kissing
    the head and shaft, running their tongues over it. Toshia began to suck
    on the head while she wrapped her hands around the thick shaft. She
    pushed her tongue into the slit in the head as Shelonda began to fondle
    and kiss the big man's balls. Toshia felt like she was making love to
    this big, beautiful cock.

    Toshia

    was consumed by the desire to have this man fuck her, but she was too
    busy sucking on the head of his prick to say anything. Sven seemed to
    have the same idea, though, and took matters into his own hands. He
    reached down and took hold of Toshia just as one would pick up a child.
    He lifted her up and drew her to him. She immediately threw her arms
    around his thick neck and her legs around his waist. Toshia smiled at
    him, and felt the fat head of his sex being pushed up into perfect
    alignment with the waiting mouth of her pussy. She made a mental note to
    thank Shelonda for that later. With a happy groan, she began to let
    herself sink down on Sven's pole, feeling the flaring head opening her
    up. She shuddered as it felt like it was going to split her open. Toshia
    pulled herself up a little and then relaxed again, letting herself sink
    down a bit further.

    "Oh god, it's so big!" Toshia breathed into Sven's shoulder.

    Sven

    just stood there at first, letting Toshia raise and lower herself, his
    hands supporting her butt but allowing her to set her own pace. It took
    more than a dozen gradual steps – during which she had several little
    orgasms – before Toshia could feel Sven's swollen glans hitting her
    cervix. She kissed his neck and chest fervently, and then breathed,
    "Please, Sven, fuck me."

    With

    surprising gentleness, Sven held her close as he began to raise and
    lower her on him. His massive cock pistoned in and out of her, her clit
    getting pulled in a bit with each thrust up into her. Toshia's legs
    pushed and pulled at him, wrapped around his hips, and she clawed at his
    neck and shoulders, as she had orgasm after orgasm, riding up and down
    on Sven's big prick there in front of everyone, surrounded by sailors
    who she knew would all be fucking her well into the night, and watched
    by Don.

    Carrying

    her as if she were weightless, Sven moved toward the center of the
    deck, until Toshia felt her back against the hard, but happily smooth,
    shaft of the main mast. Leaning back a bit against it, Toshia just
    relaxed and let Sven raise and lower her at will, using her body as a
    living sex toy. Somewhere on the deck, Shelonda had been pulled into the
    crowd of sailors and was probably being well and truly fucked. Up on
    the poop deck, she caught a glimpse of Don watching her, while Megan
    knelt in front of him, quite apparently giving him a blow job, and Sage
    idly looked from that show to the spectacle Sven and Toshia were making
    of themselves. Meanwhile, Sven was shoving up into her savagely. Toshia
    felt herself being battered between the hard body of the man fucking her
    and the unyielding wood of the mast at her back, all while her pussy
    and clit were being pulled wildly as the hard shaft of Sven's cock drove
    into her again and again.

    Then,

    incredibly, Toshia felt Sven get even thicker inside her. For an
    instant she thought she couldn't take it, but then she was screaming out
    loudly as a violent orgasm shook her body and set her nervous system on
    fire. She was vaguely aware of the fact that her pussy and womb were
    being flooded by Sven's hot cum, but she just kept shaking and clenching
    on him as she came and came.

    When

    she became aware of her situation again, she was clinging to Sven's
    big, muscular, and now sweaty, body with a happy grin on her face. He
    was holding her gently. She kissed his neck again and said, "Wow! Thank
    you."

    The impassive Sven chuckled a little, kissed her hair lightly and said, with a thick Nordic accent, "You are quite welcome."

    When

    he carefully raised her up off his slippery and only slightly deflated
    cock and set her down on the deck, Toshia was surprised to find that she
    was ready for more. Not worrying about the fact that there was a great
    stream of cummy juices down the insides of her legs, she looked around
    at the sailors who had been watching and said, "OK, who's next?"

    Someone

    provided blankets and pillows which were laid out on the deck, and
    Toshia spent hours there, well past nightfall, in a blur of unending
    fucking and sucking. Most of the night Shelonda was nearby, and toward
    the end both Megan and Jasmine joined in the festivities. Toshia thought
    she must have had every crewman in her mouth, pussy or ass, and many of
    them in all three (sometimes in one session), before she was done.
    After a long time, she was bent over the railing at the side of the
    ship, looking out at the stars and the expanse of water as she was being
    taken roughly from behind. There was something about the view and the
    way her thighs were hitting the wood, not to mention the hard prick
    sliding in and out of her and the heavy balls slapping her clit, that
    made this seem like the perfect end to the night. When the man pumped
    his seed into her and withdrew, Toshia carefully made her way back to
    the cabin where she'd awakened that morning. Shelonda was already there,
    sound asleep. With a body sore from a very long day of nearly non-stop
    sex, Toshia managed to climb into her hammock.

    She

    thought she would be asleep instantly, but Toshia found herself
    thinking about the fact that they would soon be going home to the real
    world. She wondered what Sarah would say or think if she could see her
    now, bruised from hard sex on and against hard surfaces and leaking cum
    from many men in various places. She wondered if she would ever be able
    to share any of this with her girlfriend.

    The

    door to the cabin swung open quietly, and Toshia looked up to see Don
    smiling down at her. "Are you Okay, love?" he whispered.

    "Mm-hmm," she smiled and reached out to take his hand. "Did we do alright?"

    He chuckled, "Oh yes. Everyone was quite impressed."

    "Including your girlfriend?" she smirked.

    "I thought you were my girlfriend," he said as he leaned down to kiss her forehead.

    "Oh, you did, did you?" Toshia said with a yawn. "Get undressed."

    "Haven't you had enough yet?" Don grinned as he began to strip.

    "Hush," she murmured. "Just come sleep with me. 'Might be our last night for a while."

    There

    was a bit of a struggle to get Don into the hammock with her without
    making enough noise or commotion to wake Shelonda, but soon she was
    nestled up against Don, his arms around her.

    "That's

    better," she whispered. She smiled as she noticed that his cock was
    very hard. She thought about doing something about that, but then she
    was asleep.

    The Grotto

    The

    next morning, after bathing and eating, the three of them emerged from
    the cabin to be greeted by Captain Sage, her "officers" Megan and
    Jasmine, and Sven.

    "Good mornin', Toshia and Shelonda," said the diminutive redhead, "I'm Captain Sage. I hope ye enjoyed your voyage."

    "It was very nice," Toshia grinned. "Your crew is very polite and accommodating."

    "Yar,

    I run a tight ship," Sage smiled. There definitely was something
    inherently interesting about this woman. Toshia could see why Don liked
    her.

    "The Grotto is yonder," Sage gestured to the port side, and a rocky shore across a fairly small stretch of water.

    "Where?" Don asked.

    "The entrance be under water," Sage said. "We've got a boat ready to take ye closer, but you'll have to swim."

    "Okay,"

    Toshia nodded as she started for the side of the ship where the rope
    ladder hung over the railing. She stopped when she heard Don talking.

    "Shelonda, you should probably stay here," Don was saying. "They'll take you back to Rendezvous."

    "No,

    I should come with you to make sure you get home safely," said Shelonda
    in a firm voice. Toshia could tell there was no arguing with Shelonda
    on this point and knew that Don would pick up on that too.

    "Captain, can you wait here for Shelonda to return?"

    "Aye, if she'll 'pay' for her return passage," the Captain smirked.

    "Pay? Oh, you mean have sex on the way back?" Shelonda smiled. "Sure!"

    "OK, then, you can come along, but you will have to come back," Don said firmly.

    "I know," Shelonda nodded.

    As

    they were arranging themselves in the boat, Toshia and Don shared a
    serious look, and she could tell that he was as concerned about
    Shelonda's welfare as she was. There was something else in his eyes,
    too, but she didn't have time to ask him about it, for only a few strong
    strokes of the oars carried them quite close to the rocks of the
    shoreline.

    "Here

    ye be," Sage announced from the prow of the boat. "The entrance be less
    than two fathoms down – there be a sorcerous green glow leading' the
    way."

    "What's a fathom?" Toshia asked.

    Don shrugged, and they both looked to the captain, who frowned and reluctantly said, "A little less than two meters."

    "Thank you," Toshia said with a smile, "for your help and hospitality."

    "Yar," the captain nodded.

    "It's been a pleasure, Captain," Don added.

    Both

    Toshia and Don eyed the water suspiciously for a moment. It had
    occurred to Toshia that this might be some strange trap or the beginning
    of a new Erosian misadventure. The thought seemed to have occurred to
    Don as well. However, their doubts were made almost irrelevant when
    Shelonda abruptly dove straight into the water and disappeared into the
    depths.

    "I guess that's that, then," Don laughed, a bit nervously.

    Toshia

    went next, taking a deep breath and plunging into the water, which, as
    at the beach, was warmer than one would expect. She opened her eyes,
    expecting the sting of salt, but finding the water surprisingly clear
    and mild. The glowing green opening of the cave was quite easy to see
    below and before her and she swam with all her might in that direction.
    Reaching the opening, she noticed that the rocks were covered by a soft
    mossy vegetation which was responsible for the luminescence. Swimming
    forward, Toshia traversed a fairly short tunnel that gradually ascended
    until she was obliged to break the surface of the water. Breathing in
    deeply, Toshia was surprised to smell a lovely floral aroma. Looking
    around, she found herself at one end of a large pond inside a much
    larger cavern that looked like something straight out of the Arabian
    Nights. There were patches of glowing moss, many candles and what seemed
    to be magically glowing crystals in the walls. Colorful rugs and
    pillows were arranged all over the rocky interior of the cavern. There
    were several little waterfalls cascading down the walls, and a number of
    beautiful statues positioned around the chamber. Shelonda stood there
    in the pond, her deep brown skin gleaming as water ran down it. Toshia
    was struck by how beautiful the young woman was, and by the very strong
    desire to make love to her as soon as possible.

    "It's beautiful, isn't it?" Shelonda said as she gaped at the cave.

    Toshia started wading toward her friend as she said, "Yes, it certainly is."

    When

    she got to her, Toshia wrapped her arms around her from behind and
    began to kiss her shoulder and neck. Shelonda sighed and leaned back
    against Toshia, and Toshia's hands moved up to cup Shelonda's full tits,
    pulling Shelonda tight to her. When Toshia's left hand slipped down to
    seek Shelonda's pussy, Shelonda's hand dropped down to encourage
    Toshia's. Toshia's teeth found Shelonda's earlobe and gave it a playful
    tug as her fingers began to stroke Shelonda's clit and labia.

    They

    were almost oblivious to the sound of Don surfacing behind them, and
    Toshia only later realized that it had been at least a full minute
    between her arrival and Don's. Instead, Toshia just heard Don's quiet,
    "Whoa!" followed by some small splashing as he came up behind her. Then
    Don was against Toshia's back, his very hard cock pressed tightly
    against her behind and his hands moving over her body much as hers were
    moving over Shelonda's. It vaguely occurred to Toshia that swimming in a
    sea of XYZ was a very good way to get extremely horny.

    It

    wasn't at all long before each of the women had been manually
    stimulated to the point of shuddering orgasm, and the tight little trio
    was slowly making their way to the nearest blanket and pillow set. No
    doubt they would have spent hours there enjoying a vigorous and
    passionate m�nage a trois, the art of which they had nearly perfected by this time, if they weren't interrupted by a discreet cough.

    With

    an effort of will, Toshia looked up and around. She couldn't see anyone
    else in the cavern. Then she realized that all of the statues were now
    looking at them.

    "The statues moved," Shelonda pointed out, without moving the hand that now had two fingers up inside Toshia's vagina.

    "Yeah,"

    Toshia breathed. She looked around a bit more carefully, but didn't
    move her own hands, one of which was on Shelonda's round ass while the
    other had a tight grip on Don's member. All of the statues were of naked
    humans, of more or less realistic height, size and shape, and they were
    all definitely turned to look at Toshia, Don and Shelonda.

    "Um,

    hello?" Don tried. He had frozen with both of his hands cupping
    Toshia's breasts, though he had stopped pinching her nipples.

    "Hello and welcome to the Grotto of Ishtar," said a male voice, deep and a bit rough.

    Toshia looked more carefully at the nearest male statue and said, "Thank you. Was that you who just spoke?"

    The

    statue actually smiled a little, and then said, "It was. Please make
    yourself comfortable, but we have to ask you some questions."

    As

    the threesome slowly relaxed a little, taking their hands off each
    other's privates, for the moment, Don said, "Yes, OK. I'm pretty sure we
    have some questions of our own."

    "Did you come here deliberately?" the statue asked.

    "Yes, we did," Toshia nodded.

    "Why have you come?"

    "We want to return to our home, and we were told we could do that from here," Toshia answered.

    "Are you quite sure that this is your desire?" asked another statue, this time a female with a higher pitched voice.

    "Yes," Toshia said. "Well, two of us want to. Shelonda here will be going back."

    "Actually..." Don said a bit quietly.

    Toshia turned to Don, her confusion and concern plain on her face.

    "I

    want to try to find one or more of those rings," Don explained quickly,
    obviously worried that he was hurting her. "I love it here, and it
    looks like there is a way to go back and forth. If that's possible I
    want to be able to do it. If everything we've been told is true, I can
    stay here and look for rings and then join you back home in a little
    bit, maybe a few hours – a couple of days, tops. If I can't find any of
    these rings, I can always find my way back here."

    Toshia

    was having a hard time sorting out her feelings. On the one hand, she
    thought that what Don was saying made sense. On the other, she didn't
    want to be separated from Don now. They had come so far and through so
    much, and she hated the thought that something might happen to him here
    and he'd never make it home. She also noticed that there was a pang of
    jealousy – both for all the fun he'd be having and for Captain Sage,
    whom she suspected was one of the reasons Don had come to this decision.
    She didn't say any of these things, though.

    Instead, she said, "I love you, Don."

    Don

    smiled, "God, Toshia, I love you too. So much! I swear, one way or
    another, I'll come home. In no time you're going to get a call from me.
    You're going to have to start thinking about how you're going to explain
    some very awkward things to Sarah."

    Toshia blinked back a tear, and said, "You promise?"

    Don

    took her in his arms and kissed her. With a loving smile, he said, "I
    do." He said it with all the happy solemnity Toshia imagined he would at
    a marriage altar. Of course, his raging hard on was also pressing
    against her belly, which undercut the gravity of the situation a little.

    "You better!" she laughed and pinched his butt.

    "I'm going to miss you!" Shelonda suddenly interjected, just as she threw her arms around Toshia from behind.

    The

    three of them held each other for a long moment, tears in their eyes as
    they kissed each other. After a bit, though, there was another stony
    cough.

    They

    reluctantly broke up their little huddle and turned back to the
    statues. Toshia wiped her eyes, thought of Sarah, swallowed and said,
    "Yes, I want to go home."

    "Very

    well," said the male statue, who Toshia was now noticing was rather
    nicely endowed. He slowly turned and raised his arm to indicate a statue
    of a buxom young woman, and said, "Please go with Selena who will
    prepare you."

    Toshia

    gave Don's hand a squeeze and then stepped up and over to the lovely,
    marble white Selena who gave her a sweet little smile, bowed her head
    slightly, and then slowly turned to lead the way over to a natural tub
    in the cavern floor. The tub was full of steaming water. Selena made a
    slight gesture clearly intended to suggest that Toshia get into the tub.

    Meanwhile, Toshia overheard Don asking, "Are you responsible for bringing us here?"

    "No," said the male statue who had done most of the talking. "We are merely the custodians of the Grotto."

    "Do you know who did bring us here?"

    The water was surprisingly hot, but Toshia lowered into it anyway.

    "No," said the female statue.

    Don

    asked something else, but Selena took that moment to push Toshia down
    into the tub so she was completely submerged. Toshia fought the urge to
    struggle and merely held her breath until she felt Selena raise her
    stony hand from the top of her head. She burst up out of the water and
    took a big gulp of air. She shot an irritated look at the statue and
    said, "You might try warning someone before you do that."

    "Sorry," Selena managed between tight lips.

    "She forgot that you need to breathe," said another, nearby female statue. "It's been a long time since anyone came here."

    "It's alright," Toshia said as she threw her wet hair back out of her face.

    Selena

    gestured that Toshia should follow her again, so Toshia climbed out of
    the steaming tub and padded along to the next tub, which was not
    steaming. Selena indicated that Toshia should get into this one as well.

    "Yeah,

    OK, I get it," Toshia said. As soon as she slipped into the
    surprisingly cold water, she promptly submerged herself of her own
    accord, staying under until she had to resurface for air. When she came
    up, she saw that Selena was offering her a big white towel, which turned
    out to be quite warm and soft. After climbing out and beginning to dry
    off, Toshia noticed that she was feeling different.

    For

    one thing, she was quite relaxed – drowsy even. She looked back to see
    that Shelonda had moved over to one of the male statues and was stroking
    its cock, which it turned out was capable of an impressive erection.
    Don was coming toward her, with his own impressive organ bobbing stiffly
    in front of him. Toshia noticed that she was considerably less horny
    than she had been before her two dunkings. She smiled a bit sadly. She
    was going to miss being in a state of near constant sexual stimulation.

    When

    Don reached her, she took his hand and turned to see that Selena had
    led the way up a set of hewn rock steps that led to a passage cut into
    the back wall of the grotto. Toshia and Don followed the rock hard ass
    of the statue girl through the passage and into a small candle-lit
    chamber that was nearly filled with a king-sized bed. Selena gestured to
    the bed and seemed to offer Toshia another slight smile. The statue
    said, "If sure, sleep."

    "But I just ... woke up," Toshia protested around a yawn.

    Don

    squeezed her hand, and she turned to him, reaching up to caress the
    side of his face. He had been so constant and supportive of her
    throughout this whole bizarre adventure. Surely she should accompany him
    until he found at least one of those rings... Why shouldn't she have
    one herself! They could always come back here any time.

    "Sarah's

    waiting for you," Don smiled, though he was rather obviously reluctant
    to see her go. "I'll follow you soon. By the time you have breakfast
    I'll probably be waking up and calling you."

    "You

    better!" she smiled as she sat down on the very comfortable bed. She
    thought some of the candles must have gone out. With another yawn, she
    lay back on the pillow and stretched out her legs. She smiled as Don's
    hand briefly caressed her thigh and then her belly as he reached across
    to pull the light blanket over her. Toshia returned the tender kiss Don
    gave her, and then, as he was kissing her forehead, she murmured, "I
    really am surprisingly sleepy."

    Toshia

    dreamed that she was floating over Eros. She saw the Maidenhead out on
    the sea and the riverboat paddling its way upstream to the Resort. She
    floated around the Resort a bit, passing through walls and watching
    people having sex. She saw herself, though she didn't really look like
    that, from above, getting fucked vigorously by the sexbot. Then she was
    peeping in on the Sisterhood, who for some reason were learning a
    complicated dance number choreographed by the Bull, who seemed to have
    learned to speak ... with a British accent. She moved through the halls
    of the Manor until she came to the ballroom, where she saw Don sitting
    on a kind of throne next to the Lady. He smiled at Toshia and said,
    "Where have you been?"

    "I was taking a little nap," Toshia replied.

    Don laughed and said, "You've been gone for years."

    "Well, I was very tired."

    "Do you think you've had enough sleep, then?"

    "I should think so!"

    "Well, then you better wake up, eh?" Don smiled.

    "Oh, just a little longer..."

    "Shhh, you'll wake Sarah."

    "Sarah? Yes, Sarah," Toshia muttered quietly.

    "Yes, baby, I'm here," Sarah said sleepily. "Everything alright?"

    Toshia opened her eyes and saw her girlfriend lying next to her. Toshia grinned from ear to ear and leaned in to kiss her.

    "Yes, everything's wonderful!" Toshia laughed.

    "Mmm, good," Sarah said with a smile and closed eyes. "What time is it?"

    Toshia twisted around to check her phone for the time and said, "4:30."

    "Ugh, more sleep, please," Sarah murmured as she turned into the pillow.

    Toshia laughed a little and bent down to kiss Sarah's cheek, "Sweet dreams, my love."

    Then

    Toshia slipped out of bed and padded over to the bathroom. She suddenly
    realized she hadn't brushed her teeth in weeks. When she'd done that,
    she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. "Whoa," she breathed.

    She

    hadn't been in such good shape since... Well, she'd never been in such
    good shape, and she swore her breasts were even just a little larger.
    She was also considerably tanner than she had been when she'd gone to
    bed the night before. There were also quite a few noticeable bruises on
    her legs and arms, mostly from her wild rumpus on the Maidenhead. She
    had no idea how she was going to explain any of these things to Sarah.

    After

    she'd wrapped herself in a robe and moved to the kitchen, and while she
    was making herself some coffee (which she now felt like she'd been
    missing terribly even though she hadn't even thought of coffee while she
    was in Eros), she remembered that today was Saturday, and that neither
    she nor Sarah had anywhere to be that morning. Excellent! she
    thought to herself. Toshia relaxed and reviewed her adventures, while
    returning now and then to how in the world she would broach any number
    of the obvious subjects to Sarah.

    At

    6:30, she made breakfast, and carried it in to Sarah, who laughed at
    this sudden burst of romanticism from her partner. Toshia told her that
    was nothing, and proceeded to make passionate love to Sarah for most of
    the rest of the morning. During it all, the only change Sarah seemed to
    notice was that all of Toshia's running lately was certainly keeping her
    butt tight. They were just starting to think about getting out of bed,
    when Toshia's phone rang.

    Picking it up, she saw the name and immediately answered it, "Don?"

    THE END (for now)

    Don's story will continue, in Lords of Eros; a sequel to this trilogy.

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry for Literotica

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  • Lost in Eros Book III: The Return, part 5
    Charlotte, the Sage of Abby Hill

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry, in 6 parts.  Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.



    The Sage and  a Kind of Good-Bye

    "The

    Sage is ready to see you now," said Wei, the tall Asian man who they
    had learned was the Abbot of the brown-robed monks – or the Order of
    Record Keepers, as they called themselves.

    Don

    gently urged Nicole to release his cock from her mouth and promised
    they would get back to playing soon. As he tied his grey robe about
    himself, Don saw that Toshia, who had been riding up and down on Alan's
    lap only a moment before was also hurrying to make herself
    "presentable". After waking up hours ago, and the following, almost
    routine, morning sex (Well, that's definitely the right way to start the day, particularly when you wake up sandwiched between two naked, sexy women! 

    Don
    thought to himself with a happy smile), they had had a bite of
    breakfast and been asked to wait until they were called for. While they
    learned a little bit more about the Order, most of the morning was spent
    in lazy sexual play. It was now shortly after midday, and at least two
    of them were quite eager to meet this person whom they had been
    awaiting, and had gone to such lengths to find.

    They

    followed Wei to the foot of a winding staircase and proceeded up. At
    the top, behind a modest door, they were admitted to a good sized study,
    complete with shelves filled with row upon row of books. Windows all
    around the room let bright sunlight in. There were a few comfortable
    chairs, and a nice desk, behind which, in a brown robe, sat a middle
    aged woman with thick, dark brown hair falling down around her
    shoulders. She was apparently reading the last page of a stack of typed
    material.

    Wei

    gestured to a set of chairs that had been drawn into a circle of four,
    and said, "Please, make yourself comfortable, she will be right with
    you."

    Sure

    enough, right after he had closed the door behind himself but before
    they could get comfortable in their chairs, the woman looked up at them
    and smiled. "Hello," she said as she stood up and came around the desk.
    "You're obviously Don, and I'm guessing you're Toshia and you're
    Nicole."

    "That's right, and you're 'the Sage'?" Toshia asked.

    "That's what they call me," she smiled as she sat down in a high-backed chair.

    "I admit, I was expecting someone a bit ... more wizened," Don smiled.

    "Well,

    it's really just a title, like 'the Crone', though I suspect the
    similarities end about there. You can call me Charlotte if you prefer."

    "Pleased to meet you, Charlotte," Toshia said.

    "Likewise,"

    Charlotte smiled again. "I know you must have many questions, but let
    me just say, I've just finished reading your various reports, and I've
    enjoyed them very much. Our scribes are chosen for their skill at asking
    the right sorts of questions and their ability to flesh out the stories
    they're given, but in this case they've had very good material to work
    with. The three of you have had some very interesting adventures. I
    particularly enjoyed reading about your encounter with the Bull,
    Toshia."

    "So, everyone who comes here looking for you tells their story and you read it?" Nicole asked.

    "Yes,

    that's right. I confess, my personal 'kink' is to get off reading
    about, and sometimes watching, the exploits of others. I would have
    finished reading your reports earlier, but I had to keep stopping to
    masturbate."

    "Wouldn't

    it have been more efficient for us to just tell you directly?" Nicole
    asked with a twinkle in her eye that the Sage seemed to miss.

    "Well,

    yes, but there are two problems with that," Charlotte answered. "One,
    we keep all the stories, as a record and a source of study..."

    "You could just have someone type it up as we told you," Toshia pointed out.

    Charlotte

    nodded, "That's quite true, but then the narrator would be bristling
    with questions for me, which would slow things down and cause all kinds
    of complications."

    "Is that the second problem?" Don asked.

    "No,

    the second one is that there seems to be some benefit to having each
    person tell his or her own story, and then comparing them."

    "How have our stories diverged?" Don wanted to know.

    "Well,

    I've only just read the three of them, and haven't had hardly any time
    to think about them, but Don's way of looking at your time here in Eros
    involves a lot of digressions and interconnections, while Toshia's is
    more straight-forward. Nicole's is actually rather journalistic."

    Don could see that Nicole had half a mind to object to this, but he cut in with, "OK, but what's the point of all this anyway?"

    Charlotte the Sage frowned slightly and said, "I assume you mean the record-keeping?"

    "Well, for now, yes."

    "At

    some point, long ago, the first Sage decided that one way of trying to
    make sense of the whys and wherefores of Eros was to start recording the
    experiences of people who, like him, remembered their lives before
    waking up here."

    "And, has it helped?" Toshia asked.

    "Well,

    it certainly makes for some stimulating reading," Charlotte laughed.
    Then she added, "It definitely has served to build up some
    generalizations that seem to be helpful."

    "Such as?" Don prodded.

    "Every

    single person who has come here, to this Abbey, and this goes back for
    450 Erosian years, has spoken English rather fluently. Now, the only
    people who we interview are those who remember their lives prior to
    waking up here, but none of them has ever reported meeting anyone who
    doesn't speak English. This suggests that either the people who don't
    remember spoke English before they arrived here, were somehow rewired to
    speak English upon being brought over, or are native Erosians. This all
    seems to strongly suggest that whomever or whatever is responsible for
    selecting people for Eros speaks English, and that seems quite
    surprising and noteworthy to me."

    "So, which is it, were they brought here or are they natives?" Nicole asked.

    "They were brought," Don said quietly, remembering his and Toshia's visit to the Library in the Manor.

    "Well,

    the evidence does suggest that," Charlotte nodded. "They seem to have
    various personality traits and interests that wouldn't make sense for
    native Erosians, for one thing."

    "That's what I was thinking," Don added.

    "Also,

    some people have actually met people they recognized or even knew quite
    well from Earth, but who seemed to have no memory of that other life."

    "That must have been bizarre," Toshia said.

    "It has sometimes been ... awkward, to say the least," nodded Charlotte.

    "All

    of this is very interesting, but you mentioned whomever, or whatever,
    is selecting people from Earth – English speaking people from Earth,"
    Don said as he leaned forward. "Who or what is doing this, and why?
    What's the point of it all?"

    Charlotte

    smiled again, "I honestly can't say. I admit that the question puts me
    in a philosophical frame of mind. Imagine if I asked you what the point
    of it all was on Earth. Anyway, there are theories, of course. Some
    Sages have thought that we were being held prisoner here as lab rats,
    running countless experiments on human sexuality, others that there is
    some power, or powers, who feed off human eroticism, or who have lost
    the ability to generate it for themselves – the ultimate voyeurs. There
    seems no question that there's some intelligence behind it, though."

    "Why do you think so?" Toshia asked.

    "Well,

    it only selects people who are quite dissatisfied with their Earthly
    sex lives." Charlotte held up her hand to forestall Toshia's objection.
    "The fact that it is very hard to sort out exactly what counts as such
    dissatisfaction seems to lend weight to this consideration. No doubt,
    Toshia would hesitate to say that she was dissatisfied in any way with
    Sarah, but it seems clear from reading her story that she would hardly
    think of the sex life she was having before as being satisfying now.
    Almost every single person who has found his or her way here has thought
    that being brought to Eros was a wonderful gift, which has led some to
    speculate that this was some kind of heaven."

    Don

    couldn't resist scowling at this notion, and Charlotte noticed. "I
    don't buy that either," she said with a smile. "On the other hand, it's
    the best afterlife I've ever heard of. Going back to the question of
    intelligence, one of the most telling bits of evidence is the two of
    you, Don and Toshia."

    After taking a moment to scowl thoughtfully at this suggestion, Toshia asked, "What do you mean?"

    "As

    far as our records indicate, the two of you are unique. No pair of
    friends has ever woken up together like you have. Before you ask, I have
    absolutely no idea what that might mean. Perhaps it's for the purposes
    of one of those psycho-sexual experiments."

    There was a moment of silence before Don decided to ask, "What's up with the black robed figures?"

    "The

    Watchers," Charlotte nodded. "Another indication that there is some
    kind of intelligent process going on. After 450 years of accumulating
    data, there has never been anyone – anyone recorded, anyway – who has
    managed to talk to, or even catch hold of, one of those bastards. They
    watch for a bit; then, when you think you're going to get your hands on
    one, they're gone."

    "Is it science or magic?" Toshia asked.

    "I'm inclined to follow Arthur C. Clarke on this one and say I don't really know that there's a difference in this context."

    "There

    are so many questions," Don muttered, shaking his head. "How many
    people remember their lives? What's the distribution of their wheres and
    whens? Is there anything they all have in common besides being sexually
    frustrated?"

    "Is there a way to get home again?" Toshia asked resolutely.

    Charlotte,

    knowing this was the issue that had motivated them in seeking her out,
    turned to Toshia with a serious expression and said, "Yes, or so it
    would seem anyway. There are apparently at least two ways. The first is
    to become bored with life in Eros. It seems that when that happens you
    will simply go missing, and it's presumed that you return to your
    Earthly life. As to the other, more proactive, way, the lake outside is
    the headwater of a river that runs several hundred kilometers to an
    ocean or a sea – we haven't been able to get anyone to engage in any
    kind of systematic exploration. Along the coastline to the left of mouth
    of river..."

    "To the left facing the sea?" Don asked.

    "Yes,"

    Charlotte smiled again. "Go down the river, then turn left, and proceed
    along the coast, until you find a place called the Grotto of Ishtar, or
    just the Grotto. There, according to two people who have accompanied
    others seeking to leave, you'll find a way to return home."

    Toshia

    looked like she was ready to head off immediately, but a couple of
    concerns occurred to Don. He said, "I'm troubled by something: how can
    anyone here know that people return home safely? And, now that I'm
    saying that, how did the Scholar know that time moves differently here
    in Eros? It doesn't seem to make sense that we could know these things unless someone has been able to return home and then come back."

    "Very

    good, Don," Charlotte nodded, and Don found himself thinking that she
    must have been a teacher back on Earth. She explained, "There seems to
    be a way to go back and forth between Eros and Earth more or less at
    will. One of the more enterprising people who have visited the Abbey
    several times, a Stephanie Ayers, found someone with this ability and
    talked to him at great length. She then tracked down two more people,
    and in doing so was able to confirm these rumors and suppositions."

    "How are they able to do it?" Don asked intently.

    "Stephanie

    says they have 'magic rings' that allow them to 'decide' to wake up in
    either Eros or Earth; or, should that be 'on'?"

    "Where do they get those rings, and what do they look like?"

    "I cannot answer the first, Don, but apparently they are simple rings of a shiny black material, something like hematite."

    Don sat back in his chair. That sounds familiar! After

    a moment of reflection, he smiled broadly and said, "I think I've seen
    someone with one of those, and I'm pretty sure I can find her again."

    Charlotte

    gave Don a long look and said, "I can guess what you have in mind, Don,
    but I should warn you that these ring people are not only very
    possessive of their rings, but also very evasive about how they came to
    acquire them. Stephanie hasn't been able to get any useful information
    so far, and she's been at this a while."

    Toshia

    brought the discussion back to the main topic with, "I wanted to ask
    another question – our flying carpet stopped working and several hundred
    kilometers is a long way – do you know of any way to make the trip
    quicker?"

    "Well, yes," Charlotte answered, "I would take the riverboat."

    "The riverboat?"

    "Yes,

    there's a riverboat that goes from the Resort down to the city on the
    coast, Rendezvous, and back. You might have to wait for it sometime, it
    doesn't keep to a schedule very well, but it docks just outside of the
    Resort, through the gate opposite the one you used to come here."

    "Wait," Don cut in, "there's a city?"

    "Well, it's a town, really, but it's the biggest one in Eros as far as I know."

    This

    prompted what felt like a dozen questions in Don's mind, starting with
    those of economics. He was still having a hard time coming to grips with
    the weirdness of how Eros worked.

    "Thank you for your time, Charlotte," Toshia was saying.

    Although

    Don wanted to interject with, "Are we leaving already?" he realized how
    important it was for Toshia to stay on the task of returning to Sarah,
    so he set aside the questions he was dying to ask and stood, saying,
    "Thank you very much." Nicole followed suit.

    The Sage stood up as well, and said, "If you decide to stay longer in Eros, please feel welcome to return to the Abbey anytime."

    Don

    smiled warmly at this suggestion, and thought it was a bit odd that he
    was leaving this attractive, intelligent woman without having had the
    pleasure of, well, pleasuring her. Eros had definitely altered his way
    of thinking.

    At

    the foot of the winding staircase, Wei met them with one of his smiles
    and their clothing. Once they had changed, Wei led them back to the
    entrance-exit. The other "monks" seemed particularly scarce. Similarly,
    the huge guardian of the bridge was nowhere to be seen as they crossed
    it.

    Toshia

    set the pace down the trail for the Resort. She was clearly in a hurry
    to get on the road, or river, as the case may be, to this Grotto of
    Ishtar. Don kept up with her easily, but also kept an eye on Nicole, who
    didn't walk as fast as Don and Toshia even when they weren't hurrying.
    He could tell that something was troubling the pretty young woman, but
    his own mind was still bustling with too many questions for him to ask
    her what was on her mind. Still, he wasn't surprised when, as they came
    around the last corner and saw the Resort's gate ahead, Nicole asked
    them to stop for a moment.

    "I thought I should tell you this before we found the others," Nicole said, taking a moment to sit down on a nearby rock.

    "What is it?" Toshia said with obvious and honest concern.

    "I'm

    not going back," Nicole said. "Well, not yet. I'm going to wait until
    I'm tired of this place. I don't really have anybody back home to hurry
    back to, Toshia, and I fucking love it
    here. I'd come along to make sure you get to the Grotto safely, but it
    sounds like you and Don will be able to do that without me. I don't
    think you'll be able to shake Shelonda anyway, but you might want to
    consider leaving Victor and Amy here at the Resort. You know the rest of
    Eros isn't so nice and friendly, and this place is safe."

    Don smiled at Nicole and said, "It's been great having you along with us for this long."

    "If

    they're right about time, we'll all wake up 'tomorrow' and email each
    other," Nicole smiled with a bit of sadness. "Well, allowing for the
    date difference, that is. You better come visit me, Professor."

    Don laughed, and said, "Of course! I'm already looking forward to it."

    "You can come stay with us in Florida," Toshia smiled. Don could see a tear in her eye.

    He decided to make things a bit easier on them all by changing the subject, "You know, she has a good point about the others."

    Toshia

    seemed to fasten upon this line of thought, saying, "Well, Shelonda's
    going to be very hurt if we don't allow her to come with us, I think."

    "I'm not sure we're in any position to allow or disallow her, actually," Don said.

    "True,"

    Toshia nodded. "So, the most we can do is encourage her to stay here.
    Probably that's the most we can do for all of them."

    "We could suggest that they need to stay here to keep an eye on Nicole," Don mused.

    Nicole laughed, and said, "Oh, I'm sure I'll be quite alright here."

    "And,

    what happens if Nicole does eventually get tired of this place and goes
    missing?" Don nodded. "Do people who don't remember their past lives do
    that? Damn, I should have thought of asking that earlier."

    "OK," Toshia said, "we find the others and have a talk with them, laying it all out and letting them decide."

    "Makes

    sense," Don nodded. He was glad that Toshia wasn't so focused on
    getting home as quickly as possible that she thought of looking for the
    riverboat first. The thought of Shelonda waiting for them to return was
    heartbreaking, though he expected that after a couple more days she
    would take it upon herself to storm the Abbey looking for them.

    As

    it turned out, their three friends were easy to find. They were right
    by the giant pool. Amy was down on her hands and knees on a lounge chair
    getting vigorously fucked from behind by Victor, while some new fellow
    had the honor of pushing his cock into her talented mouth and throat.
    Shelonda was on the next lounger, watching Amy and company, while a pale
    redheaded girl with a freckled back lay beneath her legs licking at her
    clit and pussy.

    After

    spontaneously and unanimously deciding that they should strip down and
    rinse off in the pool first, Don, Toshia and Nicole joined their
    friends. Don smiled at Shelonda as he ran his wet hand over the
    redhead's back and gave her naked bottom a squeeze. This elicited a
    muffled groan of approval and the girl pushed her butt up, in what Don
    thought was a particularly feline movement. He slipped his hand around
    to move his fingers over her dewy outer lips before parting them and
    pushing two of his fingers up inside her. This earned him another
    approving groan from the girl. In another few moments, Don had his feet
    planted on the ground on either side of the lounge, as he pushed the
    head of his cock into the girl's very wet pussy. Meanwhile, Toshia,
    still dripping from the pool, had moved around to kiss Shelonda, and
    then Shelonda's pretty tits hello, and Nicole had gone to help Amy with
    her men.

    After

    about half an hour of this, when everyone had climaxed at least once,
    and another trip into the pool had washed them all clean, Toshia managed
    to get their little group together and moving through the Resort for
    the gate opposite the one with which they had already become acquainted.
    Along the way, Don noted at least half a dozen other clubs they hadn't
    yet investigated.

    The

    gate let them through without any attempt at conversation; and, a short
    downhill walk led them to a modest wooden building on a sturdy wooden
    dock at the riverside where they found what would normally be a ticket
    window, behind which sat a man in what looked to Don like a late 19th
    century shirt, vest and bowtie. When Don, Toshia and the others came up
    to his window, he smiled blandly and said, "Good evening, how may I be
    of service?"

    "Can you tell us when the boat to Rendezvous is expected?" Toshia asked.

    There was a momentary pause before the man said, "Tomorrow morning, ma'am."

    "How long will it be docked?"

    "For at least an hour, ma'am."

    "Can you be more specific?"

    There was another pause, and then the response, "I'm afraid not, ma'am."

    "We could just camp out here," Toshia suggested without much enthusiasm.

    Don

    turned back to the man in the window, whom he was convinced was a
    blank, like the butler they had seen on their first day in the Manor,
    and asked, "Does the boat blow a whistle or something like that when
    it's docking and when it's about to leave?"

    "Yes, sir."

    In

    response to Toshia's inquiring glance, he just shrugged and said, "It
    just seems reasonable, doesn't it? Maybe this is a good time for that
    talk."

    The

    two of them turned to the others and Toshia said, "As you know, Don and
    I have been trying to find a way back to our home. It looks like we've
    found it. Tomorrow we're going to get on a boat here that will take us
    downriver to a place where we think we can go home. Nicole's decided to
    stay here at the Resort, though."

    "At least for a while," Nicole put in.

    Don

    took up the speech, "For the rest of you, this is, basically, your
    home, and there's no need for you to continue on with us. We're very
    grateful for all of your support and help, but the Resort is a very nice
    place to stay and have fun. So, we want to encourage you to stay here
    and enjoy yourselves."

    Amy

    and Victor looked a bit confused but didn't say anything. Shelonda,
    though, asked, "This boat goes back and forth to this 'Rendezvous'
    place?"

    "Yes," Toshia nodded.

    "Oh, well, no problem, then," Shelonda shrugged, in what seemed like a vaguely familiar way to Don.

    "OK, well, we might as well spend the night having fun in the Resort then, right?" Nicole asked cheerfully.

    "Sounds good to me," Don grinned. "Besides, I need to talk to someone there."

    Although

    he certainly had a keen interest in checking out one or more new clubs,
    Don led the party straight back to the Jungle Room.

    "Oh, very nice!" said Amy, and both Nicole and Shelonda agreed.

    "Is it just me or does this seem bigger on the inside?" Toshia asked Don.

    "Nope, it's definitely not just you," he said.

    "Let's

    check out the dance floor," Nicole suggested enthusiastically, pulling
    Toshia along with her and the other girls. Victor followed dutifully in
    their wake.

    Don

    decided he would end up at the dance floor, and proceeded to walk
    around the grassy main floor of the Jungle. He even climbed up the
    ladders to look in the tree houses, but couldn't see India anywhere. He
    was sure she had been wearing one of those black rings the Sage had
    mentioned. By the time he worked his way around to the dance floor, the
    girls had scattered and were dancing with different partners. Toshia was
    dancing with a tall, muscular fellow in a loin cloth, with long,
    blondish hair hanging down to his shoulders. Victor had somehow managed
    to hook up with Vixen again.

    Grabbing

    a strawberry from the refreshment bar on his way, Don started climbing
    up through the three upper layers of the wooden structure. The first had
    a number of chairs and beds, none of which were currently in use. The
    middle level had four beds in close proximity, one of which was being
    used by Don's friend of the other night, Jaden, and a man who looked
    like he might have been Indian. Jaden was lying on top of her partner,
    steadily rocking herself against him as his cock moved inside her. The
    top floor had a rather large bed and a big bathtub, somewhat improbably
    perched up there so high over the ground.

    There was, as far as Don could tell, no sign of India this evening.

    When

    he returned to the dance floor, Don saw that Toshia and her
    Tarzan-esque dancing partner were getting better acquainted; they were
    both on their knees, she leaning back against him as he ran his hands
    over her body and kissed the side of her neck. Victor and Vixen seemed
    to have gone off together. Shelonda was dancing with a naked, and very
    fit, East Asian guy who was clearly enjoying her and the dance very
    much. Don was thinking about making another circuit of the Jungle Room
    in search of India, but just then Amy and Nicole saw him and rushed over
    to him.

    "Come dance with us, Professor!" Nicole grinned.

    "We promise to make it worth your while," Amy winked.

    Don smiled back at them, and said, "It looks like mostly everyone is naked, so maybe we should undress appropriately first."

    So,

    in about thirty seconds flat, the three of them stripped down, tossed
    their clothes out of the way to one side, and moved out into the middle
    of the dance floor. Things weren't as intense, or as loud, as in the pit
    of the Disco. Rather than a pulsing, driving sexuality, the atmosphere
    of the Jungle Room dance floor was one of languid, sultry sexuality. The
    girls moved against Don with sensual abandon. Amy was grinding slowly
    back against him, her butt against his quickly hardening cock, while
    Nicole was kissing his shoulder and running her hands over his back and
    butt. Then, Amy turned around to smile alluringly up at him as she
    rubbed her beautiful tits against him and Nicole was reaching around to
    fondle his cock. After a bit of this, Don was turned around, so that he
    was running his hands over Nicole's body as she writhed wantonly in
    front of and against him, while Amy took a turn caressing his back and
    particular bits of his front. All the while their bodies were covered
    with a thin sheen of perspiration. All around them couples were dancing
    in similar states of rising passion. Don looked for India now and then,
    but was soon completely focused on the fact that Amy had dropped to her
    knees in front of him and was now intently sucking on his extremely hard
    prick.

    Nicole

    quickly figured out what was going on, and moved around to have a look.
    She reached up to caress Don's cheek and then pulled his head down so
    she could give him a long, intense kiss. Don had one hand on the back of
    Amy's head, gently encouraging her to keep doing what she did best, and
    the other slipping down the length of Nicole's slippery-with-sweat back
    to squeeze and caress her tight little ass. Then, as more of a natural
    development than the result of any kind of decision on anyone's part, he
    and Nicole were slowly moving down to join Amy on the dance floor. Don
    was kissing Amy passionately, as one of the two girls pulled and stroked
    his cock, wet with Amy's saliva. His hands were moving over their
    lithe, sweaty bodies. Then he had one of Amy's sweet nipples in his
    mouth as he pulled on it, pinching it with his teeth.

    Don

    caught a quick glimpse of Toshia, and was slightly surprised that she
    was still wearing her dress – particularly under the circumstances. She
    was basically kneeling on the floor, but was lying forward with her head
    resting on her forearm, butt up in the air. Her "dancing partner" had
    lost his loin cloth along the way, and was now kneeling behind Toshia
    obviously fucking her steadily.

    Amy

    had climbed up onto Don's lap and slipped his raging hard-on into her
    very wet pussy. She rode up and down on him a few times with a happy,
    contented smile on her face. Not in the mood to be left out of the fun,
    Nicole leaned in to kiss Amy's neck and then her mouth as Amy turned her
    head to the side. Nicole gradually pulled and lowered Amy back, without
    uncoupling her and Don, until her head and shoulders were resting on
    the dance floor. Don helped position Amy's legs and feet so she could
    support herself a bit more stably, and then leaned forward to fuck her.
    She grinned up at him before Nicole straddled her face. The pretty
    little black girl lowered her pussy down to Amy's talented mouth and
    leaned forward to give Don a long, sexy kiss. Don slipped his left hand
    around the back of Nicole's neck to keep her mouth on his, and used the
    thumb of his right to stroke Amy's clit. He could feel the head of his
    cock rubbing against Amy's g-spot with each stroke in and out of her.
    Still, it was Nicole who came first, groaning and trembling as she was
    held there between Amy's and Don's mouths.

    Don

    let Nicole push herself away, as she carefully sat back, laughing with
    the pleasure of her orgasm. She was just beginning to raise herself away
    from Amy's face, when Amy began to come – very loudly. Don kept plowing
    into her pussy as Amy arched her back and squeezed her luscious tits
    tightly in her hands. Nicole leaned down to kiss Amy's mouth, which was
    quite shiny with Nicole's own juices, and Amy slipped her hand around to
    hold Nicole there, much as Don had been doing just a minute before.

    Don

    glanced over to see that Victor had returned to the dance floor and was
    now kneeling in front of Toshia, who was sucking him enthusiastically
    while the fellow behind her continued to fuck her steadily. Other
    couples and trios were following their little group's lead; sex was
    breaking out all over the dance floor. Of course, for all Don knew, this
    might just be a normal evening in the Jungle Room.

    Gently,

    Don withdrew from Amy, and backed away a bit before getting up off his
    knees. Almost immediately, Nicole lowered herself down over Amy until
    they were in a lovely 69 on the dance floor. With another quick look
    around, Don made his way down to the "jungle floor" and proceeded to
    make another circuit of the club, hoping to find India. By the time he
    returned to the dance area, things had clearly moved from a dance party
    to an all-out orgy.

    A River Cruise To The Coast

    Last Night in ‘The Jungle’.

    Don

    saw Vixen on her knees giving what looked like an intense blowjob to a
    naked guy sitting on one of the stools by the dance poles. 

    Nearby

    was Nicole, who was now engaged in a rather intense scissoring with a
    Hispanic-looking woman that Don would guess was not even 20 years old,
    but who had a tiny, athletic body that was extremely distracting and
    beautiful, long, straight black hair.

     Next,

    Don spied Shelonda, who was involved in a foursome near the center of
    the dance floor; she was riding up and down on the thick cock of a young
    man who also had Don's friend from the other night, Jaden, sitting on
    his face with a big smile on her face; meanwhile, a young East Asian
    woman with large breasts and strikingly blonde, short hair moved back
    and forth between the two women, kissing their tits, their necks and
    their mouths.

     Then,

    Don saw Toshia being drawn up into the arms of a tall, statuesque woman
    with long, straight black hair; they kissed deeply, and the dark-haired
    woman led Toshia toward one of the comfortable chairs ranged around the
    outside perimeter of the dance floor.

     Near

    where Don had seen him earlier, Victor had gotten himself into another
    threesome, but this time he was fucking a woman from behind while
    another fellow was being fellated enthusiastically.

     Finally,

    over near the refreshment bar, Amy had somehow gotten herself entangled
    in knot of twisting naked bodies that Don counted up as seven
    altogether, including the Tarzan-looking fellow who had been fucking
    Toshia earlier, who was now getting his cock sucked by Amy, while a
    brown skinned woman with a superbly muscled back knelt behind Amy,
    kissing and biting Amy's shoulder and reaching up under her to push
    several fingers up into Amy's pussy; another woman had worked herself in
    between Amy and the man's legs to suck on one of Amy's nipples, as yet
    another woman licked at this nipple-sucking woman's pussy. 

    Don noticed that there was a decided shortage of men in Amy's septet, and decided he should do his best to help out there.

    Don

    squatted and then knelt behind the woman with the beautiful back and
    began to treat her much as she was treating Amy. She had short hair, so
    it was easy for Don to kiss her shoulder and neck as he slipped his
    hands around to caress her taut belly and firm tits. Her nipples
    hardened under his touch and she pushed back against him with a murmur
    of approval.

     It

    wasn't long before she was on her hands and knees on the dance floor
    while Don pushed his hard, thick cock into her from behind. He held her
    hips then and pulled her back on him, shoving himself into her again and
    again, his balls hitting her clit and his sensitive head hitting her
    cervix. Don felt her fingertips brushing the underside of his cock as
    she rubbed her clit frantically, and then they were both coming: she
    trembling and crying out, her body clenching and pulling at his cock;
    him shuddering, head thrown back, and shoving deep into her as his cum
    filled her to overflowing. All of this as his friends continued to fuck,
    suck and otherwise enjoy themselves all around him.

    Once

    again, Don had the now familiar thought that Eros was not at all a bad
    place to visit. He didn't see India that night, but the sextet had a
    wonderful, happy last night together.

    The River Cruise.

    Toshia

    had only seen pictures of paddle-wheel riverboats, so she was by no
    means an expert, but she was rather sure this one was not normal. There
    was a big paddle contraption at the rear of it that seemed pretty much
    like what one would expect, and there were a couple of tall smokestacks (or were they steam stacks?), and it clearly was a
    riverboat, but... Well, for one thing, the whole boat was bright pink;
    like a plastic lawn flamingo! She was also sure that it wasn't usual for
    these boats to have a big deck spread out in front of the part where
    the floors with the cabins and such were located. While one might have
    expected this open area to have a pool or at least be set up for
    sunbathing, this one was furnished with a wide variety of couches, beds,
    chairs and soft, cushy rugs. The roof over the four story main
    "building"(?) did have a bunch of lounge chairs and chaises, but then
    Toshia was pretty sure more mundane riverboats didn't have sun decks on
    their roofs. To make things odder, after a bit of exploring, she and Don
    concluded that there was no actual engine or boiler room; they had no
    idea where the white clouds of steam were coming from or what was
    powering the big paddle assembly.

    Aside

    from those things, the riverboat was about what one would expect; at
    least from a riverboat on Eros. The main above-deck structure held all
    the passenger quarters, which amounted to bedrooms with one or two beds,
    of various sizes, and a bathroom, but no doors, though there were cabin
    numbers on the walls next to where the doors would normally go. There
    were three floors of those cabins, surmounted by a big open sort of
    ballroom, mostly open on three sides (not the rear, over the paddles).

     It

    was here, in the early evening of the day they had left the Resort,
    that Toshia, Don and Shelonda gathered along with what seemed to be all
    the rest of the passengers at the behest of an enthusiastic, smiling
    blonde woman in a white uniform with a very short skirt who called
    herself "Sally the Cruise Director!" (The exclamation point was hard to
    ignore.)

    After

    the boat had left the dock and slowly turned around to head downstream,
    they had engaged in the aforementioned exploration, and then indulged
    themselves in some lazy play on the main deck. Leaving half of their
    merry band behind had put a bit of a damper on their libidos though, so
    they pretty much stuck to themselves. When they had gone looking for a
    bit to eat, which they found in the ballroom, or whatever it was, they
    found themselves greeted (or greeted!) by Sally.

    "Welcome aboard!" she had grinned. "We're going to have a fun mixer game in a little bit!"

    They

    might have asked for more information, but Sally had already hurried
    off to corral more passengers for the game. So, they waited as more and
    more people made their way up to the ballroom.

    She leaned over toward Don and whispered, "Um, is it a good idea to gather everyone up here on the top deck?"

    "I

    was just thinking that," he nodded, "but it seems like something they
    do regularly, so it's probably OK." He frowned a bit and repeated,
    "Probably."

    For

    her part, Shelonda didn't seem worried. The pretty young woman was
    looking out at the river and the countryside passing by very slowly.

    Naturally

    enough, people were starting to strip off their few garments and get
    acquainted with each other by the time Sally held up a big bell and
    struck it several times with a metal rod. The loud peals immediately got
    everyone's attention.

    "Hello

    everyone!" Sally said in a voice that carried well even in the now
    crowded ballroom. "Welcome aboard! We hope you enjoy your trip with us!
    If you need anything at all while you're on board please don't hesitate
    to ask me or one of the other crewmembers! After we pick up a new set of
    passengers we like to help everyone make new friends to enjoy their
    voyage! To get things going, we like to play a mixer game. Tonight's is
    one we call Cabin Fever!"

    Sally

    paused a moment to let the passengers' curiosity build up a bit before
    continuing with, "We have almost as many women as men with us, so to
    make sure no one is left out, the ladies will each go to a cabin on one
    of the decks below us! Please keep it one lady to a cabin for now,
    ladies!" Sally laughed. "Then, the men will each draw a cabin number,
    and when I ring this bell they'll go visit the cabin they've drawn! Some
    men might draw a duplicate number! When I ring the bell again, the men
    all have to come back up here and draw again! Sound like fun?!"

    There was a general murmur of agreement through the crowd.

    "How long will we have between bells?" Toshia asked.

    "That's a surprise!" Sally grinned.

    In response to the look Toshia gave him, Don just shrugged.

    "If

    you'd rather not join in the game, please go down to the main deck or
    upstairs to the roof deck!" smiled Sally. Nobody seemed to be hurrying
    off to get out of the game, though.

    "All right, ladies, if you would go claim your cabins...!"

    The

    sun was setting and lights came on all over the boat as Toshia,
    Shelonda and the other women headed down the various stairways. Shelonda
    pointed out that, "There seem to be more cabins than women."

    "You're right," Toshia nodded. "I wonder how they'll avoid sending men to empty cabins."

    The

    two of them went down to the bottom level and took adjoining cabins.
    Toshia went into her cabin and touched a wall switch that turned on a
    pair of table lamps that filled the room with a low light, turned
    reddish by the lampshades. The queen-sized bed had silken sheets that
    seemed freshly laundered. Toshia sat down on the edge of the bed and
    waited for her first visitor. Her cheeks were flushed and she could feel
    her pulse racing a bit in anticipation. Being separated out and
    isolated like this and waiting to meet some unknown man was an
    interestingly different experience. She remembered when she had gone
    with the Lord, way back in the Manor, which was the closest thing to
    this she'd experienced. It seemed like a very long time since that first
    night in Eros. Toshia had certainly done an awful lot since then, and
    she was definitely more excited than apprehensive this time. She stood
    up and slipped out of her sundress and put it on one of the room's
    chairs, and returned to the edge of the bed, naked and waiting.

    It

    wasn't long before she heard the sounds of men coming down the stairs
    and moving about on the deck above her and then on hers as they looked
    for their designated cabins. In another minute a naked, athletic man
    with short, straight orange-red hair entered her cabin and smiled
    broadly at her. "Well, hello there," he said with a pronounced Scottish
    accent.

    "Hello and welcome to my cabin. I'm Toshia," she smiled back.

    "I'm Ian," he bowed a little. "'Very pleased to meet you, Toshia."

    Ian took another few steps into the room, and reached out to run his fingertips and then his hand up the bare skin of her arm.

    Still

    smiling, Toshia reached out and ran her own hand up the outside of
    Ian's muscular thigh and then over to lightly caress his cock, which was
    already beginning to stiffen for her. She asked, "Do you have any idea
    how much time we're going to have together?"

    "I'm afraid I don't," he said as he leaned down to kiss her shoulder.

    "Well,

    we shouldn't waste any time then," Toshia chuckled. Considering
    everything she'd done and experienced in Eros the fact that she felt
    like she was being outrageously forward struck her as amusing.

    "Agreed!" Ian said with a grin. He then lifted her chin and kissed her as he leaned her back to lie on the bed.

    Toshia

    parted her lips, letting his tongue slip into her mouth, and parted her
    legs as his hand moved up between her thighs. She noticed that her own
    hand had wrapped around his now rather hard, thick cock and was
    squeezing and pulling on it. She gasped as she felt his fingers parting
    her lips, and then groaned a bit as his fingers began to push up into
    her. Her pussy was already wet in anticipation, so it didn't take long
    until Ian was fucking his fingers in and out of her, his palm grinding
    wonderfully against her clit. Toshia kept pulling at Ian's cock as he
    moved over her, and drew it down until she felt the purple head taking
    his fingers' place inside her.

    She

    let go of him as he pushed into her, only to grab his waist to pull him
    down. Toshia's legs wrapped around his as her pussy opened for the hard
    prick pushing up into it. Toshia moaned into Ian's mouth, and felt his
    body crushing down against her clit, rubbing against it as he pushed
    forward. She was vaguely aware of the cool sheets against her back while
    he began to move in and out of her, slowly at first; drawing almost all
    the way out of her and then pushing all the way back in. Her hands
    grasped at his firm butt and she felt his long leg muscles working
    against hers as he fucked her a bit faster, a bit harder. He kept
    kissing her while their bodies rubbed against each other; her nipples
    were brushing against his chest, and his hard sex sawed in and out of
    her. He was fucking her with abandon now, moving in and out of her in
    short, fast motions, and Toshia was coming; long, hard, hot and
    shuddering; crying out in the dim light of the cabin. Her body was
    clenching and shaking against and around him, when she felt Ian's cock
    swelling and then erupting inside her, filling her pussy with his hot,
    sweet cum. Feeling his jizz spilling out of her, Toshia felt herself
    tumbling into a second intense orgasm. Her fingers dug into the strong
    muscles of his butt as she pulled him into her, keeping him deep inside
    until she eventually stopped climaxing.

    When

    Toshia finally opened her eyes, Ian was smiling down at her. She smiled
    almost bashfully and said, "Well, that was very nice! I'm so glad you
    stopped by."

    Ian

    laughed and leaned down to kiss her again. He slowly drew himself out
    of her, leaving a quite a slippery mess on her upper thighs.

    "Hey now," Toshia said, "I didn't hear any bells."

    "No, that's true," Ian smiled.

    "Then

    we have more time," she laughed, and then pushed him over onto his
    side. Moving with sudden energy, she got up on her knees and quickly
    reversed herself so that, once she got Ian to cooperate, she could rest
    her head on his thigh while she took his still-rather-hard cock into her
    mouth. She licked and sucked at the mingled juices that covered his
    shaft and head, pulling some extra cum out of him, before slowly
    lowering her mouth and throat down over him. She took her time, enjoying
    the sensation of having his sex moving over her lips and tongue and
    then into her throat. She smiled to herself as she heard Ian groan. She
    held herself there, breathing through her nose, for a few moments,
    before beginning to move up and down on him. Toshia reached around and
    began to caress his full balls.

    Ian

    was starting to rock on the bed, fucking himself in and out of her
    mouth, and Toshia thought she might make him come in another couple of
    minutes, when there was a surprisingly clear pealing of a bell. It
    sounded like it had been rung in the cabin with them.

    Ian

    groaned in disappointment, and Toshia considered just ignoring the
    bell, but then she decided that she was enjoying this game. She gave
    Ian's purple head a kiss and said, "Off you go, then."

    Ian chuckled, and took a moment to give her another kiss, before he managed to scramble off the bed and head back upstairs.

    Toshia

    just lay there for a moment, hands moving over her body. She was
    acutely aware of the fact that there was cum leaking out of her pussy;
    partly because she now had a hand between her legs, smearing the
    slippery juices over her lips and clit. It occurred to her that she
    would soon be returning to her normal life in the "real" world, and her
    opportunities for letting herself go like this were running out. She
    resolved to make the most of this riverboat ride.

    She

    was still there, lying on the bed playing with her messy pussy, when
    her next visitor arrived. This was a handsome young East Asian man, with
    cropped black hair, a tight body and a surprisingly big cock already
    standing out in front of him. Toshia smiled up at him, and without a
    word spread her legs invitingly. She was thinking it would be fun to
    just let him hop on and fuck the hell out of her with that beautiful
    cock.

    He

    surprised her though, by bending down, taking hold of her legs and
    pulling her to the edge of the bed, where he promptly knelt down on the
    floor and buried his face between her legs. Toshia felt his tongue
    hungrily licking up the remnants of her session with Ian. The young man
    was both enthusiastic and thorough, and Toshia murmured approval as he
    shifted his attention to her sensitive clit. What he lacked in subtlety
    he more than made up for in passion, and it didn't take long at all
    before Toshia's torso was arching high over the bed as she cried out
    with another intense orgasm.

    She

    wasn't done shaking before the young man had planted her feet on the
    floor and was pushing the broad head of his cock into her pussy. Toshia
    smiled up at him as she felt the flared glans opening her up. Feeling
    the thick shaft filling her up, she moaned out loud. He gave her a
    slight smile as he began to rock forward and back, moving his big prick
    in and out of her slightly at first, until she got used to the girth.
    Toshia's hands were moving over her own body, caressing herself,
    squeezing her tits, pinching and twisting her nipples. When she moved
    her left hand down to begin playing with her clit, her newest lover
    began to fuck in and out of her more vigorously. She gasped as he
    plunged hard into her, hitting her cervix again and again. Toshia was
    vaguely aware that she was making inarticulate sounds as her pussy was
    pounded by that big cock, but was far past caring, even if she might
    have been able to make herself stop. Her fingers were thrumming wildly
    at her clit as that hard shaft drove into her hard and deep, and then
    she was coming! She cried out wildly as wave after wave of white hot
    pleasure tore through her. She kept on coming as she dimly realized that
    that big sex-toy of a cock was being pulled out of her and then she
    felt a huge gout of hot slippery cum splashing all over her belly, up to
    her tits and over her throat; a little bit of it even landed on her
    cheek. This pitched her into yet another orgasmic peak, and she writhed
    on the bed, one hand between her legs and the other smearing the young
    man's cum all over herself.

    She

    was only just coming down when she heard the sound of the bell. She
    opened her eyes in time to see her visitor departing with a happy smile
    on his face. They hadn't said an actual word to each other during their
    encounter.

    Toshia

    lay there for several minutes, just playing with the cum, occasionally
    carrying some of the salty-sweet stuff up to her mouth. It finally
    occurred to her that perhaps she ought to clean herself up a little
    before her next visitor arrived. She had just managed to sit up at the
    edge of the bed, though, when her next guest came into the cabin.

    He

    was a fairly average looking guy; white with short, dark brown hair and
    an athletic build; who grinned broadly when he saw the state Toshia was
    in. He said, "It looks like you've been having fun! Hi, I'm Kevin."

    "Hi

    Kevin, I'm Toshia, and I have!" she laughed. She was about to beckon
    him closer so she could get her hands and mouth on his cock, when a
    second man entered the cabin.

    The

    older black man with a very nice physique smiled at them both and said,
    "Hello there, we seem to have drawn the same cabin number."

    "Come on in," Toshia grinned up at him. "I'm Toshia and this is Kevin."

    "I'm Jim," the newcomer said.

    "Well, come a bit closer, gents, and let me see what you brought me," Toshia said with a chuckle.

    Kevin

    and Jim didn't hesitate to step forward; Kevin on her left and Jim on
    her right; to stand shoulder to shoulder facing her. Toshia smiled up at
    them as she took their cocks in her hands and began to pull and stroke
    them. Continuing to look up at them, she leaned forward and kissed first
    Kevin's and then Jim's cock. Then she moved back to Kevin's and took
    the swelling head of it into her mouth, teasing it with her tongue and
    then sucking on it, all while continuing to fondle both shafts. With
    another saucy smile she moved over to Jim's and gave it the same
    treatment. She could taste mingled cum and the flavor of other women on
    their cocks. As she moved from cock to cock she never stopped moving her
    hands up and down on them, but she took more and more of them into her
    mouth and throat, sucking on them more vigorously with each turn. She
    soon had them as hard as they were going to get, and her pussy was again
    aching to be filled.

    Pulling off Jim's wet, slippery cock, Toshia looked up at the two men and announced, "I want one of you to fuck me."

    Without

    another word, she turned away and crawled up onto the bed, and waited
    there on her hands and knees. She hadn't given it any thought, but she
    wound up positioned so that Kevin was closer to her upturned butt, so it
    was natural for him to quickly climb up on the bed behind her. Jim
    stood at the foot of the bed, stroking himself and watching.

    "No, Jim," Toshia laughed. "Bring that over here."

    Kevin

    didn't waste any time, and was pushing his cock into Toshia's very wet
    and willing pussy from behind by the time Jim had knelt in front of
    Toshia and directed his straining hard on toward her mouth. Reaching out
    with one hand, she pulled his dark brown cock to her. Kevin was already
    holding her hips and was fucking himself in and out of her rather
    vigorously. Jim's thick shaft moved past her lips, over her tongue and
    into her throat. Toshia held onto the base of his cock for a moment, to
    make sure he wasn't going to get too carried away, but as she let
    herself go with the incredible sensations she also let go of his cock.
    Her hand dropped down to the bed and she thought for a moment to the
    beautiful woman in the hallway of the Manor who Don and she had spied
    upon that first day. Toshia had been so turned on by the sight of that
    woman between two men just like Toshia was right now. With that thought,
    Toshia's hand lifted up and back to brush her fingers over her clit.
    She imagined how she looked right then, one man fucking her hard and
    fast from behind, another holding her head in his hands as he fucked his
    thick black cock in and out of her mouth and throat, while she knelt
    there covered in drying cum.

    The

    orgasm hit her hard and shook her for what felt like a very long time.
    She clenched, groaned and shook between the two cocks, neither of which
    stopped moving in and out of her until they erupted with their sweet,
    molten cum. She felt herself swallowing, but was aware of her spittle
    and Jim's cum spilling out over her chin just as the mixture of her
    juices and Kevin's ran slowly down the backs of her thighs.

    Toshia

    collapsed on the bed, pulling the two men with her. Still shuddering a
    bit, she just lay there and enjoyed herself as her visitors caressed her
    body. She slowly began to regain her senses, and was thinking about
    some more fun with these two men who seemed to work quite well together,
    when the bell pealed in their ears.

    As

    the fellows slowly disentangled themselves, Toshia managed to say,
    "Would you please tell Sally that I need to sit a round out?" She
    thought she heard one of them say they would.

    Then

    she dragged herself off the bed and tottered to the cabin door and over
    into the cabin Shelonda had claimed. The pretty young woman was lying
    on the bed with a happy smile on her face and a body covered with pearly
    cum.

    "It looks like you've been having fun," Toshia laughed.

    Shelonda giggled and said, "You too!"

    Toshia

    bent down and licked a dollop of cum off Shelonda's perfect breast.
    After giving her friend a kiss, Toshia said, "I need a quick shower.
    Want to join me?"

    She

    didn't wait for Shelonda's response, but instead padded off for the
    cabin's bathroom, where she quickly turned on the water and began
    adjusting the temperature. As she expected, Shelonda joined her in
    another moment, and the two cum-covered women stepped into the shower
    together. As the water splashed over them, and they took turns under the
    spray, they kissed playfully, hands moving over each other's wet
    bodies. Toshia grabbed a washcloth and a bar of soap, and began to wash
    Shelonda's beautiful brown skin. She deliberately refrained from getting
    too frisky, but still couldn't resist occasionally kissing Shelonda's
    lips, nipples, or various other delectable bits. Then, naturally enough,
    Shelonda returned the favor, carefully washing Toshia's body, while
    lingering over all the most sensitive parts. By the time they were both
    rinsed thoroughly, they were each quite riled up. As soon as they had
    given themselves a very quick toweling off, Toshia grabbed Shelonda by
    the hand and dragged her back to the outer cabin and the bed.

    They

    were only a little surprised by the fact that there was a tall young
    man there, smiling at them as they emerged. He looked Mediterranean,
    with short, curly, black hair. Toshia waved at him and said, "Hi there.
    Can you give us a few more minutes?"

    She

    didn't wait to see him nod before pulling Shelonda with her onto the
    bed. The two women rolled together, entwined in a tight embrace, as they
    kissed passionately, each one pushing a thigh up between the other's
    legs. Toshia felt Shelonda's full tits pressed against hers while she
    ground herself against the firm thigh rubbing her pussy and clit.
    Pushing Shelonda down on her back, Toshia rose up with a smile, and
    quickly twisted herself around, so that she was the top half of a 69.

    Toshia

    spread her legs to lower herself down to Shelonda's mouth at the same
    time as she lowered her mouth to kiss Shelonda's sweet pussy. She felt
    Shelonda's talented lips and tongue moving on her as she ran her own
    tongue between Shelonda's outer labia. Pressing her mouth against
    Shelonda, Toshia slipped her tongue as far as she could into the other
    woman's pussy, tasting her delicious wetness. Shelonda wiggled
    underneath Toshia, and Toshia began to lick at the girl's hard little
    clit; pulling and tugging on it steadily. Meanwhile, Shelonda was doing
    the same, while also holding onto Toshia's butt to keep her firmly down
    on Shelonda's mouth. Toshia inhaled the heady scent of Shelonda's sex
    and increased the tempo and pressure of her licking, intent on making
    Shelonda come first. She succeeded, but the trembling, moaning woman
    underneath her, who also reacted by sucking on Toshia's clit as she
    climaxed, pulled Toshia along into her own intense, body-racking orgasm.

    When

    Toshia finally raised her head to look around the room, she was
    surprised to see that there were now three new men, in addition to the
    fellow who had been there earlier. There was a black guy and an East
    Asian who looked like he might be as young as eighteen or nineteen.
    Finally, there was another very young looking guy who seemed to be
    Arabic, or maybe Persian, and who also happened to be sporting a rather
    large cock. Toshia smiled at the men, rolled to the side, off Shelonda,
    and said, "We have company."

    Shelonda

    managed to prop herself up on her elbows and smile at the men. With a
    twinkle in her eyes, Toshia asked, "Did you enjoy the show?"

    There

    was a quick affirmative response from the audience, though clearly the
    black guy, who was almost certainly the oldest, was most comfortable. He
    had grinned and said, "Absolutely!" while the others had nodded and
    murmured.

    "They must have, Toshia," Shelonda laughed. "Look how hard they are."

    "I noticed," Toshia chuckled.

    "Well, boys, are you going to keep those hard-ons to yourselves?" Toshia chided.

    Unsurprisingly,

    the black guy led the way, taking the few steps and climbing up onto
    the bed, followed closely by the young man who had been waiting longest,
    and who Toshia now saw had a fairly long, thin cock standing out in
    front of him. These two had been closest to Toshia's side of the bed, so
    they came toward her, while the two younger guys moved toward Shelonda,
    who offered them a friendly smile.

    Toshia

    found herself briefly wondering how so many guys had come into this
    room, but decided she didn't really care. She crawled on her hands and
    knees toward the side of the bed a bit, to make more room for Shelonda,
    and found a hard black cock almost in her face. Smiling up at the two
    men who were in front of her; well, in front of her and a bit to her
    left; Toshia proceeded to lean forward and wrap her hand around that
    dark cock as she brought the head of it to her lips. She figured the men
    had all been teased enough already, so she didn't hesitate to open her
    mouth to suck the dark purple head into her mouth. Playing her tongue
    over it for just a moment, Toshia leaned forward a bit more and let the
    flaring head slide deeper into her mouth and then down her throat a
    bit. 

    She

    felt male hands moving over her back. One of them moved down to caress
    and squeeze her butt. Fingers slipped between her cheeks to stroke her
    wet pussy lips and then up to tease her asshole. She groaned her
    approval, and managed to catch hold of the long, thin cock to her left,
    squeezing and pulling on it. Toshia felt fingers pushing up into her
    cunt, and she moaned. Once those fingers were nice and slippery with her
    juices, they were withdrawn and then slowly pushed up into her butt.
    Toshia shuddered and pulled herself off the black cock she'd been
    sucking. She continued to pull and twist on that with her right hand as
    she began to suck on the long, thin cock in her left. She had little
    trouble taking this one down her throat even though it was the longest
    cock she'd had that night. While she was sucking his cock, the young man
    kept working his fingers in and out of her butt, while the black guy
    continued caressing the rest of her body.

    After

    several minutes of Toshia going back and forth from one cock to the
    other, she looked up at the black fellow and said, "Lie down on your
    back." She then said to the other man, "You're going to fuck my ass,
    OK?"

    His

    only response at the moment was vigorous nod of his head. Of course,
    the black guy had immediately managed to lie down along the side of the
    bed.

    As

    Toshia moved around and straddled her willing partner, she glanced over
    to see that Shelonda was sprawled, half-twisted, on her half of the
    bed. The Asian kid was between her legs, going down on her
    enthusiastically, while Shelonda was making a good effort at sucking on
    the other boy's fat cock.

    Then,

    Toshia was pushing the thick head of the black cock up into her pussy.
    She gave a happy whimper as she settled down on him, letting his cock
    fill her nicely. She worked herself up and down a few times, grinding
    herself against the man's rock hard abs, before nodding over her
    shoulder to the other fellow. She didn't have to wait long for him to
    get into position behind her, and then to feel the head of his cock
    pushing against and then into her tight ass. Toshia braced herself with
    her hands on the black man's chest as she felt that long, thin cock
    working its way deeper and deeper into her bowels. She smiled broadly
    and said, "Damn, this feels so good!"

    Toshia

    began to rock her hips between the men, who were doing their part to
    fuck their cocks in and out of her willing body. The black guy had her
    waist in his big hands, and the guy fucking her ass was holding onto her
    shoulders, pulling her back on their hard pricks. She heard Shelonda
    moaning loudly with what must be another orgasm, and heard herself
    calling out, "Fuck me harder!"

    The

    two men obliged with gusto, proceeding to shove into her almost
    violently. They had gotten into a good rhythm, and Toshia could feel her
    next orgasm coming on fast. As a result, she wasn't too aware of what
    was going on elsewhere on the bed, so she was a bit surprised when she
    opened her eyes to see another cock in front of her face. Looking up and
    around, she saw that Shelonda was on her back with the big-cock fellow
    between her legs, filling her with that beautiful piece of man-meat. The
    young Asian guy had come over to get in on Toshia's little group. As
    occupied as she was at the moment, Toshia couldn't do much more than
    smile up at him and then offer him her open mouth. He didn't hesitate,
    but inched forward on the bed, and pushed his very hard cock into her
    mouth. She closed her lips on his shaft and reveled in the sensations of
    being completely filled with cock. The Asian kid held her head in his
    hands, and Toshia relaxed her throat, letting him fuck her face
    steadily.

    Toshia

    came long and hard then, her body clenching and shuddering in the
    center of those three men who were fucking her so intently. As she
    slowly came down, she began to have an idea, which gradually coalesced
    into a plan. She managed to indicate to the Asian kid that she needed to
    say something, and he promptly, and politely, drew back. Taking just a
    moment to catch her breath, Toshia quickly explained to them what she
    had in mind.

     Giving

    her shoulder a kiss, the man who had been fucking her ass gradually
    withdrew and stepped aside for the moment. His place was taken by the
    Asian kid, who didn't waste any time at all before pushing his raging
    hard on into her ass. After a few preliminary thrusts from each of the
    guys inside her, Toshia announced that she was ready for the third. The
    man with the long, thin cock got behind the Asian kid and bent his long
    shaft down until it was up against the black phallus in her pussy. The
    black guy pulled out almost all the way, and Toshia made every effort to
    relax, as the third cock pushed forward, entering her pussy with the
    black cock.

    Toshia

    was dimly aware of the sound of Shelonda having a rather loud and long
    orgasm, but was lost in the unbelievable sensations of having both her
    ass and pussy stuffed so full. Three cocks were moving in and out of
    her, stretching her; filling her! Then Toshia was coming again, in a
    shaking avalanche complete with a steady stream of "Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck
    Fuck..." All the while the men kept driving in and out of her steadily,
    and Toshia's orgasm seemed to roll on forever.

    Except

    that it did eventually begin to fade, and Toshia could open her eyes
    again. She was happy, and a bit surprised, to see the fellow with the
    big cock who had been fucking Shelonda kneeling in front of her. She
    cast a glance over to the side to see that yet another guy had come into
    the cabin and had gotten Shelonda to roll over on her belly so that he
    could fuck her from behind. Turning her attention back to that
    beautiful, big cock in front of her, which was now all slippery with
    Shelonda's juices and pearly with cum, and only a bit deflated, Toshia
    smiled and opened her mouth invitingly.

    It

    wasn't easy to accommodate that sexy monster, but the young man was
    surprisingly gentle, and Toshia gave it her best shot. She doubted that
    he would cum that way, but he quickly became fully hard again for her.

    Toshia

    couldn't believe she had four cocks in her all at once! The very
    thought; assisted by all the stimulation her body was getting, no doubt;
    pushed her over the edge into yet another orgasm. This one was less
    intense, but it was still enough to prompt the cock inside her ass to
    swell and pump what felt like quite a lot of hot cum up into her. After a
    few more strokes, the Asian kid began to pull himself out of Toshia's
    butt and managed to extract himself from the tight little knot of bodies
    centered on Toshia. Since he'd had to pull out of her pussy to let the
    Asian leave, the fellow with the long, thin cock took his place,
    slipping easily into Toshia's ass in one motion. Once there, he fucked
    her with short, hard, fast motions, until he too filled her with his
    cum.

    When

    her ass was once again free of cock; but had sticky, white cum leaking
    out of it and down over the black guy's balls; Toshia managed to suggest
    that the guy with the big cock fuck her ass with it. Of course, he was
    quite willing to oblige. Toshia came yet again as his big head pushed up
    into her ass, while the black guy patiently continued to slowly fuck in
    and out of her pussy. She just kept coming as the two men sawed in and
    out of her, until, finally, the black cock swelled inside her and
    flooded her pussy with sweet cum. He stayed there inside her as his de
    facto partner continued to fuck the hell out of Toshia's ass. When that
    thick cock got even thicker inside her, Toshia screamed a bit. She felt
    the welcome rush of his cum shooting up into her and then she was
    unconscious.

    When

    she eventually opened her eyes again, she was on her back and looking
    up into Don's eyes. Don was brushing the hair out of her eyes and
    smiling down at her. He said, "It seems like you've had a good time,
    lover."

    "Um!" she managed. Then she realized that Don was fucking her, slowly, steadily. Toshia smiled and said, "I've been very busy."

    "I can tell," Don laughed.

    Toshia

    knew that she must be quite a sight, and that there must be quite a
    mess on the bed and between her legs. She was vaguely aware that
    Shelonda was being fucked, or something, on the other side of the bed.
    Don was fucking her a bit harder, and she bit her lip.

    "Does it hurt?" he asked.

    "A little," she smiled. "Do you care?"

    "Not really, no."

    "Good,"

    she smiled. "Fuck me, Don." She pulled his head down so she could kiss
    him while his cock moved in and out of her sloppy, very well-used pussy,
    until it too swelled inside her, jerking as Don groaned and added his
    cum to the rest.

    Don

    relaxed, propped up on his elbows a bit. He watched the action on the
    enormous blanket with an amused smile. Nearest to him, almost within
    arm's reach, Toshia was on her hands and knees, being taken from behind
    by a fit fellow who looked to be Arabic, or possibly Persian, while she
    was rather enthusiastically servicing the thick cock of the young guy
    with light blonde hair who was kneeling in front of her. Don realized,
    quite happily, that he could watch her go all day – and, then, with a
    widening grin, that he pretty much had done just that several times here
    in Eros. He admired her sleek muscular body as she moved between the
    two men, particularly the way her thighs and buttocks flexed as she
    pushed back against the dark-haired man behind her.

     The

    afternoon sun shone on her tanned back and the spray of dewy white cum
    Don had left there only a couple of minutes earlier. Of course, the way
    Toshia was eagerly sucking and stroking on that big cock in front of her
    was quite impressive too. It didn't hurt that he had come to be so
    familiar with being on either end of that wonderful, exquisitely
    responsive body over the last few weeks.

    Beyond

    Toshia and her two playmates, Don could see Shelonda moving up and down
    as the sexy young woman rode the prodigious cock of a black gentleman
    whose hands were squeezing her big tits tightly, eliciting additional
    happy sounds from her. Life in Eros is good! Don thought to himself. I'm going to miss this!

    Then,

    with a somewhat rueful shake of his head he slowly stood up and looked
    around. Around them, lightly checkering the pale, pinkish beach were
    other over-sized beach blankets, some of which were occupied by naked
    sunbathers, many of whom were engaged in activities much like those of
    Toshia and Shelonda. On Don's left, the beach swept on until it gave way
    to a rocky tumble that gradually, over several miles, began to mount up
    to what seemed to be rather steep mountains that Don thought must march
    down from up near the Resort and the Sage's tower. That rocky end of
    the mountains marched right into the body of water that spread out
    before Don. Just after the rest of the smooth sand of the beach and the
    occasional gleaming rocky outcropping, was the open sea, or ocean, or
    large lake. Don had never seen water so blue in his life, and he had
    seen some surprisingly blue water before, as for instance the
    Mediterranean off the coast of Greece. On Don's right was a green, rocky
    area that separated the beach and the mouth of the river he and the
    girls had traveled down to get this far, several kilometers away. Behind
    Don, on a handful of small hills, was the strange "city" of Rendezvous.

    After

    they had disembarked from the riverboat, leaving behind the cheerful,
    lazy swinging atmosphere that had prevailed on their slow trip down from
    the Resort, the now very relaxed trio had made their way from the docks
    into the town, expecting to be able to make quick and easy progress
    through and to the water, when they would turn to the left and follow
    the waterline to the Grotto of Ishtar.

    As it turned out, though, Rendezvous had proven to be a harder to get through.

    1. The
    city seemed to be laid out on an almost non-Euclidean plan. Streets
    continued on in straight lines for no more than a block at a time, and
    two right angled turns did not equal 180 degrees. To make things worse,
    cutting through buildings utterly failed to achieve its purpose. Walls
    that were parallel on the inside of a building did not translate as
    parallel on the outside. Moreover, moving through a building frequently
    resulted in exiting in a completely different part of town. All of this
    resulted, somehow, in the city being, apparently, much larger than it
    appeared from an external viewpoint, as from the docks or where they
    were on the beach.
  •  The
  • wide variety of sexual distractions to be had through every door and
    around every corner. It seemed that the harder they tried to make their
    way through Rendezvous the more they would go off track and get
    distracted.

     Toshia's

    favorite place had been a little club that featured little rooms with
    various glory holes in the walls. They had spent several hours there,
    and Toshia had ultimately come out of her chamber with her face and
    chest splattered with cum and jizz running down the insides and backs of
    her legs. Shelonda had been quite partial to a building that was filled
    with a wild combination of padded jungle gym and what Don thought of as
    a human-sized cat playhouse. There were crazily varied platforms, like a
    maze laid out in three dimensions, serving as the surfaces of an
    ongoing orgy. Don had a hard time choosing favorites at the best of
    times, and there were so many options to pick from in this situation,
    but he thought he would probably have to say his favorite part of making
    his way through Rendezvous had been watching the two girls react and
    enjoy the whole experience. Of course, this was not to say that he had
    not also enjoyed all the sex he himself had had.

    To be continued in part 6.

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry for Literotica

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  • Lost in Eros, The Return: Part 4
    The Jungle Room and The ascent to the Sage

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry, in 6 parts.  Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.



    Clubbing in Eros.

    "Maybe I should have been expecting this," Don said.

    "What?" Victor asked.

    Don frowned. Where to begin? he

    thought. First of all, there seemed to be an actual little jungle
    inside the Jungle Room. Though there was a park-like lawn stretching out
    in front of them, there were palm trees and thick, jungle vegetation
    all around. 

    Don

    could hear the distinct sound of monkeys and other jungle critters
    playing, and doing whatever else they do, from the deepening shadows.

    Then there was the open sky overhead. Although it was quite shady on the
    floor of the "jungle" they could see the blue, cloudless sky as it
    began to darken toward night. Strategically placed torches and a few
    bonfires would keep the place from getting too dark. Finally, there was
    the quite undeniable fact that the place certainly seemed to be quite a
    bit bigger on the inside! Don considered going back outside to walk
    around the building, and then pacing the inside off just to make sure,
    but then decided he would just go with it. And, he decided, if none of
    this bothered Victor, who was he to trouble the big guy's mind?

    Walking

    a few paces in, to get out of the doorway, Don paused to look around
    and get his bearings. On the right, there was a sandy area, with a big
    bonfire in the middle. At some distance from the fire, there were quite a
    few lounge chairs arranged in a rough circle around the fire and open
    area. There were a few people lounging there at the moment. Continuing
    on counterclockwise, and moving deeper into the micro-jungle, Don saw a
    raised platform with cushions and pillows; it really looked like a huge
    couch, or a sectional unit taken to extremes. Beyond this, Don made out
    several tree houses, accessed by ladders, as well as various sorts of
    beds, couches and blankets scattered about the more or less open areas
    between the trees. In the distance, he thought he saw a cave of some
    sort. To the left of that and closer to the entrance, seemed to be a
    pool, designed to look like a natural pond, complete with a waterfall.
    On Don's immediate left, then, was a large wooden structure, raising
    several stories from the floor.

    Don,

    followed closely by Victor, turned to this complicated building within a
    building and climbed the few stairs that led up to the wide
    deck-platform that was the first floor. Right in front of them was an
    open area that was apparently used as a dance floor; there were several
    couples dancing slowly to the music that was playing, as well as a few
    solo dancers, all of whom were in varying states of undress. Off to one
    side was a row of stripper's dance poles, around which danced a couple
    of almost entirely naked young women, and, at the far end, a strapping
    young man wearing nothing but a loin cloth. Don could also see, along
    another side of the platform, a set of comfortable chairs, one of which
    was being used at the moment as a platform for some very enthusiastic
    sex. Across the dance floor, there was a refreshment bar much like those
    that had been in the Manor, and a set of stairs leading to the upper
    floors of the structure.

    Before

    they could go any further, a striking woman with long legs, large, firm
    tits and long red hair falling down over her shoulders and down her
    back in an unruly tumult came up to them; she was wearing a diaphanous
    green silk "skirt" that was really just a pair of broad strips hanging
    from a narrow belt around her waist that covered her sex and her butt
    crack before falling down between her legs. She also wore a heavy gold
    necklace that hung between her generous breasts. She smiled at them and
    said, "Hello, welcome to the Jungle Room, would either or both of you
    like to dance?"

    "Hi," Don smiled, "I'm still looking around, but perhaps Victor here would."

    The woman looked Victor up and down with obvious approval while the big, muscular man returned the favor.

    "Hello, Victor. I'm Vixen. What do you say, big fella, wanna dance?" she smiled.

    "Sure," Victor grinned.

    Don

    smiled a little himself, watching the two of them moving toward the
    center of the dance floor and then begin dancing, while he was thinking, "Vixen"? What an odd name. He
    looked around again, deciding where to explore first. His eye was
    caught by the long, black hair of one of the women dancing on a pole,
    and he decided to move in that direction for a better look.

    Her

    hair was thick, straight, hung down to her butt, or would if she
    stopped moving long enough, and was a lustrous black that gleamed darkly
    in the rather subdued light of the Jungle Room. Her skin was a reddish
    brown. She had long, slender arms and legs, full breasts and a lovely
    rear. As he drew closer, Don thought she was most likely of Native
    American extraction, perhaps South American. She was wearing a dark red
    skirt with slits that ran all the way up to her hips on each side, gold
    bracelets and anklets, and a gold necklace that was more of a choker,
    hugging her slender neck closely. He noticed that she had a black ring
    on the middle finger of her left hand. Her breasts were bare, and her
    dark nipples seemed to beckon to Don. He saw that her face was lovely,
    and then she smiled at him with a friendly, playful light in her eyes,
    and Don decided he would tarry here for a while. He stopped behind the
    stool set in front of the dark beauty's pole and asked, "May I?"

    She smiled again, and said, "Please do, welcome to the jungle."

    "Thank you," Don smiled back as he sat down on the stool. He was already trying to place her accent.

    She

    spun herself around the silvery pole in a gravity defying display of
    strength and grace. Her hair was flung about in a wide, beautiful arc.
    Her skirt flared too, displaying her sexy legs to considerable effect.
    Don was struck by the way her body moved about the pole in a wonderful
    combination of the athletic and the erotic. He was already finding
    himself mesmerized by the dancer's beauty and sensuality. She came to a
    stop, with her arm wrapped around the pole, leaned against the pole, and
    said, "This is your first time to our jungle, isn't it?"

    Latin, but not Spanish or Mexican, Don thought in the back of his mind. He said, "Yes, how could you tell?"

    "I

    would have remembered you," she smiled as she slid from the pole and
    glided toward him. She bent down and took his face in her hands, looking
    deeply into his eyes. As he was looking back into her dark brown gaze,
    he thought, Portuguese? Then she was
    kissing him lightly and all coherent thought flew away. Don's
    perceptions and mental processes were abruptly focused entirely on her
    lips touching his and the fragrance of her perfume. As she pulled away,
    only a moment later, a deep sigh slipped from his lips.

    She smiled and laughed a little and said, "This is how we welcome visitors."

    Brazilean! Don's brain exclaimed triumphantly, but his mouth was murmuring, "That's a very nice welcome."

    "I'm

    India," she said as she began to dance in front of him, her legs on
    either side of his knees. Her hands were moving over her naked flesh as
    she swayed in time to the music. Don was having a hard time knowing
    where to look; not that there was any proper place to look or not look,
    but that everywhere on this woman's body seemed to be the best place to
    focus his attention.

    "I'm Don," he finally managed.

    "It's

    good to meet you Don," she smiled, pronouncing his name more like
    "Dohn", which he found utterly charming. "What have you been doing
    before you came here?"

    Don chuckled, "That's a long story."

    "I like stories," she purred in his ear before kissing his neck.

    A

    shiver ran through the length of Don's body, and he breathed in her
    scent again. "Um," he attempted, "well, I guess, it begins in the
    Manor."

    "Ah, yes, I've heard of this place," she nodded.

    "I

    woke up with my friend in a bedroom there," he managed as India
    casually untied the knot that held her skirt in place and dropped the
    garment to the floor, exposing her pretty, bare pussy.

    She

    straddled his lap and sat down, placing her warm hands on his shoulders
    and looking him in the eye. Don's hands moved up along her firm, smooth
    thighs. Remembering the rules of his non-Eros life, he half expected to
    be told "no touching", but of course such a restriction was foreign
    here.

    "Your friend is the man dancing with Vixen?"

    "No," Don laughed. "That's Victor, we didn't meet him until much later. My friend's not here right now. She's at Ladies Nite."

    "Ah," India nodded. She began to caress his neck and shoulders, and Don continued to stroke her legs idly.

    "Well, um, my friend and I didn't know where we were or how we got there, or even how to get out of that room."

    "That must have been frightening," India said, as her hand moved over Don's bare chest.

    "Well,

    it was certainly strange. I think my friend, Toshia, was more concerned
    than I was. We were all alone for a bit, and very confused, but then
    some other people showed up... Well, they fell into the room actually!
    They weren't much help – well, they were helpful in a sense – but they
    were too horny to really answer our questions."

    India smiled broadly and nodded, as her hand made its way down to Don's lap and began to caress his already hardening cock.

    "Uh, well, we did find our way out of the room – well, Toshia did – and things got stranger after that..."

    "What do you mean? How stranger?"

    So,

    Don began to tell this beautiful woman about his adventures in the
    Manor, all while she listened attentively and continued to pull and
    stroke his now very hard cock. Occasionally she asked a question,
    laughed, or otherwise expressed interest. As he talked, Don let his
    hands roam over her warm skin, caressing and exploring. Now and then she
    would lean in and kiss his neck or his shoulder, and he would sometimes
    lean forward to kiss her breasts. He was about to tell her about the
    maze in the garden, when India decided they had waited long enough. She
    rose up off Don's legs and shifted forward, pulling his straining cock
    forward. He felt her hot, wet pussy against his head, and then the
    exquisite sensation of entering her warm, moist sex. Don groaned as she
    slowly but steadily sank down on him, letting his cock fill her. With
    his hands holding her waist tightly, Don kept her down on him, and India
    began to rock on his lap, working his cock in and out of her, while
    grinding her clit against the base of his thick cock. Her hands came up
    and clasped his face, pulling his mouth to hers. Their kiss was long and
    passionate as she rode him there in the Jungle Room. Don reached around
    to squeeze her beautiful ass in his hands as he struggled to push
    himself even further up inside her. India shifted back and forth against
    him, grinding herself against his body, while his tongue slipped into
    her mouth, slipping over her smaller tongue, and while her breast moved
    against his chest, their nipples brushing against each other's.

    When

    their mouths parted at last India slipped her strong, thin arms around
    Don's neck and tossed her head back, letting her mane of jet black hair
    fall down over her back. Don paused a moment to revel in the sight of
    this gorgeous creature riding his cock here in the middle of this
    strange junglesque setting. He took in her long, beautiful neck, her
    full, heaving breasts, and her red-brown skin, now shimmering in the
    torchlight with a thin sheen of perspiration. Then, he lowered his head
    to kiss her chest, first between her tits and then made his way to each
    nipple in turn, pulling and sucking on them, pinching them between his
    teeth now and then. This last elicited a happy whimper from India and
    she rocked against him with even more insistence. Don, his cock
    straining up inside the exquisite grasp of her pussy, pulled her forward
    and down, making sure she was rubbing against him as much as possible.
    Then, he felt her hands moving around to hold the back of his head,
    keeping his mouth on her breast, where he was sucking hard on her left
    nipple. Don heard her moaning at the same time he felt her body
    beginning to shake against him. Her pussy pulled and squeezed at him as
    she climaxed. Don held onto India as she rode his cock trembling and
    groaning with what seemed to him like a very long, satisfying orgasm.

    She

    finally relaxed her grip on his head and he was able to pull back and
    smile up at her. She blushed a little and smiled back at him. "That was
    beautiful," she said in her wonderful accent, "but I'm not done with
    you."

    Before

    Don could even think of objecting, the lithe beauty slipped off his
    cock and lap, and knelt between his legs. India gave him a wink with her
    dark brown eyes, as she took his very hard, slippery cock in her hand.
    She pulled it forward a bit, and ran her pink tongue up along its
    length. Don shuddered as she reached its head and lingered there,
    fluttering over it, licking her own juices off it. Then, she was sucking
    his head into her mouth. Her pretty eyes looked up at him as she began
    to move her mouth up and down, taking more and more of him into her
    mouth and then her throat. Don shuddered and felt a low groan building
    up in his throat. He was barely aware of the fact that quite a few
    people were watching the two of them, but he couldn't take his eyes off
    the vision of the gorgeous woman sucking on his cock. She had a tight
    grip on the base of his shaft as her lips moved up and down on his
    shaft. He felt her tongue pressing against the underside of his cock and
    her throat squeezing around his sensitive head. Almost without
    noticing, Don moved his hands up to either side of her head and held on
    to her gently, keeping her there as she sucked on him insistently.

    "Oh

    god!" he cried out as he finally closed his eyes and let his own orgasm
    erupt. At first all he could feel was the intense sensation at the base
    of his balls and shooting through his entire nervous system. Then,
    gradually he became aware of the fact that he was pumping jet after jet
    of hot cum into India's mouth and throat. He opened his eyes to see her
    holding tightly to him as she took all of his cum in. He felt her
    swallowing repeatedly. Don's body was shuddering and twitching as he
    very slowly came down. India didn't take her mouth off him until she was
    sure she had gotten every last drop of cum out of him.

    "Wow!" Don breathed. "That was amazing!"

    "Thank

    you," India smiled, giving his cock a little kiss. She laid her head
    against his thigh as he stroked her thick, black hair happily. Don found
    himself thinking he would have to thank the resort's gate for insisting
    they enjoy the resort before leaving.

    "That looked like fun!" said a woman's voice from over Don's shoulder, and he felt a light hand touching his left arm.

    India smiled and said, "It was. This is Don, Jaden."

    Don

    looked back and up to smile back at the slender woman with reddish
    brown hair falling past her shoulders. She had great, slim legs and full
    tits that looked large on her petite frame. Her cheerful smile was
    infectious, though Don realized that might just be the great orgasm
    talking. Then he felt India's hands on his thighs as she drew herself
    back up in front of him. For a moment, Don found himself sitting there
    grinning between two beautiful naked women. I really do love it here, he
    thought to himself, meaning the Jungle Room, the resort and Eros at
    once. He noticed now that India stood with an undeniable air of
    confidence and even authority. There was something regal in her bearing.

    "I think it's time for a game," India smiled at Don and Jaden. "What do you think?"

    "That's a great idea!" Jaden nodded.

    "I'm always up for a game," Don agreed as he stood up, a bit unsteadily.

    "Come

    along if you want to join the game," India called out to everyone in
    range of her voice as she began to saunter over to the steps down to the
    floor of the "jungle". Don followed along after her swaying backside as
    if he were bewitched.

    "She's amazing, isn't she?" Jaden asked with a wink.

    Don smiled back at the pretty little redhead and said, "I think that might not be strong enough. Are you a regular here?"

    She

    smiled back. "I'm here pretty often. I heard some of the story you were
    telling India. It sounds very hot. I'd love to visit that place. Is it
    far from here?"

    "I'm afraid so," he nodded. "I'd offer to take you there, but our flying carpet is broken."

    "A flying carpet? I've never seen one of those," she frowned a bit. "Why does it sound so funny?"

    Don

    looked at her carefully, thinking again about how much people
    remembered from their lives outside Eros. Apparently Jaden didn't
    remember that magic wasn't supposed to work, but somehow managed to hold
    onto the notion that a flying carpet was somehow wrong.

    While

    all of this was going on, they had followed India down to the thick
    grass of the floor and to the open lawn-like area spread out in front of
    the club's entrance, where there were six large colorful blankets
    arranged in a circle around a thick, squat wooden post with a flat top.
    Don was quite positive those blankets and that post had not been there
    when he and Victor had come in, and it looked like that post was set
    quite firmly into the ground.

    "Oh, the spinner game!" Jaden said happily.

    India

    smiled warmly at her redheaded friend and walked toward the post, which
    came up to just under her full breasts. She beckoned to Don, who was
    quite happy to come closer. He saw that there was a very basic spinner,
    like the kind you would use to play a game of Twister, on the top of the
    post. Beneath the spinning arrow, the top of the post was clearly
    divided by thick black lines into six sectors corresponding to the six
    blankets.

    "The

    women go to a blanket, then the men spin and go play with that woman,"
    India explained. She held up a good-sized hourglass, which she seemed to
    produce out of thin air, and said, "When time is up, they stop and come
    spin again."

    Don nodded and grinned, "Sounds like fun."

    "It is!" India smiled back. "Now, how many people do we have?"

    Both

    Don and India looked around and did a quick head count. There turned
    out to be six guys, including Don and Victor, and eight women, including
    India, Jaden and Vixen, who was now pretty much naked, just like
    everyone else.

    "I'll keep the time," India decided, and then said, "Rain and Lena do you mind sharing?"

    The

    trim brunette with the long dancer's legs and the curvy blonde with
    very long straight hair looked at each other, giggled a bit and said no,
    quickly moving together to claim one of the blankets. The other women
    each took a place, as India explained the simple rules to the guys.
    "When I call 'time' you have to stop," she said seriously, but with a
    mischievous twinkle in her eye. "Don and Victor, it's your first time,
    so you go first."

    Don

    gestured for Victor to go ahead, and then watched as the big guy spun
    the little metal arrow, which finally stopped on the sector matching up
    with a gorgeous woman with an amazing body and long black hair with
    silver streaks running through it. While Don had to admit that there was
    no losing in this little game, he hoped he didn't have to wait too many
    turns to get paired up with that beauty.

    Don

    spun the arrow and found himself paired with an adorable woman with
    beautiful full breasts, thick red hair, sparkling eyes and an infectious
    smile. She flashed Don a big grin as he came toward her, and said,
    "Hello there," with an unmistakable Australian accent.

    "Hi," he smiled, and then added, "I'm Don."

    She looked him over in a very friendly way and said, "Pleased to meet you, Don. I'm Bella."

    Don was vaguely aware that there was a bit of a hold up as one of the guys had to spin again.

    "Sometimes

    we just play that you go wherever the spinner sends you, but India
    seems to want to make sure things are evened out – for now, anyway,"
    Bella explained. Somehow Don was picking up on a bubbly enthusiasm in
    her voice.

    Don

    took the time to notice that counterclockwise, to his left, the next
    blanket had Vixen and the one after that had Jaden, each of whom were
    paired up with a male Jungle Room guest. To his right, or clockwise
    around the circle, were a blanket with a staggering beauty with long
    brown hair and then the blanket with Lena and Rain, each blanket also
    now graced by a guy. Victor and his partner were directly opposite Don
    and Bella on the circle.

    "OK," India called, "time starts ... now!"

    Bella

    wasted no time, stepping up to Don and slipping her arms around him. He
    felt her soft breasts pressed against his belly as he leaned his head
    down to kiss her upturned lips. She responded eagerly, opening her mouth
    for his tongue and pulling him even closer to her. Don felt his cock
    rising between them, and then Bella's hand slipping around to take hold
    of it, pulling and caressing it.

    It

    was hard to tell whether Bella was drawing him down or he was lowering
    her to the blanket, but somehow they ended up lying together, still
    kissing passionately. His hand moved up between her smooth thighs and
    his fingers were stroking her outer lips, already moist with her nectar,
    while her hand continued to move up and down on his now very hard cock
    with a tight grip. Don's fingers slipped between her lips and began to
    push up into Bella's warm pussy. He was very happy that she was so wet
    already. He worked his fingers slowly up into her, pausing for a moment
    to find and tease her clit with the end of his thumb. She groaned into
    his mouth and squeezed his cock still tighter. Don pushed his fingers
    further up into her, pressing his palm against her clit. As he began to
    fuck his fingers in and out of her grasping pussy his palm ground
    against her clit. When they finally broke their kiss for a bit of air,
    Bella gasped, "Fuck!"

    Don smiled and leaned in to kiss and bite at her neck, which elicited a low, "God, I love that!"

    Around

    him, Don could hear the sounds of other women and men beginning to get
    quite worked up. It was a heady situation. Then Bella was saying in his
    ear, "You need to fuck me with this big cock of yours, Don."

    Don was about to say, "It would be my pleasure," when India's voice called out, "Time!"

    Don

    left Bella with a smile and a kiss, and returned to India at the post.
    This time Don went first, and was pleased to be directed to the blanket
    on which Jaden reclined, waiting. On his left, counterclockwise, was the
    gorgeous woman he'd noticed earlier, along with one of the guys Don
    didn't know; on the right was Vixen and another guy. Don made a mental
    note that he should start paying more attention to men's names. None of
    this mental orientation and reflection distracted him from the woman at
    hand. As he knelt down between her long, slender legs, Don smiled at
    Jaden and said, "At long last."

    Everyone must have quickly spun and sorted things out, because India shortly called, "Begin!"

    Don

    grinned at Jaden as he leaned over her reclining body to give her a
    kiss. He planned to make it brief, but she wasn't having it; she kissed
    him hard and long, hungrily even. Don didn't even think of resisting,
    but leaned down further, on his hands and knees over her, until she was
    lying back on the blanket beneath him. When their kiss broke for a
    moment, Don took the opportunity to begin kissing his way down her lithe
    body. He was tempted to linger over her beautiful breasts, but had
    another destination in mind and was very much aware of the time slipping
    by, so he moved down along her firm belly until he was kissing the tops
    of her firm, smooth thighs.

    Jaden

    spread her legs open for him as Don settled between them, planting
    kisses on the sensitive skin on the insides of her upper thighs and
    then, lightly, on her exposed labia. He felt her shiver in anticipation,
    and then heard her moan lowly when he ran his tongue over her. Don
    gently parted her lips with his fingertips and moved his tongue up along
    her moist inner lips, brushing it over the tip of her clit as he
    finished. He repeated this, and then again. He felt Jaden's hand on his
    head then, encouraging him to dine more enthusiastically. Don smiled to
    himself and began pressing his tongue against her harder, focusing more
    and more on her sensitive clit. Hearing Jaden murmuring approval as she
    began to rock her hips against the pressure of his lips and tongue, Don
    began to work two fingers up into her very moist pussy. He kept licking
    at her clit, keeping the pressure on it, while he fucked his fingers in
    and out of her. It didn't take too much of this before Jaden cried out
    and pulled his head even closer to her. Don pushed his fingers deep into
    her pussy and sucked on her clit as her body clenched and shuddered
    around him. He felt slippery, sweet wetness covering the lower half of
    his face and his hand.

    "Oh, god!" Jaden breathed at last.

    Don

    slowly released her clit, but kept his fingers up inside her. He was
    about to see how quickly he could make her cum again, when India called,
    "Time!"

    Jaden

    managed to pull him in for another passionate kiss, which he was quite
    happy to let keep him from being among the first to spin this round. In
    fact, by the time he got up from the blanket, Victor was waiting to take
    his place with Jaden. Don thought Victor's big, muscular body and dark
    skin were an interesting contrast to Jaden's slender frame and
    relatively light complexion. Victor's cock was already quite hard, and
    Don suspected the two of them wouldn't wait long before getting right
    down to business.

    Don

    finally managed to get to India and the spinner. The beautiful mistress
    of the jungle smiled broadly at him and said, "Only one spot, Don. Go
    with Rain and Lena."

    Don

    thanked her with a smile, and quickly made it around to the blanket
    where the two women were waiting. They didn't let him lie down, but
    stopped him as he made it to the blanket, on their knees in front of him
    and smiling up at him. Don felt like he was in a porn scene as first
    the lovely blonde Lena, and then the pixie-ish brunette Rain, took his
    cock into her mouth, sucking it and teasing the underside with her
    tongue. When she didn't have his cock actually in her mouth, each girl
    was leaning in to kiss at the shaft or underneath to lick and suck at
    his balls. Occasionally, they stopped to both kiss and lick their way up
    his shaft and over his head, which led them to kiss each other
    playfully while Don watched. For once, Don was utterly oblivious to what
    was going on to either side of him. It didn't take much of this
    treatment before Don had his hands on their heads and was standing there
    fucking his straining cock in and out of first one pretty mouth and
    then the other. Although India had coaxed an intensely powerful orgasm
    out of him, Don felt sure that Lena and Rain were about to make him come
    in spectacular facial cum-shot fashion. They could sense his impending
    climax and stopped sucking him. Instead they smiled up at him as Lena
    pumped his cock in her fist and Rain caressed and squeezed his balls.

    "Time!"

    The

    girls dutifully, and all too promptly, stopped stimulating him with
    their hands, and Don gave a loud, heartfelt groan of frustration. Lena
    and Rain laughed and each gave the head of his cock a light kiss. Don
    leaned down to give them each a quick kiss before returning to India and
    her spinner.

    "Having fun, Don?" the beautiful India asked with more than a little mischief sparkling in her eyes.

    He nodded and said, "This is a very nice place!"

    "I am glad you think so," she smiled.

    Don

    took his turn flicking the spinner and was delighted to be directed to
    the blanket where the gorgeous woman with the amazing body and
    silver-streaked hair waited. He smiled as he approached, saying, "Hi,
    I'm Don."

    She

    smiled back at him and said, "Hello, Don. I'm Emmy." He thought her
    accent was Dutch or something like that. She reached out to him, slipped
    her warm hand around his waist and drew him down to her on the blanket.
    As he settled between her legs and smiled down into her cheerful eyes,
    she took his cock in her hand, pulling it down and getting it positioned
    just right. She said in his ear, hot breath on his neck, "I don't know
    about you, but I have had enough foreplay."

    Don

    nodded his agreement, but couldn't find any coherent thoughts to
    express as he pushed himself into Emmy's very warm and wet embrace.
    Lying there with their arms wrapped around each other and Emmy's legs
    pulling Don in, they began to kiss and fuck intently. Don was aware of
    her tongue and lips pressing and moving against his, and of her full
    breasts pressed against his chest as they moved, and of her arms and
    legs pulling him tighter to her, but the sensations of his cock sliding
    in and out of her strong, smooth pussy as it squeezed and pulled at him
    overrode everything else. Normally, Don made sure to work his body
    against his partner to make sure she was as stimulated as possible, but
    now Don was lost to his lust. He bent his back, gaining purchase with
    his knees and feet as he thrust with his legs, and held on to her
    shoulders, pulling her down on him. For her part, Emmy seemed just as
    intent on encouraging Don to ravish her. In fact, Emmy began to come
    first, shaking and trembling in Don's arms. Feeling her pussy pulling
    and squeezing at his cock sent him over the edge, and Don found himself
    shoving up into her hard as his cock erupted, pumping hot cum up into
    her pussy and womb. Don held on to Emmy for long minutes as they shook
    together moaning.

    Don

    felt a hand on his shoulder, and looked over to see India's lovely face
    framed by her thick, black hair. She was smiling fondly at both of
    them. She leaned in to kiss Don's cheek, and said, "That was beautiful.
    Let's all go over to the orgy bed."

    With

    a happy grin on his face, Don let India and Jaden help him up and lead
    him deeper into the Jungle Room, to the raised platform with cushions
    and pillows he had noticed earlier. Now he saw that there was a raised
    bolster along two edges, making it seem more like a very large couch or a
    day-bed on steroids. All fourteen of the people who had been involved
    in the spinner game, including India, tumbled in naked confusion onto
    the orgy bed.

    Jaden

    insisted on trying to "repay" Don for earlier, and, with some extremely
    talented oral ministrations, with her finger slipping up into his butt
    along the way, she quickly had his cock rock hard again. While she was
    so engaged, one of the other guys got behind her, coaxed her up on her
    knees and began to fuck her vigorously. Similarly, India took advantage
    of Don's position and straddled his face. Don immediately began to lick
    and suck at the dark beauty's sweet pussy and clit.

    The

    orgy, spurred on by the XYZ pumping in their veins as well as the
    erotic, torch lit jungle environment, went on for what must have been
    hours. Some of the people drifted off and some newcomers joined in, and
    Don lost count of how many women he had fucked, kissed and licked. Some
    moments stood out, of course: watching Jaden enthusiastically riding up
    and down Victor's thick cock; fucking Bella's tight ass while she had
    another cock in her pussy; fucking himself in and out of Vixen's very
    talented mouth and throat as Victor rammed into her pussy from behind;
    watching Emmy and Lena in a very hot 69...

    Then,

    as things were winding down, the guys who were still functioning ganged
    up on India, each one, and sometimes two at a time, taking their turns
    cumming inside and on the beautiful woman. Don sat back and watched
    happily, lost in a happy post-orgasmic daze, until everyone else was
    done. Then, he took his place between her legs. She smiled up at him
    sleepily, and murmured, "Yes, Don, fuck me."

    He

    nodded, and pushed his cock up into her very wet and slippery pussy,
    squeezing quite a bit of sticky white cum out of her as he did. Slowly
    and deliberately, he fucked himself into the jungle queen, holding onto
    her nearly limp, sweaty body, lightly kissing her full lips. She moaned
    as another in a very long line of orgasms swelled up inside her
    exhausted body, and Don pushed into her as his cock swelled and flooded
    her sex with his last cum of the night. Stroking her hair and kissing
    her forehead, Don laid her gently back on the bed.

    He was asleep before he was able to pull out of her.

    Don’s Monks at the Abby of Records

    The Abbey of Records

    At

    the top of the rocky path, which had actually been occasionally
    augmented by actual steps cut into the stone of the mountainside, the
    little troop found something of an expansive, broad shelf. A stream fell
    tumbling down the mountain, and formed a rushing brook that cut across
    the shelf in front of them, running right to left, on its way to join in
    the wide lake that dominated the level area.

     For

    the most part, the place looked like a well-tended park or picnic
    ground. On the other side of the brook was the other distinctive feature
    of the green shelf: a stone building, or a tight complex of buildings,
    from which sprouted a tall tower of pinkish stone. Toshia thought the
    building, or buildings around the base of the tower resembled a
    monastery more than anything else. As for the tower itself, with its
    coloration, and the way the upper stories swelled out to accommodate a
    larger space at the top, it was rather obviously phallic. That's a bit heavy handed, she thought to herself.

    Although,

    after their sweaty climb, which had taken several hours, the sight of
    that beautiful lake, and the thought of a swim, was quite appealing, Don
    and Toshia led the little troop straight for the bridge that spanned
    the brook and carried the path they were on toward the tower. As they
    approached, Toshia was surprised to see that there was a large, very
    dark-skinned man standing there, barring the way onto the bridge. She
    was pretty sure he hadn't been there a moment before. He had thick
    muscles, stood at least two meters tall, and was leaning on a very large
    and shiny sword. Of course, he also had a prodigious cock and a pair of
    heavy balls hanging between his legs.

    None

    of them had had any kind of play since they had convened by the pool
    that morning, prior to leaving the Resort by way of the now rather
    cooperative gate, so Toshia wasn't at all surprised that she found
    herself thinking she would like to see if this big, black fellow was as
    good a fuck as she imagined he must be. He didn't look like he was there
    to offer sex, though.

    When

    they got close enough, the big man held up his hand and said, "Halt."
    Naturally enough, Toshia thought, he had a deep, sexy bass voice.

    "Hello," Don offered. "We would like to visit the tower."

    "The tower is not open to all," the man said impassively.

    "To whom is it open?" Toshia asked.

    "To

    members of the Order and to eligible pilgrims." Toshia got the sense
    that making these pronouncements was the whole point of this man's
    existence. He intoned his lines as if he was an actor with a small cameo
    part that he would nevertheless act the hell out of.

    Don frowned a moment before saying, "We're pilgrims. We need to speak with the Sage of the Tower."

    The

    big, black man said nothing for a long moment as he looked the party
    over carefully. He fixed each of them with his inscrutable dark eyes as
    if he was examining their souls, or at least reading their minds.
    Finally, he said, "Three of you may pass."

    Don asked, "Do you mean the three of us?" as he indicated himself, Toshia and Nicole.

    The impassive guard nodded once.

    "Good guess," Toshia whispered.

    "It just seemed to make sense," Don muttered.

    "What are our friends supposed to do?" Toshia asked, but the man didn't even bother to shrug.

    "We could wait by the lake," Shelonda suggested.

    Toshia was about to say that was a good idea, but Amy chimed in, asking, "How long will you be?"

    "That's a very good question," Don nodded.

    Shelonda

    frowned and then offered, "Why don't we go for a swim, and if you're
    not back when we're done, we'll just go back down to the Resort and you
    can come meet us there?"

    "I

    like that idea," Amy grinned. Toshia suspected Amy would be quite happy
    to give up their little quest and stay at the Resort indefinitely.

    "The Resort's a big place," Victor observed quietly.

    "That's

    right," Don nodded. "Why don't we try checking in with the Sheriff? You
    guys stop in and tell her where you're going, and we'll ask her where
    you are."

    "I'm

    not sure the sheriff will appreciate that," Toshia thought, but nobody
    else had any better ideas, so the sextet split into two groups – Amy,
    Shelonda and Victor heading off to swim in the lake, as Don, Nicole and
    Toshia slipped past the muscular guard and crossed the wooden bridge.

    There

    was no sign or any other indication of where they should go, but they
    could only see one door: a heavy, wooden thing of dark brown, with a
    large metal knocker set in the middle of it. It struck Toshia just then
    that there was nothing at all sexual about this door, the wall it was
    set into, or the building attached to the wall, unless you counted the
    gigantic phallus sticking out of it, of course. Toshia reached out and
    lifted the clapper and let it fall. There was a very loud bang on their
    side of the door. After a long moment, she banged again.

    "Maybe nobody's home," Nicole offered.

    Don

    opened his mouth to respond to this, but before he could speak, the
    door swung open. A young man with blond, disheveled hair and striking
    blue eyes peered around the door at them. He was wearing a brown robe,
    like what Toshia imagined monks wore, only this one looked like it had
    been thrown on in a great hurry; the belt around his waist was only
    loosely tied, and the brown hood fell around his shoulders in obvious
    disarray.

    "Um, hello," the young man said, "welcome to the Abbey. Please come in."

    "Thank you," Don nodded, as he led the way through the doorway.

    They

    were admitted into a comfortable but simple foyer, where half a dozen
    other brown-robed young adults assembled hastily to greet them. They
    were a mix of men and women, but they were all in the same state of muss
    as the fellow who had opened the door. Toshia could well imagine what
    they had been up to before she'd banged on their front door.

    "We're looking for the Sage," Don announced.

    "Yes,

    of course," said a voice from behind the small crowd of young people,
    who quickly parted to let the speaker come forward. This was a tall
    Asian gentleman who definitely looked more like a monk than the others.
    He was older for one thing, and seemed to have a more serene and
    unruffled demeanor. He smiled at Toshia and the others and said,
    "Welcome to the Abbey of Records, we will be happy to conduct you to the
    Sage. However, we have something of a ritual we would ask you to
    follow."

    "What

    sort of ritual?" Toshia asked, remembering the rite they had
    participated in the night after they had left the Manor. She couldn't
    decide at the moment if she was more titillated or leery of such a
    prospect.

    The

    tall man smiled and said, "Nothing alarming, I assure you. First we
    would offer to refresh you after your climb – a bath and some food and
    water. Then it is our custom to interview you in some detail about your
    experiences here in Eros."

    Don

    and Toshia conferred silently by means of a quickly shared glance and
    barely visible shrugs. They both seemed to think that Nicole would go
    along with whatever they decided. Toshia smiled back at the tall man and
    said, "Some refreshment would be very nice, thank you."

    The man bowed a bit, and said, "Alan, please attend to our guests. I will prepare the scribes."

    The

    young man who had opened the door bowed lower and said, "Yes, sir." He
    then turned to Toshia and her friends and said, "If you'll follow me..."

    They

    followed Alan as he led them into the Abbey and down a series of
    corridors, all as simple, even rustic, as the foyer. The half dozen
    brown-robed ... Toshia wasn't sure what to call them ... followed along
    in a hushed but clearly excited train. Finally, they came to a wide,
    open sunlit courtyard with an array of big stone basins cut into the
    floor. Each basin was filled with clear water (of the XYZ variety, of
    course) that sparkled in the midday sun. There was a profusion of
    flowers all around the courtyard, filling the area with bright colors
    and pleasant scents.

    A

    young woman with dark red hair and freckles smiled almost shyly at
    Toshia as she took her by the arm and gently led her toward a
    water-filled tub to the left. Toshia noticed that Don and Nicole were
    each being taken to nearby, but separate, tubs.

    "May I help you out of your clothes?" the little redhead asked.

    "Certainly,"

    Toshia smiled. It only took a moment before her sandals and dress were
    discarded and Toshia was slipping into the warm bathwater. The redhead
    quickly tossed her brown robe off over her head and joined her, bringing
    along some soap and a big sponge. Toshia just relaxed and enjoyed the
    attention as the girl began scrubbing at her skin. She only smiled as
    the pretty blond Alan stripped down and joined them, helping by washing
    Toshia's hair. Toshia hadn't been so well cleaned or so pampered since
    leaving the Manor, and there was no question that it felt very good
    indeed.

    Of

    course, the combination of being immersed in XYZ, the presence of the
    two sexy, naked bodies, and the way her body was being touched and
    stroked, soon had Toshia thinking mischievously. Her hands began to move
    up along the strong legs of her bathers. She slipped her hands up and
    around to give each of their bottoms a squeeze. The redhead's breast was
    in Toshia's face then, and she went ahead and gave the ruddy little
    nipple a kiss. At about the same time, her hand managed to find Alan's
    half erect cock, so she began to squeeze and pull on that.

    The

    two young people laughed happily and began to caress Toshia's body more
    playfully. Soon the girl was squatting down in the water next to
    Toshia, with her sponge moving purposefully between Toshia's legs; Alan
    was standing in front of Toshia with his now quite hard cock standing
    out in front of him as he carefully, but thoroughly rinsed Toshia's
    hair; and, Toshia, meanwhile, busied herself kissing and sucking on the
    purple head of that sex organ as she worked her left hand up between the
    redhead's legs to stroke her lips and clit under the water. The girl
    leaned in to help Toshia with Alan's cock, kissing along the shaft, and
    reaching up to fondle his balls with her free hand. The sponge was doing
    wonderful work under the water as the redhead rubbed it back and forth
    over Toshia's pussy and clit, and Toshia had to concentrate to move her
    own fingers productively. She shifted a bit so that she could slip two
    of her fingers up inside the redhead's pussy, letting her palm take care
    of keeping pressure and friction on the girl's clit. This left her
    freer to concentrate on Alan's cock.

    Toshia

    took hold of the base of Alan's cock with her right hand and began to
    suck on his broad head more deliberately. She enjoyed the sensation of
    having it fill her mouth, moving over her lips and tongue. As she felt
    her body responding to the sponge between her legs and the oral
    stimulation of sucking Alan's cock, she began to suck him harder and
    faster, her hand pumping the base of his shaft as the redhead continued
    to kiss his balls and groaned now and then as Toshia's fingers fucked in
    and out of her.

    As

    it turned out, the redhead was the first to come, gasping and
    whimpering as she clung to Toshia's shoulder and Alan's leg. Alan
    followed soon after, his fingers tangled in Toshia's hair and the
    redhead's, his body shuddering, and his cock spewing hot cum into
    Toshia's mouth and down her throat. Toshia was still swallowing
    hungrily, when she felt her own orgasm ripping through her body in waves
    of bright ecstasy. She held onto Alan's cock and kept sucking on it
    until she could open her eyes and catch her breath. Then, with a smile
    and a kiss, she let it go and took a moment to look around.

    In

    the tub closest to hers, Toshia saw that Don had slid down in the water
    so that his head was resting on a towel on the lip of his tub, and a
    naked woman was – somewhat precariously – kneeling over his mouth,
    enjoying the oral treatment Toshia now knew so well. At the same time, a
    very generously buxom young woman was riding up and down on Don's lap;
    while smiling happily and squeezing her own big tits tightly. A bit
    further away, Nicole was bent over the edge of her own tub as a
    particularly well-muscled young man fucked in and out of her from
    behind. Toshia could clearly see that Nicole had cum splattered over her
    face – no doubt contributed by the gentleman who was now running a
    sponge over Nicole's back.

    Just

    then Toshia's attention was drawn closer to home, as a robed woman with
    dark brown hair and a warm smile knelt down next to her with a platter
    bearing a selection of fruit and a tall glass of water.

    "Ah,

    thank you," Toshia smiled, as she took an apple and the glass. By the
    time Toshia had eaten half her apple, Nicole was being served fruit and
    water. By the time she was done with the apple and finishing off her
    water, Don was coming up for air and being offered refreshment. As
    Toshia finished her drink, the girl who had helped bathe her and more
    took the apple core and glass from her. Alan helped her out of the tub
    and proceeded to dry her with a nicely soft towel. She looked around
    then for her clothes, but was being presented with a grey robe, which
    was more like a bathrobe than the monkish ones the others were wearing.

    "We

    thought you wouldn't mind if we washed your clothes for you while
    you're here," said the smiling woman who had brought Toshia fruit.

    In

    short order, all three of them had been fed and watered, and were
    wearing comfortable grey robes. Apparently sex time was over for now,
    and they were led back into the Abbey, where they were met again by the
    tall Asian man.

    He

    offered them a friendly smile and said, "In the interest of a more
    accurate report, we would ask that you each be interviewed separately.
    We have three scribes ready to begin, if you don't mind."

    Toshia

    was conducted into a comfortable room that she thought could best be
    described as a study. There was a plain, but nice, wooden desk, a window
    high up on the wall facing the door that let in warm afternoon
    sunshine, a couch, and what looked like a comfortable easy chair.
    Sitting on the other side of the desk, at an old fashioned typewriter,
    was a man with a darkish Mediterranean complexion, and warm brown eyes.
    His head was shaved, but he had a dark black mustache and goatee. He
    rose as Toshia entered, showing that he was rather tall. Like the others
    he was wearing a brown robe. He leaned forward over the desk and
    extended his hand, saying, "Good afternoon. My name is Esteban."

    "Pleased

    to meet you, Esteban," she smiled as she shook his hand, a little
    amused at the sudden manners after just having engaged in a little orgy
    with complete strangers. "I'm Toshia."

    "That's a very pretty name," Esteban smiled. "Is it short for... No? Very good. Please make yourself comfortable."

    As

    Toshia considered her options, her escort retired back into the hallway
    without a word, and without closing the door behind him. She supposed
    this was intended to reassure her and her friends. Smiling a little to
    herself, Toshia decided to sit in the easy chair. When she took her
    seat, Esteban likewise sat down in front of his typewriter, and raised
    his hands over it, laying his fingers lightly on the keys.

    "We

    have some basic questions to ask to begin," he said with another
    charming smile. "First, though, how do you spell your name?"

    After Toshia told him, he asked, "What is the last thing you remember before waking up in Eros?"

    Toshia was a little surprised at this question, but said, "Going to bed with my girlfriend, Sarah."

    Esteban's fingers flew over the keyboard quickly.

    "Was that at night?"

    "Yes."

    "Was

    there anything special or distinctive about that evening?" His English
    was perfectly clear, though he had a noticeable Hispanic accent.

    "Not that I can recall."

    "Did you have sex that night?"

    "Um, why do you ask?"

    Esteban shrugged and offered her another sympathetic smile, "These are just the questions we're supposed to ask."

    "Who says you're supposed to ask?"

    "The Sage," he answered as if he expected that to deal with any and all objections.

    "What was the last thing you remember before waking up in Eros?" she tried.

    "I'm

    afraid I don't remember anything," he said, for the first time not
    smiling as he looked at her. "I only found out that people sometimes
    remember such things after I had been here quite some time."

    "Does that bother you?"

    He paused thoughtfully before saying, "It makes me curious."

    "No," Toshia said after a moment. Then she added, "We did not have sex."

    "How long had it been since you had sex before that night?"

    "I'm

    not sure. A couple of weeks, I think." Toshia frowned. At the time she
    hadn't been particularly aware of how long it had been, but now, after
    the last couple of weeks in Eros, "a couple of weeks without sex"
    sounded like a very long time indeed.

    "Thank you," Esteban said. "Now, please tell me about your experience when you first woke up here."

    Toshia

    proceeded to tell the story of how she and Don woke up together in the
    Manor. Esteban prompted her to explain her pre-Eros relationship with
    Don: Had they ever had sex? How would she characterize her feelings for
    him? How long had it been since they had seen each other? He seemed
    genuinely interested, and his fingers typed at an amazing rate without
    any hint of getting tired. Toshia explained how they had started
    exploring that bedroom and about the Nymphets dropping out of the
    ceiling. Esteban encouraged her to describe the girls as well as she was
    able, and then asked for details about her first sexual encounter in
    Eros. Toshia found herself smiling a bit as she recalled the orgasm
    Virginia had cheerfully given her, as well as the sight of Don playing
    with all three of the girls. She eventually got to tell how she had
    slipped away and found the secret door.

    As

    she got the hang of the level of detail and narrative Esteban was
    looking for, Toshia was able to move along a bit more quickly, without
    being stopped for additional detail. She gradually began to feel free to
    include the occasional aside and observation. While she was telling the
    story about the dodge ball game Toshia realized she was enjoying
    herself. By the time she got to the Ball, and her first little orgy, in
    that little side room with Lilith, Toshia realized she was getting
    rather wet. She pressed her thighs together under her robe, and tried to
    concentrate on telling the story.

    When

    she got to the point in her story in which she was alone with the Lord
    in his room, Esteban began to press her for more details, about her
    mental and emotional state – "What were you feeling and thinking when
    you were watching Don through the mirror?"; "What was it like to have
    such intense one-on-one sex with a man you'd only just met?" and Toshia
    found herself extremely horny. She couldn't tell which thing was
    arousing her more: the XYZ in her system, reliving her first day in Eros
    in such detail, or Esteban's friendly but, almost professionally,
    detached interest. Also, perhaps thanks to remembering the Player and
    his companions, Toshia found herself in a particularly mischievous mood.
    So, rather than simply throw off her robe and throw herself at Esteban,
    which struck her as a particularly good idea at the moment, Toshia
    leaned back in her chair and put one of her feet up on the edge of the
    desk in front of her, letting her robe fall open around her naked leg.
    She began to idly run her fingers up and down along her thigh as she
    continued answering Esteban's questions.

    As

    she told how the Lord had first entered her and began to fuck her with
    his big cock, Toshia parted her legs further and let her fingers lightly
    play over her pussy, which was now exposed to Esteban's view. By the
    time she got to the part where she asked the Lord to cum in her mouth,
    Toshia's fingers had slipped between her labia, to smear her wetness
    over her eager little clit. She kept telling the story as her fingers
    alternated between stroking her clit and pushing further and further up
    into her very moist vagina. By the time she told how she had the Lord
    lie on his back and then mounted his cock, Toshia was fucking herself
    with three fingers and frantically stroking at her clit with the other
    hand. Esteban was watching her intently, without for a moment pausing in
    his typing. She had definitely come to enjoy showing off almost as much
    as she enjoyed watching others.

    "I

    rode him there like that, on top ... on top of him, his cock fucking in
    and out of ... in and out of me ... until I started to come and come.
    Damn," she breathed, feeling her orgasm approaching quickly. "Then, he
    rolled us over and ... he pulled out and came all over... Oh, fuck!"
    Then she was unable to speak, as her teeth clenched and her body tensed,
    pushing her back against her chair as her leg pushed off against the
    desk. She came in a long rolling wave of ecstatic thunder pounding in
    her veins. She shoved her fingers deep up inside herself and kept
    stroking her clit until she could take no more and then collapsed back
    on the chair with a heavy sigh and a happy grin.

    After

    a moment to catch her breath, she said, "Then he carried me into the
    bathroom where he and a lovely young man bathed me before tucking me
    into bed."

    "That was all one day?" Esteban asked, apparently not too distracted by Toshia's display to continue working.

    "Not

    even a whole day," Toshia smiled. She didn't make any move to cover
    herself, but continued to idly toy with herself as she narrated the
    events of the following day. By the time she got to the story of the
    disco, she had shrugged herself out of her robe, and was casually
    caressing her naked body, flaunting it in front of Esteban, who
    certainly made no sign of objection. She was describing the atmosphere
    in the dancing pit of the disco, when she decided that enough was
    enough. It didn't help her patience that she had long since been aware
    of sex noises coming from other rooms nearby. She asked abruptly, "Don't
    you ever take a break?"

    Esteban smiled broadly and said, "Only when the interviewee requests one."

    "Oh, well, I'm requesting one!" she laughed. "Come over here."

    In

    another moment, Esteban was standing in front of her with his robe held
    up and his cock in Toshia's mouth. Although she planned to make him cum
    right then and there, he pushed her back, and knelt down between her
    legs. He pressed his mouth to her pussy; the thick black hair of his
    mustache and goatee felt strange against her skin after so many partners
    without any facial or pubic hair. Esteban certainly knew what he was
    doing, and in only a minute or two she was gasping and moaning with
    another orgasm. He didn't waste much time, then, in rising up on his
    knees and inching forward to press the head of his cock between her
    lips. Still shivering from her orgasm, Toshia nodded her approval and
    reached out for his hips to pull him closer.

    Without

    bothering to take off his robe Esteban pushed the full length of his
    hard cock up inside her, as he ran his warm hands over her body. When he
    cupped her breasts in his hands, Toshia moaned and wrapped her legs
    around him, pulling him tightly into her. He continued to squeeze and
    caress her tits as he began to move himself in and out of her pussy, all
    the while watching her face intently. Toshia lay back against the
    chair, arching her back and rocking herself on his cock, looking back up
    at him with half closed eyes. His robe fell between their bodies and
    contributed to the stimulation of her clit. She was having a series of
    little orgasms as they fucked, but when she felt his cock swelling
    inside her she felt another big, intense, body-racking one hit her. She
    was moaning and trembling as his cum flooded her pussy, and Esteban
    sagged over her in happy satisfaction.

    Toshia smiled up at him impishly, and said, "Thank you very much. I think all jobs should feature that kind of a break."

    Somehow,

    knowing that she could stop the proceedings at any point and have sex
    with her handsome scribe made it a bit easier for Toshia to get on with,
    and concentrate on the telling of, her story. She got through the orgy
    in the steam room, before straddling Esteban on his typing chair and
    riding him to another orgasm as he kissed, bit, licked and sucked at her
    nipples. After she described the ball, their exit from the Manor, and
    the intense rite with her being fucked senseless by the guardian of the
    portal, she finally got to him to take off his robe and then they
    enjoyed a nice little 69 on the floor. While this was going on, a pair
    of young women came in with sets of candles to light the now quite dark
    room, though Toshia was only barely aware of the intrusion. Most of the
    way through her story of the Sisterhood gangbang, Esteban took her hard
    and rough from behind, as she bent over the desk for him. She asked him
    to fuck her in the ass, while she brought herself off again and again
    playing with her clit. She finally moved to the couch to finish her
    narrative, and it was there, late at night, after she told about her
    time in Ladies Night, that Toshia and Esteban finished their marathon
    with a long, lazy fucking in the missionary position.

    He kissed her gently, looking down into her sleepy eyes, and asked, "Do you have anything you would like to add to your story?"

    Toshia

    reached up to caress Esteban's cheek, then brushed an errant hair out
    of her eyes, and said, "It's really been amazing. I am still annoyed by
    being taken without my permission, and I miss Sarah and can't wait to
    see her again, but I'm actually very glad that I've had this
    experience." She paused, then laughed, and said, "It's been quite an
    adventure!"

    Esteban kissed her again, slowly drew himself out of her, and said, "Thank you. This has easily been my favorite interview."

    Toshia

    laughed happily. By the time she had gathered up her robe, a
    brown-robed young woman was in the doorway, offering to guide her to a
    bedroom for the night. Nicole was already there, asleep in the rather
    large bed that was made available to them. Don arrived just after Toshia
    found the bathroom adjoining the bedroom. She felt his hand on the
    small of her back, just as she was turning the tap to start a shower.
    She turned to him with a smile, and slipped her arms around his naked
    body. They held each other tightly and kissed passionately.

    Toshia

    pulled Don with her into the shower. Their hands and mouths moved over
    each other's bodies almost automatically but with no shortage of
    interest. A few questions served to let them confirm that their
    experiences had been much the same, though Don had been interviewed by a
    middle-aged woman named Theresa, who had been every bit as
    accommodating as Esteban. At Don's urging, as his soapy fingers delved
    between her legs, she related the various things she and Esteban had
    done. Then, as her hands stroked his cock to what she thought must be
    painful stiffness, she asked him what he had done with Theresa. By the
    time he was finished telling her, Don had lifted Toshia up by the butt
    and lowered her down on his straining phallus. She wrapped her legs
    around his waist and threw her arms around his neck, both clinging to
    him and using her purchase to work her sex up and down on his shaft. As
    she felt herself coming yet again, she pulled his head to hers and
    kissed him hard and deep, shaking and trembling on him there as the
    water poured over their naked bodies.

    Before she let go of him, she said, "Thank you for being here with me, Don."

    Laughing, he said, "I didn't really have a choice."

    "Shut up. You know what I mean. You've been wonderful through all of this, and I'll never forget that."

    He kissed her again and said, "I know. I'm very glad we shared all of this, my love."

    Toshia

    grinned at him, kissed him again, and said, "Now put me down, so we can
    get cleaned up again and get some sleep. I'm exhausted!"

    To be continued in part 5.

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry for Literotica

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  • Lost in Eros, The Return: Part 3
    The Resort along the way to the Sage

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry, in 6 parts.  Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.



    After

    yet another trip to the showers and over breakfast, they discussed what
    to do next. They told Liu and Jimmy the abbreviated story of how they
    were trying to get up the mountain to the tower and how the gate
    wouldn't let them leave the resort until they really enjoyed themselves.
    Although they all admitted that they had thoroughly enjoyed themselves
    there in the Temple of Venus and Aphrodite, they suspected that the gate
    would not think they'd given the resort enough of a chance to impress
    them. It was Nicole who set the gears in motion for the day when she
    asked Liu, "What's that Clockwork Club like?"

    "Well, there are fun games and sexbots..." Liu began.

    "Wait," Toshia said cut in. "Did you just say 'sexbots'?"

    So,

    if only to satisfy Toshia, Nicole and Don's curiosity, they agreed to
    try the Clockwork Club next. They gathered their belongings from the
    Temple locker room. Jimmy, who preferred to spend the day by the pool,
    walked with them most of the way, and the remaining seven headed over to
    their next stop.

    The

    Clockwork Club was less imposing than the Temple, and had a much more
    complicated motif. Don thought the general structure looked as if
    someone had begun with a rather large, staid Victorian or Edwardian
    building, and then tried to make it some sort of steam punk. Strange
    weather-vane-ish instruments protruded at odd places, and there were
    quite a few smoke stacks poking up out of the roof all of which seemed
    to be producing steady quantities of steam and various colored smokes.
    There were many windows, all of them a deep emerald green.

    Stepping

    through the fancy, over-large wooden doors, they found themselves in
    what was at first glance an ordinary casino. There were flashing lights,
    row upon row of old-fashioned-looking slot machines with people
    cranking their levers, occasional ringing bells proclaiming winners, the
    happy sound of tokens spilling into waiting trays, and gleeful
    exclamations of delight. Of course, the people were all naked and seemed
    to be deriving some of their delight from sexual contact with their
    machines. And, then there was also the bulky gold robot trundling up to
    them; that was different.

    "Hello

    ladies and gentlemen!" said the robot. "Welcome to the Clockwork Club!"
    The machine had a box-like head with a pair of "eyes" and a
    mesh-covered speaker mouth. It had two arms with crude hands at the
    ends, but no legs, only what seemed to be wheels at its base. Don was
    particularly amused by the top hat that was perched over its
    green-lensed camera eyes. "I'm George. Is this your first visit to our
    Club?"

    "Not mine, George," Liu said with a smile and a wave for the robot.

    "The rest of us are new," Don answered.

    "I

    hope you enjoy our fine establishment. As a welcoming gift, please
    accept these complimentary tokens to get you started in our casino."
    There was a whirring sound, then the unmistakable sound of tokens
    cascading into a metal bucket, and a door opened in George's front. When
    a silvery bucket slid out, Don had to move quickly to keep it from
    spilling out on the floor. "If you would like more buckets, you may get
    those at the guest service desk over there." One of George's arms
    pointed in the general direction of a large wooden counter behind which
    were several other robots. "Most of our guests prefer to enjoy the Club
    without their clothing. We have convenient lockers available for your
    use, at a low, low cost of one token each. Would you like me to show you
    to the locker room?"

    "I can do that, George," Liu offered.

    "Thank you, sir or madam," George said cheerfully. "Would you like to purchase a tour of the Club for the low, low cost..."

    "I'll do that too, George," Liu said.

    "Thank

    you, sir or madam. If there is anything else you need please do not
    hesitate to ask myself or one of our many other servicebots. Have a
    great time everyone!" And, George promptly backed away from them.

    Although

    he was eager to explore this weird casino, Don knew this group, so he
    suggested, "Maybe we should visit that locker room first."

    Once

    they were all once again happily naked, Liu led the way back out to the
    main room. She pointed out that "The slot machines are divided into
    men's and women's." She led them over to one for a woman and showed them
    the saddle that sat in front of the machine. There was a thick dildo
    jutting up from the middle of the saddle. Liu explained, "Some of them
    don't have dildos, some have ones for asses, and some have both regular
    and ass dildos. You sit on them like this, put in a token, pull the
    lever down, and if the right combination of symbols comes up ... oh!"

    The

    strange symbols that clicked into place in the machine's display must
    have been a winning combination, because Liu trembled all over as the
    saddle and/or dildo did something obviously pleasurable to her. After a
    moment, she said, "Um, most of the time that doesn't happen; sometimes
    you just get a little tease, and sometimes you get much more. Oh, and
    sometimes you win a bunch of tokens, and there's the grand prize which
    is AMAZING and you get a lot of tokens too."

    Nicole said, "I think we're going to need our own buckets."

    As

    they went back to the customer service counter to get six more buckets
    and then divide up the tokens evenly, except for Liu who got one less,
    Don asked, "What are the tokens good for, besides more turns at the
    machines?"

    "Oh, well, you can trade them in for sessions with the sexbots," she smiled.

    "And those are good?" Toshia asked.

    "Not

    everyone likes them, but I think they're a lot of fun. You know how
    sometimes they'll say 'he fucks like a machine'? Well, I've never met a
    man who can fuck like these machines."

    "Hmm," Toshia mused, to Don's great amusement.

    "If

    you win really big, there's the orgasmatron, for women, and a special
    sexbot for the men," Liu went on. "I've never seen her, but they say
    she's incredible. There are other things to do here, too. Some people
    play games to exchange tokens between each other, and there are some
    rooms where people can use some of the Club's toys to play with each
    other."

    Don

    was more interested in the odd economics of this casino than actually
    using the machines to get off, but he cheerfully watched as everyone
    else moved to give the slot machines a try. At this point Don wasn't
    surprised to see that Toshia stopped by an automated lube dispenser and
    then selected a slot machine with a combination vaginal and anal set of
    dildos. He was too distracted watching Toshia, though, to see what the
    other girls selected. As it so happened, it was Toshia who had the first
    payout. On her fifth attempt, she got a small prize of eighteen tokens.
    Shortly after this, Amy won what seemed to be about ten seconds of
    stimulation that made her shriek in surprise and then carry on
    depositing tokens and pulling the handle with more determination. Then
    from the other side of the aisle, Victor said, "Oh wow! That's nice!"

    Don

    looked to see that the big man seemed to have found a machine with a
    sleeve for his cock, a cup for his balls, and a small dildo for up his
    butt. Apparently these mechanisms were able to give Victor the
    equivalent of what Amy's machine had done for her, because he continued
    to play with similar enthusiasm.

    Seeing

    that everyone, including the self-appointed tour guide Liu, was quite
    content to stay there and enjoy the slot machines for a while, Don
    decided to do a bit of exploring on his own. Taking his bucket and
    tokens, he moved off, down long aisles of flashing, vibrating machines
    and past many eager "gamblers". He paused to watch a lithe naked girl
    gasping and grinding as she won a minor jackpot, but then moved on.
    Toward the back of the main room on the ground floor Don came upon an
    area dominated by three large roulette tables. He expected to find
    everyone plugged into devices around the tables, but it seemed that
    everyone was actually just playing roulette. Well, there was at least
    one woman playing as she leaned forward over the edge of the table and a
    strapping young man screwed her from behind. For the most part, though,
    these tables just seemed to be a way for players to try to increase
    their number of tokens.

    At

    the very rear of the large room, there was a large, upright "wheel of
    fortune" device. Don stood by for several moments, trying to work out
    what was going on for himself. After depositing several tokens in a slot
    near a bright orange gate, which opened when the appropriate amount had
    been deposited, each player stepped up to the wheel and gave it an
    energetic spin. Naturally, there was a variety of spin results: several
    different token prize amounts, delivered with flashing lights and alarms
    via a chute to the side of the wheel; a couple of spin-agains; a few
    flat out losers; some wedges that Don couldn't make out, and didn't see
    demonstrated; and one result he thought was particularly interesting. If
    a player got that result he or she received only a colored ticket and
    proceeded off to a little lounge area off to the side. If anyone else
    was there with a matching-color ticket, the two people commenced playing
    together. If not, the ticket bearer was apparently obliged to wait
    there until someone turned up with the right ticket. Don wondered if
    anyone wound up spending hours just sitting there.

    Don

    decided to give the wheel a spin. He found that he had to deposit five
    tokens, which he did. The orange gate swung up and Don stepped up to the
    wheel. Setting his little silver bucket on a conveniently placed
    pedestal, he took a firm hold of two of the little handles and gave the
    wheel a mighty spin. It seemed to take a very long time to begin to slow
    down, and Don noticed that he was caught up in the excitement of the
    game. The wheel came to a stop on a wedge that was simply yellow, and a
    yellow ticket promptly popped out of the little slot next to the
    prize-token chute.

    As

    he took his ticket, Don thought this was a very clever device. Although
    he had not won anything; was, in fact, five tokens down; Don still felt
    like he'd won something and was still actively involved in the game,
    all for the price of a paper-ticket, if such things had a price here.

    Picking

    up his bucket and turning to the lounge/play area, he saw that another
    person was already there with a yellow ticket; a rather young looking,
    thin East Asian guy with long hair. Don wasn't particularly interested
    in playing with this young man, and he sensed a bit of reluctance on the
    other side of the handshake they shared. "I'm Don," he smiled calmly.

    "Steve," was the apparently nervous reply.

    "Steve?" Don repeated, a bit surprised at the very non-Asian name, but got nothing but a blank nod from Steve.

    "Are we allowed to wait until a woman wins a yellow ticket?" Don asked with a smile.

    "Oh," Steve grinned, "I suppose we could. Good idea."

    Don

    chuckled to himself, and looked around the lounge. There was an
    attractive woman holding a red ticket sitting nearby, watching the wheel
    spinners, and a male-female couple who had matched blue tickets a bit
    before Don had gotten his ticket. The man was lying back along a couch,
    while the woman knelt in front of him and gave him what looked like a
    quite satisfactory blowjob from where Don was sitting.

    The

    next person to join them was a woman, but she scored a blue ticket, and
    promptly took a seat next to the woman who had the red one. Don thought
    he and Steve ought to suggest ditching this game to the two
    un-partnered women, but realized this was hardly in the spirit of the
    Clockwork Club. They didn't have to wait long, though, before someone
    else won a ticket. This time it was a woman with a red ticket who
    obviously had no compunction about a bit of same-sex play. Soon the two
    women were engaged in an enthusiastic 69 within arm's reach of Steve,
    who was extremely distracted, and visibly excited, by watching them. The
    first couple; with the blue tickets; had finished and wandered off to
    the rest of the casino, before another player joined them: a very pretty
    young woman with another red ticket. Finally, after a string of
    out-right loser spins on the wheel, a cute little woman with long,
    straight, brown hair, small breasts and long legs won herself a yellow
    ticket.

    She

    grinned as she saw that there were two men waiting for her in the
    lounge area. She stuck out her hand and said, "Hi, I'm Emily! Were you
    boys waiting for little ol' me?"

    "We certainly were," Don smiled back, and Steve nodded enthusiastically.

    "Well,

    that was sweet of you," Emily continued to grin. "Let's go back over
    here and see how I can thank you for waiting so patiently."

    Before

    they could make it to the couch, though, Emily stopped them, dropped to
    her knees and was soon taking turns sucking on first Steve and then
    Don. As she went down on them, she looked up at them with her cheerful
    brown eyes, which Don thought was the sexiest thing he'd seen all day.
    Soon lovely Emily was on her hands and knees between Don and Steve,
    sucking the former and fucking the latter. Steve, who had been getting
    riled up for a while, didn't take too long to come, shoving forward into
    Emily and groaning loudly. As soon as he was done, he smiled at Don and
    headed back into the casino.

    Kids,

    Don thought to himself as he coaxed Emily up and over to the couch. She
    pushed him down on his back, and immediately climbed up over him,
    planting her feet on the firm couch by his hips. He smiled back up at
    her as she lowered herself down onto his straining cock. As Don felt her
    tight, wet embrace taking hold of his shaft, Emily leaned forward to
    rest her hands on his shoulders. Don reached under to support her butt
    in his hands as she began to ride up and down. Her hair was hanging down
    around her face and she never stopped looking him in the eye or smiling
    as she fucked him.

    "Damn,

    that feels so good," Emily said. "You're going so deep!" They continued
    on in this position for quite a while, but as she began to get tired,
    Don suggested they change things up a bit. She lay on top of him as he
    twisted around and then sat up with her still mounted on him. Then,
    holding her up on him, Don stood up. Emily put her feet down on the
    couch behind Don and held onto his shoulders. He bent his knees,
    pistoning his cock up into her as she flexed herself in front of him.
    This position was easy to maintain, provided lots of clitoral stimulus,
    and put them face to face. Soon he was watching her cheerful face
    scrunching up as she gasped and shuddered with an intense orgasm. Before
    she was done, she leaned in and kissed him; hard and long! This was the
    final straw for Don and he felt himself boiling over up inside her,
    filling her with his hot cum.

    Emily

    thanked him for their mutual "winnings", as she laughingly called it,
    kissed him again, and headed off into the casino. Watching her petite
    frame walk away, Don decided it was time to head back and check up on
    the rest of the group. He was unsurprised to see that everyone was still
    there. Both Toshia and Liu noticed Don's return and gave him brief
    waves from their adjoining machines.

    Although

    he'd been gone for almost an hour, Don was back in time to see the
    first really big win. Naturally enough, the first one to win more than a
    brief titillation or a small pot of tokens was Toshia. As soon as the
    last symbol clicked into place, she said, "Ha! I won!" Then she stopped
    and her mouth just gaped open for a moment. "Oh my God!" she gasped.
    "That's ... oh fuck! Oh fuck!!"

    Don

    watched as she held on to the front of her machine and shook as the
    saddle and both the dildos did a combination of vibrating, pulsing and
    thrusting things that transported Toshia into a shaking trembling orgasm
    like nothing he'd ever seen. She cried out inarticulately as the
    machine carried her into another orgasm and then another.

    As she came down, she leaned forward on the machine and breathed, "Oh wow."

    Liu came over with a broad grin and said, "That's what the sexbots do for you, only more."

    "More would kill me," Toshia said weakly. Then, after a moment, she looked up at Don and said, "I want to try one!"

    Don laughed and said, "OK. How many tokens do we need?"

    "One thousand," Liu answered quickly.

    "And how many do we get with a jackpot on one of these machines?" Don asked as he crossed the aisle to an unoccupied unit.

    "It varies, but you hardly ever win a jackpot."

    Don

    deposited a token, but did not mount the machine's saddle. As he pulled
    the handle down, Don looked over his shoulder to Liu and Toshia and
    said, "You mean 'hardly anyone ever wins a jackpot', not that I hardly ever do."

    Don

    held his bucket under the prize bin expectantly, even before the second
    symbol clicked into place. Sure enough, Don hit the jackpot. Flashing
    lights, a siren and a truly deafening barrage of ringing bells
    accompanied a flood of tokens pouring into the bin, Don's bucket and
    onto the floor. The display on the front of the machine indicated that
    he had just won 750 tokens.

    "That's amazing!" Liu gaped from over his shoulder. She had abandoned her own machine. "You just played one token."

    "I'm

    just lucky, I guess," Don shrugged. He knew however that he had merely
    applied his technique of focused expectation that he had used so
    successfully here in Eros, in finding the Manor's exit and in fighting
    the Sisterhood. He expected to get a jackpot, so he got a jackpot.

    He

    passed his now heavy bucket of tokens to Toshia, who had joined him and
    Liu. Don took Toshia's bucket, dumped her pile into the nearly full
    bucket of his that she was holding and moved to another machine. In a
    few moments, there was another blaring claxon, another barrage of
    bright, flashing lights, and another cascade of tokens.

    "How do you do that?" Liu asked amazed.

    "Magic,"

    Don smiled smugly at her. "You promised to give us a tour of the club,
    Liu. Can you do that and show us to the sexbots?"

    "Sure," the pretty young woman said. "Anyone else want to come along?"

    "I want to get one of those jackpots!" Amy said.

    Victor,

    Shelonda and Nicole all seemed to agree with Amy. So, Liu led just
    Toshia and Don off toward the back of the main room, where she showed
    them the roulette tables and the "Wheel of Chance."

    "It's fun," Don assured Toshia, briefly telling her what he'd been doing while she played the slots.

    "We should come back and give it a spin," Toshia smiled, "if I survive the sexbot, that is."

    Liu

    led them up a circular staircase to the second floor, where they passed
    a number of small rooms which she said were, "Remote play rooms." As
    they went down the long corridor lined with doors, Liu explained: "You
    go into a room and get into the chair, and then you wait. On the third
    floor, someone deposits some tokens and they get to control a dildo, or
    two, or an artificial pussy that moves into you, or on you, Don. They
    get to watch you on a screen, but you don't get to see them. You can
    talk to each other, though. Oh, and the room you get when you go
    upstairs is random, so you never know who you're going to be playing
    with."

    "That sounds very interesting," Toshia mused.

    "Another thing to try out, eh?" Don winked at her.

    Following

    Liu's delectable backside up two more flights of stairs, they came to
    the fourth floor, where they were greeted by a robot that looked just
    like George downstairs, except that it was silver and had no top hat.
    This one addressed them with a woman's voice and said, "Welcome, sir or
    madam. My name is Dolores and I am your hostess here in the sexbot
    rooms. Please deposit your ... one thousand ... tokens in the bin to my
    left."

    This

    project took several minutes, because Toshia didn't want to give up any
    extra of "her" tokens. Once they had deposited exactly one thousand
    tokens into the bin, Dolores said, "Thank you. Please follow me, sir or
    madam."

    The

    hostess robot trundled down the hallway, turned a corner, and led them
    to a door, which clicked open as she approached. Dolores gestured
    vaguely at the now open room, and said, "Here you go. Please enjoy
    yourself thoroughly."

    "We'll wait out here," Don suggested.

    "Oh

    no you don't!" Toshia said with feeling. "I'm not letting a robot have
    its way with me without someone there to pull its plug, or whatever, if
    necessary."

    "Oh, it will respond to your commands," Liu assured her.

    "Yeah, sure," Toshia said.

    "OK," Don laughed. "We'll come watch. You don't have to twist my arm."

    The

    softly lit room they entered had warm carpeting and wood-paneled walls.
    In the center of the room was something that looked like a modified
    old-fashioned dentist's chair. A number of attachments, including a pair
    of stirrups that Don presumed looked like those found in a
    gynecologist's office, piqued Don's curiosity. In the corner of the
    room, was a barrel-bodied robot straight out of a 1950s B-movie. It
    seemed to have a soft black rubber or latex coating covering almost all
    of its body.

    "You

    get up on the chair," Liu was saying, as if Toshia and Don wouldn't be
    preoccupied with the robot. "It will adjust for you, and you can push it
    into any position you want."

    Toshia

    looked over the chair and the stirrups skeptically, but then shrugged
    and hopped up onto the small seat. It was shallow so that she was
    already scooted forward. As soon as her butt hit the padding, the sexbot
    in the corner clicked to life. Lights blinked on its dome covered head
    and it took several steps forward toward the chair. There was a whirring
    sound followed by a series of clacks.

    "Good

    day, ma'am," the robot said, in a voice that was a cross between a
    comically kitschy metallic stereotype and a soulful bass. Both Don and
    Toshia chuckled at the weird combination. "Please relax. Giving you the
    ultimate sexual experience is my only purpose. Let me know if you want
    me to do anything differently. Believe me, I am extremely responsive."

    "OK,"

    Toshia said as she put her feet in the stirrups and pushed them apart,
    spreading her legs wide for the sexbot. With a grin Don could tell was
    nervous, she said, "Show me what you got, big guy."

    The

    bot lumbered forward a few more steps. Then it reached out with a big,
    black, three fingered hand and touched Toshia's leg. There was more of
    that whirring sound and more clacking, and then a panel opened in the
    front of the machine's torso and a prodigious cock-shaped dildo
    extended.

    Don

    moved to Toshia's left, where she reached out and caught his hand,
    pulling him close. Liu took up a position her right. The sexbot
    meanwhile moved in closer, moving his large hand up the inside of her
    leg with surprising gentleness. When that hand reached her crotch, the
    sexbot paused, covering her pussy. Don heard a low buzzing sound, and
    Toshia gave a little shriek and squeezed Don's hand. He watched as she
    pushed herself further forward against the vibrating hand. She whimpered
    a little when the bot pulled its hand away and moved in between her
    legs.

    The

    fat head of the dildo aimed itself unerringly between Toshia's lips,
    and she moaned, "Oh yeah, that feels good," as it entered her. The
    machine inched closer to Toshia until its front was pressed against her.
    Don heard the sound of pistons and hydraulics, and Toshia gasped,
    "Damn, it's fucking me!"

    Don

    was transfixed watching Toshia's slender body arching back on the odd
    chair while the bulky black robot pumped her steadily with its hard
    dildo.

    "Damn!"

    Toshia said. "It's getting bigger, and faster!" Don could hear the
    bot's mechanisms cycling faster. "Uh huh; yeah, fuck me faster!"

    The

    mechanical man obliged, and Toshia let go of Don's hand so she could
    grab both of the chair's handles and pull herself forward into the
    robot. Don found himself grinning as Toshia grunted and began to moan.
    Don reached out to brush Toshia's hair with his right hand and cupped
    her left breast with his left hand. Seeing what he was up to, Liu
    imitated Don on the other side. The two of them proceeded to pinch and
    twist at Toshia's nipples as the sexbot continued to pump its thick
    dildo-cock in and out of Toshia's pussy.

    Don

    realized then that for some time there had been a slowly rising hum;
    some part or parts of the sexbot were vibrating against Toshia. Then
    Toshia was coming; loud and hard. Gasping and shaking, she shoved
    herself back onto the machine as it fucked her. The bot continued to
    piston and vibrate in and against Toshia as she writhed. When she came
    down a little, Don leaned over and lowered his mouth onto the breast he
    had been tormenting with his fingers. Again, Liu followed his lead, and
    the two of them got cozy over Toshia's tits, sucking and pulling on her
    nipples.

    The

    pace of the bot's fucking and the pitch of the humming seemed to
    continue to gradually increase, and soon enough Toshia threw her head
    back and shrieked as she began to come again, and again. She shook and
    twisted between the sexbot, Liu and Don. After several minutes of this,
    Toshia groaned and called out, "No, no! Stop!"

    Don

    and Liu lifted their heads and looked at Toshia, who was sagging back
    against the chair. The robot quickly decreased its various functions
    until it was still inside and against Toshia's body.

    "That was a-MA-zing!" Toshia finally managed.

    "Have you had enough already?" Liu asked.

    "Enough? Already?" Toshia laughed, a bit deliriously. "There's more?"

    "He's yours until you leave the room," Liu nodded.

    "Oh my!" Toshia giggled.

    About

    ten minutes later, after Toshia had rolled over, while the sexbot
    fucked both her pussy and ass like, well, a machine, Don had the
    pleasure of having his very hard, flesh and blood cock sucked by Toshia,
    who seemed to have hit a feverish plateau of orgasmic ecstasy. When
    Toshia finally collapsed, spent, Liu and Don caressed and kissed her
    until she was ready to be helped out of the room.

    Don

    had no interest in sampling the mechanical pleasures available in the
    clockwork club. He was very much aware of the fact that for him sex was
    almost entirely about the woman, or women, he was with. He got off on
    getting them off; without that element, he felt it would just be a
    complicated form of masturbating, and that hardly seemed appealing,
    given the wealth of more, shall we say, collaborative options available
    to him. This, however, was before he met Galatea, but that is a story
    for another time.

    Ladies Night brings out the inner desires of the women.

    Ladies Night

    Toshia

    drifted in and out of sleep for a while. The sun was warm and the
    breeze on her naked skin was light. She had a fleeting dream of enjoying
    the sex resort along with her partner Sarah. Toshia enjoyed watching
    Sarah playing with all of the cheerful naked people. Of course, in the
    dream the resort was confused with other elements of Toshia's time in
    Eros. 

    Some

    of the place was actually taken from the Manor, for one thing, and, for
    another, the Bull was there, sipping a cocktail by the pool. This made
    Toshia chuckle a little, which woke her up again. She heard the sound of
    a woman sighing and moaning nearby. Toshia slowly turned toward the
    sound and opened her sleepy eyes.

    On

    the lounge chair next to Toshia, pretty little Liu was laying on her
    back with her legs spread so Don could lay over her and slowly fuck her.
    The two of them seemed very intent upon each other and Toshia smiled
    drowsily as she watched.

    When

    the gang had finally made their way out of the Clockwork Club, Toshia
    had needed help walking. She had been so well and truly fucked by the
    sexbot, and then, without much of a break at all, had been treated to
    the orgasmatron, that her body was wrung out through sheer excess of
    pleasure. Ultimately, Don had lifted her in his arms and carried her
    over to a lounge chair by the immense pool. Toshia had murmured her
    thanks and promptly fallen asleep. She was a bit surprised now that the
    sun was still shining; she felt as though she had slept for many hours.

    Toshia

    watched as Liu's hands moved over Don's body, reaching down to squeeze
    his ass and pull him into her. She admired the flexing muscles of both
    bodies. Toshia smiled as she looked at the way Don focused so intently
    on the woman he was with. Toshia was happy to love this man and was so
    glad that she had been brought to Eros where she had become his lover,
    even if it meant that they had to work so hard to get her back to Sarah.
    Toshia felt the heat between her legs rising as she watched Don fucking
    their new friend, but she was feeling too lazy to do anything about it.
    Instead, she just lay there, enjoying the show, as Liu gasped and Don
    groaned and then they were cumming together. As they slowly came down,
    Don leaned down to kiss Liu, and Toshia managed to say, "Bravo!"

    Don looked over at her with a broad smile and said, "Well, hello there, Sleeping Beauty."

    "Hello, stud," Toshia smiled. "I take it you didn't need a nap."

    "Oh, I took one, but it was very short."

    Liu

    patted Don's butt and said, "Let me up, Don. I want to go for a swim."
    Then, when she and Don had disentangled themselves, she turned to Toshia
    and said, "Want to join me, Toshia?"

    "It

    would probably help me wake up, wouldn't it?" Toshia mused. She let Liu
    pull her up off her lounger and then followed the slender Asian woman
    into the pool, leaving Don on his lounger watching them with a happy
    smile.

    The

    water was definitely refreshing, particularly since it was actually
    XYZ. Soon Toshia was both awake but decidedly frisky. She and Liu played
    a bit in the water; just groping and teasing each other; but it got
    Toshia thinking of a plan for the evening. When they climbed back out of
    the pool, where Don had been rejoined by Shelonda, Nicole, Amy and
    Victor, Toshia was ready to make her proposal.

    "I

    think I need to take a cock-break," Toshia said. "How about us girls go
    check out that 'Ladies Night' club tonight, and you guys find your own
    play?"

    "Ladies Night is very nice," Liu nodded. "No men allowed in there."

    Although Amy seemed a bit less than enthusiastic, all the women agreed with Toshia that it would be fun to have a girls' night.

    "You don't mind, do you?" Toshia asked Don. She assumed the extremely cooperative Victor wouldn't object.

    "No,"

    Don laughed. "Go, have fun! I think I'd like to check out the Jungle
    Room. Keep an eye on each other, though. Why don't we all meet back here
    in the morning?"

    Soon

    the five women made their way through the resort to the large building
    identified as "Ladies Night". Although the name's spelling perhaps
    suggested a tackier establishment, it was actually a very large mansion
    with a lovely park surrounding it. Liu led them directly to the front
    door where the five naked women entered without any sign of a bouncer.
    Toshia found herself wondering why the men didn't try to slip in here.

    They

    found themselves in a very large hall lit by candles; hundreds of
    candles. The carpet and dark, wood paneling reminded Toshia of the Manor
    bedroom where she and Don had first awakened together. There were many
    soft chairs and couches arranged about the room, and women lounged on
    the furniture or moved among it. There was soft, lush music playing in
    the background. As the group made their way into the club, they saw
    women in various degrees of undress (tending toward nudity) talking,
    kissing, caressing... but there was very little full-blown sex going on.
    Toshia found herself once again wishing that Sarah was here, not only
    to be sharing all of these wild adventures, but just to be holding her
    hand right now. Liu led them through this hall until she came to a
    winding stairwell opposite the entrance. As they climbed upward, they
    became aware of dance music being played above them. They came to a
    small foyer at the landing for the second floor, and Liu paused before a
    large pair of double doors. She smiled at the others and said, "This is
    the dance floor."

    The

    petite woman pushed the doors open and they saw a wide dance floor lit
    with various colored lights and somewhat crowded with feminine bodies
    moving in time to the music. This disco was better lit than the Manor's,
    and there was no pit of XYZ-smoke. Also, the music was a sexy
    jazz-fusion variety. Toshia found herself immediately responding to the
    rhythm and atmosphere. Moving with the rest of the girls, she headed out
    onto the dance floor.

    Liu

    and Amy paired off and then Shelonda and Nicole drew Toshia with them
    into a bumping, grinding and groping dance. Toshia's hands moved over
    their smooth, soft, dark skin, caressing their curves and stroking their
    fit muscles, all while their hands did the same. Letting the rhythm
    move her body, Toshia enjoyed the playful petting and the occasional
    kisses from her two playmates. She laughed as the two girls ganged up on
    her, each kissing a side of her neck as their hands moved over her
    body, squeezing her butt and pinching her nipples. Meanwhile her own
    hands were busy, gripping their firm asses tightly and pulling them
    closely to her.

    A

    different song brought a faster rhythm and their little knot of
    foreplay loosened and began to include other dancers. For a while Toshia
    just let herself go, enjoying the intoxicating rush of dancing in a mob
    of sexy, almost entirely naked, women. Her body was rubbing against
    others indiscriminately. At one moment her butt was being caressed and
    rubbed, though she had no idea who was doing it, and at another her
    nipples were rubbing against the back of a woman pressed against her.
    The next song shifted the tempo down a bit, and Toshia found herself
    face to face with a striking woman with brown skin and thick black hair
    brushing her shoulders. This woman, who Toshia thought must be Latina,
    smiled at her warmly and put her hands on Toshia's waist, drawing her
    close. Toshia slipped her hands around the woman's neck and felt her
    full, warm breasts pressed against Toshia's. They moved there, swaying
    together, smiling and looking into each other's eyes. When the tempo
    shifted up again and the rest of the crowd responded enthusiastically,
    the pretty woman paused long enough to lean in and give Toshia an all
    too fleeting kiss. Then Toshia was again bouncing and writhing in the
    small sea of naked women.

    The

    next time she found herself dancing with just one person, it was a
    lively young woman with wildly messy short dark blonde hair, a taut
    athletic body, medium-sized tits, long muscular legs and a spectacular
    ass. This enthusiastic creature started off by grabbing Toshia and
    kissing her hard. Then the two women proceeded to dance energetically
    together, frequently humping each other's thighs as they made out. When
    the girl made to move away it was Toshia's turn to grab her and pull her
    back, kissing her hard then biting her lip. The girl laughed and
    proceeded to squeeze and knead Toshia's ass in her hands. Toshia on the
    other hand slipped her hand down between the two of them and pushed her
    fingers up between the girl's legs. As Toshia's fingers slipped up into
    the girl's tight, very wet pussy, Toshia pulled the girl's head to her
    own and kissed her passionately. Following Toshia's lead, the girl moved
    her own hand down to Toshia's crotch. The two women made out there in
    the middle of the dance floor, hardly dancing at all, while their
    fingers moved in and out of their wet pussies, palms pressed against the
    other's clit. It didn't take long before Toshia was gasping and
    shuddering as her first orgasm of the evening tore through her there on
    the dance floor. She bit the girl's poor tongue some as her body
    clenched, but the girl didn't seem to notice or care as her own orgasm
    was crashing in on her too. As they slowly came to their senses, leaning
    there against each other on the dance floor, they laughed, kissed and
    gradually got back into the dance. When the tempo shifted up yet again,
    they parted and didn't see each other again.

    After

    about an hour more of this, Toshia decided to take a break from the
    heady spirit of the dance. She made her way to the edge of the dance
    floor and, for the first time, took a look around at the rest of the
    room. She saw that there was a balcony running around the whole of the
    dance floor where there seemed to be seating. Toshia found a coiling
    stairwell and climbed up to this new balcony area. She was surprised to
    find that it was quite a bit bigger than she had expected. While there
    were comfortable couches arranged around the balcony so that people
    could look down on the dance floor, there were also intimate booths all
    around the outer edge of the balcony. There were many women, in pairs
    and more, enjoying these booths. Still, there was more; every few booths
    there were stairs leading up to another level, above and behind the
    booths. This upper level seemed to consist of what would be tents if
    they weren't made of sheer, see-through fabric. Inside the tents were
    sumptuous pillows, apparently of silk. Even from where she was Toshia
    could see quite a few women enjoying these comfortable little tents.

    Then,

    Toshia noticed that there were scantily clad women moving about with
    trays of fruit and water. Moving quickly, Toshia snagged a glass of
    water and downed it at once, managing to replace the glass on the same
    tray. She also scored a small bunch of grapes, which she began to eat as
    she started to look around a bit more.

    She

    paused in front of a booth that was occupied by four women engaged in a
    nicely complicated bit of play. The vision of feminine flesh, flexing
    muscles, long legs and arms, and heaving breasts was quite inviting.
    Toshia considered making it a fivesome, but decided to move along for
    now. After all, she still had grapes to finish.

    Out

    of the corner of her eye, Toshia saw a glimpse of black. Turning her
    head she saw what was now the not-entirely-unexpected shape of a black
    robed figure watching the goings on in the club. Though she had no idea
    what she would do if she managed to actually confront the watcher,
    Toshia began to move around toward the mysterious figure. She wasn't
    surprised, though, when, after rounding a corner, there was no sign of
    the watcher. She persisted, though, and came to the place where the
    robed figure had been standing. Looking around, she couldn't find any
    evidence that there had ever been any such person there. There were a
    couple of women making out on a couch right next to her, but Toshia
    doubted that they would have noticed a rhinoceros standing there. To the
    left there was a quartet of women, in two couples, who were similarly
    engaged.

    Toshia

    sighed to herself and turned back to the balcony and looked down over
    the dance floor, which now seemed more crowded than when she and her
    friends had come into the club. She again found herself thinking about
    Sarah, wishing she had come with her to Eros. Toshia remembered the last
    time they had gone out dancing; it seemed like so very long ago. Even
    before Eros, it had been a long while since the two of them had gone out
    and thrown themselves into anything as exuberant as a night of dancing.
    She realized now that she had been missing this very much. Over time,
    everyday life and the realities of cohabitating with another person had a
    way of crowding out the spontaneous, sexy playful of a happy, loving
    couple. Mundane reality distracted you and lulled you into a routine.
    This wasn't news to Toshia, but she had now discovered a new
    determination to fight back against the boring and mundane. When she got
    back to Sarah, she would make sure they got out of their rut and stayed
    out of it. Toshia looked down at the mob of sexy women dancing there
    and thought, God, I miss her so much!

    Then

    Toshia spotted Shelonda at the edge of the crowd. She was dancing with a
    sexy little redhead. Toshia watched as the redhead pulled Shelonda away
    from the dancing and toward a pair of double doors Toshia hadn't
    noticed before. When the two girls went through, Toshia's curiosity
    impelled her back to the coiling stairs and down. She skirted the dance
    floor and came to the doors Shelonda had gone through. The doors opened
    easily, and Toshia found herself moving down a deeply carpeted hallway,
    very much reminiscent of the Manor. At the end of the hallway was a
    broad stair case leading back down to the main floor. There Toshia found
    another set of double doors. Before opening the doors, though, she
    noticed a large mirror mounted on the wall.

    Toshia

    paused to look at herself in the mirror. Her hair was a bit of a mess
    from dancing, and generally not caring much about it lately. She moved
    closer to get a better look, and noticed that she looked healthy and
    flush, again, no doubt, from the dancing. Her eyes moved lower and
    noticed that she was looking very good. Her normally trim body was now
    firm and taut with well-defined musculature, without being what she
    would think of as muscular. Her hands moved over her flat belly and then
    she turned to look at her butt. She had always thought she had a nice
    rear end, but it was now very nice indeed; tight and shapely. Similarly
    her legs looked great! Even her breasts seemed a bit firmer, and fuller.
    It was as if her only body fat was now in her tits. There still wasn't
    an awful lot of it there, either, but she thought it looked very good.

    With

    a smile at her reflection, and pausing just for a moment to check out
    her own ass one more time, Toshia turned back to the doors and went
    through.

    By

    now, Toshia thought she really should be used to seeing such things,
    but the sight of a very large room filled with naked people having sex
    actually surprised her. The room was actually about the size of a small
    ballroom, the floor was covered with a thick, soft mattress or deep
    padding, and all of the people were women. The floor covering was deep
    red, and the walls were hung with thick drapes of dark purple and mauve.
    Here and there was a piece of furniture, and in the center of the room
    was a large, multi-tiered platform, all of which seemed to be in use by
    lovely writhing bodies. Don should definitely see this! she thought with a smile.

    Toshia

    looked around for Shelonda, but gave that up quickly; there were just
    too many distracting things to see. She noted that over to her left were
    neat little piles of clothing, apparently discarded by the few women
    who made it here while still wearing some. Over to her right was a long
    table displaying an array of dildos of all sorts. With an amused smile
    and a raised eyebrow, Toshia moved over to have a better look at this
    display.

    Toshia

    looked carefully at the set of strap-ons. She had never worn one
    before, but she figured they couldn't be that hard to use. This
    collection was surprisingly diverse, though. There were some with little
    (or large!) insertions to go up the wearer's pussy, and some with
    additional dildos to go up into the wearer's behind. Some of them had
    various things on the front of them to stimulate the fuckee. There were a
    surprising number of ways in which the "cocks" were modified; ridges,
    bumps, twists and bends; not to mention the assortment of colors. Toshia
    felt her curiosity tugging at her, not to mention her arousal. She
    sincerely wanted to take a break from having anything fucking her, but
    she wasn't averse to fucking someone else. She picked up a strap-on that
    was quite realistic; thick, long, but not too long, and hard but giving
    in a natural way; and wondered what it was like to penetrate a woman
    with something like that. It had a pair of soft, full balls dangling
    from its base. With the heavy cock in her right hand, she ran the
    fingers of her left over the inside of the strap that would run up
    between her legs. She noticed a few well-placed bumps, no doubt to
    stimulate the wearer.

    "Would

    you like some help with that?" Toshia looked up to see a beautiful
    middle aged woman smiling at her. She was fairly short and had very
    long, thick and wavy, black hair, deep brown eyes and a distinctly
    Mediterranean coloring. She was thin, but had nice full breasts.

    Toshia

    found herself blushing a little, feeling a bit absurd standing there
    holding a fake dong in her hands. She smiled back at the helpful
    stranger, swallowed and said, "Yes, that would be very nice of you."

    The

    woman slipped up to Toshia and took the strap on from her, still
    smiling warmly. She said, "First you need to fasten it around your
    waist, like this." Toshia thought she detected a slight Greek accent,
    but then was distracted as she felt the woman's breath on her back and
    quick, nimble fingers at the base of her spine, threading the belt into
    the buckle and cinching it snugly into place.

    "Then, you have to get this strap into place," the woman said as she reached up between Toshia's thighs.

    Toshia

    giggled a little out of nervous ticklishness as she felt the woman's
    hand, and quickly parted her legs for her. She felt the strap being
    pulled up between her thighs and then tightened. It was broad enough
    that it wasn't pulled between her labia, but the woman behind her pulled
    it tight enough that it was definitely pressing very firmly against
    Toshia's clitoris. Again the deft fingers brushed the small of Toshia's
    back as the strap was fastened in place. She felt the woman's breath on
    her shoulder.

    "How does that feel?"

    "Good,"

    Toshia said without really giving it much thought. She looked down at
    herself and grinned at the ridiculous and strangely erotic sight of a
    big male sex organ standing out in front of her. Then she noticed that
    there was an odd shifting and tingling sensation between her legs and
    wherever the strap on touched her. The sex toy seemed to be adjusting
    itself to her somehow... and to be doing more.

    The

    pretty dark woman reached around and gave Toshia's new cock a tentative
    tug. Toshia felt her clit being pulled by the strap and the little nubs
    on it, and gave a little murmur of delight. The woman then stroked the
    phallus, and Toshia felt an unusual but very pleasant sensation in her
    pussy and wasn't surprised that her juices were beginning to flow. When
    the woman reached the dildo's head and gently stroked it, Toshia felt as
    if the woman was stroking her clit. Toshia felt herself, more than
    heard herself, breathing, "Oh my!"

    Without

    taking her hand off Toshia's "equipment", the woman came around. Still
    smiling, she said, "I take it this is your first time."

    Feeling

    both the strange but very pleasant sensations in her crotch and the
    burning in her cheeks as she blushed, Toshia nodded and smiled back at
    the woman.

    Toshia's new friend grinned mischievously and asked, "Want to try it out?"

    Laughing a little, Toshia said, "If you don't mind my not knowing what I'm doing."

    "Oh,

    I'm sure you'll get the hang of it quickly," the woman said as she gave
    Toshia's prosthetic prick a tug and lead her over to the edge of the
    sprawling girl-on-girl orgy. Finding an open area, the woman knelt down
    on the soft "mattress" and drew Toshia down next to her.

    The

    woman's arms slipped around Toshia, and Toshia bent her head down to
    kiss the woman's soft lips. Toshia was acutely aware of the woman's
    breasts pressed against her own, as well as the feeling of the woman's
    hand pulling and stroking on Toshia's new-found cock. Their tongues were
    slipping against each other as the woman drew Toshia with her as she
    laid back. Toshia lowered her mouth to the woman's neck, kissing and
    biting lightly, and began to work her way down toward those beautiful
    tits. Toshia took both breasts in her hands and kissed her way down to
    the woman's brown nipples, which responded quickly as Toshia began to
    suck and pull at each of them in turn. When she had each of them rigid
    and the woman was moaning beneath her, Toshia began to move lower,
    planning to get her mouth on this woman's pussy.

    "No, no," the woman stopped her. "You need to fuck me."

    Chuckling

    a little to herself, Toshia said, "Yes, of course," and crawled back up
    until she was looking down into the woman's dark eyes. Toshia felt the
    woman's hand on her again, grasping her cock and pulling it into
    position. Then there was a warm sensation spreading up through her as
    she watched the woman's expression change. Realizing she was penetrating
    the woman's pussy with her cock, Toshia pushed her hips forward slowly.
    The feelings in her pussy and clit intensified slowly.

    "Oh yes," the woman sighed, "that feels so good."

    Toshia

    kept watching the woman's pretty face as she drew back, careful not to
    go too far, and then pushed back in. Toshia wondered if she made faces
    like that when she was being fucked. She hoped so. She pulled back
    again; this time a bit faster; and then pushed in again, watching the
    woman and feeling the supple strap moving against her own clit and the
    heat growing in her pussy.

    "Yes, fuck me!" the woman said, her voice dropping at least an octave and her eyes only half open.

    Toshia

    began to move herself more vigorously, rocking her hips and using her
    legs to push her cock into the woman's pussy. She held on to the woman's
    shoulders to pull her body down, onto the fleshy shaft Toshia was using
    to fuck her. The woman's soft tits and hard nipples were pressed
    against Toshia's chest. The woman reached down and grabbed both of
    Toshia's cheeks and pulled, urging Toshia to fuck her harder and deeper.
    Toshia found herself remembering how Liu had been doing the same thing
    to Don's ass earlier.

    With

    each thrust and each withdrawal, the strap between Toshia's legs
    pressed and rubbed against her clit and her labia, and the (surely
    magical) waves of pleasure inside her pussy intensified. Toshia thought
    that if this was anything at all like what it felt for a man to fuck
    then it was a wonder men ever did anything else. Then she deliberately
    shoved all such thoughts out of her mind and concentrated on doing a
    good job of fucking this very friendly and helpful woman underneath her.
    She thought of how she liked to be fucked and did her best to emulate
    that, and before long she was rewarded. The woman arched her back and
    gave a long, low groan as her entire body clenched and shook. Toshia
    kept moving against her, watching intently, as she came long and hard.

    As

    she came down, the woman opened her eyes and grinned up at Toshia,
    "That was wonderful!" Then she grabbed Toshia's head and pulled her down
    to kiss her passionately. Toshia was still fucking her cock in and out
    of the woman when she was asked, "What else do you want to do with that
    big dick of yours?"

    In

    another moment, the woman was on her hands and knees in front of
    Toshia, who was watching in horny amusement as the cock in front of her
    was fucking in and out of the woman's pussy from behind. The woman was
    shoving back against her, urging her to fuck her harder and faster.
    Toshia's hands were holding the woman's narrow waist, helping to set the
    pace. The strap was working its magic on her clit and pussy, and Toshia
    felt her excitement building rapidly. She knew her dildo's balls were
    hitting the woman's clit, and could tell that the woman was going to
    climax again soon. Toshia found herself wishing she could see herself
    there, fucking this beautiful woman with the long black hair, and then
    she was clenching her eyes closed as her orgasm swept through her. She
    shoved up into the woman's pussy as her nervous system set off fireworks
    all through her body. She kept fucking her cock in and out of the
    woman, barely conscious that the woman was also cumming, and that there
    seemed to be pearly white fluid leaking out of the woman's pussy. She
    was still trembling when Toshia thought to pull her cock out of the
    woman and saw that there was a cum-like substance dribbling out of the
    end of it. A quick taste test told her that it wasn't really cum, of
    course, but a sticky, sweet substitute that must come with this model of
    strap on, so to speak.

    She

    was also delighted to realize that her synthetic cock would not soften
    at all and was quite ready for more fucking. The woman she'd been
    fucking crawled around, and promptly began to suck any stray cum-stuff
    out of Toshia's "organ". Then she rose up and kissed Toshia
    enthusiastically and more than a little sloppily.

    "That was wonderful," the woman beamed. "Thank you!"

    Toshia laughed and said, "No, thank you!"

    "My pleasure!"

    The

    two of them knelt there making out together for several long minutes
    before the orgy finally managed to engulf them. Naked sweaty women were
    all around them by then, and as they were kissing and fondling each
    other, strange hands began to move over their bodies. Mouths and tongues
    followed hands. Toshia felt someone, well, at least one someone,
    tugging at her strap on and was aware that someone had reached around to
    play with her playmate's pussy and clit. Toshia also had someone
    caressing her ass, and someone was kissing her shoulder, all while she
    was continuing to kiss her partner. A hand slipped between the two of
    them and found one of Toshia's nipples. When those fingers pinched and
    pulled at Toshia, she broke the kiss to let out a rather loud gasp,
    followed by a happy moan.

    Whoever

    was kissing her shoulder chose that moment to move up to her shoulder,
    biting her playfully. Toshia turned her head to that side and promptly
    found herself being kissed passionately by a woman with long, curly
    black hair. Letting herself go with the flow, and the heat of the
    moment, Toshia turned, and let herself be turned, away from the woman
    she'd been playing with. Soon she found herself on her back as this new
    beauty; a statuesque Hispanic woman with surprisingly green eyes and
    long legs; straddled her and rode up and down on Toshia's faux cock. She
    reached up to pinch and twist at the woman's dark nipples, and watched
    as the woman threw her head back and shuddered. Then Toshia's view was
    obscured as another woman; really little more than a teenage girl;
    leaned over to kiss her.

    "Mind if I sit on your face?" this kissing girl asked Toshia in a thick southern accent.

    "Not at all!" Toshia laughed, and in seconds was licking and sucking at this girl's sweet pussy and clit.

    Over

    the next hours, Toshia put her toy to good, and thorough, use. She lost
    count of the number of women she fucked, enjoying the way it felt and
    looked to work her cock in and out of pussies. She fucked several tight
    asses too, and enjoyed the sight of her artificial penis spraying its
    cum stuff a few times that night; once over the faces of several young
    women who were kneeling in front of her. By the time she actually caught
    up with Shelonda, she was happy to cast off the strap on and enjoy some
    leisurely oral sex in a happy, nicely isolated 69.

    Toshia

    eventually fell asleep there in Shelonda's arms, silently pleased with
    herself to have made good on her "not getting fucked" plan, and smiling
    to herself at how much actual fucking she had managed to accomplish.

    To be continued in part 4

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  • Lost in Eros, The Return: Part 2
    Clubbing & Swinging

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    Shelonda

    was next and explained that she had been Toshia's counterpart, picking
    up discarded towels from a different part of the Temple. "I was bending
    over all the time, and people kept squeezing my butt and playing with
    me. I liked it at first, but I got really horny very quickly.

     Fortunately,

    a guy stopped and started fucking me. I was really getting into it, and
    soon a bunch of guys and a woman were all over me." Shelonda provided
    all the details requested, but by now it was clear that everyone was
    getting frisky enough that they would need to go find a room to enjoy or
    start playing right there in the banquet room.

    Fortunately,

    Nicole didn't have anything much different to report than the others.
    She had been assigned the job of masseuse's assistant: fetching
    miscellaneous supplies, helping guests off the table after they were
    thoroughly relaxed, assisting with making sure everyone had a happy
    ending, etc. Of course, she'd had a wonderful time, and seemed to have
    actually done less work than anyone else.

    Then

    they had to decide where to start their free exploration of the Temple
    of Venus and Aphrodite. "I have to admit," Toshia volunteered, "that I'd
    like to see what an orgy that's been going on for seven years looks
    like."

    "And I'd like to check out that 'dark room' whatever that is," Don added.

    "A bit of an orgy sounds good to me," Amy said with a grin.

    Toshia took Don's hand as they headed for the door, and said, "Then we'll check out the dark room."

    The

    main orgy room was easy to find. It took up almost the entire fourth
    floor. There were copious cushions scattered all over the floor, which
    had soft, luxurious carpeting anyway. Chairs, couches, loveseats, chaise
    lounges, day beds, and ottomans were abundantly available. Here and
    there steps led up or down to slightly different levels. Everywhere,
    though, there were naked bodies pleasuring each other.

    "Fun!"

    Amy declared. Everyone agreed with her and immediately started looking
    for places to join in. Amy took Victor by the big hand and led him into
    the orgy. From where she was Toshia saw Amy dropping to her knees in
    front of Victor, eagerly taking his big cock into her mouth.

    Toshia

    grabbed Don by the arm, pulled him in the direction of Amy and Victor,
    and pulled him with her down to the floor. The knelt facing each other
    as they kissed. Don's hands moved greedily over her back, finding their
    way down to her ass and squeezing it tightly. Toshia laughed happily as
    Don's mouth descended on her neck and her hand wrapped around his
    already stiff cock. Then Shelonda and Nicole joined them, one on either
    side, Shelonda on Toshia's right, and Nicole on her left. The two black
    girls proceeded to kiss and caress Don and Toshia everywhere they could
    reach. Shelonda's right hand slipped in between Toshia and Don and found
    its way down to Toshia's crotch. Soon Toshia felt fingers slipping up
    inside her and brushing over her clit. Don was still kissing, sucking
    and biting at her neck, Nicole was pinching her nipple, Don was
    squeezing her ass, and Shelonda was fucking her fingers in and out,
    pressing her hand against Toshia's clit, and Toshia... Then Toshia was
    coming hard, gasping, shaking and moaning between her friends.

    Those

    friends gently laid her down on the floor, and then Don was between her
    legs, slipping his hard cock up inside her ready pussy. Toshia smiled
    up at him and pulled him deeper into her best embrace. "Fuck me, love,"
    she said. "Fill me up with your cum."

    Don

    leaned down and kissed her. It was just a peck at first, but became a
    long, passionate, fiery kiss as he moved in and out of her there among
    the other naked bodies. For a while it was just the two of them, alone
    on the edge of a sea of writhing, gasping, grunting people. They were
    part of the orgy that had gone on for seven years, but for now it was
    just the two of them making quiet intense love. Don gave her another
    sweet, slow orgasm before she felt him pressing more urgently into her.
    Then he was thrusting hard as he pumped and pumped his cum into her
    pussy just as she'd asked. He trembled in her arms and buried his face
    in her shoulder. Toshia held him close to her and caressed his back and
    held his head to her. They lay like that for several long, sweet moments
    sharing their loving intimacy.

    Then,

    they became aware of their surroundings. First there were the now
    familiar sounds of Shelonda and Nicole enjoying themselves fully, and
    then there were the hands that were moving over their bodies. Toshia
    felt a hand slipping up along the length of her leg and another that
    brushed against her hand where it lay on Don's back.

    Don

    raised his head to look around, only to have a young woman with
    straight brown hair and startling white teeth pull his head back so she
    could lean over his shoulder and give him a long, passionate kiss. When
    she finally let him go, Don laughed and said, "Well, it's nice to meet
    you too."

    "Hi, I'm Brandi," the woman grinned back at Don and then down at Toshia. "Mind if I cut in?"

    Neither

    Toshia nor Don were sure who she was asking, but when they didn't
    object, Brandi assumed they didn't mind, and said, "Great!" She then
    wormed her way in front of Don to lower her mouth to Toshia's. Suddenly
    Toshia was kissing this beautiful, aggressive new woman, whose hand was
    already moving across to cup Toshia's tit firmly. Toshia found herself
    reaching up to hold Brandi's head in place so she would keep kissing
    her. As Don pulled away, Toshia murmured her disappointment but
    continued to kiss Brandi. She was happy to feel Brandi's fingers moving
    down over her belly and then slipping between Toshia's legs where they
    found Don and Toshia's mingled juices spilling out. Without hesitating,
    Brandi pushed her fingers and a healthy helping of those juices up into
    Toshia, who arched her back and moaned into her new lover's mouth.

    Toshia

    was still lying on her back, with Brandi kneeling over her almost
    perpendicularly to Toshia's left, kissing her Toshia and reaching down
    to finger Toshia's pussy. This left Toshia's right breast exposed, and
    someone got his or her mouth in there and fastened upon Toshia's erect
    nipple. As this mysterious new mouth sucked and pulled on Toshia's tit,
    Toshia felt this person, who she was now sure was a woman, caressing her
    ass, and then sliding her hand around to join Brandi's in playing with
    her. Two more fingers pushed up into Toshia's pussy, and Toshia began to
    moan around Brandi's tongue. When those second two fingers pulled out
    of her Brandi worked a third of her fingers into Toshia, and then the
    mystery woman pushed her slippery two fingers slowly up Toshia's ass.
    This pushed Toshia over the edge, and she began to shake and cry out
    with an intense, long orgasm.

    Brandi

    finally broke their kiss and Toshia realized from the gentle swaying of
    the girl over her that Brandi had been getting fucked from behind
    almost all the time she had been fingering Toshia. Toshia smiled back up
    at the pretty woman's face and noticed that she also had beautiful full
    breasts, and Toshia couldn't resist reaching out with her left hand to
    catch one of Brandi's tits in her hand. Then, she looked down to see the
    lovely, dusky hued woman or Iranian or Indian descent who was still
    fingering Toshia's ass. Toshia grinned at this woman, who smiled back.
    Toshia began to work her body around clockwise, taking a moment to
    carefully throw her right leg over the dark-eyed beauty, and being
    careful not to dislodge those probing fingers, until she was able to
    scoot under Brandi's body to play with those beautiful firm tits of
    hers. The beautiful brown woman fingering her ass moved in between
    Toshia's legs and began to lick and suck at her pussy and clit, while
    Brandi lowered herself so Toshia could get her mouth on Brandi's
    nipples, one at a time. All while someone steadily fucked Brandi.

    Toshia

    could tell from the way Brandi was moving over her that the man behind
    her was fucking her harder and harder, and then knew he was coming
    inside her. When Brandi began to shift and threatened to pull away,
    Toshia reached up to grab her waist and pulled her closer. Brandi got
    the hint, smiled down at Toshia and carefully moved into position with
    her pussy over Toshia's mouth. With her hands still on Brandi's hips,
    Toshia pulled the pretty woman down until she could get her tongue up
    inside Brandi's cum-filled pussy. Toshia drank down the thick, sweet
    jizz and promptly began to lick at Brandi's clit. Meanwhile, the woman
    licking Toshia's clit and fingering her ass had pushed her thumb up into
    Toshia's pussy, and was flexing her wrist so that Toshia's pussy and
    ass were being steadily fucked by her digits. Soon Toshia's back was
    arching up off the carpet as she came long and hard between the two
    women. She didn't stop licking at Brandi, though, and was soon also
    rewarded with feeling the pretty woman sitting on her face trembling and
    shaking as Toshia brought her off.

    This

    seemed to be the signal for their little threesome to dissolve. As soon
    as she caught her breath, Brandi carefully got off Toshia's face and
    without another word moved off to find fun elsewhere. Toshia also felt
    the woman between her legs pulling away, but Toshia sat up and caught
    the woman's head in her hands and pulled her up toward her. They met
    with a long, playful kiss, mingling the tastes of Toshia's and Brandi's
    pussies as well as traces of Don's cum and that of whoever had fucked
    Brandi.

    "I'm Toshia," she said as she leaned back, pulling the other woman back and over her.

    "I'm

    Nadja," said the other woman with a smile. Her fingers and thumb
    slipped out of Toshia's ass and pussy, but she immediately pushed her
    fingers up into Toshia's wet and grasping pussy, pressing the heel of
    her hand against Toshia's clit, as she lay down on top of Toshia and
    continued to kiss her.

    Toshia

    moved her hands over Nadja's petite frame, over her back and down to
    her tight little ass. She was unsurprised to feel a man's hands also
    exploring Nadja's backside. Then, whoever the man was, his hands moved
    up to Nadja's narrow waist and pulled her up a bit. Nadja stopped
    kissing long enough to say, "I believe I'm about to be violated."

    "Mind if I watch?" Toshia grinned.

    "As long as you do it while you kiss me," Nadja said, lowering her mouth to Toshia's again.

    Sure

    enough, Nadja's motions on top of Toshia indicated that she was being
    slowly and steadily fucked. Toshia worked her left hand up between them
    until she could feel the hard cock sliding in and out of Nadja's pussy,
    and then began to stroke Nadja's clit with her fingers. Nadja kept
    working her fingers in and out of Toshia pussy while kissing Toshia and
    being fucked from behind. Toshia found the whole scene incredibly
    erotic, particularly as Nadja began to come without taking her mouth off
    Toshia's. The tiny woman moaned and trembled between Toshia and the man
    behind her without pausing in her passionate kissing and fingering.

    Toshia

    thought she might come again, but the man fucking Nadja beat her to it.
    Nadja murmured approval into Toshia's mouth, and Toshia felt warm cum
    on her fingers. As the man pulled out of Nadja, spilling more cum over
    Toshia's hand, Nadja looked down at Toshia and said, "Now that was
    delightful."

    Toshia grinned and said, "I'm not done with you, yet. Sit on my face."

    "If

    you insist," Nadja laughed. With almost startling enthusiasm, she
    pulled her fingers from Toshia and crawled up until she was kneeling
    over Toshia's face.

    Holding

    the tiny girl's ass in her hands, Toshia pulled her down to her mouth,
    where she began to lick up the man's cum and then to lavish her oral
    attention on Nadja's hard clit. Nadja pressed down on Toshia's mouth,
    and leaned back a bit, squeezing her small tits tightly. As Toshia
    sucked on Nadja's clit and then went back to tonguing it firmly, she
    thought, This must be what people really mean when they talk about Heaven.

    As

    Don pulled away to let the new girl, Brandi, get acquainted with
    Toshia, he decided to have a look around to see what everyone else was
    up to. He carefully stood up and took a couple of steps to get out of
    the actual orgy.

    He

    spotted Amy on her back, her head on a good-sized pillow. Straddling
    her chest with his hands on her head and his cock sliding in and out of
    her mouth and throat was a trim East Asian guy with his black hair
    buzzed almost down to his scalp. Amy's legs were parted and ready for
    someone to get between them. Nearby, Victor was standing over an
    athletic white guy with short, curly reddish hair, who was sitting
    facing the same way as Victor and who was sucking on Victor's big cock
    and fondling his balls, all while Victor flexed his knees, pushing that
    schlong of his in and out of the other fellow's mouth.

    Don

    noticed that an adorable woman was now joining in on Brandi and
    Toshia's little session, and that a man had begun to fuck Brandi from
    behind. Near this scene, Shelonda had secured the services of a tall,
    fit black guy with short hair, who seemed as young as the Nymphets to
    Don. The young man was sitting on the floor, leaning back on his arms
    and with his knees slightly bent. Shelonda was sitting on his cock,
    leaning back, supporting herself with her arms and riding up and down on
    the cock inside her. Meanwhile, an athletic woman, with large tits,
    long legs, a tight ass and long straight black hair, had her mouth on
    one of Shelonda's tits and seemed to have a hand down playing with
    Shelonda's clit.

    Before

    he could locate Nicole, Don felt a warm hand slide up his arm and then
    squeeze his shoulder. He turned to look into the face of a very pretty
    woman, who he would guess to be Chinese. She had short black hair, an
    impishly coy expression and surprisingly blue eyes. Before Don could ask
    her name or even properly appreciate her slender frame and long legs,
    this beauty smiled and sank to her knees in front of him. She stroked
    his cock with her long fingers and kissed the head before sucking it
    into her mouth. Don gently reached down to caress her hair and watched
    as she began to bob her head up and down on his quickly hardening shaft.

    Looking

    up from this perfect vision for a moment, Don spotted Nicole. The
    petite young woman was on her back, basically in a missionary position, a
    muscular white guy with long, curly, brown hair fucking her steadily.
    However, Nicole's legs were extended out straight, in a V aimed at the
    ceiling, and there was a tall, caramel skinned woman with a spectacular
    ass and long, wavy black hair with a bit of gray in it sitting on
    Nicole's face. In front of this second woman, making out with her, was
    an athletic Polynesian-looking woman with large breasts and long, wild
    hair who was in turn sitting on someone's face.

    By

    now the mysterious woman in front of him was sucking Don's cock with
    enthusiasm, and he was again rock hard. He noticed that Toshia was
    moving around to get under Brandi's body, while the other woman kept her
    hand between Toshia's legs. Don realized there was too much going on in
    this huge sex-filled room, and he would simply have to focus his
    attention. He didn't have to deliberate long to decide where to direct
    that focus first.

    Pushing

    her gently back from his sex, Don bent down, took the Asian woman's
    face in his hands and kissed her. She responded warmly. After taking the
    time to really enjoy the sensations of kissing a new and very friendly
    woman, he said, "I'm Don."

    "And I'm Liu," she smiled.

    "I'm very pleased to meet you, Liu," Don smiled. "Now, why don't we lie down so I can give as good as I'm getting?"

    "That

    sounds wonderful," Liu grinned and backed away a bit to let Don lie
    down on his back. She wasted no time then in getting into position over
    him. Don felt her mouth on his prick again, as he reached up to pull Liu
    down so he could get his mouth and tongue on her moist, delicious sex.
    He ran his tongue from her clit up along between her lips, tasting her
    sweet pussy. She was short enough that his arms were behind her legs, so
    Don had to lean up a bit to get his mouth on her, but it also meant
    that he could easily use his hands to caress her ass and spread her
    cheeks a bit as he pushed his long, strong tongue up inside her. He was
    aware of her mouth and hands on his cock and balls, but Don concentrated
    on what he was doing. When he began to focus on her clit, sucking and
    licking on it, he pushed two fingers up into her pussy. Apparently Liu
    loved this because she promptly pushed back on Don. He obliged her by
    pushing his fingers deeper, and then adding a third finger, fucking them
    in and out of her as he continued to tongue her clit. Soon Don was
    working his fingers in and out of Liu vigorously and she was shaking and
    gasping on top of him as a long orgasm wracked her slender body.

    As

    she came down, Don slipped his fingers out of her vagina and gave her
    clit and pussy lips tender kisses. He felt Liu sighing happily, and then
    she decided to change positions. She pushed herself up so that she was
    kneeling over him, and quickly moved down, so that she was straddling
    his pelvis. Don basically lay back and watched as Liu took his rigid
    cock, wet with her saliva, in her hand, raised it until it was pointing
    straight up, and then pushed the fat head into her tiny pussy. He
    reached up and held on to her hips as she slowly sank down on him. Don
    found himself admiring the muscles of her back as Liu began to move on
    him. He caressed her lovely ass as she rode slowly up and down on his
    cock. Once she was comfortable with him in her, Liu began, very slowly,
    to lean forward, pushing Don's cock "down" further than it was used to.
    It was uncomfortable at first, and a bit painful for a moment at times,
    but Liu eventually worked herself down so that her feet were up by Don's
    shoulders, she was supporting herself with her hands between his legs,
    and she was leaning low while she worked her body back and forth getting
    Don's hard shaft to move inside her pussy in an unusual and delightful
    way. Don was able to squeeze and caress her ass as she rode him. He
    slowly pushed his thumb into her exposed asshole which made Liu cry out
    happily.

    Don

    was so intent on fucking Liu that he was actually surprised when Amy's
    face appeared over his. He barely had time to notice that the pretty
    blonde's face was, as was so often the case, covered with pearly cum
    before she was kissing him deeply. Don found himself laughing as he
    returned Amy's enthusiastic, playful, and rather sloppy kiss. When she
    finally pulled away, Amy said, "Who's your friend, Professor?"

    "Liu," he grinned as he wiped his face with his forearm. "Why don't you introduce yourself?"

    "Good idea!"

    Looking

    down over Liu's backside as she continued to writhe back on his cock
    and thumb, Don watched Amy kneel down in front of Liu and just lean
    forward and kiss the pretty Chinese girl.

    Then,

    as if he'd followed Amy, or been carried along in her sexual wake,
    Victor came over and knelt down by Amy, who noticed him right away. Don
    could tell there were introductions made and a brief discussion, but
    since it all took place down near his feet he couldn't make out any of
    the details. He later found out that what happened next was all Amy's
    idea. With Amy's help, Liu pushed herself up, relieving the interesting
    downward pressure on Don's cock. With a brief, luminous smile over her
    slender shoulder at him, Liu slowly pushed herself up off Don's thick
    shaft. Amy's hand wrapped around Don and kept him pointing straight up
    for Liu. The two girls quickly positioned woman and cock so that Liu
    could lower herself slowly so that Don pushed up into her exquisitely
    tight, hot ass.

    "Oh, that feels so good!" Don heard Liu say.

    "It sure does!" he agreed as he slipped his hands around her thin waist.

    Liu

    leaned back then, and Amy coaxed Don to bring his legs together. Don
    helped support Liu as Victor straddled Don's legs and pushed his big
    cock down so the fat head could press against Liu's waiting pussy. Don
    felt Liu tense as Victor slowly eased his thick organ into her.

    Amy leaned over Victor's shoulder with a grin and said, "How's that feel, Liu?"

    "So good!" was the answer.

    Don

    felt Liu shuddering as Victor kept filling her with that large prick of
    his. Liu wrapped her long legs around Victor's hips and her arms around
    his neck, while Don supported her from below and Victor began to fuck
    in and out of her, simultaneously working her up and down on Don's cock.

    It

    was now Shelonda's turn to make an appearance. She crawled up next to
    Don, kissed him on the cheek and said, "That looks like fun."

    "It is!" he grinned. "I hope you've been having a good time."

    "Of course I have," she smiled. "I can't help but notice you're not really doing any work here, Don."

    He laughed and said, "What did you have in mind?"

    She

    gave him another quick kiss, this time on the lips, and then promptly
    moved around to back in and kneel over his face. With practiced ease,
    Shelonda lowered her pussy down to Don's face. He happily and greedily
    began to lap at her sweet pussy and clit, careless of the fact that at
    least one man had obviously come inside her before now. Don focused on
    giving Shelonda the tongue lashing she so richly deserved while also
    enjoying the sensations of having his cock inside the tight embrace of
    Liu's ass while Victor gave her pussy a vigorous fucking. The first one
    to come was Liu; Don felt her ass clenching on him as she shook and
    trembled in his grasp. Victor was next; feeling the big cock inside Liu
    swelling and pumping cum into her pussy was an interesting feeling for
    Don. By this time, a man had come up in front of Shelonda as she knelt
    over Don and she was giving him a nice, deep blowjob, but this didn't
    keep her from having a long, loud orgasm as Don turned his head a bit
    from side to side and tongued her clit firmly.

    Shelonda

    was still squatting over Don's mouth and well on her way to another
    orgasm, when Victor slowly pulled out of Liu's pussy. A small flood of
    warm fluid ran down over Don's balls. Don couldn't see what was going on
    down there, but in only a moment his legs were nudged apart and he felt
    an undeniably feminine tongue licking and sucking the cum from him and
    Liu. After several delicious moments, the mouth shifted from Don to Liu.

    Don

    was vaguely aware that Shelonda had managed to coax an orgasm from the
    man in front of her, and then Don succeeded in making her come again
    with his tongue. As Shelonda carefully extricated herself from the
    little foursome that had Don and Liu as the nucleus, Liu began to come
    again, crying out and shaking. Don let her fall back on him as she
    whimpered with delight.

    Don

    had assumed that the woman who had been licking Liu was Amy, so he was
    surprised to see a new woman kneeling between their legs. This was a
    beautiful, middle aged black woman with gray eyes and a lovely bald
    head. She smiled at both Liu and Don and then started to stand up, but
    Liu stopped her.

    "Don't go. I need a little break and I can tell Don here isn't ready to stop playing just yet," Liu said.

    "Well, OK then," said the other woman with a warm smile and the barest hint of a Southern accent.

    Liu

    managed to gently pull herself off Don's hard cock and then twisted
    around to kiss him goodbye before crawling out of the action.

    Soon

    Don was looking down into the beautiful bald woman's smiling face as he
    steadily fucked in and out of her pussy. Her pelvis was rolled back and
    her legs were up, resting on Don's thighs which were spread out. One of
    her hands squeezed and pinched at her breast while the other reached
    down to stroke her clit. Don was leaning forward on his outstretched
    arms.

    "I really should get your name," Don said.

    "I don't see why," she laughed. "Now shush; I'm about to come."

    Don

    kept going without coming through three more encounters. Liu caught up
    with him as a cute little blonde, who had just rode him to three intense
    orgasms as he knelt holding her in his arms, kissed him goodbye and
    crawled off to find another lover or two. Liu bent down and kissed him,
    saying, "You don't ever stop, do you?"

    "Why stop?" he grinned back. "Are you ready for more?"

    "Uh-hum," she said. "Do you want me all to yourself or find some more playmates?"

    As

    Don pondered this dilemma, he caught sight of Toshia for the first time
    in about an hour. Off to the side of the orgy, a tall, fit white guy
    with short brown hair was laying on his back and his head on a thick
    pillow. His legs were spread so Toshia could lie on her belly between
    them and, supporting herself on his thighs, give him what looked like an
    intense blowjob. Her feet were up in the air, which Don thought was
    just adorable. Don stood up and said, "I definitely want to get you to
    myself, but let's go play with those two for now."

    Hand-in-hand,

    they crossed to Toshia and the object of her oral attentions. Don
    gestured Liu to the man on his back, and he knelt down by Toshia and the
    man's legs. He ran his hand over Toshia's back, and, as he reached her
    ass, he leaned down and whispered in her ear, "There you are. I hope
    you've been a very naughty girl."

    She

    took her mouth off what Don now realized was a surprisingly long cock,
    swallowed, took a breath and said, "I certainly have. We weren't
    supposed to be keeping count were we?"

    Don laughed, squeezed her ass, and said, "No, but I want details later."

    "Of course! Jimmy here is about as good at eating me out as you are," Toshia smiled. "I wanted to return the favor."

    "Well,

    don't let me stop you," Don said. He noticed that Liu, who had started
    off with kissing Jimmy deeply, was now moving around so she could sit on
    his face, facing away from Don and Toshia. Don went back to watching
    Toshia sucking Jimmy's long prick. He was amazed at how good she had
    gotten at deep-throating. She was quite intent, and seeing her
    concentrate like that with a nice hard cock sliding in and out of her
    mouth was amazingly erotic to Don. He thought about going around to
    stand in front of Liu, but his cock, which had been straining and hard
    since he had come inside her earlier, wanted more of Toshia. Don moved
    his hand so his fingers slipped into the crack of her butt. Sure enough,
    he found slippery wetness all along between her cheeks. He toyed with
    her anus, and she parted her legs to let him move lower, until this
    fingers slipped between her lips and into her pussy. Don continued to
    watch her going down on Jimmy as he pushed his fingers up inside her
    messy pussy and then his thumb into her ass. Toshia murmured her
    approval, but kept bobbing her head up and down on Jimmy's cock.

    Don

    expected Jimmy to come, and come hard, in short order, but it was Liu
    who came first. She gasped and shook for a long, intense orgasm and then
    sagged to the side.

    "Wow," Don said, "he is good."

    "Told ya," Toshia said, looking up from the stiff, wet cock in front of her. "Is she a friend of yours?"

    "Yes!" Don smiled. "Liu, this is Toshia, and Toshia, this is Liu. And, I take it you're Jimmy; I'm Don."

    Temple Rites. ‘Oneness with all observers’.

    Jimmy gave a cheerful wave, and Liu smiled down at Toshia from where she now knelt by Jimmy's head.

    "She's cute," Toshia admitted. "Let's try something different, boys and girls."

    Toshia

    got to her knees, moved over next to Jimmy, on the far side from Don,
    and beckoned to Liu. The pretty Chinese girl crawled to her and the two
    women shared a long introductory kiss. 

    Then

    there was a bit of whispering and Toshia said, "I trust you two boys
    can figure out what to do with those pretty cocks of yours once Liu and I
    get into position."

    The

    two women quickly lay down on their sides in a 69 position. Each
    woman's head was nestled on the inside of the other's lower thigh, and
    they proceeded to make their mouths acquainted with each other's wet
    pussies and hard clits. Both Don and Jimmy paused a moment to appreciate
    how hot the two women looked wrapped around each other. Don
    half-thought the two of them ought to work out who got which end of
    things, but he had a strong preference and Toshia's behind was closest
    to him then; so, he laid down on his side behind Toshia, and Jimmy
    crawled around to do the same with Liu.

    Don

    pushed his hard cock down and between Toshia's legs. He deliberately
    pushed it between her slippery lips so that it ran over her clit and
    into Liu's waiting and eager mouth. Don reveled in the feeling of
    Toshia's wetness wrapped around his shaft and Liu's mouth sucking on his
    head. He rocked his pelvis a few times, sliding against Toshia and into
    Liu. He watched the back of Toshia's head as he knew she must be doing
    to Jimmy what Liu was doing to him. Don slipped his arm around Toshia to
    cup one of her breasts in his hand. He pulled back and then let the fat
    head of his cock slip back along Toshia's wet slit until it found the
    ready opening of her pussy. He slid into her in one long, slow motion,
    and felt Liu's tongue on the base of his cock and his balls as she
    licked up the mingled juices that were squeezed out of Toshia's pussy.
    Don pinched Toshia's nipple and began to fuck himself in and out of her.
    He took his time, enjoying the feeling of having Toshia wrapped so
    tightly around him. He kissed her shoulder and looked over her body as
    it lay in front of Liu's. He watched the two women moving together,
    against each other and against the men behind them. Then, Don remembered
    something Toshia had said to him the night when they had first tried
    the Manor's Disco.

    "Jimmy," he called. "Let's switch!"

    Jimmy,

    who was apparently a man of few words, agreed by promptly withdrawing
    from Liu and crawling around to get behind Toshia. Don, who had taken
    the time to kiss Toshia's shoulder again, was a bit slower in getting
    behind Liu. This time, he didn't tease either himself or Liu, but went
    ahead and pushed his fat cock into her. With his mouth on her shoulder
    and his hand on her belly, Don fucked his cock in and out of her with
    ardent determination. He knew he would be coming soon. The women seemed
    to sense this as well, and Don could tell, from the feelings at the base
    of his cock and the way Liu's head was moving, that they were each
    focusing on the other's clit.

    Don wanted to finish inside Toshia, though, so he called, "Switch."

    He

    smiled when he heard Toshia moan in frustration as she heard this and
    Jimmy pulled out of her. Of course, as before, the two women didn't stop
    going down on each other while the men exchanged places. Then, as they
    were lying down behind the women again, Don said, "Take her ass, Jimmy."

    This

    elicited happy sounds from both women. Don didn't hesitate to push his
    cockhead up against Toshia's puckered asshole, which let him slip into
    that tight embrace without much resistance. He remembered the first time
    he had fucked Toshia's ass, there in the big bed room after the
    Player's game. He had moved slowly, gently, and Toshia had been nervous
    but willing. Now he pushed into her easily, though if anything her ass
    gripped him more tightly in an embrace just as hot. Toshia pushed back
    on him, eager to have him fuck her and fill her bowels with his cum. Don
    proceeded to fuck in and out of Toshia's backside hard, fast and deep.
    Jimmy followed Don's lead and he could hear the women grunting and
    moaning, and then they were both shaking and whimpering between the men
    as they came long, loud and hard.

    Don was close but not quite there. He knew what he wanted to do. "Pull out, Jimmy," Don said. "Girls, get up on your knees."

    As

    before, Jimmy complied quickly. The girls were a bit slower and more
    disoriented, but Toshia caught on quickly. When Don pushed his slippery
    cock in her direction, she promptly caught hold of it, pulled it to her
    mouth, and sank down on it. Toshia took him all the way in on the first
    attempt. She swallowed once around him and then backed off, only to
    commence sucking on him enthusiastically. Don glanced over to see pretty
    Liu doing much the same with Jimmy's long cock, and then back down to
    see Toshia sucking him off like a truly wanton slut. Finally, Don let
    himself go. He pushed Toshia back off his cock, took the shaft in his
    hand, and came! He shuddered all over his body as a huge gout of white
    cum erupted from him only to splatter all over Toshia's face. Don
    groaned and another heavy spurt shot out of his cock to hit Toshia on
    the chin, neck and chest. Toshia was laughing and grinning up at him.

    "That's showing a girl a good time," she smiled.

    Looking

    over at Jimmy and Liu, they saw that the pretty Chinese woman was in
    the same state as Toshia. Jimmy had followed Don's lead to the end,
    coming all over Liu's face rather than in her mouth. Toshia, who had
    already started scooping Don's cum into her mouth, leaned over to give
    Liu a long cum-covered kiss.

    "Now that's fucking hot!" he breathed.

    Hearing

    this reaction the two women continued to make out and then proceeded to
    lick each other clean. Before they could finish, though, Amy, Shelonda
    and Nicole turned up and began to help. Victor came over while the women
    were gradually bringing themselves to a fevered pitch as their mouths
    made their way lower. Don, Jimmy and Victor watched as the five women
    managed to have what seemed to be one huge nearly simultaneous orgasm.

    As

    the men sat by idly stroking their re-hardened cocks and the pile of
    sexy women recuperated on the edge of the seven-year orgy, Don said,
    "So, how does some water, a nice shower, and a trip to that dark room
    sound?"

    Going to the Temple.

    Both

    Jimmy and Liu were familiar with the Temple and offered to accompany
    the group. They actually went to the showers first and then to the
    banquet hall for a drink and a small snack, even by Erossian standards.
    Along the way Toshia and Don compared notes. He acknowledged that his
    most complicated grouping involved five people, while Toshia had been
    involved in a grouping that consisted of at least nine, including
    herself, which featured at least five people doing things to her at a
    time at one point. ("I had a guy each in my pussy and ass, one of whom
    had Sanja sitting on his face, a guy in my mouth, and two girls playing
    with my tits.") This made Toshia the winner of the retroactive orgy
    competition. Of course, Amy objected to no one's informing her that
    there was a competition. Don and Toshia were amused by how forward the
    Temple guests were in the orgy room. As Amy pointed out, "If you aren't
    ready to play with just about everyone, you probably shouldn't be in
    that room."

    When

    they were all feeling rested and rejuvenated, Liu and Jimmy led them up
    to the fifth floor and the dark room. They were met by a black-tunic
    wearing hostess; an attractive woman with honey gold hair; who led them
    into the ante-chamber. "Since this is the first time for most of you,"
    the hostess said, "I will go over the rules. As you'll notice, the
    lighting in here is slowly fading. We'll stay here until your eyes have
    time to adjust to the diminished level of illumination. The dark room is
    even darker, but it is not pitch black. The whole room is actually
    white, so once your eyes have adjusted you should be able to see where
    there is a body and where there isn't. Beyond that, though, you will
    have a very hard time seeing anything. When you enter the room, we ask
    that you first move along the outside of the room; which has a tile
    floor; until your eyes have adjusted. The rest of the room is covered in
    soft, padded carpeting. Please confine your play to the carpeted area
    and use the tiled area to move to the exit. After your initial entrance,
    do not occupy or block the tiled area. Please move cautiously and
    slowly in the dark room. While you're on the carpeted area, please move
    around on your hands and knees. There are no steps and no furniture in
    the room; the only obstacles are other people. Please be careful and
    forgiving of the occasional accident. Does anyone have any questions?"

    "Are we supposed to be quiet?" Don asked.

    "No,

    sir," the hostess smiled. "You are encouraged to make all the noise you
    desire. You will notice, though, that people do tend to be a bit
    hushed."

    "Say something if you leave, then," Don said to the others.

    Then

    when they had become accustomed to the gray light, the hostess took Don
    by the hand and said, "Everyone please join hands in a chain. Good. Now
    I will lead you into the room and along the tiled area against the
    wall. When the last person is in and against the wall, that person; ah,
    yes, Jimmy, hello; Jimmy will release the hand of that young woman, who
    will release the hand of the next and so on until I feel this gentleman
    let go of mine. I will then leave the room and you will be on your own
    to enjoy yourselves."

    A

    door opened then, and they followed the hostess into the darkness. Don
    found the lack of light extremely disorienting. He found himself not
    trusting the idea that there would continue to be floor in front of him,
    and then realized this was why the hostess led them into the room. If
    she was ahead of him, then, obviously, the way was clear and safe. On
    entering, they turned to the left. As they went, he occasionally felt a
    wall brushing against his left side. He could hear the sounds of
    murmuring, low moans and the occasional gasp. The air was thick with the
    smell of sex. When Toshia let go of his right hand he let go of the
    hostess's, and reached out to the left to touch the wall. He strained
    his eyes to make out anything in the darkness. Gradually he realized he
    could actually make out darker areas of darkness. The floor at his feet
    and the wall behind him were slightly lighter shades of dark gray. He
    could see Toshia next to him, and Shelonda's silhouette beyond. He
    inched closer to Toshia and whispered, "Weird, huh?"

    "Yeah. Kind of scary," she admitted, but Don could tell there was excitement in her voice.

    "You ready?"

    He heard her take a deep breath and then said, "Let's do this!"

    They

    took a couple of steps, felt the carpet under their feet and carefully
    got down on their hands and knees to move forward. Don could make out
    deeper shadows ahead, and he carefully crawled forward, not trusting his
    depth perception in these circumstances. He looked to his right and saw
    Toshia's shape doing the same, and beyond her Shelonda. He wondered how
    many first timers wound up with serious bruises or even black eyes in
    here. Don found himself feeling like he was creeping up on someone to
    surprise them, and had to remind himself that whoever was ahead of him
    was expecting the occasional intruder.

    The

    first person Don came into contact with was obviously a man, as
    indicated by the thick, hairy thigh Don's hand found. Slowly, leading
    with his palm rather than his fingertips to avoid catching anyone in the
    eye, Don also found the woman who was sitting on the man. He touched
    her calf first, and gradually worked his way up to her thigh and her
    butt as they flexed while she rode up and down on the man beneath her.
    Don's first instinct was to move on, but decided the spirit of the room
    required a more assertively interactive approach. So, he knelt next to
    the man and woman in the darkness and began moving his hands over the
    woman's body. She was facing to his left, so it was Don's right hand
    that explored her remarkable ass, firmly muscled and yet well-padded.
    His left hand reached around the top of her thighs and moved over the
    surface of her belly, enjoying the feeling of her silky skin covered in a
    thin layer of perspiration. His right hand moved up along the line of
    her back as she leaned forward over her partner. She was supporting
    herself with her hands on the man's chest or shoulders, so Don's left
    hand next came to her breasts, which were full but not too big. He
    paused there, caressing and squeezing the left one, pinching her nipple a
    little, which drew an appreciative whimper in the dark. Continuing up
    her back, Don discovered that she had a long neck and short curly hair.
    He leaned in and kissed her shoulder, planning to move on into or around
    the room, but a soft hand reached around to find his left cheek. 

    Then

    the woman was turning. Moving slowly, Don and the woman riding the man
    in the darkness met with a kiss. He could feel the back of her head in
    his hand, the wonderful pressure of her lips on his, and then her tongue
    as she teased his lips and teeth. He could feel her breath and hand on
    his cheek, and he could see the dark shape of her in front of his face.
    He could hear her sigh as he twisted her nipple with his fingers a bit.
    That was it. Don could not see the color of her hair or her eyes. He had
    no idea what her face looked like or anything at all of the man who she
    was riding. He had no real idea of what was going on in the rest of the
    room. He knew his companions, including Toshia, out there somewhere in
    the dark exploring as he was, but he didn't know where they were or what
    they might be doing, or having done to them. Don couldn't decide if
    this was extremely arousing, somewhat terrifying, or merely very
    disorienting, but he knew he was excited; his heart was pounding and his
    cock was very hard.

    The

    woman's hand moved away; Don presumed to go back to holding herself up
    on the man; and then she broke their kiss. Don felt her head turning
    away. He would have moved on then, but he felt the man's hand then on
    his thigh and then taking firm hold of his cock. Well, I should have been expecting something like this,
    Don thought. Not wanting to be rude, Don stayed kneeling there as the
    stranger fucking up into the other stranger pulled and stroked at Don's
    cock. Don continued to play with the woman's nipple, and ran his hand
    slowly back down her spine, until he came to her ass, which he caressed
    and squeezed thoroughly. He heard the woman begin to moan and grunt a
    little as she worked herself on the man's cock with more enthusiasm. As
    she neared her orgasm, Don moved his fingers around and worked his way
    between her cheeks, much as he had done to Toshia earlier. Finding the
    woman every bit as slippery as Toshia had been, Don pushed his index
    finger slowly up inside her ass. She gasped in the darkness, and said,
    in a surprisingly soft voice, "God yes! Finger my ass!"

    Don

    considered doing more than that to her ass, but then she was coming.
    Her moaning seemed very loud in the hushed dark room, though Don had
    heard other people making similar sounds while he was there. Don held on
    to her as she shook, his finger up her clenching ass, and his hand
    squeezing her tit. Before she was done climaxing, Don felt her hand on
    his leg and then in his lap. Finding his cock, she joined the man
    beneath her in squeezing and pulling on Don. In another moment, the
    woman was moving around and Don had to quickly take his finger out of
    her bum. The man also moved, releasing Don's cock and scooting out from
    under the woman. Don tried to figure out what was going on but was
    completely lost. Until, that is, he felt her mouth on the head of his
    cock.

    She

    held his shaft tightly and her mouth began to suck hungrily at his head
    while she began to move up and down on him. Don ran his hands through
    her curly hair and then over her bare shoulders and upper back; he could
    tell that she was kneeling directly in front of him. Don sat up a bit
    higher on his knees, letting the mysterious woman have easier access to
    his cock. He held on to her head as he gently rocked himself in and out
    of her talented mouth. Don thought he could make out the silhouette of
    the man moving around to kneel behind the woman, but it might have been
    anyone. He was sure though that she shifted her position, raising her
    behind higher, and then that whoever was behind her was fucking her
    slowly and steadily.

    Don

    was trying to let himself go and not think about how he was all but
    blind, when he felt someone's soft hands on his butt, and then moving up
    his body. A very feminine body slipped up against him in the dark. Don
    could tell that she was tall, with large breasts that she pressed
    against his back as she wrapped her arms around him. Don reached up and
    felt her forearm, finding it taut with muscles. The woman behind him
    lowered her mouth to the side of his neck as her hands explored down
    along his abs until they joined his other hand in the hair of the woman
    sucking on his cock. Pressing herself against his back, the new woman
    rocked with Don as if she were also having her cock sucked.

    Don heard the woman behind him say in a low, throaty voice, "How does that feel to have her sucking you like that?"

    "Amazing!" Don breathed.

    "You can feel her tongue and her lips on you can't you?"

    "Yes."

    "Are you going to come in her mouth?"

    "Yes."

    "You're going to make her swallow your sweet cum, aren't you?"

    "Yes!"

    "Do it!" the woman said from behind Don. "Pump your hot cum down her throat! Fuck her mouth and come for her!"

    "God

    yes!" Don sighed. He shoved forward and came hard and long. He
    shuddered as his cock shot what felt like several large gouts of cum
    into his mysterious curly-haired friend's mouth. She sucked and pulled
    on him eagerly as he came. Don sagged back against the woman with the
    low voice and the big tits as he trembled and reveled in the sensations
    given him by the mouth sucking every last drop of cum from him.

    "Mmm," said the voice in his ear. "That was a good one, wasn't it?"

    "Yes,

    it was!" Don grinned in the dark. Then as the woman in front of him
    released his cock, he felt the woman behind him kiss his ear and her
    hands reached around to take his wet, slippery cock in her hands, as if
    it were her own and she was going to jerk it off. "Oh, you're still
    hard. What are you going to do with this big dick now?"

    Don twisted around a bit and said, "I was thinking of fucking you with it."

    She

    chuckled, her breath on his face, "Oh you were, were you? I'm
    flattered, but I don't think so. Why don't we find someone else to fuck
    with it?"

    Don frowned and said, "OK."

    "Go off to your left," she said. "I'll follow."

    Don

    got on his hands and knees and started to move slowly to the left, away
    from the general area where Toshia and the others had been earlier. He
    felt the woman at his back keeping her hand on his lower back as she
    followed him. The very next body part that Don came into contact with
    was an obviously feminine shoulder, soft under Don's hand. Drawing
    closer, Don could tell by her motions and the sounds she was making, as
    well as by her position and the vague shadows, that she was lying on her
    back being fucked. Don guessed that she had her butt up off the ground
    as the man screwing her supported her on his thighs, or something,
    because he wasn't leaning over her at all. Don cupped her full, soft
    breast in his hand and leaned over her face. He kissed this new woman in
    the dark, as his free hand found her hair laying in a mess around her
    head. The woman beneath him returned his kiss enthusiastically, and Don
    felt the motions through their kiss as the man between her legs abruptly
    began to shove into her more forcefully.

    In a few moments, the woman broke their kiss to say, "You got here just in time."

    Don smiled and said, "Happy to be of service, ma'am."

    He

    heard her laugh and then felt her body shifting, followed closely by
    her hands on his body, searching for his cock. All the while, Don's
    shadow hovered nearby, her hand on his back. Her earlier partner
    apparently gone, the woman on her back and Don quickly got organized
    into a basic missionary position. He settled between her legs and pushed
    himself into her wet sex, feeling the thick cum left by the previous
    guy. Her legs hooked around his, and her arms slipped around his back.
    Don felt his shadow's hands move down to his ass, feeling him flex as he
    fucked into the woman beneath him and also pushing him into her a bit.

    "That feels good," said the woman beneath him. "Fuck me just like that."

    Then Don felt the heavy breasts of the woman behind him on his back, and heard her voice in his ear saying, "Yes, fuck her."

    Beneath

    him, the woman he was screwing stiffened a bit, and he felt her hand
    reaching out behind him. She said, with what sounded like a smile, "Oh,
    you brought a friend."

    "Yes," he said, "she's my shadow."

    Both

    women laughed at that, while Don continued to move himself in and out
    of the pussy beneath him. After a while, they changed position, so that
    Don sat back on his haunches and the voluptuous woman he was fucking was
    riding him while leaning back on her arms and supported by Don's
    shadow. Both Don and the shadow played with the woman's full breasts,
    and the shadow now whispered in the woman's ear. Don heard her saying,
    "Is that cock fucking you good?" and "Are you going to come on him?"
    Soon the woman between them was coming hard and vocally, making the room
    echo with her enthusiasm.

    As

    the threesome broke up, and Don's shadow disappeared into the darkness,
    Don decided that he'd had enough of the dark room. Although working
    without sight was certainly erotic, he was too visually oriented to
    appreciate it fully. He made his way to the tiled edge of the room and
    then gradually found his way to the door. As he and his companions had
    agreed earlier, he had to let them know he was leaving, though they
    would all be under no compulsion to leave until they were ready. He
    said, loudly enough to be heard all through the room, "Don is leaving."

    He

    stepped out into intermediately lit room, blinking at the comparative
    brightness, and then, when his eyes had adjusted, out into a nice lounge
    with soft, but fairly normal lighting. He took a seat on a comfortable
    bench and relaxed against the wall. Don was a little surprised that he
    had been the first one to leave the dark room, particularly since he had
    found it so intriguing. He was more amused when, about five minutes
    later, Victor joined him in the lounge. The two men briefly compared
    notes, though, as before Victor was hardly loquacious. The next person
    of their party to come out was Shelonda. She was happily disoriented,
    and reported that she'd just done something new. Of course, Don and
    Victor were curious, but she said she would show them after she had a
    few moments to catch her breath.

    By

    the time Amy and Nicole joined them in the lounge, Shelonda had
    regained her breath and was ready to demonstrate. Victor was on his
    knees and was holding Shelonda facing him but upside down. She was
    hanging against his strong front, sucking on his cock as he slowly
    raised and lowered her, all while he was going down on her upturned
    pussy and clit. This display went a long way to starting the little orgy
    that now broke out. Of course, after Shelonda had an intense inverted
    orgasm, Amy wanted a turn, and Victor was happy to oblige. Shelonda
    joined Nicole and Don on the bench to watch, but by the time Liu and
    then Jimmy came out of the dark room, the whole group was having sex.

    And

    it wasn't long after that that Don found himself in the middle of
    another five way: Don was fucking Shelonda as she lay on her belly with
    her legs spread and her butt up in the air a bit; Amy lay on her back,
    her legs spread so Shelonda could lick her pussy; and Nicole was sitting
    on Amy's face while leaning over and sucking on Jimmy as he sat on the
    bench. Meanwhile, Victor was plowing pretty Liu from behind.

    Only

    after he had moved over and let Liu suck him while Victor continued to
    fuck her, did Don come again, this time shooting his seed down Liu's
    throat. And only after that did Don realize that it had been quite a
    while since the last person had come out of the dark room and there was
    still no sign of Toshia. He decided he should go check on her, and would
    have, but as he was going to the door, it opened and Toshia sagged in
    the doorway. Her hair was matted with cum, and much of her skin was
    smeared with it. There was also a considerable amount running in a
    pearly mess down the insides of her legs. She had a very happy smile on
    her face.

    As Don helped her to the bench, he said with a smile, "Wow, honey, did you do every man in there?"

    "Everyone I could get my hands on," she grinned, "and most of the women, too."

    They

    all decided it was time to return to the showers and then to find a
    room for the night; for actual sleeping. As Don carried Toshia in his
    arms to the showers, she said, "I seem to really like the anonymity."

    "Oh?"

    "Yeah,

    remember the night in the Disco? In the smoke pit I felt like no one
    could see what I was doing, and I remember thinking no one knows who I
    am here. For some reason that makes me so hot!"

    "I know who you are," he smiled.

    "You're special," she said and pulled his face down to hers to give him a cummy kiss.

    Of

    course, even though they'd had a busy day of sex, they didn't get right
    to sleep. When they did, though, Don slept very soundly, nestled
    between Shelonda and his new lover, Liu.

     

    To be continued in part 3

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry for Literotica

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  • Lost in Eros, The Return: Part 1
    Book 3 in a 4-volume library.The Resort along the way to the Sage

    Based on the work of BradentonLarry, in 6 parts.  Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.



    Toshia found riding on the Wizard's flying carpet strangely arousing. She had heard or read somewhere that dreams about flying were supposed to be about sex, and pretty much everything in Eros made pretty much everyone, and some things, aroused. Still, there was something particularly wonderful about sailing over the countryside with the wind whipping through her hair and over her bare skin that Toshia was finding extremely stimulating. She looked out and down at the forest beneath her as she reclined on one side, half leaning back against Victor who sat closer to the center of the carpet. Nicole, still very much uncomfortable with flying on this open vehicle, huddled up next to the big, muscular man's other side. Amy and Don were up at the front of carpet piloting and looking for a tower at the head of a river, respectively. 

    On the back part of the carpet, Shelonda seemed to be napping. Toshia was coming to think of this merry little band as something of a family – a happily incestuous family, of course, with Don and her as the patriarch and matriarch, naturally.

    Watching the landscape floating past below, thinking warmly about her companions, and feeling the delicious tingling in her loins signaling the inevitable return of her lust, Toshia rested her head on one hand, while letting the other hand move slowly down the front of her body. She caressed the curve of her breast through the thin fabric of the short dress she had gotten from the Wizard.

    Toshia thought back to how she had met the Wizard and his beautiful wife, Madeleine for the first time. True to Don's word, they had left the Sisterhood the morning after the big orgy in their honor. Daphne had agreed to "give them" Victor and Nina, but the little serving girl protested that she wanted to stay with the sisters. Victor, however, was quite happy to join Toshia and Don's little band. Then, the sextet.That's perfect! Toshia thought to herself with a smile as she gave her breast a squeeze. The sextet then climbed aboard the flying carpet and flew back to the Wizard's spacious estate. After they were bathed, in wonderfully warm water, and clothed, the Wizard and Madeleine fed them and made them welcome. At first, as something of an odd formality that made the other's chuckle and grin, the Wizard fucked Toshia with surprising vigor while his wife enjoyed Victor's hard cock. Don and the girls actually managed to wait until Toshia had her first shuddering orgasm and Victor filled Madeleine's pussy with his cum (after she had at least two orgasms of her own) before they joined in the party. That evening was a wonderful blur of sex. Toshia pinched her nipple through her dress as she thought back to the moment when she had mounted the Wizard as he lay on the floor, Victor pushed his wonderful cock into her ass, and she had taken Don into her mouth and throat. With each of her orifices truly and delightfully filled, Toshia had let the boys use her body as she rode a long series of orgasms to near oblivion.

    Toshia smiled to herself, as her hand slipped lower, pressing against her belly, as she thought of the easy, happy atmosphere of the Wizard's home – so comfortable after her days with the satyrs and the sisters. She thought of the strategy meeting, at which the Wizard offered them the continued use of the magic carpet as well as more clothes. It was at that meeting that Madeleine noticed that they had made an unwarranted assumption about what the Crone had told Don. They had all assumed that when she had said, "Go down into the valley and follow the river there to its source..." she meant the valley they were currently in, or at the top of. In fact, though, she might have meant only the valley of the river she was talking about. Of course, this meant that they probably had much more searching to do than they had expected, and they were now on their third day of flying along rivers looking for towers. Madeleine's observation naturally enough cast a pall on the group's mood. Seeing this reaction, Madeleine had quickly added, "Since this might take some time, and you've already been through so much, why don't you come with my husband and me?" She explained that the couple was planning a little trip to visit the Manor for the first time. Toshia found herself eagerly agreeing to take a couple of days’ vacation from the quest to get home.

    As her hand caressed the skin of her thigh, just below the hem of her short dress, Toshia remembered how happy she had been to return to the Manor again. Making the Wizard and his wife the guests of honor, though Victor had never been to the Manor either, Toshia and the others made a point of showing them a good time. Toshia was surprised at how comfortable she was in the Manor. In spite of everything that had happened, it was actually Toshia who suggested that they split up for the first night, into girls and guys. Toshia pushed the hem of her skirt up and raised her leg as she moved her fingers up along her thigh as she thought of the fun the girls had shown Madeleine that night. It had been party night in the disco again, and Madeleine threw herself into the revelry with abandon. At some point, it became a competition to see how many men each of the women could make cum. Toshia's fingers traced lightly over her moist lips as she remembered the playful frenzy of that night. As before, things started out in the foggy pit, and all five of the women began to fuck and suck in the smoke and pulsing music. Toshia parted her lips and ran a finger up between them, spreading her juices over her eager little clit, as she remembered being on her hands and knees in the "slow dance" room pushing back on her seventeenth cock of the evening. Only a little bit in front of her Madeleine was sprawled on her back getting fucked vigorously by one guy as three others stroked their cocks over her, spraying cum all over her beautiful face and tits.

    Toshia was now playing with herself in earnest, her fingers stroking against her clit and occasionally pushing into her pussy. All the while, she remembered the wild, playful events in the Manor. She thought of how Don and the other guys had found her and Madeleine cuddled sleepily in the black light room covered in cum. Don had kissed her lovingly, took her in his arms, and proceeded to make love to her passionately, while the Wizard did the same with his slutty wife. Toshia shuddered a little as she thought about how she had later lived up to her promise to herself and managed to take on both the Player and Igor – a double-teaming that had left her spent and adrift in a delirious sea of ecstasy.

    Toshia's memories were interrupted then as Victor's big hand reached around to cup her breast and squeeze it. She sighed and rolled back a bit more to look up into his smiling face. She felt Shelonda's hand moving up along the inside of her leg and parted her thighs further to let the girl have access. Shelonda rested her head on Toshia's lower inner thigh and promptly sucked Toshia's clit into her mouth. Toshia gasped and began to work her arm around so she could get her hand on Victor's cock. Unlike the rest of the group, Victor remained naked so Toshia was easily able to take hold of his stiffening member. Victor bent down to kiss Toshia's yearning mouth. Toshia was twisted there on the flying carpet, making sure she didn't keep Shelonda from her pussy and clit, but hungrily sucking and biting at Victor's tongue as his strong hand squeezed her tit. Soon she was shaking and moaning as her first airborne orgasm swept through her body.

    Without letting go of Victor's thick shaft, Toshia caught her breath and managed to gently push Shelonda away from her pussy. She smiled down at the other woman's impish face, and then twisted around to face Victor, who also turned so that he was kneeling on the carpet facing Toshia. Nicole was alarmed by all of this sudden commotion, and grabbed at Victor's bicep as she took in what the others were up to. She opened her mouth to object, but immediately realized any protestation would be futile. Instead, she peered around Victor's shoulder to watch as Toshia pulled herself up into Victor's lap and got her mouth on his cock.

    Toshia eagerly began sucking on the thick, dark shaft, savoring the feeling of the hard, warm flesh sliding past her lips and over her tongue. She was delighted to feel Shelonda's persistent hands moving up between her legs again. Soon Toshia had two of Shelonda's fingers pushing up into her as she sucked on Victor. After only a minute or two of this, though, Toshia knew that she wanted more. She gently pulled away from Shelonda again, and clambered up so that she was straddling Victor's lap. Shelonda saw what Toshia was doing at once and quickly reached into Victor's lap to take hold of his straining cock. Holding onto his broad shoulders, Toshia lowered herself down onto the organ Shelonda aimed into her pussy. Toshia threw her head back and sighed as she felt herself wonderfully filled. She sat there, impaled, with her head back and eyes closed for a few moments, just enjoying the feeling of that cock inside her. Then she slowly began to grind and ride up and down on Victor. The big man's hands held her waist snugly, and she leaned down to kiss him. She gave herself up to the sensations her body was sending her way: the wind in her hair and on her naked arms and legs, the strong chest pressing the fabric of her dress against her breasts, the strong thighs underneath her, the mouth on her own, the tongue against hers, and most of all the thick penis sliding in and out of her grasping, wet pussy. Then she felt Shelonda's hand on her butt, squeezing and caressing it. Toshia turned to smile at the adorable young woman, who leaned in to give Toshia a quick kiss.

    Then Toshia watched as Shelonda turned her attention to Nicole, who obviously thought that these in-flight shenanigans were madness. Looking to the front of the carpet, Toshia saw that Don was watching her riding Victor. He smiled encouragingly and she responded by grinning back at him and increasing the tempo of her fucking. She decided that she wanted to make Victor's big cock fill her up with its cum, and then that she would have Don add his. She slid up and down on Victor's shaft, squeezing her pussy around him, and looked out to see the countryside flying by beneath them.

    Toshia saw that Shelonda had managed to distract Nicole enough that the two women were lying down behind Victor making out. Shelonda had her hand up under Nicole's skirt, and Nicole had one hand on one of Shelonda's perfect tits and the other squeezing Shelonda's no-less-perfect ass. Toshia heard Amy say, "Oh, now this isn't fair at all!" Don said something in response, but Toshia was preoccupied with working herself toward a second orgasm and her determination to make Victor come.

    She felt the thick phallus inside her swell and then Victor was shaking and shoving up into her as he pumped his thick cum into her pussy. This pushed Toshia over the edge and she threw her head back and cried out as she trembled and came, clenching and milking Victor's cock as they climaxed. When the trembling subsided and she could think again, Toshia sagged forward on Victor.

    Smiling, Toshia kissed Victor's forehead and turned to Don, saying, "Your turn love."

    Don didn't respond but kept looking ahead, in frantic conversation with Amy. Looking beyond the two of them, Toshia saw what seemed to be a walled town or something spread out on a shelf on the side of a mountain. Then, high up the mountainside by a large lake Toshia saw a pinkish tower. While she had been fucking, Don and Amy had found the tower! Then she noticed that although Don and Amy were obvious excited, they seemed more panicked than enthusiastic. Without taking the time to get off Victor's still-hard cock, Toshia called forward, "What's wrong?"

    "We're losing altitude," Don said brusquely.

    "Fly higher?" she offered weakly.

    "I'm trying!" Amy said with obvious exasperation.

    "We're going to hit the mountain!" Nicole gasped.

    "No, we're not going to make it that far," Shelonda said. "It looks like we're going to hit that wall."

    "No we're not!" Amy said with more determination than confidence.

    Toshia had a moment to look beyond the wall in question, and saw the town she'd noticed a moment earlier consisted of several rather large buildings of multiple stories, and a bunch of smaller structures. In the center of "town" was what looked like a very large pool or fountain, and it now looked like that was where they were headed – rather too quickly, Toshia thought.

    They were over and past the wall then, and people in the town noticed them and there were outcries from below.

    "Can't we just stop?" Nicole asked in a panic.

    "I've been trying to do that!" Amy shouted.

    Toshia realized they were about to crash and she was still kneeling there with Victor's prick up her. She laughed and said "Damn!" at the same moment, and then they hit the water.

    Victor held her in his arms as they went tumbling forward and under. Toshia felt her back brushing the hard stone bottom of the pool and then Victor let go of her. She pushed away and opened her eyes, which had been closed tightly since the moment before impact. There were arms and legs everywhere in the water, all flaying about wildly. Trying to keep her wits, she pushed up from the bottom and quickly broke the surface of the water; it was only a little over chin deep. She wiped the water out of her eyes and looked around. She saw the others bob to the surface, and noticed that their few packs were floating around. Don found her and asked, "Are you all right?"

    She smiled at his concern and said, "Yes, I think so. Are you?"

    "Yeah," he nodded. Then he was hugging her tightly. "It's all fun and games until your flying carpet runs out of gas, eh?"

    Toshia laughed and said, "Let's check on the others."

    They quickly found that everyone was fine, if very wet. They were scattered in a swath from the point where they had hit the water, with poor Nicole having travelled the furthest. They saw that they were in a truly humongous swimming pool, which was fortunately not too terribly crowded. No by-swimmers had been hit by the carpet or its riders. The sextet gathered up their belongings, and Victor, who had none of his own, took up the slack by hauling the sodden, heavy carpet out of the water. As they made their way to the closest side of the pool, naked people began to swim out to them with concern and curiosity. The bottom of the pool rose as they went, until they were able to wade on out. A large crowd of onlookers gathered around. Toshia, Don and the others looked back at them, trying to sort out which questions to ask first.

    Before anyone could make any progress, though, a tall blonde woman with cowboy boots, cowboy hat, a pleated skirt, and a light denim vest complete with a six-pointed star badge. The only thing she was missing was a six-gun at her hip. Instead she carried what seemed to be a heavy baton, which naturally enough looked a bit like sex toy to Toshia. Of course, she was pretty, though she had a stern expression on her freckled face. This fully-clothed woman fixed a coldly serious blue eye on the bedraggled newcomers, and said, "What's the meaning of this?"

    Don stepped forward and said, "Well, we crashed, ma'am."

    "Crashing into the pool is not allowed," the woman said.

    "Is it specifically against the rules?" Don asked.

    "As a matter of fact, it is," the woman said crossly. "The pool is to be used for swimming and sex only. I'll have to arrest you all for breaking that rule as well as reckless operation of a vehicle and careless endangerment of resort guests."

    "Resort?" Toshia asked, as she looked around at the large buildings she could see over the heads of the crowd. They did look a bit like hotels or casinos.

    "Look, ma'am..." Don began.

    "Sheriff," she asserted.

    "Sheriff," Don smiled, "I assure you this was a terrible accident. If we come with you peacefully, will you give us a chance to explain the situation?"

    The Sheriff scowled at Don and the others and then nodded curtly. "Come this way. Mike, make sure they didn't leave anything in the pool. Bring anything you find to me."

    Mike was apparently a young woman with short, bright red hair, who nodded and promptly waded into the pool.

    As the curious crowd parted and then began to disperse, and the party of resort crashers followed the Sheriff, Toshia looked around more carefully. Sure enough, the poolside was lined with chaise lounges and umbrellas. Scattered about were little tent houses. Further from the pool were little bungalows and about half a dozen much larger buildings. The Sheriff led them between two of them, each with a bold sign out front. The one on the left was called "The Jungle Room", even though there must surely be many more than one room in the building. A grinning ape with a raging hard on swung from sign's "g". On the right was the "Clockwork Club", whose sign showed off gears and pistons. Not surprisingly, along the way, they passed a number of people who were busy with a variety of sexual activities. Toshia also noticed, here and there, a man or woman moving about in what seemed to be uniforms, carrying towels or beverages.

    The Sheriff led them to a smallish building in the shadow of the Clockwork Club. Pushing a wooden door open, she admitted them to an outer office straight out of a typical western. There was a single desk, a perfunctory wall to screen the office from the two cells in the back, a chair for the Sheriff and that was about it. After hanging her hat on a peg by the door, the constable sat on the edge of her desk, crossed her long legs in front of her, and said, "OK, let's hear your explanation."

    If Don was distracted by the woman's obvious physical charms, Toshia couldn't tell. He simply smiled and said, "Thank you, Sheriff. You see we were trying to reach the tower in the mountains above your ... resort."

    "The monastery tower?" the Sheriff asked.

    "I don't know about the monastery," Don shrugged. "We're trying to find the Sage, and were told to look for him in a tower at the source of a river."

    "I believe there is a sage of some sort up there," the Sheriff nodded.

    "Well, we were trying to get there when all of a sudden our ... vehicle just stopped working."

    "It 'just stopped working' right over the resort?"

    "Well, not exactly," Amy offered. "It started losing power some distance downriver. I didn't notice at first, but then I couldn't get it to cooperate. It just kept going in the same direction, but lower and lower."

    The Sheriff looked at Amy carefully, and then said, "Well, you seem to be telling the truth, and nobody was hurt, so I suppose we can let this one incident pass. I'll be keeping an eye on you, though. Don't cause any more trouble or you'll end up in one of my cells."

    "Thank you, Sheriff," Don bowed a little.

    "Excuse me, Sheriff," Toshia interrupted. "Can you tell us the best way to get to the tower?"

    "There's a road up the mountain. You'll want to go out the East gate." When it became clear that they had no idea where the East gate might be, the Sheriff stepped back outside, pointed them in the right direction and gave a few basic instructions.

    As they continued on their soggy way, Victor made the slightly surprising announcement that the carpet was already dry, and proceeded to roll it up for easier carrying.

    "What do you think happened?" Nicole asked.

    "I have no idea," Amy shrugged.

    "I do," Don said. "Remember that candle the first day we were here, Toshia? The one that went out in the secret passage?"

    "Yeah," she nodded.

    "And the Wizard said his power was centered on his house, or something like that. I think we finally flew the carpet too far from the Wizard, or his house, so it ran out of mojo."

    "Why didn't we just crash, then?" Toshia asked.

    "What?" Nicole gasped.

    Don shrugged, and said, "I really don't know. Maybe it's just the kind of thing that fades out, like sound or light; it's not like you hear someone in the distance until you go one step too far – they fade out. And maybe the thing that uses up the most power is steering, then altitude and finally forward motion. I don't know; I'm just guessing here, but it does seem to make some kind of sense."

    Toshia and the others puzzled this over, but only for a short time, because they now came to the high wall that surrounded the resort and the very large metal gate that was set into the wall. They could look through the heavy bars and see the rocky terrain and a path outside the resort. In the center of the gate was a large impassive metallic face; it was quite out of character with the rest of the resort as they had seen it.

    Don stepped forward to look for a handle. Finding none, he took hold of one of the vertical bars and tugged, and then pushed. The gate didn't budge.

    "Excuse me," said a deep voice. "Do you always walk up to people and grab them without so much as a 'good afternoon'?"

    They all looked around in confusion, until Shelonda pointed up at the face on the gate. It was now obviously looking at them with a deep frown.

    "Oh, uh," Don stammered. Toshia chuckled. Even after everything they'd been through Don kept expecting things to be more mundane than they were here.

    "We're terribly sorry," Toshia said to the metal face. "We're not from around here."

    "Yes, I know," said the face with an exasperated expression. "You're the folks who crashed into the pool."

    "Ah, you heard about that?" Toshia smiled.

    "Heard about it? No. I experienced it."

    "Hello," Don blurted. "How's that?"

    "I experience things like that," the face explained with apparent strained patience. "Things that happen to the resort happen to me."

    "Fascinating," Don mused.

    "Well, we're terribly sorry about crashing into the pool... or into you, if that's more accurate," Toshia pressed. "We were just going to continue on our way up the mountain path through there, er, you."

    "But you just got here," the face frowned.

    "Well yes, but we weren't trying to get here, but to the tower," Toshia explained.

    "But you're here now and you haven't spent any time enjoying yourselves."

    "Well, we were just..."

    "We really have had a great time," Don insisted.

    "Don't patronize me, young man," the face scowled. "You haven't even really swum in the pool yet, or spent the night in jail. You haven't visited any of our fine clubs or enjoyed a casino."

    Toshia was a bit distracted by the inclusion of a night in jail on that list, but forged ahead with, "I'm sure they're all very nice..."

    "Now you're patronizing me. How could you possibly be sure they're very nice when you haven't bothered to really find about any of it? Any self-respecting resort would be wounded by your insensitive rush to pass by all the diversions it offered."

    "How about if we promise to come back and have a lot of fun once we've gotten up to the tower?" Don asked.

    "Look, I'll be honest," said the gate. "I don't trust you. You crashed in here without an invitation or landing clearance, and then you try to barge right out without so much as an 'excuse me'. I am inclined to think you'll leave here and forget all about coming back to enjoy our luxurious amenities and many recreational opportunities."

    "What if some of us stayed here and enjoyed the resort, while a couple of us went on up the mountain?" Nicole asked in what Toshia thought was a stroke of brilliance.

    "Uh, no," it said firmly. "How about this instead? You all spend some time here and really have a good time, and then come back here and I'll let you go on up to that silly tower."

    "How much time is 'some time'?" Don asked.

    "That's not the right attitude," the gate said scornfully. "Go have fun, and when you feel like you've really given the resort a good try, you can come back here and we'll see."

    This was the gate's last word on the subject; after a few minutes of trying to communicate with the metal face it became clear that no further concessions would be gained.

    "We could look for another way out," Don suggested.

    "I don't know," Nicole mused. "This wall looks like it means business." The wall stood ten meters high and seemed to be newly built of very heavy rocks. It did seem unlikely that anyone would go to all the trouble of building, or creating, such a serious barrier only to leave a way out, or in, unattended.

    "Well, it looks like we'll have to make the best of the situation," Toshia said with a shrug. On the one hand she was becoming used to these obstacles in their path, and on the other she looked forward to seeing what sort of mischief she could get into before returning to her normal life.

    The value of serving others.

    "OK, well, why don't we try out one of those clubs?" asked Don. "That seems to be the best way to start giving the resort a good try."

    No one had any objection to this suggestion, so they set off for the closest of the large buildings. This turned out to be a mammoth edifice of white marble, or at least stone that looked like marble. The front was lined with ornate columns ("Corinthian," Don informed them), and broad, deep steps led up to towering glass doors. The sign outside identified the locale as the "Temple of Venus and Aphrodite", which set Don to quiet grumbling.

    The tinted glass doors slid open as they approached, and they stepped in to a lavish entry hall that was best described as cavernous. The floor was marble but with soft area rugs scattered about. Wide, winding stairs swept up and away and at least half a dozen doorways were visible on the ground level alone. Naked or barely clothed people were moving about leisurely, apparently going from one part of the "Temple" to another. Toshia was a bit surprised to note that no one was screwing here in the lobby. Then a slender man with short-cropped hair and wire-frame glasses hurried toward them with a broad smile on his face. He was wearing a black tunic, or short toga, like Toshia had seen worn by Roman servants in movies.

    "Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen," the man enthused. "Welcome to the Temple of Venus and Aphrodite, the finest establishment in the resort, catering to the most sensual of Epicureans."

    "Epicurus would not have approved," Don tried to point out.

    "My name is Adrian, and I will be your host," the man went on, ignoring Don's objection. "Since this is your first visit to the Temple, please allow me to explain how things work here. Within these walls you will find all manner of delight and a host of willing playmates – devotees of the Venusian mysteries and initiates of the Aphroditic secrets. I suggest you try the many baths, have an erotic massage, lose yourself in the dark room, enjoy the resort's longest running orgy (going strong and continuously for seven years now!), or any of countless other pleasures."

    "Seven years?" Toshia asked somewhat incredulously.

    "Indeed!" Adrian smiled. "However, as novitiates, as we call guests on their first visit, you will be expected to give your first six hours to the Temple in service to the Goddesses and our other guests."

    When he saw that there was more than one puzzled expression on the faces in front of him, Adrian explained, "If you want to play freely in the Temple, you have to spend at least the first six hours as 'servants to the Goddesses'. You'll be given special tunics (like mine but red) and assigned jobs to do around the Temple. While you're doing your duties, you will be expected to comply with the wishes of your supervisors and our other guests, by which I mean the ones who are not wearing red tunics. In this way, the staff gets extra help and new guests learn more about the Temple. As it turns out, many guests volunteer to wear the red, as we say, long after their six hours are up, or on return visits."

    After the sextet shared a silent meeting conducted by means of expressions and meaningful glances, Don said, "We have some concerns about being separated, Adrian."

    Adrian frowned for the first time, paused, and then said, "Oh, well, your duties will almost certainly require you to be separated from each other. However, you will be notified when your six hours have elapsed, and you might agree to return here to the lobby."

    Toshia wasn't quite convinced though, so she asked, "We won't have to leave the Temple at any time, will we?"

    "Oh, no ma'am," Adrian said emphatically. "We have everything anyone could need right here in the Temple. Some of our guests have been here for months without ever setting foot outside."

    Toshia looked to Don, shrugged and nodded. The others all seemed willing to give this Temple gig a shot. So, Don said, "Alright, we'll do it, Adrian. Everyone remember to come back here after the six hours are up."

    Adrian grinned and bowed, then led them all off to a relatively small, unassuming door off to the side, which led to a large locker room of gleaming white. "You may each use one of our lockers to store your clothing and belongings. Use the showers over there, and then report to Mavin over there at the desk for your tunics and assignments. Your six hours as novitiates will begin when she signs you in. Have fun, everyone!"

    Toshia and the others looked at each other in amused confusion for a moment. Then, naturally enough, it was Amy who began stripping off her clothing and throwing it into the nearest locker. Victor found a tall locker that would accommodate their carpet. "Remember your locker numbers!" Toshia reminded everyone.

    They made their way into the showers, which were rather Spartan by Manor standards. Interest in getting on to the rest of the Temple kept them from engaging in all but the most furtive play under the warm water. As they were toweling off, Don pulled Toshia into a long hug. He kissed her and said, "Don't go getting lost."

    Toshia smiled, saying, "Wouldn't dream of it! Besides, it's your turn."

    He laughed and kissed her again. Hand-in-hand they went with the others out to see Mavin, a serious woman with dark hair pulled back in a bun. Like Adrian she wore a black tunic. Toshia wondered if Mavin and Adrian were what the Scholar had called "blanks". Mavin took down each of their names, and handed them each a red tunic, which of course fit them each perfectly. The tunics had loose collars, no sleeves, and very short hems; Don's penis and balls were only barely concealed, and Victor's cock wasn't. They were given cord belts with which they cinched the tunics snugly about their waists. Although she thought the men looked a bit silly in theirs, Toshia thought the girls all looked quite sexy in their little red uniforms.

    They were directed to wait in a little lounge until Mavin had an assignment for them. Naturally enough, as soon as they got comfortable mischief started. Amy reminded everyone that she and Don hadn't had any fun on the carpet, to which Nicole and Shelonda protested that they hadn't had time for much fun. Amy didn't buy it though, and promptly moved over to Don and said, "How about it, Professor? You up for helping a girl out?"

    Don grinned and reached out to pull the sexy blonde into his lap. Nicole said, "Well, I think we should pick up where we left off then, Shelonda."

    Toshia smiled over at Victor and said, "I guess it's you and me again, stud."

    "No, no!" Amy laughed. "You two had your fun and have to just watch for a while."

    Toshia opened her mouth to protest, but Mavin's voice cut her off with, "Amy and Victor!"

    Toshia was impressed that Amy didn't pout or fuss, but just gave Don a quick kiss and headed back out to Mavin with a smile. Victor followed closely.

    "Well, that's fine," Toshia smiled across at Don. "I can do what I wanted to do earlier..."

    "Toshia!" Mavin called.

    Toshia laughed and said, "Of course. To be continued."

    "I'll look forward to it," Don smiled.

    Mavin didn't even look up when Toshia got to her desk, but said, "Towel service. Go down that hall, take the stairs up to the third floor and report to the laundry room on the left."

    Toshia hurried off to follow the directions, but still heard "Don!" called out behind her. She was already looking forward to finding out what he and the others had to do during their service period. She was a bit disappointed to think she was going to wind up folding towels in a laundry room, but she was, as always, a good sport, and made haste to climb up to the third floor. She found the laundry room at once and was greeted by an older man in another black tunic who barely looked at her before shoving a tall stack of thick white towels across a white counter at her. "Here you go, Toshia," he said without asking her name. "Go with Jerri here. Jerri, show Toshia the third floor circuit."

    "Right, Steve," replied the tall, blonde young woman with long legs and arms and what Toshia found herself thinking of as a sorority girl's face. She smiled around her own stack of towels and said, "Hi Toshia, welcome aboard. Let's get going."

    Toshia hurried to keep up, but immediately found it difficult to navigate with the towels blocking most of her vision. Fortunately, Jerri didn't hurry along as fast as she could have on those long legs of hers. As they went down a hallway, Jerri called back, "Is this your first day?"

    "Yes, you?"

    "No," Jerri laughed. "I've done this every time I come to the Temple. I like to start out with wearing the red. I can take it off anytime I want now, of course, but most of the time I just wind up leaving it on."

    "Why?" Toshia asked.

    "I don't know. Here's the first stop. Just move around the room slowly. You go to the left and I'll go to the right. People will take towels off the top of your stack sometimes, but you should offer if they're not busy. Try not to trip over anyone or anything! I'll see you at the other door on the far side."

    The door slid open in front of them, which was good since neither of them had a free hand, and they stepped into a steamy room. Peering around her towels, Toshia saw that this was a large room with a large pool of water in the center of it. The sole source of light was the crimson lights that illuminated the water. In the center of the pool was an island partly taken up by a planter with some very large plants, but obviously with enough room left over that several people were able to climb up out of the water and use the area for sex. Two couples were doing just that at this moment. After a clear area around the pool, which was thankfully fairly free of naked bodies, small, intimate booths formed the outer perimeter of the room. There were quite a few people in these booths, either engaged in their own sex or watching others.

    The closest people to Toshia as she moved to the left, clockwise, around the pool, were a pair of women who were obviously way too busy with each other to care about getting any new towels. Toshia tried not to be distracted by their wet, naked bodies and focused instead on moving over to the booths. The first booth was occupied by a man and a woman sitting and watching the goings on in the rest of the room; each one had a hand in the other's lap.

    "Fresh towels?" Toshia offered tentatively, but they both shook their head and smiled.

    Moving on, the next booth she came to was occupied by two men, one of whom was bent over and leaning against the back of the booth while the other was obviously fucking him in the ass. Toshia paused a moment to admire the superb backside of the one doing the fucking, but then continued on.

    There were four men sitting around the next booth and kneeling on the floor before them was a statuesque woman whose face and breasts were covered in cum, shining pinkly in the light of the room. The kneeling woman spotted Toshia and said, "Oh, grab me a towel, dear."

    One of the men hurried to comply, his cock bobbing out in front of him. Toshia smiled down at the woman as she went on to the next booth. Here a man was sitting on one side of the booth, leisurely stroking himself, as a pair of gorgeous young women made out on the other side. Toshia paused there a moment, thinking she would now enjoy putting on a show for people to masturbate over. As she stood there, she felt the man reach out and run his hand up the back of her leg. Remembering her instructions, she remained still as he worked his way up under her tunic to caress her bare behind. Toshia was definitely feeling the effects of titillation and frustration now. If she weren't "wearing the red" she would have dropped the towels and promptly had her way with the man who was groping her ass. She made do with smiling down at him and saying, "Would you care for a towel, sir?"

    He smiled and nodded, but made no move to get up to reach for a towel. So, Toshia gracefully squatted next to him, moving slowly so he wouldn't have to move his hand from her butt. He smiled again at her, and reached across with the hand that had been stroking his cock to take the top towel off her stack. He was clearly torn between paying attention to Toshia and continuing to watch the two lovelies across from him. Toshia decided to help him out, and asked, "May I help you with that, sir?"

    He grinned and nodded back at her. Toshia carefully set her towels down on the floor and then knelt next to the man. She leaned over him and wrapped her hand around the base of his nicely hard cock. Toshia took a brief moment to admire the two women across from the man – the brunette had a particularly nice pair of tits, and the one with the short blonde hair had an incredible ass – before she took his cock into her mouth. She knew she was providing a simple service for this man; she had no intention of fucking him; she would never even know his name; she was just giving him an anonymous blowjob while he watched two other women; this was more than enough for Toshia. She just wanted to give this nice guy a moment of pleasure with her mouth. She worked her mouth up and down on his increasingly hard and thick cock, accompanying her sucking with a gentle, firm pumping with her fist. It wasn't long before Toshia's mouth was filled with his sweet cum. She swallowed and swallowed again, savoring the delicious taste and texture and it coated her tongue and throat. She kept her mouth on him, gently pulling, until she was sure she had gotten it all. Then she raised her head, smiled at him, and said, "Thank you, sir."

    The man hadn't said a word, but his smile was thanks enough, Toshia thought as she picked up her towels and moved on to the next booth. She didn't find any more takers for her towels, or trouble to get into, until she reached the door at the far end of the room and had to wait for Jerri. After a couple climbed out of the pool and took two more of her towels, making it much easier for Toshia to see where she was going, Toshia decided to go ahead and continue around the room to see what was keeping Jerri. Only four booths down the line, she found the answer; Jerri's stack of towels was sitting to one side while Jerri stood at the back of the booth, bent forward with her hands on the top of the back bench. A strapping young man was behind the leggy blonde fucking her steadily. On either side of the booth, watching, were other naked young men, all stroking their hard ons. Toshia quickly counted five in the audience, two on the side nearest her, and three on the opposite side.

    Toshia stood there for a moment, watching Jerri getting fucked as well as the guys watching Jerri getting fucked. She was never one for the passive approach, but she was really trying to get into the spirit of the "wearing the red" business. Fortunately, the guy in the outside side on the far side of the booth noticed Toshia standing there and gestured for her to come closer. She was happy that this place and the particular role she was playing left her without the option to refuse. Toshia set her towels on top of Jerri's stack and stepped over to the young man who had beckoned her.

    As soon as she got there, he slipped his left arm around her legs and ran his right up the front of her, under her tunic. She shifted her weight and parted her legs a bit so his fingers could get in and stroke her very wet pussy lips. His fingertips parted her lips and delved up into her pussy as his thumb brushed her clit. Toshia sighed and shuddered there standing over him. The guy grinned up at her and said, "How would you like some of that?"

    "Yes, please, sir," Toshia said emphatically.

    The young man released her and promptly got up out of the booth, careful to avoid jostling the man who was driving so intently into Jerri from behind. Toshia quickly stepped to the side and leaned forward against the place where the two booths came together. She pushed her butt out behind her and waited, the model of an obedient and willing novitiate, she thought. Her partner didn't keep her waiting, but took his hard cock in hand and pushed it down between her lips. Toshia shuddered again as she felt the fat head pushing into her waiting pussy. She gasped and moaned as he pushed into her. He held on to her waist as he filled her up as far as he could, and then began to fuck her steadily. She shoved back on him with each thrust, loving the feeling of him moving inside her and his balls slapping against her clit. Toshia wanted his cum inside her. She wanted to be used as the means of his carnal pleasure. She found herself grunting as she met each of his thrusts. She was grinning and nodding, quietly repeating, "Yes! Yes!" as she felt him coming, filling her pussy. As he pulled out of her, Toshia looked over her shoulder and said, "Thank you, sir."

    Of course, by the time he had moved away, one of the young man's companions had gotten out of the booth and was ready to push himself up into Toshia's willing pussy. She felt cum running down the inside of her thighs as she shoved back on this new prick. With a happy smile on her face, Toshia fucked back on the cock inside her, reveling in feeling him slide in and out of her slippery, tight embrace. When this one came inside her, she made sure to thank him with a proper "sir", perfectly aware of how unlike her normal self this all was. By now, of course, she was extremely turned on. So, when the third guy slipped into her messy cunt, Toshia gave herself up to a long, shaking orgasm. The man behind her just kept fucking in and out of her, as she trembled and moaned, intent on his own need. She came again and again. When he added his cum to that of his partners' inside Toshia, she was only barely able to thank the third young man.

    As Toshia sagged against the side of the booths and tried to regain her balance, she noticed that Jerri was now being screwed by a second man, and there was only one guy left sitting in the booth. Toshia would have happily let this last fellow fuck her, but he was too intent on watching Jerri and his friend screwing. Taking the moment to collect herself, Toshia smiled as she watched the masturbating guy's cock erupt in a long stream of cum that splattered over his belly and up to his chest. Moving over quickly, Toshia smiled at him, said, "Please, sir, allow me," and promptly began to lick and suck up every bit of the sticky, sweet stuff she could find. She ended by sucking some from the head of his cock and giving it a tender kiss. Toshia grinned, "Thank you, sir."

    She handed the young man a towel, and then used one on herself, wiping up some of the mess that had been made in her pussy and down her legs. Of course, she also took the opportunity to slurp down some of the yummy stuff. Then, when the man fucking Jerri finally pulled away from her, Toshia quickly caught hold of his cock and pulled him toward her. Toshia leaned in and took his slippery, cummy organ into her mouth and proceeded to suck any remaining jizz from him and then to lick and clean him thoroughly. When she had released the man and thanked him ("sir"), she saw Jerri smiling down at her.

    "See?" the blonde said. "Fun!"

    "Indeed," Toshia nodded. She reached out to catch hold of Jerri's long leg and tugged her closer, saying, "Now, let me clean you up."

    Jerri laughed and said, "No, that's not allowed. We have to be told to play with each other."

    Toshia noticed then that the six men they had serviced had all wandered off.

    Jerri leaned down and kissed her, and said, "Thank you, though. Maybe we can get together another time. Right now, though, we better get back to work."

    Jerri led Toshia on to the next room on their rounds. This was an emerald hued chamber with multiple pools arranged in tiers connected by short waterfalls. The two towel girls moved about the relatively dry walkways, but had no takers either for their towels or for any other liberties. The third room was actually an indoor swimming pool, where they managed to pass out all but a few of their towels and were subjected to quite a bit of casual groping. The final room of the circuit was a traditional steam room, though this one had two women who were intent upon getting fucked by as many men as they could. Though Toshia thought she and Jerri could have a lot of fun here, duty called so they distributed their last few towels, and returned to the laundry room where Steve promptly gave them each a fresh stack.

    They repeated the circuit of four watery rooms five times. Though most of the time they were just moving about delivering towels, the guests certainly had no problem with fondling them or with asking for special attention. Toshia's gentle suggestions certainly helped increase the amount of mischief they got into. By the time they got back to the sauna the second time, the little gangbangs had about worn down, so Toshia managed to volunteer Jerri and herself to help the two women clean up. The towel girls diligently licked and sucked up all the cum they could get from the two well-used pussies, making the two women come several times in the process. Over the course of that long shift as a towel girl, Toshia gave an additional dozen blow jobs, got fucked by another four men in passing, and even got pulled into a little orgy with Jerri. This last resulted in Toshia getting the chance to get her hands (and mouth) on her towel-partner's hot body. A female guest sat on Jerri's face as Toshia knelt down between the blonde's long legs and lapped at her sweet pussy and clit, all while a male guest fucked Toshia's pussy, and then her ass, from behind.

    By the time they returned to Steve, they were both in need of a shower and a break. Steve announced they could have both, saying, "Toshia, your six hours are up. Hit the showers both of you."

    Together they went down to Mavin's locker room, where they dropped off their very soiled red tunics and enjoyed the shower. Toshia leaned back against the wall there as water poured over her naked body and Jerri knelt in front of her licking her to a wonderful orgasm. Afterward, as they went back out to the locker room proper, Toshia said, "I have to go meet my friends. You'd like them, and they'd love you. You should come with me."

    "Thanks, Toshia, but I'm going to take another shift," Jerri said with a twinkle in her eye.

    "I can see why you like it," Toshia smiled. "But I'm going to try being a guest for a while."

    After a long kiss, the two women parted with a promise to play next time they had the opportunity. Leaving her clothes in her locker, Toshia almost skipped out to the lobby, where she saw that everyone but Nicole was already waiting.

    "Nicole was the last one to get an assignment," Shelonda explained. Toshia noticed that everyone else had also decided to leave their clothing behind for now.

    Toshia was eager to find out what everyone else had been doing, and particularly wanted to tell Don all about her adventures as a towel girl, but they had already decided to wait to share until everyone was back. Fortunately, Nicole hurried into the lobby in short order, wearing nothing but a happy grin. Amy suggested they go into the banquet room to have a bite to eat while they each reported in. She led the way up a short stairwell and through an enormous pair of doors into a cavernous hall where long buffet tables were heaped with every kind of fruit that Toshia had ever heard of. When they each had gotten themselves a plate of fruit and a glass of water, they gathered around a table near one of the big room's corners.

    "Since you were the first one called, Amy, I think you should go first," Don said with a smile.

    "OK," she said as she finished chewing and swallowing a big, juicy piece of orange. "Well, I was actually assigned here. I was supposed to just patrol around in here and collect people's dirty plates and fruit peels. I thought I was just going to spend six hours as a busboy, but the people kept copping feels, which got me all worked up. I started to hang around a bit closer to occupied tables, and eventually this one guy who'd been watching me for a while, pushed his chair back, grabbed my arm and pulled me over to him. He doesn't say anything at all, but just pulls me down. Naturally, I dropped to my knees and started going down on him. I thought he was about to blow, but he pushes me away and then grabs me by the waist and sits me on the edge of the table in front of him. I thought the table would flip over or something, but they're really sturdy. Anyway, he just shoves my legs apart and starts fucking me while his buddies cheer us on. I was squeezing my tits and really getting into it, then he pulls out and shoots his cum all over my front. I thought, 'Oh great, now I've got to go get a fresh tunic.' But before I could get off the table, another one of the guys at the table gets between my legs and gets busy. He does the same thing as his buddy, cums all over my front. Before I know it, they're taking turns fucking me and coming all over my front. I had cum all over my tunic, my face and in my hair by the time they were all done. I had to go back down to the showers and get cleaned up. Somehow this kind of thing happened over and over again."

    "Somehow," Don nodded.

    "Yes," Amy nodded. "It's quite odd, but for some reason guys kept coming all over my tits, so I had to keep going and getting fresh tunics. It was exhausting," she grinned.

    Victor only said that he'd been assigned to carry platters of fruit around to offer the guests in several of the various play rooms higher in the building. He admitted that some of the ladies had difficulty keeping their hands to themselves, and more than one had asked him to provide a bit of assistance of an intimate nature. Everyone found Victor's laconic story dissatisfying, but also realized it wasn't going to help much to pester him for more information.

    Toshia tried to make up for Victor's brief account, by giving as many details as she could as to her towel girl duties. As she expected, Don was particularly interested to hear everything.

    Don explained that he had been assigned the job of runner for the special requests department. "Whenever someone needs a particular prop or toy, or some lube, they – somehow – let the SRD know, and they send a red-tunic running over with it. Fortunately, they also gave me little notes with directions, or I would have gotten hopelessly lost. Most of the time, I didn't get to have any real fun, though I saw some wild stuff going on."

    "Most of the time?" Toshia asked, having noticed that this implied Don had gotten some real fun in along the way.

    "Well, I did get held up for some time, with this one couple of women in a private room. They had ordered a strap on dildo. They had some trouble getting it into position, and I was helping them with it. As I was cinching the strap on into place on the one woman, the other noticed that I came equipped with my own 'strap on.' She started playing with it while I was helping her friend. Soon I was providing a second cock for them. They tried every combination and position they could think of, then put the strap on the other woman and started all over again."

    "Oh, you poor thing," Toshia chuckled.

    "That wasn't the wildest thing, though," Don smiled. "A bit after that long mission, I was sent with a tube of lube to a room where a woman was directing some of her friends in acting out the sex scene she had in mind. When I got there, she had one of the women suck on me until I was hard, which didn't take long at all. Then she had the woman lube me up, and then lube up the ass of a guy who was busy fucking another woman. So, then I was told to get behind that guy and fuck him from behind. So, there I was screwing this guy's ass while he fucked this woman. It was pretty intense, I admit."

    "Anything else happen there?" Toshia asked mischievously.

    "Not like you're thinking," Don laughed. "After the guy came – and he came a lot – the director woman had me fuck each of the other people in the room in the ass too: three women and two other guys."

    "And the director?"

    "Nope. While I was there I didn't see her have any sex at all."

    To be continued in part 2

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  • Vanishing Manhood: Part 17
    The end of the cruel Peace & the start of the desperate War.

    Based on ‘One In Ten’ by FinalStand, adapted into 17 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.



    A frightened Mother Mouse will devour her young; similarly, a frightened culture will devour its future.

    It

    wasn't like a magic force field bubble protected us until our 16th
    birthday. I couldn't recall all the times after I was 13 some woman
    asked me, or my Mother, when my 16th birthday would be. Back then, I
    didn't think much about it. In hindsight, those women were wondering
    when I would become legally sexually vulnerable. In way too many cases,
    women with access to teenage boys didn't wait.

    Even if they did,

    "It was my Aunt," Barabbas confessed. "She and her boss."

    You

    would think a sixteen, or seventeen, year old guy getting to sleep with
    a Milf would be a trip. It could be. For the boys with better developed
    empathy, you started to realize a woman you trusted was using your
    sexuality for their own advancement. Then you began feeling like a
    whore.

    "She got me a job, but I quit after four months, you know,” he trailed off.

    "Yeah," I sighed sympathetically.

    "Yeah," Lowry snorted, "when the rest decided you should be putting out for free."

    "That was completely unnecessary," I glared at him.

    "But true," he defied me.

    "True," Barabbas agreed with a familiar degree of rejection.

    "Mom

    flipped out when she figured out what Tamara; my sister; was doing,"
    Pierre picked up his tale. "I was seventeen by that time. She helped pay
    for my college." We assumed the 'she' was his sister; the one who
    pimped him out.

    "I hit one once," Lowry bragged. I found that somewhat difficult to believe.

    "What happened?" Pierre asked.

    "She

    kicked my ass," he chuckled. "Ex-military Reservist. Beat me like I had
    a cock." I read somewhere in the old days it was more common to say
    'like a little bitch.’ Now it was 'like I had a cock' because they
    didn't like teaching men to be 'too violent' aka how to defend
    ourselves.

    No one else felt like inquiring, so Barabbas did the deed.

    "Go to the cops?"

    "For

    what?" he shook his head. "I threw the first punch, and the second.
    Fucking Bitch. We both looked pretty rough, but I lost."

    Another pause.

    "What was it like to hit one with your stick?" Lowry shot me a look.

    "Good,

    damn good, and stupid. I mean, I could have ended up like you with a
    crowd of women on a subway kicking and stomping on me and I would have
    ended up in jail too," I related. "Still, it felt good, just to tell one
    to keep her hands to herself, ya know?" I got nods all around. We were
    all young, healthy and relatively handsome.

    "Yeah, you could have gotten your ass kicked," Barabbas reminded me.

    "In

    fact, one of the major reasons I didn't, gave me the pistol I'm
    carrying," I twitched it slightly. "The first time they came for me, I
    asked them ~ the Vanishers ~ to wait, and they did."

    "Why in the fuck would you do that?" Lowry blurted out, shocked and skeptical.

    "At

    the time, I didn't trust them since I figured they were nothing more
    than another bunch of women telling me what to do. I wanted to use them
    to escape. I didn't want to spend the rest of my life serving them if it
    meant the same fucked-up existence I was currently living," I shared the enlightenment.

    "What changed your mind?" Pierre's eyes lit up.

    "I

    figured out their prime motivation, the nature of the conspiracy and
    that I had no rational chance to escape them," I answered. "Every angle
    I was figuring out, they had figured out years ago. On the plus
    side, their core philosophy requires them to engage men as equals for
    both biological and social reasons ~ which means they are the best game
    in town. In case you missed it, the Vanishers didn't 'vanish' me. I
    escaped on my own. They have agreed to join forces with my group; no
    lie."

    "Your group has a lot of girls," Lowry drolly noted.

    "Lowry, exactly how was I going to recruit any male to my cause without dropping the entire Metropolitan G E D (Gender Enforcement Division) on me?"

    "Flyers?" Barabbas joked softly.

    "He's

    got a point," Pierre rallied to my cause. "As far as any of you have
    confessed, none of us had any guy, or girl, friends. It is why we were
    selected."

    "Okay, fine. Now what?" Lowry conceded to the consensus.

    "We

    wake up tomorrow working toward equality," I huffed. "We are all going
    to have to learn to fight and shoot because the entire group is going to
    be in danger for some time to come. Society, as in Global Society, is
    going to come crashing down. And that means anarchy, lawlessness and
    barbarism before it violently spasms off into extinction."

    "We

    have lived our lives effectively as slaves, though no woman inside that
    house will admit it truly in their hearts. For the first time in our
    lives, we can change our futures. I'm sure if we surrender to whomever
    kills the others, they will enslave us once more and leave us with far
    fewer illusions about our status. Or, we can chose to fight and, if
    worst comes to worst, die free. I'm not going back to what I was. That
    means I will need to learn how to survive; and that means fighting. Not
    because I hate women, but because there are several I love and respect
    and I don't want to let them down ~ as their equal."

    "Tonight, think about what I've told you. Tomorrow morning, I hope you join up with us," I concluded my 'pep talk.’

    "And if we don't?" Lowry stared defiantly.

    "That

    is something you are free to do too," I shrugged. "I'm not going to
    tell you what to do. Let's go back inside. It is late."

    We'd almost made it back when Lowry put a hand on my shoulder.

    "Can I see the gun now?"

    "This thing? Like this?" I half-turned, made eye contact then flick my eyes down to the pistol then back to him again.

    "Yeah."

    "Have you ever handled a loaded firearm before?" I requested.

    "Yeah, plenty of times, in my dreams," he mocked me.

    "You are a moron," I felt my blood simmering. "This isn't a game, this (the pistol) isn't a toy, and you have not been

    paying attention." I put both hands on the pistol, removed the magazine
    then removed the chambered bullet. Lastly, ass-first, I handed him the
    empty pistol with my left hand while keeping the ammunition in my right.

    "Moron, huh?" he chuckled. "Gonna give me the bullets?"

    "No,

    no, I'm not going to give you the bullets because you don't know what
    you are doing. Unlike you, I actually have had a firearm lesson. More to
    the point, I won't give you a loaded firearm because I think I've
    stressed the lady, or ladies, watching over us right now enough for one
    night."

    "Huh?" Lowry and Barabbas echoed. Pierre looked around.

    "Wes

    didn't keep us inside to play '20 Questions' for her own amusement. She
    kept us occupied so her other teammate, or teammates, could move to
    this side of the house, so they could watch over us while giving you
    three the delusion we were alone. They are professionals in camouflage
    gear with night-vision goggles, so unless they had to move rapidly
    through the underbrush, we weren't likely to detect them."

    "I

    played along because I felt it was necessary for you three to open up a
    little bit. Life is only going to get tougher over the next few months.
    None of us want to have a chat with heavily armed women staring over
    our shoulders, so I took us outside where it would appear we were
    alone," I explained.

    "You lied to us," Lowry snipped.

    "No.

    My words were true. What I did was allow you to deceive yourself as to
    our level of security and amount of company. I did what I did for the
    good of the group, regardless of gender, Gentlemen. It is how we all
    need to start thinking. Something else you might want to think about is:
    everyone I love is with me here today. A good number of people who
    decided getting in my way was a good thing aren't even alive anymore. I
    will gladly embrace any one of you as brothers. If you are an obstacle, I
    will fucking see you gone, one way or another; clear?"

    "We are guys," Lowry insisted smugly. Old thinking: women protected men.

    "I;

    don't; care," I glared back. "You may be a sperm-shooter, but inside me
    is the only surefire cure for the Gender Plague. I repeat: people I
    love, and there are several, are all alive today because I cared and
    took an active hand in their survival. My enemies are mostly dead. Being
    a man will save you from the women in there. It won't save you from
    me."

    "You'd kill us?" Pierre whispered.

    "Pierre, my Mother died over a year ago. Where are your Mother and Sister? You don't give a damn about a single fucking

    human being and yet you expect me to trust you? Why?" I challenged him.
    "I've already proved to multiple people I can reach beyond my shell and
    give a fuck.
    Until you rejoin the Human Race, I value the rest of those battling
    alongside me far more than you, or anyone else regardless of whether
    they have a penis, or a vagina. I'm not going to snap your neck, stab,
    or shoot you. I'm simply not going to bother trying to save you. The
    World is doing a bang-up job of killing the rest of Humanity off,
    without my assistance."

    "I really ought to punch you," Lowry threatened.

    "Give

    it your best shot," I took a step toward him. That wasn't what he, or
    I, was expecting. I put down my poor judgment and combative demeanor to
    exhaustion.

    "Don't, guys," Barabbas interceded.

    "You are an Asshole," Lowry snarled.

    "And

    you are consistently ignoring reality," I snapped back. "For instance,
    we are not alone out here, plus we are also at the door." I knocked
    once. The door swung open to reveal a rather attentive and unhappy Wes
    Prince. I handed her the bullet and magazine.

    "You

    were listening in?" Lowry turned his anger on her. Wes' eyes went from
    me, to him, out into the darkness then back to me, though her words were
    to Lowry.

    "Yes.

    Of course I was listening in. I wouldn't call him an Asshole. I'd go
    for Smart-ass." To me, "Do you enjoy being annoyingly correct?"

    "No.

    I'd be ecstatic to realize I was completely wrong about everything and
    had lapsed into a mad delusion," I related, my own anger seeping away.
    "Being right means I have to keep appreciating and respecting you and
    your compatriots and taking responsibility for my own clumsy
    contributions to our current situation, which I don't want to do. I want
    to go to bed."

    "Come

    on in and go to bed then," she softened. She made a slight hand
    gesture. "My pistol, please, Mr. Pritchard?" she requested of Lowry.
    Grudgingly he gave her the firearm. She stepped aside. Lowry went first,
    Barabbas second. Pierre gasped slightly because as he went up the steps
    he noticed the two Vanishers coming toward us from outside ~ the ones I
    had predicted to be watching us.

    I

    went in after Pierre. Wes followed along. Capri and Kuiko were waiting.
    The lights had already been dimmed throughout most of the rest of the
    dwelling.

    "Who were those other two guys?" Wes stopped me.

    "Sergeant

    Major Daly was a Marine N C O and improv poet renowned for his
    battlefield musings. His most famous philosophical insight into the
    fighting spirit of men came in World War One. In his words "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" He also won two Medals of Honor, so he must have had some talent."

    "Company

    Sergeant-Major John Robert Osborn was a Canadian; that was the country
    which now makes up the northern third of our current Federation; who
    found himself misplaced on the island of Hong Kong in late 1941; him, a
    handful of lads from Winnipeg and a shitload more Japanese. He and the
    Japanese ended up in a game of grenade tag,”

    "Grenade tag?" one of my two 'silent' guardians interrupted.

    "Yes ~ grenade tag. Apparently in the olden days,

    grenades didn't airburst, or explode on impact. You pulled a pin and
    threw it at the enemy, then waited for the fuse to burn out and the
    grenade to go 'Boom!.’ Quick, brave, and or stupid people could grab
    that grenade and toss it back. In some cases, one grenade might make
    two, or three trips before detonating."

    "Anyway,

    the Japanese were so very rudely throwing grenades into the position he
    and his Winnipeg Grenadiers were defending, so he kept returning them.
    After eight and a half hours of such fun, he came across one he couldn't
    toss back in time. He covered it with his body to shield his comrades
    from the blast, dying instantly. The British Empire gave him something
    called the Victoria Cross for his actions. He was the first Canadian in
    World War Two to receive it."

    "Why

    do you know such stuff?" she grinned. "Oh, I'm Scar and this is Nat,"
    she indicated the third member of the Wes-Scar-Nat Vanisher trio.

    "I

    considered myself a coward, so I read a lot about brave men. I was kind
    of hoping to figure out how I could be brave myself, one day," I
    disclosed.

    "Mission success," the third one smiled. "Go to bed."

    I

    gathered up Capri and Kuiko and did as instructed. As I rested my head
    on the pillow, lights out and my mind gratefully shutting down.

    "Less impressive sex, Bitch," Capri teased.

    "No," I groaned.

    "They definitely think you've got the 'sexy'," Kuiko enlightened me.

    "Can we please just go to sleep?" I begged.

    Capri

    rolled onto her side, back to me, gave me a bump in the hip with her
    ass, then moved away a tiny bit. Kuiko wiggled close, kissed me lightly
    on the cheek, and then did the same. Unconsciousness took me before any
    other worries could steal my much needed slumber.

    The Larger World:

    As

    I struggled for sleep a second time, events unfolding in three
    different places around the Globe (Asia, the City and the Capitol) would
    impact my fate.

    Asia:

    First;

    the brutal agony still going on as the Sun disappeared over the horizon
    wasn't over when I woke up the next morning. It was largely
    misunderstood for some time afterwards, but was referred to as; the
    Battle for Shanghai.

    Five

    Chinese regular force divisions fought the garrison division of
    Shanghai, its 'reserve' division, hastily gathered volunteer female
    formations and a hodge-podge of ancillary forces the United Nations
    could throw into the fray. The goal for both sides was to seize a mother
    and her unborn child. Within them were the only other active resistant
    viral factory killing the T2 Gender Plague. By the time I woke up, both
    sides were sure the other side had killed them both, pretty much
    insuring the extinction of all sentient life in Eurasia.

    I

    say 'Eurasia' because by dusk of the previous day, the Federation knew
    for sure I, the other source of a cure for the T2, was still alive and
    kicking, as were my sons. My sons held a nebulous promise for a future
    date. I was of immediate importance since my adult body could produce
    enough antivirals to protect tens of thousands of people on a relatively
    continuous basis, or so it was projected.

    With,

    or without the mother and child, China was done for. Japan and Korea
    were rapidly circling the drain. North of China, the Plague was racing
    across Siberian Russia. Central Asia had never really recovered from the
    first round of the Gender Plague all those years ago so, now off the
    beaten path, would be longer in dying. India had too many outbreaks to
    even dream of containment. Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and the Levant
    Republic all had reported cases as well.

    Europe:

    Beyond

    the Urals, the Europeans were grappling with the looming fear of a
    global economic collapse along with the Specter of Death though 48 hours
    into the crisis, there were no cases to report yet. Civil order was
    teetering. Several nations had either closed their borders, or were
    considering doing so. Women began hording food, and men.

    Africa:

    South

    of the Mediterranean was more doom, gloom and gathering dark clouds.
    There were outbreaks in Cairo, Nairobi, Cape Town and Addis Abba. The
    North African Republic closed its border and even shot down a commercial
    airliner which refused to return to Egyptian airspace. Their biggest
    immediate problem was they didn't produce nearly enough food to feed
    themselves. Starvation fears trumped unemployment. The pandemic trumped
    both.

    Mid Atlantic:

    Various

    islands like the Azores, Bermuda and Canaries became Quarantine Zones;
    Plague free for the time being yet suffering from glaring economic
    dependencies.

    Southeast Asia, Australia, & Oceana:

    Australia

    and New Zealand were in total lockdown mode; nothing in and nothing
    out. A combination of cool relations with the rest of the United Nations
    and the evacuation of much of Oceania after the Plague; Round #1; had
    left those two nations surprisingly self-sufficient. Theirs was a
    problem of numbers, or their lack thereof.

    You

    see, forty-seven years ago, the government of Myanmar collapsed as
    their armed forces disintegrated and rebel factions tore the country
    apart. The anarchy spilled over the borders to eastern India,
    Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam over the next eighteen
    months. China, Indonesia and India did what they could to stem the tide,
    but they had a host of homegrown problems themselves.

    That

    summer and fall, Southeast Asia experienced seven category 5 typhoons
    with winds exceeding 13 miles per hour. Two, back to back, stomped all
    over the Philippines. There was never a complete accounting of the lives
    lost. The resulting economic crisis broke the Philippine's back.

    Indonesia,

    struggling with the disruptions in trade, an influx of refugees and
    internal strife, had a military coup. More discord. Somehow Malaysia
    found itself allying with the civilian government. The Free City of
    Singapore was overrun, looted and virtually destroyed by the warring
    factions. In the midst of this carnage, the tidal wave of human misery
    was building to devastating proportions. In an act of either extreme
    callousness, or desperate self-preservation, Australia closed its
    borders and sealed them with lethal force exercised by their air and
    naval forces; no refugees allowed.

    In

    a final indignity, thirty-eight years ago, two years after the last
    gasp of the first Gender Plague, a major earthquake hit Indonesia
    causing serious destruction and the worse tsunami on record. By that
    time, only the northern islands of the Philippines had started
    rebuilding. Indonesia and Malaysia existed as separate, multiple,
    mutually-hostile, competing city-states and they were the 'good news' of
    Southeast Asia. All too often, the recovery of the various former
    nations threatened to bring China and India into conflict, so such
    efforts were shelved.

    Move

    the clock forward to the present day and there was no political entity
    north of Australia remotely strong enough to retard the upcoming Global
    landslide into oblivion. Collectively those Asians knew Death was
    radiating out of China and they had to do 'something' and all too often,
    something meant getting on a boat, or a plane, heading south, to
    Australia, or, if you had the capability, to New Zealand.

    Unlike

    the disorderly mobs of two generations ago, some of those 'refugees'
    had the firepower to 'fight' their way to freedom or safety. A U N
    taskforce had been in the area suppressing piracy days earlier (it was
    now racing toward Shanghai) and every major metropolis had its own
    marine paramilitary. They were all island-nation-states after all.
    Australia was about to be in the fight for its life. Even then, it was
    too late. The first confirmed case of Plague was to be rolled into a
    Canberra Emergency Room with 24 hours. Could Tasmania and New Zealand
    carry on alone?

    South America & Caribbean:

    Finally,

    in South America it was more tough choices time, but not in the way
    most people were thinking. During the Gender Plague Old Brazil hadn't
    been the only country to go under though she'd been one of the most
    extreme cases. As nations, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay,
    Peru, Suriname and Uruguay vanished.

    Ecuador,

    Chile and Bolivia inherited portions of Peru with Chile evolving into
    the Andes Republic. Venezuela was able to survive and cobbled together
    much of the northern coast of South America into the Caribbean
    Federation of States (CFS). In the Central part of the continent,
    Bolivia absorbed all of Paraguay and Uruguay plus portions of Peru and
    southwestern Brazil as well. It was supposed to return the Brazilian
    territory, but never did.

    The

    Caribbean was largely depopulated by the Plague ~ tourism dwindled to
    nothing in the plague-years and supplying essentials to those island
    nations was asking too much of too few serviceable merchant vessels. The
    surviving majority had been evacuated to the mainland. Those in the
    north eventually joined the Federation. The ones in the south joined the
    CFS and it was those islands and the CFS itself which was about to
    cause the most problems.

    Forty

    years had not truly settled South America's border issues and though
    she didn't possess one of the five economic powerhouses on the planet,
    they did consolidated power down to six (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
    CFS, Ecuador, Andes Republic) from 13 nations ~ not counting the
    now-extinct Caribbean island-states.

    Strongest

    both economically and militarily was Bolivia. She was also surrounded
    by hostile neighbors. Argentina resented her invasion and occupation of
    Uruguay during the Plague. Brazil wanted their western territory back.
    The Andes Republic, per her claims as the Peruvian successor state,
    insisted Bolivia 'return' possessions in the northwest of the country,
    which Ecuador also claimed.

    Bolivia's

    biggest trading partner was India; basically gone now. Argentina's was
    the Republic of South Africa; still in the fight. Brazil was
    pro-Federation, the Andes Republic was pro-China (useless) and Ecuador
    was pro-Japan (nearly useless). Finally, the CFS was pro-Russia with an
    'ancient' history of disagreements with the Federation.

    Militarily,

    none of the nations of South America were up to challenging the
    Federation armed forces, even during the current crisis ~ had the
    Federation been united. Sadly, one country was being given critical
    intelligence about a fragile hope for the survival of the Human Species.
    The CFS was getting up to date information about what I was and their
    benefactor, Dr. Delilah Fremont, wanted the CFS military to go rescue
    me. She was 'doubling down' on my retrieval.

    Well,

    such an activity would basically be an Act of War. There was no way
    around it. If the CFS did manage to kidnap me, a Federation citizen,
    from Federation sovereign territory, they still had to keep hold of me
    and for that, they needed an ally who was unlikely to knuckle under to
    the Federation and the United Nations.

    The

    best one handy was Bolivia. The CFS would share 'me' with the
    Bolivians. Their prayer was their combined might could hold off the
    Federation, Ecuadorans, Brazilians as well as whatever Europeans and
    Africans the U N could scare up. Response would be swift, but all they
    had to do was keep me hidden long enough for the Plague to take hold of
    their enemies and then let nature take its course.

    In

    the cool, clean halls of academia they called it Military-political
    Darwinism ~ the political systems capable of making the tough yet
    correct political and military decisions would be the ones who survived.
    Those who made the proper alliances and who had invested correctly in
    their national armies got to write the history books while the failures
    would cease to matter within a month; two at the outside.

    By

    dawn, two score of armed naval vessels had set sail heading north. At
    over a dozen air bases, flight crews were working overtime getting their
    prizes prepared for upcoming combat. Bolivian pilots didn't have the
    highest opinion of the Caribbean counterparts, but such things couldn't
    be helped. Both armies went to the highest level of readiness as they
    traveled toward the borders of their neighbors.

    It

    wouldn't have done my struggling psyche any good to know bands of elite
    female warriors were being shown stills and videos of me; their target.
    English was common among the Caribbean; not so much the Bolivians. That
    was okay. They were informed I spoke Spanish.

    In

    a bizarre circumstances of bizarre circumstances, an Hume In (Human
    Intelligence) officer for the Bolivian Army had a) gone to my alma
    mater; Bowdoin b) during two of the four years I'd been there and c) had
    actually had sex with me (once) while attending 'said' college. To the
    Bolivians, putting someone on the ground who I might recognize as a
    'friendly' was a definite 'plus' (they were unaware of my psychological
    history at the moment). She'd dreamed about being a member of the elite Condors Guard regiment. This was her big chance to do so and become reacquainted with an old (male) friend in the process.

    Places 2 & 3

      were

    the City and the Capitol and they were intertwined on both a political
    and personal level. Personally it involved the Treyvon family; mother
    and daughter; who were unwittingly both working to stymie the workings
    of the Federation government. The actions of the daughter had
    inadvertently set her mother's career into a fatal spin which, in turn,
    would impact the lives around her daughter.

    The Capitol

    After

    'mother' Treyvon hung up the phone with her daughter (right before I
    went on GNN to confront the Federation President), she initiated her
    final actions as a Vanisher conspirator. Unlike the National Security
    Advisor, she was one of the original people who had been 'in the room'
    when the 'Vanisher' Contingency was worked out and submitted to the
    secret Federation Discrete Committee on the Study of Human Extinction twenty years ago.

    At

    the time she was assigned to the project, she thought it was a waste of
    time. She was a junior Ministry of Security operative between
    assignments and was given the task because the Ministry didn't want to
    'divert' another analyst to the working groups (4 analysts worked on
    other contingency plans which were also created and rejected). By the
    time her group submitted their report, the others had convinced her of
    the necessity of doing something about the situation and in turn, she'd
    convinced them she could recruit the women capable of pulling off the
    initiative they were constructing.

    Another

    member of the project team had come to her after their proposal had
    been shelved. (The government had decided to do nothing at all, aka they
    were going with The Big Lie.) The two members agreed to work in secret
    to implement some version of their proposal and then agreed to invite
    select members of the original group, plus a tiny number of others such
    as the future National Security Advisor, to participate in the effort.

    That

    other 'member' was about to provide her last service to the project as
    well. There was some slight chance the civilian government could recover
    from the President's very public removal and in the Vanisher Plan, they
    had to remove the possibility. At this juncture, they needed only three
    people dead.

    The

    original conspirator within the Ministry of Justice strode purposefully
    into the Attorney General's office which fortunately (for her) was
    flooded with activity and then detonated the bomb in her briefcase. The
    force of the explosion collapsed the floor above them as well as sending
    the wreckage into the floor beneath and the street below. In the
    subsequent analysis, the explosives were determined to be
    military-grade.

    The

    National Security Advisor went to the presently vacant office of the
    Vice President, wrote out her own suicide note on that woman's computer,
    mailed it to a few impeccable news sources, took a stiff shot of the
    Vice President's personal stock of Kentucky bourbon, along with a lethal
    dose of muscle relaxants, sat down on an available sofa and went to
    sleep.

    They

    would find her dead body within fifteen minutes, but it would be beyond
    their ability to resuscitate, leaving the VP incapable of defending
    herself from the deceased woman's accusations that she, the Vice
    President, had conspired with the Ministers of Defense and Security to
    overthrow the legitimate government. According to the confession, the
    National Security Advisor had helped, yet been overcome with guilt and
    thus taken her own life.

    At

    the same time, Flora Treyvon, Deputy Director of Operations for the
    Ministry of Security, met with three trusted operatives (shortly after
    the time I made it to Jethro's dwelling) and gave them their last
    assignments. She gave them the entire picture along with each a 'bundle'
    which would help in their escape. She related she didn't know where I
    was, yet figured her daughter might be on my trail. If they wished to
    survive the upcoming pandemic, they might go look her up, after this
    final chore.

    They

    shook her hand, then departed. Two didn't have far to go at all. One
    went up one floor to Flora's boss's office, killed the woman's
    assistant, then the woman (the Director of Operations) in such a smooth,
    ruthless, and efficient manner no alarms were set off. Five minutes
    later she was out of the building and fifteen minutes after that, she
    had assumed an alternate I D and was exiting the Capital, right before
    Martial Law was declared.

    The

    second woman went over to a good patriotic friend (a serving military
    officer) in the Ministry of Defense and unloaded a 'dirty little secret'
    on her. It was evidence the Vice President and the Minister of Security
    were conspiring with the Minister of Defense against the Military
    Command Authority ~ resplendent with plenty of proof, including 'their'
    plan to kill the Attorney General. The officer rushed to meet her
    superiors. The agent then swiftly did her own 'vanishing' act.

    The

    third agent casually waited fifteen minutes in the Security Ministry's
    canteen before using her security clearance to access the Ministry of
    Security's Signal's Department. The agent presented the Chief Signals
    Officer with Flora Treyvon's coded orders, which normally had to be
    verified by the Head of Operations. The C S O had by this time been
    informed by the Ministry of Security's own Internal Security staff the
    Head of Operations had been murdered at which point Flora's agent
    suggested time really was of the essence.

    The

    C S O commanded her unit to send the coded message out to every embassy
    and consulate of the Federation worldwide. When decoded, it informed
    the various Foreign Intelligence Chief's that the civilian government
    had been overthrown by a military coup and they were to behave
    accordingly; aka passive resistance. With the Capital in chaos, they
    would be advising the ambassadors and consuls to not help the current
    military masters, effectively isolating the Federation government for
    the duration of the crisis.

    The

    Military Command Authority, headed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, found
    out about the conspiracy of the Vice President, National Security
    Advisor, and the Ministers of Defense and Security close to the same
    time they found out about the explosion at the Ministry of Justice and
    the suspected death of the Attorney General. And then the National
    Security Advisor turned up dead. Not wanting to end up like the Attorney
    General, they ordered the Military Police units to arrest the three
    civilian leaders in question, which amounted to a military coup.

    The

    Joint Chiefs had a slight problem. The Capitol was rife with armed,
    civilian law enforcement while they had only two battalions of Military
    Police at their disposal. Of greater tactical importance, the largest
    armed law enforcement groups were the Ministry of Justice's branches;
    now leaderless, the civilian Defense Intelligence Agency (in theory, you
    didn't want military officers investigating the military) and the
    Ministry of Security 'Special Agents' who usually only went about
    unarmed in other people's countries, but were fully authorized to be
    armed inside the Federation (they simply had no law enforcement powers
    within the Fed).

    With

    the death of the Attorney General (they were still looking for her body
    parts; her phone was registering as 'inactive'), the Ministry of
    Justice command devolved to the Vice President as the senior Chief
    Executive; aka the woman suspected of killing the Attorney General and
    engineering the overthrow of the former President.

    The Joint Chiefs had three advantages.

    First

    off, the former President, at the urging of the National Security
    Advisor, had activated the Armed Forces Reserves (retired military
    personnel trained for active duty) and National Guard (much like the
    Reserves except trained for 'at home' duties), so those generals and
    admirals had several thousand new troops at their disposal and most of
    those troops specialized in 'rear echelon' administrative duties such as
    maintaining law and order as well as several additional companies of
    actual Military Police.

    Secondly,

    while not actual policewomen, the Headquarters for the military's Judge
    Advocate General's Office was in the Capitol, so they had access to a
    large body of military personnel familiar with the law and law
    enforcement.

    Thirdly,

    there was on active duty brigade within 4 hours already on high alert.
    The elements which could turn that brigade into a fully-functioning
    division were 72 hours out, yet the core of the brigade would do for
    now. Also, they could move Special Forces units into the area within 10
    hours and another three brigades in 18 hours, and these troops had
    armored fighting vehicles plus air support.

    Chaos

    and discord were everywhere. The military leaders began calling in the
    reinforcements, then sent their available MP's out to arrest the Vice
    President, Minister of Defense and Minister of Security. They found the
    Vice President in FBI custody, they had already arrested her for
    conspiring with the former President on charges of Treason (concealing
    the outbreak of the new Plague on the West Coast). A polite, if tense,
    tug of war developed.

    The

    FBI couldn't simply hand her over to the military. They had no legal
    justification for such an action. They; the FBI; were the legitimate law
    enforcement agency, not the Ministry of Defense.

    'Oh,

    you are arresting the Minister of Defense too? Who is in charge over
    there? The Generals and Admirals, Under whose authority? You can’t do
    that.'

    And then all the fine young ladies began putting their hands on their guns. Very messy.

    The

    Minister of Defense? She'd already fled the Capitol. After the fiasco
    where she'd tried to grab me by sending the Rangers in for an
    extra-legal kidnapping, she'd been planning an exit strategy of her own.
    She had political allies in Old Mexico, so there was where she was
    heading. She requisitioned a V I P Army transport (think small luxury
    jet) and was winging her way south when both the FBI and Joint Chiefs
    figured out she'd bolted.

    By

    then it was too late. The Regional Military Commander in the Southern
    District (Southern Mexico down to the Panama Canal before the
    Federation) was an old friend of the Defense Minister. She had nurtured
    the RMC's career and now was time for some reciprocity.

    Of

    greater importance was perhaps that by sunrise the next day, the
    Defense Minister was the senior-most member of the civilian government
    not in military custody, so the legitimate center of any resistance to
    the Joint Chief's takeover of the Federation. The Southern District
    wasn't the most powerful military command, but it was too strong to be
    quickly knocked out, and it wasn't like the Joint Chiefs didn't have a
    host of other issues to deal with, like the Plague and the collapse of
    the Global Economy.

    Back

    at the Capital as darkness fell, the lead investigators into the
    Vanisher Conspiracy case began realizing they had a short list of dead
    women, two 'fugitives from Justice' and one live one; Flora Treyvon. Why
    were those investigators still working on the case? Men were missing.
    By then, over 2200, and that was something important enough not to
    ignore, even with the government in turmoil.

    The

    investigators weren't stupid. Flora was a trained operative and still
    at her place of employment. Walking in and trying to interrogate her was
    a good way to end up dead, or with a dead end. It took them time to
    find someone in the traumatized Ministry of Justice who could be sent to
    a Federal Judge to secure the warrant and then some more time to round
    up the FBI Hostage Rescue Teams. The HRT were the Special Forces of law
    enforcement. They brought three 12-women teams.

    Why

    hadn't Flora fled? She needed to fixate the investigators on her for as
    long as possible. That and she wanted to kill as many as she could in
    her final act of defiance against the government she felt had betrayed
    her gender and her race. The women coming for her were merely tools, yet
    they were the only objects making themselves available to her
    long-concealed wrath.

    "Deputy

    Director of Operations Flora Treyvon," the first of five women coming
    through her door spoke in a clear, commanding voice, "you are under
    arrest for Conspiracy to Undermine the Gender Inequality Act. Don't
    reach for the gun we know you have in your desk. Stand up, nice and
    slowly now."

    Flora

    had already done the math. Inside the spacious room were two of the
    nine special investigators assigned to unwinding the Vanisher
    Conspiracy. Cameras linked to her monitor showed three more were in the
    hallway with a four-woman forensic team. Three of the intruders in her
    face were HRT as were the two just outside, theoretically beyond her
    sight. There were five HRT with the follow-up team, five in front of the
    elevators and five on the ground floor. The only Security personnel
    close by was Flora's personal assistant, Sarah.

    'Oh well.’

    "Facta;

    est verbis," Flora grinned. In front of her desk were three high-backed
    chairs. Carefully, shortly after she's assumed the office of Deputy
    Director, she'd personally painstakingly replaced the backing of each
    with explosives and chrome-alloy, octahedron-shaped, sharp-edged
    objects. 147 little killers in each one. Carnage radiated out from her
    in a trio of giant cones. Flora even had the walls between her office
    and that of her assistant and the one between her assistant's office and
    the adjoining hallway rebuilt to be hollow so both barriers provided no
    real shelter.

    Everyone

    in the room had been in an overlapping kill zone. They had been torn
    into ragged pieces of flesh and streams of blood. Flora picked herself
    up from behind her armored desk (to protect herself from the blowback
    from the chairs), retrieved her PDW, 'goodie bag' and a pistol. Two
    divots in quick succession impacted her exterior windows. She'd secretly
    replaced those too. The multi-layered clear metal-crystal and gel
    design could stop 14.5 mm projectiles. The HRT snipers were going to
    need bigger guns if they wanted to hurt her.

    In

    the room, everyone was clearly dead. The same went for Sarah's office.
    In the hallway, a 'lucky' forensic technician had been saved by the body
    of an HRT member and her equipment carrying case. Flora put a bullet in
    her head. She heard a few more 'thumps' from her office; one sniper
    simply wouldn't give up. Flora pulled out two bundled groups of White
    Phosphorous and concussive grenades, saluted out into the darkness
    wherever the sniper and her spotter were and then tossed the parcels
    into her old office and down toward the elevators. She was never coming
    back.

    With

    that, Flora began to sprint. The explosion and resulting fire would be
    something the building's particular fire retardant systems wouldn't be
    able to deal with; all part of her plan. On the far side of the building
    was a custodial closet. Inside, it had nothing of significance except
    unmonitored space. Flora used a pre-prepared thermite cord to burn a
    hole in the exterior wall, then yanked the burned out section inside.

    Just

    outside her new exit point was a drainage pipe which ran down from the
    roof. Flora grabbed hold of it and rapidly climbed to the ground. She
    was off the grounds, in a stolen car and miles away before anyone knew
    she'd even left the building. Sure, the video surveillance in the
    building showed everything which happened, but it would take time to
    access this; due to the nature of the blaze and dubious authority of the
    investigators.

    By

    then, Flora had performed her own final mission. See, she'd just killed
    five of the nine 'Vanisher' investigators leading the charge. She had
    to see how many more she could kill before she too made her escape from
    the Capitol. She did get the lead investigator and the principle Federal
    Prosecutor on the case. After that, there were tanks in the streets. It
    was time for her to go.

    The

    last three investigators had been combing over the affairs of the
    now-deceased National Security Advisor and had far too many people
    around them for her to have any hope of success. Besides, there were
    still three dozen other local law enforcement groups investigating the
    vanishing of men. Flora couldn't do anything about those either. She'd
    cut off the head of the investigation which was the best she could
    accomplish. Now, she might just have to explain some things to her
    daughter, over Christmas dinner after all.

    The City:

    I

    had left the City leaderless and in the cusp of a riot. By the time
    Flame left, Martial Law had been declared and a definite shift in power
    had taken place. By sunset, things had gotten more confusing, not less.
    Why? The Capitol was sorting out its issues of the Joint Chiefs being in
    charge, not the civilian heads. This meant the Federal apparatus for
    the provinces, as well as the City, were uncertain regarding what was
    going on, what they were supposed to be doing and whose orders they
    should be listening to.

    In

    the city's power structure, the Mayor was dead with the police
    operating on the theory she'd been murdered by Keverich mobsters.
    According to the City's Charter, the senior member of the City Council
    should have taken over, but that woman was both a political animal and
    particularly worried about her personal survival. She deferred all
    decisions to the 'former' Mayor's Chief of Staff, Isobel Diaz. For the
    time being, city services were functional, if limping along.

    On

    the higher governmental level, a dichotomy of inheritance took hold.
    The City was the population and economic center of the province. The
    provincial capital was a small, sleepy burgh a hundred kilometers away.
    It had been an historic political center during the Gender Plague sixty
    years ago, but when the Federation began rebuilding, the geographic
    importance of the City plus political conflict between the province and
    the Federation Capitol, meant the City prospered while the provincial
    capital withered.

    Basically

    that meant the provincial government had little power within the City
    while every Federal ministry had offices there. The issue among the
    federal officials was who were they going to listen to? All morning
    long, their chain of command dropped out of communication, either
    arrested by the Ministry of Justice, or later ending up in military
    custody.

    Within

    the federal structure, a turf war was being waged. Due to the
    President's declaration of a State of National Emergency, extreme police
    powers had been given to the Ministry of Justice; chief among them
    Shelia Montanyard, Chief Civil Affairs Attorney. She, along with the
    Chief Criminal Law Attorney and District Bureau Chief of the FBI, should
    have had civilian control.

    Countering

    this was the very real issue of the new plague outbreak and the
    activation of the miniscule Emergency Management Ministry. Normally the
    EMM was relatively powerless, begging resources from other agencies. By
    long-standing Federation Law and U N Regulation, if a pandemic was
    declared, the EMM became all-powerful.

    This

    mandate wasn't a pipedream, even during this calamity. After all, there
    really was a global pandemic and the only agency prepared to combat it
    was the EMM. That would have ignored the coup and the Big Lie though.

    To

    add to the urgency, the EMM was getting a host of bad news. First, they
    learned about the U N failed effort to rescue the mother and child from
    Shanghai. Then, through the military's Medical Corps, they were
    learning from intercepts of Chinese internal communications the Chinese
    military were afraid they had killed those two in their attempt to seize
    them hours earlier, so the only known cure for the T2 Plague was in the
    City, and the EMM there wasn't sure who to ask to find him; me.

    Secondly,

    Dr. Delilah Fremont had provided the W H O and the EMM with preliminary
    information on Carabolix 37. By this point, various international
    organizations condemning her mother for playing Genetics God by altering
    Gender Plague and turning it into an 'anti-viral' were the least of
    anyone's problems. Worse or better, she had all but two of my sons and
    three of my daughters under her 'protection' in an undisclosed location.
    She was more than willing to 'negotiate' and 'help out' in the crisis.

    There

    was one final, critical issue on the Federal level. Early in the
    morning, the Attorney General had tasked a trusted subordinate to round
    up my missing offspring and their mothers. That designated official had
    them moved to another 'undisclosed' location under the protection of
    Ministry of Justice's Federation Marshals Service: Witness Protection
    Division under a 72 hours Material Witness Warrant. The Attorney General
    undoubtedly knew where she had them hidden away, before she was blown
    to smithereens.

    To

    say her trusted subordinate was suspicious of the military government's
    intentions was an understatement and Witness Protection was in the
    business of hiding people, it was what they did. The subordinate was
    with the kids (it was theorized) along with several agents. It wasn't
    like the head of Witness Protection could go on GNN and tell her agents
    to turn the mothers and children over and realistically expect them to
    obey.

    Those

    agents had no idea if someone was holding a gun to their boss' head
    off-screen, or holding their child hostage. Their orders were to keep
    the 'protectees' hidden away for 72 hours, so they were going to keep
    them safe and hidden for three fucking
    days. So they had a few of my children, but they didn't and the Joint
    Chiefs had to explain that complexity to the United Nations and make it
    look like they weren't secretly hiding them for their own purposes,

    Meanwhile,

    in the midst of all this, every military reservist was being called up
    to their unit. Women in federal service were immune as they were already
    in 'federal' service. Unfortunately, the women in provincial and
    municipal positions weren't as fortunate, and that put a humongous
    strain on police, fire, hospital, administrative and communication
    infrastructure which tended to hire a disproportionate number of
    reservists.

    Now,

    less we forget, there were two regular military formations; two Ranger
    Battalions and the greater portion of an Airmobile division; who were
    not under the authority of the Old Northwest (the military region the
    City was situated in) Regional Military Commander in the area. That
    woman was, in fact, a Rear Admiral (Federation Navy) and her closest
    immediately effective units were the Great Lakes Coast Guard flotilla
    and the Great Lakes Naval Induction Center; not ground troops.

    Mind

    you, within 72 hours she would have two complete Armored Brigades and
    enough Air Force, Army, Marine, Coast Guard and Navy support troops to
    reconstruct a small country. But they were still forming up and everyone
    wanted resources from her, right now. Lucky her, she had an old friend
    in her time of need to provide clarification.

    The advice? "Fuck

    everyone else and their petty needs. Find Israel Jensen before the
    whole damn world ends. He's got the cure. Whomever has Jensen, has the
    Power."

    As you might have divined, her old friend was Isobel Diaz.

    In

    a final note; shortly after 2 a.m., the Joint Chiefs began getting
    their act together and the various federal ministries in order, every
    ministry except the Ministry of Security. It seemed that agency was
    completely fucked:
    anyone with an ounce of authority having long since died, or departed,
    and the source of the exodus was traced back to one Flora Treyvon,
    Deputy Director of Operations.

    While

    no one could locate Flora, way too many people recalled seeing her
    daughter, on GNN, bringing down the President this morning and
    precipitating the entire governmental crisis (in some people's eyes).
    Logically, they went looking for Dimples aka Special Agent in Charge
    Enola ‘Dimples’ Treyvon. Around sunrise, Enola figured out remaining in
    the City was contrary to the basic Rules of Survival.

    Besides,

    she and her team of FBI hotshots had come to the realization the
    government and principles they had sworn to uphold and protect had been
    betrayed, died and were never coming back. As I had predicted earlier,
    they were now self-employed. Dimples also did the same geographic
    calculations as Jethro, except she had no secret way across the
    Mississippi, so it was off to the Lake Country for her and her gals. Had
    I known she was in trouble, I would have wished her luck.

    A Note On Energy & Policy:

    After

    the Gender Plague burned out forty years ago, the world was in
    shambles. It also presented the surviving world leaders with a Golden
    opportunity to make some long-sought after changes. Clearly 'Women's
    Rights' was one of them. Another was tackling 'Climate Change or Global
    Warming' and the primary way of doing that was nursing the energy grid
    off its dependence on fossil fuels ~ coal, natural gas and petroleum.

    They

    grappled with the alternatives; nuclear, biomass, hydro-electric,
    geothermal, wind and tidal. Nuclear power retained the problem of what
    to do with the waste. Hydro-electric had opponents due to its ecological
    effects and its vulnerability to climate effects (aka droughts). Wind
    power required reliable winds. Large-scale geothermal required a
    difficult to find geological 'hotspot.’

    Of

    great importance was what the Gender Plague did and did not do. It did
    create a true sense of global interdependence. This was a global
    pandemic and there was a real sense all civilization was going to
    collapse. The majority pitched in and helped out. What it did not do was
    alter some of the key fundamentals of how the world worked. Many
    multinational corporations, just like individuals, set aside things like
    'profit-motives' and stock dividends to combat this menace.

    The

    lines between government and private research blurred, and not just in
    the field of pharmaceuticals. The whole world economy was dying. The
    free exchange of scientific and technical ideas flourished. While no
    cure for the Plague was discovered, several other important advances
    were made. Key ones were made in magnetic-coil technology and energy
    cells.

    The

    decade following the end of the Plague, many nations experienced an
    economic ‘boom’ which inspired a massive increase in energy needs. In
    response, scientists and politicians in the European States came up with
    a rather novel approach which satisfied their environmentalists and
    political needs (aka control). A Dutch team had already put an
    electromagnetic 'rocket' into orbit. The rest was 'old tech.’ The risk
    was considered 'acceptable.’

    They

    built a 'sky farm' which was essentially a high-Earth, geostationary
    orbit array of solar panels several kilometers across with a collection
    satellite (really a space station) which used microwave pulses to
    transmit the energy to a relay station on Earth. The station stored the
    power for the needs of the consumers. It was clean,
    environmentally-friendly (it only vaporized water particles above the
    ground station, not the Ozone layer) and totally under the government's
    control.

    The risk? Well, if that pulse hit something besides that relay station, really bad things could happen. Things like vaporizing

    the surface- and ground-water dozens of meters beneath the surface over
    roughly a kilometer diameter area in a nanosecond bad. Apparently,
    in simulators, it was the equivalent of a modest nuke going off minus
    the radioactive fallout. Needless to say, they had advanced computer
    systems on both the space and ground stations to ensure something like
    that never happens. Apparently, that was why God or God made terrorists
    and Doomsday cultists as well.

    Anyway,

    the European experiment worked so the Federation copied it ~ four
    times. One of those was southwest of the city. It was so large it alone
    supplied 2.3% of the Federation's power needs. It was a supplemental
    source of power for the City. The City ran mostly on a lone hydro
    facility and a host of smaller Geothermal Heat Pumps, lakeside Wind
    turbines and local biomass plants (chemically breaking down our waste
    for heat). It was the primary source of energy for the Capitol, and that
    made it a target.

    Meanwhile, at the spa, down south..

    "Thank

    you, Warden Sullivan," Maria Keverich stepped over the corpse of the
    former head of the Coleman Federation Minimum Security Penitentiary,
    "but I've been forced to make alternate plans." Around her sirens were
    going off. She didn't care. She had her cadre of prison stalwarts and
    guards who had wisely decided to invest their future in one of the
    Globe's most criminally-connected individuals.

    The

    warden and three guards had been coming down to her cell to assassinate
    her on someone's orders. Maria had been tipped off and a bloodbath
    ensued. At the same time, another party had assaulted the prison from
    the outside. That was a situation she had to deal with. Five helicopters
    were in evidence ~ all Italian manufacture though she suspected they
    belonged to some South American country's military inventory. They were
    still a long way from home here in Florida.

    Two

    helicopters floated over the carnage, taking potshots at any guard
    stupid enough to make themselves a target. Two medium-sized
    combat-transports had landed in the prison yard, wrecking the flower
    garden, such a pity. The final bird was a large transport model capable
    of carrying at least forty individuals and was getting ready to land.

    Of

    immediate interest were the three women coming her way. One was a
    definite She-Wolf ~ a soldier, or mercenary of some ability. The second
    was a warrior, scarred, silent and vigilant. The third was 'baggage' so
    most likely attached to the employer of the She-Wolf.

    "Mrs.

    Keverich," the young woman stepped forward nervously. "I am Bethany
    Fremont. I would like to get you out of here." The young lady made it
    sound like an invitation instead of an opening to an obligation.

    "I

    have 26 people who are coming with me," Maria stepped up. This was not
    the time to be shedding loyal 'family' members and reliably
    'bought-and-paid-for' guards.

    "Okay.

    We should hurry," Bethany reached for her arm. Maria's hand latched
    down on it faster than a viper, pinching the flesh painfully until
    Bethany cried.

    "I

    don't like to be touched," Maria established her dominance then, "let's
    go." Her group sprinted for the main vehicle. Bethany nursed her hurt
    hand until after liftoff.

    "So, who do you work for?" she addressed the She-Wolf.

    "Dr. Delilah Fremont ~ her mother," she flashed some teeth. "We have worked together for years."

    "What does she want from me?"

    The She-Wolf deferred to the child.

    "We

    need you to access your contacts in the Midwest to find one man ~
    Israel Jensen. Can you do this for us?" Bethany stated loftily.
    Delilah's original plan had been to use Maria to remove Little M and
    Isobel Diaz, but things had become fluid, so she was adapting.

    "Beyond getting out of here, what is in it for me?" Maria's gaze bore through Bethany.

    "You've heard about the new outbreak of the Plague?"

    "Yes. Is it is bad as they say?"

    "Worse,"

    Bethany struggled to remain confident in face of a woman who was
    clearly a sociopath. "It is killing men and women equally and the only
    known cure is in Israel; Mr. Jensen. He's my boyfriend."

    "Boyfriend?"

    "Yes.

    He's been kidnapped. We need to get him back so my Mother and her team
    of researchers can reconstruct the cure which was previously developed
    within his endocrine system into something for mass production," Bethany
    regurgitated her Mother's lies. She even produced an (old) picture on
    her phone for Maria's perusal. It was of her and Israel together back in
    college; a young couple apparently in love. "This is what he looks
    like."

    Maria

    Keverich did some quick mental calculations based on what she already
    knew (she had never lost her eyes and ears outside the penitentiary
    walls) along with what the twit in front of her was and wasn't saying.
    The Jensen character wasn't the 'Cure'; only a component. Sometime
    before she found him she was going to have to figure out what other
    components were necessary. Otherwise, her erstwhile allies would kill
    her, or she would kill them and have something of only limited value;
    the man.

    "Let's

    go to Memphis," Maria grinned. "I understand my home ground is a bit
    unhealthy at the moment. Besides, the Federation is going to shut down
    air and rail travel pretty soon and search everything going by road and
    river. That means your 'kidnappers' will have to smuggle him out, and I know all the best routes."

    "What should we be looking for?" the She-Wolf inquired.

    "Yeah," Maria scoffed. "Like I'm telling you? Get me to Memphis and I'll start making those phone calls."

    The She-Wolf looked to Bethany. They came to an unspoken agreement, after which Bethany left to the helicopter's cockpit to make a call of her own.

    Meanwhile,

    in their wake a small E M P (electro-magnetic pulse) device they had
    left behind detonated, frying the prison surveillance systems as well as
    the controls of the arriving law enforcement aircraft and land
    vehicles. In the resulting mayhem, it would be days before anyone was
    sure exactly what had happened at the prison and with that, the chilling
    realization not all the prisoners had been accounted for.

    The Morning Comes..

    I

    woke up screaming. I hadn't done that since I was eighteen, although
    until quite recently I'd frequently woken up in a cold sweat and utterly
    terrified; thanks to Bethany Fremont and her 'Sisters.’ This time was
    different because married to the familiar terror of my memories of being
    a prisoner of the Aurora Slasher was a memory-shard and if I didn't
    record it quickly, it might fade away forever.

    "Device!" I screeched. "Something to write on!"

    The

    door swung open. I barely noted the person entering the room as they
    did so at a low crouch, so from the bed I could barely make out the top
    of their head. Capri was scrambling to my left. Kuiko lurched toward me,
    caught herself in that dangerous action and recoiled.

    Capri shoved an ancient magazine and pen into my hands. I began writing with shaky hands.

    'AMSA C50H73N15O11', went down on the corner of some article about the comeback of wood-particle furniture.

    "What is going on?" It was Scar Moore.

    "Israel had a nightmare," Kuiko answered for me.

    "I

    remembered something the Aurora Slasher gave me when she was giving me
    the Carabolix 37," I shivered. I was bathed in sweat and now that I was
    sitting up, the cool air was stealing away my heat. "I recall intense
    pain, especially, down there," which sounded so child-like and lame.

    "Frank had a nightmare," Scar murmured into her communication gear then. "Let me see."

    She had no better luck than me, or Capri.

    "Let's

    show this to Brandi," Scar grinned my way. "Rest easy, Frank. You are
    doing your part." I noticed it was already passed 6 a.m. Getting anymore
    sleep wasn't going to happen. Scar left the room. I began crawling over
    Capri.

    "Where do you think you are going, Mister?" she teased.

    "I need to think," I mumbled. "Run, on the treadmill."

    "I'll come with you," Kuiko volunteered.

    "It only has room for one," I pointed out.

    "I will keep the other girls at bay," she smiled. "So you can think in peace."

    "I'd appreciate that," I gave in.

    "Have

    fun," Capri groaned. She flopped back on her pillow, then took mine and
    put it over her head to cancel out the minimal light already in the
    room. Kuiko and I dressed, leaving her in silence. I had barely started
    the machine on a pre-recorded 5 km run when Brandi, Roni and Paisley
    found me. Kuiko tried to intercept them, but she was too small and they
    were too determined.

    "Israel,

    are you sure about this first part?" Brandi pointed at my notation; the
    (AMSA). I screwed up my thoughts, trying to grapple with that elusive
    dream fragment.

    "I

    think so," I shrugged. "Those memories were pretty thoroughly
    suppressed in therapy. I can only imagine, this place reminds me a tiny
    bit of her place as in was old and had an old smell to it. She was a neat-freak."

    "Her?" Paisley frowned.

    "The Aurora Slasher," Brandi whispered. "He's the one who survived."

    "Oh,"

    Paisley gave me the normal female look of surprise girls gave me when
    the realized I'd gone through something 'bad' without understanding how
    bad it really was.

    "Okay,"

    Brandi screwed her 'thinking cap' on. "Israel, what can you tell us
    about this medication. What effects did you feel after she gave it to
    you? Was it given orally, or injected? If injected, where did she inject
    it?"

    "Give

    him a break," Kuiko grew fierce. "It hurts him to remember this." I
    nearly fell off the treadmill. Kuiko had come through yet again. She got
    it. She knew. I felt so justified in loving her. I also felt I needed
    to push harder.

    "Thank

    you, Kuiko," I sighed. To Brandi, "It was injected, in my cock shaft
    and scrotum; the artery leading in, I believe. I, I think it was,
    relief. Not immediate, but definitely something I associated with the
    injection, say anything between five and thirty minutes," I struggled
    along. Running actually helped going back into the darkness. "The pain
    didn't go away, it lessened. Does that help?"

    "Describe the pain. How did it lessen?" she kept at it. I could only shrug.

    "Well C50H73N15O11 is an Ace inhibitor; it lowers blood pressure by enlarging blood vessels," Roni added to the discussion.

    "If it was  B S A," Paisley snickered, "we'd know what that is."

    Brandi's head turned and regarded her as did Roni's.

    "What is  B S A?" Kuiko asked.

    "Bovine Serum Albumin," Brandi stated in an off-handed manner.

    "It is used to stabilize DNA," Roni added.

    "Um. if 'S A' is Serum Albumin and 'B' is for Bovine then what is 'A M'?" I wondered out loud.

    "It is two letters of the alphabet. It could be anything," Roni shook her head.

    "No," Brandi corrected her. "It had to be something which had been researched at St. Jerome's as well."

    "They

    didn't advertise altering the Gender Plague so they may not have
    advertised this concoction either," I showered them with reason.

    "You

    can lie about the research, but not the researchers," Brandi sent a
    devilish smirk my way. "All I need to do is access St. Jerome's records
    and find out who has done research there in the past 40 years then
    cross-reference that list with 'AM' and see what pops up."

    "Aren't

    those classified?" Paisley questioned. How adorable. It seemed the full
    effect of the hateful world spinning out of control around her last
    night hadn't fully impacted on her yet.

    "A

    little; I'm with the government," Brandi consoled the college student.
    "I'll go talk to Jen." Brandi left as did Paisley. After a bit I
    realized Roni was staring at me.

    "Yes?"

    "Oh," she blushed. "I apologize. It has been a while." She meant her and sex.

    "I'm doing the best I can," was my best excuse.

    "I know."

    "You

    know if we had left last night we wouldn't be with the Vanishers now,"
    Roni prodded. She meant had I abandoned the others over Roni's moral
    qualms I wouldn't be in the Vanishers' 'custody' now.

    "Correct.

    We wouldn't have three extra men for the rest of you to romance, twelve
    highly-trained women to protect us, an exit route over the Mississippi
    and a plan to get us to the Rocky Mountains undetected. Yeah," I didn't
    look her way. "We'd be out there, somewhere, making up our survival
    plans as we went along until far better funded, equipped and trained
    agencies hunted us down, killed you, Angel and Venus and enslaved me;
    Roni. Yeah. I know precisely what's going on."

    Lacking an adequate comeback, she left.

    "I

    love you," Kuiko said out of nowhere. Yet another point for Kuiko. She
    was lauding me for my mind and eloquence, not my physique.

    "I

    love you too, Kuiko," I smiled at her. I had a sudden desire for
    nipples. Kuiko read my mind, stood up and came my way. I was still
    jogging. We could make this work.

    "Crazy-K,

    the Vanishers want to give us some basic firearms training," Venus
    intruded. She took in the two of us. "That means; everybody."

    "Fiddle-sticks,"

    Kuiko pouted and snapped her fingers. I ramped down the machine,
    stepping off as it wound down. Firearms training, what could go wrong?

    Zara..

    Firearms

    training; each one of us who needed help had an aide. Flame and the
    Vanishers Ballard, Ross and Wilson kept watch over the premises while
    Jethro and Angel were coopted as trainers. Casper 'explained' to Angel
    why she couldn't train me. Of all the people they had to 'bring up to
    speed', I was the one they couldn't lose so it made sense they put the
    most reliable trainer with me; Zara.

    Thankfully,

    Angel took Kuiko. Jethro ended up with Lowry; that poor, stupid
    Sonofabitch. He must have thought the Old Man would take it easy on him;
    being old and a man. Scar, whose name was actually code for Oscar,
    doubled up with Aniqua and Lavender. Scar, a k a Oscar was a qualified
    Drill Instructor and they deemed Aniqua and Samantha the 'most
    trainable' from their preliminary background check.

    Back to me, a gun in my hand and a woman wrapping her body around me,

    "Now

    aim carefully, squeeze the trigger with a steady pull and the bullet
    will go right where you want it to go," Zara instructed.

    "I

    hope it goes out the barrel," I muttered. Zara gave me this look. "I
    mean, it would be bad if it stayed in the barrel, right?" I got another
    look. "Okay, aim, pull trigger, try to put it on target."

    "No,

    Israel," Zara explained patiently. "Losers try; winners do." I stopped
    joking around and griping. If I couldn't defend myself with some level
    of competence, someone would have to put their lives in danger to
    protect mine.

    "I'll do my best," I sighed.

    "I know you will, Israel," Zara gave a wisp of a smile. "You will be surprised how good your best is."

    "I'm glad one of us has faith in me," I joked feebly.

    "You've

    done so much already, Israel," she soothed me with her grace and
    kindness, so unlooked for. "You don't need to rush things."

    If

    there was any consolation, I wasn't the worst. I wasn't even the worst
    guy. The worst were Kuiko, who was the lightest weight, and Barabbas,
    who had an aversion to loud noises. Our weapons had sound suppressors ~
    Jethro's neighbors were some distance away, but we opted to not tempt
    fate ~ so I was worried what he'd do when we found ourselves in a real
    fire-fight because I clearly recalled guns being very loud.

    "Squeeze,

    don't jerk, be smooth, take a breath, let it out, squeeze the trigger,
    the gun will fire itself, sight picture, sight alignment, you fire
    between breaths. Now, I'm going to place a coin on the front sight. You
    squeeze the trigger until the hammer falls, did the coin stay on the
    front sight?" It didn't.

    "Let's

    try again, you do this until the gun doesn't move, even with the
    lightest, then you load the weapon and do it again, and again, and
    again, and again,”

    We

    did that until we were called in for breakfast. It didn't take a
    first-year sociology student to realize the Vanishers were dividing us
    up into mentor-student duos and working at keeping us that way. It also
    meant at any given instant they knew precisely were most of us were.

    "What's next; once I've mastered lesson #1?" I asked Zara.

    "Next

    you learn to draw and fire," she continued. "Empty weapon holstered,
    face a mirror, reach down, draw the weapon, assume your stance, I use a
    two-handed hold. Rest your hands in front of your belt, draw the weapon
    while at the same time you bring your support hand up to grasp your gun
    hand."

    "Your gun-hand is glued to

    the weapon, it does not move once you have got your grip, finger out of
    the trigger until you have a clear target, your support-hand cradles
    your gun-hand. The support-hand can move if you are using a revolver.
    Use your support-hand to cock the weapon, with practice you can draw and fire quickly and smoothly."

    "I've

    been timed at 1.2 seconds to draw and fire six rounds, all were hits on
    the target and were close enough together to be covered by a silver
    dollar. I don't expect you to be that level for some time. It is
    something for you to aim for. I believe in you. You'll get there because
    you need to have that skill and proficiency."

    "That sounds incredibly fast," I gulped.

    "It

    won't seem that way when you become that good," she assured me in a way
    which really made me think I might, one day in the distant future, make
    her prediction a reality.

    "What

    if I can't shoot somebody? I mean point, aim, shoot and attempt to end
    another person's life with malice of forethought," I elaborated.

    "It

    is not a matter of courage, Israel," Zara spoke softly. "I think you
    are brave. Bravery is not a factor. Plenty of cowards kill. You possess
    the clear perception the person you are shooting at needs to be killed
    so that people you care for will live. When the time comes, your
    understanding of that principle will remove all other complications and
    morality. Your clarity is what separates you from a murderer."

    "Like Flame?"

    "Yes, and Mr. MacFarlane," she stated.

    "He was fighting for a cause too," I defended his choices long ago.

    "He

    could not win, Israel. All those deaths were for nothing. Had he killed
    100? 500? What would it have changed?" Zara challenged me.

    "I

    don't blame him for being angry about what was done to him and his
    Generation. I simply don't accept his actions could have had any other
    action except failure. He had neither the numbers nor organization to
    overthrow the Federation. Failing to do that, what purpose did killing
    those women have?" she continued. I gave her words serious thought.

    "No,"

    I mused several rather successful rounds later. "Sometimes you must
    resist, regardless of the outcome. Surrendering to tyranny was as much a
    mistake forty years ago as it is now. The only difference was how many
    boys grew up not knowing the difference."

    And Zara smiled.

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    A frightened Mother Mouse will devour her young; similarly, a frightened culture will devour its future.

    Roni

    was still working away while the rest of us were in the man-cave once
    more. Flame seemed happy taking long pulls on the Wild Cherry and
    smacking her lips. I wasn't surprised she wasn't worrying about Silent.
    Her wounded comrade was a reliable pair of guns guarding her back and
    nothing more. Emotional bonds were contrary to her psychopathic nature.

    Jethro had been sitting on his 'throne' for fifteen minutes, deep in thought.

    "I

    guess it is about time we got those guns," he announced as he stood up.
    His words captured everyone's attention yet he didn't appear to care.
    He started walking from the room and the rest of us followed along. The
    need for guns had brought us here in the first place.

    His

    path led us into his walk-in pantry. One wall of shelves rolled out and
    to the sides on seamless wheels. Beneath that spot was a steel door, a
    tad over one meter wide and three meters long. It must have been
    spring-loaded because once Jethro yanked on the hole that only one
    finger could fit into, the portal swung open and back.

    Stairs

    led down into darkness. Jethro turned around and followed them out of
    sight for several seconds. Then a light came on. The drop looked to be
    around four meters. Angel went next. A strange level of respect allowed
    me to go third. Flame was at my back then Kuiko, Venus and Lavender.

    The

    floor was grey-painted concrete. The room stretched out five meters in
    each direction. 80% of the room was covered with stacked crates with a
    variety of markings on them, a few even in English. Angel was incredibly
    tense. I didn't know why, but I had a feel for her moods. The other 20%
    of the room was an immaculate workbench.

    Considering Jethro's aversion to cleanliness, this was definitely something noteworthy.

    "What is all this stuff?" Venus asked.

    "Weapons," Angel preempted the old guy.

    "This is an awful lot of weapons," Lavender muttered. No one wanted to say it, so I did.

    "Jethro,

    you were in the MRA, weren't you?" I tossed out there. I'd told the
    nation that the MRA was dead and here I was looking at a small armory of
    illegal weaponry. Jethro had been walking over to the work area. He
    turned and looked us over.

    "I'm going to do something I don't normally do," Jethro met each of our gazes.

    "I'm

    going to explain myself. Let's pull some assault rifles out of those
    crates, make sure they in top shape then go upstairs 'cause I am only
    going to do this once," he stated.

    "These people don't know how to use firearms," Angel cautioned angrily.

    "They'll

    never learn if they don't have one and we are approaching the point
    where we'll need everyone to be a shooter," he countered. "Let's get to
    it."

    And

    that's what we did. These weapons had been top rate stuff at the start
    of the 21st century. Now, they weren't quite antiques, only old. The
    basics of using some sort of explosive substance to propel an object at
    your target remained the same. In the case of firearms, it was
    remarkably the same, or so Angel said.

    Kuiko

    went straight for the Russian-made Surface-to-Air missile, because she
    thought that the Cyrillic writing looked pretty. It was one of the few
    exotic devices. Most were clearly Federation military, or Police issue,
    undoubtedly stolen from some armory at some point early in Jethro's
    terrorist career.

    I

    was irate that Kuiko looked so cute with a bandolier of ammo packs and
    an automatic shotgun. Angel insisted that only she and Jethro took
    loaded firearms upstairs. We could carry the gun and the ammo as long as
    the ammo wasn't in the gun. Venus argued that this defeated the purpose
    of having the weapon.

    Angel

    countered that if she couldn't load it quickly, she probably shouldn't
    have it in the first place. I caught Flame bagging up a few boxes of
    ammunition, but Jethro didn't seem to care so I let it slide. It fell to
    Flame and me to lug extra rifles and cartridge belts up to the rest of
    the group, being the strongest, Angel was keeping an eye on Jethro and
    he was keeping an eye on her.

    Fifteen

    minutes later, we had gathered back in the spacious dwelling space of
    our host. Jethro, on his throne, finished off a glass of Wild Cherry and
    began his tale:

    "I

    was seventeen and in high school when the Gender Plague first broke
    out. I was quarantined for a month before the Supreme Court decided it
    was illegal and set us men free.

    I

    took the opportunity to enlist in the Navy, the U S Navy, because of
    the man shortage when I was released. Went through Basic, the Specialist
    School, I was a Damage Control Technician which meant I was a fireman,
    then a second outbreak happened. I was quarantined for three months this
    time.

    I

    got out and was assigned to the destroyer Michael A. Mansoor. During
    the Relief of Athens, we all damn near died. Of the eighteen men and
    women in Damage Control, only me and one other rating enlistee survived.
    My officer, an ensign, stayed behind to make sure the forward
    ammunition storage was secure. Our Chief Petty Officer had us seal the
    ensign in. We saved the ship long enough for the crew to be pulled off.

    The

    Mansoor exploded. We were never able to locate her body. She was some R
    O T C kid who was only with us four months. I never knew her first name
    until the ceremony after it was all over. She may have been the bravest
    human being I've ever known. After that, I served aboard the Little
    Rock working anti-piracy in the Philippines and Indonesia.

    Since

    I took part in some land action during that tour, the Navy, I hate
    using the term Federation, reassigned me to Shore Patrol duty. I took
    police training and everything. I did another tour aboard the Little
    Rock the following year then they dragged me off when Congress decided
    that men couldn't be given combat assignments.

    Seven

    months later, they discharged me and thousands of other men as part of a
    down-sizing program. Unfortunately, the same act of Congress that
    exited me from the Navy also forbid me joining the fire, or police
    departments. A buddy of mine was able to find me work in a machine shop
    where I learned the craft of welding.

    After

    that, I was a good boy. I dated, joined a motorcycle club and built up a
    nice life. When the Gender Inequality Act was passed I was more annoyed
    than angry. All that changed when I was twenty-nine. See, I had some
    male friends who joined up with a group called Male Awakening. They were
    a group devoted to the repeal of the G I A through political means.

    Things

    including publically supporting male-friendly candidates and working
    against G I A-supporters through boycotts and the like. I was rolled up
    in an FBI sting and those ladies informed me that they'd make those
    charges go away if I agreed to go inside and spy on Male Awakening. They
    knew I was friends with those guys. I told them to fuck off, fought the charges and beat their trumped up bullshit.

    By

    the time I cleared up my legal troubles, they took the M A down anyway.
    It seems their Treasurer took off with their funds after leaving some
    financial irregularities. That was a total load of crap because they
    never caught that guy, but they did manage to put away most of the
    group's leadership.

    A

    few months later, I ran across one of my buddies who had asked me to
    join Male Awakening. He'd heard about my troubles and over a few beers,
    he hinted that the fight wasn't over. This time I bought in. This
    incarnation didn't have a name. We weren't public. We dug up dirt on
    corrupt female officials by any means necessary.

    We

    destroyed the careers of the worst oppressors of men. Violence wasn't
    our aim yet we armed ourselves for what we knew would be a harsh
    crackdown. We operated in small cells, but I knew we had lawyers, judges
    and even a few Congresswomen on our side. Since we had bracelets by
    that time, we used women to communicate between cells.

    Our

    cell received word of the major Federation sweep, a day before it
    happened. We were able to move most of our material stashes to new
    locations before they fell on us. The Writs of Exclusion were
    abominations. No one ratted me out. For weeks I sweated bullets every
    time I saw a cop car, a mysterious unmarked car, or heard a siren.

    After

    a few months, I began searching for other survivors. We came together
    in secrecy, united in our fury. The Federation had broken every law and
    covenant so we agreed that waging a guerilla war was our only option. A
    week later I bagged my first cop. Put a bullet under her left eye at 80
    meters. She was dead before she hit the ground and it felt good.

    They,

    the Federation, had murdered my country and now they were paying. Three
    days later, I waited for a Federation agent to walk out on her porch to
    see her little girl off to school. I walked up, told the little girl
    her mother was a whore and put nine slugs into that whore's body and I
    felt just fine about that too."

    "No," squeaked Kuiko.

    "That

    is the way it was," Jethro gave Kuiko a paternal look. "Those women
    came at me with every dirty trick they could come up with to take away
    my freedom and I put them in the grave for it."

    "You murdered people," Angel growled.

    "Fuck

    you, Cop. The Gender Inequality Act was passed by women to enslave men.
    No man ever voted on it," Jethro snarled. "Men tried to use the system
    so you cheated. Boohoo that your bosses didn't figure out our only
    option left was violent resistance."

    "I

    killed seventeen government officials and my only regret is I didn't
    kill more. Not one was a fair fight. Kuiko, I killed that bitch in front
    of her daughter because I wanted her buddies to come around and see the
    anguish on that little girl's face. I wanted them to worry about their
    own daughters. I wanted them to know they were at war."

    "You are a murdering scumbag," Roni snapped.

    "I

    disagree," Flame shook her head. "You are morons if you think he should
    have called out every freaking target and said 'hey, I know you have
    all the back-up in the world and I'm alone so I'm giving you ample
    warning that I'm going to try and kill you.’"

    "You are a psycho," Aniqua pointed out. "It figures you would agree with him."

    "He

    didn't have a choice," Samantha intervened. Her speaking so decisively
    was almost as stunning as her words themselves. "Having a gun might not
    have saved Israel against the Aurora Slasher, but it might have
    discouraged those sorority students."

    "The

    politics of payback," Flame laughed. "Jethro might sound like some
    sadistic bastard to the rest of you; not to me. His tactics are sound
    and they work. Kill enough cops and women stop joining the force. The
    authorities either crack down harder, bringing more over to your cause,
    or they concede to some of your demands."

    "It is how a very small force fights a much larger adversary," Flame concluded.

    "That's

    still cold blooded murder," Angel reiterated. I didn't know what to
    think. Jethro butchered defenseless women. The President doomed
    millions. I admired what Zara did except it was some of the same things
    that Jethro did, yet she was a soldier and he was a terrorist.

    "There

    is no resolution to this argument," I spoke clearly and loud. "Short of
    violence to silence the opposition, there is nothing we can do to
    rectify the past now. Jethro, why did you stop being a member of the
    MRA?"

    "Spokane,"

    Jethro answered. "I had no problem with killing cops and Feds, and
    intimidating their families. They were part of the problem."

    "Those

    high school girls though, that made no sense to me. We weren't at war
    with the female gender; we were at war with the government and their
    policy of enslavement. Killing random kids was wrong and I wouldn't be
    associated with it. I talked this over with my cell, they disagreed and I
    told them that if I saw any of them again, I'd kill them," Jethro
    clarified.

    "I

    had several caches only I knew about. I waited a few months then moved
    up to the city, slowly bringing everything up here as I had the time. A
    year and a half later, my old buddy was caught up in a traffic stop,
    shot it out with the cops and was killed. From stuff they found on his
    body, he rolled up the rest of the gang, but the other members didn't
    know my real name."

    "The

    G E D came out and talked with me. They kept an eye on me for a few
    years. I behaved and grew old so they eventually went sniffing
    elsewhere. We wouldn't be here now if I hadn't gone drinking with Kuiko
    and let slip about my gun stash," Jethro smiled at my little friend. "I
    knew she'd never betray me, and she hasn't."

    "Now

    I've got a front row seat to the End of the World so I get one last
    chance to make a difference," he said. Yeah, this old guy wanted to go
    down in a hail of gunfire, no doubt about it.

    "Good for you, you butcher," Roni glared. "I won't do this."

    "I

    signed on to make a difference," she continued, "not to hang out with
    cold-blooded killers. I'm out of here. Is anyone with me?" Aniqua stood
    up. Venus seriously hesitated before joining them. Venus was looking
    right at me. Angel's eyes were boring holes into me as well.

    "Israel?" Angel inquired.

    I

    could go with them. I could stay. I could beg them to stay. I could
    stay silent and let events drag me along. My mind was playing Jinga with
    the vortex of intellectual input and buzz saw emotions that were
    boiling forth.

    "Angel,

    Roni, Venus and Aniqua sit back down," I stood and stated. It took them
    a varying number of seconds to realize I was Not pleading.

    "Israel,

    you don't get to decide that for us," Roni replied evenly. "We let you
    go to the Arena last night. This time, we get to choose and we are
    leaving. If you are the man I hope you are, you will come with us."

    "At

    the same time you're pressuring me to give more to the group despite my
    misgivings, Roni, you are giving less?" I countered. She started to
    protest. I raised my hand for a reprieve.

    "Hear

    me out," I continued. "It isn't that simple. I am not questioning your
    moral quandary about working with people too comfortable with taking
    human life. It is very real and I feel it. The difference is that you
    would rather be right and dead than alive at any cost. You've never had
    to make that call before, but I have and I'm alive to tell you that you
    are wrong, Roni."

    "You

    are dead wrong because dead does nothing. The living can always come
    back and make something better. Hell, that's what my life has been about
    the past week and a half. The rest of you are neophytes going into
    this. I'm not. I know exactly what it takes morally to survive. Don't
    make me follow any of you out that door. I love each and every one of
    you."

    "I

    do love you, but am I obligated to jump off a cliff for you? I respect
    your choice to choose suicide. It would be wrong of me to rob you of
    that freedom. Please don't try to make this about affection, compassion,
    or loyalty though. It is a matter of life and death. Roni, you are
    trying to kill me, which I'm okay with. I resent you killing Angel,
    Aniqua and Venus," I stressed.

    "That's fucked

    up reasoning," Roni fought back. "Those two get off on killing other
    people. They enjoy it. Why can't you see that they are just as likely to
    get you killed as keep you alive?"

    "I

    will agree with you that Flame gets off on watching people suffer and
    die," I nodded. "It is the way she is. I don't know Jethro so I'm not
    ready to make a judgment call on him."

    "I

    do know that both of them have exquisite weapon skills and I'm pretty
    sure we are going to need them before we are truly free," I explained.
    "I would prefer an all-male super commando squad who had passed every
    psychological test ever made. That doesn't appear to be on the menu, so
    I'm willing to hold on to whatever resources are available."

    "So you are willing to risk all our lives for the sake of expediency," Angel glared.

    "Absolutely,"

    I shot right back. "In case no one is paying attention, I am not in
    some government facility helping working on some kind of serum to fight
    the new plague. In case you missed it, everyone here agreed with my
    decision to flee instead."

    "Roni,

    Angel, you do realize that young lady who saved me this morning is
    going to die, right? I could have insisted she come with us. I could
    have given her the cure. I didn't. None of you asked me to even after I
    told the whole globe of an unstoppable wave of death coming for
    everyone. I'm not asking you to take responsibility for my decision
    because it was mine."

    "I'm

    begging you; understand that it isn't the end of morality to stay. When
    the madness ends, you need to decide if we will still be worthy of
    continuing on. You'll no longer be part of that equation if you go now,"
    I declared.

    "Are we supposed to ignore that he was a terrorist and she is a homicidal maniac?" Aniqua said.

    "I'm

    not homicidal," Flame grinned. "I'm a psychotic sociopath. I don't
    randomly kill people. I do it with malice of forethought." Jethro didn't
    show a desire to defend himself.

    "Israel, Flame almost killed you last night," Venus pointed out. "Why would you stick around?"

    Why was I sticking around?

    "Israel, don't do this," Angel said. "You promised me you would stop running into danger."

    "Angel, why do you have to be right and I have to be wrong?" I sighed.

    "Because

    those two are dangerous criminals," Roni answered. Didn't Roni
    understand that I was a far more callous killer than either of those
    'criminals' and I didn't have to lift a finger, or look at a single
    grave?

    (Before the Curtain Call)

    Shortly

    after nine-thirty that night, the awaited and feared seismic event
    happened in China. A few minutes past sunrise over Hong Kong the rains
    broke and a fleet of helicopters and V T O Ls (Vertical Take-Off and
    Landing) were heard over the city. Helicopters were not unknown in this
    center of wealth and commerce. Well over a hundred all coming in at once
    was noteworthy.

    For

    many of the citizens of the city, it had been a restless night. After
    midnight, police sirens had been wailing all over the city. Some even
    heard gunfire. What they didn't know was that for the past four hours,
    private security forces working for the most prominent communities and
    some special police units had raided the middle class communities of the
    city and stolen their men.

    They

    forced the men into protective suits and hustled them back to the
    high-rises that sheltered the most 'important' people. This was an
    outrage that they could not get away with, had China still functioned
    normally. A new order based on brutal social cannibalism was taking
    place. The rich were taking their vassals and their new 'acquisitions'
    to their estates far from the population centers.

    This

    was supposed to be a gradual process except late yesterday afternoon
    the other Great Families learned that one of their own had their first
    reported case of this new 'flu.’ They could wait no longer. They would
    have preferred to flee under the cover of darkness, but rain and the
    danger of so many helicopters and V T O Ls moving around forced them to
    postpone until first light.

    You

    didn't have to be a connoisseur of conspiracy theories to figure out
    what was going on. Men had been stolen and now the rich were bugging out
    of town in one big hurry. Late Friday, the 'flu' began to appear in the
    population in a big way. The workers in the hospital were afraid, not
    fearful, afraid.

    The

    councilwoman from one of the poorest districts called the Head of the
    City Council, no answer. She called one of her colleagues from one of
    the richest districts, no answer. She was a savvy political creature and
    she smelled a rat bigger than the Tomb of the First Emperor. She called
    the General of the 9th Reserve Division; Hong Kong's defense force.

    The

    first problem was that the 9th ® division only existed on paper, the
    troops had to be called to arms. The second problem was that the 9th ®
    was not well equipped. That was one of the fundamental differences
    between the Federation and Chinese militaries. Both had large, volunteer
    professional armies. That was their only real similarity.

    In

    the Federation, the average enlistment time was 6 years, two 3 year
    terms. In China, women enlisted in to the ranks for 20 years with an
    option to continue 10 more if you were a high enough ranking Non
    Commissioned Officer. Soldiering was all these women did. Officers in
    the Federation went to Military Academies with a perchance for
    democratic selection and the average term of service was 10 years.

    In

    China, you had to come from an upper tier community, you went to a
    military academy and then you served until you were 62 years old with a
    deferment for 10 more years if you were high enough rank. It wasn't that
    one system was better than another. The Federation troops and Chinese
    troops got along well on U N missions.

    The

    Federation command thought the Chinese were disciplined, brave and
    experienced. The Chinese considered their Federation counterparts to be
    aggressive and more prone to individual initiative. The issue was back
    home. Federation troops exited the standing military and many entered
    the Reserves.

    They

    had the same equipment and less intense, but similar training at their
    full-time counterparts. By and large, the regular commands felt they
    could rely on the Reserves to fulfill any active duty role they were
    trained for. In China, it was very different. Their reserves' role was
    defensive in nature, to protect strategic areas while the regular army
    was elsewhere.

    Regular

    armed forces troops did not rotate to a Reserve division after leaving
    service. They got a pension and a government job. The reserve troops
    enlisted under a different system. Same length of service, different
    mission entirely. Their training was less rigorous, their equipment more
    primitive and their duty was to assemble when called then report to
    their assigned defensive position in their region.

    The

    Central Government did not want a Reserve Division to be able to hold
    off a regular service division for purely political reasons. See, the
    command of Reserve Divisions usually fell to someone of lower or middle
    class background. There simply were not enough upper tier women around
    who did well in the military. These backup divisions were therefore more
    egalitarian, believing all humanity is equal.

    The

    other issue was one of association. Regular service enlisted women
    thought of themselves as part of the military family. They would spend a
    huge chunk of their lives in arms. They didn't participate in the lives
    of their childhood communities, nor did they identify with the working
    classes. They were separate and distinct.

    The

    officers were very different as well. They were very much part of the
    political life of their communities. They had to be good at their trade
    yet mindful of their family's needs. Their general attitude was that
    enlisted troopers were tools, finely honed for their assigned task.
    Personal relationships were discouraged with the lower ranks.

    This

    societal and professional divide was about to be tragically played out
    in Hong Kong. See, China was a middle class country. These women staffed
    the government buildings, taught and went to the universities, filled
    out most of the professions and were the workhorses of the economy. It
    would stand to reason they had the most men and they did.

    Over

    the past week, the upper tier families had been doing the genetic and
    reproductive mathematics. Yes, they had the best women to men ratio, but
    it wasn't enough. They were going to die out. They could either change
    the basic fundamentals of their society, or they could steal more men.
    They chose kidnapping.

    Stealing

    men from the poor, while better for the long term political outlook,
    was sending your precious security troops into some really bad
    neighborhoods. The middle class? They lived in nice quiet neighborhoods.
    Besides, the upper tier no longer cared about long term political
    consequences. Now it was a battle for survival.

    The

    middle class women didn't simply hand over their men. They fought and
    in more than a few cases, died trying to keep their lineage alive. At
    the time, most had no clue why this savage act had befallen them. Words
    from on high instructed the local police to do nothing. The flaw in the
    evacuation plan was that most policemen were middle class too.

    A

    special effort had been made by the kidnappers to not steal men from
    communities with policewomen. That would have been a catastrophe. The
    thing was, the rank and file policewoman identified with their fellow
    worker. Their orders didn't make sense, men were the most precious
    commodity. Police unit began having hushed communication with other
    police units.

    They

    didn't like the picture that was being revealed. With the roar of
    aircraft at dawn, the cops knew what was happening and the tide of
    rebellion was rising with the Sun. The schedule had the majority of the
    evacuations being finished by late afternoon, even with bad weather. One
    of the keys to making this possible was to shut down the communication
    network.

    This

    is exactly what the Security Troops did. Sure, there would be panic,
    but it would be a disorganized panic. All of this failed to take into
    account the human condition. Shortly after seven o'clock in the morning,
    a police sergeant boldly walked through the central headquarters, took a
    quick right turn past two surprised police administrative officials,
    opened the door to the Police Commandant's office and filled that woman
    with all eleven bullets in her gun. Why? A Special Security Team had
    mistaken one address for another, stormed in, and killed her mother,
    aunt and three sisters in the process of stealing her community's two
    males and her son.

    The

    Sergeant dropped her pistol and waited. Policewomen, weapons drawn,
    swarmed the room. In a normal world, the assassin would have been born
    to the ground, arrested and medical aid summoned for their downed
    leader. This was not a normal morning. While those policewomen couldn't
    put a finger on what it was, something was horribly, horribly wrong.

    The

    Sergeant turned to her growing audience and began issuing orders. For
    an instant, no one moved then the first lemming jumped off the cliff and
    the flood gates were opened. Several minutes later, the head of Hong
    Kong's tactical unit was leading her team toward the Security Services
    HQ with order to link up with other units and storm the building.

    What

    was she waiting for? While the Security Troops were very well equipped,
    the HK Police had armored cars used for riot suppression. Like their
    Federation counterparts, these vehicles normally fired tear gas. The
    Chinese were extra efficient with their devices though. They also fired a
    variety of grenades, even a rocket meant to penetrate hardened
    structures.

    Yes,

    Virginia, the cops had armor piercing shells for their little RVs. The
    Security Building was solidly built and the troops defending it were
    confident they could hold out until other units relieved them. When the
    first chunks of granite began exploding in on them, the fear gripped
    their ovaries. In theory, the structure should have held out for 24
    hours.

    In

    fact, it held out 18 minutes. By the time the Security Services
    helicopter showed up, the communication network for the city had been
    restored. The helicopter strafed the police but didn't have anything
    that could deal with the armored vehicles. They called in the Marine
    Regiment assigned to Hong Kong to come and restore order.

    The

    Marines prepared their land and air assets to roll out then discovered a
    problem. Outside their gates a battalion of infantry from the 9th
    Reserve division had assembled. It was their post after all, replacing
    the Marines if they had been sent to a war zone. There were 2500 Marines
    and only 600 light infantry. The issue was exactly where did the 9th
    Reserve division stand in all of this mess?

    The

    Marine Colonel didn't want to roll out of her base only to have the
    reservists storm in once she was gone. Splitting her forces wasn't a
    good idea either. Apparently the Security Service had a real fight on
    their hands. While she was trying to figure this conundrum out, the Navy
    began shelling, Canton. Compared to Hong Kong, Canton had gone totally
    insane.

    She

    called up the commander of the 9th Reserve Division to see where she
    stood. That General informed her counterpart that she was about to storm
    the towers and to hell with anyone who got in her way. The Colonel
    called the Security Services' new commander to find out what was what.
    The SS commander started screaming at the Colonel to get off her ass and
    into the fight.

    After

    some careful consideration, she called her liaison with the naval
    amphibious detachment and formally requested to be evacuated from Hong
    Kong. The Navy was coming to help her out. Why? Because the head of the
    naval base in Canton wasn't an idiot either. She had ships, but no
    troops and now here was this 2500 women force volunteering to be her
    much needed muscle.

    This

    was a far more crushing need because Canton had a regular service
    division barracked there. Duly informed of a riot supported by the
    police breaking out in the wealthiest section of town, the division had
    raced to the rescue. They massacred the mobs around the towers and
    rescued the private security forces defending there.

    As

    soon as she secured the perimeter of the district, the General of that
    division had her troops storm the towers. These weren't a mob of workers
    with policewomen in the mix. These were combat troops and they cut a
    swath through the private security. Men were 'liberated' along with
    other assets that hadn't escaped yet. This act of betrayal accomplished,
    the General and her division began their withdrawal.

    The

    Chinese Army and Air Force had been hammering rebel positions all
    morning. Now they didn't know what in the hell to do. Over the next
    forty-eight hours, many division commanders came to the same conclusion.
    It was time to take the men and run. Remember the relationship between
    regular divisions and the populace?

    This

    was coming out badly in a big way and not in a way most people would
    have thought of. The civilian woman had no connection to the soldiers
    what-so-ever. That meant no atrocity was out of bounds. Both sides knew
    that defeat meant death. The soldiers were in all metrics better, except
    two; the soldiers were outnumbered a hundred to one and most fights
    were in an urban environment that lessened the soldiers' technological
    superiority.

    The

    other brutal aspect of the struggle was every dead soldier was
    irreplaceable. The civilian woman-pool was effectively limitless. With
    low male ratios and the Plague added to that, China appeared to be on a
    fast track to oblivion. Before that happened, one final drama had to
    play out.

    Shanghai.

    From the final scene in the cabin.

    "I'm

    begging you; understand that it isn't the end of morality to stay. When
    the madness ends, you need to decide if we will still be worthy of
    continuing on. You'll no longer be part of that equation if you go now,"
    I declared.

    "Are we supposed to ignore that he was a terrorist and she is a homicidal maniac?" Aniqua said.

    "I'm

    not homicidal," Flame grinned. "I'm a psychotic sociopath. I don't
    randomly kill people. I do it with malice of forethought."

    Jethro didn't show a desire to defend himself.

    "Israel, Flame almost killed you last night," Venus pointed out. "Why would you stick around?"

    Why was I sticking around?

    "Israel, don't do this," Angel said. "You promised me you would stop running into danger."

    "Angel, why do you have to be right and I have to be wrong?" I sighed.

    "Because

    those two are dangerous criminals," Roni answered. Didn't Roni
    understand that I was a far more callous killer than either of those
    'criminals' and I didn't have to lift a finger, or look at a single
    grave?

    And Right Where We Left Off:

    I had to take a different tact. I had to find another,

    "Roni,"

    she was the one I had to prove myself to. Angel? Having betrayed me so
    often, even her convictions about Jethro and Flame wouldn't drive her
    from my side, I hoped. Aniqua and Venus, no matter what moral core they
    based their argument on, wanted to live, and that meant sticking with a
    larger group than just two people.

    "Roni,

    I am asking you to trust me," I made furtive eye contact. I didn't want
    to die and that was the direction this talk was going. If Roni left,
    could I really let her, Angel, Aniqua and Venus go it alone?

    My soul begged for trust, trust in me for a few more hours.

    'Let's see this through together.’

    "Please,”

    'Please Angel, Aniqua, Roni and Venus. Please see all the pain I've endured caring so much, carrying us all so far, '

    "Please, just a little while longer," my voice faltered.

    One

    more hurdle? Was this one more hurdle, or the last one? My psyche
    reached into the last drawer in my battered cupboard of my sanity, the
    dwindling larder of my hopes and dreams, miserly horded and so
    plentifully spent, only to find a finger's trace of dust remained.

    Was

    this all I had left? It seemed like the John Wayne epic western, the
    Searchers. Would I be Debbie? Finally coming home from the nightmare
    which had become the only life I had been left, a life I had still found
    the strength to live? Or was I Ethan Edwards, finished and spent; no
    longer welcome in the happy world I'd spent four long years to reach and
    which lay just beyond the portal?

    Arms

    crossed, I was being pulled away from, from home; what I wished home
    would be like. The door outside to the van would take me down the road,
    yet it was just an allusion to my fate. Standing still, taking that
    step, both would lead me outside. The pretense of my companions would
    not matter. I would be alone, forever more, I would no longer have the
    strength; the certainty of purpose; to come back.

    "Please,” 'Please love me. Please trust me. Please give me one last chance.'

    So damn hard, for so damn long, for four years I lived with the denial of hope.

    I had discarded that comfortable certainty of hopelessness for love,

    "Please,”

    "No. Trust me, Israel. These are the 'wrong' people. They won't help you. They won't help you get better," Roni insisted.

    I

    trembled. My chest felt too tight. I couldn't breathe. I wanted to run
    back into the cellar in my mind where I had run so many times before.

    "For fuck's sake!" I snapped. "Don't keep fucking interrupting me!" No one said anything for a few seconds.

    "Israel?" Angel whispered.

    "Roni, why are any of you here today?" I persevered.

    "We are here because we pitched in and worked together; looked out for each other," she responded.

    "Wrong,"

    I trembled with, was this rage? "We are all here today because everyone
    in this room has trusted me with their lives. You are here, with some
    hope of seeing next week, because of me and no one else."

    "Israel," Roni started.

    "Shut

    up! Shut up! Shut up!" I screamed. "Without me, the rest of you would
    be living comfortable lives back in the city, safe in your preconceived
    notions about the relationships between men and women."

    Angel put her hand on Roni's shoulder to forestall her friend's bitter comeback.

    "Without

    me screwing up your lives; without each one of you; except Jethro,
    Paisley and Lavender; putting trust in me despite knowing how screwed up
    I am, you would all be facing down the eradication of the Human Race.
    Me!" I seethed. "Me! Without you trusting me so much you would all toss
    your safe lives away, you wouldn't be here dropping your idiotic
    moralistic arguments on me. Every fucking one of you, owes your life to you being able to love me beyond rational explanation. Tell me I'm lying," I petered out.

    "It is not that simple," Aniqua took up the cause.

    "Having

    trusted me this far, why are you stopping now? Don't give me any shitty
    excuse about Jethro; he gave up being a terrorist thirty years ago, or
    Flame; the vicious psychopath who dragged her very-wounded teammate to
    us, plus figured out we were here in the first place; proving she is
    also one of the most cunning people in the room."

    "Say

    something besides 'gee, Israel, they scare me', because their approach
    to life might be the right one, given our precarious position and all
    our lives being on the line. And I'd rather be in the 'right', even if
    it leaves Kuiko dead at your feet," I speared her with my gaze. "And No!
    I am not exaggerating. I trust Jethro and Flame. Until this point, you
    have had faith in me, so I want to know what I have done so wrong that
    your faith is now shaken."

    "Gee Israel, why don't I simply shoot these pretentious bitches for you," Flame joked.

    "Please," I looked down at my feet, fists painfully clenched. "Please Flame, please don't."

    "Be happy you are my only God-damn friend," Flame snorted. "Continue. Their excuses are going to be doozies."

    "Israel, if we go, will you come with us?" Roni ignored everything I had just said.

    "No.

    No, I'll crawl into a corner and die inside, Roni. I can't in good
    conscious do something I know to be suicidal and I can't abandon you. I
    trust you four. I do. I also don't trust you to keep any of us alive.
    You don't have it in you, and Jethro and Flame do."

    "I

    spent every day for nearly three months in a basement with a serial
    killer. I know theirs is a madness I must embrace to keep all of us
    alive. I'm not a killer. I probably never will be. I know for our group
    to survive, we will need to be capable of killing people. We can't stay
    here long; if nothing else, we'll eat Jethro out of house and home. For a
    variety of reasons, we can't go back into the city. That means we head
    into the countryside."

    "With

    civilization going down the toilet, how do you expect us to find food
    and energy cells? I know where we need to go and our cars won't hold a
    charge for that long. I've seen the dark underbelly of human nature on a
    level with both Angel and Flame. If we go hat-in-hand, odds are
    extremely likely they will kill you and enslave me; not because they
    know who I am, but because I've got testicles and men are a rare
    commodity."

    "What

    are the rest of you going to do to keep the rest of us safe, fed and
    mobile? By all means, tell me I haven't thought this through in the same
    way I've worked out every other crisis we've been confronted with in
    the past two weeks. That's it, my argument. You get to decide now. I
    hope you make your choice based on something more than knee-jerk
    reactions, understanding not one of you have ever had to test your morality against your 'will to survive' before now."

    "Top of his class," Capri murmured. "Our kids are going to be geniuses."

    "What do we do when one of them murders someone?" Aniqua asked. At least it was an honest question.

    "We'll deal with it then," I replied.

    "Please

    take into account: Flame, despite her long criminal history, has never
    been charged with murder and Jethro, despite his terrorist career, was
    so cautious he has retained both his freedom and remained free of drug
    therapy. You are assuming poor judgement on their part, despite every
    bit of evidence to the contrary. If they weren't both careful, we
    wouldn't be having this conversation."

    "I bet you kicked ass in debate," Venus shook her head. She also crossed over from the 'departing' crowd to the rest of us.

    "Roni,

    he has forgiven me every time I have betrayed him," Angel sighed. "Not
    only that, he has used my betrayal to advance his; our cause." To me,
    "I'm tired of fucking up around you, Israel. I hope this is the last time I have to apologize." She came over to majority's side.

    Aniqua crossed over without another word, leaving Roni alone.

    "If you die, humanity dies," Roni shook her head. "I'll stay."

    Latest

    crisis averted. On second thought; this was the first democratic
    conflict we had faced and it had been won with reason; not threat, or
    fear of force.

    I ran my hands through my hair.

    "Angel, why does this keep happening?" I tried not to sound too desperate.

    "We'll

    deal with that later. Sit back and savor your victory," she chided me.
    Sometimes; more often than not; listen to the woman who holds your
    health in her hands. I did.

    "Wow," Flame looked over to Jethro, "I've never seen so much cunt tamed so fast in my life. He is truly fucking impressive."

    We

    were all surprised when Kuiko hurled herself at Flame, even Flame.
    Unfortunately, surprise for Flame was measured in milliseconds.

    Kuiko

    barely had her hands on Flame before Flame spun them around, slammed
    Kuiko into the ground with Flame on top, and began wailing on her.
    Samantha was the first to attempt a rescue. All it earned her was a judo
    throw which sent her head of heels over the two combatants. Capri, far
    more brave than capable, was rushing in when Angel shoved her aside and
    lit into Flame.

    I

    went in; not to fight, but to drag Kuiko free of the battle. I
    shouldn't have bothered. By the time I had a hand on Kuiko's elbow,
    Angel had Flame pressed face first on the floor and her left arm twisted
    painfully behind her back.

    "Get off me, Cow," Flame raged.

    "Stay down," Angel warned her.

    "I'm going to fucking kill you, Cunt," Flame seethed.

    "Angel, please get off her," I requested. "This isn't Flame's fault."

    Angel hesitated for several seconds before releasing her hold and jumping back.

    Flame

    spun to her feet and glared fury at the assembly. She came right at me.
    At the time, I didn't know Jethro threw up a cautioning hand to Angel
    and I really wasn't sure why she took his advice, yet she did. Maybe her
    faith in me was growing. I shifted Kuiko's curled up body behind me.

    "Get out of my fucking

    way!" Flame screamed at me as her boot slammed into my ribs. I refused
    to let go of Kuiko, or stop shielding her. Flame punched me in the ear.
    "Bitch, get out of the fucking way."

    I looked up at Flame.

    "I'd

    never let go of you," futilely spewing forth from my lips. I was
    terrified. Only the fact I was more terrified of how I would regard
    myself if I let Kuiko go, kept me hanging on. My inner Monster was
    howling at me to escape; hide; evade. Flame slapped, then backhanded me.
    Flame's eyes were crazy-angry. For a split second they appeared to
    un-focus. When they cleared again, she was still certifiably crazy, and
    then she started laughing.

    "I am forever going to regret not killing you on that bridge; Bitch," Flame snickered. She offered me a hand up.

    "I'm a little busy right now," I smiled painfully.

    "Okay," Flame nodded. She reached past me. Kuiko flinched before Flame rustled her hair. "Kiddo, keep in mind he owes me a fuck-stun, so don't get greedy."

    "Meep," Kuiko responded.

    With

    their bizarre exchange complete, Flame sauntered back to her seat as if
    nothing had happened. Most of the surrounding ladies were shocked,
    angry, and or appalled. Flame didn't care. It appeared she barely gave a
    damn about my opinion, which was still a milestone for her. I turned to
    the Kuiko in my lap.

    "Okay, what inspired you to attack Flame?" I hugged her tight. My ribs hurt; again.

    "I

    don't know," Kuiko mumbled. "I was so scared and you promised to try
    not to die anymore and here you were, trying to die on me again. Then
    Flame said something and, I don't know what happened. The next thing I
    recalled clearly was her punching me in the face. Am I ugly?"

    "Oh, you are a hideous little troll," I sighed.

    "Really?" she nearly cried.

    "Yep,"

    I groaned. "Tonight, all night long, as we are sleeping together, we
    are going to have to keep the lights out so you don't scare me. Since I
    need to know where you are, I'll have to keep a hand on you constantly
    too."

    "Oh,” she blinked. "If I get Flame to punch me again, can I sleep with you tomorrow night too?"

    "Bedtime,"

    Jethro dispelled the gathering silence. "Lavender, make sure all the
    leftovers are put away. Paisley, check the locks and stove. Daddy will
    make it up to you for letting these sickos into our tidy shard of
    Paradise. As for the rest of you; Roni, you know where the first spare
    bedroom is. Venus, you know where the other one is and Capri, I showed
    you where the sleeping bags were stored."

    People

    began moving about. The tension ratcheted down a notch now that we had
    something constructive to do which would keep us from dwelling on the
    last five minutes. Jethro almost snuck up on me (over the last 3 three
    years, I've cultivated a pretty keen spatial awareness.) He motioned me
    to step outside. We strode about a dozen steps into the night.

    "Do you really think I won't waste one of your bitches if I feel she's stepped out of line?" Jethro asked without looking at me.

    "Why do you want to know? The moment has passed," I replied.

    "I think you know the answer to that too," I believed he sneered.

    "You

    don't love Lavender, or Paisley, though they don't know it," I
    explained. "You aren't going to start shooing us because that isn't how
    you wanted to go out; in some dumbass quarrel against people you've
    shared hospitality with. You have the look of a man who wants to explode
    into violence; in your case, for a damn long time. I imagine every time
    you saw a cop alone doing some random shit, you contemplated killing
    her."

    "You

    didn't, because killing just one wasn't enough," I mumbled. "You want
    some last, epic, tragic battle and to take as many of them to Hell as
    possible. I don't know why, not really. It is contrary to my mindset. I
    don't want to kill anyone so much that I'd die to do it. I certainly
    don't hate people I've never met enough to kill them. Still, I assume
    you have your reasons. But I don't think you are crazy enough to kill
    the rest of us to get your wish," I concluded.

    "If you thought I'd gamble with the lives of your ladies, you'd tell Flame, wouldn't you?" Jethro mused.

    "Absolutely," I nodded.

    "Good

    man," Jethro reciprocated. "Use the right tool for the job." By that he
    meant not telling Angel. Angel would want to talk it out. Flame would
    blow Jethro away without hesitation. "Let's get inside. I think you've
    put your Main Squeeze through enough for tonight."

    "Did you stop Angel from jumping back in on Flame?" I inquired as we headed inside.

    "Yep.

    That's part of being a man; living with the choices you make," Jethro
    informed me. "If Angel had gone back in for Flame, your group would
    always be confused about who was in charge. It didn't matter that Flame
    busted you up."

    "All your ladies saw you taking charge and respected you for it. Psychology is important come crunch time," he explained.

    "I still got beaten," I sighed. Jethro held the door for me to go back inside.

    "Doesn't

    matter," Jethro patted me on the back. "You took a beating for Kuiko
    and now they know you'd take a beating for any of them."

    "Being

    a man is much more than kicking ass," Jethro chuckled. "You are a wimpy
    son of a bitch, but that will change if you live long enough. What
    matters is they think you care. Simple shit like a hug, a kiss, and
    asking them 'how they are doing' does wonders and doesn't cost much."

    "How come you never got, attached?" I asked.

    "I have a fucking

    armory in my basement, Idiot," he laughed. "That doesn't mean my advice
    isn't time tested. You can't go wrong spanking that ass more often.
    They'll get used to it."

    "Did you witness the beating I just took?" I mumbled.

    "Some

    bitches, you tie up first, Son," Jethro teased me. "Some you tie down
    spread-eagle and use a ball-gag on. I suggest option Two for Flame until
    she gets addicted to that cock."

    "Please

    stop," I begged. "I've had about as much culture shock, pain and mental
    anguish as I can handle for one day. By all means, light into me
    tomorrow, but right now I need to get some sleep."

    "Good luck with that, Boy,"

     I laughed again.

    "I smell some serious arousal and it's more than just my bitches," Jethro surmised.

    I froze up. He saw my reaction.

    "Say

    'no' if you're not in the mood, Israel. Remember, you have what they
    want and they'll wait until you say 'go' because they'll want it again
    and again."

    "Did you ever love anyone, Jethro?" I requested.

    "Twice,

    and I never told either one," he exhaled deeply. "One was an officer I
    served with and the other was the wife of a good friend. I've made all
    kinds of excuses for my cowardice and I regret them all. You are doing
    better with this than I was. Better yet, they give a damn about you."

    That

    was it for us. For once, I didn't feel uncomfortable with the silence.
    We found Roni and Paisley in Silent's room. Roni was currently working
    on Kuiko and even kept her seated when Kuiko tried to get up and come to
    me as I entered the room. I looked from Kuiko to Silent.

    "She's

    lucky," Roni answered my visual inquiry. "Five wounds. Nothing life
    threatening. Her armored vest saved her life, that's for sure."

    "So, who are you going to sleep with?" Roni asked.

    "How big is the bed?" I requested.

    "Queen-sized," was the answer.

    "Do you think anyone would be too pissed if I asked Capri?" I inquired.

    "I don't see a problem," Roni smiled. Kuiko lowered her eyes and looked sad.

    "Is Kuiko okay?" I questioned.

    "She's fine," Roni teased. In some ways, Roni understood the undercurrents of my humor.

    "Are

    you coming, Kuiko?" I looked at her. "I did say I wanted a hot, sexy,
    exotic troll sleeping with me tonight. You still game?"

    She almost bowled me over, she jumped on me so fast.

    "I

    take that to be a 'yes'," Paisley remarked. I took my best buddy and
    went hunting for the room I had been gifted with. No one took my request
    for Capri poorly and the three of us crawled under the covers together.

    The lights were out, all movement had ceased and I was fading into sleep. My old nemesis: proximity was crumbling under the rollercoaster of motions and fatigue.

    "Kuiko, I'm going to lick his nipple," Capri whispered. "You game?"

    "Can I?" Kuiko pleaded. I wasn't sure who she was asking. I'd like to assume it was me.

    I

    groaned. Capri snuggled up against me and she felt out my left nipple
    in the darkness. Her tongue quickly followed. Kuiko was a few fingers
    behind her. I groaned again.

    "Do you think a little lesbian action will get him turned on?" Capri giggled. "Up for it?"

    "Okay," Kuiko chirped. I rolled over onto my stomach and started weeping into my pillow.

    "That's

    okay, Israel," Capri murmured, "We'll stop this time, but don't ever be
    mean to us again, or the sexual taunts and innuendo will be much, much
    worse."

    I sobbed.

    "Good boy."

    They left me alone after that.

    Past Midnight:

    In

    hindsight, it was stupidly easy to find me, if you knew what to look
    for. In this case, all they needed to know, were the names of the
    occupants of my apartment Wednesday morning and the names and home
    addresses of their closest acquaintances. Everyone on the list had
    either deactivated their phone and personal computer, or was easily
    locatable in the city ~ except Jethro MacFarlane. A small, stealth drone
    fly-over scanning for infra-red signatures suggested a huge number of
    houseguests. A special 'ping' (courtesy of a blood transfusion a few
    days earlier) verified I was on the premises.

    There

    were several hiccups between our visitors rolling off the highway and
    saying 'hello.’ Jethro had a number of sensors on his property to make
    him aware of unwanted trespassers, as we'd witnessed with Flame's and
    Silent's arrival. Neutralizing them took about five minutes. Figuring
    out his place was an architectural jigsaw puzzle was another seven
    minutes in the planning and implementation phase.

    Their

    prime mission was locating my body within the domicile. Their secondary
    concern was the copious amount of firearms they were discovering around
    the locale through the use of magnetic sensors. In their favor, they
    had been chosen time and time again for being innovative, highly
    adaptive, clever and courageous.

    "Israel," a female voice whispered to me. "Capri and Kuiko, is it?"

    I awoke, swallowing my heart. A slumbering Kuiko mumbled something. Capri was far more alert. She quickly rose up on her elbows.

    "What the; Jen? What the fuck are you doing here?" she hissed to the newcomer.

    "Jen?"

    I focused. "Ah; everyone here is friendly. Let me contact the others
    before something goes wrong." If the Vanishers were inside Jethro's
    place, Jethro, Angel and Flame could still cause things to take a tragic
    twist.

    "We have discovered a few automatic rifles and an anti-air missile on site," Jen smiled. "Care to explain?"

    Judgement call time.

    "The

    homeowner is former MRA. He quit when they started killing
    non-governmental targets and has been sitting on the sidelines since
    then," I explained. "Also, there are two very recently-former mobster
    here as well; one badly banged up; plus one 'very-former' Metropolitan
    Police Officer; Angel Kristi."

    "Hey,"

    Kuiko tried to make sense of Jen, who was crouched at the foot of our
    bed. It was difficult to make her out clearly because she had a hood on
    and what I thought might be night-vision goggles raised up on her
    forehead. She was otherwise dressed in some drab camouflage-pattern
    combat dress and body armor, despite Jen being the Nasa member of the
    Vanisher team assigned to 'vanishing' me. She also had a sleekly-lethal
    looking weapon pointed at the ceiling. It was an ultra-modern,
    sound-suppressed death-dealer made for close-quarters fighting.

    "Hey," Jen nodded slightly. "I don't suppose you feel like departing with us now?" was aimed my way.

    "I've already got an exit plan I'm working on," I murmured.

    "How about Capri inform the rest of the house you have company then?" Jen grinned. "The rest should get off the main road."

    "Rest of you?" I gulped.

    "Okay," Capri slid out of bed.

    "I'll go too," Kuiko offered.

    "No," Jen shook her head (to Kuiko). "Yes ~ rest of us ~ and I think we'd rather have 'Red' handle this,”

    "Because I'm a lawyer?" Capri guessed bitterly.

    "No; because you are level-headed," Jen snickered. "You are also short, so we can shoot over you if something bad happens."

    "Gee

    thanks," Capri snorted. As she headed for the door, Zara slipped into
    the room backward. She had a weapon similar to Jen's and a rifle slung
    over her back.

    "Brandi

    will be sticking with her," Jen informed me. Zara remained by the door,
    scanning for outside threats. Providence was kind, though Flame
    insisted I come by before she exited her room. Jethro was, I couldn't
    say if he was confused, or humbled. He'd come face to face with Special
    Forces troopers and been overwhelmed in his own home. A quick look at me
    confirmed I'd told them the most pertinent details.

    When

    the Vanisher Team Leader, Casper, showed up, she and another member
    took Jethro aside for a brief chat. I wanted to tag along. They wouldn't
    allow it. I was rather surprised when they returned because he seemed
    rather upbeat (and alive). Her pronouncement was he could keep his guns.
    If he pointed any of them at me, or the other guys, they'd kill him and
    he'd agreed to the 'deal.’ I was thinking 'other guys?'

    Fifteen

    minutes after being awoken, I was part of the pow-wow between what was
    now 'my' group, the Vanishers and Jethro. Angel, Flame and Capri wanted
    to be with me. 'Captain' Casper nixed that idea. I could have one and
    only one. She had one lady; her cell's 'Intelligence' Officer; Wendy
    (later to be known as 'The Good Witch'). Jethro was part of the
    discussion because he was a combat veteran, the homeowner and had
    specifics on the arms stockpile they were sitting on.

    I

    thought it over. I chose Flame. Angel was disappointed. Capri was
    contemplative over me picking the psycho. She got it quickly. I hadn't
    picked the sick-fuck;
    I had picked the career criminal who might have knowledge the cop and
    very green lawyer might not possess. Both Flame and Jethro were likely
    to have any piece of obscure city lore as Angel, so I had that angle
    covered.

    The

    three guys: Pierre Thomas ~ 18 year old college freshman who played 6
    musical instruments, Barabbas Chebaya~ 22 year old plumber journeyman,
    and Lowry Pritchard ~ 23 year old unemployed artist or house-painter or
    man with a criminal record (anti-social juvenile antics). They all
    appeared bitter, sullen and were uncommunicative, except to let everyone
    know they thought Jethro's place was a dump and wanted to know when
    they would be moving to someplace safer.

    The

    last question was the reason for Casper's twelve women Vanisher team
    being in Jethro's house and their conference with myself, Flame and
    Jethro. Casper didn't beat around the bush.

    "We

    have an issue. The declaration of Martial Law has bollixed our planned
    exit strategy. We were going to appropriate local Federation Air Force
    Reserve resources, fly to an unused, closed military base to the
    southwest and take other transport from there with the eventual goal of
    meeting with our larger command."

    "Now

    that is no longer possible. Frank; Mr. Jensen; Truman, Brandi and Jen
    seem to believe you have developed an alternate, independent escape
    scenario," she addressed me. Alternate and independent were polite ways of saying she suspected I had planned to escape from the Vanishers all along, which was almost true.

    My

    first plan had me using the Vanishers to leave our society, then
    abandoning them too. Later, I had figured out staying with them was the
    best bet for me and my friends to survive the upcoming calamity, so I'd
    left breadcrumbs for them to find me; namely my meeting with Francesca
    and my parting words with Dimples. I had figured we'd be having this
    'reunion' in Cody, not here, but I shouldn't have underestimated them,
    again.

    "Truman? Truman is Zara?"

    "Yeah," Casper nodded. "Truman is Zara."

    "Very

    well then, I have a medium-term solution. I was hoping Mr. MacFarlane
    would have the short-term solution to get us from the city outskirts to
    that destination. Jethro?"

    "Which way we headed?" he asked.

    "West."

    "Fancy

    that," he smiled. "Just so happens I know of a pre-Plague burgh west of
    here which is a ghost town now. There is an old ferry there which
    should get us across the Mississippi," he confided. That should be the
    biggest issue: the river was utterly un-fordable and all the bridges
    would be monitored. How foresighted of him. Casper's nod appeared to be
    in agreement with me.

    "Power plant?" she inquired.

    "An

    old diesel I finished converting to bio-fuel around twenty years ago.
    I've kept it up since then, though I wouldn't put much faith in it being
    good for more than two, or three trips. The distillery I cobbled
    together for the fuel doesn't produce the necessary high octane and the
    lubricant isn't nearly adequate for something that powerful."

    "Jethro, why did you keep a ferry in working order?" I wondered.

    "It

    is the last thing the bitches would look for, if they ever came for me
    and I had the chance to bolt," he grinned. "Every route south and west
    is blocked by rivers. East is mostly open country and semi-automated
    agro-businesses. North is lake country ~ broken ground and so the most
    likely place I'd run to. They'd waste days there looking for me. By
    then, I'd have slipped west and hopefully be in the Rockies."

    "Okay. Where do we go from there?" Casper's gaze settled back on me.

    "The

    Silverhorn Ranch outside of Cody, Wyoming. My former boss in the
    Mayor's Office has a cousin who lives there. She will by trying to go
    there as well," I added, feeling somewhat guilty. By trying to save
    Francesca, I had risked the rest of us.

    "Have you ever been there?"

    "No," which implied I was running away to a place which might not exist.

    "Good. Have you seen a picture of it? A picture in your boss's office perhaps?"

    "No,

    not that I can recall. We never talked about our families. I didn't get
    the feeling they were terribly close, which was probably why Francesca
    brought it up. She's pretty smart too," I reasoned.

    "We are all probably betting our lives on that," Jethro remarked.

    "We

    are. Okay, Wyoming works for us," Casper didn't seem upset. "It is not
    impossible some other agency could track you there amongst the legion of
    other possibilities, in its favor, it is far away from here. There is
    only one other issue. Mr. MacFarlane; we need to deactivate your band."

    "How is that going to work?" he was deeply suspicious.

    "They

    kill you," I sighed, "then bring you back after inserting a Coroner's
    Code." It dawned on me the three guys the Vanishers had brought with
    them had already gone through that procedure. That would be another
    reason they were unhappy.

    "You don't say," Jethro studied Casper intently.

    "Jethro,

    it was done to me years ago. I'm sure they did it to the three guys
    outside (in the other room) tonight. They'd be doing it to me as well,
    except a riot cop did them the favor by blasting my bracelet at the M A L
    Rally two nights ago and I never had the opportunity to have it fixed,"
    I reasoned.

    "And just like that, I'm going to let you kill me?" his eyes flickered from me to Casper to Casper's companion.

    "Or you don't come with us," Casper offered.

    "Why don't we fry it, the way Israel's was by that riot cop?" he suggested.

    "It

    sends out an emergency distress call as it dies," I informed him. "The
    world may be in chaos, but can we really be certain the authorities
    won't send somebody out to investigate?"

    "And

    someone to investigate what happened to those people?" Casper added.
    Sure, we could kill, or kidnap the first band of First Responders. Then
    what?

    "Let me go talk it over with my girls," Jethro evaded.

    "Of

    course. No pressure, Mr. MacFarlane. We can afford to part ways after
    the ferry if you don't, but that is as far as I can risk my unit if your
    band stays active," she assured him. Jethro's eyes bore into my soul.

    "Fine,"

    he mumbled. Sure, the Vanishers could have been fooling me. It was
    Casper's genuine last minute compromise which won him over. I imagine
    placing his life in a woman's hands was the last thing he expected to do
    24 hours ago, yet here he was. "How are we going to do this?"

    "Not

    here," Casper gave a sly grin. "We let our vet take your vitals and
    make you comfortable first. We need to make sure you'll survive the
    process; we are looking at a 100% success rate to date."

    "Vet?" he gave a start.

    "Veterinarian," Casper smiled. "She's a trained combat paramedic too, but she's an honest-to-God Dr. of Veterinary Science."

    "I'm not sure that makes me feel better," Jethro grumbled.

    "She's also an explosive expert," I tossed out there.

    "Not helping," he frowned.

    "Oh,

    Casper, we can use Roni too. She's a paramedic with City Services, or
    was," I recalled. "Paisley is a college junior studying Biology,”

    "We'll

    go with the paramedic assisting," Casper nodded. Out we went. Casper
    whispered some communications to her crew then had Brandi brief Roni on
    the procedure they were about to subject Jethro too.

    After

    all the crap Roni had been through, putting a man into cardiac arrest
    hardly fazed her. Apparently they did it all the time; to large animals,
    like horses. Jethro calmed his lady-friends down, 'Daddy will be right
    back', then he lay down on the sofa. I took the time to get a count of
    the Vanishers; we had 12. Meanwhile, Flame had gone to Angel and
    exchange a few words. They did what I should have been doing; organizing
    'my side.’

    As

    it was, Angel stuck Venus with Flame to watch over things while she,
    Samantha and Lavender helped the Vanishers move stuff from their
    vehicles indoors. Capri, Kuiko, Aniqua and Paisley set up sleeping
    stations for our fifteen new houseguests.

    Brandi

    'killing' Jethro was rather anti-climactic. She injected him with
    something. Five minutes later, he closes his eyes, took one deep breath
    followed by several more stutter-breathes then Brandi pronounced him
    dead. Wendy had hooked up a wire feed to his bracelet from her laptop
    computer. She went through a countdown, sent a pre-set command then
    snipped his bracelet free. Brandi administered the shot to the heart
    followed by an electric jolt and we got our cantankerous old man back.

    "Fuck," he choked out. "Damn, that hurts."

    "How was Hell, Old Man?" Flame mocked him.

    "Busier

    than a Drag Bar during Fleet Week," he coughed. "I saw a few of your
    friends there, promised them you'd be seeing them real soon."

    "Ha,"

    Flame chuckled. She punched me. That brought an unnecessary and
    frightening number of reactions from the armed women around me. "Nope;
    you must have been delusional. Israel is still here and he's the only
    friend I got."

    "Please

    do not hit Israel again," Casper stated in a very tightly controlled
    voice. "We have barely avoided killing you twice already. Don't make
    'third time' the charm."

    "Oh!" Flame clued in. "The bitches from the bridge. Which one is the sniper?"

    "I

    will not point her out to you so we can avoid the pointless exchange of
    lead, Flame," I groaned as I rubbed my arm. "Take into account she has
    eleven exceedingly lethal friends while all you have is me."

    "Point,"

    she chortled. "I'll keep my eye out for the one who looks like she
    can't live another moment without your cock. It shouldn't take long."

    I stared at her, mouth agaip.

    "Just kidding. They all look like they want a piece of you."

    "Not

    helping!" I shouted back. Yes, I knew every member of the Vanisher team
    most likely had seen me both nude and having sex with other women. I
    didn't need to be reminded of it.

    I also caught the glance Wendy sent Casper's way.

    "I'm

    pretty sure her knowledge of criminal enterprises in the Midwest will
    come in real handy," I preempted them. I didn't want them killing Flame
    either.

    "Oh

    yeah. I know a mother-daughter team of smugglers who operate out of
    Cedar Rapids," Flame smiled broadly. "I figure they can get us across
    the Cedar and Iowa Rivers without drawing anyone's notice."

    "Why didn't you mention this when we were discussing our exit plans?" Casper glared at Flame.

    "I

    like him. I can barely tolerate the rest of you, and I'm sure the
    feeling is mutual. I figure I'd better carefully dole out the knowledge I
    have until the situation shakes out more to my advantage," Flame
    enlightened the Vanisher leader.

    I

    had known all those factors when I brought her to the meeting. Flame
    was clever and constantly at Little M's side, so what contacts the
    Keverich Crime Syndicate had, she was at least aware of. She simply came
    across as so carefree, brutal and brusque it was going to take time for
    the rest to appreciate her 'finer' or craftier qualities. I hoped I
    lived long enough to see it.

    It

    had been a long damn day, and with more stress than was remotely
    healthy for me given my multiple trips to the precipice of madness, yet I
    had one final duty to perform. I went to my fellow males and gathered
    them for what my gut told me was something important to discuss. The
    Hispanic Vanisher from the metro was hesitant about letting us take a
    stroll in Jethro's backyard.

    As

    I turned to leave, I caught the old man watching us head out. He gave
    me a nod. I needed the endorsement since I was burning up what little
    recovery my short nap had given me.

    "We are going out," I told the woman.

    "Why?"

    "Guy stuff," I told her. That didn't satisfy her curiosity. Her eyes flickered back into the room from whence we came.

    "Outside; us; alone," I insisted. I was struggling to sound firm.

    "Is that wise? The alone part."

    "Good point. Give me a gun," I gently extended my hand.

    "Do you even know how to use one?" she tried to hide her ridicule.

    "Yeah. Of course I do," I frowned.

    "Who

    taught you to shoot?" she interrogated me. Anger came to my rescue. I
    had only started by asking to take a damn stroll after all.

    "Experts, people really good at killing stuff," I evaded.

    "I don't recall reading about that in your file," she kept detaining us.

    "It

    was in my dreams, earlier this week, by Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph
    Daly, Company Sergeant-Major John R. Osborn and Colonel William O.
    Darby. All top notch fellas," I convincingly lied. PR training helps
    with that. Sadly,

    "William O. Darby was a Brigadier General," she corrected me.

    "Posthumously," I counter-corrected. "Miss,” was left hanging.

    "Wes Prince," she supplied her alias.

    "Yeah.

    He's a bit pissed about the belated promotion along with getting gakked
    two days before the enemy surrendered and having his training methods
    nearly discarded," I continued. "I am glad we both agree he was a
    decorated combatant and thus capable of passing on his Warrior's lore.
    Gun please." I motioned with my hand once more.

    She

    moved her P D W aside and drew her pistol before presenting into to me,
    ass first. Gingerly, I took it from her and pointed it toward the
    ceiling while examining it. First problem.

    "Where is the safety?" I inquired.

    "This

    model doesn't have one," Wes informed me. Sigh. I figured out the trick
    for dropping the magazine, examined it; yes, it had bullets, and then
    checked the chamber by pulling back on it slightly to verify it had a
    round in it. It did.

    I

    put the magazine back in. I made sure the firearm wasn't pointed at
    anyone as I lowered it from pointed up to only threatening Mother Earth.

    "Thank you," I gave Wes a weak smile. "Come on guys." She didn't move so I was forced to shoulder passed her.

    I

    stepped out into the cool night air. I hadn't realized how the hot and
    humid Jethro's lodging had become with all the people and the lack of
    internal air-conditioning. We walked away from the outdoor lighting
    beyond the wood line.

    "Hey guys. I'm Israel Jensen. I think there is something we need to get established right now."

    "Can I have the gun?" Lowry reached for it.

    "Do

    you have a clue how to use one?" I refused to flinch. We locked eyes.
    Instinctively my fist tightened around the pistol grip. I discovered
    there was truth to the mythology ~ holding a gun is its own kind of
    empowerment.

    I

    didn't think I was about to shoot Lowry. I did believe if he moved one
    more inch I was going to smash him upside his head with it though. He
    backed down.

    "Do you have any experience?" he sneered. "Actual experience?"

    "Yes.

    A lady inside showed me how to use one," I stated. "I'm sure if we all
    behave, we will all have a chance to gain some actual firearms'
    training."

    "Last

    time I saw a man use a gun, they murdered him," Barabbas pointed out.
    He meant Robert White, killed by a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics)
    sniper at the  M A L (Men's Action League) not so long ago.

    "These

    women are not those women," I insisted. I thought it best not to
    mention the Vanishers set off the bomb which instigated the riot that
    led to over a thousand deaths. "They are no longer part of their
    society."

    "So, the 'plague-thing' is real?" Lowry's face darkened in concern.

    "I'm

    convinced. I've seen samples and I know my blood holds the antivirals
    which counter-act this new Plague. That's peripheral to our current
    concerns. What matters is 'us' ~ we five guys. Actually, the old guy can
    take care of himself quite nicely. We four have to get with the
    program."

    "And

    that would be?" Lowry scowled. The problem I faced was the anti-social
    nature of every guy who had been selected to be 'vanished.’ Had we been
    happy members of society, we wouldn't have qualified and wouldn't have
    said 'yes' if asked to leave.

    "We

    need to let go of the bad crap which made us so we gave up on the Old
    Order," I began. "I was raped; twice. The second time, Campus Security
    wouldn't accept my complaint and if I had committed myself I would have
    lost my scholarship, so I struggled on alone. That second time, I was
    betrayed by my girlfriend to her sorority."

    Pause.

    "When I was fourteen, my sister, older sister had some friends over for a party," Pierre opened up. "Mom worked nights."

    "What did she give you?" Barabbas asked.

    "A

    Blazers hoodie, later, some new high-tops," Pierre smiled feebly. "I
    got to go to some NC-17 movies and a few outdoor concerts too."

    "Oh,"

    I nodded as did the others. That was the reality for most boys. We grew
    up with single mothers who had to work, so our care was often shared
    with other women; either older family members ~ aunts, or sisters ~ or
    neighbors who were virtually always women as well. We had to trust these
    women, and so did our Moms. And if something happened? Our families
    still had to live, go to school with and or work with those women and
    their female relatives.

    To be continued

    By FinalStand for Literotica

    1 hr 22 min

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