What was I doing 9 and a half years ago, you ask? Well.. I had just gotten married and graduated college, I was moving halfway across the country to start a new job, and... oh yeah. I started writing this series. And now, here it is – the last chapter of Brad's Road Trip. Huge credit to my editor, AnInsatiableReader, not just for this chapter but for all of them, dating back to Chapter 5. There's a joke about how people want to eat sausage, but no one wants to see how it's made – trust me, if you saw the first drafts I've sent to her over the years, you'd quit reading altogether. Also, thanks to my beta reader, samuraisan, not only for beta reading these last two chapters, but keeping me sane.
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I woke on my back and felt a warm, wet sensation on my earlobe, with fingertips brushing lightly across my chest. I opened my eyes to find Kelly lying next to me, gloriously naked in the morning sunlight. She trailed kisses from my ear down to my shoulder, and her fingers made slow circles, moving closer and closer to my crotch with every pass. My left arm was stretched out behind her, and it just took a slight movement to put it on her lower back.
"This is real, right?" she asked, looking up at me with her big brown doe eyes. "We're not dreaming?"
"My dreams have never been this amazing," I said, moving my right arm across my body to stroke her hip. "So yeah, it's real."
Her hand reached down and rubbed my cock, already mostly hard from a combination of normal morning wood and the attention she'd been giving me even as I slept. When it was at full salute, she swung her left leg across me and climbed on top. We both groaned as I slid deep inside her once more.
We weren't fucking or simply having sex. Even making love wasn't a strong enough term for it. There was nothing aggressive or overtly desperate about our motions – she slowly rocked herself back and forth on me, and I occasionally lifted my hips up to give her a different angle. We kissed pretty much the entire time, and when our lips needed a break, we were content just to stare into each other's eyes. My gaze was so intense that she blushed and looked down at one point.
"The way you look at me..." she said, trailing off. She went another minute or two before finishing. "It just turns me into jelly."
We came together a few moments later, moaning into each other's mouths. I wrapped her up tight and held her against my chest as she spasmed around me. The sights and sounds of this beautiful woman cumming were almost enough to make me cum again.
After a few minutes of post-orgasmic bliss, she shifted her weight to the side, and I reluctantly loosened my grip so she could roll off. She nestled into my chest again, and we lay there in silence for a few moments.
"So my sophomore year of high school, my family decided to take in an exchange student," she said. "Her name was Alyssa, and she grew up in Melbourne, Australia. She was extremely smart, plenty attractive, and she got along well with everyone, but that was just how she acted at school. When she came home she was moody, withdrawn and borderline depressed."
I ran my fingertips along her shoulder and arm as she spoke.
"It didn't take us long to figure out she was homesick," she continued. "We looked up recipes online and tried to make her authentic Australian food, and she always thanked my mom for the effort, but it didn't seem to make it better. We asked her about her hobbies, but she lived near the ocean and almost all of them related to being on the beach and in the water, and that's difficult up here in Idaho."
"I took Spanish in high school, and my teacher gave me the idea of learning to speak with an Australian accent. Alyssa talked to her parents a few times a week, but my teacher thought if she heard it from me every day, she might feel a little more at home. My dad and I watched Crocodile Dundee like seven times, and I practiced for a couple weeks before I tried it out on her."
She snickered against my chest.
"I was fucking awful at first," she laughed. "I was so bad that she couldn't help but laugh at me, but it was one of the first times I'd seen her happy at the house, so I kept trying. Eventually she started helping me, and the better I got at it, the better friends we became. We started talking to each other in the Australian accent at school, or when we went to the mall together."
"She went home the next summer, and my family flew over with her. Obviously, everybody there has the accent, so I got to hear a million examples of what it was supposed to sound like. I was doing it really well, but not quite perfect, so she and I worked on it some more for the two weeks I was there. Before we left, we spent four or five hours with her friends on the beach, and she didn't tell anyone I was American until it was time to leave. They were all stunned. They'd talked to Americans before, but none of them had the accent down the way I did."
"She's still one of my best friends, and I miss her terribly. We keep in touch to this day, mostly on e-mail, but we mix in the occasional phone call. When I decided I was going to disguise my voice and come down and meet you, I called her immediately. We spent a few hours on the phone practicing, making sure I hadn't lost my touch."
"Well, I don't have a ton of experience talking to native Australians," I said. "But you had me fooled. I never questioned it."
She slipped back into her Australian accent for effect. "It was so hard to stay in character all day. You found a hundred sensitive spots on my body, with your kisses and your massage, most of which I didn't even know I had. Every time I moaned, I had to remember to use the accent."
"I love your voice," I said. "Both of them, really."
"It'll be like two different women. Sometimes I'll be Nicole," she said using the accent, then switched to her normal voice to finish, "and sometimes, I'll be Kelly."
"No," I countered. "Kelly, you are the perfect woman for me. Just the way you are. When I saw you that day, I realized immediately that if I could build a woman from scratch, customizing every detail to my liking, you were it. The only thing that threw me off was the accent."
She stayed quiet, so I kept going.
"Kelly, Nicole was great. I fell for her. I fell for her so hard I was legitimately worried how I was going to tell you about her. Now I know why. But you heard what I said at the end of that night, baby. I love my girlfriend, Kelly, and that's you, right down to the voice that's been driving me wild for the past few weeks. I don't want you to be anyone else."
"Oh my God," she said, burying her face in my chest as the waterworks started. "I love you too, Brad. I know we just met two days ago, and we've been talking for just a couple weeks, but I'm so hopelessly head over heels for you."
Even though I knew they were happy tears, it caused me actual physical pain to see and hear her crying. Luckily, I had a solution.
"Kiss me, beautiful," I said, lightly tugging on her hair to get her to look up. She offered me her lips and I claimed them greedily for a few minutes before she lay back down on my chest.