This is my first submission, even though it is part two of a potential three. It relates an encounter that is based in reality. This part begins after a heavy game of touch football, I realize that I am attracted to my tomboy friend, Christine, and the feeling is more than mutual. I hope you enjoy this installation, entitled : the bath.
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When I woke, I found myself in wholly unfamiliar terrain. I panicked for a moment, my senses telling me one thing while my mind rationalized my setting. My eyes saw a strange room, while my body told me I was in my own bed, but the light threw unfamiliar shadows against the wrong wall. I started, but caught myself when I realized what, or who, lay in my arms. Breathing quietly, snoring lightly, and pressed comfortably against me was Christine. At once I knew where I was. Immediately I knew what had happened, and I surrendered to it. Just a few hours ago, she had kissed me for the first time, and instead of fighting her like I thought I should have, instead of hiding in the "friend" cloak of lies that I had wrapped around myself, I succumbed to her lips, to the taste of her, to her heat and her passion, and to her willing body. I found myself in the arms of my best friend, sticky sweet in the afterglow of our lovemaking, sleepily content and more than a little shocked at the ferocity of our coupling. Her dining room table would never stand upright again. At the memory of our unexpected encounter just a few hours before, my body responded willingly and with renewed desire for the dark-haired beauty tucked against my chest.
While Chris slept, I crept quietly out from under the warmth of the sheets and her skin and into the bathroom. I turned on the water in the bathtub, stopped the drain, and let the tub fill, adding the bubble bath soap she kept on the shelf. I gathered the candles she kept around her apartment and filled every available flat surface in the bathroom with them. When the tub was filled, I tested the water to my satisfaction, lit the candles, and went back to the bedroom. Sliding under the sheets, I uncovered her naked, sleeping form and pulled her into my arms. Protesting drowsily, she wrapped an arm around my neck, facilitating my efforts to lift her from the bed and into the bathroom. I lowered her slowly to the water, and only when her skin touched the water did she open her eyes. By the time Chris knew what I was doing, I had her immersed to her breasts in the warm, soapy, bubbly water. She looked around the room, the only light from dozens of candles throwing a warm, firelight tone over the ceramic tile and porcelain. The look of mild shock on her face was replaced by a warm smile when she slid deeper into the water and looked me in the eyes.
I sat alongside the tub, and reached over to retrieve one of those springy things and an ample amount of liquid soap. Then, beginning with her left hand and working up her arm, I silently, but with a small and satisfied smile on my face, began to wash her skin in gentle, scrubbing motions. To my surprise, she said nothing. She let me scrub her skin clean of the sweat and dirt from the football game and the added sweat of our unexpected sexual encounter just a few hours ago. Once her arm was done, I moved to her other arm, up from the fingertips, over her wrist and to her shoulder. Dipping the springy thingy into the bubbly water, I drew her leg up and onto my lap, so she was reclined back in the tub. I scrubbed her toes, the sole of her foot, tickling the arch and over her heel. I washed long, slow paths to her knee and back to her foot, taking tender care over a bruise that had developed after the football game. I scrubbed slow circles over her hip, down her thigh, under her leg and back up again, teasing her with the motion of my hand as well as avoiding contact with her most sensitive of areas.
Finished with the left leg, I moved to take her right in my lap to continue the bath when Chris made a soft, whimpering tone I hadn't heard from her before. She nudged me in the stomach with her toes and pushed her hips toward my lingering hand. I smiled back, and asked her if she wanted to bathe herself or let me do it. Reluctantly, and with a small 'threat' characteristic of Chris, she relented and let me take her other leg in my lap. I repeated the same care and affection to her opposing leg as I did the first, careful to wash/ caress her thigh only so far, to let my fingers graze her skin only so high, before pulling back. When I stopped this time she started murmuring insults to my ancestral tree. I just laughed, then stood and slid into the bathtub behind her.