A quick response to comments: thanks for all those who have posted comments and those who have commented anonymously! Hopefully this story will continue to improve to your liking.
And Star Wars nerd moment, in response to one comment: Yavin was indeed the name of the red gas giant in Episode IV, but Yavin IV was the name of the forest moon on which the rebel base was located. Dantooine was the planet where Princess Leia told Tarkin the current rebel base was, but it was actually the site of an abandoned base. In any event it doesn't really matter, because this story takes place in a different time frame.
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Chapter 10 – The Upper Hand
The first chime of the comm console sounded as if it had just passed through a dense fog, muffled and distant. The second chime was louder, more distinct. The third sounded as if it were right in the next room.
Slowly and rather reluctantly, Jacen opened his eyes. His first instinct was to glance over at the chronometer sitting on the bedside table. It was early, but he still had a several hours of sleep left before he needed to get up. It was a weekend and there were no classes scheduled, but he had decided prior to leaving for Yavin IV to regularly attend the voluntary hand-to-hand combat courses held on weekends. Despite his overall physical exhaustion, Jacen was determined to hold true to his decision. He looked across the room and noticed that the comm was blank, realizing that he was in Eryn's bed. He could hear the message system kicking in on his comm across the hall, and momentarily considered getting up to check it. He decided not to, however, when Eryn stirred beside him and reached one arm across his chest, pulling herself closer to him.
"Mmmm," Eryn groaned groggily. "What is it?"
Jacen pulled her close and let her rest her head on his shoulder.
"Nothing babe, just someone on the comm. I'll check on it later."
"'Kay," she sighed, as she drifted back to sleep.
She shifted some as she snuggled up against him, and he couldn't help but notice that both of them were still sticky. She had basically crawled onto him and gone to sleep after they had finished masturbating together, so both of them were still covered with a layer of come. As he closed his eyes and went back to sleep, he made a note to himself to shower before he went to classes that day.
A few hours later, Jacen tapped the off button on Eryn's chronometer alarm and pulled himself out of bed, careful not to disturb the young woman sleeping beside him. He paused for a moment to look at her, resting peacefully. Her arms were drawn up above her head, causing her smooth, firm breasts to point straight up toward the ceiling. She had her sheet pulled up just above her navel, but it was twisted around her legs so that everything below mid-thigh was visible. There was an inherent beauty about her, even as her chest and legs were streaked here and there with dried trails of fluid. He chuckled softly to himself and left the room, heading across the hall to his own bedroom.
Once there he sifted through his belongings, eventually pulling out some clothes that would be comfortable for his workout: a short-sleeved tunic, a pair of loose exercise pants, and a pair of soft boxers to go underneath. He headed back out into the hallway to get to the bathroom, but when he exited his room he found that Eryn, wearing only a towel, had somehow beaten him to it.
"Good morning sleepyhead," she greeted him cheerily, walking into the bathroom. "Looks like I get the shower first."
"Hey!" he exclaimed, "I need to get cleaned up before my class."
"Uh huh, well, I guess you'll just have to wait your turn!" she teased, sticking her tongue out before turning around.
With her back turned to him and the door open, she let the towel drop, treating him to a view of her smooth back and perfectly rounded ass while she leaned over the bathtub, adjusting the water temperature to her liking. Once she was satisfied, she stood back up and looked over her shoulder, nodding in the direction of the door. The door immediately swung shut, nudged along by the Force.
"Clever," Jacen grumbled, standing naked in the hallway. "Now what do I do? I could make myself some breakfast or something, but I really just need to get in the shower."
As if to rub it in even more, at that precise moment, Eryn began humming a tune in the shower.
"That's it!" he shouted through the door. "I need that shower, whether you're in it or not!"
"You wouldn't dare!" she shouted back, over the sound of the water.
"Watch me!"
Jacen pushed the door open and strolled into the bathroom, tossing his clothes on the counter as he whisked open the shower curtain.
"Jacen!" Eryn squealed, giggling, as she grabbed the curtain and tried to conceal herself, simultaneously blocking his access to the shower. "Get out of here! I'm naked!"
"Like that's ever stopped you!" he countered, wrapping his arms around her, trying to wrestle her out of his way.
Water splattered off of both of them as she wrestled back, squealing and laughing, until finally he got the upper hand and backed her to the far end of the shower, following her into the narrow stall. He pinned her to the wall, watching her squirm as the cold, wet tiles shot chills through her body. Eventually she let up completely and hugged him, laughing as water cascaded down on them.
"Oh, Jacen," she laughed, "I can't believe you did that! I... oohhh, somebody's awake."
She looked down in between them, where his penis was beginning to make its presence known, poking against her smooth stomach. She watched as it grew to its full erect length, as he backed away from her into the spray of the shower.
"Doesn't that thing ever need a break?" she asked.
"Yeah, after awhile," he told her, lathering up his body wash on his chest and arms. "I'm surprised I can still get it up, after the workout you gave it last night."
"I guess you're more resilient than you would think," she replied, watching Jacen's hands run over his own body as he cleaned himself off.
"Or maybe seeing you naked is just unbelievably exciting to me."
She bit her lip for a moment, eyes still drawn toward his penis.
"Something on your mind?" he asked, rinsing off his hair.
"Do you... I can't believe I'm going to ask this... can I touch it?"
"Isn't that against the rules?" he asked, secretly hoping that it wasn't.
"Well technically yes... but ... I want to. And I figure as long as nobody knows, it'll be okay with me."
"Well then the answer is yes," he told her. "By all means, yes – touch it."
Eryn reached out one hand – he thought he saw her trembling a bit – and gently curled her fingers around the shaft of his cock. Her grip was loose and cautious as she ran her hand up and down the shaft a bit.