Chapter 01: His Story
Forbidden fruit is a joint writing effort with a promising new author, redhairedandfriendly. I'm writing here about his side of the experience. You'll definitely want to compare it to her side!
Note: To me, one of the sexiest and most terrifying moments with a woman I care for is touching her intimately for the first time. At one point, there's no turning back. I tried to put this experience into words in the first part of this little story. It starts out slowly as I work through the mental process. Be patient.
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I couldn't believe I was reaching to touch her breast. It was like falling; a moment's wrenching sensation followed by a feeling of weightlessness in which the world changes, but there is no feeling of movement, no feeling of control. I could hear the blood rushing in my ears. With something like alarm, I viewed my arm, and the hand at the end of that arm, as if they belonged to someone else. They belonged to someone much bolder, more straightforward, and maybe even rude.
Slowly but without hesitation, the hand opened, palm forward, and traversed the short distance from my body to Sue's. The fingers and palm curved to match their landing place, a puzzle piece shaped like the inside of a bra. They very gently came to rest, making delicate contact with all the areas of the hand at once; the palm where the nipple would be, if the nipple could be seen, the fingers on the gentle upward slope of Sue's generous breast, the thumb underneath where the bottom of the breast bowed outward, rounded under its own weight. Not her breast, really, but the snow-white ribbed surface of the turtleneck she was wearing. It was a blatant move, not like me at all.
There had been ample time for her to say "No. I'm spoken for," or "No, we shouldn't be doing this," or "No, I like you, but not in that way." I don't know whether I expected her to say one of those things, but instead, she said nothing. I didn't know her very well, but I was infatuated with her beauty. From the time I met her I could hardly keep my eyes from looking at her expressions, her face, her body, and especially her breasts. I knew she was aware of this β she had caught my admiring stare several times. She did nothing to discourage it and even sometimes smiled invitingly at me, or so I imagined. Was it a signal? An invitation? Politeness in an awkward moment? I didn't know.
We had hugged in social greeting on a couple of occasions and there was the slightest suspicion that she had applied a bit more pressure with her chest, had held the hug a bit longer than necessary, and had tried to make me aware of her breasts. Or was that fantasy on my part? Had it been me, pressing harder against her?
I had spent weeks, balanced exactly on the painful razor edge of uncertainty. At times I absolutely convinced myself that she was inviting me to something further. At times I absolutely convinced myself that it was all in my mind β that she would be shocked and offended if she knew what I was thinking. Yet no matter how convinced I was, each time I met her I was thrown once again into a quandary. As long as this was unresolved, all I could think of was her.
Now I was sitting on her couch next to her, closer than necessary, but not as close as boyfriend and girlfriend; the distance friends keep. There had been a conversation about something. The conversation had crumbled awkwardly into silence. My words stumbled and fell without meaning in pieces on the floor, an unfinished sentence about a thought not completely formed, like backward counting on the operating table. In mid-sentence, I thought, "What was I saying? How did my speaking stop?" The penetrating look in her beautiful eyes stabbed me to the core, shoving a splinter deep into my heart. While my brain was thus disengaged, trying to understand this weird moment, the hand launched itself uncontrolled toward Sue's chest. It had its own mind about such things.
In the silence as my hand crossed the intervening space, her expression changed. How shall I describe it? Her eyes uncoupled. She didn't look at the self-controlled hand. She had been looking at my face with her bright eyes, and then they drifted, focused on something thousands of miles away in the direction of my ear. The smile that had danced on her lips began to disappear, her jaw slackening. It was as if her mind and being had left her face entirely. Had migrated downward into that breast, so that all her consciousness was waiting there under that ribbed cotton, straining impatiently to experience every tingling delight of the hand that was approaching. Or perhaps she was collecting her thoughts during this brief moment of shock to voice the words, "How DARE you!" Neither of us breathed.
But then, as I made contact, her eyes widened slightly. She breathed deeply so that her chest swelled, pressing against the hand. Her eyes shut wincingly and her teeth came together, clenching. She looked to the ceiling as she leaned slightly forward, increasing the pressure, as if to verify the presence of my hand, a flag planted by an adventurer. Yes, the hand belonged to me again, because with the touch came feeling that connected it to me again. I became conscious of delightful things; warmth, firmness, size, and mass. How it was made to jut proudly from the chest, designed to softly bump into things, to make itself available to venturesome hands like mine.
I yielded slightly so that my fingers could explore this treasure. I very gently brushed my fingers over the surface of the breast, savoring its roundness and delicious curves. The fingers very gently stroked the upper surface of the breast, feeling what? -- A trace of lace under the surface of the ribbing. The thumb gently pressed into the weighty flesh at the bottom of the breast. My hand made small, slow circles, the palm seeking and eventually finding the merest suggestion of a nipple under the layers of cotton turtleneck and bra. I rubbed and caressed and explored the entire surface as we both watched until I had touched every part several times.
In acceptance she raised her arms from her sides and placed them palms-down above her long red hair and showed me the trace of a smile, thus inviting further explorations. My heart thundered and I could not swallow. I slid from my position on the couch so that one knee almost touched the ground, leaning outward, so that I almost faced her. This placed my other hand in a position to gain access to her other breast. She looked down, smiling sweetly, and her eyes sparkled. I felt myself gently smile in return.
An affair starts with a kiss according to the clichΓ©, but my hand with its own ideas had gotten things out of order. My right hand spent only a moment on her left breast, establishing its right to be there, pausing only long enough to verify that the swelling of both nipples under those contemptible layers of material was real. Then I reached with that right hand and caressed her neck. As the palm of my hand made contact with the side of her neck she pressed back against it while mashing her breast forcefully into my other exploring hand. I rose above her and first kissed her upturned, welcoming lips.
Another clichΓ© is that the first kiss is urgent and violent, as if the bars on the cages at a zoo had suddenly broken open and angry, unfed wild animals were suddenly allowed to escape. It was not like that at all. Almost like the hand, but this time with full consciousness, my lips descended to greet hers. As I felt the first brush of her parted lips, I pulled her head toward mine and pressed my lips gently and completely against hers. Relenting a little, I tasted her lips with the tip of my tongue. Her lips rose to press against mine, opening our mouths in full greeting.
At the moment of this connection, our internal rhythms linked. Our mouths spoke the silent language of two as our lips pressed and our heads swayed like tulips in the spring breeze. As she moaned a deep hum, I felt the hot breath from her nose on my cheek, and felt the vibration in the hollow of our joined mouths, like chanting in an empty cathedral. She produced slight, pleading little hums as we kissed for a very long time, passionately, but not violently.