All characters appearing or mentioned in this story are 18 years old or older. This story is a work of fiction and any reference or description to actual persons is unintentional.
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Late April 1998
It's when you are really into something that you could miss the small things. As April started to wind down, I found myself very much freaking out for a meeting I had my uncle arrange for me at a tech company.
I was going to demonstrate a system that I'd devised for user input, but for some unknown reason, I decided that after the meeting was set to scrap all of my efforts and start again from scratch.
So now here I was, in my apartment, trying to solve a signal degradation issue for the last three days. This wasn't an issue with my old system so suffice it to say that I brought this on myself.
My last test came back much like the first twenty which just pushed me further into despair. But when you are at your lowest, there is nowhere to go but up.
It's a clichΓ© I know, but it's relevant; honest.
Resolving to try once more to fix this before reverting back to the old system, I start some tweaks. A knocking at my door startles me and misaligns the circuits I was working on. Great.
I answered the door and was, as you probably could guessed, pleasantly surprised to see Sarah standing on my porch.
Sarah was s senior like me, 18 years old, and one of the more intelligent people at Rancho Hills high school. We shared some engineering classes and partnered on a few projects this year for finals. She was involved in a bunch of other academic clubs and was rumored to have been accepted to Harvard when she was a sophomore. For all that though, why she was here was beyond me.
"Hi, Paul," she said brightly, "sorry to drop in unannounced but I had an idea I wanted your help with. Can I come in?"
"Sure," I said, motioning her inside. My place was recently cleaned because I had company the day before, so it wasn't too embarrassing. The smell of burning metal caught my attention though.
"Shit," I exclaimed. "Uh, have a seat, I'll be right back," I said as I rushed out of the living room. My soldering iron turned a pool of solder into many tiny rivers on my circuit board. Great. Now it's a total loss.
I turned off the equipment and opened a window. Returning to the living room I saw Sarah had seated herself on the couch.
She was taller than most woman I'd known, fit but curvy hips and bust, and wavy black shoulder length which was currently pulled up into two tight buns on the crown of her head. Her olive toned skin was the second most fascinating thing about her; it seemed she could wear any clothing and it matched perfectly. Currently she wore the button up white short sleeve shirt and plaid skirt I saw her in most often. I think it was from her old school which had a uniform. If it worked for her I was certainly glad she didn't feel the need to change, cause she looked awesome.
The first most fascinating thing about her was her eyes; a very rounded almond shape but narrower, with dark eye liner accentuating her dark brown eyes and the sharpness of her face. Beautiful was an accurate description. Exotically infatuating would be more apt.
"Sorry about that," I said as I sat down at the other end of the couch, "technical difficulties. Nothing to worry about."
She smiled politely at my comment. "No worries," she said. "Project not going well?"
"It's...progressing. Slowly," I admitted.
"Well, I'm not great with microelectronics but if you want to chat let me know."
"I will," I promised. "So, what is it I can help you with today?"
"In a word," she started, "efficiency."
This was not the word I was expecting. Or hoping for. Still, my white knight syndrome was in full swing so I plowed on.
"Can I have a few more words," I asked?
She smile wider, her eyes squinting at the corners telling me her amusement was genuine.
"I am on a fast track out of this town," she stated. "I am going to attend Harvard in the fall, but before then I have a million things I need to wrap up here. Projects, finals, club leadership handoffs, and more.
"And during all of this, stress starts building up and eventually I can't take it and I have a fit or something."
I grew somewhat concerned at this point. "Is there someone you can talk to or somewhere to go to decompress?" I offered.
She looked away. "Not really. I don't have time. But how it brought me to your house is kind of a happenstance and kind of an accident.
"You see, this morning I had too much to handle and I couldn't take it anymore. I broke down crying in one of the restrooms that no one uses. However, and this is the accident, Ashley came in to wash something off of her hands from the field."
Ashley; of course. Ashley is that kind of a person. Help first, question later. It's one of the things that attracted me to her.
"So there I am, on the floor crying, and Ashley sits next to me and just hugs me. Doesn't ask questions or ask if I'm OK, just comforts me. I must have cried for a half hour after that. When I calmed down, she asked me to tell her my problems and I did.
"She sat there the entire time, just letting me talk. It was wonderful what she did."
Yea, I thought. That sounds like something Ashley would do.
"Still," Sarah continued, "I didn't have any answers and eventually I got to the part of my asshole ex-boyfriend and the fact that I hadn't had any intimacy since I broke up with him months ago.
"Which leads us to the happenstance portion," Sarah said. She look back my way before continuing.
"Ashley mentioned that she had help from you the last few weeks in matters relating, shall we say, to creative stress relief? She didn't go into details but mentioned that if such a thing would help me, to come give you a call.
"Thinking about how much this stress has taken out of me, I decided to follow her advice. Since I didn't have your number I decided to drop by. And now you're caught up on how I came to be sitting in your surprisingly well appointed living room," she said, gazing around at my furnishings. It was way nicer than any other high school type apartment for sure. Amber helped me buy and decorate the furnishings for my birthday last January. That, however, is another story.
Considering Sarahs story, I didn't feel sorry for her, or pity her. Instead I had a want to help her if I could. Either I was growing as a person or Ashleys influence was rubbing off on me. Hopefully both.
"And so," Sarah continued, "If I can destress now and then until these things are taken care of, it'll be a big help. And that kind of help is what will make things go much smoother than they have been, hence the efficiency I spoke of. As per Ashleys recommendation, I have come to you in hopes of getting your help in getting...well...relaxed, to put it succinctly. " Sarahs cheeks reddened slightly, but her olive skin hid it well. Still, it was quite the request.
"I think I'd like to help you," I told her. "However, I'd like to know what, exactly, you expect and, frankly, what I can expect.
"And no, I'm not talking about sex per se, but if you just want someone to...I don't know...share an intimate shower with and lather each other up or just cuddle on the couch so you can vent, that would be something I am willing to do as well."
I could see her shoulders visibly relax at my suggestions. "It's nice to know that is an option," she admitted. "And perhaps some times that could be all I need. But Ashley was pretty insistent that what I needed was a good old fashioned tongue lashing, as she put it. And that you were quite capable of doing just that."
Well then, who am I to argue with Ashley?
Sarah scooted closer to my end of the couch, sitting next to me. She put her hand on thigh and I instinctively put my arm behind her head.
"I know this is sudden, but I also know you think I'm pretty, and I know you are handsome in that rugged way." Her hand moved further up my leg. "And I know that we can have fun together, which is a benefit for both of us.
Her voice lowered slightly. "And if it isn't clear yet, I am trying to seduce you. And from what I can tell, it's working really...is that your dick?" she exclaimed when she was half way up my thigh. I had been surreptitiously hiding my hard on but it was no longer possible with her hand right on it. "Holy shit, is that real?"
She continued feeling the length down my leg, squeezing it just to make sure it was real. "Holy crap," Sarah said, "Ashley didn't mention this bit."
And now I remember that Ashley liked surprises. Nice to know that she had a sense of humor as well. "She wanted it to be a surprise, I suppose," I told Sarah.
She looked me in the face, still squeezing my cock through my pants. "Now I'm sure we can have a lot of fun," she said.
"What, exactly, did Ashley want you to do with me," I asked.
Her hand still groping my cock, Sarah replied "She suggested I have you go down on me, and/or to ride your face. I assumed that sex was also on offer, but didn't know what I would have to work with." She gripped more firmly through my pants, the pressure added to the stiffness now starting to strain my pants in a painful way.
Trying to move things along, I asked "And what is it that you want?"