[Author's Note: This chapter is part of an ongoing saga of a young woman uncovering the mystery of her family's past. This chapter contains spoilers for those who have not read earlier chapters. If continuity is important to you, it's highly recommended that you read the earlier chapters before this one. Otherwise, please enjoy.]
Chapter 12 - London Bridge is Falling Down
"Hello?" I heard Tracy's voice.
"Hi Tracy," I said. "It's Shannon."
"Hi Shannon," her voice was flat and unemotional. I must have really pissed her off somehow.
"I, um," I hesitated. I didn't know exactly what to say, since I didn't know what I'd done wrong. "I just wanted to apologize..."
"You do? For what?" Now Tracy's voice sounded surprised.
"Well, I got the feeling that I upset you earlier, somehow," I said. Then, in a quiet, meek voice, "Or, maybe, um, I wasn't that good of a lover."
"Oh Shannon, of course you didn't upset me," Tracy said. "In fact, I think I should apologize to
you
. I guess I let my frustration get the better of me."
I breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank God,
I thought.
At least she doesn't think that I'm a lousy lay-
"And don't worry about the sex," she said, breaking into my thoughts. "Everyone's first time is a disappointment, right?"
I felt my heart leap into my throat. I tried swallowing, but it was difficult. "Oh, uh, yeah, I guess so," I sputtered, trying to sound nonchalant.
"Don't worry about it, sweetie," she said. "You'll get better in time."
I drove in stunned silence, unable to respond to her. This was a complete shock to me. I had thought that the sex had been incredible. We both had had mind-blowing orgasms. I had taken all but a couple of inches of the dildo on my first try! She had come all over my mouth.
Not only did it not make sense, but it didn't seem
fair
.
"At least you were able to make a couple mistakes before you tried it with a real boy, right?" she asked. "Can you imagine what
that
would be like, before you had a chance to practice more?"
The hairs stood up on the back of my neck. "Well, actually," I said slowly.
"Wait, Shannon, did you just do the nasty with some boy?" Tracy asked. I could hear the surprise in her voice. There was a sing-song quality to it.
"Yeah," I admitted. All of a sudden I wasn't sure that I really wanted to tell her anything. Obviously, she thought I hadn't been ready yet, and she was concerned I was going to be a terrible fuck.
"He seemed to enjoy it," I said, somewhat defensively.
I heard a chuckle come through the line. "Well, of
course
he did," Tracy laughed. "It's like pushing a button, it's so easy."
My pride in my accomplishment vanished. Still, I felt a need to justify myself somehow. "He came hard," I said. "And a lot."
"Ah, yes," Tracy said, and it sounded like she was remembering past times. "The energy of a young man. Wait, it
was
a young man, right? I mean, you didn't go out and have sex with some strange old guy, did you?"
Shocked, I reacted with a stronger response than I probably intended. "Of course not!"
She laughed even harder. "Hey, don't knock it!" she said. "When I was your age, I had lots of experience with older men. There are some bar bathrooms that could tell you pretty racy stories about me!"
With that, she started giggling. I wasn't laughing, however. "He's just a guy in my grade from my school," I said, annoyed.
"At least you got a little more experience, then," Tracy said. "Good for you. What was it, a blow job? Hand job? Did you
fuck
him?" She drew the last sentence out in a slow, lascivious drawl.
"Yes, yes, and yes," I said, defiantly. "He came all over my chest, and then he went down on me until I came."
There. I said it. Even after I did, though, I felt petulant and bratty. This wasn't the conversation I had wanted to have, and she didn't sound impressed at all.
"He ate you out?" she asked.
Now
she sounded impressed. "Well, he's definitely a keeper. Well, he is if he's not just looking to brag to his friends."
That got my attention. I hadn't really thought about the social consequences of what we had done. "I don't think that he will," I said, trying to pass it off as a non-issue. "He's not like that."
At least, I
thought
he wasn't like that.
I thought about Andrew and his home life, about how he never hung around after school or buddied around with friends that I could see. He seemed like a boy who carried a burden with each step, and I simply couldn't imagine that he would do something like that.
"Oh, honey," Tracy said sympathetically. "Of course he isn't. Until he is."
"He's a new kid at school," I argued. "He just moved here about a month ago. He's a military brat, and doesn't have any friends yet."
"Oh, so he couldn't use this to start
making
friends?" Tracy suggested. "This wouldn't improve his status in school?"
I hadn't thought of that. My heart sank.
"Look, sweetie," Tracy said, trying to soothe me. "I'm not saying he will do that. All I'm saying is that someone like you, with certain...
challenges
... really needs to make sure that you've got a reason for someone to stick around."
Challenges? What the
fuck
did she mean? Did she mean my tits? I thought she loved my tits! I couldn't think of what else she could mean.
"So that's okay," she said, sounding like she was trying to reassure me. "If he really did have a good time - and you could be right, he
may
have - then he'll probably want to do it again, right? So, if you play your cards right, you may get another chance, maybe."
Doubt flooded over me. Now I had no idea what could be going through Andrew's head. Could he have been asking me to leave right afterwards because he wanted me gone? Could he have been lying about his parents coming home?
"Yeah, I- I guess so," I agreed.
"Okay, so he came on your chest," Tracy said, returning to the subject I originally wanted to talk about. "Tell me more."
A flicker of the flame of pride came back to life at that. "It was incredible," I said. "I had him in my pussy but we didn't have a condom so he came on my tits."
I felt a warm feeling growing in my stomach as I remembered pulling him out of my cunt and feeling the rush of his ejaculation through the skin of his penis with my hand. I wanted to feel that again, along with the splash of liquid on my chest. My nipples wanted to feel the hot fluid as well, and I wondered if I could get him to shoot on one, and then the other. Could he shoot as many times again?
"Oh, that's hot," Tracy said, and I loved her approval. "Was it his idea to come on your tits?"
"No, it was mine," I said. "I wanted to watch him come. I've never seen that before - not in real life, anyway - and I really wanted to watch him shoot."
"Oh," Tracy said, and instantly I knew something was wrong.