XXI
Occasionally, Emma and Charlotte would meet together after work at a naturist cafe a short walk from their flat. It was not a particularly large cafe, and Charlotte often found it a little too cool for wearing no clothes, but it was a very intimate place and Charlotte enjoyed sitting with Emma just holding her hands and sometimes gazing into her beautiful eyes. Sometimes, the clientele were entertained by a musician who would sit naked on a chair playing a guitar and singing. Sometimes he might be accompanied by a woman who would stand naked beside him and sing along with him. More usually, however, the only entertainment was a panel of televisions tuned into a naturist television station and that was the case tonight. The sound was usually turned down so there would only be the visuals to be enjoyed, and these were not generally informative in the case of soap operas or comedies.
Emma was so much sadder these days. Charlotte knew why, but she still hoped that she would forget her obsession with Maisie and focus her love more on the one who was sitting next to her and who would do anything (whatever it might be) for her. Of course, she'd hope that Emma wouldn't mind sharing her with Josephine, but after all she'd become accustomed to sharing Emma with so many others! Emma however hardly ever touched on the subject. For her, there was nothing to discuss with Charlotte about personal relationships. Indeed she'd usually discuss quite neutral matters of interest or some of the productions she was organising at the Cable Television Station.
The two drank only a little beer before making their way home to the flat, with Charlotte thinking only of making love to Emma and holding her naked body as close to her own as she could and still manage to walk together. When they got to their flat and had opened the door, Emma no longer called out for Maisie as she used to do, as it would only remind her that she was probably at that moment enjoying close intimacy with Susan, and possibly Josephine. They wandered into the living room where the stereo was broadcasting some of the saccharine pop music that Maisie enjoyed but there was no one there listening.
"They're probably all in your bed again," sniffed Emma. Charlotte smiled. She'd have Emma to herself tonight.
But when she opened her bedroom door she saw no sign of any people or any of the disarray of sheets that accompanied lovemaking. However she heard voices coming from Emma's bedroom. That was most unusual. Susan and Maisie usually never made love in Emma's bed unless Emma were there.
Charlotte wandered over to Emma's room where Josephine, Maisie and Susan were spread out naked together on the bed. Emma sat on an armchair by the side of the bed. Maisie was talking quite earnestly to Emma and her lover was looking distinctly uncomfortable. "It's silly. Josephine loves Charlotte. Charlotte loves you and Josephine. Susan loves Charlotte, but Charlotte isn't so bothered. You love me. And I love you. But I love Susan too. It's too complicated and it's very upsetting." Maisie put her arm around Susan who inclined her head onto Maisie's shoulder. "So Susan said to me that she didn't like how sad you were getting and that she'd rather not sleep with me, so that I could sleep with you every night like we used to. But Josephine said that Charlotte won't like that because she likes sleeping with you. Isn't that so Charlotte?"
Charlotte nodded. This was peculiar perspicacity coming from the teenager.
"So what are you saying, Maisie?" asked Emma.
"Well, I want to make love to everyone," announced Maisie. "I want to make love with Susan, my best friend. I want to make love to you. I want to make love with Josephine. And I'd like to make love to Charlotte, who I've never made love to."
"So," continued Josephine, "Susan and Maisie thought that there ought to be less jealousy and envy and that everyone should sleep with everyone else every night. Then if I want to have sex with Charlotte I can. And if you want to make love with Maisie you can. And if Susan wants to make love to both Maisie and Charlotte then she can. And the way to do that is to put both the beds together to make one big bed."
"How are we going to do that?" wondered Emma.
"We simply move Charlotte's bed in here, and move some of your furniture into her bedroom and then everything's fine," announced Maisie triumphantly.
There was a lot more discussion on the various aspects of such a new arrangement, but it was difficult to argue with it's essential fairness so before long the girls started moving beds and furniture around the flat. After a while the exhausted girls were lying together on a pair of double-beds that was nearly twelve feet across, and crammed out all remaining space in Emma's bedroom. Maisie seemed particularly tired as she laid her head down on Emma's lap while Emma stroked her hair. Susan and Josephine sat by Charlotte who lay on her back looking at the light-shade and considered the implications of the new arrangement. The aspect which most concerned her was that although everyone had made love with everyone else, she had not in fact ever made love to Maisie. She'd always been reluctant to share Emma' lover, but now she'd found herself in effect agreeing to it. Was she wise to have done so?
She felt a third body creep up between her legs and apply a tongue to her vulva. Charlotte lifted her head up to see who it was, half-expecting to see that it was Maisie, and consequently not being so surprised when she found out that it was. Maisie had clearly been thinking the same thing, and was now wanting to find out what Charlotte's body tasted like. She put her tongue deep inside Charlotte's vagina and then traced it around her clitoris. Charlotte lifted herself up to have a look at what Maisie was doing, while Susan and Josephine discreetly detached themselves from her and climbed over the mattresses towards Emma who was now sitting alone.
Maisie swivelled her body around with Charlotte beneath her, such that Charlotte's mouth was on Maisie's crotch. She'd never looked so closely at her crotch before. It was undeniably beautiful. She leant forwards to nuzzle it with her nose, but she wasn't sufficiently supple to apply any more of her face to it. So she contented herself with stroking it with her fingers and exploring its contours. Just as she was beginning to feel comfortable with this, she was joined by Emma who, joining in the spirit of sharing, pulled her face up to Charlotte's and applied her tongue to Maisie's anus and the base of her vagina.
And then all became lost in a mass of bodies as all five girls bundled in. At any one time Charlotte might be addressing the flat breasts of Susan or the fuller ones of Josephine. She'd be licking Maisie's crotch or Emma's much hairier one. And at some stage she felt the familiar sensation of a large object entering her vagina. She looked round to see who it was, and it was in fact Maisie who was dwarfed by the dimensions of the dildo she had strapped around her waist and thrust in and out of Charlotte's cunt. Maisie had clearly had some practice in this, but was by no means the expert that Susan was when it was her time to ply the dildo into her.
The evening continued as a mêlée of bodies, which eventually calmed down and the five girls lined themselves up underneath the sheets. Charlotte had Susan on one side of her and Maisie on the other. Then beyond Maisie were Emma and Josephine locked together in an embrace with Josephine just above Emma complaining about the roughness with which Emma had been exercising her body.
Charlotte luxuriated in the warmth of the two bodies on either side of her, and contemplated whether this arrangement would, in any way, make everyone so much happier. It seemed to make Maisie and Susan happier, but Charlotte knew that Emma and she were quite different people. She felt that part of the joy of love was in fact the very exclusivity which this new arrangement was so actively denying.
"It's alright for you, Charlotte, because you're a lesbian," Maisie was saying a few days later. She was sitting naked on the rug in front of the television, facing Emma, Charlotte and Susan who were sitting with their arms around each other on the sofa. "And it's alright for you, Emma, because you don't like men. And you get it all the time in your job, Susan. But I just don't get anything!"
"I still don't see what you want to make love to a boy for," continued Emma, who was visibly distressed at the idea of her Maisie being fucked by anything so vulgar. "You've got the three of us: and Josephine when she's here. We make love almost every night. Why do you want more?"
"Because it's natural. Because it's what girls are meant to do. Because it's what all my friends do. It's not fair! Just because you don't like it, you think I shouldn't have it myself. I want to be fucked properly. I'm still a virgin, and none of my friends are."
"That's only what they say, Maisie dear," said Susan reassuringly. "Girls will always boast about how much sex they've had. You know, I wasn't fucked until I was nearly fifteen years old. But I used to tell everyone I'd been fucking. And I didn't enjoy it at all at first."
