Chapter 13
Sharing Memories
Later still, as we drove back to the motel I racked my brains for a way to avoid what I thought might be a depressing evening, worrying that the thought of our having to go our separate ways in the morning could end up ruining the few hours we had left together. Brian had been quiet too and must have been wrestling with the same problem as, just as we were about to turn into the motel he said.
'About this evening. I thought we might have dinner in our room again, if you don't mind, so we can just be together and talk - I'd like to share some of my earlier experiences with you. And perhaps you'd share some of yours with me. But only if that appeals to you of course.'
It was a brilliant idea. Talking would help to keep our mind off the morning, sharing was just what I wanted to do with him and re-living other times would hopefully get both of us feeling sexy!
'That appeals Brian - all of it.' I answered quickly.
His hand reached over and he squeezed my thigh. 'Good, one way or another we'll make it an evening to remember.' was all he said but I felt sure I knew exactly what thoughts were going on behind his words.
We shared the shower that evening and even though the recess was small and gave us little room to move, we managed a lot of intimate fondling as we helped each other to wash away the sand and salt our bodies had accumulated during the day. I put on the same little nightie I had worn the previous evening and so, after we had enjoyed a drink and ordered our meals, again disappeared into the bath-room when dinner was delivered.
We had talked and had a giggle about the day's events of course and were almost half-way through the beautifully grilled fish and side salads we had ordered as our main course when Brian said. 'That's only the second couple I've actually seen making love you know.'
'When was the other time?' I asked, thinking to myself, 'Ah, the evening's entertainment begins!'
'When I was just a bit over eighteen. I have a sister, a couple of years older than me, I saw her and her fiancΓ©e at it - I've never told that to anyone else.' he added.
'Tell me about it Brian.'
He remained quietly thoughtful for a few moments, then began. 'My parents had an old, two-storey, Victorian style house, large garden, big rooms with high ceilings and lots of moulded plaster- work, cornices and around the light fitting in the centre of each room too. You don't see many of those places left now they've all been pulled down to build apartment blocks. Well, as a little fellow I'd naturally enough explored the house from basement to attic and amongst other things, had found that there were spaces between the plaster that was around the lights, and that if I lifted some of the old, loose floor boards in the attic, I could see down into the upstairs corridor and also into some of the rooms, the larger bed-rooms.
I remember how excited I got when I first discovered I could see people without them knowing I was there, I felt sure it was wrong, almost dangerous and doing it made me feel incredibly wicked. There were a few times when I managed to catch a sight of my sister in her undies, when she was dressing but other than that it was mostly Mum making beds, dusting, the usual kind of things - but for a few weeks I'd disappear up to my secret world and watch whatever there was to see.
I got bored with it soon enough and for years I forgot all about it. Then, when I had just turned eighteen - and remember that at that age we were very different to your generation, getting a kiss from a girl was probably a bigger event than going to bed with one is for a guy today - anyway, at about that time my sister, who was then twenty, got engaged. He was a nice enough bloke, Mum and Dad both liked him and he made an effort to get on with me too - but I suppose seeing him with her, made me begin to think about my sister as a woman, rather than as just my sister. She had always seemed to me to be a bit of a prude, even for those days and the thought of her making love with this bloke, or anyone at all come to that, seemed odd.
Anyway, to get to the point, one Saturday, my parents had gone visiting someone, Alice, my sister and her fiancΓ©e, Charlie had gone down to the church to arrange the wedding details and when they came back obviously thought I had gone out too, that they had the house to themselves. In fact I had been lying in my room reading, heard them come in downstairs and for some, odd reason, kept quiet when Alice called out to see if I was in. I could hear the muffled sounds of them talking to each other but not what they were saying, then silence, then Alice making half-hearted protests and Charlie's deeper voice. Then I heard them coming upstairs. My bed-room door was ajar and I got off my bed and went and stood behind it so that when Alice looked into my room she wouldn't see me.
'I told you there was nobody home love.' Charlie said to her. 'Come on, we probably won't get another chance until after the wedding now and I want you so much love.'
I felt myself break out in a sweat, they were going to do it! And for some strange reason I suddenly remembered my spy-holes, upstairs in the attic, if I could get up there without making a sound, I could watch. Alice didn't say anything but as she took him into her bed-room and closed the door behind them I suppose she didn't really have to.