"It's my Uncle." She sobbed. "He's dead."
For the second time that day I ran my fingers through her hair and said soothing things into her ear. People were moving around us as we stood there. I could smell her hair. The smells of travel and sweat from her body. Feel her warmth. It was gentle and relaxing. Gradually she stopped crying and Her body relaxed. I could feel the softness of her breasts as they pressed into my chest then the gradual hardening of their points. They weren't the only things hardening. Her hips were touching mine and a slightly raised part of her lower anatomy was pressed hard against my groin. It felt soft and springy. It moved a little across my prick then back. She sighed gently.
"Do you feel all right, Conchita."
Somebody was asking. I could have answered she felt wonderful.
"Come with me." I opened my eyes and looked into Sister Hortencia's. "The men have work to do."
Conchita seem reluctant to move away from me and I didn't want her to go. Sister Hortencia placed her hand on her shoulder and almost pulled her from me. Conchita looked into my eyes, quickly down at my crotch then back into my eyes. She must have felt the stirrings of my prick.
I thought she was going to say something but all she did was smile and allow Sister Hortencia to lead her away. My eyes were drawn to her backside as she walked. To the lifting and dropping of her skirt as she moved.
"Right David." Alistair was standing by my side. "Go to that corner." He nodded towards a café whose large plate glass window lay shattered on the pavement in front of it. "You will be able to see in three directions from there. If you see anybody come back and tell us."
The two men we had picked up on the drive to Malaga were dragging the bodies of the dead men to the edge of the Quay and letting them slide over the edge into the sea. Some of the women were moving packing cases and boxes to the gates to form a barricade. The President was sitting in his car and starting the engine as I passed. He drove it to where his wife and my mother were kneeling beside my father. He waved to me as I looked towards him and my mother gave a weak smile.
I was on the main sea front road. I stopped and looked carefully around. I could see nothing. Apart from some gulls squawking overhead I could hear nothing. I crossed the road and walked quickly to the café on the corner. I crunched over the broken glass and knelt at the corner of the building. I could see up into the main square and along the entire seafront. Nothing was moving. All I could hear was the squawking of the gulls.
* * * * *
Somerset 1972.
Jenny.
I lay back in my bath and watched as my pubic hairs stood up in the water, away from body. It was a sight that always seemed to fascinate Paul. I suppose I could see a certain fascination in the way they moved from side to side if I created a current by wriggling my fingers beneath the water. I lifted my ass up and watched as my hairs become plastered flat to my pubic mound. I relaxed back into the water and watched as they slowly lifted once again. They were interesting but I wouldn't want to make a hobby out of watching them.
With the arrival of Mary, David had rather skirted through the end of their adventures in Spain. There was so much I was sure he could have said. So many threads he'd left dangling in mid air waiting for somebody to gather them together and weave the final chapters.
Why not me? I could weave.
When it had been his turn to stand guard in the café later that night had Conchita joined him. He had indicated that he found her very attractive and he was certain she knew. Yes, a woman could tell when a man fancies her, and to have an erect penis thrust against your pubic mound is a bit of a give away. But, with all the suffering she had just gone through would she have felt amorous? Her parents and Uncle had been killed. Her mother raped before her eyes.
What would I have felt like? So much bereavement in so short a space of time could have driven her to hide within herself. I could imagine the sister encouraging her suffering. Was I being unfair to her? But I could imagine it.
Alternatively perhaps it made her feel alive. To realise that the ordered, settled ways of the week before were gone, perhaps forever. She could have been raped and murdered herself when held in the village and again that afternoon if they had lost and Lupe had won.
I think that would have been what she would have been like. I know I certainly wouldn't have wanted to die a virgin but I also wouldn't have wanted to lose it tied to a bed in a gang-bang. But then, she would have been much more religious than I am and would have had the black and white conscience called Sister Hortencia with her.
I think she would have followed David to the café. Did he almost shoot her as she crept up on him? There would have been windows on two sides of the café so they could have been inside out of sight. Did they talk at first? Very, very quietly so as to be able to hear any sounds from outside. Did their hands touch in the moonlight? Did they hold each other's, just for company?
Who would have made the first move? David was young. Probably still a virgin himself. Yes, of that I was sure. In nineteen thirties Britain there wasn't a lot of pre-marriage sex around. Not for somebody at his age. I had lost my virginity when I had been eighteen and that was in the permissive sixties. He would have been around that age himself.
Hmm. Why do they call it lose your virginity as if it was something you mislaid? I didn't lose mine I gave it freely and wholeheartedly to Paul.
Back to Spain. I was enjoying my soak and I knew that from the time I left the bathroom until I was alone with Paul in our Hotel room that evening I would become public property. There were five or six women waiting down the stairs for me. I was to be manicured, pedicured, coifured, perfumed and dressed. Then my father would be allowed to come back to the house and dress whilst Paul's parents went to check on him and the arrangements in the Village.
Back to Spain. It was irritating that the present kept getting in the way of the past.
They were holding hands in the moonlit café. Were they standing up or sitting down? Sitting down, I would have expected, so that anybody outside would have had difficulty seeing him or her inside. What had they talked about? Did Conchita tell him about her parents, her growing up? What would David have said? Would he have been embarrassed and tongue-tied? How long would it have been before they kissed? Would Conchita have taken the lead and placed David's hand on her breast?
I could imagine what it would have felt like. Soft and warm. I wondered what foundation garments they wore in those days. But Conchita was young; she would have had no need of a bra to hold her breasts up. Would David have unbuttoned her blouse or would she have done that for him? I could see her nipples standing erect in the cool night air. Would she have pulled David's mouth down to one? I knew what that would have felt like. To have a tongue, wet and soft swirling around one then two lips sucking gently.
Would they have taken her skirt off or just lifted the hem above her waist to give him access to her fanny? I could imagine David with his hand inside her knickers prodding and poking, not really knowing what to do. Would she have given a little sigh as a finger entered her? How wide would she have opened her legs? Did she bend her knees? Would they have spoken or did their actions say it all?
Who would have made the decision to go further? I don't imagine they discussed it. I could see Conchita lying on her back and lifting her hips from the ground as David pulled her knickers from her. Did she reach into his trousers and pull out his prick? I could see her leading him by it until he was between her legs. Would she have known to hold the lips of her fanny open as she guided the tip of David's prick between them? Yes. I was sure she would have known what to do. Women have been discussing this moment with their friends for centuries.
Would David, though? Would he be eager, over-eager, and push too soon, before he was in place? Yes, I think he would have. I could almost hear Conchita squeal with excitement as she tried to control his prick. Finally it would have been in position and David would have felt it sliding inside her. Did her fanny contract in an automatic attempt to prevent its entry? Would David have kept pushing? Would he have felt her hymen tear? I felt mine go. Did Conchita cry out in pain? I did. It hurt.
Did it hurt David? Paul told me it had him. He'd never had his foreskin pulled back as far before, he'd said. I remembered that. He was behind me one Sunday morning having a long slow one. I'd asked him who else had pulled his foreskin back for him before then as he moved in and out of me. He just said that it was nobody I knew. I had intended to take the matter further but he was quickening his strokes and I was going to come and, well, one thing lead to another. I liked our Sunday morning shags.
It was Sunday tomorrow.
I was getting married.