Dear Diary,
Went to Sal's yesterday to crash over after the training. Great to see them all again, it's been too long. Had a great time with Sal when we went for a walk...
It started when I arrived, late afternoon. The door was answered by a harassed looking Sal. She greeted me with "Hello! Come in, kettle's on."
I stepped over the threshold and gave her a hug. She buried her head in my shoulder and whispered "it's bloody good to see you again, things are *too* normal around here at the moment."
I held her for a couple of minutes, gently rubbing her back. She pulled back a little and looked at me. She leant forward and kissed me briefly on the lips. A rush of memory and emotion passed over me, and I looked at her quizzically.
In a soft voice she said "Terri's parents are here for the weekend, and although they're nice people, they're so bloody *normal*. I don't /want/ to talk about cousin Dave's wedding, or discuss the latest happenings on Eastenders."
I nodded, because I knew now what the problem was. Terri is Sal's flatmate. A really nice lass, very cheerful and friendly, one of us (so to speak), but her family... Mundane was a good term for them. Perfectly decent and honest people, but so very Middle England.
She turned and headed down the corridor to the sitting room. I followed her, stopping to put my rucksack at the foot of the stairs. She turned left into the kitchen, but I carried on past her and stuck my head round the sitting room door.
"Hello again everyone," I said, raising my hand in greeting. "Everyone OK?"
There was a chorus of "yeah ta", "fine thanks", "good to see you", as everyone responded. I turned back towards the kitchen; "Sal, do you need a hand?"
"Yes please!" came the reply.
"Back in a mo." I said as I left the sitting room door and walked back to the kitchen.
Sal had a tray on the worktop with three mugs on it. "That's Terri's, that's Dave's and that's Sarah's." She pointed to each mug in turn. "Do you want tea or coffee?"
"Tea please," I replied as I picked up the tray and turned to leave the kitchen.
Back in the sitting room I put the tray on the coffee table and handed out the mugs. Turning to go back to the kitchen I was greeted by Sal coming through with our teas.
"Thanks me'dear," I said, taking mine from her and sitting down on a chair.
We sat there for about an hour, making polite chit-chat, trying not to say anything controversial or that might offend anyone's sensibilities.
I was starting to glaze over, as Sal caught my eye and asked me if I'd left my rucksack on the stairs. When I said yes she told me that I was crashing in the back room, but she hadn't made the bed yet - would I like to give her a hand?
"No problem," I replied, "if you'll excuse us?"
Heads nodded and Sarah said "of course."
We got up and went upstairs. As we got into the back bedroom Sal closed the door. "I know you'd rather be in my room with me, and normally that'd be fine, but with Terri's parents here that's not an option," she apologised, sitting on the edge of the (made) bed.
"It's no problem," I replied, "I'm just glad to see you. As long as we can get a cuddle at some point I'll be happy."
"I know sweetheart, and it means a lot that you don't put pressure on me," she smiled up at me, "but I've got an idea anyway. When we go downstairs again I'll mention the woods that I'd been discussing with you and ask if you'd like to see them; the answer is 'yes'." She gave a wicked grin and I wondered what she was up to.
"Anyway, about that cuddle..." she continued.
We lay down on the bed, our arms round each other, just relaxing into each other's presence, for about 10 minutes.
"OK, that's the bed made," she whispered, rolling away from me and getting off the bed. She leant over me and kissed me again, with much more passion that she'd used when we might be seen. I returned the kiss with as much passion, if not more.
Breaking the kiss, she stood up; I could see her nipples were up, and I knew my cock was hard. She chuckled as she glanced down at my crotch and saw the bulge in my jeans. I pointed to her tits, and she ran her hands over them, tickling the nipples with her thumb, while licking her lips.
"Downstairs woman, now, before I do something neither of us will regret!" I said with a mock stern look.
She looked coy, started sucking the tip of her thumb, ran her other hand over her thigh and said "yes sir, will there be anything else sir?"
I burst out laughing, because the image was simultaneously totally not her, and yet very, very erotic. Which she knew. Little minx. :-)
When we got back downstairs we found the others engaged in a discussion of the best way to get tomato soup stains out of denim. Not exactly a conversation which either of us could contribute to.
We sat, politely listening, but not really contributing anything. The conversation turned to gardens, and Sarah mentioned that they'd had to have a tree cut down in their garden.
Sal sat up a bit, turned to me and said "oh, that reminds me, do you want to see that woodland I mentioned the other day? It'll be a nice walk and I could use the fresh air, my heads still a little stuffed up after that cold."
"Sure thing," I replied, trying to keep the excitement from my voice.
We made our apologies, and headed for the front door. Sal grabbed both coats from the rack and throw me mine. "New coat?" she asked, as I put my long leather coat on.
"Yup, but I see you've still got the same jacket," I replied. She nodded, and with a smile, said "as always." That jacket had seen many years, and many places. The tales it could tell.
We left the house and headed off up the road. On the way we talked about all the things that we couldn't talk about in front of Terri's parents; how Dave & Andy were having problems after Andy discovered he was bisexual; about Julie and Peter's new girlfriend and how they were going to set up a triad; all the sort of things that are just a little too "out there" for Terri's family.
We walked across the common arm in arm, the moon coming out from behind a cloud, the air warm, the breeze cool. A perfect evening for a stroll really.
I could see the tree line ahead of us, and as we approached it an opening in the trees became evident. We walked through the opening, into the woods, the path clearly marked, with a light coloured sandy surface. We slipped our arms out of each others and held hands instead as we strolled along.
A couple of minutes later she let go of my hand and reached into her pocket. She pulled out a packet of cigarettes and her silver Zippo lighter. "Smoke?" she asked.
"Sure," I replied, as she took two out of the packet. She passed one to me, put the other in her mouth and lit it. Handing the lighter to me she started to walk forward again, looking at the trees on the left as if she was looking for something. I lit my smoke and started to follow her. As I caught up with her, I passed her the lighter. She was still looking to one side as she went to put it back in her pocket.
Suddenly she turned to the right, towards a side turning that wasn't a marked path. She caught her foot on the raised edge of the main path and stumbled. I put a hand out to catch her arm, but she recovered her footing, muttered something about "clumsy bugger" and started off down the side path. I followed her, since it wasn't really wide enough to walk side by side.
The path meandered about a bit, but was obviously leading somewhere. Suddenly she stopped beside a large tree. She held a hand up, so I stopped. She was listening for something, but when she didn't hear it she turned to me, took my hand and stepped around the tree. I followed, and found that the path opened out into a clearing. I don't know why I hadn't seen it earlier, the last part of the path was straight, but I'd been watching where I was putting my feet and had obviously not looked up before she stopped.