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Chapter 1: Discoveries
Sunlight rained down upon her. Invisible spiders spun out their webs, sprawling their majestic tapestries across her skin, the fragile workers of beauty unhurriedly painting their delicate masterpiece. Thousands of luminous tendrils extending downwards, traveling, touching, heating her youthful flesh, delivering unearthly radiance to the young woman's already glowing body.
Katrina kneeled upon the dew coated grass and drank in the early morning light, the two opposing sensations of warmth and cold creating a perfect feeling of balance within her. She loved the physicality of the earth coupled with the spiritual essence of the new mornings light. Submissive blades of grass bent down beneath her weight, like soldiers laying down their arms, sinking themselves into the soft comforting fabric of Katrina's red satin pyjama bottoms, nature falling safely into the arms of beauty.
Katrina begun all her days like this, letting her body and mind respond to the touch of the elements. "My body and mind" she pondered to herself, lately it didn't seem so, she had always felt strong, secure and dependent, someone who felt they knew themselves in all totality, but unfamiliar feelings were building within her, feelings she didn't understand, feelings she didn't feel she could control.
She had suffered the aching in her for weeks now, a desire rising, it was becoming so strong she could no longer function normally. Her mind flicked back to the event that had inspired these feelings, the secret she had found, her Dad's little secret. Just her alone one day, nothing unusual at all about it, her parents out for the afternoon with friends, nothing to watch on television, a video seemed like an apt choice. Like so many times before she perused the video cabinet, when you're an only child with few friends you tend to spend much of your time experiencing life through the eyes of another. Today nothing seemed to strike out at her, why not try her Dad's collection, he collected all the old classics, movies that wouldn't usually be of interest to her, but perhaps it was time for a change, something different to stimulate her, to challenge her.
She had cautiously approached the door to his private study and entered the dim room. It always seemed like a separate part of the house, so sterile, everything in its perfect place, ordered, unchangeable, just like her Dad. At the time she hadn't understood why she felt so nervous, a trespasser in her own home, though it wasn't impossible that she had sensed something, she had always had remarkable intuition.
Shivering she stepped up to his video cabinet, pristine and polished, the scent of old pine, her shuffled footsteps emanating uncertainty, eyes darting anxiously about the room as if the walls themselves were spying and ready to raise alarm at her unbidden intrusion. The cabinet slid open easily and she ran her eyes along the titles of the videos, old 50's classics, another time and place, back when Charlton Heston was your modern day Brad Pitt. She scanned back and forth over the seemingly endless rows of tapes, urging one to stand out, a diamond in the rough. When confronted with an array of bright, dazzling colours, it is often the plain and ordinary that stands out the most, there amidst the sea of famous names was a simple unlabelled cassette tape. Making her selection she slid the tape out of the rack and closed the cabinet door. Everything as it had been. Undisturbed. Frozen room. It could almost be a painting. "Still life" she had thought dryly.
Moving on into her room she eased the tape into the VCR, it slid right in, a perfect fit, well what did she expect she teased herself. Sitting on her bed with the remote in hand she pressed the play button, the familiar black screen appeared. The movie opened with two women sitting together on a couch, the husband of one of the women was just leaving for work, he exited and the girls began to kiss, "well this is pretty out there for a classic" she thought, alarm bells rang in her head as the women began to strip. She couldn't believe it, a porn movie! Blushing furiously she fumbled with the remote and pressed the stop button, she'd never seen a naked body other than her own and the small flashes you get in today's movies, this was something altogether different. Shock turned into curiosity and she pressed the play button again, the women began to moan as they licked each other's parts, now the husband had come home and had pulled out his penis. This was too much.
Embarrassed Katrina quickly switched it off and rewound the video so no one would know she had seen it. She couldn't believe her Dad, it never seemed like this type of stuff was ever here, all hidden away. She felt betrayed. This guise her parents had lived under, like sex could never even be thought of in this house, it was such a façade, and now all was revealed like some veil had been torn asunder. Exposed to the real world at last.
She returned the tape to the cabinet and started thinking about what she had just seen, it wasn't that she had never been aroused, she had, but it always was a faint thing that disappeared with time, but this, this was unfathomable, it had awakened her sex completely like a flower opening in the spring, "open for business" she joked to herself, she didn't feel in control, she wanted so desperately to just push her hand deep into her pants and rub and rub until she burst. She always felt reluctant to explore her body, like it just wasn't something to be done within the confines of this house, and if others could hold out and restrain from it then she should be able to as well. All lies. She didn't feel ashamed, but she felt she should feel ashamed, so she just ignored it all together.
All week these images returned to her, fuelling her loins with a fire she had never known, so intense, so powerful, leaving her in her current state, hopelessly aroused. It was like the space in between her legs was a separate universe abiding by its own rules, inviting her, coaxing her to come and join them, to release herself to it. As much as she tried to put those images out of her mind, lock them in a place she never had to confront, never had to visit, she couldn't, and she didn't want to, the flame was calling, and she was the moth, drawn to experience the fire.
At first it was just a tiny voice in the back of her mind, she would silence it but it would grow, tempting her, she thought she had escaped it and then would catch herself dwelling on those images, the sounds of savage flesh on flesh, and the heat would light between her thighs. She would cross and uncross her legs, trying to give them the friction they needed to let the blaze catch on. She found herself looking for any excuse to touch her body. An imaginary itch, rubbing her hand on her thigh, marveling at her touch as if it was something she had never ever before known, looking through new eyes, lustful eyes, somebody else's eyes. She would go to the bathroom just to feel the cool air on her secret places that were always locked away, so closeted in, to release them to the world, to show them whole to nobodies eyes but her own. Letting the gentle air fan her naked sex, arousing it. They needed to breathe just as much as she needed to breathe.