Veronica Madison Gaylor, a.k.a. Maddie to her friends, was almost the epitome of the classic American 'girl-next-door'. A strawberry redhead with a perky nose, a nice figure, and a great smile, Maddie was the kind of girl found at the park playing Ultimate Frisbee in shorts, t-shirt, and a pony-tail, or walking a dog through the neighborhood in the morning. 23 years old, athletic, and a recent college graduate from Northwestern with a Bachelor's in Marketing & Communications, she was enjoying the summer in her home town of Gableston, South Carolina.
Maddie had decided to spend the summer with her parents before starting her first real corporate job with a firm in the Research Triangle. The job was a sure thing, she started in September, and so the decision was made upon graduating to go back to Gableston for the summer and simply enjoy herself. Her friend Erin had a small condo on the beach, and had offered the spare bedroom to Maddie during her stay. This Maddie had accepted because it beat having to stay with her parents. Maddie adored her parents, but she was 23 years old now, and she wanted to kick back, drink beer, flirt with boys (and maybe more, since she was single), and staying with her parents would be a definite drag. Erin was a definite lifesaver.
Erin and Maddie's friendship went back many years, all the way to middle school. Erin Marie LaBeau was a black girl from New Orleans with large, expressive eyes, full lips, and hair always in dreadlocks. When she was 11 her father moved her family from the Big Easy to Gableston because as he put it, "I ain't having the Big Easy teach my daughter to be the same". In this, his plans succeeded. Erin was a strong-willed girl who didn't put up with any bullshit from anyone. When Erin was 13, she discovered the legend of Marie LaVeau, the great Voodoo queen of New Orleans. The tales of Marie and her powers, the lore of the loas and the houngans, seduced Erin and she embarked upon the calling of a houngan without a second thought. As a result, she dressed like a Goth and was ostracized by the rest of the school, save for Maddie.
As Maddie put it, "I'd rather be friends with one real person, than with a whole bunch of stupid clones." It was Erin's free spirit which drew Maddie to her in sixth grade. Maddie even then wanted to be her own person, and didn't want anything to do with the popular cliques. So they hung out together, defending themselves against the world. Maddie listened to Erin's talk of ghosts and spells and LaVeau, and Erin attended Maddie's soccer and softball games, cheering her on. They were an inseparable pair: Maddie the Every-girl, and Erin the Mystic. Two originals on their own in the deep South.
Maddie moved in with Erin at the end of June and promptly set out to blow off the last five years of college. The first night of Maddie's arrival, the two girls set out to Coogie's, a beach-front bar down the road from Erin's condo. There they toasted the summer and celebrated two whole months of nothing but sun, wind, water, booze, and boys.
The next morning, Erin awoke with a groggy head and thick tongue. She groaned as she cracked an eyelid open and saw the time on the clock.
"Oh my god... nine o'clock in the morning should be banned..." she mumbled and rolled over. A few minutes later her eyes came wide open and she sat up in bed, the blankets spilling down to her waist. She wore a green nightie three sizes too large for her, and one smooth ebon shoulder poked out of the over-sized neckline. Grimacing against her headache, she got out of bed and walked to her closet. Opening up the doors, she knelt down before the altar she'd constructed and regarded the small wooden carving of a man with a very large erection.
"Forgive me, Grimman, I was delayed and forgetful," she whispered, bowing down before the carving. "Should have attended to you last night, but Maddie came last night and I got distracted. Please forgive me, Grimman." Erin said.
She exhaled and relaxed, still prostrating herself. As she relaxed, she opened herself up to the loas about her, to touch with her mind the altar she used for communion. Grimman was there, and he was upset. Rightfully so, as the sacred rite Erin was supposed to carry out the night before had not been executed.
"Oh Grimman, will you not forgive me? I know I was supposed to make offering to you last night! I am sorry, and I will make it up to you," she pleaded. One of the secrets Erin discovered, was that formal language really wasn't all that called for in Voodoo. The loas responded whether you were formal or not, but seemed to prefer common address. There were exceptions to this rule, but for the most part Erin got along well with her loas because she treated them like friends, and not like powers awaiting her command.
Grimman was a loa she'd been working on for a long time to contact. He was a potent being, a loa of sensuality, of sexual power. His was the power of arousal, of desire, of lust, and of sensuality. To summon and ask his favor, was to ask for the ability to incite desire, to become sensuous, and enhance sexual performance. Grimman was not to be used lightly, for there were other loas available to generate raw sexual desire. He was to be called upon only when the summoner wanted to create an erotic work of power.
Erin could sense Grimman's displeasure at being forced to wait. He did not speak in words, only in powerful and complex sendings of emotions and visuals. She shuddered under his anger, and pleaded once again for him to forgive her.
"Please Grimman, forgive me, it will not happen again!" Erin vowed.
Grimman hesitated, and then in a powerful vision told her to execute the ritual. Erin paused for a moment, thinking of Maddie in the next room. She might be woken by this, and if she came to investigate, she wouldn't understand. Grimman's voice thundered through her head in a swift retort: do it now, or lose him forever. Erin nodded, and rose up. In one fluid motion she took off her nightie, revealing her smooth, chocolate body beneath.
Erin took another deep breath, and then placed her fingertips to her forehead. As she exhaled, she drew her fingertips down her face. Past her jaw and down her neck her fingertips went, lightly brushing her skin. As they reached her collarbone, she took another breath. Now her fingers slipped down her firm breasts, resting on her large brown nipples. She paused and began tugging at her nipples while reciting the words of the rite. Goose bumps appeared on Erin's skin and her breath caught lightly as her nipples reacted. Between her legs, her shaven pussy grew warm.
Erin opened her eyes and focused on Grimman's statue as she played with her nipples. Drawing a deep breath, her fingers continued down again. Across her navel they drifted, towards the V of her groin, seeking out her labia. She moaned softly as her fingertips slid over her labia and spread her lips apart.
"Grimman, I summon thee..." she whispered, her hips beginning to twitch. Her left hand lifted up for a moment to take the Grimman carving and place it on the floor, directly under her open pussy. Once situated, her hand returned to her labia and she settled slightly, the head of the carving resting at the entrance to her pussy. Erin moaned again, louder this time, and then her two index fingers sought out her clitoris.
"Grimman, with this offering of my body I summon thee..." Erin said. Her index fingers massaged her growing clit, while her fingers massaged her labia. Grimman's head grew damp with the moisture spilling down in rivulets from her pussy. Her breath quickened and she began to lift off her haunches, only to sink back down, fucking herself with Grimman's carving. The carving stayed still, as if it were part of the floor.
Erin moaned even louder, but continued her chanting, her fingers stroking her clit as she bucked up and down, driving Grimman's head and shoulders into her wet cunt. "Grimman, with this offering of my body I summon thee... oh... oh... oh fuuuuck me..." she said, remembering at the last possible moment not to say the word 'God'. Grimman might take that as an offense.
Her hips drove her body down harder upon Grimman's head and shoulders, the shaft of his wooden cock stopping at her clit. Erin fucked herself with the carving even harder, calling her orgasm to fruition. "Oohh, oh... Oh... GRIMMAAAN!" she screamed, and thrust herself downward, Grimman's head hitting her g-spot.
Erin orgasmed, squirting her juices down the carving and onto the floor in a puddle. Her body arched back, nipples erect, as she shuddered, wooden carving more than halfway into her pussy.
Just then, her bedroom door opened and Maddie stuck her head into the room. "Erin?" she asked. "Are you all..." her voice stopped as she spied Erin in the throes of her orgasm. As Maddie was looking at her from the back, she didn't see the feet of the carving of Grimman, the rest being buried in Erin's throbbing pussy.
"Right... later." Maddie said, embarrassed, and closed the door.
Meanwhile, Erin was caught in the afterglow of her orgasm and did not notice. But Grimman did. The loa used Erin's ecstasy as a bridge from the spirit world to the material world and leaped into the carving. As he did, he saw Maddie's head peek into the room, her stunned recognition, and her mood of disapproval and embarrassment as she closed the door. So this was the woman who had caused Erin to forget the sacred offering he was supposed to receive the night before!