[This is a sequel to Moments: Three Nights, and is likewise an anthology of three individual short stories. As before, each story is a slice-of-life focusing on a different twentysomething couple with a different relationship dynamic. Melinda and Lena are in a committed lesbian relationship. Jamie and Tamara are best friends who have casual sex. Thorfinn and Aurora are brother and sister engaged in a secret love affair. Although the characters are all connected in some way to my Loving Aurora series (or to other upcoming stories), you can read the Moments anthologies as their own separate series.
Be warned, these stories involve fetishes such as pissing/watersports, free use, degradation, public sex and exhibitionism (plus of course incest for Thorfinn & Aurora's story). As usual, I like to interweave a bit of romance and character backstory with explicit sex and kink.
All characters involved in sexual situations are aged over 18.]
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I: MELINDA & LENA -- Relief
Melinda sits at the kitchen table and looks out at the cloudy Friday afternoon sky as she sips a mug of herbal tea. A flock of birds is wheeling slowly over the slate rooftops of the neighbourhood, their formation constantly shifting and reforming. Mel finds the sight calming. She could watch those tiny specks dart back and forth for hours.
She has just come home from a short but quite intense working day. She's an assistant campaign coordinator for a small charitable foundation, running neighbourhood support programs for struggling families. She got enough done today to leave the office earlier than usual, so she could beat the traffic home. After weeks of working late almost every evening, slaving away on her latest outreach campaign, she feels it's the least she deserves.
Coming back so early means that, for once, she's home before her girlfriend. The high school where Lena teaches is on the other side of town. The school day is over now, but it'll still be a while before Lena gets in.
Relaxed though she is right now, Mel wants Lena back with her very badly. She can't wait for that little greeting kiss, and the slow, contemplative sex that will surely follow. With work so exhausting, they haven't had much time for lovemaking recently. Mel intends for that to be thoroughly rectified over the coming weekend.
She reaches for her phone and composes a message, savouring the fragrant aroma rising from her teacup. [i'm home now love. got back a bit early. how was your day?]
Lena answers moments later with a row of sad emoji.
[a tough one?] Mel texts.
[oh god today was NIGHTMARISH], Lena messages. [i had to take cry breaks between classes all afternoon]
[do you want to talk about it?]
Lena's next message is a wall of despairing text.
[Mel i could lecture you for hours. this morning the principal told me they're rearranging the French classes so i now have to teach an extra year group. starting in less than a week. i was so shocked i was shaking after the meeting. i have hardly any time to prep for it and the new class will be full of the worst behaved students in the whole school. these are the kids the other teachers tell horror stories about in the staff room, i have no idea how i would discipline them. when i told Cristina in the Spanish department some of the names she cringed and said 'good luck'. so i'll be spending the whole weekend drawing up lesson plans for a class that won't pay any attention. honestly i feel so unappreciated by this school, they treat languages as a complete afterthought and now they expect me to basically do twice as much work with no assistance. i'm actually trying not to cry on the bus typing this]
Mel pictures her poor, sweet, soft-spoken Lena trying to control a class of hardened teenage delinquents, her pleas for quiet unheard under a barrage of mocking laughter and verbal abuse. It's doubly upsetting because Lena has such a genuine passion for her subject. Her eyes always sparkle with enthusiasm when she talks of teaching a particularly gifted or receptive student. But of course the school won't care about that. To them, Lena is just another replaceable cog in the machine. Mel can't even imagine how crushing it must be to have all her hard work disregarded like this.
An idea pops suddenly into Mel's head, bringing with it a tingle of excitement. She can't fix Lena's working life. But she can definitely brighten up her Friday afternoon.
Mel taps at her phone keyboard. Through the window, she sees the birds are still spiralling across the sky. [are you nearly home?]
[20 mins], Lena responds.
[i'll have a treat for you when you get in]
[oh that's so sweet Mel but really I have no appetite tonight. i couldn't eat a bite of lunch. i feel like i'm on a stress fast]
Mel smiles to herself as she types her reply. [i don't mean food]
Leaving Lena to interpret that as she will, Mel finishes her tea and heads to the bedroom to change out of her work clothes. She strips down, briefly relishing the comfortable feeling of being naked again after a busy day. Then she goes through her chest of drawers until she finds a well-worn old T-shirt with a cracked and faded print of a leaping tiger on an off-white background.
It's a shirt with a lot of history. Mel got it at a music festival in her teens, and has kept it through a succession of girlfriends. She was wearing it the night she met Aurora, her most beloved and despised ex of all. Later that same night, when she tasted Aurora's sweet pussy for the first time, the fabric ended up pleasurably soaked through with squirt. During those early days, before their love turned to a sour, simmering hate, Mel wore the shirt as a kind of talisman. She cherished the thought that she was wearing something marked by Aurora's passion.
After the breakup, she was tempted to throw it out, but she could never bring herself to do it, even as she gladly got rid of all the sentimental junk Aurora gave her. So the tiger shirt has languished in the drawer, seldom worn, one last memento of a failed relationship.
Mel thinks it's high time it was rehabilitated.
She wanders to the front room, naked except for the T-shirt. The house she and Lena share is small but cosy, with windowsills populated by struggling potted plants and walls covered in Lena's French New Wave memorabilia. The place once belonged to Lena's mother, who died some years before, and bequeathed it to her only daughter. It has the comfortable, lived-in feel of a family home.
After clearing away some of the clutter in the front room, Mel sits down on the thick shaggy rug that has pride of place in the middle of the room. It's enjoyably soft and ticklish under her bare ass. Her pussy throbs with anticipation as she waits for her girlfriend to return.
She doesn't have to wait long. A few minutes later, the front door clatters open, letting in a cool gust from outside, and Lena walks in, the long hem of her simple grey work dress swishing around her shins. An overstuffed old backpack hangs from one skinny shoulder. Her prettily androgynous face is mournful, her mousy brown hair in a hastily-tied mess, and her eyes are red and puffy from crying. Mel's heart stings to see her lover so distraught.