The following material is sexually explicit erotica.
If you are offended by hard-core pornography close this file.
This is yet another new genre for me - at its centre is a practice of which I have neither any personal experience nor well-founded knowledge - so those readers who are participants should forgive me if I make any all-too obvious 'howlers'. My foray into this area is the result of a request from a fan of many of my other submissions - he apparently saw some ability that he thought could be well-suited to writing a story involving the activity - so, in the hope that he (and you) finds it has something of merit, I dedicate to him.
Part 1
I had been asked to attend yet another of the European Union's seemingly interminable round of trade discussions, and in the expectation that the conference would end up merely returning to previously well-ploughed ground, and if so, not wanting to risk finding myself in a seat from which it would be impossible to make a discrete exit, had arrived early. As a colleague from another section had also been nominated, I placed 'reserved' signs on two back-row aisle seats then fetched myself a coffee and stood waiting for him to arrive.
And it was while standing there watching the slowly moving queue of delegates signing-in at the registration desk that I saw her!
Although more than ten years had rolled by since I had last seen her and at some stage during that time she had dramatically altered her hair style, there was still absolutely no mistaking her. That particular combination of the heart shaped face, cute nose, high cheek-bones, wide-set brown eyes and full-lipped mouth could only belong to one single woman, Vida!
Not wanting to take the chance that she might in turn spot me, I left it to my colleague to find me, and took my seat - then let my mind drift back to the events of those long passed, but never forgotten times.
Back then I had been a thirty something man intent on furthering my career, so when the head of the British Government department I worked for offered me the opportunity to represent one of its sections in Brussels, I naturally leapt at the chance. As a good friend of mine had at about the same time been short-listed for a similar post in another section we decided to offset the high cost of living there by sharing an apartment, but as my term was to start a little earlier than the one he had high expectations of, I was given the task of actually organising the rental.
By a purely fortuitous piece of good luck I heard of a much better than average place that, because it was located a short distance out of Brussels itself, would be much more economical. It was only a relatively short drive away, in the small town of Vilvoorde, and once I went out to view it I only needed a few minutes to see that it was perfect. Although the building itself was old the interior had been completely modernised and the place I was interested in was a fully furnished two bedroom apartment that not only had an en-suite off the master bedroom, but also another bathroom between it and the equally large second bedroom. As it also had both a lounge and separate dining room, plus a fully refurbished kitchen, and the lease even included a parking bay, I grabbed it on the spot.
However, as the old saying goes - 'even the best laid plans of mice and men...' - and having signed the twelve month lease and gone through the complicated business of moving myself in, we discovered that my friend had in fact been passed over for his expected promotion! So there I was, living on my own in an overly large, and rather too high priced apartment! But as the place had everything I could possibly want and having looked at the cost of breaking the lease, then the bother and additional costs involved in finding another and moving again, I decided to stay put.
And as things turned out I was extremely glad I had done so, because it was only a week or two later that I first met Vida.
She too was representing her government's equivalent section so of course we were bound to meet, but we certainly weren't bound to come together in quite the way we did!
As with most of the bureaucratic meetings in such places, although virtually all delegates were proficient in far more than just their native language, most of us preferred to speak in our own, then rely on the simultaneous translation provided to the rest. This not only gave the various members a little more time to think about their reply, but, in the event of some diplomatic dispute, also provided the excuse that the translation had in fact been less than perfect in representing what they had actually said.
But, and although she did it with what I thought was a charmingly attractively lingering accent, unlike all the others, Vida always spoke in her perfectly fluent English - and perhaps that was the reason she first caught my eye. Then, once caught, I took a second, a third and a fourth look - there was absolutely no doubt about it, she was absolutely stunningly beautiful!
Tall, curvily slim, and with a face that I felt certain had already broken many hopeful and much more eligible men's hearts. Back then, although obviously the heart-shaped face and its more than attractive features were the same as those I'd spotted in the queue, her hair - which I had noticed was cropped relatively short - had then been much, much longer. However, as during the day she always wore it coiled up in a variety of fetching styles, it was only when I got to know her much more intimately that I discovered just how long it actually was.
Even though there were twenty or thirty of us in that particular meeting she must have sensed one of us was observing her particularly carefully and just before she came to the end of her presentation she looked across at me, paused haltingly for a moment before continuing, but then never took her eyes off me until long after she had finished. Although many years had passed, and Vida and I shared many, many indescribably wonderful times together, I still often recalled much of the feelings I experienced during those minutes our eyes first remained locked on to each other's.
If another person's eyes can look into one's soul, Vida's certainly laid mine bare. And whether it was love I instantly felt, or simply the equally powerful emotion, lust, I never truly knew - but the force and impact of what I felt was so strong I knew that if I had to I would somehow find a way to literally move heaven and earth to get to know her.
So, once the meeting had ground to an end and we gathered around to share the inevitable coffee and small-talk I made a bee-line for where she was standing. She saw me heading her way, and, wonder of wonders, as I drew closer she said something to the group already around her, put her cup down on a nearby table, broke away, and moved towards me!