Day 1.
Father Thomas approached the convent. Fresh out of the seminary, newly ordained, he had been ordered by his bishop to spend a month here in retreat as final preparation for his first parish work. He didn't think he needed any more preparation but he had just taken a vow of obedience and he wasn't about to argue with his authoritarian bishop over his first command.
Pulling the old fashioned bell on the side of the high wooden gate, he looked around. The walls surrounding the convent were high and forbidding; he certainly was going to have time for prayer and contemplation here. After a few moments, the gate creaked open an inch or two and a young nun appeared, smiling.
"You must be Father Thomas; Mother Superior has been expecting you."
The gate opened wide and he was welcomed in. As the gate closed behind him the young priest felt a shiver of foreboding run down his spine but he dismissed it and followed his guide to his hostess's office. Asked to take a seat, the young woman quietly knocked on her Superior's door and walked in. Closing the door behind her, she was no more than a few moments before she reappeared.
"Mother will see you know, Father." Once again she smiled the smile that Father Thomas realised lit up her whole face before holding the door open for him and closing it behind him, leaving him with the impression he was entering the lion's den.
"Sit down, please, Father."
Thomas felt as nervous as a schoolboy being summoned to face his Headmaster but told himself that he was the man, he was the priest, and Mother Superior was there to be led by him. The nun had other ideas.
"The bishop tells me that you are here for your final preparation."
"That is correct, Mother, but I really don't see what I have to learn and I certainly don't think there is anything I can learn in a convent!"
"Yes, the bishop did say you could be a bit obnoxious but I am sure after a month within these walls, you will have learned a lot."
"A month? I'm not staying here for a month! I have God's work to do and I mean to go about it in a few days. I am here only because the bishop has insisted that I do so. But, a month? No, not at all."
Mother Superior ignored him.
"Have you ever had a girlfriend, Father?"
The question shocked the young priest.
"No, of course not. I entered the junior seminary when I was twelve years old and, apart from holidays spent with my saintly mother, I have been in different seminaries ever since."
"I thought as much. So how do you intend to deal with the women, young and old, who are going to flirt with you, at the very least?"
"I won't deal with them at all because that situation is not going to arise. I will not allow it. I will be a good priest, a holy priest, and keep myself away from situations that might tempt me into sin."
"This is going to be harder than I imagined," thought Mother Superior with a smile. "And so much fun."
"Father, I'm not trying to embarrass you but if you're going to work in an inner city parish, away from the security of the seminary, you are going to have to learn how to be at ease with women. For instance, have you ever seen or touched a woman's breasts?"
"What? How dare you ask me something like that! Of course I have never done anything so sinful."
The poor priest was so out of his depth he could hardly speak.
Before he knew what was happening, the nun got up out of her chair, walked round her desk and sat on the edge of it, inches from the startled priest. Suddenly, she reached round behind herself, under her veil, and began to lower the zip of her heavy black habit. Father Thomas could only stare in amazement as, for the first time in his life, he saw a woman's bra and the tops of her large breasts. He sat there with his mouth open but what she did next nearly made him fall off his chair in shock.
Mother Superior smiled at his discomfort, reached behind herself once more and unhooked her plain black bra. As the straps slid down her arms, she raised her eyes and saw that the young priest could not tear his away from the sight before him, two very round, very full breasts topped by two very hard nipples.