I haven't submitted anything in a long time, but this idea has been kicking around for a while. This is my first attempt at writing from a female point of view, and I hope I didn't do too badly; I'll freely admit, Kady's not a normal girl. Please comment if you enjoy the story; Kady has a loud and distinctive voice, and if you enjoy this tale, I'll gladly share others. - ericthebard
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My name is Arkadia Glimmer Mist.
I know. It's like someone's idea of a joke, but it was my hippy parents' idea of a name. Mist is actually the family name, which I can't imagine either of my illustrious and perpetually stoned parents were born with, but then, my grandma's name is Moonlight, so...
Anyway, you get the idea. My family's kind of weird. My brother, Justice Diligence Mist (could you just die?), and I are pretty close; our parents kept the basics, you know, food, clothing, a roof over our head, but when it came to raising us, well, it was mostly public school, mainstream culture, and the Internet.
Yeah. Kinda surprising we didn't turn out worse, really.
Fact of the matter was, we managed all right, thanks to some good influences circling our parent's drug and alcohol hazed orbit. I don't want to give you the wrong idea. They weren't junkies. It's just that I don't think it ever occurred to them that they didn't live in a commune anymore. The only reason I kept my virginity until I was eighteen was because no one older would take me seriously and no one younger appealed to me.
If Mom and Dad were good about anything, it was teaching us about our bodies and what would come. Sex was never treated as anything other than natural, and while we weren't nudists - Mom loved clothes, and some of her notions about what constituted "fashion" were pretty entertaining in a horrifying kind of way - nakedness was never really remarked on. Good genes ran in our family too, and both Mom and Dad did yoga and we all were on a pretty good diet - Dad was a nutritionist. So, yeah, I'm not going to pretend modesty - we were a pretty good-looking bunch.
So when I decided to start having sex, I did exactly that, and didn't get weighed down with all the relationship bullshit that came with it. I mean, all it ever did, as far as I saw, was leave my girlfriends crying in the locker room. Fuck that. It felt good - and I knew from Just that that was pretty much a teenage boy's dream - or so they claimed. Thing was, I didn't want a teenage boy. I wanted something more, something memorable. And I knew, if I wanted it, I'd have to go out and get it, because something else our parents taught us - not much in this world was really worth wanting, but if you did want something, no one was going to hand it to you.
Our house was back in the woods a ways. I think Mom and Dad did everything they could to be isolated from the rest of the world without cutting us off too much from it; In any case, our nearest neighbor was Mr. Dodd. His wife had died some four years ago, and he'd become a bit of a recluse. I know Dad visited him sometimes, and Mom; he'd been over to our place once or twice. He was a nice man, and attractive for an older man - well built, salt and pepper hair, with a nice face, despite its saddened cast.
I had an idea or three how I might cheer him up.
The trick was going to be making him bite. I dressed in light cotton sundress for the warm humid day (not that you have many other kinds in southern Mississippi) and sandals, and decided to forego the underwear. It would only get in the way, and I liked it better without anyway. My breasts rubbed against the soft fabric, making my nipples stick out. Excellent. I was tallish - five eight - long-limbed and well toned, because I did a lot of yoga with my parents and tried to stay active in other ways too, swimming in the pool in our backyard and playing basketball with my brother Just. The dress fit very well, the skirt coming to just above my knees and flaring if I turned too quickly, emphasizing my hips and generous bust. My hair - I can't decide if I love it or hate it - is this wild red mane, not quite curly and more than wavy, almost frizzy but not really that either. While I can't really do much with it, it gives me a wild, untamed look combined with my elfin features and green eyes.
I take a basket with me - some fruit, some sandwiches, and a bottle of wine, and a thermos of hot chocolate if he didn't want the wine. I had turned eighteen two months ago.
It was time.
He looks a little startled when he opens the door to find me, and I just give him a grin and hold up the basket. "Kady...?" he asks, confused.
"You haven't been by in a while," I tell him innocently, "so I thought I'd see how you were doing. I brought lunch. Can I come in?"
"I...sure, sure," Mr. Dodd says, stepping aside so I could sashay past him. I make sure to brush lightly against him, letting him smell the light perfume I'm wearing. A sweet scent, flowery, jasmine, I think. Mr. Dodd's house is nice, open, and he led me to the main room and sat us both down in separate chairs. I plop the basket down on the coffee table, pull out the bottle of wine, and set it on the table.
"You're a little young to be drinking wine," he tells me, but his tone is more amused than anything else. He knows my parents. Permissive is only the beginning.
"I won't tell if you won't," I wink at him, and he laughs and, just as I'd hoped, gets us a pair of glasses. I let him pour - good strong hands - and then settle back in the chair with my wine, a sweet red. He settles back in his chair and looks at me. "So," I say, trying to read his blue eyes and failing. "How
have
you been, Mr. Dodd?"
"I've been...all right," he says in what might be the most unconvincing tone ever, and his eyes skate off of mine.
I set the glass on the coffee table and stand up, crossing the space to perch on the arm of his chair. Not coincidentally, this causes my skirt to ride quite a distance up my smooth, pale thigh. I have good Irish skin, but I did find out you CAN tan if you're like, really, REALLY careful. You just have to tolerate a lot of freckles first. I was working on it. His eyes flick to my leg, and then to my face as I lean over him, put the fingers of my hand to his chin, and make him look at me, our faces only inches apart. Hey, if you're gonna go for it, might as well go for broke.
"Do you want to tell me how you're really doing, Mr. Dodd?" I ask him softly. "Because you don't look all right to me. You look lonely."
It's the wrong thing to say, and he jerks free of my hand. "Arkadia Glimmer Mist, I might very well be lonely, but I don't need pity. Or you thinking to make me feel better by throwing yourself at me like a dockside whore."
...well, I couldn't very well get angry about that; it HAD been Plan A. Plan B was, more or less, honesty. I cross my arms over my chest and watch as he gets up out of the chair, too much the gentleman to displace me from my perch on its arm.
"It's not pity," I tell him. "I just didn't think you'd take me seriously if I told you up front."
That makes him pause. Like literally, a midstep hesitation, as he's pacing away from me, and he looks over his shoulder at me as I'm sitting sidesaddle on the arm of his leather easy chair, my arms crossed under my breasts (which is a good place for them, apparently, as his eyes keep straying to my cleavage). "What do you mean," he asks slowly, though it lacks the usual rise at the end making it a question.
"I mean," I tell him, "you are a fit, attractive, older, experienced gentleman whom I know and trust, and I am eighteen years old and ready to start exploring sex." I've always been blunt, especially when annoyed. I guess I'm not really cut out for seduction, but games bore me. "You know me well enough to know I won't be after your money or anything but a good time. I know you enough to know you aren't going to hurt me or kidnap me or force me to do anything I don't want to."