Chapter 4a
As promised, I texted my mother as soon as we got back to Penny's house. Neither my mother nor Penny's parents were thrilled about us going to the out-of-town concert; but we were both eighteen and soon off to college, and I guess we'd fooled them into thinking we were trustworthy ;).
We lived on opposite ends of town, so Penny did the driving and I was going to stay the night at Penny's house so neither of us would be out alone. When we pulled into Penny's driveway, I saw the lights in one of the upstairs rooms shut off. I'd never been in her house before, but I figured it was her parents' room, and they weren't going to go to sleep until the knew we were safely back.
We got upstairs, Penny motioned to the guest bed in her room (the reason we were staying here instead of my place; my room's barely large enough for one bed), and I tossed down my gym bag. "Ready to sleep?" she asked.
I pulled my phone out of my shorts pocket and checked the time. A few minutes after midnight. "Nah," I said, "still wired from the concert. You?"
"I'll be up for a while too," she said. "I need to get out of this, though." She peeled off the tight t-shirt she'd been wearing over a bra that increased her cup size by a cup size and a couple of inches, stepped out of her short skirt, and pulled a long t-shirt on over her head.
In the meantime I'd put on my own pajamas, a very lightweight satin top and matching shorty bottoms that came down to just below my panties. "Cute outfit," Penny said when she noticed it. It was my usual dress for warm nights. It was comfortable and I do have to admit, it made me feel sexy. I nodded my head as a thank you and she continued "You might want to be careful once my brother gets home, though."
"Oh?" I asked in mock innocence. Then before she could say anything else, I added "Just messing with you. But really... everything's covered, isn't it? Isn't this okay at night if there are guys around? Seriously, I'm asking: I don't have brothers, but we're going to be in a co-ed dorm in September. What do you think?"
"Funny thing," she said thoughtfully. "Just last weekend, my cousins were over here and we were having the same discussion."
"And?"
"Well, my older cousin said what you're wearing would be fine for the dorm."
"Nice," I said. "And for wearing around brothers?"
"Um..." She hesitated, and she seemed to be wondering when the discussion began including brothers. "That's also okay, I guess."
"Cool," I said. "Then how about we go downstairs and grab a snack, and if your brother shows up, we won't worry about it."
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She told me to go ahead, and she'd meet me in the kitchen. I'd just located a bag of chips and a 2-liter Diet Pepsi when she came into the kitchen. She'd changed into a pajama set somewhat less appropriate than mine: a top brief enough to expose her navel, and bottoms that looked like high-cut bikini panties. I nodded to let her know I was impressed and she blushed, just slightly. "You're a bad influence," she said, taking a seat at the table and grabbing a handful of chips.
Yeah, tell yourself that, I thought. Okay, I'd given her reasons over the years to think that was true. But I wondered which would surprise her more: that I was still a virgin, or that I knew she wasn't.
"Uh oh," she said, looking at my top.
"What?"
She grinned. "Maybe you're not all that decent after all."
I followed her gaze: It was a warm night and I'd gotten a little sweaty, and my top was plastered so tightly against my chest that my left nipple was poking through, very dark and very visible.
Without thinking, I pressed down on the nipple to make it behave. I hadn't thought about how sensitive it would be. "Oh," I said without meaning to. "Sorry," I said quickly.
She smiled. "Don't worry about it. Oh... looks like your right one needs attention now."
I doubted it, but I knew a dare when I heard one. Without even glancing down to look, I pressed my right nipple. And maybe held my finger there a moment longer than I really had to.
"All set now?" Penny asked. "Anyplace else that needs a finger?"
"Oh, fuck you," I said. I picked up a napkin from the table and tossed it to her. "Though if your tits are sweaty after wearing those falsies all night, you might want to take care of them."
"They weren't falsies," she insisted, but took the napkin anyway. She slipped her hand under her shirt, and wiped between her breasts.
"Don't forget your nips," I challenged.
She hesitated for a moment, then brought her hand, still under her shirt, to her left breast. "Hmm," she said softly.
Then she sort of froze, not removing her hand from inside her top, and I wasn't sure what was going to happen next: We'd seen one another in various states of undress the past couple of years -- school locker rooms, changing clothing upstairs five minutes earlier -- but of course there'd never been any sexual element to it. But now I felt, well, challenged.
I slipped my hand up inside my pajama top, and closed it slowly around one breast. I allowed myself a slight smile.
Penny was moving her hand very slowly, very gently caressing herself. "Last weekend..." she began suddenly.
"Hmm?"
"When my cousins were over. Well, my older cousin was out of the room, it was just me and Eve, the one who's our age. Anyway... okay, you have to promise not to repeat this to my brother."
"Why would I be telling your brother anything about anybody?" I asked, anxious for her to get on with it."
"Yeah, okay, so... something must have woken me up, and I'm hearing something going on in her bed. And I realize it's her hand moving around under her blanket." She began rubbing her breast more openly now.
"Go on."
"Obviously she thinks I'm asleep, so I laid still, letting her keep thinking that. I didn't want her to stop."
"Sure," I agreed.
"After a few minutes, she pushed down the blanket. The t-shirt she was sleeping in was pushed up to her neck, and her hand was inside her panties. I'd never seen another girl, anybody, doing that before."
I was handling my own breasts more roughly now. "Me neither," I said, though I wondered how close I was going to come tonight. Penny playing with her tits had pushed her short top high enough that they were both mostly exposed.
I'd seen them before, but I'd certainly never seen her playing with them. I knew this shouldn't be getting me aroused, but I couldn't help it.
"I swear," Penny went on, "it was getting harder and harder to pretend to be asleep, but if she knew I was watching she might stop. But fuck, I wanted to do what she was doing."
I knew she was waiting for me to ask. "Did you?"
"No, but... I wish I had. Would have been so hot, doing it together, don't you think?"