This is the concluding part of the series. For it to make sense, you need to have arrived here via Parts 1 through 6. You know it makes sense. π
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I decided to keep my reply to Frida light, while still letting her know I wanted to see her again.
Her importance to me, and my feelings towards her, were betrayed by the fact that my heart was thumping as I typed...
'Hi Frida, glad to hear you are bearing up under the strain ;-) I'm looking forward to seeing you back to your bright and beautiful best very soon.
Anja
xx'
I waited for a reply - I was hoping for a little text chat with her - but none came. I was a little crushed, but I put it aside and just looked forward to seeing her when she was back working. At least she had made a point of sending me a message.
Days passed and I moped around. It was my curse, so I couldn't even go out looking for sex, which is my usual go-to remedy for all ills. Annoyingly, I often feel horny (even MORE horny) when it's my curse, but luckily, I can still use my Satisfyer on my clit, which I did, more than once, while thinking about the women I'd recently been with, but mostly about Frida.
I resisted texting her again. I didn't want to seem desperate, or pushy. In fact, I didn't know what I wanted to seem like, but my instincts told me texting her just now would be a bad idea. I just concentrated on working, and sleeping a lot.
Nine days later, I was back to normal, so I decided to tootle by the Wednesday market to see if she was back on the stall yet. I dressed like last time, with a summer dress, a simple hairstyle, and no makeup, but as I approached I could see that Arne was manning the stall and there was no sign of Frida. Dammit. It was a wasted effort... Or maybe it wasn't.
I turned aside before I got to the stall, making sure Arne hadn't spotted me, and immediately crashed into a curvy and attractive black woman. Neither of us fell, but we had to cling to each other to steady ourselves.
'Oops, sorry,' she said.
'No, no, completely my fault. I should look where I'm going... Yasmine?
We both laughed. 'Yes, it's me. You're from the Giraffe, aren't you? I didn't catch your name.'
'Anja.'
'Oh yeh, you were spoken for. With Beth, yes?'
'That's right, but that was then...'
She grinned, showing her large dazzling teeth. 'In that case, I'm glad I, er, bumped into you again. Fancy a drink in the 'sheaf?'
'A drink, yes, but not in the 'sheaf. Can we go to the Beehive instead?'
'Sure, let's go.'
The Beehive was a couple of streets away, but I didn't want to go to the Wheatsheaf because it was likely to bring back too many memories of Frida. We walked to the Beehive.
'Yasmine was an interesting character. She was definitely older than me, though I didn't initially know by how much, and she had a disarmingly straightforward and matter-of-fact way of speaking. She gave me the impression that not much embarrassed her, and that no subject was taboo. Most people are a little closed on first meeting someone new, a little guarded, but not her. By the time we were ensconced in the Beehive, I already knew that she was divorced 5 years before, and was a relatively new lesbian.
'I've just been having a lot of girly fun these past few years, and lots of sex. I've discovered that I really like young white girls...'
'Well thanks for the compliment - I'm 28!'
'That's young to me darling, I'm 45.'
I was genuinely amazed. I would have guessed thirties, maybe late thirties, but certainly not old enough to be my mum.
'Wow, I'd never have guessed that. I'd have said 36 or 7, tops.'
'You're very kind Anja, but i do have a tell-tale wrinkle or two here and there, I can assure you.'
'Oo, anywhere interesting?' I said, playfully licking my lips.'
'You're naughty,' she laughed, eyes wide, 'but I wouldn't mind showing you, actually.'
It was the turn of my eyes to widen, and I felt that oh-so-familiar zing of excitement pass through me. I was so taken aback, I didn't immediately respond.
'Does my age put you off, Anja?'
'No, not at all, but I should tell you that I'm not looking for a long-term relationship. Just a bit of fun.'
'Well, same here. I've been having a great time this last five years. For me, life really did begin at 40! I've just been making the most of my new-found sex life and I've been amazed by what was lurking in my body and mind. I know I'm not getting any younger though, and I aim to cram as many women into my life as I can before I settle down to matronhood. You know what I mean?'
Oh yes, I definitely knew. I nodded, but I was thinking. Did it put me off? Not really. Before she told me, I'd thought she was not much older than Frida, and age was never an issue with her. I found Yasmine very alluring, regardless of her age, so no. It wasn't a factor.
It's funny, I'd never particularly considered myself attracted to older women, or black women, or even to voluptuous women with big tits, but I think women of any colour, size or, within reason, age can be beautiful and sexy, and I've certainly had the hots for a wide range of different women over the years. I'd never reject someone purely on the grounds of age, colour, or size.
In Yasmine's case, I found the combination (older, black, and voluptuous) uniquely alluring, and my imagination was running riot imagining being pinned down between those full thighs, or lost between those bounteous boobs. She noticed me admiring her lusciously full figure and smiled.
'Are you checking me out, Anja?'
'I am,' I grinned.
'And?'
'And, I think my nipples approve.' I glanced down at my breasts, where definite bumps were appearing through my dress. There was something very very sexual and provocative about her, even though she wasn't dressed particularly sexily.
She was wearing a knee-length black gingham skirt -- much longer than the one she'd had on in the Giraffe -- with flattish sandals, and a button-up cap-sleeved blouse in a vivid shade of leaf green, which looked great against her dark skin, and showed off a narrow knotwork tattoo encircling her upper right arm. I noticed again the silver stud in her nostril, her long, painted nails, and the fact that her blouse was very well-filled indeed.
She was talking though, so I tried to concentrate on what she was saying; 'I spotted you in the Giraffe a while ago, when you left with that tall girl, and when I saw you again, clearly on your own, I thought it was my lucky day, but that blasted barmaid had got her hooks into you already.'
'Yes, that was unfortunate timing. It wasn't easy to give you a gentle brush off that night.'
'I went home alone and frustrated that night -- good God my toys had some serious work to do...'
I giggled, a little embarrassed by her forthright admission that she'd had to resort to 'self-pleasure' after I'd turned her down, but I found the thought of her lying on her bed, fucking herself with a toy, quite titillating.
'Well, we can make the toys redundant tonight if you like.'
'My, aren't you the forward one?' she said, as if shocked, but I could tell she wasn't. Not in the slightest. In fact I could tell she was getting rather turned on.