Introduction
Yes, it's me again, Davina, here to give you the dirt on my life to date.
That sounds good, doesn't it? It sounds as if I'm much more interesting than your average IT nerd; as if I've got a dark side and secrets to shock the world.
And maybe I have.
Now there are other stories circulating about me. Some of them were written by yours truly, some by ex-lovers of mine. Anyone who missed them is welcome to catch up, but please don't feel as if you're obliged. I'm going do my best to make this account self-contained; with any luck it will be readable on its own. I'm also going to be more explicit than I've been before because I've reached the point where I started to really enjoy sex.
Not that I didn't enjoy it from the off, of course. I certainly did. It's just that it got even better as I found the spirit of adventure inside myself.
Right then; a few more words about me and I'll begin. These days I'm twenty-six and the proud owner of a lesbian gold star. While I have been compared to Velma from Scooby Doo, I also get mistaken for a bloke more regularly than I would like. That has a lot to do with me having very short hair, an ironing board for a chest and being commonly known as "Dave".
And my fashion sense probably doesn't help. I'm only comfortable in Docs, jeans and sweatshirts. It's a rare day when I wear anything else and I haven't been seen in a dress since primary school.
I must be doing something right though. I've had girlfriends aplenty.
Speaking of which, let's go back to the first weekend of November, 2008 . . .
Chapter Eighteen
Sara got quite touchy when she found out I was housesitting with Ellie on Saturday as well as Friday. I very reasonably pointed out that her parents weren't back until Sunday and that it would seem odd if I didn't go the full mile . . . just as I had when Sara's parents were away.
She frowned and scrunched up her nose but in the end had to agree I had a point. I just gave her my best attempt at a Mona Lisa smile and left it at that.
Privately I was full of admiration for Ellie. I'd challenged her to get us one night together and how had she responded? By dramatically overachieving, that's how. You bet I was up for two nights with her. I would have stayed a whole week if she'd managed to wangle it.
My mum wasn't so much touchy as suspicious. She hardly knew Ellie and believed I was in love with Sara (which I was, but not unconditionally). I had to patiently explain that Ellie'd had more boyfriends than hot dinners and that I was effectively on guard duty.
'Ellie's mum doesn't want the house full of strange men,' I told her. 'She trusts me to keep all of them at bay.'
'As long as Sara's okay with it,' she said finally.
'Sara's just fine,' I assured her. 'She won't miss me at all.'
That was, I reckoned on Friday evening, a more accurate assertion than I'd thought. The eighteenth that night was at Oakwood Hall, not so very far from Sara's home or mine. Not that we accompanied each other. Oh no, not that night. I did suggest meeting up first but she pooh-poohed me.
'You go with your date,' she told me. 'And I might just surprise you.'
She did as well. When I arrived with Ellie, Jacqui and Roberta, Sara was already there on the dance floor, strutting her stuff with the captain of the football team . . . no, with the very male captain of the football team.
She'd dressed for the occasion too. I watched her a while, wondering how she'd poured herself into that slinky silver affair and if bits of her were going to pop out. Her dancing was, you see, energetic to say the least. Not that I was wishing a wardrobe malfunction on her.
Not much.
'Sara and Ray, eh,' said Jacqui. 'Who'd have thought it?'
I tried not to think about it for the rest of the party but did notice the two of them from time to time. And they were first back onto the dance floor when the music slowed. They even got there before Ellie and me.
Valiantly, knowing whispers must whizzing about here, there and everywhere, I let Ellie take the lead and banished Sara and Ray to the Siberian quarter of my brain.
There, I crowed as I slammed a thick iron door on them, enjoy the salt mines. I'm going to get laid.
Ellie was as thick-skinned as me. Ignoring countless curious glances, we danced closer than close, our groins pressing tight as we shared scalding-hot kisses.
'Tonight,' she whispered into my ear. 'I can't believe it's going to happen.'
'I'm all yours,' I whispered back.
The party wasn't due to end until midnight but by eleven we could wait no longer. Not bothering to say any goodbyes we left and walked the few hundred yards to Ellie's house. At that stage of proceedings Fervent Dave was starting to take over from Logical Dave, partly because I didn't want to do logic and was pushing it determinedly away.
You are in an open relationship, I reminded myself. And it works both ways. Sara has every right to go with Ray tonight. Good luck to her.
And with that I really did banish my number one girl for the duration.
'I'm looking forward to this,' I told Ellie as we neared her garden gate. 'I've wanted to strip your clothes off and kiss you all over ever since we met up.'
She laughed. 'It's me calling the shots, remember?'
'Okay then,' I replied. 'I can't wait for you to strip me and kiss me all over.'
She squeezed my hand. 'Sounds like a plan.'
*****
I'm going to skim through the first couple of hours at Ellie's. Suffice to say we went straight up to her room and she did indeed kiss every last inch of my body. And then I moaned and groaned and sighed while she went down on me seemingly forever.
Mmmm! Very, very nice!!
And that was supposed to be her first time with a girl.
Flipping heck, I thought, if this is her without any practice; if she can only improve . . .
Finally taking a timeout, she told me she'd modelled herself on a couple of guys who'd dared to try oral.
'One of them got close but no cigar,' she said. 'I just did it properly, the way they both should have.'
Lying entwined with her, deciding it would soon be time for me to take a more active role, I took in the dΓ©cor. Ellie's penchant for black and white carried over to her bedroom. Even the photos on the walls were monochrome: photos mainly of short-haired blondes, including a young (and exceptionally hot) Annie Lennox.
The room was stylish but had an edge to it. Grinning, I wondered if her mum had noticed the absence of male rock stars and guessed Ellie's taste for girls hadn't just appeared overnight.
My room should be more like this, I lamented, recalling the PC screens and lack of any photos at all. I shouldn't just be functional and conformist. I should put my stamp on it.