A kiss! What is a kiss? It seems so innocent and yet!
We do it all the time, we kiss our children; or parents; our siblings; family members; friends; even work colleagues, sometimes we can even kiss strangers when greeting them. A kiss is something innocent, a form of greeting, a simple brushing of your lips against another persons, or against their cheek, that is the innocent kiss, but there is another sort. The kiss between two lovers. Or the kiss that starts a love affair.
A kiss that presages pure lust; an invitation to sex; the beginnings of sex between you; part of sexual abandon and loss of control. The sort of kiss that starts slowly, then builds from simple lips touching, to mouths opening, tongues entwining, almost eating each other in desire and passion, all control and thoughts of outcomes and consequences forgotten.
That's what started this tale, a simple innocent pressing of two pairs of lips together that started a fire between two unexpecting people that in the end left two families devastated and ripped apart, and two people madly in love and ridden with guilt at all the pain and suffering they were causing to those innocent people they also loved.
A kiss that started so innocently, a kiss that is by chance, unplanned or even as part of a dare!
So yes, it started with a kiss, a simple kiss that changed my life. A kiss that started as a dare.
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I was part of a hen party taking place a few weeks before the wedding date, there were about thirty of us, ranging from the bride to be, and her friends, all in their early twenties, to her mother and her friends, like me, who had just turned forty.
We were in the nightclub of the hotel we were staying in, but in a restricted VIP area that had been reserved exclusively for us for the night, it was obvious what we were, a group of women, on the way to getting drunk and out for a good time. All innocent so far.
We were loud and raucous, boisterous but not rowdy. We were issuing dares to each other, certain items of clothing being removed, dancing with the men in the club, getting up close and personal, but never going too far. Fortunately, the men realised what the score was and played along, dancing, happy to cop a quick feel of boob or bum if they could and the woman was willing, or a kiss, but nothing more than that.
Some, mainly the younger ones, but not only them, would go as far as they dared, no most did that, pressing against the lucky guy, some even let the guy snog them, but not me. Me I was staying nice and quiet in the background. Keeping away from the more exuberant happenings, singing along to the music and getting enough booze onboard me to make me feel happy and glowing, nice and mellow. After all, I was happily married with two teenage kids.
The only thing that got a bit out of hand was when two of the future bridesmaids pounced on a young guy they had invited into our area, and that was against all our rules, that was our haven, our safe place, and gave him a blow job under the table, but they were young and single, so weren't cheating on anyone. And they were cheered on by all of us. Not something that would have happened in my day but hey.
Now I'm not a prude and never have been. I wasn't exactly promiscuous during my youth, but no saint either, I had plenty of sex and with plenty of partners. I didn't put out on the first date, but after I finally lost my virginity, then most times when a guy dated me he didn't go home frustrated. Now let me make one thing clear, I didn't do sympathy dates or things like that, I only dated guys who I really liked, sometimes I went without dating for months. So the fact that somewhere along the line we would have sex seemed natural to me. I liked it, so why not.
Things had started to hot up and we were now onto vodka chasers, necking them and slamming the glasses down noisily, everyone was now well on the way to oblivion and inhibition, and monster hangovers in the morning. But still in the sanctity of our haven.
Caroline, the brides' mother and one of my best friends stood up and shouted, "Hey Libby, it's been a while since you've done a dare."
"Shit," I thought, "what does she have in mind now."
"Libby, I dare you to kiss someone."
No! she knows I don't do that now, she knew I didn't want to get close and personal, I'd told her that, and I'd even managed to squirm out of dancing with a gorgeous young hunk of a guy who I would have happily seduced and devoured if I was single. But since I had started to get serious with Nigel who is now my husband my wilder days were behind me. I was a monogamous one-man woman and had been for twenty years now.
"I dare you to kiss," she slurred drunkenly before continuing, "I dare you to kiss Denise,"
I looked at her in shock and surprise as whoops and cheers went around our group. Denise was another friend of Caroline's, about my age, also married with teenagers, and one hot lady, not that I am into women. I knew her in passing.
Denise looked at me equally shocked and embarrassed, neither of us knew what to do, it was obvious that we didn't want to kiss each other. We both begged to be let off the dare, but things got more heated with the girls now and they kept urging us on.
Bowing to the pressure and not wanting to spoil the vibe I looked at Denise and shrugged acceptance indicating I will if you will, all the time staring daggers at Caroline. Denise did the same and we moved into the middle of the group and stood facing each other.
Hesitantly I slid my arms around Denise's waist and pulled her to me, I could feel the warmth of her firm body against mine as she came closer and pressed her body to mine, gently, hips and boobs coming into contact.