Curiosity is a powerful thing. I imagine her, Curiosity, as a beautiful woman, ethereal and transparent. She beckons men (and women, too, but mostly men, for some reason I think) with her curling finger. We follow her, those of us who hear her call. She smiles over her shoulder at us as she sheds her clothes, and we go with her, never minding our footsteps, keeping our gazes on the luxurious gossamer tresses that fall down her naked back, watching intently as she keeps leading, turning her head from time to time to tether us to her smile as we head who-knows-where.
Curiosity sat up nights with Gallileo by candlelight and urged him to gaze at the heavens through a telescope, and with DaVinci as she directed him to dissect bodies behind closed doors by a lamplight.
She's led men to smash atoms, go to the moon and back, sail seas that might have ended in watery cliffs. She's granted satisfaction. She's killed cats.
Marco Polo followed her east, Columbus followed her west, she drew Stanley and Livingston into the jungle, Lewis and Clark into the Rockies. Henry Hudson followed her up the river that now bears his name, Amerigo Vespucci to the new world that bears his.
Cartier followed her up the St. Lawrence and founded Montreal, and the first Canadian Beaufaires followed him.
And she, Curiosity, has led people to strange beds, dismal hotel rooms, under bushes in the moonlight, onto the haystacks of secluded stables.
And now she's tempting me, and she's asking me about Janice's body and how it looks when it's naked and in the act of love. Are her nipples broad and flat with pea-sized pink-nubs, like I suppose? Or are they large and pouting with tan surfaces that cringe into wrinkles when a finger or a tongue touches them?
What do you think, Peter? Curiosity asks.
Is her pubic hair wild, or a trimmed triangle, or in a landing strip, or bare? Are the lips of her sex tight and understated or full, long, prone to being pulled in and out by a toy? Does she use a toy? A vibrator? Does she moan and shake when she has an orgasm, do her legs stiffen? Tell me, Curiosity, tell me.
Shhh, Curiosity says in a hollow, breathy, reverberating whisper. You'll have to find out for yourself, Peter. Or just stay curious like me.
Curiosity has slipped herself into my psyche in the form of a fantasy of seeing Nellie, my Nellie, and Janice together. Perhaps that seductress, Curiosity, tucked it into my pocket at the party, when Nellie and I were asleep under the table.
The fantasy occurs involuntarily, at night when I sleep. It's fleeting, a fading hint when I wake with only a dim idea of the contents of the dream, but I wake hard and slide Nellie's hand onto my erection.
"Aren't we a tiger this morning, then," she purrs as she smiles and opens one eye.
"I was having a dream about you," I say.
"Were you?" she asks coyly as she slowly slides her hand up and down on me through my pajama bottoms. The pressure on my shaft is just right. She knows me.
I lift her over and up on top of me, and she whoops and giggles at the suddenness. She jerks my pajama bottoms down, and she takes her nightgown off over her head. It's rather plain, a short, thin white linen, but it's my favorite.
"What was your..." her question falls into a gasp as I enter her "...your dream about?" she exhales.
"It was about you," it feels so good inside her, anything but the truth is impossible, "and...another woman."
"Mmm...naughty boy," she grins and groans as she closes her eyes. She's leaning back and working her hips to and fro in long, fluid movements.
Then Curiosity is on the bed with us. She's lying on her side next to us, head propped on her hand, reclining, watching us, transparent curls falling along her forearm. Her voice is far away. Nellie doesn't see or hear her; this is, after all, my Curiosity. Maybe Nellie has her own that I can't see or hear.
Ask her, Peter, Curiosity says. You want to know, don't you? You've wanted to find out since you saw those pictures on her computer, haven't you? Isn't Finding Out the most important thing?
So I ask.
"Have you ever...been with a woman?" I murmur up to Nellie. Her hips are moving back and forth slowly. My cock fills her, and she rubs her clit across the bare base of it. Her eyes are closed, and her chin is lifted.
"Yes," she breathes. Her answer is quick, preoccupied.
"Was it good? Did you enjoy it?" I ask.
Nellie seems suddenly amused by these questions. Her movements on me stop, and she leans over me. Her face is right above mine, and her bemused smile is framed by platinum blonde hair falling around her face. She raises her eyebrows and nods in small movements, the gesture that sometimes accompanies a frank answer.
"Yes. Yes I did."
For me, insecurity creeps in.
"More than me?"
She tilts her head to the side and grins at me. Then she puts her fingertip to my lips and shakes her head no in small shakes.
"No, no, no, love, no. I never loved any of them like I love you."
Any of them? Them, as in more than one? I think to myself. Curiosity makes an O with her lips and smiles. She raises her chin and eyebrows, and lowers her eyelids.
Nellie's hips slowly grind again, and I lift up to tongue her nipples and the pink flesh of them puckers and crinkles. She's slowly pushing herself into me, into the base of my cock, I can feel the rubbery pebble of her clit pressing into me. Her eyes are closed, her mouth open, her forward strokes are quick and jabbing. Her tits are swaying, quivering. I'm bucking now, lifting my hips to her, pushing up against her pushing down against me, pushing up into one last movement that spills me into her and then I'm still except for that part of me inside her, spewing and pulsating.
I press my pubis into her, I know she's close now, and I want to stay inside of her even if I'm soft and spent. I want her to cum with my cock inside her this time, not dripping me onto my lips or my fingers or my tongue. Her head pitches forward, platinum-blonde hair recoiling, a toss of the head, another, another, another, braces bared in her grimace, and then she's on my chest, our bare chests rising and falling together. My soft cock slips out of her with my seed.
The sound of distant traffic floats through our bedroom window, traffic a block over on Queen's Gate.
We lay there in the Saturday morning light, her head on my chest, her finger drawing hearts on my stomach in the puddle of me that's leaked out of her.
"Tell me about your dream," she says as she suddenly rises up onto her elbows. "Who was I with?"
I'm totally relaxed. Lying is impossible.
"Janice."
"Ooh, really. Janice, is it, then?" She seems pleased somehow. "What were we doing?"
"You know, the usual."
"The usual?" Nellie asks playfully.
"Kissing, licking, sucking."
"What do you think her tits look like, her nipples, I mean?" Nellie asks. She's stroking the inside of my thigh, right by my balls. My sack is slick with the juices from our fucking.