by mandywilluk2000
aka
Amanda Williams
A tender story about how a daughter's best friend introduces her mother to the Sapphic world of woman to woman sex.
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I suppose I had thought about sex with my own gender about as much as most women. Which wasn't very much or often. Sure, now and then I had wondered what it might be like to have my body pressed against another female and occasionally I had speculated on why some women did and some didn't. And yes I had wondered what it would be like to be either, bisexual or lesbian, and, very occasionally I had felt a touch of attraction to a woman's figure or face, but that was more like I might to anything of beauty and not because it was a female. But thinking along those lines occupied little of my time.
Also in the thirty years or so of my active sex life, I had never been exposed to a situation where I had to choose or where I had to reject an advance of any sort. I was never approached and certainly had never been tempted. I felt comfortable and satisfied with my sexuality, with my sex life with my husband of nearly twenty five years and with my lot.
Married to a successful businessman and working freelance as a copywriter mainly for a couple of ad agencies, I had, overall, a good life. We were financially quite well off, our marriage was as succesfull as most, not fantastic, but ok and I was faithful to him as, I think, he was to me. Ok I had strayed once but that was years ago and the desire to check out whether the 'grass was greener on the other side,' had left me. Perhaps it was age, but I no longer felt the need to experiment.
I was also quite content with my family life. My twenty two year old son was doing great at Bristol University where he was reading English and Sara, my eighteen year old daughter was waiting the results of her A levels where her school had forecast four A grades; we were all nervous as the results were due in a week's time.
I had even, recently, become at peace with myself. Most of my adult life I had fought a battle with the flab and had on occasions bloated up to nearly eleven stones, just over one hundred and fifty pounds. Now, I had got that in order. I was fairly settled at just over ten stones and, whilst my ample D cup boobs were an inconvenience, particularly with tennis and golf and a men's gaze attractor, I was relaxed about my body. Curvy as some called it, Rubenesque as Kevin did, the sod.
It was that summer when things changed. It was August when events occurred that would probably change my life for ever.
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Sara was waiting for her A level results. She had provisionally gained a place at Durham, but had decided to delay that so she could have a gap year travelling. During that summer as they waited for their results she and her friends spent a lot of time at my house, largely because we had a pool. One of her friends in particular Samantha, Sammi or Sam as she preferred it for short, seemed to be there nearly all the time, often sleeping over. She wasn't the prettiest of girls, though neither was she by any means unattractive; interesting would be an apt term for her looks. She had a rather severe looking face with slightly bulging eyes, a nose which was a little too large for her face and thin lips. Her brown, mousy hair was cropped rather short and she gelled it, something I wasn't keen on with girls. I guess the best description of her build was chunky. She was about average height and whilst by no means overweight, she was muscular. She had the body of an athlete and she excelled at all sports. School captain at netball and hockey she also played in the recently formed soccer team at which she represented both our town and county.
She seemed to have a permanent twinkle in her eye and always had an answer. A little cocky perhaps and somewhat different to the rest she had a pretty poor disciplinary record at school with rumours abounding that were it not for her sporting prowess she would have been expelled ages ago.
Despite the drawbacks in appearance, there was something about that the other kids, both the blokes and the girls seemed to like. She was a natural leader, was outgoing and friendly and was probably the most popular kid in the school.
"You look great Missus W," she said when I climbed out of the pool in my bikini. I hadn't realised Sara and she were up, for it was barely eight in the morning when I normally had my swim.
"Thanks Sammi," I said not thinking much of the way she remained staring at me.
I knew the swim suit was brief and I had put on some weight as well, typically on my DDs as I called the bastards so they were almost spilling out of the bra. I was actually, relieved that I was even wearing a bra for often I swam topless or naked, but not when the kids were around.
"Oh you're very welcome," she said walking away, but looking over her shoulder and smiling.
I didn't think any more of it and went and showered and changed into shorts and a vest, which again was annoyingly tight on me.
"Breakfast girls?" I said breezily bowling into the conservatory that covered one end of the pool.
Sara was there with another friend Kim and Sammi. They were all in shorts and brief tops.
"Yes please," Sammi said as the other two concentrated on the Gameboys or whatever they were playing with. She looked right at me from where she was lounged back on one of the sun beds and smiled as she said with another of her beguiling smiles. "What's on offer Missus W?"
I didn't see much of them until the evening when I came back from the gym. Kim had gone, but Sammi was still there.
I made dinner and after eating that Sara suggested a swim.
"You shouldn't swim on a full stomach, leave it a while," I said.
"Ok, but come on Sammi let's get changed," Sara said.
"Into what?" Sammi said coolly
"Our swim suits of course."
"Do we really need them, after all we're all friends" she said looking straight at me as she added, "I'm sure your mum won't mind will you Missus W?"
I felt rather embarrassed. "Why do you say that Sammi?"
"Ah just an instinct," she coyly replied.
"Don't lie Sammi you know it's because I told you mum often swims naked," Sara blurted out.