Dublin was a little awkward. Not for me -- I could fly there direct from Edinburgh -- but for Molly and the crew, getting there from Flanders, with my bikes and stuff, involved 2 days of travel and 2 ferries. Molly didn't see it as a problem though. She's just one of those people. Nothing fazes her.
I flew to Dublin on Friday afternoon and took a taxi to the team hotel. It seemed like Sharon had decided Helen was to be my regular roomie now, because we were paired again. That's fine with me, I have no problem with Helen, but I wondered how it was going with Mari and Annike.
In Troyes, Helen had only returned to our room after midnight. She'd been with Mari and Annike for hours and, although I didn't ask, there had obviously been some fun and games going on.
That's OK -- it's what we free girls do -- but at the time I was a little miffed that my tantalising tanglement with Lucy had left me high and dry and on my lonesome that night. An opportunity missed.
I definitely like to maximise my opportunities during the winter season, because the rest of the year can be quite sparse when it comes to sex.
I do enjoy my solo sessions, and I now had phone sex with Masie as an extra, but it's hard to replace real sex; real lips to kiss, real nipples to suck, the feeling of skin on skin, and the wonderfully subtle difference in the taste of another woman... I'm always a bit sad, maybe even a little panicky, as the end of the season draws near, because I know it's soon going to end.
Over dinner, as usual, there was much talk about the weather and the course, both of which were much better than at Troyes. I know I felt the mud-fest at the last race worked in my favour, but I didn't feel like Dublin would put me at a particular disadvantage. It had been dry the previous year too, but I'd finished on the podium, in third place, behind Femke and Carmen, and I knew I was at a higher level now.
The Dublin course was very different to Troyes, or even many of the Belgian courses. It was wide and sweeping, with only a small number of tight double-backs. There were some steep little climbs, and two awkward bankings, which the barriers forced you to ascend, then later descend, diagonally -- really tricky when muddy. There was one section of sand, and two plank barriers to jump over, and that was it. No really long climbs, and no flights of steps -- thank goodness. Where Troyes had forced a lot of carrying, this course was 95% riding, and quite fast. I expected it to be a lung-burster.
After dinner, I had a chat with Sharon about some arrangements. I was slightly unusual because I had my own sponsors, separate from the team, and was fairly self-sufficient, with Team Lyon, so I didn't need much of the team's support. I was just happy to ride in Febi-SRAM colours, and take the handsome salary they paid me. Sharon was just making sure I had everything I needed.
Having set her mind at rest, I joined Helen, Annike and Mari in the lounge. Although not a drop of alcohol had passed their lips, they seemed quite giddy, but they went momentarily quiet when I sat down. It was obvious that they had been talking about me.
'Oohh ouch,' I said sarcastically, 'are my ears burning?'
They giggled, guiltily. 'Okay, yes, we were talking about you...' said Helen, rolling her eyes. 'It's your own fault.'
'How so?' I feigned innocence.
'All that stuff with Lucy... Anna and Sabina saw you showering together. Honestly, Chloe. A dozen free gay girls to choose from and you have to chase a straight girl.'
'It's not like that,' I protested, 'I didn't chase her, and we weren't showering together. She was helping me with my injuries. She was a nurse, you know.'
'Ja, ja,' said Helen dismissively. 'We know there's more to it than that.'
'No, there isn't,' I insisted. 'That's all it was.'
I remained tight-lipped, for Lucy's sake, but it seemed like the rumour mill was already beyond my control. It was weird that, among a group of free and easy lesbians, with all the polyamorous liaisons going on all over the place, the possibility of me seducing a straight girl, or a straight girl turning to the light side, was such a juicy titbit.
They all looked at me knowingly, with smirks on their faces.
'Honestly,' I repeated, 'I'm not chasing Lucy. I've more than enough to be going on with at the moment.'
'Have you?' Said Mari. 'Tonight?'
'No, not tonight, but I'm spending a couple of days with Licia after the race. That should be fun. She lives in Dublin, you know.'
'They raised their eyebrows. 'Did she invite you?' asked Helen.
'Yeh, she rang me up last Sunday.'
'Wow, that's quite forward of her. She must really like you.'
'Mm, I guess so.' Weirdly, I hadn't really thought of it like that.
'Your popularity is never-ending, Chloe,' said Mari. 'Lucy wants you,' -- I gave her a scowl -- 'Licia wants you, we all want you... Must be overwhelming.'
'Oh, I cope,' I grinned. I couldn't really tell if Mari was being serious, or tongue-in-cheek, or if there was a hint of cattiness there.
'Yes, we were discussing you,' said Helen. 'We were planning a possible room swap; me with Annike and Mari with you,' She turned to Mari. 'Maybe Chloe hasn't got room for you in her busy, busy, schedule, Mari.'
I ignored the sarcasm. 'Oh, I've always got room for Mari,' I said, giving her a fruity smile.
I liked the proposal, and I felt a little thrum of excitement building within me. I had been with Mari once before and I liked it. She's very tall and slender, very blonde, right down to her eyebrows and lashes, and very, very wet. I recalled that very clearly about her. I remembered being shocked and thrilled by it. There were no "peegasms" or "squirting" here though. It was pure vaginal wetness, but so much of it. My God. I couldn't wait
'I like the suggestion, Helen,' I said. 'Let's do it.'
Mari smiled at me and Helen and Annike smiled at each other. Everyone was happy, everyone was horny, everyone was ready. We downed the last of our drinks, got up and headed upstairs, rather giggly.
Annike was at the front, dragging Helen by the hand, and I brought up the rear, so I could take in Mari's slender form as she climbed the stairs. Her slim hips and thighs and her very neat little bum were a complete contrast to Helen's much more curvaceous contours, but there was something very alluring about her slinky walk and the way it made her blonde plait swing from side to side.
At 182cm (almost 6ft) she's one of the tallest women in pro cycling, yet she weighs only 63kg (139lbs) so she is extremely willowy. I love that about her though. I love the way she has to bend her head to kiss me, love the hollow of her flat stomach between her hip bones, love the dimples in her bum cheeks, her long, thin fingers, her prominent collar bones... I even love her extraordinarily subtle breasts -- merely slight swellings on her chest.
When I look at her slim thighs, such a contrast to Helen's, I wonder how she produces the power she does, but she is faster than Helen, and can even out-climb her, which just goes to show that, in endurance sports, the most important thing is your aerobic engine, and that has little to do with your external physical form.
When we got into the room, we started to undress. She was quickly down to just knickers, but before I'd even got my bottoms off she grabbed me by the waist and pulled me to her. 'You might be miss popular, Chloe Lyons, but tonight you are MINE.' She pulled me hard against her with one arm, and, with the other, she took my hand and said, 'You want to feel my wet spot? I'm so turned on, Chloe.' She guided my hand to her crotch, where I felt her already wet gusset. 'Mmm, feel it... You like it, don't you?'
I remembered this about her. Far from being embarrassed by her wetness, she revelled in it, and so did I; 'Mm, I love it, Mari.' I gazed up into her eyes, and I brought my hand up and licked it, salaciously. 'Ooh, gorgeous.' It was too.
She quickly dropped her knickers and picked them up, then she poked them into my mouth. She did this last time we were together, so I was kind of expecting it. I had no objection to having her knickers in my mouth, but the only sexual thing about it is as a symbol of domination, and I was OK with that too.
Surprisingly, given how wet her gusset was, they felt predominantly dry, so I pulled them out and spread them over my face so I could tongue the wet part... Confession: I've actually done this more than once with my own knickers when having a wank. It's deliciously lewd.
I curled my tongue around the wet gusset, then sucked it between my lips, extracting her juice from the material, and she watched me with dilated pupils, her hand now busy between her legs.
I still had my own knickers on, since she'd interrupted me mid strip, and they were also pretty damp by this point, so I put my hands on her shoulders and pressed her down.. She knew what I was suggesting, and she dropped to her knees then sat back on her heels. I was hardly tall enough, even with her in this position, but she leaned back and I moved up over her.
I was still sucking on her knickers as I brought mine close to her face, then slipped my thumbs into the waistband and stretched them out so they covered her features. They were super-stretchy and I was able to pull the waistband up to her forehead, so that the little reinforcing pad of the crotch was right over her mouth, then I watched as the bulge of her tongue travelled all over the wet material from underneath.
This was making me so fucking hot, I wanted that tongue on my clit RIGHT NOW, and I released the waistband, then yanked the gusset to one side and thrust my pussy against her. A bit of knicker fetishism is OK, but you can't beat direct tongue-to-pussy contact.
She licked me briefly, but then pulled my knickers down so she could really get at me, and buried her face in my sex. I held her blonde head in my hands, and enjoyed her hungry oral attentions, and it was sublime. Mari is a sorceress when it comes to oral sex.
There are so many different techniques for eating pussy, and every woman is different. Mari is as much about lips as she is about tongue. She does a lot of kissing and sucking, smooching with my labia and running her mouth smoothly over my clit. It's subtle and she know exactly when to apply suction, and when to just let her lips glide... Magical.