This is Part 4 of an 8-part series. You should read at least Part 1 (and preferably Parts 2 and 3) before this one, to provide some context.
Orla.
Orla is a vision. She's a beautiful cailín (Irishwoman), tall and shapely, with amazing, luxuriant, copper-red hair, which falls in gorgeous loose curls around her shoulders, stunning grey-green eyes, and creamy-pale skin, with a cute band of freckles across her cheeks and nose. Unsurprisingly, she was wowing boys from her mid teens, helped by a rapidly-developing figure (as she said, 'By the time I was 15 I was already a 34DD.') and it was almost impossible for a young impressionable girl to remain indifferent to 'all that flattery and attention.'
She was married at 18, in what she calls 'A loony infatuation when I didn't even know my arse from my elbow' and divorced at 24, somehow having avoided pregnancy. She takes up the story:
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Orla:
'I never felt like I wanted kids, and I was scrupulous with the contraception. Almost from day one of the marriage though, I had doubts. I never liked the sex, which seemed sort of animalistic to me. It was much less erotic than the delicious times when I was at home on my own and could have a long sensual session of pleasuring myself.
I began to wonder about my sexuality, and then it just happened. The moment of clarity. I was watching the film Titanic (which I hadn't seen before) and, you know, there's that scene where Kate Winslet is posing for a nude painting, and I was admiring the lovely glimpse you get of her tits and suddenly felt my pants getting wet. Bam! That was it. I thought, feck me, I'm a lesbian.
Once I'd realised it, all sorts of doubts evaporated, and lots of things suddenly made sense; why I used to be fascinated at school when our PE teacher's nipples sometimes showed through her top, or why I felt a warm tingly glow in my body when my best friend Cara hugged me. I knew I had to ask Finn, my husband, for a divorce.
He didn't take it badly. It was all a bit matter-of-fact actually. We really weren't in love and I think he was only keeping me around as a kind of trophy. Well feck that!'
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Orla was working as a restaurant manager when she divorced Finn but, with great courage, she resigned from her job, took what money she had from a modest inheritance, moved to England, and started her own restaurant which, by all accounts and Google Maps reviews, is very popular indeed.
But why, when she's so bright, feisty, gorgeous, and successful, is she coming to me and paying for sex? Well, she told me that in the six years since coming to the UK, she'd had a few lesbian relationships, but none of them lasted. She'd loved exploring her new-found lesbian sexuality, and was by now a very experienced lesbian lover, but none of these women had apparently been 'right' for her.
She decided that, to find Ms Right, she would have to be more careful and more choosy, and not just jump into bed with any lesbian woman who found her irresistible (there would be many), but she realised that that could mean a period of sexual deprivation or abstinence, and she didn't like that prospect one bit. She had come to really enjoy lesbian sex which, as she says, is so heavenly, so sensual, and so deliciously erotic, and she didn't want to give that up, even temporarily. As she might have said, 'Feck that!' So, her solution is me. I'm a stopgap. A substitute. Someone to keep her lesbian desires satisfied while she searches for her forever lover. And I'm fine with that, as long as it lasts.
She phoned me one lunchtime and said, in her typically forthright way, 'Hi 'Livia, I'm as horny as hell, do you have an opening for me?' I could almost hear the lascivious wink in her voice - she loved this kind of innuendo - and I entered into the spirit:
'I do, as it happens, you can cum now' (wink wink).
Extending the double entendre, she feigned misunderstanding, saying 'Come again?'
But I was ready for that... 'Of course. As many times as you like'.
We both burst out laughing.
'Seriously, Orla, I'm free this afternoon, so, if you want...'
'If I WANT? Jeez, do I ever. I'll be there in an hour.'
This didn't give me much preparation time, but in Orla's case, that didn't really matter because she only ever wanted my body, and the warm intimacy of feminine sex. No special prep or props were required, so I just needed to be showered, scented, and dressed in some nice underwear.
I chose a cotton rich set in black, and no stockings. The briefs were high-waisted, and there was just a thin band of lace around the waistband and a small lacy panel on the sides of the bra. Not my usual sheer or lace-heavy ensemble with black stockings and suspenders, but subtly sexy I thought. I knew Orla's preferences by now and I knew she'd love it. Not that she's averse to overtly sexy lingerie, but she had once said 'Nice undies are lovely, but nothing you can put on is better than the bare, naked you.'
I always feel I have a lot to live up to with Orla; I am a couple of inches taller than her, have a good shape, and breasts that are large enough to even overshadow hers, but she's just stunningly beautiful. Every feature and aspect of her is perfect, from head to toe, and anyone who has had a sexual partner like that will know, it can be intimidating. I wonder whether some of her relationships failed because of that. I think that being with her could easily give you an inferiority complex. Only someone who can match her sexual assurance and confidence will survive being with her.