Here is the promised sequel to
"The Fun & Risks of an All-over Tan"
. The original story was, I accept, somewhat abrupt in its ending - my excuse is the pressure of writing for a competition deadline! Hopefully this rather longer second part will give a more satisfying conclusion.
I hope you find it enjoyable and do, please, take a moment to rate the story. Feedback and comments are always very welcome as I love to hear the thoughts and opinions of readers.
As ever, I must give my very great thanks to Winterreisser for his diligent editing, encouragement and suggestions.
Happy reading,
Sue
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Prologue
"'Do elves live in these woods?' he asked," I read in my Frodo voice.
"'Not that I ever heard,' said Pippin. Frodo was silent. He too was gazing eastward along the road, as if he had never seen it before. Suddenly he spoke, aloud but as if to himself, saying slowly:"
I feel Dylan snuggle in against me as I sit on the bed next to him. I glance from the book, a big illustrated copy of
'The Lord of the Rings'
that I borrowed from Dad when Dylan insisted that was the next book he wanted read at bedtimes after we finished reading
'The Hobbit'
. At just under ten I suspect he may be a bit young for
'The Lord of the Rings'
but he seems to have enjoyed the first two and a bit chapters so maybe I'm wrong.
"'The road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.'
"'That sounds like a bit of old Bilbo's rhyming,' said Pippin. 'Or is it one of your own imitations? It does not sound altogether encouraging.'" I pitch my voice higher to be Pippin.
"'I don't know,' said Frodo. 'It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard it long ago. Certainly it reminds me very much of Bilbo in the last years, before he went away. He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. Do you realize that this is the very path that goes through Mirkwood, and that if you let it, it might take you to the Lonely Mountains or even further and to worse places?' He used to say that on the path outside the front door at Bag End, especially after he had been out for a long walk.'"
I glance again at Dylan and see that he is nodding, almost asleep. "Okay, Dylan, let's stop there," I say, slipping the bookmark into place and closing the book.
"Aw...Sue Mum," he complains tiredly but this is just for forms sake; he knows he is too tired and just wants to sleep. If he'd really objected he'd have called me just 'Sue' or even 'Susan' and he doesn't complain as I tuck him in and give him a kiss.
"Night-night Dylan," I say fondly.
"Night-night Mum," he replies sleepily. I move to stand up and he holds my hand. "Cuddle... please." How can I refuse? I lie on the duvet beside him and hug him gently. Once he'd finally accepted us as foster parents he'd wanted to be cuddled to sleep almost every night. It is less frequent these days but always so sweet when he asks. Anyway, we've begun the process to adopt Dylan so he'll be our son in a few months, hopefully. Dylan seemed genuinely happy with the idea when we talked to him about it and we know he loves us both.
When we'd decided to foster we assumed it would be a girl we'd care for; after all, I had two daughters. However, there was something about Dylan when we met him. He had been a handful - he still can be at times - but his life up to that point had been a rough one: periods in care alternating with disastrous attempts to settle him back with his mother, a woman in her mid-twenties and who'd given birth to him at just sixteen. She had ongoing issues with drugs and an unerring aptitude for choosing brutes of men as boyfriends.
I close my eyes as I hold this little boy. The words I just read him drift through my mind: 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to...' Or you step out into your garden naked and get locked out. You meet the young woman you knew when she was a girl younger that Dylan is now, who offers to help and, after a couple of hours and a streak down the road together, you end up in bed with her for a first, incredible experience of lesbian sex. And you might, stupidly, say that you love her, like you're some dumb, infatuated teenager. Of course it is one thing to say something like that, quite another for it to be true...
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Chapter One
I wake and stretch languidly. I can hear the shower running in the bathroom next door as Vince goes through his morning routine. He is such a creature of habit in the mornings that I know he will have already peed and shaved and that after he has showered he will head downstairs in his white terry cotton bathrobe for a glass of orange juice, toast and marmalade (or honey occasionally, just for variety!) and a mug of tea. Then back upstairs to clean his teeth and dress in his suit and off to work. The question is: do I get up?
I am, still, naked on this, the third morning in a row making it, let me think... fifty-five and a bit hours since I last had a stitch of clothing on my body. I am thoroughly enjoying this nude existence; Vince, on the other hand, seems to be getting pissed off by it, though I'm not sure why.
My best guess is that he doesn't understand why I'm doing it: yesterday evening when I appeared naked in front of him his first thought was that I was too hot and then wondered if I was craving sex with him. Neither, of course was true: I was warm but not too hot and as for sex with him... no! I'd spent the afternoon in bed with Nix experiencing lesbian sex for the first time - incredible, wonderful, mind-blowing lesbian sex - and was desperate to be with Nix again today.
I find that I've dozed off again when Vince re-enters the bedroom to collect his phone that he left on the bedside table. I give him a fleeting kiss goodbye and he turns to go. "Will you be back late again tonight?" I ask.
"Possibly; that contract has still to be signed." He sounds resigned, like he'd much rather be coming home. Perhaps he would, though he never seems to make much effort getting back when there
isn't
a major contract to sign.
"Okay. I hope it goes well," I tell him and I mean it. I stretch and the sheet slips down, uncovering my bare boobs. His look is unreadable.
"Enjoy you day off," he says and heads off, the door slamming a minute later.
Nix arrives early, though still an hour after Vince left for work, coming to the patio door. Despite the broken latch on the outside, the door still works from within. No sooner has she stepped inside (as naked as me, as I had predicted she'd be!) than we're in each other's arms kissing. It doesn't take long before I'm once more leading her upstairs.
She takes the charge again but, this time, instead of asking me to copy what she does, she lays me back and begins kissing and licking her way down my body, starting at my lips and working down my neck to my shoulder. I reach down, cupping her boob in my hand and caressing it, my fingers brushing the hard nub of her nipple. "No, Suzie, I want you to let me make love to you this time," she tells me.
"But I want to make it good for you too," I protest.
"It will be, Suzie, don't worry; I really will enjoy doing this. Don't feel guilty but enjoy it, please." Her lips return to my chest as she begins kissing every millimetre of my boobs. She was right: I do feel guilty just being the recipient because I should be seeking her pleasure too. However, I try to relax and go with it and to be completely aware of what she is doing - such as the kisses and licks that now flutter across my tummy - and I discover that I feel them much more intensely. It is not the orgasm inducing pleasure of the sex we'd enjoyed yesterday, it doesn't even feel like foreplay, though, of course it is. It's wonderful: a gentle, sustained sensuality that has me floating.