Chapter 4 - Thunder and Lightning
Susan tripped off to school, freshly showered and breakfasted in the morning. Her knickers and brassiere had been brought to her by Mr Canning as she lay in bed. He had woken her with a cup of tea and two 'Rich Tea' biscuits on a tray. A tray complete with freshly laundered and ironed white female undergarments.
A second day returning from school not to her own house but to Mr Canning's house. The old man opened the door for her with a smile and busied himself making her a cup of tea as he asked her about her day. An early supper and then she settled herself, knee crossed over knee, to do her homework.
"I'm doing some washing. Would you like..."
Susan knew what Mr Canning was asking. She stood again and reached up into her skirt and pulled down her knickers and handed them to him. What would someone looking through the window have thought as she then undid her blouse, unclipped her brassiere, and handed it to him as well? Susan returned to her homework, buttoning her blouse, and now feeling a little strange with no knickers beneath her pleated school skirt.
At ten o'clock there was a ring at the doorbell. It was Mr Lovell.
"Beastly night. I thought I'd pop around to see how Susan was doing today."
Nice to sit with the two old boys and drink cocoa and chat by the fireside. Outside the rain started to fall and Mr Canning suggested Mr Lovell stayed the night. Susan thought probably he had been going to stay anyway. She wondered why they did not live together.
Nice to settle into her bed with a hot water bottle. Really, she should have gone to her house and collected a nightie but had somehow not got around to it. She certainly did not want to go out in the rain. Not that it would really matter now she had no clothes on!
Susan read and then put her light out.
The rain beat harder against the windowpanes. There was a flash of lightning.
"You're not frightened, are you Susan?" A voice from her half open door. Another flash and there was Mr Canning in a pair of striped, flannel pyjamas.
She was about to say, 'of course not! She was eighteen, not eight, after all.
"You can come and sleep with me if you like."
"Yes please, Mr Canning." She had meant to say no - of course 'no.' How had that happened?
She made to get out of bed, throwing the covers to one side. A lightning flash just as she was manoeuvring her legs out of the bed and again, she saw Mr Canning waiting by the door.
"Come, take my hand."
Oh! What a mistake to make in the dark.
"That's my penis, Susan."
"But, but, but... it's erect."
"I saw rather a lot of you when you got out of bed. I couldn't help... it happens."
Oh dear, she had rather had her legs open when the lightning had come. Such an effect - so quickly.
"Ah here's Mr Lovell. He's got up too. Perhaps to see what is going on. It's all right Mr Lovell. I was just taking Susan to my bed. She's frightened."
"Ah, the lightning."
"Susan," added Mr Canning, "why don't you hold onto Mr Lovell as well."
Susan reached but did not find his hand; rather she found a second erection.
"Sorry," she said but found she could not let go. Her hands seemed stuck in their clasp. There she was in the pitch darkness of Mr Canning's landing with two old men's erect penises in her hands. Another flash of lightning and she saw it all like a photograph. The two old men in striped pyjamas but with their erections out of their flies and in her hands. She felt frozen to the spot, holding onto their warm hardness.
"You'll catch your death out here," said Mr Lovell. "You haven't even pyjamas on. Not a stitch. Come into bed where it is warm." She felt his arm go around her shoulder, drawing her to him.
"I..."
Mr Canning's arm came around her as well.
"Less frightened now?" Mr Canning's voice seemed full of concern and comforting. "Come, Susan, we'll all get into my bed together, one on each side of you. Don't be frightened. We'll comfort you; we'll give you strength."
The penises felt strong in her hands, rigid with manly strength. She was sure she knew what the male comforting would be: rather more than a cuddle. There seemed nothing for it. It was she who had grasped them wrongly. It would be rude not to let things take their course.
"Come, Susan." She walked with them, they knowing the way in the pitch darkness. She let them lead her, her hands clasped upon their forward pointing penises, guiding her. Penises pointing towards Mr Canning's warm bed.
"Here we are, Susan, in you hop."
But she did not move. She found she could not unclasp her hands. Could not remove them: instead, the thought of them being Jose and Michael's cocks swam into her mind. She was momentarily confused. The thought of taking both friends to bed with her so pleasing. What would they say about that?