This is a lot longer than I anticipated, but the characters wanted some depth. Hope you like it!
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Lots of Skin
Fiona took a deep, deep, deep breath and held it in. She could taste the ocean in the air, feel the sun on her smooth, bronze skin and the light breeze play with her shiny curls. She curved her fingers around the railing of their balcony and arched her shoulders, dropping her head back and exhaling luxuriously. This was, after all, exactly what she had wanted. The perfect escape.
What she hadn't expected was this consistent burning down low behind her navel. Thinking back, she figured it started when she had boarded the plane. She could still remember that lovely smell, so vividly that she could have sworn she was still smelling it now. It made the burning better and more intense at the same time. She shook her head.
'I guess I needed this get away a lot more than I realised,' Fiona mused. Her rational side told her the fact that everything felt so much more potent was just normal holiday vibes. It had, however, no explanation for what had happened on the plane. She blamed the slightly fuzzy memories on the day drinking. She blamed the episode in the bathroom on her not having had any action for a while. She had found nothing to blame for 98 other people going completely crazy in the confined space.
The brunette sighed heavily and rested her head in her hands. She had mulled this over and over since she woke up a few hours ago. In a shared room she had no idea how she'd gotten into. Completely naked and with her hands between her legs.
'This isn't me...,' Fiona protested, 'I'm no prude, not by a long shot, but to go so completely out of control? What on earth happened?!'
She felt her chest heaving with sudden anxiety, her breasts pressing against the thin bikini top and tingling from the sensation.
'This is so fucking confusing!' Fiona growled silently. She liked being in control. She had tried telling herself to just relax, but her mind kept running in circles around the misfit puzzle pieces in her thoughts. She often did this, overthinking things. Her boyfriend had known how to pull her out of the ever deepening circles of doom her brain liked to spiral into. Her boyfriend...
"Oh my god!" Fiona shouted into the air in front of her. She was so fed up with this turmoil of feelings! Every time she thought she had gotten herself back on track, smelling the almost intoxicating air and feeling a little more relaxed, her brain threw her a curveball, slipped in a thought that had her spiralling again.
The slow burning in her belly only made it worse. She couldn't concentrate enough to break the cycle. All her sensations, feelings, emotions seemed to be amplified, competing for her attention and leaving her exhausted. Fiona took a deep, deep, deep breath and held it in. Maybe this time it would work. She explored her senses, finding things she could smell, hear, feel ... The calm ocean air washed over her, once again working the tension out her muscles with a peaceful ease.
Behind her, woken by Fiona's shouting, a blonde mass of hair appeared from under the blankets.
"Hmmmm," Charlie stretched, "what crawled across your breakfast today?"
Fiona whirled around. "Oh my word, did I wake you? I'm so sorry! I'm just... I can't... Urrgh, I can't seem to get my head straight."
A thought popped into her head right then, actually helping her to focus on something other than her spiralling. "How funny that we got a shared room. I don't even remember checking in."
Charlie sat up in bed, the blanket slipping off her slim frame and revealing a thin silk camisole that hung low over her breasts.
"Hmmm, the plane ride was a little crazy." She tilted her head and looked at Fiona. Taking in the hair, slightly wild from being run through with fingers all morning, the mildly panicked expression and the hunched shoulders, Charlie frowned.
"How are you doing with that, by the way? I know it was new for you."
She paused, giving Fiona time to think. She remembered all too well how Fiona had been on the plane, all eager on the one hand and scared on the other. But she had trusted Charlie and let go, and Charlie wanted her to remember that, and then think about how it had felt to succumb, to give up control... Charlie found herself teetering on that edge herself. As much as Fiona looked like a little deer in the headlights, she could still appreciate her tight body in the skimpy bikini she had thrown on, nipples showing through the thin fabric of the top - and it was making it difficult to stay in bed.
Fiona took a deep, deep, deep breath and held it in. She could smell Charlie again - how on earth she still smelled like strawberries was beyond her - and it whirled her mind back to the plane, the bathroom and the mind-blowing orgasm she had. The worries about the orgy, if this was what she really wanted... they seemed a little smaller now. She sighed.
"I don't regret it, I don't think - if that's what you mean," she mused, slowly gathering her thoughts.
Charlie nodded, patted the bed beside her and waited for Fiona to sit down. She started stroking the brunette's hair, the rubbed her back. Fiona relaxed some more.
"It was just so... so different from anything I've ever done. And basically in public, and with everyone else there... I don't know if I can look anyone in the eye today. I don't know how to feel about this at all! My brain's telling me what happened on the plane is super wrong but everyone was doing it, so it seems okay... and you, the way you made me feel... oh my god, there can't be anything wrong with that."
Charlie intensified her attention to Fiona's back, gently rubbing circles over it.
"You're right, you know," she said, "the plane ride was crazy. But everyone here's an adult, they all wanted this... And what we did was by far not the craziest thing there. I don't think you have to worry about anyone else at all."