I paused, and looked back down the track I had followed up the hill.
The Downs in high summer have a special quality. The sweet smell of bracken, the softness of the rolling hills, the cool and quiet of the patches of woodland, the hum of the insects in the hot sunshine and the tracks leading mysteriously away from the ridge path through the brilliant green of the tall bracken. They are places of beauty whatever the season but most especially in late July.
I had been walking steadily for most of the morning having risen early and driven out from the town of --------. I had parked my car in the shade of overhanging beeches, just below a favourite track up onto the Downs, before ascending.
I reached into my day pack and pulled out the water bottle and watched as below me a young couple ascended the path I had already climbed. Their heads bobbed as they worked their way up the hill. The sound of their voices reached me through the warm air.
The wonderful thing about bracken is how concealing it is. I put away the bottle and turned right into one of the tracks leading off the main path. I then immediately turned sharp left into the bracken and lay down parting the fronds to either side of me rather than crushing them beneath me. As they closed over me I was immediately hidden from view in a shaded damp, peat smelling warm micro universe. I watched an ant walking round and round a bracken stem as it made its way upwards towards the light above me, and waited. The voices of the couple came closer,
"....wonderful place to stay, all those beams and that sweet dog. I'd have loved taking it along this morning."
"What a breakfast, shouldn't have had so much tea - I need to pee."
"Me too."
Two pairs of brown legs crossed my field of view through the bracken. Sensibly shod in good walking boots, one pair of legs (rather hairy) disappeared into a pair of shorts, the other pair into a green denim skirt, its hem stroking just above the knees. "Pretty knees," I thought, "nicely prominent."
I heard the soft pad of footsteps stop. I waited a few moments. "Time", I thought, "for a closer look." Now I expect many of you like to watch couples, particularly perhaps girls, out of the corners of your eyes or through your dark sunglasses but it has to be a fairly discrete look. I have a bit of an advantage in this. I can stop time. How do I do that? Well, that would be telling.
The world fell silent as I stood up, the hint of a breeze that had been trying to move the fronds of bracken stopped, a chaffinch in mid-flight hung suspended in the air just to the right of me. I pushed through the bracken and onto the path. Ahead of me and about twenty feet away were the couple, motionless. I walked up to them. The lad clearly did need to pee as his hands were already at his fly and his penis extracted. The girl a little ahead of him was ready, hands on hem of skirt.
I don't have to hurry when the world has stopped: it waits for me. I can look and examine at my leisure. I walked up to them. The girl was turned to look at the boy, her eyes downcast looking sidelong at his fly. Long blond hair, tied back in a pony tail, ran down her back over her white shirt.
Carefully I made my way into the bracken near them trying to pull the fronds upright after me. The trouble with arrested time is when it starts up again your actions can have consequences. I did not want a ripple of delayed movement betraying my passage. Kneeling I positioned myself a little to the front of the girl, but hidden in the bracken, and lay down. I could see through the green stalks of bracken her brown legs perhaps a yard to the front of me. Comfortable, I started time.
"Can't you go with me watching?" laughed the girl to the boy as she bobbed down. I had positioned myself well. Before me were those beautiful pair of knees but now I could see further to where the skin was no longer brown. Very fine golden hairs on her legs gave way to a stronger and curlier outcrop framing her open sex. No sooner had my eyes moved to her secret place than, with a gush, she started to relieve herself. Her pee arched upwards and towards me. I could see the stream leaving her. I was spellbound with this intimate and unusual view. To my left the boy finished, shook and began to pack away his equipment. "No, leave it out," said the girl, " I like to see it."
"But we might meet someone."
"Well, I'll walk in front and lead you....by your prick!" She laughed.
Turning my head I could see them walk off, the girl ahead, her right arm reaching back and, momentarily, I could see in her hand, between finger and thumb, the boy's penis. I let them walk on for a bit before, once again, I stopped time and left my hiding place. Catching up with the couple I carefully edged around them. Not surprisingly, the boy was no longer being led by a flacid penis: the girl had a substantial handle to pull on. She was not grasping it but lightly holding it just below the head with the circle of her finger and thumb. I could imagine the light but insistent touch of her fingers on the sensitive ring. I was tempted to move her hand around my own penis which was now in a similar state to the one she was holding. I decided to wait. It was clear what would be happening shortly, the foreplay was obvious, if unusual.
I walked on up the path to where some trees overhung the path and hid myself. With a rush sound returned and before long I heard them coming up the path.
"Go on, take your shorts off ."
"Someone might come."
"I hope to soon! But we haven't seen anyone for an hour."
"Take your skirt off too and we'll walk into the bracken."
She slipped off her skirt and panties. They stood there looking at each other and embraced, the boy's penis poking into her blond curly pubic hair as they kissed.
They moved off into the bracken, two pink bottoms beneath shirt tails disappearing into the green foliage.
Faintly I heard, "I love the feel of this swishing against my legs, I'm getting wetter and wetter."
I was minded to test the veracity of that last statement! I glanced at my watch, 1 o'clock. Really I needed to be at the pub for lunch by 1.30pm if I was to get some food. Still I could always make up the time by stopping it and walking on outside it. So, effectively, I had half an hour of real time which should be sufficient for what I was expecting. It would be pleasant to watch a little light, or not so light, copulation, and perhaps join in and add my own contribution, unnoticed and outside of time of course.
It was unnecessary to hurry. It seemed unlikely they would go far: the urgency was on them. I let them find a place to settle for about five minutes, then stood up, and stopped time. Rejoining the path I soon discerned where they had pushed through the bracken. It was not too difficult to follow their tracks and soon, pushing aside bracken, I found them. They were lying side by side. The boy had undone the girls shirt and exposed one of her breasts which he was cupping in his hand. They were kissing. The girls hand encircled his penis near the head and was probably engaged in a gentle rhythmic up and down motion though, with time stopped, this was difficult to tell. The girl's legs were parted. I knelt for a closer look. Her sex framed by the golden hairs was very pretty and enticing. I reached forward and gently pushed my index finger into her. She was indeed wet. I swirled my finger around feeling the wetness and warmth. I was tempted to insert something rather larger and more substantial which was making a considerable bulge in my own trousers. I restrained this urge as the angle she was lying at was not terribly conducive and, in any case, I wished to see them in action before reaching my own climax..
I moved carefully into the bracken, positioning myself with the sun behind me and with an excellent view through the bracken stems. With the sun in their eyes, not that they would be looking around, I did not think my face would be spotted. If it was I would of course be gone, disappeared, before they could even be sure somebody was observing. The ability to stop time does make you very safe, if used wisely.