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It was a bright, sunny day outside, and the freshly fallen snow from the night's blizzard glittered like the surface of a calm sea. Light scattered about, illuminating everything a little and giving shadows an indistinct edge. The air was perfectly still, and the trees were laden with powder.
Louise could see it all from her table in the lodge's breakfast room, and it made her feel even more sick than when she had first mistakenly rolled out of bed. Why had she indulged in the
apres-ski
? She should have known better. At the best of times she had no head for drink, and after months of abstinence and a long day on the slopes with minimal food.. well, she was paying for it now.
It had to be done, really. She had to go out and get smashed eventually, to remind herself that her reasons for avoiding alcohol really were gone. Since she and Luke had parted, her odds of becoming pregnant were next to nil, and would probably remain that way for a long time. She refused to consider the possibility it might never happen. It had to. But for now, she had to stop herself staying so obsessed.
All she had wanted for years was to be pregnant, and in the end it was their failure to conceive that had torn her and Luke apart. Well, that and a few months of fruitless IVF and too many fertility hormones, she thought wryly and bitterly. In all seriousness, she realised she had probably put too much pressure on him, but it was too late to fix that. She was thirty six, and even if she looked young and sexy her body was quickly reaching its limit. Already, two of her friends had to concede that they would never have their own children because they had left it too long. Her biggest fear was to suffer that as well.
She wished she could forget about it all for a little while, and she had come on holidays to do just that. But everything reminded her of her predicament. She and Luke had come here on a romantic weekend when they started trying. Her first few days here, she'd avoided alcohol out of habit, which reminded her even more. And to top it all off, she was acutely aware that she was ovulating. Her pussy was constantly moist because of it, and she found herself unconsciously measuring up all of the male skiers and snowboarders she saw, imagining what it would feel like to have them between her thighs.
She got up and padded out to the ski lockers in her socks, having not bothered to put shoes on yet. She was too much a creature of habit, and she knew it. She was still taking her fertility pills long after any chance of conceiving had passed, even though she was beginning to think they were all snake-oil. One effect was for sure, she was really horny and very frustrated as a result.
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On the way out to the ski lifts, she was slightly bemused at how few skiers were up and about. She had gotten up late after all, and it should be peak hour for the gondolas. In fact, the station was empty, the gondolas simply arriving and leaving as they always did without supervision or passengers. People in the streets weren't geared up to go to the peaks and were minding their own business. She didn't speak the language anyway, so she didn't bother asking about it. Perhaps Mondays were weekends here, or something.
She used to hate these things, she thought as she waited for the next to arrive. These ones were nice though; extra-wide with room for six and fabric on the bench seats. They weren't too cold either, provided you kept the windows closed.
She slotted her skis into the door of a gondola and stepped in just as it was beginning its rounds, and pulled out the novel she was reading to while away the journey to the peak. As the gondola was about to close, she started in surprise as a young man in ski gear lunged in and settled with a smile into the bench opposite her.
"Hope you don't mind me joining you here!" he said, chirpily. He seemed inordinately pleased with himself for having made it in on time.
Louise wondered why he didn't just get the next gondola; he was probably a chatty person and wanted company. She resolved to continue reading pointedly while she replied "No, not at all. Plenty of room in here for two."
He didn't get the message, it seemed. "There certainly is. They say these things can hold up to six, but I think that's too crowded, don't you think? Things are a little more intimate with just two. Much more room to get to know each other."
Weirdo!
she thought. "Right". She looked him over. Broad build, bright orange and yellow clothing with a button-up jacket, and one of those hair-band-come-hoods that snowboarders seemed to love. He hadn't brought any skis or a board, so she figured he must be visiting the lodge up there.
She turned her book toward the door so they weren't facing each other, hoping to put more emphasis into her body language. The way her legs moved as she scooted over rubbed her moist labia together, and she shivered inwardly. That would have been sexier if she were alone.. in fact she had spent her last trip upward playing with herself after such a jolt. Why did he have to sit in?
The gondola began to roll over a set of pulleys on a pylon, but suddenly ground to a halt. It swung forward through its momentum, and then fell back and rocked to a halt while Louise held onto her seat in panic. The young man looked unperturbed and smiled at her. "Don't worry, it's probably just someone stuck in the door at the station, they have to stop the whole thing every time someone tries to hop into a closing Gondola.. somewhat like I did."
Well, at least that made sense. The car had steadied and didn't seem in danger of falling or anything, so she calmed herself with some deep breaths and settled back again.
"Looks like we've got a while to ourselves, now." He said this after a moment's silence, looking out the window at the snow with an odd expression.
"Look, I'm sorry but if you're trying to chat me up, it's not really a good time for me. I'm just out of a long-term thing and I'm not looking for anyone." She spoke as calmly and assertively as she could, and was rather proud of the result.
Having said it though, she did have to admit that what little of him she could make out beneath the ski goggles and winter gear was pretty hot. He had a wide jaw with a touch of stubble, wide shoulders and hands that looked like he used them outdoors. His smile was nice too, even if it seemed weirdly inappropriate. He was still smiling, in fact.
"That's fine, I totally get it. I won't disturb your reading in that case" he said, with an earnest expression and a gesture to her novel.
"Thank you."
She returned to reading, and decided not to get nervous about how long it was taking to get the car started again. She became so engrossed in reading, in fact, that she forgot her surroundings for a while, and only came to her senses ten minutes or so later, when she noticed the car was starting to rock gently.
She turned to look over at her companion and was stunned to see him sitting there, smile still on his face, with his hand around his erect cock, which was jutting up out of the patch on the front of his orange ski trousers. He was gently massaging his shaft, and as he did so she could see his foreskin passing over his cock-head frictionlessly. She stared with a mix of terror and fascination as he calmly stroked himself while staring right across at her, his goggles hiding his eyes from view.
"Wha-What the hell are you doing?!" she finally managed to utter, her voice starting level but breaking as she finished. She was suddenly aware of how alone she was up there, with this pervert playing with himself in front of her, and fear began to cloud her reason. She stood up, banging her head off the low ceiling, and half-leapt to the other end of the bench, as far from him as she could get. He remained where he was, his eyes following her, his hand pulling the skin on his cock up and down slowly and deliberately.