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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.