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Linda stared at her numbly.
"No, huh?" Doris concluded.
Linda shook her head.
"Well, you just relax and do as I say, and you'll find that you'll like it."
"But I-"
"Listen, if you really hate the idea," Doris said, narrowing her eyes in sudden hostility, "I'll turn you over to Johnny-he's spent half the evening telling us how he plans sticking that oversized cock of his up your asshole the first chance he gets-if you'd rather spend the night that way, I won't stand in your way."
Linda swallowed and shook her head again.
"What's that mean?" Doris demanded.
"I-no-I- rather stay with you-"
"Well, gee, thanks a whole lot."
Doris was really annoyed, Linda realized, her heart sinking.
"Please," she said, her voice as conciliatory as she could make it, "I only-I've never-I didn't mean-"
"Oh, forget it," Doris said moodily. "I don't give a shit if you want to make it with me or not-you're going to, and I'm going to enjoy it, that's all there is about it."
But she didn't look as though she would enjoy anything, Linda thought anxiously.
She tried to think of something to say that would restore the former more friendly atmosphere, but found herself bereft of words. She would have smiled if Doris had looked at her, but the woman kept her eyes averted while she finished eating, then she stood up, and still not looking at Linda, said: "Come on."
Linda followed her out of the kitchen and up the creaking stairs, into a bedroom with a double bed. It was hardly luxurious, she thought, but it seemed to be clean.
Doris shut the door and turned the key in the lock.
"Okay," she said, swiftly stripping off her shirt and jeans while Linda watched, "you're going to eat me, dear, and you're going to make a good job of it, whether you like it or not. You coped with that ass Johnny, and you're going to do as good for me. Get those damn clothes off."
She stalked to the bed and sprawled down on it, spreading her legs and bending them upwards and out, so that the crimson inner flesh of her sex was spread between the black coat of pubic hair. She caressed her own breasts, the brownish nipples standing high to tip the conical mounds.
Linda pulled off her sweater, then unfastened her skirt and slipped out of it She undid the tabs of her garter belt and rolled her stockings off, then tugged the garter belt over her hips and stepped out of it.
Doris' eyes were fixed on her, but she didn't look at Linda's face.
"Come on over here and get your face between my legs," she ordered harshly.
Linda knelt on the edge of the bed and crawled into what she assumed to be the right position. She clenched her teeth slightly, and moved her face towards that demanding spread cunt that awaited her ministrations.
She found herself staring in fascination.
She had really never seen female genitals in detail before, other than in the impersonal biology diagrams that had come her way in the course of hygiene classes. She had never felt the urge to examine that part of herself in a mirror-indeed, she had always assumed it was better not seen, any more than one
would want to look at anything dirty or disgusting.
But now she moved her face to within an inch of the open pussy, gazing with intrigued attention at its intricate structure: at the grooved central ridge with the tiny slit of the urethra; at the little inner lips that were the entrance to the vagina, and at the shadowy cleft behind that vanished in shadow.
She could smell it, too-not an unfamiliar smell. It was the same scent that had been on her finger when Tom had forced her to probe herself, and so presumably the taste would be the same as her own, musky, very slightly like very fresh fish...
"Go on," Doris urged her, voice husky with anticipation.
Slowly Linda advanced the tip of her tongue to make the tentative connection with the moist, hot, slippery flesh-this was territory utterly unknown. She had always assumed that some day she would be initiated into the mysteries of sexuality with a man, but such intimate contact with another of her own sex had never occurred to her before today as anything but a strange
aberration of certain people who were-different.
Doris sucked in a long, shuddering breath between her teeth as Linda's tongue tip brushed over her eagerly waiting flesh, then suddenly she pulled herself away convulsively and rolled over, and sat up cross-legged on the bed, shaking her head as though dazed from a sudden blow.
Linda, alarmed, pushed herself up and sat back on her heels, and asked anxiously:
"Did I hurt you?"
"Hurt me?" Doris said bemusedly, then gave an odd, dry laugh. "No, baby. No. It's just-I find I don't have the temperament for rape, that's all."
There was a long silence, during which Linda kept perfectly still, watching as Doris sat with fingers clenching and unclenching, her breath hissing in and out between her teeth in a rigidly controlled cadence, as though she were bearing the pitiless attack of some physical agony.
"I was falling into that goddamned trap," Doris said at last, "of trying to rival them in-sickness. Sexual obnoxiousness. Show them a woman can be every bit as crude as a man." She laughed again, bitterly. "I was raped once-that was
enough. You'd think I'd have learned better, wouldn't you?"
Linda said nothing.
"Now it's happening to you," Doris went demure "I thought I'd like to see it happen to somebody else. Join in-get my share of the action." She shrugged. 'Well, I can't do much to protect you, but I guess I can claim my share of you and give you the pleasure of being let alone once in a while."
She swung herself off the bed and stood with her hands on her hips, her slim, high-breasted figure straight and proud.
"The bathroom's through there," she said, gesturing at a door in one wall. "You could probably use a shower or something." She reached for a robe and wrapped it around herself. "See you later-I need a drink."
Linda found herself alone.
Her brain felt totally fatigued. Only Doris' suggestion about the shower really stayed with her, and she went to the bathroom. There were towels that looked clean, and a shower cap she could use, and soap-and when she tried the faucet, the water flowed through hot and soothing.
She took a deep breath, set the shower cap in place over her bundled-up hair, and stepped beneath the wonderfully cleansing warm spray. She reached for the soap and a washcloth, and made a generous lather of foamy white suds, spreading them over every inch of her body, over her breasts that had been violated by Johnny and Larry, over her sex where Tom's hand had worked and
filled her with that curious flood of sensation that had knocked her right out of the world for a few hectic moments.
Suddenly she ceased all movement as a thought struck her-had that been orgasm?
She had thought that it was just the sudden ending of tensions, of fear, of that dreadful hot itching-but-