The sequel to my first story. This series is clearly going to unfold at a slow pace so I hope you all enjoy the ride!
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I awoke in a panic, a pounding in my chest and between my ears. The first light of dawn was visible through the open tent flap. My tactile senses slowly returned to me and the fog of dreams began to dissipate.
I'm not alone
. I could feel a warm body pressed against me, beneath the thick woolly blanket. I dared to peek, fearful of what, or rather who, I would find. A long elegant spine and a rope of red hair, flawless milky skin, the subtle curve of her hip rounding into a pert little ass.
Allison!
I was relieved, but only momentarily.
Oh, god, Allison!
When had she returned? I realised my shoes were still on, my pants around my ankles. My face was crusty and sore. As much as I wished it so, last night was no perverse drug induced hallucination. "I can still smell her," I thought despairingly.
I shuffled back into my jeans and out the bed. All around the tent, the others slept soundly. Saul snored loudly, on the far side Robbie snored louder. He was spooning his wife; so peaceful, so innocent, seemingly untroubled by the events of last night. I slipped outside where the air was fresh; an eery silence hovered over the festival grounds where hundreds of people slept off the raucous party.
What have I done?
I felt physically ill. The drugs were no excuse. Allison was the best thing that had ever happened to me and I'd dishonoured her in the most deplorable way.
I should run, just flee and never attempt to contact her again
. A coward's move, admittedly, but what else could I do? The truth would hurt her so much more, and if I didn't tell her she'd never find out.
It's better that way
! It's not like Jessie and Robbie could confess.
It was their fault!
Jessie, she who hid behind a kind smile and a soft voice, was a temptress. Even Robbie had seemed largely ignorant.
She took advantage of us!
But thinking about it was painful, the horrors of what we'd done burned in the cold light of day. My legs felt as secure as cooked spaghetti beneath me, my head as heavy as lead.
I almost fainted before I felt a hand on my elbow, steadying me. "Easy, partner," smirked Nelly. Jessie's younger sister wore an oversized sweater and already had a joint in her mouth. She had a certain effortless cool, with her colourful hair, salty candour, and proud queerness. Her eyes were red but otherwise she looked untarnished by her night. Perhaps since she was perpetually under the influence, she never felt the come down. "I suppose I'm to blame for your sorry state," she quipped, patting me on the back.
More than you know!
"I'm fine," I replied dismissively. I was clearly anything but.
"Come on, let's get you to the showers. They're cold but that can only help you right now," she suggested with a mild manner. I wanted nothing more than to be alone.
"I think I'm just gonna take a leak and go back to bed," I deflected.
Nelly didn't have the light blue eyes of her sister. Hers were a pale blue and just then what little warmth they beheld left at once. "Whose bed?" she rasped, "your girlfriend or my sister?". My heart sank into my stomach. My mouth opened, and closed. Only a dry clacking sound emerged. "Yeah, you and I have to talk."
"I...I..." I stuttered. Nelly was shorter than Jessie, smaller too, a petite little thing with an androgynous cast to her. Harmless, by all appearances, yet her mood darkened like grey clouds on the horizon. She slapped me, not hard but it stung and tears welled in my eyes.
"Shut the fuck up," she hissed. "Walk," she commanded, nodding in the direction she meant for me to go. And I did as I was told, my hungover traumatised brain to scattered to fight back. She shoved me rudely as I marched like a man to the gallows. "You little shit," Nelly snarled, "how could you?"
"It was your sister," I bleated out rather pitifully. She shoved me again and I stumbled.
"Oh did she just fall upon your dick? Could the big strong man not get her off?" she retorted mockingly. "My sister is a dopey slut, what dicks she puts where, I don't care. There, inside!" There were several shower blocks installed throughout the grounds, this one was furthest from the hub but nearest to our camp. At this hour, they were deserted. She clearly didn't mean to expose my sins, she wanted privacy.
Which means this is a discussion...but if it's not about her sister, what does she want?
Whatever the case, I was at her mercy.
"Nelly..." I began, trying to carefully choose my words so that I might win her silence. "Nelly, I...I wasn't myself, it was the drugs...they..."
"I gave them to you, I know what molly does," she cut me off impatiently. "It makes you happy, maybe a little horny. I've been there. But you cheated on Allison, and
that
was all on you." As much as her sister, I suppose Nelly had grown up with Allison too. Ali did have a soft spot for the pint sized badass. That, if anything, should have called her wroth upon Jessie, not me! My fidelity shouldn't be her concern, but the bluntness of the accusation hurt more than I could admit. It was devastating hearing it aloud. "Yeah, you're despicable. A pervert. A dirty, filthy, cheater." The shower block was surrounded by a square of corrugated iron, it was open plan with six copper heads fed over the top. She turned one of these on and stepped back from the spray. "Wash the filth of yourself."
I only gawked at her like a deer in headlights. She stood there, arms folded, and a look that brooked no argument. Terrified of the 23-year-old lesbian, I stripped off what little I wore. As there was no gender discrepancy posted outside, and no privacy inside, I assumed that most people showered in their costumes or their underwear. Though, knowing festival goers, it was equally likely they were less modest or didn't shower at all. However, I knew I wouldn't be allowed to preserve my integrity.
She wants to humble me
.