The wind continued to buffet the windows just outside the den where Steve sat staring at his computer screen. Rain had begun to fall in heavy sheets slapping at the windows and sliding door with a gravel-tossed intensity that under normal circumstances, Steve would have found irritating. But not this time. Not at the moment anyway.
He had met a woman through the Internet several month's previous. They had exchanged emails, eventually a few photos. Over time, they had gotten more and more familiar with one another, discussing anything and everything. Eventually, "Chris" as she was called, had informed him that she had a web-cam, as he did. They began communicating back and forth with one another, enjoying the real-time images of one another, making their conversations all the more stimulating and exciting. Especially when on one particular night, Chris had teasingly revealed one of her beautiful full breasts to him on a whim. Something he had hoped eventually might happen, yet surprised when it had. Since that time, they had spent several evenings pleasuring themselves in front of one another. And though the distance between them was great, it was the next best thing to actually being there.
"Oh Chris," Steve typed. "I love it when you do that!"
Chris sat fingering her large extended nipples for him. Rock hard, excited as always, he could only imagine what it must feel like to actually touch them himself, wishing that he could as Chris continued to tease him unmercifully on her side of the world.
"I wish..." Chris stopped playing with her breasts long enough to answer back, "...that it was your hands and fingers touching them, and not my own!"
"Me too!" Steve replied, reaching down just long enough to give his hard stiff erection a few tantalizing up and down strokes before returning to the keyboard.
A peel of thunder shook the windows, as the intensifying storm approached. The flash of lightning outside giving berth to another, still closer roll of echoing thunder that once again shook the windows and door with ominous warning.
"Shit!" Steve typed.
"What?" Chris responded back a second later.
"Got quite a storm going on here," he told her. "Not sure how much longer I'm going to be able to stay on line. Getting a lot of lightning strikes here. Worried about frying my PC for one thing. Though most likely, I'll lose power before anything like happens."
Already the lights had flickered briefly once. Not enough to knock him off line, but serving as a warning that it was a distinct possibility.
"LOL", Chris typed. "It figures. I'm so damn horny, and sitting here on the edge. I'll probably be right in the middle of a really good orgasm when you lose power and miss everything!"
"Smiley", Steve inserted, watching the icon of a sun with a wicked gleam in its face pop up on screen. "Then we'd better hurry here," he began. "Because I'm pretty fucking close myself, and wouldn't mind shooting off a nice load for you right about now either!"
"I'd enjoy seeing that," Chris replied immediately. "Damn Steve, I wish you could touch me right now," she added as Steve watched her reaching down with one hand to insert a long delicate finger inside the wet glistening groove of her cunt.
"Oh fuck Chris!" Steve typed, reaching up to touch the screen as she zoomed in on her pussy, the folds of it so erotically displayed, her feminine juices pearly white, sticky and coating the neither flesh of her slit.
The second that he did, a blinding flash lit up the entire room. For a moment, Steve couldn't see anything but a bright white light. Seconds later, he still couldn't see, the feel of electricity coursing through his entire being, the hairs on his head standing straight up. Gradually his vision returned, fully expecting to see that the power had been knocked out, his connection with Chris severed. Instead, he was mildly surprised to see her image remained, though indeed the lights had appeared to be knocked out entirely, along with everything else...except his PC!
"What the fuck?" he asked himself. But it was the stunned, bewildered expression on Chris's face that alerted him more was going on than met the eye.
He typed, "Chris?"
For a moment or two, she merely sat there staring at him.
"Chris?" he typed again in capital letters, indicating he was worried about her.
She sat there, shook her head as though trying to clear it, then reached for the keypad and typed back a response.
"What the hell was that?" she asked.
For a second, Steve didn't know how to respond. He figured she must have seen the blinding white light on her end, somehow affecting her vision perhaps as weirdly as it had affected his own.
"I think...the house just got hit by a lightning strike," he told her.
"No, not that," Chris responded back immediately. "Something else...something really weird that I'm not sure I can explain."
"What do you mean?"
She laughed, "LOL, for a second there, I could have sworn I felt your finger slip inside my pussy," she told him. "Really, it felt just like someone had," she added still looking bewildered as she sat there typing to him.
"Don't I wish," he told her. "Odd though...all the lights are out, and even the clock on the VCR is off. Yet, my PC seems to still have juice. Pretty strange. I guess the lightning affected some things, and not others."
Steve took a moment to look about, perplexed as even the clock radio, which shared the same bank of electrical outlets, as his PC wasn't working at the moment either. He turned back to face his computer screen. Chris's wild-eyed expression still having not changed much.
"You think I'm crazy don't you?" she asked.
"About my finger? You feeling like someone...me, actually touched you?"
"Yes!"
Once again Steve typed. "I really wish I could touch you Chris, I'd give anything to actually be able to do that!"
"Tell me. What were you doing the second before the lightning hit?" she typed.
"Doing?" he asked himself leaning forward towards the keypad in response.
"LOL, I was touching the screen with my fingers, wishing that I could touch you," he told her.
Steve leaned back, Chris's expression curious as she sat there looking back at him, unmoving, obviously thinking.
"Touch it again," she typed. "But wait one...let me do something."
Steve sat there as Chris adjusted herself. He watched as Chris leaned towards the screen, one of her magnificent full breasts pressing against it tantalizingly.
"Now, touch it again," she asked him.
Steve laughed to himself. Though the image of that taut hard nipple pressing against the screen was enough of a temptation to actually do so. As he did, he felt a prickle of electricity seize the tips of his fingers, not unlike the shock of static electricity after walking in stocking feet across the carpet.
"Shit!" Steve exclaimed to himself, yanking his hand away in abject surprise.
Chris moved away from the screen, typing.
"You said shit!" she said typing in capital letters. "I heard you say shit! But not only that...I felt your fingers on my nipple!" she exclaimed excitedly.
"Not possible!" Steve thought. "Not fucking possible!" Yet, he too had felt something beyond the electrical current. Only briefly before taking his hand away, but as he sat there, he could have sworn he had indeed touched flesh. Her flesh.
"Ok, this is weird," he typed back a moment later. "Not sure what I felt...electrical current I think," he stated trying to explain the unexplainable to himself.
"Weird isn't the word I'd use," Chris said. "And like I said, I heard you say shit too! You did didn't you?" she typed.
Steve wasn't sure. Wasn't sure if he'd actually said it out loud, or thought it. Either way, how could Chris know he had?
"Maybe you read my lips," he told her.
"How could I?" she replied. I wasn't looking at the computer screen. I had my tits pressed against it!" she reminded him.