Beth came round the next morning - "I told Mum I needed to see about my nursing application -" and I kissed her softly. "Mm, strawberry?"
"I'll have a shower in a bit. Can I use the computer?"
She sat at my desk, clicking to search. "Here's the application form."
I watched her tap in details, then submit the form. "Now we just have to wait."
The wait was much shorter than she'd anticipated. A couple of hours later Beth's phone rang, and she tapped to put it on speaker. "Hello?"
"Is that Beth Oakes?" a robust-sounding female voice asked.
"Yes, that's me."
"Miss Oakes - it's Veronica Baines here from the nursing department at the hospital. We've received your application."
"Yes?" Beth's voice was a little puzzled now.
"We've had someone drop out from the next intake, and we'd like to ask you for an interview, if you're available - could you make this afternoon?"
"Er - yes, of course," Beth managed.
"Excellent. Three o'clock, someone will meet you at the main entrance."
The call ended, and Beth looked at me open-mouthed. "Tim...?"
I hugged her. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth," I grinned.
I glanced at my watch. "How about, you do a bit of research, make some notes - then we can have that shower, get some lunch at McDonalds, and I'll drop you for your interview."
"OK."
We pulled up outside the hospital gates at quarter to three, and I kissed Beth. "You go in - I'll find somewhere to park, then wait for you to call."
I watched her walk into the hospital, somehow already seeming like she belonged there, then picked my way through the confusing roads to the main car park, finding a space. I took out my phone, carrying on with the book I'd started, and I'd obviously lost track of time because I jumped, startled, as Beth tapped on the car window. I unlocked the doors, and she slid into the passenger seat, grinning. "You are now officially looking at student nurse Elizabeth Oakes - I start next week, and I can move into the residences at the weekend."
"Congratulations," I blinked. "Was the interview difficult?"
Beth shook her head. "It was a good job you suggested that research, though."
I started the engine. "We'd better go and tell Mum and Dad..."
I left Beth at the house a couple of hours later, still enthusing to our parents about her new venture, and went back to the flat. It wasn't long before my phone buzzed, Beth's message prompting me to video call her, and I flipped open the computer, tapping to dial. "Everything OK?"
Beth was sitting on her bed, unclothed as always for our goodnights, and she nodded. "They seem really pleased for me."
"Good." I raised one eyebrow at her in a hint. "Got anything in mind for tonight?"
Beth grinned, holding up the book we'd bought. "Ready for the next page?"
"Sure - but we can't...?"
The look in her eyes was knowing. "It's nice to anticipate, though, and we're free tomorrow, aren't we."
She opened the book at her bookmark, then turned over. "Mm." She ran her tongue over parted lips. "I like the look of this one."
"Show me," I insisted gently, and Beth held the page up to the camera. "I knew that chair would come in handy."
The sketch showed the man seated, his partner in his lap facing away from him, her legs parted. He was obviously penetrating her, and his hand seemed to be reaching round to touch between her thighs while he cupped one breast. "Mm, I definitely like," I breathed.
Beth chuckled. "It's another lazy one for me - all I have to do is sit back, maybe rock a little so you move inside me, and you put your hands wherever I say."
Her fingers drifted down to start touching herself. "I think once you were in me, I'd let you start off on my breasts - you can cup them, feel my hard nipples pressing into your palms, then you wet your fingers, start to touch my nipples, I'm just moaning quietly as I'm flexing my hips, you feel me getting wetter."
Her eyes widened as a thought dropped into her head. "This would be an amazing one to have the mirror across from us, then I could see everything you're doing, see your face."
I watched fascinated as Beth's fingers slid inside herself, her other hand squeezing her breast. "So eventually I take hold of your hand, guide it downwards, push it between my thighs so you can start to use your fingers on me."
She gasped as she thrust her fingers harder. "Oh god - how about if I pulled myself open a little more with my fingers, then when your fingertips - both hands - were really touching my exposed nub I moved my hands to my own breasts, I could pinch my nipples just when I needed it, and I'd rock a little faster - oh god, yes, Tim, I'm coming - ohhh!!"
I watched her body shudder, her fingers pushing almost desperately into herself, clear liquid running from her to make her glisten, then dripping onto the sheets. "Oh - oh -" she gasped again as aftershocks of pleasure coursed through her body. "Mmm..."
She subsided, thighs clenching on her still-penetrating fingers. "Wow..."
"Goodness, Beth," I ventured. "That was something."
She nodded. "It just seems to get more intense every time."
She flashed her eyebrows at me. "Have I got you ready?"
"Oh, for sure." I dabbed a finger to my tip, already leaking clear fluid, and pulled it away with a thin strand of stickiness trailing. "Wish I could put this in your mouth, or just press myself on your nub so you could feel it."
"Mm-hm," nodded Beth. "What then?"
"I'd slide myself on your nub for a little while, then you'd let me know you wanted me in you, and I'd push inside, start to thrust. Maybe I'd slide out by accident, so I'm even more slippery on your nub, and you'd put your fingers on me to press me harder against you without going back inside, and you'd gasp. 'Oh god, Tim, I could come like this, is that OK?'"
"I'd whisper that of course it was, and you'd press again, your hips flexing, and I'd hear you start to gasp, and it'd turn me on so much, so when you got there, you'd cry out, and at the same moment I'd not be able to hold back any more, and I'd harden against you like I do, and I'd be spurting my stuff all over your stomach just while your hips are pushing up against me -"
While I'd been imagining for her, I'd been moving my hand on myself, and as I got to the critical point in the fantasy I felt myself tip over the edge, Beth's eyes widening in surprise and pleasure as I spurted once, again. "Mm..."
I slowed, my chest rising and falling. "Wow - more intense for me, too. Wish I was really there with you."
Beth nodded. "Pick me up first thing?" she requested. "I won't be wearing panties under my skirt, and as soon as we get up to the flat, you can do what you want to me..."
"I'll be there," I promised.