Readers of "A picture = K Words in College" know this is a sequel to that series and can skip the background for new readers. This story is longer than originally intended, all Elsa's fault.
Milt and Vicky are siblings, now freshmen in college, hers near his. Since the summer, they are enjoying a very incestuous relationship. Vicky's roommate, Elsa, knows all about it, but thinks they are cousins. The two girls have discovered that sleeping with each other is better than just admitting that they know that they both masturbate. It took a while before they started to enjoy cunnilingus, inspired by Vicky's telling Elsa what her brother - "cousin" - likes to do. Elsa has had only one and a bad experience in bed with a boy. Vicky thinks she should should have good one, with her brother. Elsa eventually catches on to the implication of Vicky's remarks, then repeatedly asking: "You really want us to?" When Vicky and Milt are together, he also gets the gist of his sister's talk, asking the same question. The three of them are together a couple of times, once because Vicky has her period, the other time because Milt's roommate, Tim, needed their room, hoped he did. New readers would have to click back on the series to discover how it happens that Milt and Elsa end those evenings kissing – to their surprise.
Milt finally admits to himself and then to his sister that he would be willing to do anything Elsa wanted to do. After meeting her again with Vicky at a concert in the girls' college, as arranged with his sister, he suggests they all meet the following Saturday, knowing that Vicky will have her period again and excuse herself. With a little urging, Elsa agrees, replying to him: "If you really want to?" Then she quickly adds that she didn't mean it like that. Milt tactfully replies: "I'm sure you didn't." They all laugh, recognizing the implication that her words could refer to their sleeping together. He promises that they can spend the afternoon doing "something else, anything you want." She suggests the science museum, "since there are no paintings there," a reference to the afternoon they had spent in the art museum, where Vicky had found a book with a picture of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" and said that Elsa looked like her. Elsa didn't deny the similarity of her figure with that of the artist's ideal of how Venus should look, both of them also blond.
Milt tells the story, beginning with his preparations for meeting Elsa.
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Saturday morning, when I put fresh sheets on my bed, I wondered if I should put the rubbers under my pillow, but then decided that I didn't want it to appear that I had been anticipating too much, and put them in my toilet kit, as though I just always had them somewhere. With the same thought, I didn't buy beer in advance. If we did go to my room, if she agreed to, it would look better if I then suggested getting a six pack. With butterflies in my stomach, I went to meet her at the bus stop.
Waiting for the bus, I remembered telling my sister that this was a crazy idea, and that she had said that Elsa had said the same thing. It was; one isn't suppose to have a first date with a girl and know that both know that the other one could also be wondering if they were just going to jump into bed together. Well, it wasn't really a "first date," we had kissed twice, as good as we could, but still ... It was going to be funny meeting her again.
When she got off the bus, we both smiled, but I felt that hers was as unrelaxed as mine was. Oh, it was nice to see her again, but with all we knew about what Vicky wanted us to do, hoped, expected us to do, we both were obviously apprehensive.
"Nice to see you again," I said.
"And you, too," she replied, but her smile seemed a little force.
Mine was too. She looked down at her feet and then murmured:
"You know what she wants us to do."
"Um-hmm," I agreed softly with a nod, very surprised that she had immediately referred to that.
She glanced up at me, just a glance, a timid, blushing glance.
"We don't have to," I replied. She gave me a better smile, just a little bit better, agreeing:
"We don't."
She looked at me again with a really better smile, and we both chuckled, almost laughing, nervous release. We had settled that question already and could just enjoy each other's company. I smiled wryly and said:
"She'll be disappointed."
Elsa nodded with a grin. I suddenly had an idea and said:
"We could make up a story for her, have to agree on one, so that both versions are the same."
"Serve her right," Elsa replied with a nod and grin.
We chuckled again. This was going to be fun, I thought, but still offered:
"Or we could go to the science museum."
"And discuss our story in the tram and in the museum?"
"Could be interesting for people."
"It sure could be, if we wanted to make it interesting for her."
"It would have to be, she could ask questions, to you, especially, when you get back."
"Oooh, yeah, hadn't thought about that. Hmm! I guess I've asked too, when she returned from being with you."
"And she tells?"
"Hmm? Probably to make me think it would be good with you."
"Didn't want you to think to say that."
"Guess I did, anyway."
She gave me a wry smile. I nodded and replied:
"I don't know if you'll want all that in our story."
"Oooh! I don't either!"
"She must have told you a lot?"
Elsa just nodded with somewhat abashed smile, letting me wonder what all my sister had told her. I remarked:
"We'll have to work together on the story, to keep it to what you think we might have done."
She nodded again, with a less abashed smile, then replying:
"Couldn't let her think we did anything I probably wouldn't want to."
"Exactly. If we don't want people to overhear us planning this, with a beer in my room?"
She nodded again. We had been walking slowly towards the subway station. I turned aside and we went to the nearest bottle shop. With a six pack of cold beer, we turned in the direction of my dorm, not speaking until we were in the room. I took her coat and hung it up, mine too. She was still standing. As I got two beers, I said:
"Going to have to sit on my bed."
She nodded and sat down. I handed her a beer and sat down next to her and raised my beer, and we both drank and smiled at each other, this time a little less relaxed. Sitting together on the bed was just a little too close to what we weren't going to do there. I shrugged and moved back across my bed to lean against the wall, and then she did, with a slight nod, then murmuring:
"Our story," apparently wanting me to start. I took another sip and said:
"Well, it has to start somehow. We're assuming that we both wanted to, however we agreed about that."
She nodded with a slight smirk, again waiting for me to continue:
"Hmmm? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have just come here and said: 'If we're going to,' and started undressing."
"Oh, for sure not!" she replied with a grin.
"So, even if you wanted to, it's going to have to be a little more subtle, maybe sitting like this, not to suggest anything."
She nodded. I continued, reminding myself to keep my ideas in the subjunctive:
"Well, I guess I would put my arm around you. I won't, but you wouldn't mind, since ... well, you know."
She nodded. I continued:
"I guess we would finish our beers, and, well, the obvious, want to kiss. We've been there before."
She nodded again, and I said:
"Not to suggest that, just the obvious beginning. You wouldn't mind that we lay down, kind of expect it, and, well, we would be embracing. We've – somehow – already agreed that we wanted to, so I guess I would be pretty sure that you wouldn't mind my hand's slipping up under your sweater."
She nodded again and took a sip, and then murmured:
"I guess so, too. Seems obvious."
"Um-hmm. Not just under your sweater, the obvious."
Had she nodded and taken a deep breath in response to my suggestion that my hand would have been finding her breast? I asked:
"Are you wearing a bra?"
She nodded. I asked:
"Can I, I mean, could I shove it up?"
She nodded again, then with a chuckle replied:
"Just 'could', for the story."
"What I meant. You're going to have to help me. What are – would – you want to do?"
"Hm-hmm! Wait for you to shove it up."
We both chuckled and drank. I hummed and replied:
"My hand on Venus' breast."
"Maybe you shouldn't make it so ... 'interesting'."
"Sorry. Got a little carried away; just trying to make the story move forward."
"Hm-hmm! What do I – would I – have to do?"
"You'll have to tell me."
Elsa glanced at me with a wry expression and had a sip of beer. She glanced at me again and said:
"You know more about this than I do."
"Not really; Vicky and I just sort of ..., well, it wasn't like this, like our story should be."