Cindy chats with her brother about exotic sex postures.
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Cindy overhears something and asks her brother what ´The Sphinx´ is. He wants to explain, but when it comes to love positions, it's best to show it practically. They go to the mat, dressed of course and rather reserved. But the innocent demo inevitably gets out of hand...
This translation was edited by DirtyMindedMinx -- thank you so much! I wouldn´t know what to do without your input.
Dingo666
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"...Forty-nine...fifty! Whew!"
Cindy sat up and relaxed her abs. Fifty situps done. And with that, today's session. Not bad. She'd been keeping up her workout schedule for six weeks now. Ha - Cindy, the girl of steel!
She stood up, then bent and stretched in all directions for a few minutes. The long braid she always wore her blond hair in when exercising swung back and forth behind her shoulders. The mat beneath her feet gave way to the shifts in weight, and for the thousandth time she felt satisfaction. It had been a good idea to buy the thing, despite the price. It simply made working out in her own room more fun.
She shook out her whole body, bounced a little in place and enjoyed the contact with the foam under the soles of her feet. It felt like a cushion of moss. How she would have loved to go back to a real gym! But as long as this stupid virus was rampant, it was out of the question. So, home workouts.
With a towel, she wiped the sweat from her face and arms. She opened the door of her room and strolled down the hall to the stairs. Now she desperately was in need of something cool to drink.
"...not true at all!" she heard her brother Luke's voice through the slightly open door of his room as she passed. "I never said that. Honestly! You really can't hold that against me now. I just meant that..."
Cindy grinned. She knew that tone of voice. Calm. Explanatory. A little submissive. Sure enough, he was talking with his girlfriend. Eleonore or whatever her name was. Cindy´s boyfriend Patrick sounded like that when they argued. Or discussed, as he called it. Boys don´t like arguments with their girlfriends, she had learned quickly. They much prefer everything to be sunshine and butterflies. Or at least they like to pretend that everything is fine.
She went tot he kitchen, gulped down two glasses of water, and took a breath. She always felt wonderful after a workout. Exhausted, but in a pleasant way. Her pulse still ticked along like hurried clockwork, and her breathing was deep. Almost like after a round of sex. Only not as complicated. She grinned to herself.
What now? Take a shower and go back to the books? The history of sociology was waiting for her. Oh no. Not again. This online semester was really getting on her nerves. What was the point of studying if all the good things were absent? No parties, no chatting before and after class, no café, not even a restaurant. She had even given up her room in San Diego and moved back home to save money.
Like Luke, too. Actually, he was supposed to be in Seattle right now, doing his Master's in computer science. Now they were both stuck back in Hillweather, South Dakota, where they came from. Three thousand inhabitants, in the middle of nowhere. She felt like she was in old Alcatraz, surrounded by walls and barbed wire fences. Locked in. Crap, all of it. Sullenly, she went back upstairs. First a shower. Then see what happens.
"...really unfair!" she heard Luke. His voice now carried much more emotion. Bitterness, primarily. She stopped and listened.
"No, damn it. That's not the most important thing to me. But...what? No. Now listen...Elli! Listen to me, I...WHAT? NO!"
She should keep walking, she told herself. Sneak past, close the door of her room. But she stayed as if rooted to the spot.
"That's really enough now. Yes - I've had enough. Like this? Really? Interesting. But that's not my problem, I..."
He broke off and listened to a longer tirade. She could hear the squawk of the phone. Even at this distance, she could hear the anger on the other side.
"Fine," Luke growled, "have it your way. No problem. Then just...huh? Oh no, I won't do that. I'll..."
More squawking, even more heated.
"OK! FUCK OFF, Elli! Leave me alone. Yeah, you too! And for the thousandth time: number twenty-six is The Sphinx, NOT The Tarantula!"
A hiss. A crash, as if from a telephone smashed against a wall with full force. Before she could move, the door was torn open and Luke rushed out. His expression foretold of murder and destruction. He saw her, widened his eyes, and stopped just before he ran her over.
"Uh, sorry..." she muttered, backing away two steps.
"What?" he growled, his eyes narrowing to slits.
"Nothing. Nothing at all." She offered a strained smile. She had never seen her brother so beside himself. It was enough to scare anyone.
"Were you eavesdropping?"
"No, not at all!" She covered her guilty conscience with an extra indignant tone. "I was going from the kitchen to my room, if that's allowed. But if you're going to yell around here like that, you shouldn't be surprised either."
Luke stared at her. Then he sighed and slumped his shoulders.
"Sorry," he muttered, running a hand over his forehead. He was wearing cycling clothes, tight shorts and a functional shirt in red. Apparently he'd been working out, too.
"Problems in love?" She bit her lips. She shouldn't be so nosy. But she just never managed to keep her mouth shut.
"Depends." He laughed bitterly. "I guess not anymore. You caught that live, didn't you?"
"Yeah, that sounded rough. But I didn't really understand what it was all about. Like...what's The...Sphinx? And The Tarantula? They sound like some kind of carnival rides," escaped her lips before she could stop herself.
"So eavesdropping after all!", Luke countered. He tried a grin, but it came out more as a grimace. "It's not for little girls."
"Fine then." She raised her chin and marched past him. That idiot! Only two years older, but he was acting like...
"Wait a minute." He held her by the shoulder and breathed. "Sorry, Cindy. I'm a little rattled. You would be, too, if your mack had just broken up with you."
"It's okay." She turned and nodded. "I'll leave you alone." That was his favorite thing anyway, she knew from their long years together.
He hesitated for a second.
"Sphinx and Tarantula, those are Kama Sutra positions," he said softly.
"Kama Sutra?" She blinked, perplexed.
"Yes. That Indian tradition that --"
"I know what the Kama Sutra is," she interrupted him. "I'm, uh, just surprised you'd be interested in something like that. You're always saying you don't want anything to do with esoteric nonsense. That only facts and figures matter and stuff."
"It's not esoteric, after all. It's just love positions," he defended himself. "Sex gymnastics, if you like."
"Aha. Still, I'm a little surprised. I didn´t know you were working on a sex guru career." She braced her hands on her hips, against expectation, intrigued by what her brother was saying. Besides, this was much more interesting than dealing with the history of sociology.
"You're right about that." He laughed, again with that bitter undertone. "I only did it for Elli's sake. She was complaining that missionary all the time was too boring. So I researched and memorized the hundred Kama Sutra positions. But then she found it too stressful to even try them. Women, pah!"
"Hmm, I see." She eyed her brother anxiously. An ace when it came to technology or anything digital. But at a loss as soon as people and emotions came into play. A touch of autism surrounded him, or at least a bit of a savant syndrome. He earned quite a few bucks every month as a student with coding jobs on the side. But Elli had been his first real girlfriend, as far as she knew. At twenty-three!
Yes, she could visualize it, right in front of her. Elli made some nagging remark in bed. Not really important, but Luke took it seriously. Because he took everything seriously. He occupied himself with it, developed a strategy, ah no, a professional project out of it, and learned all of these Kama Sutra positions by heart, including the history of their development and so on. He seriously thought that this way he could give his girlfriend what she needed. Men, pah!
She eyed him. He stared at nothing in particular and looked really haggard. She was overcome with compassion. Maybe she could distract him a little from his grief. Cheer him up a bit by appreciating his newly acquired knowledge. And in doing so, she could possibly get a glimpse behind her brother's otherwise impenetrable armor.
"I don't know much about that," she said, grabbing his arm. "Will you explain to me what The Sphinx is? And The Tarantula?"
"Huh? Oh, easy." He smiled, and she read gratitude in his gray eyes. "The Tarantula, that's from behind. But the woman has one leg extended back, and the man is lying down, not kneeling."
Cindy tried to imagine this, and reconcile it with her own experiences. She frowned. "The man is lying down? How is that supposed to work? And where's the leg?"
"Well, stretched out. When the woman is here," - he drew an outline in the air - "and then the man is like this, here. Then he lies more than he kneels, and --"
"Stop, stop." She raised her hands. "I don't get it like that."
He fell silent and blinked, perplexed. Lost, somehow. She bit her lips. That was working great with the distracting and cheering up.