Stratford-upon-Avon, England, circa 1692
I never knew my father, and my mother died in childbirth, so the nuns at the local convent took me in as a child. Originally, they roomed me with all the other orphans--four to a bed--but my devoutness and physical aptitude quickly separated me from the rest. When I was nine years old, Sister Catherine personally adopted me. Given that she was in charge of cooking for the convent, she didn't mind sharing a bedchamber with me so long as I helped carry barley and other foodstuffs to and from the pantry. While food was scarce among the orphans, Sister Catherine always made sure I got second helpings. That combined with all the manual labor I had to do around the convent resulted in me becoming 6'2" and 210 pounds by the time of my eighteenth birthday, twice as big and three times as strong as most of the other orphans. It was around this time that I noticed Sister Catherine looking at me differently. Where she had once been maternal, scolding even, she was now speechless and demure in my presence. As if lightning struck whenever I entered the room. Although I respected her too much to ever command anything of her, Sister Catherine's eyes made it clear that she would have submitted to any of my demands.
So, when at eighteen I grew too tall and too broad for the divan she'd originally outfitted as my bed eight years prior, it didn't take long for her to offer up her own bed as a place for me to sleep.
"I'll sleep more than comfortably on the divan,"
she told me. With her petite frame, she probably would have. Chivalrous as I was, however, I adamantly refused to displace her from her own bed. But she wouldn't take no for an answer, going so far as to sleep on the floor until I found it within myself to take up the bed. This lasted two weeks until I finally came up with the idea to share it with her. Given her modesty, Sister Catherine never would have suggested the idea herself, but she had recently become too awestruck by my commanding physical presence to possibly contradict me. As a result, she promptly agreed, and that night the two of us slept side by side.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I slept while she tossed and turned, because for a few nights, she was utterly restless. She danced around the subject whenever I asked how she'd slept, but I knew. She hadn't slept a wink for days. Finally, late one night just after she'd snuffed out the candles, she confided in me the reasons for her recent insomnia.
"James, listen, it embarrasses me to say this, but..."
she trailed off. I felt the tension in her voice. "I'm not used to sleeping with all of this."
I sat up next to her, my broad shoulders practically ripping at the undersized tunic Sister Myrtle had sown for me years prior.
"All of what?"
I asked innocently.
"All of this!"
She found my hand in the dark and yanked it towards the hem of her nightgown.
"You mean..."
I rubbed the coarse linen fabric of her nightgown between my thumb and forefinger.
"You mean you usually sleep in something more comfortable?"
She paused for a moment.
"You could say that,"
she said finally.
I exhaled audibly.
"Listen, Sister Catherine, you've already done too much for me. It would make me happiest if you slept in whatever garments make you feel most comfortable."
"You really mean that?"
I heard the rustling of the covers as she turned to me, her big blue eyes searching for mine in the pitch black darkness.
This time I turned to her, my knees now touching hers underneath the covers.
"Of course I do. Now get to it so we can both sleep. I know how much you need it."
Without saying another word, and without even lighting a new candle, she stood up from the bed and went to the washroom. In the silent darkness, staring up at the ceiling, I distantly heard her nightgown fall to the floor and felt a twinge of excitement at the sound. What was this feeling? It certainly wasn't love, but it didn't feel far off. Like my heart was slipping through my gut and into my crotch. With a smile on my face and a pulsing sensitivity between my legs, I fell contentedly to sleep before Sister Catherine even made it back to bed.
When I awoke, the morning light heating my face through the window, I turned to Sister Catherine and noticed that she was still asleep. Knowing that this was the first good sleep she'd had in days, I elected not to wake her. She needed all the sleep she could get. As I tiptoed around the room readying myself for my morning chores, I heard her body moving around in the bed. Thinking she had just woken up, I turned around to face her, but what I saw next shocked me to my core.
Still asleep, she had rolled over and away from the covers, exposing her fully naked backside to the morning light. My immediate reaction was a sense of shame; I knew Sister Catherine wouldn't want me to see her like this. However, due to the fact that she was fully turned away from me, I knew there was no risk of being caught, so I continued staring against my better judgment. Her right leg, the one closest to me, was outstretched and pushing away the covers, while her left leg was hiked so far up that the knee hugged itself against her tight waist, nestling into the empty space between her hips and her ample bosom, which was hidden from my view. What was not hidden from my view, however, was her voluptuous ass, which was as well-proportioned as anything I had ever seen prior or since. Like the behind of a well-conditioned mare, it looked muscled yet tender, with two symmetrical dimples sitting just between it and her tight waist.
Until this moment, I had only ever seen Sister Catherine in conservative nun wear (all of which had left much to the imagination), so nothing could have braced me for the unimaginable beauty of her slim and petite frame. There was hardly any fat to speak of, but what little she had sat in all the right places, further filling out her tight body. But what I noticed next captivated me most. I had spent so long staring at her ass that I hadn't discerned what was now impossible to ignore just a few inches below it: between her spread legs there was a glistening wetness dripping down the inside of her thigh and onto the bedding. Suddenly I felt that same familiar feeling from the night before, when I'd heard her nightgown fall to the washroom floor. Like my heart had found its way into my bollocks. Still in an unconscious state, her left arm removed itself from underneath the pillow and slowly reached down into the wetness. Just as slowly, her hips then began to undulate against the finger that had plunged itself in, as if she was kneading dough with the weight of her whole body. Utterly entranced by the whole spectacle, I stood by silently until a brief, carnal moan issued itself from her full lips. Alarmed and afraid that she would wake soon, I quickly scurried out of the room and began my morning chores.
For the rest of the day, I avoided Sister Catherine's eyes entirely. But I didn't avoid the thought of her. Again and again, I turned the thought of her soft and rounded backside over in my mind. Even more, though, I wondered about the wet fluid I had seen between her legs, which had been the same transparent white as watered down milk. What had caused that?
That evening I went to bed early, feigning tiredness but really just hoping to avoid any interactions with Sister Catherine. It all felt too strange, like I had wronged her somehow. Although she was always the person I asked about things I didn't understand, I knew not to ask her about this. This was different.
I was still turning thoughts like this one over in my mind when, an hour or so later, I heard Sister Catherine tiptoe into the bedroom and disrobe, her heavy wool habit falling to the ground with a weighty thump. Feigning sleep, I opened my eyes just wide enough to see her figure creeping towards the bed, the only light in the whole room being the candle she held in her right hand. For a brief moment, I watched in wonder as the candle's glow illuminated her naked body. Her two breasts, which I had never seen in their full glory until now, stood at attention just above the tops of her ribs. Upright, firm, but as delicate as two teardrops, each one looked to be at least a handful, probably more. Under the covers, I felt myself rising to attention as I never had before.
I closed my eyes and pretended to turn over in my sleep just before Sister Catherine blew the candle out, and moments later, she pulled back the covers and climbed into bed beside me. I was facing away from her, but nevertheless I sensed her presence at my back, her twin breasts rising and falling in sync with her tender breaths. I felt my own breathing grow quicker. Uneven. I had never felt this level of excitement before.
How will I ever find it in myself to sleep with her so close to me?
I remember thinking to myself. But somehow I did.
I awoke to total darkness. Assuming I was still facing away from Sister Catherine, I reached out my arm to stretch, but instead found the warm softness of her rounded shoulder. I must have rolled over at some point in my sleep. I instinctively pulled my hand away from her shoulder, but at the presence of my touch, she let out a quiet, contented sigh and backed her hips up into mine.
"Sister Catherine,"
I said into the darkness.
"What are you doing?"
Silence. She was sound asleep.
Under the covers, I felt Sister Catherine's naked ass right up against my crotch. I was wearing a knee length tunic, thankfully, otherwise who knows what would have happened. Slowly, I began pulling my hips away from hers, trying to avoid staying in this awkward position any longer. What if she woke up? But each time I pulled away, her hips kept backing up further. To make matters worse, as all this was happening, I felt myself slowly rising to attention underneath the covers. Oh god, I thought to myself, this can't be happening. Not with Sister Catherine. Before long, I found that I'd run out of real estate too. With her ass as her plow, she'd pushed me all the way to the edge of the bed. She looked like she was trying to touch her toes, that's how far into my crotch she'd thrust her rear.
Afraid that I'd fall off the bed, I finally decided to thrust back. When I did, the feeling was electric. Practically bursting from the fabric of my tunic, my hard sex lunged into a snug space between the suppleness of Sister Catherine's warm thighs. What I would have given in that moment to not be wearing any pants. Between her tight thighs, I felt my sex pulsing like a water bladder before it bursts. Please don't wake up, I thought to myself. Please don't wake up. Instead, she let out a soft moan and backed her hips up again, lodging my sex even further into the space between her thighs. Moments later, I noticed something wet leaking into the fabric of my tunic where her thighs met my crotch. The wetness, I thought to myself.
From last night.
Taking a chance, I slowly brought my upper body into contact with hers, feeling my barrel chest against her bare back through my tunic. Inhaling a breath of pure euphoria, all I could smell was the musky scent of her auburn hair. As softly as I could, I whispered into her ear.
"Sister Catherine,"
I practically moaned.
"Oh, James,"