Β© jasperspen
All persons engaged in sexual activity in this story, are over 18 years of age.
This story took place in the 1970s in the United Kingdom when the 'World Wide Web' or Internet as it is known today, was barely an infant and not available to private individuals. As for mobile phones, they were only at an experimental stage. This meant that knowledge of sex was gleaned mostly by chats with 'experienced' friends or looking at adult magazines aka Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler and so on.
Boys and girls were nowhere near as mature or knowledgeable about sex at age 18 compared to many of today's 14 or 15 year olds, thanks mainly to the multitude of internet 'information' that can now be accessed by anyone that can type 'sex' into a search engine.
All of this is to set the scene for you, to make you aware that in the 1970s, unlike the present, many boys and girls at age 18 were considerably naΓ―ve when it came to real sexual encounters.
Obviously, if you have read the previous chapters (or at least Ch 9 for this story) you will be more in tune with the characters.
One evening, a couple of months after Christmas, Sue and I were alone, as usual, washing up the dishes in the kitchen after our evening meal. Since we had been 'doing things' together, neither of us had minded this chore as it gave us an opportunity to chat, or mess about a little, without arousing suspicion. Also, apparently us getting on well together rather than arguing, had put us in Mom's good books, so that was a bonus too.
I was cautious about how much we did in the kitchen while our parents were nearby in the living room, watching the evening News, but Sue sometimes took more risks and although exciting, scared me sometimes.
However, tonight she seemed to be behaving herself, and it was me who had been a bit naughty, putting my hand up her short skirt to feel her pert bottom while she was washing a particularly delicate piece of chinaware, almost making her drop it into the sink.
"Ben, stop it," she said, a little too loudly, "if we break something there will be trouble, you know that."
"I was just..."
"I know what you were 'just doing'," she whispered this time, grinning now.
I swung my head round to look at the door, wondering if Mom had heard anything as her hearing was pin sharp, but I couldn't hear any movement from the living room, just the TV sound, as normal.
"Sorry," I whispered back, "I just couldn't help myself."
She gave me one of her 'raised eyebrow looks' and carried on washing the dishes.
"Oh, by the way, Sally came into the salon and was asking after you today," she said.
"Really?"
I hadn't seen Sally since the pool party, although I did remember vividly what we had done in the pool with Sue watching, although Sally hadn't been aware of that part.
"Yes, she asked how you were."
I didn't know why she would ask after me, although a guilty worry did cross my mind that she might be pregnant, but we had sex only once, in the pool, and that was months ago, surely, I would have heard by now if that was it.
"Was she alright," I asked, "not looking...different?" I mimed a large stomach with my hands.
Sue looked confused for a moment then burst out laughing, loudly.
"No, no, nothing like that," she said, still chortling.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's happening in there?" we heard Mom shout.
Sue looked at me and rolled her eyes.
"Just having a joke Mom, everything is ok," she shouted back.
"Just you be careful of my nice china dishes," she replied.
"Yes Mom."
"See, she hears everything," I whispered in Sue's ear.
She nodded, still grinning.
"Anyway, what did Sally want?" I asked, keeping my voice low.
"Well, she had a new fancy camera for Christmas, and is having trouble working out how to use it properly. She heard you are good with cameras," she smirked, "and wondered if you could show her how to use it."
"Oh!"
"So, I said, yes, you were very good with cameras, and of course you would show her a few things."
She was enjoying this to much.
"You didn't, did you?"
She was just grinning at me.
"Oh, you did!"
She nodded.
"Thanks a bunch," I said a bit disgruntled.
It was typical of Sue to agree something like this on my behalf without asking.
"Oh, don't be a misery guts, you might enjoy it," she said, stacking the last plate.
"When is this going to happen?" I asked.
"I don't know, she said she would work something out and come round when she could."
"Great," I replied, and wondered how awkward that visit was going to be, with the knowledge of what we did in the pool, like an elephant in the room with us.
"Right, I think we're done in here," Sue said, taking off her apron, "see you later."
"Yes, see you," I said, as she walked out the door, and up the stairs to her room.
I wandered up to my own room soon afterwards to arrange a few new photos in an album I was building, and soon forgot about Sally and her camera.
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A couple of weeks later, it was half term for me at the college and a full week off from classes. I was looking forward to having lots of time to myself, with everyone else out working, and maybe do some more photography or not, depending on how my mood took me.
I went out and about for the first couple of days taking what I thought might be 'artistic' photos and developing them in my darkroom up in the loft. I was quite pleased with some of the results and then decided to have a break from that and do something else.