sylph54
Really Experienced
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.OOC: Jan. Late 40's. Recently divorced. Children moved on. Alone. Resolved not to give up, though, as if all that could be lived had already been lived in her life.
Bi-curious, but only cognizant of that now that she was somewhat ... down on men.
Deb and I had grown up best friends but drifted apart after high school. We had always been the type of friends who seemed to know what the other was thinking without having to communicate. Like twins almost, we could go to a class, hear a comment from the instructor that struck us as funny, quirky, whatever and look at each other, needing no more words to communicate. Once, even, a history teacher had yelled at us to “Stop talking when I’m talking!” even though we hadn’t said a word.
I ran into Deb at the grocery store and invited her out to coffee.
“I didn’t even know you were back in town!” I itold her as we sat down to reminisce over a cup of Seattle's Best.
“Well, I just went through a messy divorce and happened to get a job offer near here and … it just seemed the right time and place to be here again.”
I told Deb about my recent, also messy divorce, and we caught up on the 30 years during which we had seen each other, or corresponded, sporadically.
“So … are you celibate, by default, too?” I blurted out we had covered the topics of our children, jobs, husbands, families,hopes and goals. I knew I'd confused her with my personal question and was immediately sorry I'd asked. It was clear that sex was something that Deb wasn’t ready, or maybe even willing, to talk about at the moment.
But something made me re-evaluate Deb's seeming unwillingness to talk about sex. I don't know where the images came from, but I saw glimpses, flashes, of Deb sitting in a bar, alone, looking longingly over at a very attractive pair of women who were very evidiently lovers. I saw another image of Deb, evidently that same night, her clothes cast aside, slowly, sensuously pleasuring herself on a bed that must have been in her new home.
The images were REAL somehow. My breath caught and my heart beat faster. Desire twinged on the edges of my consciousness. It flowed more tangibly as more images (from Deb's mind?) of ME, seen through someone else's eyes, flashed through my brain. Images of me as a desirable woman, imaginings of me sitting in this very bistro at coffee and remembered images of me as a teen, images thatcould only have come from someone I knew well at that time.
I spilled my coffee as I saw a mental movie of myself, sitting in the coffee shop, being gently stripped by unseen hands.
The warm coffee in my lap was not all that was either warm or wet ... there.
Bi-curious, but only cognizant of that now that she was somewhat ... down on men.
Deb and I had grown up best friends but drifted apart after high school. We had always been the type of friends who seemed to know what the other was thinking without having to communicate. Like twins almost, we could go to a class, hear a comment from the instructor that struck us as funny, quirky, whatever and look at each other, needing no more words to communicate. Once, even, a history teacher had yelled at us to “Stop talking when I’m talking!” even though we hadn’t said a word.
I ran into Deb at the grocery store and invited her out to coffee.
“I didn’t even know you were back in town!” I itold her as we sat down to reminisce over a cup of Seattle's Best.
“Well, I just went through a messy divorce and happened to get a job offer near here and … it just seemed the right time and place to be here again.”
I told Deb about my recent, also messy divorce, and we caught up on the 30 years during which we had seen each other, or corresponded, sporadically.
“So … are you celibate, by default, too?” I blurted out we had covered the topics of our children, jobs, husbands, families,hopes and goals. I knew I'd confused her with my personal question and was immediately sorry I'd asked. It was clear that sex was something that Deb wasn’t ready, or maybe even willing, to talk about at the moment.
But something made me re-evaluate Deb's seeming unwillingness to talk about sex. I don't know where the images came from, but I saw glimpses, flashes, of Deb sitting in a bar, alone, looking longingly over at a very attractive pair of women who were very evidiently lovers. I saw another image of Deb, evidently that same night, her clothes cast aside, slowly, sensuously pleasuring herself on a bed that must have been in her new home.
The images were REAL somehow. My breath caught and my heart beat faster. Desire twinged on the edges of my consciousness. It flowed more tangibly as more images (from Deb's mind?) of ME, seen through someone else's eyes, flashed through my brain. Images of me as a desirable woman, imaginings of me sitting in this very bistro at coffee and remembered images of me as a teen, images thatcould only have come from someone I knew well at that time.
I spilled my coffee as I saw a mental movie of myself, sitting in the coffee shop, being gently stripped by unseen hands.
The warm coffee in my lap was not all that was either warm or wet ... there.
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