‘Oh yes they are,’ she whispered as her eyes closed. ‘In fact, I haven’t been this satisfied in months.’ And then she fell asleep and left me wondering how I’d feel in the morning. Surprised that I’d done it? Embarrassed that I had? Or just plain furious that it never went any further? Well, I’d find out soon enough.
I Have You
Charlotte Stein
I don’t react when he slides his hand down over my bare back. I’m used to not reacting. A hand can mean a million things, after all – a sign of solidarity, a touch of comfort, a suggestion that someone comes with you to the place you’re meant to be going. And for a second I’m sure his hand is all three of these things together, because really it can’t be anything else.
I don’t know him, in that other way. The one where people tangle together and press their mouths to each other’s and feel that thing … What’s it called again? Pleasure, I think it is, but pleasure is so far away from me it might as well be on Mars.
All I can do is dissect the various elements of his hand on my back: the way my skin almost seems to part beneath the press of his thumb. The way his knuckles feel when he turns his hand over and drags them down over me.
They feel heavy, I think. The backs of his hands are heavy, though I can’t remember how I know this. When I close my eyes it’s as though I can hardly picture his face, but then he leans in quite unexpectedly and touches his mouth to the nape of my neck and suddenly I can see it all clear.
He has brows that draw together too often, I’m sure, and eyes that are too often worried, and when the kiss on the back of my neck suddenly becomes hot and wet I think of his mouth. Soft, so soft, and promising so little.
But it promises a lot, here. I can hear him breathing in between those kisses, ragged and not quite in control of himself and, though such a thing should make me nervous, I find I feel nothing instead. Nothing at all, except for the minutiae of what being kissed is actually like.
I think I’m physically reacting to it, too. It’s sort of like cracking through an ice-covered pond, only to find hot lava underneath. My skin catches fire, my heart starts pounding thickly, sluggishly – though it doesn’t do so in my chest. It does so between my legs, where I’m somehow already wet even though this isn’t anything at all, really.
I mean, it’s rude that my back is bare. And though I’ve crossed my arms over my chest in a big X, my breasts are bare too. I somehow never got around to putting my top on, and so here I sit on my bed, staring out of the window over the windy rain-slicked hills, in just a skirt.
I must look like someone who’s lost all of their sense of self. Like I’m vacant, though as soon as I think the word my mind changes it to vacated. I’ve been vacated. Something has left me and I’m just a limp thing staring at a grey world in half my clothes.
Aroused, but not really connected to my own arousal. In truth, I can hardly recall what arousal is – no more than I can remember the man behind me and his face of many parts – and I think so right up until he gets two hands on my hips and pushes me into a clumsy standing position, then begins ruffling up the skirt I don’t remember putting on.
I think I know what he’s going to do. It’s obvious. But it’s still something of a shock when I feel his mouth searching blindly between my legs – shoving me when he can’t get at what he clearly needs to, the sounds he makes all desperate and somehow brutal at the same time.
My nipples are stiff, now. I don’t even try to cover them. We’re out in the middle of nowhere, but I suppose someone could walk by and see me like this – expressionless, trembling, my breasts exposed for anyone to look at. And yet I don’t care. I don’t care about anything.
And I have to confess, something about this intense sort of detachment excites me thoroughly. He’s licking me in a really dirty way, now – right between the cheeks of my arse – but I don’t give a damn. I just want to burn in that lava. I want to plunge right through the ice and boil alive.
I come close, when he slides two fingers into my cunt.
Of course I’m sure it should hurt. The position I’m in isn’t great – legs barely parted, stood as straight as an arrow – and I haven’t been fucked in an age. I should be locked tight, resistant somehow.
And yet he just eases in as though I’ve turned to syrup, which I suppose in one way I have. I’m so wet I can feel it on my thighs, I can feel it sliding slickly around his fingers, and even if I couldn’t I’d know about it because of him.
He makes a sound, a little moan of delight. My wetness stands in for my permission, and he fucks me roughly like that for a moment. Just in and out. Just good, firm thrusts that make me ache. And when I think I can’t bear it any more, he slides his fingers through my slit – backwards, everything’s backwards – and finds my embarrassingly swollen clit.
‘You like it,’ he says, in a tone that suggests he’s surprised. And then with more assuredness: ‘Oh yeah, you like it.’
Who am I to deny him? I do like it. He knows exactly how to touch me – two fingertips just rubbing over the underside of my clit, back and forth, back and forth like a metronome – and it isn’t going to be long before I come.
In fact, I think it’s going to happen in a short and rather humiliating amount of time. I’ve gone from trembling to shuddering and he keeps it up until I’m right on the precipice. I’m just about to do it, I’m really so very, gloriously close, and then he quite suddenly removes his hand.
He bends me over at the waist, so that I’m almost leaning on the windowsill.
He won’t actually fuck me, I think, frantically, but I’m wrong about that, too. I can feel something hot and smooth pressing between my legs, his hands on my thighs, urging and pushing them apart.
It’s the only time the word don’t swells up in my mind, like an ancient artefact of the forgotten me. The woman I was knew how to say no, to stand up, to ask and demand and negotiate. But I am not that woman any more. I am this limp thing, bent over, s
omething hot and solid sliding into my body as though I’m just a receptacle.
Vacated, I think, and then he shoves into me again. Harder this time, but oh God, so much sweeter. I can hear him breathing again and this time it’s really rough. It’s bordering on a panting or a series of moans and I have to reach out and hold onto the windowsill just to keep myself steady. Just so that I have something to press my face against, the crook of my elbow, the soft turn of my forearm.
I think I bite myself, when the actual and real pleasure builds to some terrible point. I’m going to come, I’m certain, even though hardly anything has happened and I’ve no more memory of orgasms than I do of any other pleasant thing.
When it happens I’m still shocked. My entire body clenches against his now rapid and thrillingly forceful thrusts and I make a sound, a choking, half-sobbed sound, as my clit jerks and my cunt ripples around his cock.