Archive-name: Affairs/embers.mf
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Archive-title: Embers


    It was winter, and the two of them were staying with a friend who had her
own apartment. The house was chilly, and they had talked late into the night. 
As Julie went into the bathroom to change for bed, he and Sara quickly held
each other and kissed. They scarcely had time for a gentle taste of one another
before slipping out of their warm things and into night dress. He pulled on 
a pair of boxer shorts and a shirt. She giggled, noticing how poorly they 
restrained him, and pushed him gently under the covers. She pulled on a long
nightshirt that fell to her knees, suspended in a long cascade from the 
tips of her breasts. She was setting their things aside as Julie returned, in 
a button-down flannel shirt and sweatpants. Julie's eyes made a brief contact
of Sara's behind as the latter slipped into the middle of the large bed. 
    Julie smiled at her guests. "It'll be nice to have company tonight. I've 
been so cold lately!" As she stretched to reach the lamp, he glimpsed a 
flash of midriff glowing pink in the soft light. Then blackness. 
    They all were rocked lightly as they shifted into place. Sara in the middle
slept on her right side, and he cupped her body in a spoon. Julie lay on Sara's
right, her head close. Sara could feel his hardness pressed against her back, 
and began to feel a small core of heat inside of her. But she cautioned 
herself that they were staying with a friend, and she was uneasy with another 
person so near. Though it was hard to be 
Julie was so sweet. They had been friends for several months now. Julie seemed
very comfortable with herself, something Sara envied. But she was coming out
of her shell, as he would say. 
    Sara turned her head and kissed his arm, which was threaded beneath her 
neck.  It streched out further still, and Julie lay her head in his hand. She
did look awfully pretty in the dim orange light of the remaining embers in the
fireplace. Julie was slowly tracing circles on the back of Sara's hand. She 
felt herself being slowly mesmerized. But there was a tension instead of the 
growing relaxation she was hoping to feel, was afraid of feeling. She
became restless, and shifted about. He whispered a question into her ear, 
nuzzling it in the process, and she drew herself up. Sliding over him, she 
murmurred "bathroom," and slid out of the room.
    Once in the bathroom, she turned to face herself in the mirror. Two 
crisp peaks in her shirt met her gaze, and she saw she was flushed. Hurriedly
flicking off the light she drew a drink of water and sat down, taking a deep
breath. Her fingers trembled as she drew the water to her lips to sip. 
Counting to twenty, she tried to recall the meditations he had taught her. 
She folded up her legs and found her center, her breath becoming normal.
      Sara darted back into the bedroom and slipped under the covers next to
him, opposite Julie. He turned obligingly and she lay on his arm. This was
familiar, this was natural, she thought. Soon she drifted off to sleep.
    He awoke to extreme darkness. The fire was dead, though some of its heat
remained. Concentrating, he found that he lay on his back, and felt Sara 
curled up to his left, wrapped around his arm. With a mental start he realized
that the heat he felt came from Julie, who had closed the distance between them
and was now nestled with her back to him, around his other arm. Stretched but 
comfortable, he relaxed, concentrating on the sensations of the room. There
was a low hiss emanating from the fireplace, almost beneath notice. The heavy
wool blanket weighed upon him reassuringly, and he felt Sara's warm breath 
dance along his upper arm. The fingers of one of her hands were laced with his.
His other hand felt a soft sponginess he couldn't identify. He moved his 
fingers gently, sliding the tips along and pressing slightly. As he searched,
a bulge formed underneath the surface of the cloth, and with another start he 
identified the sensation. He was gently stroking Julie's left nipple as his 
palm cupped her heavy breast. 
    Her faint sigh seemed to roar in his ears and his hand froze. Pressed 
against him, he felt Julie shift slightly, and the motion pressed his hand
closer to her shirt, jostling his fingers. He waited a moment, unsure of his
next move, when a warm, sticky mass pressed against the webbing of his thumb.
Julie's tongue slid agonizingly slowly over his knuckle and between his 
first two fingers. 
    He resumed his inspection of the flannel of her shirt, confirming his 
identification. He listened closely to Sara's breath, feeling along his left 
side for wakefullness. She slept heavily, as ever, something they had joked
about. He knew it would take a fire alarm to stir her before the morning light.
    He gently squeezed his palm, grasping a fistfull of Julie and kneading it. 
Her hips unconsciously shifted as her breath deepened. Her hand closed about
his wrist and pried him from her for a moment. He thought he had overstepped 
his bounds and was about to withdraw. His arm was being replaced, though this 
time his hand slipped under the soft cotton and he felt her hot skin touch his.
Her breast fairly burned as he stroked it, running his thumb over her swollen 
nipple. 
    Julie rolled back against him and then slid slightly away, lieing on her
back. The move slid her chest beneath him and he met the other coral hill as
the shirt fell away. Still he could see nothing, but in his mind he saw them
laying there, Sara deep in sleep, he embracing both women, and Julie with her
bosom open to the room, growing warm beneath the blankets. After what seemed
several hours, she raised her head and pulled his arm from beneath it, laying
it across her body. Julie shifted the blankets, pulling their top beneath his 
arm until it dropped beneath them. His palm lay against her belly, and he 
discovered with a smile that Julie was an "outie." His longest fingers just 
crested the ridge of her pubic bone. A whisper of motion and he could feel
the smooth skin beneath the sweats. He drew his arm upwards, his elbow grazing
her warm breasts, and he set about to untie the drawstrings around her waist.
At this odd angle he was clumsy, and his fingernails too short to grasp the 
tiny knot. He fumbled quietly for a time, until suddenly his hand was shoved
away. He recognized the tearing of a seam in his ears as she thrust his hand
through the torn waistband and over her mons. Now his fingers felt coarse
ringlets underneath  sheer panties, and he scritched lightly in circles at 
the top of the hill. With each circle he dipped somewhat lower, until he 
was sweeping across the barest hint of a ridge of flesh. He stopped his 
advances there, pressing more firmly but always only grazing that spot. 
     His hand was nestled in a womb of moist, warm air as Julie began
to roll her hips forward with each circle in vain to catch the fingers as
they passed. She was aching, straining for the contact, but was herself
afraid of waking the bed's third inhabitant. As he circled, he felt
her wetness creep up the crotch to meet his fingers and he relented.
At the top of his next circle he darted under the string which was the
waistband of her panties. Arching his wrist, he lifted the damp cotton
from her and danced his fingers through her hairs. Scratching lightly,
his fingers burrowed inward to her center. Her thighs parted involuntarily
to make room for him, and Julie's leg stretched over his. He lifted his
left leg over hers in an effort to restrain her motion. As his middle
finger slid wetly over her clitoris she thrust upwards and engulfed him.
He reached inside of her and cupped her as he had her breast, rocking
his palm in slow circles. His fingers were deep inside of her pulsing
walls as he grasped her lips between his knuckles and held firmly.
With the heel of his hand he pressed downwards and fluttered his palm,
sending vibrations through her spine to explode in her brain. She clamped
her teeth on his arm as her thighs clutched at him and she trembled.
     Minutes passed as they lay still. Sara stirred, rolling over to her
right. He turned with her, and the motion drew him from her with a soft 
smacking sound. As Sara's arm slid around his waist in her slumber, Julie
curled on her left facing him in the darkness. She drew his hand to her lips
and delicately licked it. She took a finder in her mouth and languidly 
rolled her tongue around it, tasting herself. As she nursed quietly on him, 
Sara's hand nestled between his legs as it often did, and was greeted by 
a warm splash of fluid as he lost control. Oblivious, Sara slept on, and his 
body slowly relaxed. Julie clasped his hand to her now-buttoned shirt, and 
he slipped away. He could have sworn he heard the last ember of the fire
wink out, though he might have been mistaken.  
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