“Yes, I had to make sure you were ok… that you hadn’t done anything to yourself.”
“So what now?”
“Now we make each other a promise. The world, any world, is a sad place for me without you in it, so I need you to promise that you won’t kill yourself, no matter how bad things ever get. I promise you the same.”
“I… think I can make that promise, Harland, there’s only one thing I couldn’t stand… if I couldn’t be with you.
“Even then!” Harland raised his voice then regained control “Even then. If something were to happen to me… or we couldn’t be together, you need to go on… have babies, show them what love is… teach people about keeping a kind heart even when the world is a cold, hard piece of shit going to hell around you. Don’t make the world a worse place by taking yourself out of it… don’t let them win.”
“Easy for you to say!” Katie yelled at him, losing control “What do you know? You’re rich, you’re handsome, you’re big! Nobody ever stepped on you like a bug! I don’t have ANYBODY, Harland! I’m all alone! What the fuck do you know about making promises like this?”
“Katie…I…”
“That’s what I thought!”
Harland walked to one of the seats by the table, where his pants where draped over the back. Reaching into the pocket he retrieved his wallet. After fishing around for a moment he took out something, Katie couldn’t make out what it was. Harland stared at the something for a while then took a deep breath that sounded like it was part-sob.
He brought it over to Katie, holding it out towards her. Katie glared at him, but reached out and took it. It was a photograph. It showed a young blonde-haired boy of maybe 2 years of age, the photographer seemed to have caught him mid-giggle showing a good number of teeth, with a few gaps here and there. The boy was stroking a cat, who appeared resigned to its fate, the wrong way. Colour photography wasn’t exactly new, but Katie had never seen anything like this before, the photo showed incredible detail. Katie felt like she could almost hear the giggle, and like the cat’s tail would twitch at any moment.
“What is this, Harland?” Katie asked.
“That… that’s my son, Ben.” Harland forced out before walking over to the window and staring out through a small gap in the curtains.
Katie felt her world begin to fall to pieces around her. Again.
“You’re married?”
Harland turned his head back towards her, brow furrowed in confusion then he raised his eyebrows.
“I… uh… suppose I am… technically.”
“Technically? Technically!?” Katie demanded, but Harland only stared out of the window.
“Talk to me! I need to understand!”
“My wife is dead, Katie. She’s dead, ok?” Harland turned back towards her from the window. “We never had our divorce finalised before she died.”
“I’m sorry, Harland… I … I didn’t know.” Katie said quietly “Can you tell me what happened?”
“Yes… I’m working up to it.” Harland turned back to the window and stared out for a while before beginning to speak again.
“We got married young. Everybody told us how stupid we were, but we knew better. We weren’t the first, and we won’t be the last, I’m sure of it. After university we just kind of grew apart, we lived together, but we were so busy doing our own thing that we were like ships passing in the night. Sometimes we passed pretty close and one day we found out that she was pregnant. For a while, things were like the old days again, I guess because we had this thing in common that was going to tie us together forever one way or the other.”
Katie listened silently as Harland paused for a while, presumably trying to decide how best to continue.
“Then Ben was born, and all those sleepless nights, the arguing about who’s turn it was to do what and when and it was even worse between us than ever. She loved Ben though, and so did I, we made sure he grew up with love all around him. She would sing for him… I would blow raspberries on his little fat tummy and he would giggle… we couldn’t help but laugh ourselves. Sometimes when we were laughing, I thought we might just make it.”
Harland leaned his head forward through the gap in the curtains until Katie heard it thud to a rest on the window frame hidden behind before he continued.
“But no. She found somebody else. It wasn’t so bad… deep down I knew that we were finished, and it’s not like we hated each other or anything so we worked out a fair schedule, so that Ben would live with me some of the time and with them some of the time, once he was weaned.”
Harland leaned his head back again and slowly turned towards Katie. Katie couldn’t help but try to retreat from the horror she saw on his face and pressed her back harder against the headboard, with a sense of impending doom growing in her. Did the room just get darker, or did she just imagine it? Harland went on, his voice starting to crack, and his usual slow confident tone wavering all over the place.
“And it was working! Ben knew me, and I knew him. I was his first word…”
Harland squeezed his eyes shut, tears starting to leak from the corners.
“Dada! Dada!” he thumped his chest with each word then sobbed.
“But this guy she was seeing, this other fuckin’ FUCKIN’ GUY!” Harland roared then quietened again “Wrong fucking guy. He was one of those mean drunks you’re already familiar with. The meanest. Turns out he was beating my wife… ex-wife… a lot of the time. I didn’t know.”
Katie’s head began to shake from side to side slightly, as if her involuntary denial could stop the words Harland was telling her, or could deny the reality the words were revealing.
“So, this one week I was scheduled to have Ben but this thing came up with work and I had to go on a trip. I spoke to my ex and we agreed to reschedule so I could have Ben the following week instead. No problem, right? RIGHT?”
Katie couldn’t answer, and Harland didn’t wait for one.
“That weekend the guy gets all liquored up and starts laying into my ex. Before he knows it, she isn’t moving anymore. He beat her to death with his bare hands, so the story goes. He panicked and decided to destroy all the evidence then get the hell out of town.”
Tears flowed freely down Katie’s face now as she stared at Harland. Harland stared back at her for what seemed like hours, but couldn’t have been. At last he finished his story.
“He burned the house down, Katie. The whole fucking thing. Ben was in there. He burned my boy, my beautiful boy…”
Katie buried her face into her knees and cried silently into the sheets, sobs wracking her body. What could she say or do? Nothing. Katie felt the bed shift as Harland sat on it, and looked up. Harland came to her like a child to it’s mother, seeking comfort. She offered what she could as she lowered her knees and he rested his head in her lap.
“There was almost nothing…” he mumbled “he liked cats and cheesy pasta… it’s my fault…”
Katie hugged his head tightly and put her hand over his mouth. “No more, please no more.”
Katie didn’t know how long they stayed there, but the sun had moved around to a different side of the building before Harland spoke again.
“Katie, I made arrangements to end my life. Coming here was kind of a… I don’t know what to call it. Just an opportunity that fell in my lap, so I thought I might as well come and have a look. Something has changed in me in the last few days. I… don’t think I’ve found peace yet, but I’ve got some good clues about where it is hiding. You saved me.”
Katie didn’t say anything, so Harland continued.
“I know exactly what it takes to make the kind of promise I was talking about, Katie, and I’m making this promise to you anyway. I need you to promise me.”
“OK, I promise, Harland.” Katie consented.
Katie and Harland spend the rest of the day close, but mostly in quiet contemplation. They walked through gardens, bought picnic supplies and ate in a park, fed some ducks by a pond and then much la
ter watched the sun set from a bench. Back at the hotel they shared Harland’s bed, kissed tenderly, and talked before sleeping.
The next day Harland seemed more like his usual self, he thanked her for listening. She said the same to him and they made love in the morning, slowly, before ever getting out of bed. That night they went to the cinema and saw a horror movie. Katie spent much of the time hiding her face at Harland’s arm, Harland spent much of the time laughing like a lunatic, causing several disapproving stares to be sent their way. In bed that night he regularly had to stop what he was saying to laugh, saying what a “hilarious” show it was. Katie cuddled up close anyway. Just in case.
*****
Katie felt herself drifting towards consciousness, but didn’t open her eyes. She reached out towards Harland, but couldn’t find him. Katie opened her eyes and spotted Harland standing naked in front of his rooms heavy set of drawers with the mirror on top, just looking at himself.
Katie propped herself up on one elbow. “See anything you like, stud?”
Harland laughed “Good morning, sexy. I’ve had an idea that I need your help with.”
Katie’s gaze dropped down to his cock, hanging there, just out of reach. “I’ve got an idea myself.” She replied.
“Sounds like we’re singing from the same hymn sheet.” said Harland. Katie giggled, she couldn’t remember a hymn like this.
“Join me up here.”
Katie slid out of bed and stood in front of Harland facing the mirror. Harland placed a hand on each of her hips and pulled her backwards until their bodies met. Katie felt his penis nestled between the cheeks of her ass as she watched Harland’s double in the mirror roam his hands over New-Katie.
Katie reached back with her hand to feel for Harland’s cock, and saw New-Katie in the mirror do the same as her breasts were lifted up from behind and squeezed playfully. Katie wrapped her hand around Harland’s shaft and began to squeeze, pull and release as if she was milking it, while Harland continued to pay attention to her breasts. Katie felt his penis begin to swell in her hand as it reacted to her caress.
It was not long before Katie had a hard cock in her hand, pointing straight upwards. Harland released her breast with one hand and grabbed at the base of his erection, then crouched down slightly. Katie waited eagerly for the feel of his dick pounding at her pussy… but he didn’t put it in. Instead, Katie felt the head of his penis slide past her opening and rub over her clit.
Katie gasped at the sensation.
“Move your feet apart a bit and rest your head on the set of drawers.” Harland said.
Katie did as she was told resting her head on one arm on the drawers, but using the other one to grab at the head of Harland’s cock with the other as it peeked out the front of her crotch. Harland began to thrust back and forth across her pussy and clit while Katie pressed at his cock with her hand, keeping the pressure on her groin. The head and the entire shaft became soaked in her pussy juices and rubbed on her clit, sending long strokes of pleasure shooting into her.
“Ohhh… my … god” Katie hissed at the floor as Harland took a hold of her hips and began thrusting with more power, his hips slapping into her ass as his cock continued its assault on her clit. Katie quickly felt herself being pushed over the edge by the relentless rubbing of the slick erection. She turned her head upwards to look at the mirror and saw New-Katie’s face only inches from her own, contorted in sexual bliss as above and behind her the muscular frame of Harland flexed and thrust.
With this image locked in her mind, Katie lowered her head again and let her orgasm take over. The pleasure was incredible, it began at her clit and exploded throughout her body, then returned and concentrated at her clit, causing her legs to wobble slightly. Harland took more of her weight through her hips and continued thrusting at a frantic pace, sawing back and forth over her pulsating pussy that attempted to suck him in with every wave of Katie’s orgasm.
Finally Harland slowed and Katie released his cock. Her hand was absolutely soaked with her own juices, as was Harland’s erection. Katie began to turn around, but Harland stopped her.
“Stay there.” he said.
Katie remained where she was and felt the head of his cock back at the entrance to her pussy. Harland pushed forward in one long smooth motion, and Katie felt her pussy accept him eagerly, her juices having already been flowing for quite some time now. Harland pulled his cock out almost all the way, until Katie felt that wonderful sensation again of her lips parting to make way for his head, then he pushed all the way forward once more. After several more thrusts he said
“Katie, do you trust me?”
“Yes.” Katie replied without hesitation.
“I want to fuck your ass.” Harland said.
Katie raised her head and looked at Harland in the mirror, over the flushed face of New-Katie. She paused for a moment then looked down at New-Katie. What she saw there was a pleasure machine built to fuck hard. New-Katie could do anything.
“Anything you want, Harland.” Katie replied.
Harland and Katie moved forward until her thighs were pressed against the front of the drawers. She bent at the waist until her nipples made contact with the cold glass of the mirror. Her tits squashed against those of New-Katie and in unison they reached back with both hands and pulled their ass cheeks apart. Katie felt Harland withdraw from her pussy and place the head of his cock at her asshole, which instinctively puckered up at the contact.
“Relax.” He said and pushed forward slightly. With an effort of willpower, Katie managed to relax and accept the very tip of his penis into her ass. Harland pressed forward more and Katie raised herself up on the tips of her toes unconsciously trying to escape the invasive erection.
“Relax.” Harland repeated. Katie took a deep breath and on the exhale she lowered herself until her heels made contact with the ground again. In the same motion she felt the head of Harland’s cock pop into her asshole. Harland withdrew his penis slightly, and Katie felt that slightly pleasant popping sensation as the ridge of the head slipped out of her ass again.
Harland pressed forward and Katie felt the head disappear into her again. Harland’s cock was still completely soaked with her pussy juices and was able to advance at a slow but steady pace. Katie felt no pain, just the amazing sensation of being so incredibly FULL. She thought she had known what it meant to be full after that meal at Deckland’s, but as inch after inch of Harland’s hard cock disappeared into her asshole, she knew she had been mistaken.
At last Katie felt Harland’s pelvis on her hands, where she was still pulling her ass cheeks apart. Looking up at him in the mirror she said “Go slow, Harland.”
He did. Time and again he planted his cock in her ass, withdrew it until Katie felt the wonderful popping sensation, then pushed it back in. Katie began to feel a familiar warm glow at her belly, which was being fed by every stroke of Harland into her asshole and Katie started pushing back at him with every one of his forward thrusts.
The pace quickened until the steady slap, slap, slap of Harland’s pelvis on her ass rang out through the room. The glow at her belly grew, but seemed to be unable to grow large enough to graduate to an orgasm.
“Fuck me hard” Katie gasped.
Harland increased the power of his strokes, Katie felt the entire length of his cock pumping in and out of her asshole causing the warm glow to increase again. Harland reached up and placed one hand in Katie’s hair at the back of her head. He clenched his fist, grabbing a handful and pulled her head back gently until she was looking up at him over her shoulder.
“Where’s my cock?” he asked.
“In my ass.” She whispered.
“Where’s my cock? He repeated.
“IN MY ASS!” Katie yelled and finally felt the warm glow tip over the edge into a new kind of orgasm that she had never felt before. Moving from her belly to her clit and around her body, it also produced a fiery sensation up her ass where Harland continued to fuck her in and out. Her ass
quivered with the pleasure and she let out a quiet “Ahhhhhh” as she felt Harland’s cock spurting cum into her colon, quenching the fire.
“Uhhhhhh” Harland grunted as Katie felt his cock pulsating in her ass with each thrust, now more erratic. Finally Harland stopped moving. Katie remained still, panting on the mirror. Through the fogged up reflection she could see New-Katie, all sweaty and dishevelled, every bit as impaled on a cock as she herself was.
“That was amazing… I’ve never done that before.” Katie admitted.
“I can’t get enough of fucking you, Katie, you’re so fucking hot you almost make me cum before I’ve even touched you.”
Katie turned around, feeling Harland’s cock first slip out of her ass, then press into her stomach, still slick with her juices and his cum. Katie reached up and pulled his head down to where she could kiss him.
“I love you, Harland. I’ve never felt so sexy and wanted, I’d probably let you do anything to me.” Katie said with a wink. “But first, let’s have a shower and grab some food.”
*****
Katie and Harland sat opposite each other in a diner near their hotel. Harland had ordered some spicy chicken wings (“How spicy could they be?” Harland had asked), and Katie had elected for a salad. She noticed that he seemed preoccupied with something.
“A penny for your thoughts?” Katie prodded.
“A what?”
“Er… you know? A penny? One cent?”
“Oh, of course. I’ve been dreading this since I met you… but remember I was only in town for one week. Today is the day I leave.”
“Take me with you?” Katie almost whispered.
“I can’t. And yes, I have to go.”
“When will you be back?”
“That’s what I’m thinking about right now. The truth is I don’t know. There are some things I have to do back home… look, let’s just drop it for now, I really need to think, ok?”
Katie didn’t say anything, but turned her head to look out the window after their waitress delivered their food. Katie absent-mindedly played at the salad with her fork as she thought about what Harland had said. How long could he be gone for? What did he need to take care of?
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