by Vina Fenty
She was in SS2 now and rarely had any need to run from the hostels. Half of the seniors pining over her had all graduated save for a few whom she seemed to be handling very well. Hence, she was always on her bed, curled up reading books, or listening to music on her mp3. I smiled as I thought of how she liked to tap her foot on the bed and sing sonorously along with the music. Luke caught my smile and smiled back happily, probably thinking I was reacting to something he had said.
"So will you be my girlfriend, Amara?" he said, stopping just at the back of JSS 1 block.
I stopped too, all the while imagining how to get out of this sticky situation; I didn't want to be his girlfriend or anyone's girlfriend, ever.
"Luke, you have to give me time, please," I said as a fleeting emotion of hurt passed his face.
He looked so handsome under the moonlight, but I could hardly acknowledge it. He looked like the prince charming aptly described in those silly romance novels Tejiri read, but was there something wrong with the princess? Why was the princess not thinking of how to kiss prince charming? Why did he feel like the protagonist standing against her happy ever after?
I was still contemplating all these while Luke gazed into my eyes in an overly dramatic way. He licked his lips as he drew closer to me, and I realized what he was aiming to do.
I didn't stop him because my curiosity needed to be fed. His lips fell on mine in a kiss that met my closed lips. He coaxed my mouth open, and I let him enter. He moaned as he prolonged the kiss, but I felt like my whole existence had been a lie when the kiss ended.
No fireworks, no bells chiming, angels didn't even hum in delight, I didn't even swoon, and the earth didn't move, everything was still the same as though I hadn't just had my first kiss.
Luke mistook my disappointment for tiredness, and he soon walked me back to my dorm. I ran to my dorm to search for Tejiri, but she wasn't there contrary to my expectations. There was only one place she could be, and I soon found my way to her lair in the dark, praying that I got there safe.
I soon got there, and I opened the window and hauled myself over with expertise. I squinted in the dark before quickly reaching for the lamp plugged to the wall. It gave the needed illumination, and I immediately searched the room until my eyes fell on a curled Tejiri.
"Wolf, are you okay?"
She turned slowly to face me, and her countenance broke me into pieces.
"Hey! How was your date?" she said slowly and sadly.
"I asked you a question wolf, are you down with flu or what? Please speak so I could get you some medication from the dorm."
"I'm fine. Tell me about him, has he taken you away from me?" she asked, laughing sadly, but the laugh didn't reach her eyes.
"It was the worst idea ever, I didn't like him a bit, and he asked me to be his girlfriend, and I said I would think about, but the truth is I don't want anything to do with him. Then he kissed me, and when I thought it would cause a tremor, it was bland and boring, and I officially hate kissing," I said, throwing my hands around as wolf shifted on her sides to watch me.
"Kissing is fun Amy, maybe Luke didn't know how to do it," she said, sounding much better and livelier, just like her old self.
"Have you been kissed before, Wolf?" I asked, calling her name softly, rolling it on my tongue.
"No. Senior Beatrice used to peck me on my lips, though, but I can hardly call that a kiss," she replied. I was taken aback, Tejiri did know a lot about sex and romance and I had thought it was from practice.
"I have experienced kissing, and it's so unfair that you haven't, but trust me, you aren't missing much."
"Would you like to help me out of this predicament, Amy?"
I was lost on the implications of what she had just said, so I said, "what do you mean, how?"
She snickered and sat up before saying, "I meant, would you like to show me what Luke taught you? Like, kiss me. Friends kiss all the time, and it's just you teaching me something new."
I finally understood, and my mouth suddenly went dry. God! Tejiri was asking me to show her to kiss. It was the most sensible, most natural thing anybody had ever asked me. Of course, it was normal for Tejiri and me to want to kiss. My God! I wanted to kiss Tejiri, I had wanted to kiss her since... since... oh lord! I had wanted to kiss Tejiri since I first saw her, I couldn't fathom why we had never just kissed.
I licked my lips and moved closer to her, sitting opposite her on the bed, and she looked at me with all interest, looking like I was a Greek master, and she was my noble student.
"So, he first looked into my eyes deep and then held my head in place and..."
"God, Amy! You have to do what you're saying. Show me."
I moved closer and looked into her eyes, and I saw myself and my emotions mirrored in her big brown eyes. The air became tense as I dipped my head to hers and tasted her lips for the first time. The electric charge from the kiss stunned me into inaction, and I withdrew quickly as I raised my eyes to hers only to see her smirking down at me.
She raised her eyebrows in askance, and I said, "well, that's not all, he also..."
"For Christ's sake, just show me, Amy!"
And this time, I was determined to show her, I pulled her head roughly to me and forced her lips into mine, sucking and tugging at her lips to allow me in. She just sat there like a stone statue, with her hands by her side as she allowed me to play around with her lips.
She had the softer lips of her and Luke's, and I was already swooning and feeling faint while I wondered why she wouldn't participate in the kiss.
Then she broke the kiss and laughed as she said, "no wonder you hate kissing. That is so lame and boring."
I felt like she had just slapped me, and I sat there sulking and feeling bad even though I had just been enacting what Luke had done.
She stopped laughing all of a sudden, and our eyes met again as she licked her lips and said, "now, let me show you how a real kiss feels."
She took my lips violently, and I instantly melted into a puddle of hearts and emotions. Her mouth wasn't hesitant or shy or unsure like Luke's had been. She knew what she was doing, she knew what she wanted, and she was taking it.
She sucked my lower lips before pushing her tongue into my mouth. I moaned deep into her throat, not understanding the onslaught of emotions I was experiencing. Bells rang in my head, and I noticed a flow of sticky wetness in between my legs. I held on to her neck for dear life, and the force must have pulled her to me. Soon we were falling into the bed, and she landed on top of me.
The kiss didn't break, and she made sure she wasn't putting all of her weight on me. She ravished my mouth in a way that made me think that she kissed the same way she ate her food. I was moaning lowly by now, and the sounds shocked and turned me even into a bigger puddle. I didn't know where the sounds were coming from, and it didn't matter, I just wanted to keep feeling all these variants of emotions.
In a matter of minutes, my perspective of kissing changed from zero to over a hundred. I wanted to stay there forever. All too soon, Tejiri untangled herself from my firm grip and sat up again. She rubbed her lips as she turned to look at everything except for me.
I just stayed where she had left me thinking, "Wow! That was a kiss."
I started to analyze all the changes that had happened to my body. My heartbeat was accelerated, my nipples pushed painfully against my house wear, I was wet between my legs, and my hands were shaking.
"So?" Tejiri finally asked as she watched me with a hopeful grin.
"So, when can we do that again?" I asked as we both burst into laughter. Nothing in the world had ever felt more right than kissing Tejiri.
******
I didn't ever feel like kissing Tejiri was a mistake or that we regretted it. If for anything, it made our friendship even more robust, but it did change everything.
I realized one thing from then onwards, something that was obvious from the first day I set my eyes on Tejiri, that was the fact that I liked Tejiri in the way a bo
y would like a girl or a girl would like a boy.
I liked Tejiri more than as I would a friend. She was everything good and more, and I couldn't get enough of her.
One night, I had gone to the taps at the back of the hostels to get water, and I had met Tejiri there, washing her face. The moment our eyes met, it was like a little fire was burning at the pit of my stomach. Our eyes locked, and I licked my lips while remembering how Tejiri had taken them violently the other day. Her eyes followed the movement hungrily. Before I could drop my bucket under the tap, Tejiri was in front of me, slowly backing me up against the wall at the far end. Her movements reminded me of the reasons I called her 'Wolf,' I felt like a deer trapped by a beast, but I didn't feel fear. Instead, I felt all fuzzy and funny and wet. Getting wet was something I often became with Tejiri, and I was slowly learning that I always got like that because I wanted her to touch me.
My back hit the wall, and Tejiri placed both her hands beside my face on the wall. She smiled that predatory smile before she dipped her head and tasted my lips in a kiss that was different from the last time.
I expected her to ravish me just like before, but as usual, there were many sides to Tejiri, and there were lots of things she liked to teach me. I learned that day that all kisses weren't the same, but Tejiri would always be bliss with whatever way she decided to kiss me.
I held her soft face in my hands as I let her show me that kisses could be soft, gentle, and still enjoyable.
It didn't matter to us at the time that we were in the open, nothing mattered. We were exploring each other's mouth and moaning lowly. I was bolder now and didn't give Tejiri the power to dominate my mouth. I, in turn, explored her mouth, and I found out it drove her crazy. I was just about to slide my hands down her face when I heard a voice before a torchlight flashed very close to us but not quite close enough. We sprang apart and ran back to the taps as the torchlight finally fell on us.
"Who are those?" a female voice we identified as that of our housemistress called.
"We just came to fetch water, ma, it's Amara and Tejiri," I called back at Mrs. Ije.
"Hurry up and go back to your dorms, it's late."
We snickered and hurried back to our beds, my butt pressed into Tejiri's crotch as she breathed down my neck. We always did cover up with her massive blanket so nobody would know what was happening underneath.
The feeling of want was growing stronger every day, and it became even harder to resist going all the way even though I didn't know what it meant.
Tejiri's hand was getting bolder every night, she was crossing a new threshold every time she touched me, and I couldn't wait for her to summon the courage to cross over. I was too much of a chicken to do anything back to her, even though I wanted to, so badly. Most times, I just held my breath and let it out slowly, praying that my wetness would not seep into my bed.
Yesterday Tejiri had successfully rubbed my thighs up to my butt, grabbing each full one in her palms and stroking it. It had felt so good that I imagined just how good it would feel for her to finally touch my breasts. This night, as usual, the power had been interrupted, and the windows were open, it ended up being a cold night.
I snuggled into Tejiri the more, and I felt her move to cover us entirely with her blanket, and I knew she was up to no good. Surprisingly, I already felt giddy with excitement.
"You're going to stay quiet, okay," she whispered into my ears, and I nodded quickly as she pulled me closer and plastered her lips on mine.
All the liquid in my body decided to have a party in between my thighs. I held her tight as I kissed her back hungrily. I wanted everything, I wanted Tejiri, I was beyond mad, and I didn't care if the whole dorm gathered around us screaming, I didn't want to stop. I was going crazy with lust, and my body was not helping. Tejiri caught on my mood and tried to end the kiss, but I wouldn't let go, I followed her mouth as she pulled back. When she finally did break the kiss, it felt like my arm had been ripped off, I felt like a mother who had just lost her child. I started to cry. It was a deep and painful cry because I needed Tejiri, and for some reason, she was stopping.
She pulled the blanket down to confirm if I was crying. My tears must have glistened in the moonlight because she pulled the sheet back over us and held me tightly.
"Amy, we can't go further here in the dormitory, I am scared that you would make a sound."
She was always so logical, and I seemed to be the reckless one, and even though I got her point, it didn't help the tears that kept spilling. She kissed my eyes and then my lips.
"Wolf," I whispered as I felt her heartbeat against mine.
"Yes, Amy."
"I want you, I can't help it. Just touch my uh... my..."
I stopped trying to speak and instead just turned my back to her front as I pulled her hand and placed them over my nightgown covered breasts. I heard her take in a gulp of air as her hand rested on my voluptuous chest, immobile for a while.
I held my breath too and waited patiently. It took a little while, but it was worth the wait. Her fingers played coyly with my breast, tracing patterns on it before it took a hard pull of my breast. The feel of my soft breast against her palms must have driven her mad because she soon turned me around to my back and rolled on top of me.
She violently pulled my nightgown down to free my breast, and before I could think of what it meant, her hot mouth was tugging and sucking on my nipple like a hungry puppy. It was all too much for me, and a moan escaped my lips. No sooner had the moan escaped before Wolf realized what it meant as she quickly scrambled off me.
I laid there close to tears yet again, berating myself for allowing that silly moan escape. I pulled my gown back down as I wondered what was going on in Wolf's mind. I should have instead been worried about the fact that anyone could have heard us.
I felt wolf move, and this time, she shifted so far away that I thought she would fall off her bed. It was the worst night ever, and I didn't get a hoot of sleep as my hormones were running wild.
Wolf had sucked on my nipple, and it was the newest best thing that she had ever done to me asides kissing me. I couldn't wait to experience everything she had to offer.
CHAPTER EIGHT
PRESENT DAY
My alarm rang in the morning, and I jumped out of bed, racing down to the kitchen to get lunch, ready for Tejiri. I was putting a pot on fire when I remembered that she had asked me not to cook. I sighed and turned the cooker off as I climbed upstairs with mixed emotions. I was elated that I would have private time with Tejiri, but cooking for her these past few days helped take me out of my mood swings. Since Sam wasn't around till the weekend, I had the luxury of staying out late and having maximum fun with Tejiri.
I wanted to let my hair down and be young with Tejiri, I missed that. I felt too old for my age most of the time. I didn't get to grow up the way I should have.
I searched my wardrobe for what to wear, and my eyes fell on a short black dress that I had bought on a whim. For the life of me, I couldn't remember why I would buy something so fun, sexy, and beautiful. I smiled as I imagined the look Tejiri would get once she saw me in it.
I took it off the hanger and placed it on the bed as I laid some sexy lingerie on the bed too. Lingerie, I had got from friends at my bridal shower. It was funny how I had never worn them for Sam. Instead, here I was thinking of Tejiri's expression once she took off my dress and saw the lacy girly underwear underneath if we ever did get that far. I hoped we would because I had waited this long, I deserved a good session of mind-blowing sex with Tejiri, and I would get it one way or another.
I giggled happily as I walked to my floor length mirror and took off my nightgown. For the first time in years, I looked at myself, my body, a body that Tejiri had once worshiped. Now I saw it like that, like Tejiri's canvass, not how I had always seen it, which is a body that Sam had violated and ruined. I didn't want to think of Sam right then anyways.
I ran my hands over my breasts, feeling their smoothness, and my
nipples crinkled in anticipation. They probably were overactive and sensitive from lack of touch. I stopped to turn around and see my butt. It looked firm, round, and so fair that I tried to compare its shade to that of my hand.
I turned back around and played with my pubic hair. How did Tejiri like her women? Should I take them off? Was Tejiri even into women?
I shook the questions out of my head as I pulled my towel off the rail. I headed into my bathroom.
Tejiri had kissed me deeply, like those days when we were younger, and that was all I needed to know.
I took my time to groom myself. I had all the time in the world, seeing as I wasn't cooking today.
I soaked myself in scented soap and rinsed off. I even took my time to rub crème on my smooth skin, then I pulled the lingerie on my body like I was at a striptease, and finally wore the dress. I looked in the mirror and liked what I saw. I wore makeup and styled my long hair. I liked the overall effect as I nodded in approval before grabbing my coat and walking to my car.
At the office, I saw the surprise on everyone's face. I got shocked reactions from the security personnel at the gate. It made me wear a proud smile, acting unaware of the reason for their gawking.
I got to the reception area, and the front desk lady asked for the number of the store I got the dress. I was trying to write it down for her when I noticed a sudden hush around the entire area. I stopped writing to look up, and my eyes came in contact with the cold hard stare of Tejiri.
My heart leaped in my chest as I looked behind me to catch Makinde, from the accounts department, staring at my bum as I had bent over to write the address.
Oh for fucks sakes! Tejiri was mad, and I didn't know if it was at the accounts guy or me. I shuffled from one foot to the other as I waved at her lamely. She nodded at me briefly before storming to the elevators.
I entered my office, and once I sat, my head fell on my desk as I breathed hard. She had to know that I was dressed like this for her, and it wasn't my fault that Makinde, couldn't stop leering at me. I knew she would be expecting me to come to her office to fumble over my words and try to cozy up to her. For once, I felt like Tejiri should chase me. She should come to me because, honestly, I was looking smashing today, and I knew I had caught her attention. I imagined her sitting in her chair, waiting impatiently, checking her timepiece, and expecting that it was me every time her door opened.