Without A Pail

by Michelle Marra

  It was 1:30 a.m. when Jill quietly unlocked the door to the brownstone and winced when it squeaked loudly as she pushed it open. She glanced up the steps as she closed the door behind her which produced another equally loud squeak. “Shhh.” she whispered, then rolled her eyes at herself for telling a door to be quiet. It was dark and quiet as she had suspected, except for a furry creature standing at the top of the staircase peering down while panting away. She was terrified the dog would start to bark since it was what she did any time Jill would return home while the dog sitter was there.

  She smiled and placed her finger to her lips, “Hi Sweetie,” she said quietly as she climbed the stairs.

  As Jill reached the top of the stairs, she could see a flashing of lights coming from her left and knew before she even stepped foot in the living room who was probably asleep on the sofa in an effort to ‘wait up.’ She didn’t dare walk into the room, she instead padded toward Jackie’s room. She was thankful Jackie had an ensuite bathroom that had an awesome shower because she was desperately in need of one.

  Once inside, she stripped off her clothes and wrapped them in a ball. Jill stepped into the shower and under the hot spray of the water allowing it to soak her through. It had been a rough day, well really a rough month and she welcomed the teeming gush of water to wash away not only the dirt, but the stress as well. She picked up Jackie’s shampoo, popped it open and took a long whiff of its scent. “Mmmm.” It was an intoxicating aroma of coconut, one of the very first things she noticed when Jackie was pulled into an unsuspecting hug back in her ‘crush’ days.

  After lathering up her hair and allowing the foam bubbles to glide down her naked form, she picked up the liquid soap container and popped the top open to get a whiff, “Oh my God!” she hissed. The scent of sweet, creamy coconut, so fragrant, so mouthwatering; all she could think about was the time they danced, the first time she held Jackie close to her…yes she was drunk, but she remembered the fragrance of the woman’s skin then subsequently placing her lips to the blonde’s neck. Oh, the things she felt that night, the things she wanted to explore and mostly the things she wanted that hot, blue-eyed blonde to do to her.

  She squeezed a large amount in her hand and covered herself in the foamy soap. Eyes closed, hands maneuvering across her flesh to the point where her blood began to boil. It would definitely be silly to touch herself when the woman of her dreams was just in the other room. But her hand found the silken, wet and throbbing area anyway and she knew if she didn’t stop right this second, it would just boil down to a quick rub-off and she wanted so much more.

  After quickly rinsing herself she stepped out of the shower and toweled off. It would have made it so much easier if Jackie was in bed and she could wake her and hopefully arouse her. But there was no such luck, she was going to have to pull the blonde from her dreams while she was sprawled out on the sofa. A coy smirk crossed her face as she remembered their conversation in the Burger Hut. “Well, no harm in trying.” She mumbled as she left the bathroom and the bedroom wrapped in just a towel.

  Fortunately, the dog didn’t follow her, she was fast asleep at the foot of Jackie’s bed. Jill glanced behind her to ensure Joni’s door was closed before making a beeline to the living room. When she walked into the room, there she was still lying on the sofa and Jill’s breath painfully got caught in her throat. Jackie was stretched out on the sofa with the TV illuminating her face in such a way that it stole the breath right out of Jill’s lungs.

  Her weakened legs threatened her ability to cross the room, but she managed to place one foot in front of the other and close the distance to the sleeping beauty she was about to awaken with a kiss.

  A wide naughty grin spanned Jill’s face as she stood over her girlfriend, her focus intently seared into her beautiful features. “Jack,” she whispered while crouching down placing a chaste kiss on her forehead.

  “Come on sleepy head, wake up. I need you.” This time Jill’s voice had more volume to it.

  When the girl didn’t stir, Jill’s glance glided along Jackie’s barely covered form. Her tank top pushed up well past her ribs showing off her firm stomach, her one bare leg peering out from under the blanket, seeing her tight biker shorts that left little to the imagination. The sight of it all made Jill’s mouth water. “Baby, will you wake up for me?” This time the kiss landed directly on Jackie’s mouth and Jill was in no hurry to pull away as she pressed her lips more firmly on her lover.

  Jill was sinking into the kiss when she felt it being returned; the sweet connection of lips, hearts, and loins. Jill knew by the fervor of Jackie’s hands now skating across her bare back and the demanding tongue claiming her mouth they were on the same page and again she wished they were at her place so she could just pull Jackie onto her and make love right there on the living room floor. But this was Joni’s house and she would be absolutely mortified if they were caught.

  However, it seemed Jackie was not caring where they were or whose house they were in when she tangled one hand into Jill’s wet locks and used the other hand to pull the towel away.

  Jill’s eyes flew open as she pulled out of the kiss and away from Jackie’s wandering hands to wrap the towel back around her. “What are you doing?” she whispered.

  Jackie cocked an eyebrow as a coy smile flashed across her face and a memory surfaced of her being eighteen and having sex with a girlfriend on the same living room floor. She didn’t get caught then, but the chance that she could was strangely arousing and she so wanted to press her luck.

  Jill shook her head, eyes wide as she pulled herself to her knees and held onto the towel tightly. She knew that look in Jackie’s eyes; intense, penetrating and passionate.

  “Are you crazy?” Jill slapped Jackie’s hand away from her towel. “We can’t do this out here.”

  “Oh Love, I think we can,” Jackie said as she eased Jill onto her back with an impish grin. “I want you, here…now.”

  How could she possibly resist those eyes, that smile…that mouth?” Jill released a deep throated sigh as her eyes rolled back into her head while Jackie’s hot mouth skated across the nape of her neck. “Oh God.” Jill moaned, “Baby, please stop. What if we get caught?” Suddenly she felt like a teenager being seduced on the cusp of parental discovery. The thought and the feeling that began to erode her innards were strangely exciting and arousing. But this was Joni’s house. Someone she had tremendous respect for and being found like this…naked on her living room floor while her sister is engaged in lascivious acts on said naked flesh; it would be utterly humiliating as well as cause for the awkwardness which would set up residence between them.

  She had to stop this before the point of no return and it was closing in on her quickly. Without speaking a word of protest, she rolled Jackie to the side of her and was careful not to look too long into those questioning eyes before she quickly got to her feet. Still holding the towel tightly to her and dodging Jackie’s grabby hands at the same time, she extended her hand, “I want you too…but not here like this.”

  Once the bedroom door closed Jill let her towel fall to the floor, “I’m all yours Baby,” she said as she watched Jackie’s eyes slowly peruse her naked form.

  Jackie pulled her bottom lip into her mouth, Jill was beautiful…her hair still damp and lying haphazardly on her shoulders, her dark eyes were darker standing in the dim light, her breasts full, nipples pert, and her vee was beautifully groomed and she longed to push her tongue deep into the silky, hot and wet flesh. But first, there was hunger in her that was in need of release.

  She charged the brunette taking her off guard and pushing her naked back against the wall. Her eyes bore deep into her lovers as a hint of a grin appeared on her face when she watched Jill visibly swallow. Jackie stepped back to view the naked woman one more time, seeing her there vulnerable, submissive, and wanting, made Jackie so wet with arousal. However, she had a task at hand and it was to send Jill into orgasmic heaven. A devilish grin spread across her face, “Oh
my love, you certainly are all mine.”

  Then Jackie’s eyes went dark with desire, the blue was nearly black and the longing that shown through them made Jill shiver causing her skin to break out in goosebumps. Jackie licked her lips and in one motion Jill felt her head jerk to the left and Jackie’s teeth sunk into her neck and suddenly she imagined what it would feel like to be bitten by a vampire, if it felt so deliciously sensual and arousing as this did, she would offer up her neck every time.

  But in the midst of her imagining Jackie with fangs in her neck, she grunted out when her lover pinched her nipple with a bit more force than usual. “What has gotten into you tonight?” Jill’s words only came in a whisper until she felt Jackie push her legs apart and plunge three fingers into her. “Oh dear God.” Jill let out a gasp. There was no easy going tonight, no gentle testing of the waters…not tonight, no tonight was about raw emotion, love in its purest form, a passion so deep it set her soul on fire. And that is exactly what she saw in Jackie’s eyes and felt in her touch.

  Jill’s eyes filled with a white light and her ears with static. She could barely keep herself upright and felt as if she was sliding down the wall only being held up by Jackie’s thrust which was nearly lifting her feet off the floor and sending her into a complete daze, almost in an out of body experience. About completely draped over Jackie, Jill had lost the ability to stand several minutes and orgasms ago, during which she did her best to keep her voice muffled into Jackie’s shoulder. But when Jackie’s slowed her pace, pushing so deep inside…filling every void she had, Jill could barely keep breathing. Her heart was pounding so hard, she thought it would break through her chest wall at any moment. But when Jackie amped up her pace again, stroking her spot, the orgasm that ripped through her was like a freight train causing her to slam the back of her head into the wall, and the bellow that escaped her throat rang through the room with such a roar she wasn’t sure it was actually coming from her.

  This time her legs did give way and sent her to the floor into a crumbled ball, Jill rolled onto her back heaving for breath as she looked up at her lover who was grinning. “Oh my God…Baby. I’ve never come that hard in my entire life.” Jill chuckled in the amazement of the orgasm and would guess that thunderous roar which left her throat made its way to Joni’s room waking them.

  Jackie’s smile softened as she crouched down and pulled the naked and very sated woman into her arms, “now let’s go get on the bed, I’m not done with you yet.”

  “I don’t think I can walk Babe.”

  “Here, let me help you up,” Jackie pulled the woman to her feet and helped her to the bed.

  “What else could you possibly do to me?” Jill’s voice was raspy, her throat was irritated from the earlier screaming.

  “Oh, my tongue has a date with your clit,” Jackie’s smile widened.

  The knock on the door startled them both.

  “Um…can you two call it a night? Jason needs to work in a couple hours and we would like some sleep.”

  Jill was mortified and wanted to melt into the mattress. When she opened her eyes, she saw Jackie’s amused face.

  “Awkward,” Jackie sing-song voice turned to giggles like a school girl.

  “This is not funny.” Jill was embarrassed and irritated. Why didn’t Jackie just go to her place with Molly, at least there they would have been alone. How was she going to look Joni in the eye in the morning? Or any day for that matter. Jackie was still giggling standing in the middle of the room disrobing. Did she really think this escapade was going to continue…there was no way with Joni and Jason now awake and only just separated by a wall. She wasn’t sure what she was thinking in the first place waking Jackie up with sex on the table. She should have just woke her up for bed.

  Jill closed her eyes and shook her head in disbelief mentally kicking herself and wanting to disappear from the room. She looked at the door hearing footsteps thumping down the hall towards the living room, then she looked at Jackie and shook her head, “Don’t even think about it.”

  “What?”

  “Jack, put your clothes back on…this is not going any further.” Jill stood on her shaky legs trying to make her way to the drawer Jackie so kindly cleared out. She needed panties and a t-shirt. But she didn’t make it three steps when Jackie grabbed hold of her still naked form.

  “Come on Baby…you’re naked, I’m naked. There’s some unfinished business here,” Jackie spun the squirmy woman around to face her as she gazed into Jill’s eyes and grinned. “You are absolutely beautiful. Please, Jill…I need you, let’s share this one.”

  “You and those damn blue eyes…turns me to putty every time. But Darling, my legs are jelly, I don’t think I could perform very well right now.”

  “That’s not what I had in mind,” Jackie pursed up her lips as she eased them both to the plush carpet under their feet. Once Jill was on her back, Jackie straddled her hips and leaned in for a quick kiss. “This way our screams will be muffled.”

  Jackie then spun herself one-eighty degrees and inched backward until her knees were directly aligned with Jill's shoulders then she lowered herself onto Jill’s face while stretching her form over her lover’s body. The corners of her mouth turned up into a sly grin at Jill’s eagerness when she dropped her knees to the side while Jackie lowered her head and placed her mouth on the sweet nether region of the woman she loved.

  Chapter 29

  Jill tucked her face into the thick scarf cinched around her neck leaving only her eyes exposed to the frigid morning air. The winter mornings in New York City were the worst, especially when it was gray and overcast skies blocking out any warmth from the sun’s rays. She trudged along behind her thick-furred friend who didn’t seem to mind the cold as she walked through the slush on the sidewalk back to Jackie’s brownstone. Jill, however, did mind since she didn’t have her regular snow boots to protect her feet from the cold wet snow, her feet were freezing and drenched since the hiking boots she had on didn’t provide any kind of protection…but that was all she had. It was just something else to add to her irritation this morning. With a doggie waste bag in one hand and the dog leash in the other, the only thing warming her hands were the gloves Jackie had given her before she left for Molly’s morning walk, but seemed to be no match for the freezing temperature. She was cold, tired, hungry, and frustrated…and all she wanted was to just go home.

  As the brownstone came into sight, Jill grimaced…she did not want to go back into the house. Surely Joni would be up by now and she did not want to face her after last night. She was more than embarrassed, she was mortified…not only did Joni knock once, but apparently the walls were paper thin because during their second round of ecstasy laced sighs, whimpers, moans and cries there was another knock or rather a pounding on the wall between the rooms with the words that followed, ‘would you two give it a rest already.’

  Jill shook her head at the memory feeling her face flush with embarrassment again. She couldn’t believe she let Jackie talk her into continuing their sexual escapade, but when the offer of a sixty-nine was put out there, her desire drowned out any rationale she may have had. She had never had sex in that position before…not outside of her imagination and having it come to life with the woman she had fantasized about wasn’t something she could resist. She just wished the memory of the amazing event trumped the embarrassment and awkwardness she felt.

  Jill stood on the sidewalk facing the brownstone dreading going in, so instead she and the dog walked over to the bench outside of Joni’s Psychic store and sat down. Even though the cold felt like it was seeping into her bones, she sat there wishing she had her phone and car keys.

  “Hey.”

  The voice jarred Jill from her thoughts and she jumped with a start, nearly snapping her neck as she turned her head toward its source.

  “Shit…you scared me.”

  “Whatcha doing down here sitting in the freezing cold?”

  Jill shrugged her shoulders and turned her attentio
n from the blonde’s questioning eyes.

  “Babe…you shouldn’t feel embarrassed,” Jackie said as she squeezed herself onto the bench next to her girlfriend.

  “Well I do…and I really don’t want to see your sister or Jason, it will be too awkward.”

  Jackie started to giggle.

  “It’s not funny Jack…I’m really embarrassed. If we had just stayed at my place last night like I wanted to, I wouldn’t be feeling like a teenager that was caught by her mother.”

  Jackie looked out at the scenery, the bald trees that lined the sidewalk, the piles of blackened snow from car exhaust and the people bundled up like Eskimos either walking dogs or walking toward the bus stop. “Jill, I’ve had to listen to her and Jason rattle the walls on many occasions and I’ve never banged on their door or told them to knock it off…which I did remind her of this morning by the way.”

  “Yeah, but it’s her house and I’m a guest. It’s bad manners.”

  “It may be her house, but I live there too and I should be able to be with my girlfriend without being reprimanded,” Jackie patted the dog on the head with her bare hands just after she blew into them for warmth.

  “You know this dilemma could be solved quite easily,” Jill said as she turned her head to gauge Jackie’s reaction to her statement.

  “How about I stay at your place tonight? I’m not working today so I can be there with Molly, this way you won’t have to worry about her and…I’ll make dinner,” Jackie smiled, “So let’s go in, please. I’m freezing. Plus, Joni has whipped up breakfast…so let’s get some grub and I’ll come home with you.”

  Jill didn’t say anything about Jackie’s blatant dodging of the remark she made…she just stood and followed her girlfriend into the house. She unhooked the leash from Molly’s collar allowing her to barrel up the steps and into the kitchen.