FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME

by Scott Hildreth

  “I want to start a tradition. I want you two to come here on Sunday nights and have dinner,” she said. “I’ve always wanted that.”

  I shrugged my shoulders. “Is that it?”

  She nodded her head as she stared down into her bowl. “Did you put all the shrimp in your half?”

  “No,” I said as I poked a piece of pasta, and then a piece of shrimp.

  She raised her eyebrows and glared at me. “Hmm.”

  “So,” she said. “What do you think about my request.”

  “I like it,” I said. “I’ll ask him.”

  “I thought maybe you could cook one week, maybe me the next, or we could do it together,” she said.

  “Blake likes to grill,” I said.

  “I think that’s a man thing. Your father grilled the best chicken I’ve ever eaten,” she said.

  “Well, I’ll talk to him and see what he thinks. I bet he’ll say okay. I can’t imagine what it’s like for him to have no family,” I said as I poked another piece of shrimp.

  “I wonder if he ever had kids in the foster home who stole food from him” she said as she reached for my bowl.

  “Hey,” I said as she pulled the bowl across the table.

  She pushed her bowl to my side, glanced into her new bowl, and grinned.

  “You’re a little shit,” she said.

  I shrugged my shoulders and grinned.

  Having Sunday dinner at my mother’s house was something I would have loved to adopt as tradition. I hoped Blake would agree, seeing some value in having a peaceful meal with a family of sorts. I realized nothing would be able to change his past, and no one could or would ever replace his parents, but my mother and I could sure provide him with as much love and good food as anyone would ever be able to accept.

  “I want you to love Blake,” I said.

  She gazed beyond the shrimp filled fork she was lifting to her mouth. “I already do.”

  “Did you ever love Stephen?” I asked.

  She poked the fork into her mouth, pulled the empty tines past her lips, and chewed the pasta. After a moment she took a drink of water, swallowed, and cleared her throat.

  “Sorry, I didn’t want to choke on my food. No, honey, I hated Stephen. That’s why I never asked you to have him over. He disgusted me with the way he treated you. I’m so relieved you finally left him,” she said.

  I widened my eyes. “Hated him? Like hated him?”

  “More than a spider,” she said as she poked her fork into her bowl.

  “I love you,” I said with a laugh.

  “And I love the two of you. Now make this thing happen,” she said.

  “I’ll do my best,” I said.

  “That’s all you can do,” she said. “I sure hope he agrees.”

  I sat, staring at my mother, realizing just how much she truly loved me. Children deserved to get unconditional love from their parents, and to be treated with care and respect at all times.

  And, as much as I took her love of me for granted when I was young, I now appreciated it with all of my being.

  And I loved her back.

  Equally.

  Chapter 26

  BLAKE

  “It isn’t that I don’t like it,” I said. “It’s just that I don’t like it as much as this.”

  “Ohhh….kay,” Riley grunted between thrusts.

  We had been fucking for almost an hour, in every conceivable position imaginable. After trying almost everything once, we were back at what had become one of my favorites, doggy style.

  I pulled her hair taught and pounded my cock in and out of her pussy, amazed that something didn’t break. As the sound of my hips slapping against her ass filled the small bedroom, I began to wonder if her neighbors could hear us.

  I didn’t care. There was nothing or no one that would be able to stop me from fucking her. I was in love with her, and I was in love with fucking her. No differently than a kid who had received a new bicycle for Christmas, I was spending every spare moment I had riding it.

  Or, riding her.

  “You’re….going….to…pull…my…hair out,” she said in between breaths as I continued to pound away.

  “Want me to let go?” I asked.

  “No!” she bellowed.

  I reached back with my left hand and slapped the side of her ass. As odd as it seemed at first, it was something I learned I enjoyed immensely, and as further proof Riley and I were meant to be together, it was something she enjoyed equally as well.

  I reached around the left side of her waist, and with my finger still stinging from slapping her ass, began to rub her clit while I pushed myself as deep as I was able. As I held my hips tight to her ass and my swollen rod deep within her dripping wet pussy. I strummed a tune against her swollen love button.

  “Blake!” she screamed. “Pah…Pah…Please staaahhhhp.”

  Her cries went unanswered and I continued as if they didn’t pertain to me. Making her reach climax as many times as I could and as quickly as I was able had become my newfound pleasure. Pleasing her pleased me.

  I rubbed the swollen nub, pulling her hair tight enough to cause her to arch her back in hope of a little relief. As I felt her begin to contract around my throbbing rod, I slid my finger inside of her and held it deeply, pressing my knuckle against the top of my cock. She wailed in pleasure as I began once again to pound myself in and out of her tight twat.

  “I came,” she wailed. “Please….stop.”

  “So you’re going to let some novice out-fuck you?” I asked as I repeatedly thrust myself in and out of her.

  Her arms folded up and she collapsed onto the bed.

  “Fine. But I’m going to get one more out of you,” I said flatly.

  I slowly pulled myself from inside of her, gripped her waist in my hands, and raised her ass slightly. With her chest still pressed into the bed and her head buried in the comforter, I situated my face between her ass cheeks and buried my tongue inside of her dripping pussy.

  “Blaaaaake!” she cried.

  I worked my finger in and out of her wetness as I licked and slurped her juices. After what seemed like only a matter of minutes, she raised her head slightly and her breathing changed to short choppy breaths.

  “I’m…”

  I flicked the tip of my tongue across her clit and into her pussy. Over and over, I repeated to process of licking her clit and then forcing my tongue as deep as possible.

  Her body began to shake in my hands. I buried my face deeper between her thighs.

  As I felt her quivering in my hands I continued, until she cried out into the room expressing pleasure I was sure only I could provide.

  After she collapsed onto the bed, she rolled to her side and stared.

  “What?” I asked.

  “I created a monster,” she said.

  I grinned.

  “Life was so peaceful before you fucked me the first time,” she said.

  “You sad we started?” I asked.

  “Don’t be stupid,” she said.

  I gazed into her eyes and for a moment became lost, loving her looks, her beauty, her personality, and her wit. As my eyes came back into focus, I realized she was almost doing the same, staring at me blankly. In a short time she grinned.

  She puckered her lips and raised her head slightly. “Kiss me.”.

  “You’ll get pussy all over your face,” I said.

  “Good pussy,” she said with a laugh.

  ‘The best,” I said as I pressed my lips to hers.

  And, in my mind, not only was it the best, but it was the only pussy on this earth.

  Chapter 27

  RILEY

  Leaving home young and living a life under the watchful eye of someone more concerned with controlling me than loving me left me without any of the friends I had when I was in school. In the four years while I was separated from all of my former friends, they found lovers of their own, some had children, and others moved away.

  Stevie was bras
h, crude, and annoying at times.

  But she was very easy to like.

  She moved her foot away from the switch, lifted the tattoo machine from his chest, and glared at him. “If you keep whining and squirming around like a little bitch, I’m going to have Riley paint your fingernails, put lipstick on you, and kick your ass out into the street. Fuck, can you just shut up?”

  Lying flat on his back on the table, her client was very thin, pale, and appeared to be not much over the eighteen-year-old age requirement. He opened his eyes and gazed back at her.

  “It fucking hurts,” he whined.

  “It’s supposed to hurt, it’s a fucking tattoo. Maybe you should have got a dove on your ass instead of an eagle on your chest,” she said.

  He nodded his head and blinked his eyes. “I think I’m okay. Go ahead.”

  She stepped on the pedal. The machine began to buzz, and she pressed the needle against his skin. After a few seconds, he wailed out into the room and waved his hands in the air.

  “Stop, stop, stop…I’m done,” he said.

  She had started the tattoo merely minutes before, and had just begun the outline of the eagle’s head.

  “You’re fucking kidding, right?” she asked.

  “No,” he said as he sat up in the chair. “I’m done.”

  She stood from her stool, still gripping the tattoo machine in her hand. “Giving up, huh?”

  “Yea, I can’t take it. What do I owe you?” he asked.

  “Hundred bucks,” she said.

  “A hundred for this?” he said as he pointed to his chest.

  “You fucking pussy. Do you think that eagle drew itself? I drew that motherfucker by hand. It took me almost four fucking hours. You didn’t leave a deposit, so yeah. A hundred bucks is cheap,” she seethed.

  He shook his head.

  She pressed her foot against the pedal and leaned forward as if she was going to poke him with the buzzing needle.

  “Fine,” he said as he reached for his wallet.

  After handing her a handful of money, he reached for his shirt. As he walked toward the door, he pulled the shirt over his head, mumbling to himself the entire time. I wondered as he pushed the door open, stepped out onto the side walk, and turned away just how many people were wandering the streets with half-finished tattoos on their skin.

  “Wow, that was funny,” I said.

  “What a twat,” she said as she pulled her gloves off and tossed them in the trash.

  “I can’t believe he didn’t even make it fifteen minutes,” I said.

  “More like five,” she said over her shoulder as she tossed the inkwell into the trash.

  With her hair now colored grey from her roots to the tips, she seemed so much different than when we met. After commenting on her newest choice in color - which I actually liked a lot - she warned me not to become too attached to anything she did with her hair, as she changed the color no less than once a month.

  “I know you said you’re going to change it, but I really like your hair,” I said.

  She glanced in my direction and grinned. “Thanks. I like yours too. It always looks so healthy.”

  “It’s almost brown,” I said.

  She shook her head and stared. “It’s blonde as fuck.”

  “If I didn’t color it, it’d be brown. Like almost black,” I said.

  “No shit? I like it blonde. It looks good,” she said with a nod.

  She glanced around the shop. Thursday mornings were normally busy, but with Stevie’s cancelled appointment and Blake in Winfield with Jackson until noon, the shop was completely empty.

  “Thanks,” I said.

  “Let me braid it for you,” she said as she reached for my hair.

  “Uhhm, okay,” I said.

  “We’re going to be sitting here with our thumbs in our asses until somebody walks in,” she said.

  “Come over here and sit,” she said as she sat down in her chair and patted the stool beside her.

  I sat down in the stool, and almost immediately she began to run her fingers through my hair. It reminded me of when I was a little girl and my mother would braid my hair before school. On the occasions she chose to do so, I always felt special and spent the entire day believing I was much more beautiful than any of the other girls in my class.

  As she separated each section of hair, I wondered what it might look like when she was done. My hair had grown quite long, and was at least a foot past my shoulders in length. I closed my eyes and smiled as the music played and she quietly continued to tug against my hair and fold it into place.

  “So you and Blake are quite the couple,” she said.

  I opened my eyes. “Why do you say that?”

  “You’re like teenagers the way you look at each other,” she said as she continued to work her fingers through my hair.

  “We’re in love,” I said.

  “Well, it shows. It’s cute. Makes me want to have a guy who’s normal,” she said.

  I turned my head slightly to the side and shifted my eyes until she came into view. “What happened to Vince?”

  She slapped her hand against the side of my head. “Turn around.”

  I faced forward, laughing to myself at her harsh nature and wondering just how much of it was a simply a show and how much was genuine.

  “What happened to Vince?” I asked again.

  “I heard you, hold on a minute,” she said as she worked her way around the back of my head.

  “He came in, got three knuckle tats, and we talked. That was it. Didn’t even offer to take me for a ride,” she said.

  “That sucks,” I said.

  Stevie was beautiful. If she didn’t say anything, most men would be intimidated by her beauty, and probably wouldn’t even think they had a chance of ever being with her. When she opened her mouth, a long string of expletives soon followed, and eventually the conversations always went to the subject of sex, regardless of whether she was in the presence of a man, a woman, or both. I suspected her outgoing personality and her sailor mouth prevented her from finding the man she wanted, but I feared telling her so.

  “Yeah, sucks balls. Oh well, there’ll always be another,” she said as her hands moved along the right side of my head.

  “So, what exactly are you doing?” I asked.

  “About what?” she responded.

  I chuckled lightly. “With my hair?”

  “You’ll see,” she said. “Almost done. You’re a pretty bitch, just so you know.”

  “You’re a pretty bitch,” I said over my shoulder.

  She slapped the left side of my head sharply. “Turn the fuck around.”

  I reached up and scratched my head where she had slapped me. A few minutes and a few tugs later, she tapped me on the shoulder.

  “All done,” she said.

  I stood from my seat, pressed my hands against my hair, and felt the braids. As I stepped in front of the mirror I inhaled a sharp breath.

  “Oh my God, it’s beautiful. What…” I stared at myself in the mirror as I raised my hands to my head. “What’s it called?”

  “Waterfall braid. It’s easy,” she said as she walked up behind me.

  “I love it,” I said.

  “Can you teach me?” I asked.

  She shook her head. “Sorry. You’re too much of a ding dong to understand.”

  “I’m serious,” I said.

  “So am I,” she said with a laugh as she turned away.

  “I can’t wait till Blake sees it,” I said.

  “Neither can I,” she responded.

  I turned to face her. “Why’s that?”

  She shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t know. It’s just, you know, seeing you two makes me kind of happy or whatever. I almost trick myself into thinking one day I might have something similar. Not with some pinch-faced rat like Blake, but some guy that at least acts like him.”

  I scrunched my nose and narrowed my eyes. “Pinch-faced?”

  She shrugged her
shoulders again and grabbed her pink mannequin head, the one labeled “Bad as Fuck.” As she placed it at the front of her drawing table, she glanced over her shoulder.

  “Grab your stool and come here. I’ll show you how to do it,” she said.

  I grinned and turned toward the front of the shop. As I walked back with the stool I realized Stevie wasn’t much different than me, or anyone else for that matter. She was what my mother had always called an M&M.

  Hard on the outside, and sweet once you cracked the outer shell.

  As we wove the pink hair together into a beautiful waterfall braid, I couldn’t help but smile.

  Having Stevie as a friend was best described by the writing on the face of her expressionless mannequin head.

  Bad as Fuck.

  Chapter 28

  BLAKE

  There were five men standing in a group in front of me, all of which looked like they were ready to go to war. One, a former Marine, one no less than six foot six - and muscle from head to toe, one with his face covered in a long beard - and rocking an awesome southern drawl, Axton, and Jackson.

  “So here’s the deal. There isn’t one of the fellas that wouldn’t go take care of this fucker, but not if you went along. There’s one hell of a brotherhood amongst us, but it is amongst us,” Axton explained.

  I nodded my head.

  “So here’s what we’ve got. Toad, Biscuit, Otis, Big Jack, and me. Well, and you. We’re it. You’re good with Jack, so you’re good with me. These other fellas volunteered because, well, because they’re who they are. This is a damned strange series of circumstances, and normally there wouldn’t be any of us that’d be doing a fucking thing in your presence, but here we are. And Jack may or may not have some things he wants to tell you, I’m not sure, but I need to make good and god damned sure you’re not going to get soft on us, or I’ll leave your happy little tattooing ass here,” Axton growled.

  “I won’t go soft,” I said.

  Axton shook his head and crossed his arms in front of his massive chest. I’d never been in the presence of anyone quite as intimidating as he was. His glare alone was enough to cause almost any man to understand turning away and running was his only viable option.