And I'm back :P Lots of love to Emmy, Kate and of course Winny- the wonderful Winnifred Artemis :D

The morning bloomed bright and warm, the sun golden and the birds singing. Alice and I had huddled closer in the night, my arms and Alice's legs had wrapped around each other. I awoke to Alice smirking at me mischeviously,her hair all tousled from sleeping rough.

"Sleep well?" She asked me teasingly.

"Yeah, I slept well thanks, but how about you? Did you get cold again?" Alice grinned

"I slept alright... but I couldn't really get comfy. Like something hard kept poking me." She teased, grinning broadly and I felt my cheeks burn with shame. She laughed and shook her hair before leaning forward until our noses touched.

"It was a pretty wild night" I agreed, tousling her hair a little more, my fingers curling themselves into the tips of her hair, my knuckles resting on the swell of her breasts. Her red lips parted slightly and our faces tilted towards each other. I felt my lips begin to tingle as we continued to tilt our faces towards each other, maintaining tender eye contact.

"Cosy, are we?" My masters gruff voice growled somewhere behind me, ruining our moment. We jerked apart guiltily, my hands instantly dropped from Alice's breasts and our bodies completely seperated. We sat up straight, Alice holding the blanket against her chest. "When neither you nor the girl came back last night, lad, I was concerned and this morning I set out to find you. I'm glad I did because it looks like there really is nothing between your ears."

Angrily he came forward and pulled the blankets from our bodies, revealing our immodesty. I was naked, my early morning hunger painfully evident and I felt tears of shame prick behind my eyes but I was not going to cry in front of Alice. Alice was lying in just her binding and loincloth, considerably less shamed, only her pale well-formed legs and stomach vulnerable to the gaze. "It looks like you didn't listen to me at all, lad! You've allowed this Deane whore to seduce you lure you into her bed! And once she's got you to lie with her once, it'll be child's play for her to bring you back." He snapped, throwing the blankets back over us as Alice came to her feet in anger.

"Alice is no whore!" I cried indignantly. "We shared the blankets because of the storm!"

"That's rubbish!" Alice cried. "I ain't a whore and I wouldn't control Tom, no matter what. Ain't nothing like the other witches, and I ain't easy neither!" Snatching up her dress and shoes into a little bundle in her arms Alice ran off into the trees and I was unable to follow her.

My master tossed me my trousers disdainfully. "Cover yourself up, lad. We've got work to do today." Obediently I pulled my breeches up but not to follow my master back to the house. I ran after Alice through the trees and found her, also dressed, curled up in a ball. She had her head buried on her arms and was weeping into her knees. She raised her head as I approached and I ran to crouch beside her.

"You don't think I'm easy do you, Tom?" She choked out through her tears. I put my arm around her shoulders.

"No, Alice, of course I don't." I told her soothingly. "You're the best-looking girl in the village and you haven't been with a single one."

Alice smiled at me weakly, drying her eyes on her wrists. "Not even Tommy Filch, the blonde one who's built like a mountain." She smirked. I gently took her chin in my hand.

"Not even Tommy Filch." I whispered. "Not even Tommy Ward." My lips stopped less than the width of my little finger from her lips.

"Not even Tommy Ward" she repeated. I closed that distance between her lips and kissed her fully. My tongue gently traced my lips. Then I stood up and raced off, laughing in childish exhuberence. I snatched up my shirt, boots and socks, not even caring as I ran down the hill, topless and bare-foot, still laughing. I had kissed Alice. And I think she liked it.

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