Chapter Four
That night, Adele lay in bed after everyone had gone to sleep. She didn't put on her pajamas, but wore her undergarments with a robe over them for some sort of decency. She laid a flaxen head on the sweet smelling pillow, half afraid that her beloved Mush wouldn't even come at all. It was silly for her to ask...he'd have to risk a lot and she knew that. Just as she had drifted off to sleep, she felt the bed move.
She awoke with a start, only to see that it was Mush who had climbed onto her bed through the window. She put her hand to her heart as she calmed down and he smiled slowly.
"Sorry, I didn't mean ta wake youse. You looked so pretty sleepin' dere...I coulda just watched for a couple of hours." he told her blushing.
Adele smiled herself and blushed fevorishly. No boy had ever said anything like that to her before.
"Was it hard getting in here?" she asked him moving the covers off of her and sitting up.
He shook his head and laughed flexing his muscles "Naw...anythin' fer you."
She giggled and moved closer to him. As she moved, her garter exposed itself and Mush found himself intently staring at it. He gulped. Sure he had had his way with women before, but they weren't like this. None of them were as beautiful or as classy as Miss Adele.
They talked for a bit, passing the time laughing and getting to know each other better. Each felt a whole new sensation they'd never felt before: butterflies in their tummies. Before Adele knew it, Mush had caught his mouth with hers and kissed her ever so sofly.
The kiss turned into more as Adele's robe was quickly torn away and Mush was soon on top of her. She could feel how much he wanted her.
"I've never done this before." Adele told him slowly as she closed her eyes and traced the muscles on his chest. "Have you?"
He nodded.
"Yeah. But you ain't gotta worry. I'll be gentle, aight?" he promised. She nodded and smiled.
After it was over, Mush lay next to her, tracing small patterns on her stomach. Every chance each of them got, they kissed one another's faces, loving the way the shadows made each other look in the night.
"Adele?" he asked after a long silence.
"Yes?" she asked him turning to him and smiling.
Mush cleared his throat and knitted his brow.
"Why'd ya lie? About it bein' ya foist time?"
She bit her lip. How could he have known she had lied? There could have been no way he could've known that...unless he was psychic or something.
Mush seemed to read her mind and spoke first.
"Its aight you know. I don't mind dat youse done it befoah...it don't make me t'ink you'se a slut or nuttin'. I just knew 'cause I did it wid dese two udda girls and it was dere foist times too and each a dem cried a lot and bled and somethin' broke...like I could feel it. But not wid you."
She nodded still deep in thought.
"I did make love to a man once before. Well he was a boy. I was in Paris with my father and he was with his father. He thought I was beautiful. He was seventeen and I let him make love to me. But he never talked to me again. A lot of people in high society in Europe found out about it and my father thought it might ruin my chance to get married. He sent me here to get a fresh start, but I suspect that's not the only reason."
She looked into his deep brown eyes and without delay he kissed her lips quickly.
"Dat's awful. I ain't nevah gonna do dat ta youse." he told her stroking her arm. "Nevah. Any guy'd be a maniac ta give you up."
Adele smiled and soon fell asleep content in his arms.