Lazily blinking her eyes open to a bright Saturday morning was Karen's idea of paradise especially as it wasn't her turn for a Saturday shift at St Mary's Hospital. She enjoyed the delicious feeling of luxurious satisfaction from the previous night of love-making with her luscious journalist lover, the dark-haired elegant Beth Pritchard who was deep in slumbers with one arm resting against her. She couldn't resist taking the time to slip out of bed and look at herself in the large dressing table mirror. She saw how her blonde hair fell forward in a fringe and framed her face which was shaped by her high cheek bones and her shapely lips. What bothered her and took the shine off the moment were the lines on her face that had made inroads on her looks. She had her moments of self-doubt and she regretted the years spent on male ex partners who had had the advantage of her at her best.
"Admiring your beauty gorgeous? You should be," called out a voice from behind her, the person dearest to her in the world.
"It's not often I have the time. I'm getting older and I'm glad I'm still up for some nude self-reflection," Karen answered in an attempt to keep things light as she turned round. In a second, Beth guessed what was on her lover's mind as the quick smile on the blonde's face hadn't concealed what was on her mind.
"Darling, you don't think that lines on a woman's face makes her any the less desirable. If you must know, my first crush was on my PE teacher who was a leggy blonde. She wasn't aware of my impure thoughts as I was too young and awkward to appreciate her properly. I remember looking longingly at her and put her out of my mind when I got older. When you came on the scene, I made sure not to make the same mistake twice," Beth admitted.
Karen opened her mouth with surprise. She'd talked a lot with Beth over the years but the sophisticated woman who was her lover and friend had never mentioned this. She looked back at the mirror to reassure herself and that prompted Beth to make her move. Words were not enough, she mused to herself as she slid out of the bed and decided on physical reassurance and the satisfaction of her own desires. Sleepily waking up and looking at the ravishing sight of her lover's statuesque back and fair hair falling over her shoulders did something to her. She slipped her arms around Karen and ran her fingers over her curves, finally taking in her ample breasts and stroking her nipples.
"Mmm, you certainly know how to make a woman feel wanted," Karen murmured blissfully, her back arching slightly. It was at moments like these that her fleeting self- doubts were erased especially when Beth made a move on her. Right now, she was passionately laying a series of kisses on her neck and shoulders.
"Nothing wrong with a bit of honest lust," Beth breathed into the fair haired woman's ear in between kisses. Karen laughed softly and gently ran her hand along her lover's forearm. It was the nearest she could manage in getting her hands on her lover. In this moment, the two women's world was bathed in a sense of golden desire and both of them were ready for life's odd twist and turn to work out for the best. As Beth started stroking the other woman's stomach with the fingers of her right hand, Karen let out a gasp of pleasure at the meaning and purpose behind Beth's moves. She opened her legs and gave off little moaning sounds of pleasure as this sexual surprise was especially pleasurable. Beth loved this moment as her lovemaking started to escalate knowing what she'd do for her lover as she slid two fingers inside Karen and started to work her up to excitement with practised ease. The fair haired woman squirmed and moaned with mounting intensity at every thrust inside her and finally climaxed with glorious pleasure.
"Wow.I wasn't expecting that," Karen said breathlessly while her arms were wrapped around the dark-haired woman who had been tenderly laying soft kisses all over her face." Surprises can make me feel so good," she added as an afterthought, kissing Beth back.
"So where do we take things from here?" came the seductive answer.
"Well, I need to get ready so I can take you the way I want to," Karen answered, rising to her partner's smiling challenge and glancing at their bedside drawer.
"So you don't mind if I watch you?" This was less a question than a proposition. The fair-haired woman grinned broadly and made her way to the drawer while Beth displayed herself on top of the quilt. This was exactly what Karen wanted as she leisurely secured her strapon, knowing what a visual aphrodisiac it provided for her lover with its promise of sexual pleasures. The dark-haired woman remembered how many years ago it was that she had suggested this form of lovemaking with more confidence than she'd felt and how Karen had responded without a blink. She'd been rewarded so many times for her act of courage. These tender feelings mingled with deliciously pleasurable feelings of awaiting being made loved to as the fair-haired woman moved closer and radiated seductive strength. Finally, Beth arched herself slightly as her lover's lips and tongue expertly licked and savoured her breasts while her fingers stroked her hair, neck and shoulders. While elated pleasure started to surge up inside her, Beth ran her hands through that beloved long blonde tousled hair and shapely body and her heart was overflowing. This was back to glorious reality for their mutual desires. This is what Beth wanted as she sighed and felt her lover's sensual confidence slide her fingers down her stomach knowing just how to coax her growing desires to open her legs wide. Both women had become confident and intimate with each other over the years and took their time with the , Karen felt her to be moist to the touch as their hips started to move When Karen finally moved on top of her lover and gradually slid her lover with practised ease, the dark haired woman cried out with pleasure and wrapped her legs round the fair haired sexual magician. This woman was everything Beth wanted, one who was strong and mature and they settled into the growing rhythms of their hips against each other and kissed and caressed each other with growing passion. Beth was entranced in seeing flashes of her lover's face which was lit up by the realisation of unbelievable pleasure. This was the life, both of them sighed as everything else was swept aside in the golden sunlight as they worked each other to a surging climax that seemed to go on forever inside them. It finally burst into a blessed release of all their physical and emotional love for each other and left them gasping for air.
"You're fantastic sweetheart," Beth said, exhaling the words on a flood tide of emotion and with the last breath in her body. It was heavenly to look upwards into the glowing beauty of Karen's face, sunlight shining in her deep blue eyes and her tousled blonde hair. It was the height of sensual pleasure to feel Karen slightly flexing deep inside her and loving every moment.
"You're really beautiful, so perfect. You make me feel so happy inside," Karen sighed loving the feel of her lover's arms wrapped round her." Years ago," she added with a soft laugh," I would never have been so loving and romantic."
While they lay contentedly together, time passed with light footsteps until reluctantly Karen eased herself out of her lover, removed her strapon and laid it on one side, supposing that they should now face the day. She turned round to see Beth grin broadly and reach for the side drawer.
"Wait a minute darling. You don't think I've quite finished with you yet." Karen caught a sharp intake of breath and a pleasant warm feeling ran through her vitals. The sight of her lover's slim outstretched arm and long slim body did things to her and clinched the matter.
A long while later, Karen finally slipped into a lacy negligee and lit up a post orgasm cigarette after the dark haired woman had thoroughly pleasured her. She led the way to the kitchen where she made two strong mugs of coffee In Beth's eyes, this was all part of what her lover was about with her husky voice. She looked incredibly sexy while admiring glances were returned to the vision of loveliness in her scarlet red shortish silk dressing gown. They exposed her long slim legs which she couldn't help glancing at everry so often. The two women sleepily strolled into the living room and flopped down on the settee and placed the mugs down on the coffee table. Their passionate lovemaking this morning had worn them out in a pleasant fashion as well as being on sleep from making love for hours the night before.
While the sunshine streamed down on them, Karen snuggled up to her lover and all the elements of existence cast them into a dreamlike state. Surely, they were about to have a slightly fraught discussion in this very room on a Saturday morning over the one bone of contention that had arisen, Karen's son Ross. Karen remembered that they'd had a similar morning making love or was it one and the same morning after all?. This had contrasted with the previous fraught weekend which couldn't be blamed on either of them but that hadn't helped matters at the time
"You've got something on your mind darling," Beth posed her soft and gentle question when the sunshine had suddenly faded out of Karen's shaped face. Beth guessed that this question needed asking while they had been both emotionally open to speak their thoughts. They had previously talked about the elephant that had entered the room but Karen had shut herself inside her shell and Beth had failed to grasp what was at stake. This time, Beth vowed to do better even if Karen's body immediately stiffened and she looked warily around her from behind her half closed shutters.
"I really admire the way you really stuck up for us every inch of the way before Ross cleaned up his act. When he grew up a bit six months ago, the trouble is that things got complicated," Beth said laying her hand on Karen's arm and tried to fend off an attack of nervousness but unfortunately she left things hanging in the air. This prompted Karen to raise her eyebrows in puzzlement and the painful pause left a chasm opening up between them. The fair haired woman fumbled for a cigarette and a greedy nicotine intake sparked off inspiration.
"When I fell for you all these years ago, I was overjoyed to dump a whole load of useless emotional baggage and be the woman I should be. Trouble is that being a mother meant that this disentanglement not so easy. Want to hear about it?"
Beth sensed that her lover's desperate need to be understood overlaid this casually issued invitation and that this oblique strategy was how Karen used to operate. The tension in the air contrasted with this sunny dreamlike existance where everything should have been perfect.
"I can't relate to it so well personally but this is really important, a whole part of your life so I'm involved," Beth urged in her most soothing compelling manner and folded the other woman in her arms for a while, feeling the tension drain out of her body.
"When Ross started being well behaved when he came round instead of being a total sponger, I was idiotically grateful and compelled to be the perfect mum. You must have noticed it?" Karen said in a slow, halting fashion letting her cigarette burn away untended.
"So is being supermum incompatible with a healthy sex life with your partner?" Beth softly asked, wondering if this frankness might spook Karen. To her relief, Karen laughed ruefully to herself, glad that her partner had drawn these tangled knots of thinking out into the open and seeing it start to disentangle of its own accord.
"Tell me Beth. When you lived at home, were you ever aware of your parents having sex?" Karen probed with a slight smirk on her face.
"Of course I heard them. You know how adventurous I am. Once I knew, I wasn't impressed as I wanted out from family life when I was in my mid-teens."
"It sounds weird but I never did. Believe it or not, I grew up thinking that parents didn't have sex lives. In any case, I joined the WRAF when I was seventeen. guess that's another shit idea I need to junk. Even then, I'm wary of having full on sex while Ross is around," Karen said slowly and meditatively as she felt her way towards a solution.
"So you tell me what you'll be comfortable with darling," Beth said softly and tenderly, gently feeling her way through Karen's blonde hair. These gentle words and actions did the trick as it emboldened Karen to solve this hitherto impossible conundrum.
"All right Beth. Ross is used to us acting affectionately round each other which is something he wasn't used to from my exes. Having a girlfriend might be helping him as well. I think we can try making out with fingers so long as we aren't too noisy to begin with so that we're tender with just a bit of lust. If Ross can't deal with that, I think I'm strong enough to deal with him. In a way, it's trickier now he's nicer than he used to be," Karen said slowly and looked her lover in the eye.
This calm assurance brought tears of relief to form in Beth's eyes and her arm slid round her lover's shoulders and her other hand took Karen's palm and kissed it. It looked a little work worn but none the less beautiful in Beth's eyes for all that. The fair-haired woman gently kissed Beth's tears away and then laid a long soft kiss on her lips.
"How do we manage to end up so reasonable with each other?" joked Karen but Beth was sharp enough to sense the underlying emotional seriousness.
"Because we're grown up and care for each other and not selfish and egotistical, sweetheart," Beth said softly in a muffled fashion, kissing her lover softly.
"And that's why you are my one and only love," Karen said, her words echoing down the years to come as she kissed Beth back again.
"And that's why you are my one and only love," Karen repeated as these words snatched from her soul expressed everything she wanted to say.
"Hey wake up you sleepy thing. I love it when you whisper endearments in your sleep," Beth said in a sharper, more distinct tone of voice that jerked at the fair-haired woman's consciousness. Karen felt her head lolling and realised that her head had sunk down and was resting on the dark- haired woman's breasts and she shuffled in real bewilderment. Beth kissed her on her ear as she'd let her lover doze off in the morning sunshine and her lips had sleepily whispered endearments. She wanted Karen to be awake to be conscious of her love though she had sensed that she'd been in a lovely state of mind. Besides, she had baser motives in wanting to get a good look at her lover's cleavage which her negligge generously exposed.
"Hey, what happened?",Karen found herself mumbling to herself as her tongue stuck to the inside of her mouth."Have I been asleep?" she added, finding herself back in reality.
"Of course you have, sweetheart. You looked so peaceful lying next to my breast," Beth said tenderly and reassuringly.
"We were having a heart to heart talk about Ross and how his presence scared me off sex when he came round. We did talk it over and sort it out, didn't we?" Karen asked a little anxiously, not quite sure what time zone or plane of existence they were both in.
"Of course we did. Five or six years ago we sorted it out so things improved out of all recognition. He's twenty-five now with his girlfriend and both have good jobs. Come on, let's drink up our coffees and wake ourselves up.
Though the drinks were lukewarm, they drank them down and it helped blow the cobwebs out of their minds.
"I remember it now," Karen said more definitely. She placed the crystal clear moment all those years ago when tentative glances between mother and son told them that they had a long way to go before they'd be comfortable with each other, Beth included and months after that, they'd shared a cup of coffee and had their first grown up talk. "Ross was saying that he'd suddenly relieved to discover that all he was expected was to be normal and do all right for himself. He was joking that having his girlfriend was all right by us. He'd had the sneaking feeling that he was expected to be gay or something. I'd never known that all that was going round in his mind."
As Beth joined in the laughter, she remembered Ross saying that and for the first time since she'd known him, he actually looked a little like his mother. Perhaps it was that self-deprecating laugh of his that reminded Beth so much of her friend and lover or so she thought in tender reminiscence.
The two women lay back on the settee in the hazy satisfaction of pleasant contentment on this sunny morning. Presently a lazy swirl of thoughts in Karen's head was put into spoken words .
"Darling, does it concern you that sex is so much a part of our lives together?" she asked lightly.
"There's a lot that holds us together that we don't need to talk about," mused Beth as she read the thoughts behind the words and spoke slowly."You've got a killer sense of humour and you're mature and restful to be around. I feel your presence even when we're cleaning up and not talking- and you're great fun when we're out on the town. You don't know what a rare combination that is."
"Even after all these years, I am so lucky in having a partner who's an intelligent mature human being, someone I can rely on," answered Karen quickly as if she was in danger of taking this for granted."
"Guess we're made for each other sweetheart. We can't help it," Beth said softly with a winning half smile on her lips. It was this that prompted Karen to take her lover's slim hand and kiss her palm, an entirely spontaneous gesture which Beth lovingly returned. It was so simple and so true.
"Since we're getting everything off our chests, I thought I'd confess my one and only unfulfilled sexual fantasy of you is of running my hand up one of your gorgeous dresses and that's only because I'd risk damaging it. I know what you're like," Karen answered with a slight laugh and a smirk on her face as she edged closer to her lover.
"Mmmn," ,"I'm really flattered as that's so lesbian of you. You really are insatiable. You've been sneaking glances at my legs and this time my dressing gown makes things so much handier."Beth murmured invitingly as she undid the sash of Karen's negligee and fully exposed the sight of her own sexual distraction.
"As we say, pleasure before business, lots of it," grinned the fair-haired woman grinned and shook her tousled hair back off her shoulders. Though time was passing by, that didn't stop her from caressing her lover's slim legs while having her own breasts expertly touched while marvelling how she was perfect in every way.