"Can I?" Susannah whispered, her face crumpling into a tipsy half-giggle. "You don't mind?"
She had asked to "try out" on my boyfriend, James. She was always asking.
"Why not?" I sighed, lifting myself from the sofa and exiting towards the kitchen, muttering, "it's about time!"
Susannah was in almost every way a perfectly normal, attractive young woman. Tall, slender and willowy of figure, she had a slim waist, long legs and feminine grace. High, well-defined cheekbones and generously-freckled, soft peach skin gave her face an elfin quality. Her smile was girlish and expressive of curiosity, excitement and life. Her copper hair was long and luscious, and flowed in tressels over her small, pert breasts, which she was always keen to accentuate with figure-hugging tops and push-up bras. Her style was independent, alternative and slightly hipster; she was the kind of girl who could pull granny skirts, chintz blouses and bold costume jewellery from charity shop sales and refashion them into a look that was effortlessly cool and distinctive. I always envied her for that.
Susannah was a perfectly normal young woman in every way but one: in her twenty-two years she had never been with a man, with anyone. It wasn't that she went short of offers - far from it - and I privately chalked the situation up to both her natural shyness and the same primness that caused her to irritably insist on not being called Susie. She had always shared a deep and powerful bond with James, however, and they established a rapport over art, literature and nature; interests my boyfriend and I never shared.
It was this, I assume, that drove her to ask my permission to "try out" with James. She wanted to explore her sexuality, she reasoned, with someone she liked and trusted; that someone was James. Apparently undeterred by my firm refusals, she determinedly punctuated the next two years of our friendship with follow-up requests. Susannah wanted James to introduce her to man, and I, rather like a parent confronted with an insistent child, eventually acquiesced.
Only, there was more to it than this. Sure, James was as good a candidate as any to introduce a young lady to the world of carnal delight. He was a fine looking man: tall, handsome and in great physical shape. What's more, he was an expert and experienced lover who gave me my first shuddering, climactic orgasm as a green and unsuspecting nineteen-year-old used only to stolen fumbles.
But that was three years earlier and by now, a relationship built solely on physical attraction, with no commonality beyond a liking for a good fuck, was withering. I was looking elsewhere, had even half strayed once or twice, and he, judging by the aching looks at Susannah that began to linger a little too long as this drunken get together progressed, was doing the same. More than giving in to Susannah's persistence, perhaps the truth was that I had stopped caring. Or so I thought.
Having poured yet another whisky and ginger, I began my walk back to the lounge to discover that Susannah had wasted no time in taking her chance. I arrived at the doorway in time to catch her first move, perched next to my boyfriend with her hand moving slowly up his right thigh as she leant to kiss him. Shocked, he instinctively backed away, but was soon persuaded as Susannah's dainty hand moved to brush his crotch and she attempted a second kiss. This time he reciprocated, and they kissed slowly and tentatively; I became mesmerised by the soft, pink tip of Susannah's tongue gently flicking at the entrance of his mouth.
Bolder than I ever dreamed she could be, she slowly lifted her right leg over James' thigh while he, less surprisingly, made moves of his own. I watched open-mouthed as he fumbled open the buttons of her pretty white blouse to reveal small, ripe breasts encased inside a pale, dusty blue bra. Susannah straightened herself on his lap and allowed her blouse to fall to the floor, causing golden waves to wash over her soft, unblemished skin. James gasped as he savoured her nakedness for the first time, raising himself to once more kiss her soft, pink mouth.
I had often idly toyed with the prospect of my best friend and my lover sharing this situation, but I was completely unprepared for the reality. I wasn't sure I expected it to happen, and I sure as hell didn't expect to see it. It hit me like a punch to the heart; a knot of nerves developed in my chest and flew up to my throat, leaving a residue of tangled emotions to fall down into the pit of my stomach, and between my legs.
My mouth went dry, the ends of my limbs grew numb and my vision began to blur as I was physically consumed by the most potent cocktail of jealousy, anger, and disgust, curiosity, excitement, and longing. If my feelings for James were dying, they were being resuscitated before my very eyes. I simply could not look away. I felt a sharp twinge as my nipples started against the soft cotton of my bra and I gulped down the lump in my throat. My right hand strayed below the waistband of my jeans and began to explore the soft, lightly-trimmed forest of my mound.
By now Susannah was on her knees, unbuttoning James' flies as he stared down at her soft green eyes with amazed delight.
"God," she muttered under her breath as she released his semi-erect penis, slowly running her right hand along the shaft as she stared at its growing swell. James had the most magnificent cock; not particularly long, but meaty and thick. Rising from a dense nest of pubic hair, a veiny expanse of hard flesh shot up in a short, gentle curve crowned by a bulbous, deep purple head. It was beautiful. Funny how I never really appreciated it until watching my best friend take it hungrily into her mouth.
Susannah kissed the tip of James' swollen head and allowed her tongue to flicker around his pulsing helmet. Her upper lip cupped the top of his crown in her warm, pink mouth as, gingerly, she bobbed her head forward and slurped keenly, slowly dragging her lips along the gentle ridges of his shaft. In growing pleasure, James tossed his head back and bit down on his lower lip, breathing fiercely through his nostrils as he bucked into Susannah's wet mouth and guided her head with one hand, gripping the arms of the sofa with the other.
Watching from the threshold between the kitchen and the lounge, I was lost in arousal as the middle finger of my right hand slipped effortlessly through the warm, weeping forest of my damp pussy. My hand had entered a sure, steady rhythm as the soft pad of my finger found the pulsating, tremoring nub of my clit. Occasionally, I would slide down the damp canyon towards my gaping vagina, slipping inside the warm, soaking hole and frigging frantically, believing and willing it to be the perfect erection that Susannah was still kissing and caressing with growing hunger before my eyes. And I could not avert my eyes: my pupils seemed to have dilated so fully that they assumed the entirety of my eyeballs and, had it not been for the relentless pleasure pulsing through my body they would have hurt through not blinking.
Suddenly lifting his head, James' deep, brown eyes met mine. His look was one of instinctive shock, but as he saw my eyes and mouth agape in ecstasy, my chest heaving and straining against my clothes and my hand manically stroking beneath my jeans, he exhaled a deep, guttural grunt.