Endings and Beginnings

Only then did she bring her face closer, so that an outstretched tongue could follow the passage of her finger, the tip of which came to rest on Rebecca's now highly accessible clitoris.

Rebecca again responded, this time with an inarticulate shout that proved to be the sweetest music that Stephanie could've desired. No words could've expressed what the older woman was feeling as effectively as her loud moan, or been as greatly appreciated.

Rebecca arched her body back, lifting her legs high and further apart to give Stephanie even greater access to her charms. With her tongue securely in place, the dark haired girl moved her hands to the underside of Rebecca's thighs, supporting her new position to both of their satisfactions. Her hands now free, Rebecca ran her fingers up and down her upper legs, a new trail that Stephanie followed. Her tongue rolled up and down the outstretched legs, before returning to the proverbial prize in the center.

A treasure she now spent, what seemed an eternity to Rebecca, bringing incredible joy to. Her hands again sought out Rebecca's exposed breasts, rubbing them vigorously in time to the pace of her tongue, .adding to the pleasures racing through the woman beneath her.

After a while, Stephanie relinquished her prize to again meet Rebecca's mouth with her own. At the same time, unwilling to totally lose the extraordinary feeling that had been filling her, Rebecca brought her own fingers down between her legs and duplicated her friend's ministrations as best she could.

"Horny little thing, aren't you?" Stephanie laughingly thought, realizing that perhaps she had underestimated her friend's urgent need for some sort of release.

Once more shifting position, Stephanie guided Rebecca into one that she found, at least at first, quite confusing. Stephanie was now lying beneath her, her back against the mattress and Rebecca was atop Stephanie, her back to the younger woman. In her experience, it didn't seem to make sense, at least at first.

Then in a rush of clarity, Stephanie's plan made sudden sense. If they had been standing up, Rebecca would've understood it immediately. After sharing a kiss over her shoulder, Rebecca felt Stephanie take hold of her arms and place them flat against the pillows. Stephanie, in turn, brought her own hands around to take the place of Rebecca's. With one hand on her breasts and the other down between her legs, she picked up where the brunette had just left off.

"Oh, that is nice," Rebecca purred as she felt one set of fingers play with her nipples and the other with her clitoris, both producing a set of pleasing waves that met somewhere in the center of her body.

Her upper hand began to move in an ever increasing circle, expanding the zone of pleasure it was creating while her other hand took the opposite tack, moving in a contracting motion until it was totally focused on the tiny pearl that was at the center of Rebecca's sex.

Both acts seemed to prove equally effective as under Stephanie's guidance. Rebecca's body responded like a well-tuned instrument. One playing the most delightful concerto she could've imagined. One that quickly rose to a crescendo unlike any in recent memory.

Stephanie's tongue reached out and tickled the lobe of Rebecca's ear, while at the same time the soles of her feet rubbed against her ankles, both adding to the melody. She temporary abandoned the treasure between Rebecca's legs, just long enough to run her hands up her sides, taking hold of each of the beasts and rubbing one against the other. Then she quickly brought that hand back to its primary task, sliding once more beneath the elastic band of her panties, leaving the other to do as well as it could on its own. Which in the end, turned out to be quite considerable.

Rebecca added to the symphony, gyrating her body against Stephanie's, the firmness of her back and the softness of her ass pressing against the younger woman's breasts and mound respectively. Faster and faster their bodies moved, with breaths becoming shorter and droplets of sweat covering damp flesh.

Finally, it was more than Rebecca could stand and she felt her body respond of its own accord. The tremors that had been steadily rising within her exploded with erotic intensity as her body began to quiver and quake with resounding force - the epicenter of which could be found between her legs. An eruption that left her both drained and satisfied.

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"I can't tell you how much I needed that," Rebecca said long minutes later, breaking the silence that had taken hold of the room. "I can't tell you because until this moment I didn't know myself."

"No guilty feelings?" Stephanie asked as she lay parallel to Rebecca on the bed.

"How could anyone feel guilty about something that felt so good?" Rebecca replied, without having to even consider it.

"Then you might want to try it again?" Stephanie further asked, a slight hesitation in the question.

"Definitely," Rebecca said, again without hesitation. "After all, you didn't come yet, did you? If I was going to be that selfish, I might as well be ..."

"A guy?" Stephanie chimed in, seeing that her friend was looking for an appropriate word.

"Not exactly the word I was looking for," Rebecca smiled, "but accurate enough nevertheless."

Stephanie laughed.

"We did pay for the room for the entire night, didn't we?" Rebecca unexpectedly asked.

"Yes, we have it until ten o'clock tomorrow," Stephanie confirmed.

"Good, because I have to close my eyes for just a few minutes before we try anything else," Rebecca said as she laid her head back on the pillow and did just that.

"Rebecca?" Stephanie said softly, realizing when there was no response that she had fallen instantly asleep.

She brushed Rebecca's hair away from her eyes, then lay down up against her. In only a few minutes, she too was asleep.

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At first, Stephanie thought she was having a dream. A very pleasant dream, but a dream all the same. It wasn't until she finally opened her eyes that she realized it was an even more pleasant reality. That the warmth that had spread across her body from between her legs had been much more than her imagination.

"I hope you aren't angry," Rebecca said, once she realized that the woman beside her was awake again, withdrawing her hand from between Stephanie's legs as she spoke. "I woke up just a little while ago and was just watching you sleep, then you rolled onto your back and spread your legs and ..."

"And you took that as an invitation to do more than look," Stephanie said, her tone revealing no clue as to her mood.

"I guess I was just thinking how I used to sometimes wake up Simon some morning, and ..." she paused for a second. "Oh please tell me that you're not mad."

"As someone I greatly admire once said," Stephanie said, her tone now obviously positive, "how could I be angry about something that felt so very good?"

Rebecca was quite glad to hear that, the smile on her face stretching ear to ear.

"The only thing that might make me a little disappointed, however," Stephanie added, "would be if you don't plan to continue."

"Oh, I plan to continue all right," Rebecca laughed, leaning forward and undoing the two buttons that still held together Stephanie's blouse. "Let me help you out of this, and then I want you to just lay back and relax. This time it's my turn to make you feel good. I don't have your experience but I promise to do my best."

Slipping out of her blouse and then down on her stomach as she had been instructed, Stephanie thought that just by being here, Rebecca had already made her feel as good as she could have ever imagined. Anything else, would just be icing on the cake. She vaguely remembered her friend mentioning that back in college, she had worked part time as a masseuse at a health spa. From the way the two of them were now positioned, it looked like she was about to get a first hand demonstration of those long ago talents.

Kneeling about Stephanie's head, Rebecca leaned over and placed both her hands on the small of her back. Strong fingers pressed into her flesh, moving in an expanding circle until they covered her entire back. They continued up to her shoulders and then all the way down to the cheeks of her ass, a pleasant caress that brought forth a series of soft moans of delight.

Continuing to work the rounded globes, Rebecca moved her body so that it now rested alongside Stephanie's legs. Her hands worked their way up and down each leg, fingertips applying just enough pressure to excite the nerves beneath. Again shifting position on the bed, she let one hand slide between the cheeks of her ass while her head moved up to Stephanie's neck and she kissed it softly. A second kiss followed and the younger woman turned her head just enough to meet the third.

"Turn over," Rebecca whispered into Stephanie's ear.

While she did so, Rebecca returned to the first position between Stephanie and the headboard.

Placing outstretched hands on Stephanie's midsection, Rebecca worked them upward and cupped the underside of her breasts. The brunette noted that the rounded mounds, slightly smaller then her own, were capped by much larger nipples, both of which were already standing at attention. Her fingers brushed against each, eliciting another set of quiet cries from the woman beneath her.

Both hands closed around first her left, then her right breast, squeezing them softly as her mouth dropped downward and closed around the excited tips. Her tongue caressed them just enough to add a sharp cry of pleasure to the quiet melody Stephanie had been singing. A melody cut short as Rachel's mouth met Stephanie's once more, her tongue driving deep within to caress her inner reaches.

"I imagine this wasn't exactly the kind of massage that you gave all your clients," Stephanie said in a hushed tone when their mouths finally parted.

"Not quite," Rebecca laughed, "but if I had, I might've gotten better tips."

Again moving to Stephanie's side, Rebecca parted her legs wide, exposing the hairless mound that had previously fascinated her. She had never seen one before, at least not past the age of puberty, and had been drawn to it. Eagerly, she reached out with an outstretched hand and ran her fingers across it.

"I'd certainly have left a big tip," Stephanie gushed as she rolled back her head, closing her eyes as a pleasing wave washed over her.

Rebecca continued to glide her hand over the sensitive mound, even as her mouth returned to Stephanie's breasts, tickling them with her tongue. Another kiss followed, as her index finger worked its way past the folds of her sex, producing the loudest cry yet. One that was swallowed by the passion of their kiss.

Their tongues continued to intertwine as a second finger joined the first and Rebecca explored the soft, wet interior of Stephanie's sex. The tips of her fingers quickly found her clitoris, massaging it gently at first, then with more vigor. Stephanie's body began to pulsate in time to the sensations Rebecca's attentions had produced, urging her friend to go both faster and harder.

"And to think," Stephanie said in a sot voice as Rebecca again kissed her way down across her body, "I thought I was going to be the one teaching you how to please another woman."

"To tell the truth," Rebecca replied as she paused a moment, "I'm making this up as I go along."

"Then girl, I can't wait to see what you come up with next," Stephanie laughed.

She didn't have long to wait as Rebecca's downward journey concluded with her mouth resting at the epicenter between her legs. With much less hesitation than Stephanie remembered from her own first time, the Sapphic virgin thrust her tongue deep along the path her fingers had paved, spiraling along the inner walls until the tip of it reached the pearl at the center of it all.

"Omigod!" Stephanie cried out as Rebecca continued to drive her tongue deep inside of her as possible. With one hand on her thigh, Rebecca reached up with the other and spread the palm of her other hand across Stephanie's right breast, squeezing it tightly. As if to keep a balance, Stephanie brought her left hand down to its counterpart and did much the same, eventually replacing Rebecca's hand on the first mound with her own.

Time passed quickly or not at all, Stephanie couldn't be sure which. All she knew for sure was that Rebecca seemed filled with boundless energy, all of which was directed toward pleasing her. A rising tide had been building for what seemed like forever, one that could crest at any moment.

In the beginning, Stephanie had decided to take a slow approach in her planned seduction, as not to scare away someone who was already so dear to her. It was apparent now that slow wasn't exactly a word in Rebecca's vocabulary, at least in situations like this. It was time for Stephanie to catch up.

Concentrating what will power remained in her, she lifted Rebecca from between her legs, a reluctantly undertaken task if there ever had been one, and brought her own body upward to meet her in half-motion. Their lips joined and this time it was Stephanie who initiated the shared passions. Their bodies slammed together as she pulled Rebecca to her, wrapping her hands around her ass, their breasts pressed against each other in an attempt to become one. Back and forth they rocked, hands and mouths caressing eager flesh, discovering the most sensitive points on each of them.

Another shifting of bodies brought one pubic mound tightly against the other and in unspoken consent each concentrated her energies at that location. The fires within each continued to build, long passing the level that each previously had regarded as her limit. It was as their bodies refused to give in until they had explored every last option.

Rebecca moved her body forward, so that she could reach back and play with Stephanie's sex with her hand, while at the same time presenting her own to the younger woman's mouth. It was an offering that was quickly taken up on, the fury of that acceptance exhibiting a fervor equal to that she had presented.

It was now Rebecca's turn to once more cry out as surges of passion raced across her body, driving her into a whirlwind of ecstasy. Drawing on every bit of her experience, Stephanie pressed her tongue far inside Rebecca, making the most of each motion and driving her ever nearer to the edge.

Finally, it was obvious that the limit of their resistance had finally been reached and they slid their bodies along each other one last time until each of them had the other's head buried deep between their legs. After that, the end came quickly but not quietly, as the explosions triggered in each of their trembling forms were enough to send them into a resounding rapture. One that each of them tried to hold onto as long as they could.

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The exhausted slumber that followed this time lasted well past the morning's first light. As it was, once awakening did come, it was all they could do to wash up and check out before being charged for another day in its entirety.

Filled with a desire to talk about what had happened, Rebecca and Stephanie found themselves back at the small coffee shop where their journey of discovery had begun so short a time before. Sitting in the same booth, they were both thankful that Mary was hours away from the start of her shift.

"Well," Stephanie said, staring down at the untouched cup of coffee sitting in front of her.

"Well," Rebecca repeated, her own drink equally ignored.

"I guess it would be fair to say that neither of us regrets last night," Stephanie said, finally picking up her cup to take a sip, if only to give Rebecca time to answer.

"I would say that would be a fair assumption," Rebecca replied, following her lead and taking hold of her own cup.

"So I guess the thing we need to decide is what do we make of it?" Stephanie offered. "Was it a one time thing, something to just store among pleasant memories, or the start of something more?"

"I don't see how we could make anything more of it than just a memory," Rebecca replied. "Come Monday morning I'll be two hundred miles away again," she added, bringing that harsh reality back to the forefront.

"If we weren't that far apart, would you want it to be something else?" Stephanie asked.

"Perhaps, but I'm not planning to give up this opportunity in D.C. and I hardly expect you to just toss away your own life here to follow me there," Rebecca said.

"But what if I already had a life waiting for me there?" Stephanie added, a sense of urgency in her voice.

"I don't understand."

"I didn't want to bring this up before," Stephanie said after a slight hesitation, "but I have family in Silver Springs down in Maryland. If I remember right, that's less than an hour away from Alexandria on the Metro."

"Yes it is," Rebecca said as she did a quick calculation in her head.

"My aunt runs a bed and breakfast there, quite successfully in fact," Stephanie further explained, "but she's getting up in years and it's beginning to become too much for her, especially since my uncle passed away a few months ago."

"And you're thinking that you could quit your job here and go work for your aunt," Rebecca said, jumping ahead. "Do you think that you'd be happy doing something like that instead of working here in New York?"

"Actually, I more than just think it," Stephanie replied. "I used to work summers there back during both high school and college and when I really think about it, I'm sure I'd be happier running that place than being a very junior associate here in New York. Even before last night, I had pretty much made up my mind to take up her offer."

"And if whatever you think might develop between the two of us, doesn't?" Rebecca asked.

"Then it doesn't," Stephanie smiled, "I really meant it when I said last night, that as much as I'd like it to be more, I had been willing to settle for only one night as your lover, as long as I still had the rest of my life as your friend."

"I don't even know if I could have a real relationship with another woman," Rebecca said, still trying to sort out the flood of feeling that filled her. "I might be worse at it than I've been with men."

"Again, that's a chance I'm willing to take," Stephanie replied.

"I'm sure there are a dozen reasons why this is a really bad idea," Rebecca said after sitting silent for a few long moments, "but for the life of me I can't think of any right now."

"Well, I don't plan to make the move to Maryland until next month," Stephanie said. "That should give you plenty of time to think of a few."

"And if I can't?" Rebecca replied.

"Then so much the better," Stephanie smiled.

"This is crazy," Rebecca said, her tone, however, lacking the conviction of her words.

"It certainly is," Stephanie agreed, her smile growing broader, "but then love usually is."

Rebecca reached across the table and took Stephanie's hands in her own, their eyes meeting as their shared a long moment between them.

"Well, if we do try this, you'd be an improvement over my last lover in at least one way," Rebecca grinned as they returned to the here and now

"How is that?" Stephanie replied, taking the comment as a sign that she was considering the idea.

"At least you wouldn't always be leaving the toilet seat up," Rebecca laughed.

"That much I can promise," Stephanie laughed in turn, still holding her friend's hands in her own and enjoying their warmth.

END