End
"Tommy?" Katherine asked, pulling back to look at him. "Are you okay?" She was startled to see tears gathering at the corners of his eyes.
"No," he finally managed. "I'm not."
"I'm so sorry, Tommy," Katherine sighed. The two had the Juice Bar to themselves and were dancing slowly. "Do you want me to try and get Heather back here again?"
"No," he said dejectedly. "Nothing like that... I just... I want to forget Kimberly."
"Tommy, you dated for two years," Katherine said. "You aren't going to forget her overnight."
"I wish I could. How could she hurt me like that?"
"I don't know, Tommy," Katherine sighed. "I don't know."
"Will you help me forget her?" Tommy asked.
"Tomm-"
"Please?"
"And just what do you propose I do to help you forget her?"
"Make love to me," Tommy told her bold-faced. He smiled slightly at the wide-eyed stare she shot back at him.
"Make love to you?" Katherine repeated in shock. "Tommy, that won't make you forget Kimberly..."
"It might," he said. He placed a hand gently on the side of her face, framing her jaw-line. With his thumb, he delicately stroked her cheek. Then, in a move that required more effort than his initial request, he stretched over to her for a kiss.
Katherine tilted her head back. She felt Tommy's tongue meet hers in the joined hollow of their mouths. His hand slid down her neck and onto her shoulder, caressing her as his hand began a slow descent down her body.
"Tommy," Katherine finally managed as she pulled away from him. "You don't know what you're doing. Go home, take a cold shower, and I'll talk to you tomorrow, okay?"
"Do you want to be with me?" Tommy asked, locking onto her eyes.
_Where are Cogs when you need them?!_ "Tommy...," Katherine whined.
"Unless I'm mistaken, I know that you like me."
"Tommy..."
"And I want to be with you, right now," Tommy told her. His voice was low and deep, barely audible. "Please, Katherine... Help me..."
_I won't stop him,_ Katherine told herself, trying to rationalize her desires._ If anything happens, he makes all of the... No! No! That's not right! This can't happen!_ "Tommy, it might make you feel better tonight, but you'll just feel worse in the morning."
"Why would I feel worse?" Tommy asked. "It's not like I have a girlfriend right now. And I'll have made love to a beautiful, smart, friendly, wonderful young woman. I don't see the downside."
Without waiting for an answer, he delicately pressed his lips against her jawline. As he slowly kissed a path down her neck, he heard Katherine murmur, "All right."
"Really?"
"You don't sound very self-confident, Tommy," Katherine stated. _This is what I've wanted for so long,_ Katherine realized, letting her reserve go. _How could I refuse?_ Running her hands up to his shoulders, she stripped him of his jacket and tossed it aside. "Are you nervous?"
"I suppose I am," he said. He took her by the hand and led her over to what was appropriately dubbed the 'Workout Area.'
"You shouldn't be," Katherine assured him. Applying a face of bravado, she smiled and said, "You're supposed to be forgetting about what's-'er-name, right?"
Smiling as best he could, Tommy said, "Right."
Discarding his shoes as they walked, he soon led her to the side of a workout mat.
"No one can find us here, right?"
"Nobody here but us," Tommy said. Katherine stepped onto the mat. As she did, she placed her hands on Tommy's chest. Her fingers fumbled with the buttons for a few moments, until he helped her. The two of them worked together in removing his shirt. As his chest was bared, Katherine ran her hands across the taut muscles.
She pressed one palm against the center of his chest, feeling his heart pounding there. "Calm down, Tommy," Katherine urged. "You're too scared."
"I'm just a little excited," he assured her.
Smiling mischievously, she said, "Just a little?" She slithered a hand around his neck and pulled him down for a kiss. Their lips danced and explored sensually for several long moments. As she let him go, she told him, "This is your night, Tommy. We can do anything you want tonight."
"Then you won't mind if I undress you?" Tommy murmured.
"Not at all," Katherine said, hiding her nervousness behind her confident exterior. "There's a zipper in back." She lifted her hair off of her neck and turned around. "Just pull it down to the waist, and the dress will just slip right off."
Tommy swallowed hard as he touched the zipper. Then, in one over-enthused move, he pulled the zipper all the way down. His hands brushed against the warm flesh of her back. He delicately traced the outline of her lean muscles as his arms slid around her body beneath her dress. Katherine pressed herself back against him as he pushed the dress off of her body. It fell to the ground and pooled around her ankles. Kicking her shoes off, she pushed her dress aside with her toes and turned to face him.
Trembling in anxious excitement, he smoothed his hands down her sides, pausing only briefly to cup her breasts. He looked down the length of her body, smiling at her exquisiteness. Only two very slight undergarments covered her. "You're still nervous," Katherine said. She took his hands in hers and told him, "Make sure you want to do this, Tommy."
"I do," he assured her. Smiling sheepishly, he said, "That's why I'm nervous."
Katherine led his hands to her chest and abandoned them there. Then, she reached around to her back and unhooked her bra. Tommy swallowed hard as the bra dipped lower on her chest. Shifting her shoulders, she quickly discarded the garment, tossing it aside. Smiling bravely, she attempted to meet Tommy's gaze. However, his eyes were firmly locked on her chest. Placing her hands on his, she again guided them into position.
Tommy's lips parted slightly as a nearly inaudible sigh escaped him. His fingers circled briefly around each of Katherine's taut nipples. He bent toward her for a taste of her mouth, lightly pinching the stiff, pink buds as he did so.
In a move neither was really conscious of, they sank to the mat, Katherine lying on her back and Tommy on his side beside her. His mouth ravaged hers thoroughly but tenderly, while his closest hand delicately fondled her breasts. He slid the heel of his palm along the slope. His eager fingertips attacked her left nipple, plucking and plying at the rose-colored flesh. Katherine bit back a quiet moan. Her nipples were almost painfully erect, and Tommy's fingertips were stoking the pleasurable, burning sensation that was building within her.
Suddenly, she felt his absence by her side. Lifting herself up, she saw Tommy kneel between her legs.
"Tommy?" Katherine asked, a bit startled by the abrupt change. She moaned and reclined again as his hands skimmed down her abdomen to follow the smooth line of her body. As his hands reached her panties, he hooked his fingers into the garment and pulled it down her legs. Katherine bent her knees, simultaneously helping him remove her panties and place him in a better position.
"You're beautiful," Tommy murmured. Katherine smiled warmly at him as he took in her entirely nude form for the first time. He gently brushed his hand against the soft, blonde curls that were nestled in the juncture of her legs. She tensed with excitement as his fingers delicately trailed through her pubic hair. Then, he lowered himself, sliding his hands around her thighs to reach her womanhood. His fingers soon found her outer lips, and he delicately spread them.
He did nothing for a moment but examine the sight before him. He resituated himself, as the current bulge in his pants was too hard to comfortably lie on. _I hope Katherine doesn't know I have no idea what I'm doing!_ Tommy told himself. He had absolutely no clue what to do first. However, he did know enough to try something. Pressing himself even closer, he extended his tongue and flicked it against her warm inner folds for his first taste. Then, simultaneously intrigued and emboldened, he thrust his tongue as deeply into her as he could manage.
Her moan caught him off guard. Sparing a glance, he saw that Katherine's eyes had fluttered shut. _I must be doing something right._ However, he quickly backed off. He teasingly flicked his tongue along the sensitive flesh of her inner thighs. Using just the tip of his tongue, he licked intricate circles on the creamy flesh. He felt Katherine's hand run through his hair, pressing him harder against her, nudging him back to her already-heating sex.
Using his hands, he gently urged her to spread her legs wider. He gave a fleeting kiss along the length of her slit, applying scarcely any pressure. Then, pressing himself even closer, he parted her outer lips with his tongue. Katherine suddenly arched up, bucking herself into his face. He ran his tongue enthusiastically through the moist inner folds of her flesh. Encouraged by her reactions, he once again thrust his tongue as deeply into her as he could manage. This time, he was rewarded with a happy groan.
With intense thoroughness, he licked up the length of her slit. At the top of her opening, he felt a knot of hardness, a slick, warm little pearl. With a rough lick, it emerged from its hiding place. At that, Katherine began to whimper and writhe beneath him, as heat radiated up from her loins to fire her blood. He examined the tiny, pink nub of flesh for a moment. He quickly flicked his tongue across it, earning a full-body shudder from Katherine. Then, he placed his lips on it and carefully drew it into his mouth. Katherine cried out as he began to suck on it. He quickly established a steady rhythm, alternately sucking and running his tongue in circles around the small nubbin of flesh.
Katherine lifted her pelvis as the tension from her mounting orgasm built. He kept his mouth on her clit, although he had to fight to hang on when her hips began rocking. He then pressed the index and middle fingers of his left hand together and calmly pushed them into her opening. As he made love to her with his mouth, he began to thrust his fingers in and out of her. He delighted in the strength with which her tunnel gripped his fingers. He felt himself swell even harder at the thought of it clasping his manhood.
Her breath started crossing her parted lips as short pants. Tommy eagerly began to pump his fingers in and out of her in time with her breathing. Katherine was writhing and bucking frantically beneath him, and it was with great effort that he kept up. He continued to thrust his fingers in and out while keeping his mouth on her clit.
"Tommy!" Katherine suddenly cried.
"Huh?" Tommy grunted, taking his mouth away.
"Don't stop!" she pleaded in a guttural, needing tone that surprised him. However, he eagerly obeyed. He felt the trembling that passed throughout her body. Had he known more about her, he would have realized that her orgasm was quickly cresting. She began to buck her pelvis rhythmically. Then the dam within her exploded. Tommy kept his mouth on her as her entire body quaked with her earth-shaking climax.
Katherine was just beginning to come down from her orgasmic high when she realized that Tommy had abandoned her with his mouth. Instead, he now supported himself over her body. He had slithered out of his pants. His swollen erection rested against her inner thigh, almost probing at her outer lips.
"Did I do okay?" he murmured, lowering himself and planting tiny kisses all along the side of her face. She smiled in reply and shifted her hips to make way for him.
"That was marvelous," she murmured in his ear. Wrapping her legs around Tommy's waist, she pulled him even closer. When the head of his swollen manhood found the entrance, Tommy sank forward, pushing his way into her. With closed eyes and an open mouth, he pressed inside, until he was completely sheathed within her. For several long moments, he didn't move. He just relished the sensations of having his penis contained in the warmest, tightest embrace he had ever felt, along with the emotional aspect of being within this wonderful woman, his dear friend. However, as he took his first stroke, the physical sensation became the only thing his mind could focus on. Katherine wrapped her arms around him, trailing her fingernails down his back. His body's needs took over, and restraint was a concept completely beyond him. His long slow strokes rapidly gained tempo, until he was pounding into her furiously. Their moans mounted to urgency, until finally, Tommy exploded within her. He cried out as his manhood jerked and spasmed, releasing his warm seed inside her. Katherine clutched him tightly to her as they continued to rock together. When the motions wound down and ceased, he rolled off of her and lay by her side.
Catching his breath, Tommy continued to let his hands delicately caress Katherine, expressing his glowing, grateful, inarticulate emotions for him.
"Do you feel okay?" Katherine asked.
"I feel great," Tommy assured her, kissing her on the forehead.
"Good," Katherine responded as Tommy pulled her into his arms.
"Let's just lay here for a while," Tommy suggested.
"Good idea," Katherine agreed. "Let's just make sure we don't fall asleep."
"Heh, that'd be a surprise for Ernie in the morning, huh?"
"I love you, Tommy."
"I- I love you, too," Tommy said. _I think. I hope._
As they lay there, just relishing the feel of their full-bodied contact, Tommy realized he had his answer to his unasked personal question, and a smile graced his handsome features.