no opportunity arises.) That night I did not have time for the ladylike pianissimo
protocol. i had just this one chance and only two hours to make it work – and no
second chance; Theodore was going overseas. A warrior’s farewell had to be now.
So Maureen was not ladylike. As soon as we turned off Benton Boulevard and the
gathering dusk had given us some privacy, I asked him to put his arm around me. When
he did so, I reached up, took his hand and placed it on my right breast. Most men
understand that.
Theodore understood it. He caught his breath. I said, `We haven’t time to be shy,
dear Theodore. Don’t be afraid to touch me.’
He cupped my breast. ‘I love you, Maureen!’
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I answered soberly, `We have loved each other since the night we met. We simply
could not say so.’ I raised his hand, then slid it down the full neck of my dress,
felt scalding excitement as his hand touched my breast.
He answered huskily, `Yes. I didn’t dare tell you.’
`You would never have told me, Theodore. So I had to be bold and let you know that I
feel just as you do. Our turn is just ahead.’
`I think I remember it from bringing your children out here. I’ll need both hands to
drive that lane’
So I’ll let you have your hand back – temporarily. As soon as we are in there and
you have stopped the car, I want both your hands on me and all your attention.’
‘Yes!’
He drove in, turned his car around and headed out, turned off his lights and stopped
his engine, set his hand brake and turned to me. He took me in his arms and we
kissed, a fully shared kiss, with our tongues exploring and caressing and talking
wordlessly. I was in Heaven. I still think that a totally unrestrained kiss is more
intimate than coupling; a woman should never kiss that way unless she intends to
couple at once in whatever way be wants her.
Without words I said this to Theodore. As soon as our tongues met I pulled up my
skirt, took his hand and put it between my thighs. He still hesitated, so I moved
his hand further up.
No more hesitation – All Theodore needed was to be certain that I knew what I wanted
and that his best attentions were welcome. He explored me gently, then slipped a
finger inside. I let it enter, then squeezed it as hard as I could – and
congratulated myself on never having skipped my exercises even a day since Ethel was
born, two years earlier. I love to surprise a man with the strength of my vaginal
sphincter. My passage is so baby-stretched that, if I did not work endlessly to
overcome it, I would be `big as a barn door and loose as a goose’ – so says my
father, whose advice got me started on this routine years ago.
We were now past all shyness, any turning back. But I had something I had to tell
him. I got my tongue back and took my mouth a half-inch from his, chuckled against
his mouth.
`Surprised to find that I am not wearing bloomers? I took them off when I went
upstairs… for I can’t tell my gallant warrior a proper farewell with drawers in
the way. Do hold back, beloved soldier mine; you can’t harm me, I’m expecting.’
‘What did you say?’
`Must I always be the bold one? I am pregnant, Theodore; no possible doubt, I am
seven weeks gone. So don’t use a rubber on me -‘
‘I can’t, I don’t have one.’
‘So? Then isn’t it nice that you don’t need one? But didn’t you expect to have me?’
‘No. I did not. Not at all.’
‘But you’re going to have me. You can hardly get out of it now. You’ll have me bare,
darling, no rubber. Would you like me to be bare all over? I will be if you ask me
to. I’m not afraid.’
He stopped to kiss me fiercely. ‘Maureen, I don’t think you are ever afraid of