Teen Dreams Book 1Chapter 4
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As soon as we were back in the hotel room, I pulled out my phone, did a quick calculation and decided that Charlie, thrilled though she’d probably be to hear from me, probably would be less thrilled at five thirty am, and put it away again.
“What’s wrong?” Cal asked.
“Nothing,” I replied, “I was going to ring Charlie, but then I realised that it’s only five thirty over there, and I don’t think she’d be in a good mood being woken at that time.”
“I know I wouldn’t,” she agreed.
“I’ll try in a couple of hours,” I said, “are you hungry?”
“Ravenous,” she replied.
I picked up the room service menu from the table beside my chair and held it up.
“Room service or go out?”
“Room service,” she replied.
I passed her the menu to choose from and waited until she made a choice.
In the end we settled for chicken curry and rice. I tended to stick to chicken, turkey or pork in America, since they don’t allow hormones in those meats.
While I ordered the food, Cal took the TV remote and turned the set on, looking through the on-screen guide to find something that might be remotely worth watching.
“The Princess Bride,” she squealed, “I love that film, and it starts in like ten minutes.”
It wasn’t a film I liked, but, I sat through it, and it did have a few funny moments, but Cal obviously enjoyed it. While it was on, we ate our food, and washed it down with a couple of bottles of diet Pepsi from the room fridge.
“What now?” Cal asked as I came back from pushing the dinner trolley out into the corridor.
“I’m going to ring Charlie and let you talk to her,” I replied.
“Can’t you ask her?” she asked.
“I can,” I replied, “but I think it’s important that you’re the one to do it.”
“Okay,” she agreed, not sounding at all enthusiastic.
I pulled my phone out of my pocket and punched in Charlie’s mobile number.
She answered on the second ring.
“This is Charlie,” she said, “speak.”
“And hello to you too, sweetheart,” I replied.
“David,” she squealed, “I was just thinking about you.”
“That’s nice,” I said, “something good I hope?”
“Well the TV over here has caught a story about a pair of schoolkids from Yorkshire, who have run away. Apparently, the girl was being held in a secure mental unit, went home for Christmas and failed to come back, and that sounded like Cal, and it sounded like the sort of quixotic, romantic thing you’d do.”
“I can’t either confirm or deny that,” I replied, “but I have someone with me who’d like to talk to you.”
“Well, put her on then, and David,” Charlie replied, “If she’s going to ask me what I think she is, I’ll tell you now, the answer is yes.”
I handed the phone silently to Cal, then wandered off to the other room to give her some privacy.
She came in twenty minutes later and handed me the phone.
“She wants to talk to you now,” Cal said.
“Hi,” I said, when Cal left the room, “I’ve missed you.”
“Oh I don’t know about that, sounds like you’ve had an exciting few days.”
“I suppose you could say that,” I said, “oh for the life of a wanted international fugitive from Justice.”
“International?” she queried, “where exactly are you?”
“I’m sorry, Charlie, I can’t tell you that,” I replied, “it’s actually better that you don’t know.”
“Yes, I can see that,” she said, “do you know what Cal asked me?”
“I know what she was supposed to ask you,” I replied, “but since I wasn’t in the room, I don’t know what she actually said.”
“Basically, that she asked you for the same thing I did in Manchester,” she replied, “and that you told her, that you’d feel as if you were cheating on me and that you would never do that, but that if I said you could then you would.”
“Near enough, I believe what I actually said was that if you said yes, I’d consider it,” I replied, “but close enough. And did you?”
“Not exactly, not yet,” she replied, “although I will. But I wanted to talk to you first.”
“What about?” I asked.
“You and me,” she replied.
“That doesn’t sound good,” I said.
“It shouldn’t sound bad,” she replied, “David I love you,” she said, in a very matter of fact tone, “that’s fact. But I have my career and you have school and yours. I don’t know when I’ll be back in England, nor, by the looks of things do you, but I do know that it will be at least three months.”
“You’re staying longer with your Dad?”
“No although I would love to, his new family is great, I don’t feel at all like an interloper or a guest, I’m just daughter and big sister, and the kids are absolutely the greatest. No, I’ve got a part in a TV series, three months with an option for extension, so it could be a long time before we could be together again.”
“So you’re finishing with me?” I asked.
“No David,” she replied, “I’ll never do that. But we’ve never talked about exclusivity, and I think it would be stupid if I tried to tie you down to that now, so David, I’m giving you blanket permission, until we’re together again to be with whoever you want. We’ll talk about anything else when we’re both in the same room.”
“Are you sure?” I asked.
“It’s the only fair thing to do,” she replied.
“All right then, I give you the same permission,” I said.
“I don’t think that will be necessary,” she answered, “I don’t think I’ll have time for anything but work.”
“Where will you be working?” I asked.
“The USA,” she replied, “I’m flying out on Wednesday.”
“Oh, great,” I said.
We talked for another ten minutes and then said our goodbyes and I walked through and handed the phone back to Cal.
Five minutes later, Cal ended the call and then launched herself at me.
“She said yes,” she squealed as she landed on me, her arms round my neck and her legs round my waist.
“Actually,” I said, “she gave me blanket permission to be with anyone I liked until we get together again.”
“But that will be months away,” she said.
“Cal,” I said, a warning note in my voice.
She looked at me grief-stricken.
“I’m sorry,” she said, “I’m being selfish again aren’t I?”
I just looked at her, saying nothing.
“I’m sorry. But can we talk about what I asked you?”
“Of course we can,” I replied, “that’s why you were talking to Charlie remember?”
“Well, she said yes, and you said that if she did that we could talk about it.”
“I did,” I agreed.
“So, can we talk about it?”
“Of course we can,” I answered, “what is it you want, Cal?”
“I want you to show me, no remind me, what it’s like to be loved,” she said, “and not just fucked.”
“And?” I queried.
“And what?” she asked.
“What do you really want Cal, long term?”
“Right now,” she replied, “if I could have anything I wanted in the world, I’d hear a klaxon, then a blue police box would appear in the corner of the room, and this time lord would pop out and take me back six months, so I could stop myself getting on that plane to Munich.”
“I wish you could too, Cal, but given that you can’t, what are you really after.”
“David, I know that Charlie asked you to show her that it is possible to be loved, and not just fucked,” she said, “all I ask is that you do that for me too. Maybe after that, I’ll be able to move forward, whether that’s with you, or I go out and find someone else, but at the moment, all I know about love, is bad. It’s dirty, and degrading and I don’t want it to be that. I want to be able to love and be loved. With ALL that entails.”
“Cal,” I said, looking her in the eyes as I started, “I don’t think you realise how many people love you.”
“No, they don’t, everybody thinks I’m just a single minded selfish, immature bitch.”
“Up until you used that last word,” I began, “I agreed with you. Substitute girl for bitch and you’re right. Everybody does, well, with the possible exception of your mother.”
“I think even she does,” she said, a sad expression on her face.
“Then what do you intend to do to change their minds?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” she said softly, “I just don’t know.”
“Cal, it’s easy,” I said, “just be yourself. Look, you have these two burning ambitions right?”
“Yes, you know I do.”
“And, if you don’t achieve either of them, or even if you only achieve one of them, how many people will die as a result?”
“None,” she said, crestfallen.
“So,” I continued, “it’s not a life ending tragedy if you don’t become a great opera star?”
“I suppose not, no,” she agreed.
“Then what if you do all the training, and spend a long career in the chorus of one of the world’s great opera houses? You’ll still be doing what you love, singing. Would that be so bad?”
“It wouldn’t be the star though,” she objected.
“Cal, don’t get me wrong, I think you have a glorious voice, and a lot of talent, but so have a lot of other people. You may ultimately have to settle for second best.”
“Says the boy who’s going to be a big film star,” she said, sourly.
“No, Cal,” I replied, “says the boy who’ll make films until he’s finished school and goes to University. I want a career where I can be assured that it will last until I retire. Where I’ll know that I’ll be a able to support a wife and family. All I want to do is design and develop computer systems, I’m never going to be a big star, but I’ll be the best actor I can be until I give that up and then I’ll be the best computer geek I can be. And the best husband and father.”
“So you’re saying I should let go of my ambition?” she asked.
“No,” I replied, “I’m saying you shouldn’t let your ambition become the only thing that matters in your life. There are other things that should be important.”
“But,” she began.
“Cal, let me ask you something,” I said, “your two ambitions are to marry me and be the best opera singer in the world right?”
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“That’s no problem,” Cal said, “I can walk home by myself, it’s only ten minutes. “Kathy and I will walk you home, then I’ll walk Kathy,” I said, “that makes sense.” “No it doesn’t,” Kathy insisted, “the sensible thing to do is for you and Cal to walk me home, then you and Cal walk home together.” “No seriously,” Cal said, “I’ll be perfectly fine on my own.” “That is not going to happen,” Kathy said, “the rule is girls don’t walk home alone. David, tell her.” “I just don’t want to be...
I looked at Cal open-mouthed. Her. My brother. What the fuck was going on? “Cal,” I blurted out, “why?” Then I ran. I bolted for the door and was through it and off down the drive, running. I didn’t know where I was headed, I didn’t care where I was headed, I just ran. I ran for ten minutes, thirty, an hour I have no idea how far or how long I ran, then it stopped. I felt a sudden searing pain in my left side and the world went black. There was a light, bright, very bright, a long way...
I didn’t have long to wait on Friday, Kathy called in on her way home from school. I was on my own in the house, since Alison was at school hockey practice, when I heard the doorbell. I got up from the chair I was sat in and went and opened it. “Hi,” she said, a huge smile on her face, “it’s nice to see you up and about.” “Thanks,” I replied, “it’s nice to BE up and about. What’s got you so happy?” “I had a weird conversation today at school,” she said. “With Cal by any chance?” I...
I woke on Sunday to the sun streaming through my bedroom window, and the sound of Mum shouting me for breakfast. I climbed out of bed, went across to the bathroom and relieved myself and then, still dressed only in my sleep shorts went downstairs, where, as usual, my Dad had cooked our Sunday morning fry-up for breakfast. “What time are we setting off?” I asked as I began to shovel forkfuls of food into my mouth. “Well, it opens at ten,” Dad replied, “I thought we’d set off about ten...
Years of experience, plus the close proximity of Mum, Alison, Cal and Aunt Mary, have taught me one very valuable lesson. The girls are in charge. So when Kathy and Charlie told me to make myself scarce (or, as they put it, go find some trees to photograph), I went to find some trees to photograph. Actually I spent nearly an hour looking around for things to photograph, and found some good shots, or at least I thought them good. I took so many that I ran out of memory on the camera. When...
By the time I turned into our street I was breathless from running all the way from Kathy’s house. I stopped dead as I turned the corner. Outside our house and Cal’s two police cars and an ambulance were parked. The sight of them there, gave me my second wind and I sprinted the rest of the way, bursting through the front door and skidding to a halt in the living room. The sight I was confronted with in the living room horrified me. Cal was lying on the floor, apparently unconscious, being...
I sat, alone, in the coffee bar in the entrance to the hospital, waiting for whoever was coming to pick me up. I had a coffee and a piece of cake in front of me, both untouched, and my head in my hands, supported by my elbows on the table. I’d been sat like that for about ten minutes when I felt, rather than saw, another person sit down opposite me. “David,” Aunt Mary said, softly, “I’m sorry. It looks like she has absolutely no memory of what happened in Germany. She seems to think that...
Book Seven: Illusory Passion Chapter Nine: Illusive Dreams By mypenname3000 Copyright 2016 Xandra – The Mirage Garden My husband's cock slammed in and out of my pussy. I writhed beneath him on the silk sheets, his muscular chest rubbing on my small breasts. My cunt gripped his cock as it reamed into me. Chaun's dick felt bigger than usual. But he was a changeling. He could enlarge himself for me. The pleasure rippled through my body as I gasped and moaned, slamming into the fog...
Teen Age MemoryBy: LondebaazIt amazes me today to remind myself that my 2 years older sister Ally and I were both in high school wrestling team and we both have been enjoying wrestling as sports and great exercise. We even watched wrestling entertainment on the tube quite often. Like most siblings we horsed around a lot at younger age playing and pretending to lock arms and pin the other person. As Ally matured, she became a very attractive girl but still she enjoyed horsing around with me;...
Hi, I know I say this with a lot of my stuff, but sorry about the gaps between my writing. I haven't got much of a defence, except that I get easily distracted by other stuff and it takes me a while to get back to doing this. I did get halfway through another story in this series, however, my computer crashed and I lost everything. I will be re-writing this story in the future, with some improvements. I have decided to put my The Big Bang Theory series on hold and keep going with my...
This is the fifth edition of my Teen Titans’ Chronicles series. If you haven’t read the first four parts of the series, you might be a little lost at this point. I would suggest that you at least go back and read parts 1 and 2 before you read this addition. This story is set on the Monday after Parts 1 and 2, which happened over a Saturday and Sunday. Parts 3, 4, 5 are occurring at around the same time, with all of them starting on the same Monday. Please note that my Teen Titans...
I overheard two women talking at the mall about going to an adult bookstore that was not very far from Indianapolis. They were talking about sucking cock and being naked in the bookstore. I just had to go it sounded so exciting. Since I was only sixteen, I needed to figure out how to get in. With my big breasts, I was sure I could make myself look older and get in to do some flashing and maybe suck a cock or two. Three nights later I told my parents I had a date and going to the...
ExhibitionismBy JIMMY 07/05/12 Mark awoke to the sound of breaking glass. The 5 foot 10 Italian stud arose immediately. He didn’t have to think, listen, or take the time to wake fully. His house had burglar bars on all the windows and doors with one exception. Just yesterday, Mark had removed the bars on the first floor bathroom window to repair a leaking sash. He knew the sound had come from that window. He slept nude and had woken with a massive aching erection. He didn’t bother with...
James sat upright on his bed, with his legs crossed and hishands holding his head up. He just stared at the small, red notebook that lay in front of him, this mysterious gift that was granted to him. His own name was engraved on the front. It was almost like it was glowing, beckoning him to open it, to control reality even more. His mind was racing, full of thoughts of Amy, Kirsty and the words written inside the book: ‘Kirsty is going to change her mind and ask me to come over to work on the...
SupernaturalMy name is Ryan, and my wife, Karen, and I moved to Charleston at the age of forty-four, after having lived in Atlanta since graduating from college. I have a degree in mechanical engineering and, after a long career working as an engineer, I moved to Charleston to begin my career as a manufacturer’s representative. Karen, with her degree in education and years of experience teaching, got a job in a high school here.Our son, Jason, graduated from college and moved to Charleston to begin his...
TabooTEEN 4 EVER - PT. 2 By BERTHA Bert, now Carol suffers from a rare condition known as Peter Pan Condition in which some sufferers stop aging during pre or early teen years, they never grow any older looking. The events depicted here take place during Bert/Carol's second year as a girl at St. Rita's School for Girls. It will be narrated in Carol's own words. I'm Bert; I'm eighteen and am better known as...