Nandita To Nandini
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Dave was lying naked on his bed with his small and bosomy new friend asleep atop his body. He held her and occasionally kissed her, unaware of whether she was aware of his kisses and the love he exuded to her. He could feel the remnants of their lovemaking on his thigh. Alice and Julie slept beside him wrapped up in each other’s arms. Pam was just beyond them. He knew that Heather had wanted to make love with Jake before he left. He wondered whether Lisa had gotten her turn with virile young man.
A whisper from beside him alerted him of a visitor to his bedroom. There was enough light from the night lite that he could see it was Lisa when he opened his eyes. Lisa smiled at him and leaned in for a kiss. She also kissed Cricket’s bare shoulder before withdrawing.
Lisa whispered, “Can we be together or are you done for the night? You said to come and get you. I’m sorry if I woke you.”
Before Dave could answer Cricket whispered, “You didn’t wake us. We were cuddling. Dave, go be with Lisa, but come back and hold me for the night, please.”
Dave kissed Cricket as she slid off his body and he rose from the bed. Cricket snuggled up to the naked Alice who didn’t seem to wake up at all.
Dave led Lisa to his living room. It was dark, but there was lots of incidental light from various appliances and from the exterior lighting coming in the windows. He found Lisa’s mature and naked body sexy as it moved through the various shafts and textures of light. She stopped and turned into his arms. They kissed and then kissed some more.
Lisa admitted, “I am so worked up I don’t need much in the way of foreplay unless you want the activity. I confess to being a slut tonight – again. Each of the young men did me – four of them. I’m a little bit drippy down below.
Dave teased, “There are certain expectations for the men and women of the Circle. Of course, they’re not all uniform, but let me give you a unique example. You could pass this on and see whether you can stimulate those fine young men to pick up where I will leave off so we can make love. Actually, all of this is making love.”
He placed Lisa on one of the sofas with a soft couch cover over the cushions. She lay back, brimming with curiosity about what he intended to do. Dave moved between her legs and knelt. He pushed her legs apart and then pushed his mouth into her pussy – the pussy that was leaking the cum from four other men who had recently erupted inside her thirsty body.
Lisa was shocked, “Oh, my God. David. That’s ... that’s ... the sexiest, funkiest, rawest, and most shocking thing I’ve ever had done to me. You are definitely the sexiest man alive.”
The fingers got added to help extract the cum from inside her. Dave had learned years earlier that eating cum and ingesting it was no big deal. The stuff was almost tasteless, and brushing teeth later was sufficient to remove any after taste. Since men were usually squirrelly about eating cum, let alone someone else’s, this act put him in a category all by himself – a place he relished. Julie had helped him overcome any aversion to the act; she was the cum slut of the entire Circle, often showing up to do exactly what he was doing to Lisa. He’d love to see the look on the other men’s faces when Lisa told them what she wanted them to do. He’d schooled himself in the same endeavor to be unique.
As Dave rose and mounted her so they could enjoy intercourse together, Lisa lapped at the complex mixture of juices on his chin and cheeks. He French kissed with her, too.
Dave scolded, “You said you wanted to join the Circle. You’re supposed to get to know the other men in the Circle, not those thinking about the prospect of joining.”
Lisa pushed her cunt upward into his down thrusts. “I think I have. Well, I haven’t done Martin, but he lives up in Ohio and isn’t here all that much.”
“You did my brother?”
“Yes, Aaron. The same night we fucked, I also did Dale, Paul, Doug, and Pete. The next night was Saturday. I enjoyed Jason, Dev, Ty, Owen, and Roy, and I hope they enjoyed me. So that was nine new men in two days. I think I deserve some kind of slut medal. I really like all of them.”
“I’ll have one prepared for you when you finish meeting all the men. Are you just fucking them or are you building relationships?”
“Oh, I got the others the week before. I went about this systematically. I’ve been with about half the women, too. If I say so myself, the men are more fun. I am developing an affection for licking pussy juice from the source, however. I can see that I have to work on my cleanup skills after what you just did to me. I know Julie does that, too.” She savored several strokes, “You are so enjoyable. Part of it is physical, but I get your emotional vibes about me. Thank you. I love you, too.
“As for the building relationship question, you’ll have to ask the others. I am exposing myself to everyone – no secrets, no hidden emotions or viewpoints, no games, or anything like that. You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been here for most of the dinners, and yes, I gave Julie a few checks to help defray my cost on the food budget. I’ve also been helping out, often on cleanup after the meals.”
The pair took it slow and easy, almost having a relaxing chat as they made love. What made it unique was that Lisa liked dirty talk, and loved to describe what was happening, or what had happened earlier with the other men that especially turned her on.
Lisa said, “Right after dinner I found Jake and Murph. I asked them to make love to me and they were very accommodating. Jake led us to the gazebo, and they stripped my clothes away. I took turns sucking on both men as they stood beside me. God, they were as hard as granite. They each fucked me in about a dozen different positions and blasted gallons of cum in me. When I thought they were done Ron and Phil showed up and took over; and now I have my favorite lover of all of them – YOU. Fuck me. Love me.”
She told the story about how she lost her virginity, and then about what a hot fuck she was in nursing school, especially at some of the fraternity parties. The Circle was not her first group sex rodeo. No doubt about it, she was experienced, but still things were pretty linear and she’d avoided most of the kinky side of the sport.
They finished up with Lisa riding Dave in a cowgirl. Her orgasm was emotional and deeply physical for her. Dave held her afterwards as she lay exhausted on his chest, and it took almost ten minutes for her heart rate to come down and her body to stop the spasms associated with her cum. She’d also flooded the area with her girl juice. Dave was glad he’d put a blanket down, although the sofa did seem to get routinely christened in some way every week.
Lisa muttered, “Can I sleep here?”
“The bed is kind of full, but yes.”
“No. No. I mean right here on this sofa. I’ll just wrap myself in this couch cover and use one of the throw pillows. After what you just did for me, and the other men, I can barely move. Thank you; that was lovely – very satisfying, in so many dimensions. I love you. Go back to your little friend; she’s such a darling girl. I love Cricket.”
Dave kissed her goodnight, tucked her in and then went back to his own bed. As he got into bed and got comfortable, Cricket squirmed over next to him and cuddled her naked body against his.
There were some interesting liaisons that developed through the month of June. Bjorn, Tan, and Nathan successfully moved their company, InDrex, to Sarasota, taking up residency in the Sarasota Center Office Park, a couple of miles east of the Interstate off Fruitville Road. The three of them rented a house halfway between their work and the Circle, and continued their courtship with everyone, although no one had any doubt about their eventual integration into the Circle. One thing became even more obvious, and that was how perpetually horny the three of them were around each other. Tan admitted that serving the two horny men was ‘just right’ for her.
Tan told Dave, “We fuck at work, too. I invite it. Both Bjorn and Nathan have offices that no one can see into. I go into one of them, lock the door, and have one of them fuck me right on their desk. It’s sexy as all hell. I love it.”
Ron Wonder, one of the new electrical engineering graduates who was also courting the Circle, became their first hire in the Sarasota area. He had an apartment he shared with Phil Layburn about three blocks from the campus, and they kept the apartment as they looked for other space they liked better. Tan explained that she had extended the fucking at work privilege to Ron, and he was an easy convert to the illicit act.
Phil, a mechanical engineer, took a job with Knightsbridge Manufacturing. Alice had encouraged him to apply, and then got Dori, Abby, and Ron working him until he accepted. Alice thought she was the most persuasive since most of her recruitment pitch was made while he was balls deep in her pussy. Dori and Abby helped seal the deal with similar recruiting pitches, and the promise of lots more to cum, so to speak.
Meggie left in tears for New York. She wanted to stay and join the Circle, but all her friends in and out of the Circle promised they’d remember her and bring her to any events when she was back in Sarasota. She planned to come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so would be missing everyone for almost six months.
Cindy took a job with the Retail Software Company or RSC, a software company not too far from InDrex’s new building that wrote and maintained point of sale software for retail chains, especially those with a large number of stores that traded inventory around between sites. She traveled up to Dayton to get totally immersed in the physical terminals and hardware she was writing software for.
Murph also went to work for Retail Software, but as a summer job. He was going to go full-time to the university, similar to Sharon, to get his MBA along with her. They’d known each other but weren’t an event until their becoming friends, lovers, and compatriots at the graduation party and beyond in their quest to join the Circle. Dave sensed some competitive spirit between the two.
Sharon Hall had been accepted in the university’s graduate program for business, leading to an MBA. She was officially ‘off’ over the summer, but had already lined up several dozen of the case studies she expected in the first year of the MBA program so she could get a jump on things. She announced that she’d also like to hang around the Circle until someone told her to get lost. Nobody did. She deserved the ‘cute’ rating in Dave’s opinion, and she was vivacious. She also gave Julie a check to help pay for her meals that she was scrounging from the group and for her frequent use of the pool and other facilities. She also made it well-known that she was available anytime during her time at the Circle for extracurricular activities.
Sharon developed a great attachment for ‘bad boy’ Dev and Wendy, and the feelings apparently were mutual. She started to live with them and became like a second wife to Dev and sister-wife to Wendy. They kept declaring that they were experimenting, and often looked at Dave, Alice, and the other sister-wives to see how they navigated around each other or problem solved.
Without Dave’s knowing it until he had started work, Jake Randall took a job in the engineering department at the utility. He was another EE, but planned to go to the university part time and work towards his M.S. degree. Jake had been a total nerd and virgin until his senior year, so his social side was just catching up with the rest of his development. Donna took him under her wing ... and between her legs, as she liked to joke. He adored the older woman and they hung out together many evenings, just cuddling together on a chaise as she schooled him in the art of relationships.
Lisa brought her friend Jim Danforth by the Circle for lunch one Saturday, and introduced him around to the men and women that showed up. Danforth was in his mid forties, divorced with older kids, still had some kind of comfortable and loving relationship with his ex-wife, and looked in phenomenal shape. He had a ruddy complexion and had been outdoors a lot, because he displayed a tan that even the best sun worshippers might only dream of.
Danforth was handsome, and Dave could see Alice and the other women perk up in his presence. He had sex appeal, just as Lisa had predicted. Dave found humor in comparing him to the young men who had just started to hang around the Circle. What they had in muscle tone and innocence, Danforth had in the smoothness of his approach and the underlying confidence and sense of self-worth.
Dave asked what he did.
Jim smiled and said, “I’ve just bought into an establishment down the Trail. I retired out of the military after a twenty-year stint. I went in as a pretty raw recruit, and came out as an instructor in the Rangers. I was one for most of my time in service.
Dave said in a serious tone, “So, you’re kind of dangerous?”
“Only if you happen to be one of the bad guys.” He laughed.
Dave pointed, “Across the patio in the blue bathing suit is Dale Harnett. I think he was a spook, although he won’t admit to anything. He’s running a private investigation and security service now. The young woman with him, Amanda, started working for him a couple of months ago and is training in handguns and karate. With your skill bank you might moonlight or whatever with him, if you’re interested.”
Jim’s eyebrows rose. “Thanks for the idea. I’ll compare notes with Dale.”
Jim’s eyebrows rose even higher when Alice and Pam came out of the house wearing only monokinis. Heather was right behind them with Matthew in tow. He came over and high-fived Dave, and then went in the pool. He announced that he was going to swim as a ‘career’. Jim later told him about the Navy Seals and their aquatic underpinnings. Matthew was fascinated with the whole concept of being a frogman.
Joan appeared, too, pushing a baby stroller and also half-nude. Donna came right behind her with a bikini bottoms on and a towel wrapped around her shoulders. Jake was right behind her watching her ass as she swung her assets around for him. She had that freshly fucked look about her.
Jim soaked in the views of the pretty breasts around the patio. The younger men ogled quite a bit, too, and even developed obvious lumps in their trunks, but even those faded after constant exposure without accompanying stimulation.
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With all the activity of the election campaign behind us, not to mention Tom Domican’s actions against Lisa and myself (and his subsequent demise), it was time to start preparing for the upcoming sailing season. We had set aside Saturday, the 18th, for a training day, not only would it give us plenty of time to work on our sail handling, but I would be able to make a list of things to get checked with the boat before the start of the season. I had booked her in to get hauled out, the bottom...
We had two events to plan for; the release party for ‘Callipygous’, which was scheduled for Wednesday, April 6th, and the Easter Weekend with Georgina. For the release event, Mary Beth had arranged for all of the girls to have special panties with large butt cheek inserts. A visit to Charlie at ‘Kinkz’ had resulted in them all having larger than usual buttocks; there was much laughing and squeezing of backsides. As Stewie said, ‘You are all incredibly booty-licious!”. Even Mary Beth and Lisa,...
Although Nancy stopped work at the end of the following week because of her VERY pregnant situation, she continued to monitor the storms in the Atlantic and Gulf, and talk to Dave about the utility’s resource deployments during hurricane season. She watched hurricane Jerrod come ashore in Texas, but it rapidly deteriorated into a tropical depression, so did little damage other than local flooding. She couldn’t let go, and Dave kept telling her to relax, enjoy the time off, and prepare to be a...
“Hey, Will, it’s Martin here,” the person on the phone said. “Just a reminder, it’s coming up time for your company’s Annual General Meeting, and there’s a few ideas I want to run past you.” He suggested it was time we appointed a ‘Board of Directors’, four or five people who I trusted to provide ‘corporate governance’ and review the major decisions of the company. “I assume at the moment, you’re pretty much running things by yourself, with input from Lisa, Michelle, Mary Beth?” he...
On the afternoon of January 25th the special train for the Murder Mystery weekend was scheduled to leave Central for Robertson and points further south. Mary Beth and Chris were also taking the train but they weren’t involved in the Murder weekend, rather, they were taking the associated train tour of some of the rarely used branch lines in the south and south west of the state. Just as before, the ‘Victorian Appreciation Society’ had teamed up with the NSW Railway History Society to run a...
Tactics on this year’s Coffs race were quite different; the wind was a steady twelve knots from the southeast. Therefore, it was a spinnaker run all the way to Coffs; the perfect test for the new hounds asymmetrical number one. The larger boats made the best of the ideal conditions, we were twentieth across the line, several hours ahead of the next Young 88. We sailed reasonably well in the three short courses, but our overall result for the regatta was a tenth on scratch, fifth on handicap....
Monday morning – the first day of the mid-semester break, and the first day of our serious group rehearsals – I waited until the morning rush hour was over, then drove into the city, to Venue Music. I wanted to check some Stratocasters that their guitar expert, Alan Hawes had contacted me about, and look at a new Marshal JCM800 amp. I was impressed with the sound of the model 2203 Garry had; I still wasn’t convinced about his ‘Les Paul’ custom, I guess I had been playing Stratocasters for so...
Karen’s face lit up the twenty-seven-inch screen on the iMac in Alice and Julie’s shared home office. The sisters were having their first serious communication together via FaceTime since the Thanksgiving holiday weekend when the ‘Big Swap’ had taken place with Alice and Julie going to Karen’s in Ohio, and Candy joining Dave and friends in Florida. Karen was laughing, “Daryl’s head is still spinning. He can’t believe he’s married to all us sluts, and that he has a slut as a girlfriend. Since...
A few days after Fiona announced her relationship with Jeff, she spent a weekend at his apartment in Pyrmont. She was back home on Sunday evening, a huge smile on her face. “I think, well, I’m almost a hundred per cent sure, I’ll move in with him before Christmas,” she said. “He said he would love to meet you both, particularly Will, he knows of you, at least by your professional reputation.” “Sounds good to me,” Lisa said. “When and where?” “There’s a Vietnamese restaurant not far from...
On Wednesday, I had arranged for David to take my Computing IIC tutorial class, since I had my graduation ceremony down in the Science Theatre at 2:30. After my Computer Networks lecture, I had time to get back to my office, change into my suit, and put my new doctorate robes on – Michelle helped my get the hood hanging correctly, and the bonnet sitting correctly on my head – and walk down the short distance to the Theatre. Unlike the main graduation season, in April, this time of year there...
The following week went by like lightning. The kidnapping and related police work faded away to only a few memories as textbook trials started and lawyer motions took over. The weather got much better. Matthew rediscovered the pool, and he turned eight years old. A few more babies hit the one-year mark. Scarlett was around for the entire week, mostly in the shade on the patio during the day reviewing the script for Road Trip or scanning several other potential screenplays. After dinner, to...
Taylor had asked for another pow-wow with the mothers that had talked to her about the Circle. She said there was no rush, so about five-thirty that evening Alice, Kat, Joan, and Nancy made it a point to be there with Taylor at the end of the childcare day. They each had their tots squirming in their lap. Taylor said, “I thought a lot about what you told me about the Circle. To put my remarks in perspective, I’ve only seen some hugging and kissing going on, and I’ve only met two of the men...
February saw life start to return to normal. Back at Uni, we started to prepare for the upcoming semester. Preliminary enrolment figures for Computing I indicated we would have slightly over three hundred full time students, and another sixty or so in the part time class. During the summer break another large room had been equipped with terminals connected to the Department’s PDP 11/70, which had also been upgraded with additional memory and disk storage. As well, another 11/40 had been...
Back at Uni for the start of second semester, it was a mix of déjà vu (the introductory lectures for Computing I and the programming clinic) brand new things (the three subjects I was taking this term), and more of the same (back into the thesis project). This was now the third semester I had given the introductory Computing I lecture; I had it all down pretty pat. We had a large number of students wanting to do the Programming Clinic; I am sure most of them heard from the second year...
Over the next few weeks, we concentrated on working up the new songs to the point where they were at least acceptable for public performance; I had called Mike, and asked him if he would want to play with us again. He jumped at the opportunity; he said he wouldn’t be available for touring over the summer break; Karen had given birth to their son, Karl, a few months earlier. But before our first rehearsal session, he arrived with his Yamaha stage organ, and we set it up in the ‘keyboard’...
About five o’clock Cricket came bounding across the patio and launched herself into Dave’s arms. She smothered him with kisses, and glowed with love as he kissed her back. As they parted, Dave said, “Cricket, please meet my new good friend, Scarlett.” Cricket smiled at the movie star. “Hi. I thought you looked familiar. Welcome to the Circle.” The movie star didn’t at all intimidate her. Scarlett could have been one of the neighbors from just outside the gate. “Cricket is a cute name.” “I...
Around the middle of November, the Federal Government announced its policy for handling new migrants to Australia; for those arriving under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Much like we had planned, the government would set up several ‘training camps’, to assist in the resettling of these displaced people into the Australian community. The reception was pretty much as expected; the Federal opposition complained that it was a waste of money, and wanted to know...
“It’s on,” Mary Beth said. “Their baby is on the way!” “Oh, I had better get up to the hospital then,” Mrs. White said. “Where should I put my case?” I showed Mrs. White where her bedroom would be; told her that this afternoon we would get the bed made with fresh sheets, and put some towels out for her. Mary Beth was ready to take her up to the hospital; I would clean the bedroom and make her bed with some fresh sheets. At least the room was ready for her when she returned from the...
The words that Mary Beth was saying to me somehow didn’t register, everything after the ‘she’s dead, Will ... she was drowned in the floodwaters’ was just noise. I understood what she told me, the troubling dreams I had experienced the night before made sense. There was a loud rushing in my head, and I was wracked with loud sobs. I was aware of Traci standing next to me, her arms around my shoulders, and Mary Beth was on the phone, talking to someone. “Let’s get you down to bed, Will,” Mary...
The next morning I awoke to the smell of bacon and coffee. Lisa had just finished up the last of the dirty dishes. While Tina was setting up the bar with plates, I was amazed to see not only orange juice and bacon, but also pancakes and coffee. The tiny studio apartment was looking a lot cleaner, except for my bedroom. "Where the heck did all this come from girls?" "Tina and I walked up to the market and got a few things, Uncle Larry! We wanted to surprise you!" "LISA! Pulleeze,...