Emerging from the Cocoon Chapter 5
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Rubbing my eyes, trying to understand was it real or a dream. My mind is filled with joy and excitement as I lie still with my head in my pillow. A warm glow heated the blankets where I lie, with a tingling sensation poring down my entire body. My breathing slightly faster than normal, with sweaty palms. My thoughts flashing back over and over again.
The moaning that echoed through out the room, the shuddering of a warm soft body, and an occasional jerking motion. Holding tightly to your hips, trying to stop your ass cheeks from walking you up the bed and away from my hungry mouth. Your legs clamped tightly around my head as you continued to buck and jump on the bed.
My mouth sucking with all my might, with my lips soaking wet from the waves
of pleasure emerging from your love mound. Your clit swollen and pulsating from
its passion. My hands spread evenly over your soft plump ass cheeks, slightly
spreading them apart, with a finger just slightly in the outer ring of your
anus.
The anus stretching and grasping at my finger, heating the passion of your moans.
Your hands wrapped in my hair very tightly, and pulling me in tighter and closer, as if to pull my head deep into your womanhood. Swollen lips grinding at my tongue and open mouth, with spurts of a clean sweet substance, filling and overflowing in my mouth.
My hair, my ears and my swollen mouth, tingling in dis-belief. A warm flow of your semen, forming a puddle at the mid point of the bed. Still in dis-belief, was it real? Or was it a dream that has left my manhood softening in a wet sticky substance. I just don't know!
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Emerging from the Cocoon, Chapter 14 "Hold still," Amanda said as she tried to do Nicole's hair. "Ouch," Nicole said as Amanda worked to get her hair up into a bow. "Oh come on, sweetpea," Amanda said. "I think you're worse than Kayla." Amanda was just glad Nicole's hair was finally getting long enough to do things with. "There, we're done," Amanda said. "Tell me what you think." Nicole couldn't believe it when she looked in the mirror. She looked nice, fancy even. She...
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