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Maidenhair Down
[mf, inc, bro/sis, rom, cons, teen, first]

By The Secret Grrl
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Copyright (C) 2002



You don't want him to go.

You've felt that way ever since they told you.  "He's 
sixteen," you argued.  "He's too young to be away from 
home."  That had been mostly selfishness on your part.  
Truth was, he would probably be happier boarding than 
being here at home.  But you wanted him to stay.

"Marisa, your brother was very lucky to get a place in 
such a prestigious school.  And it's just too far away 
for him to travel every day.  You know how heavy his 
workload has been this year, and next year he's a 
senior.  It can only get worse."

"Then we should move," you argued.  "If it's so 
important for him to go there, then we should move."  
You knew they would never agree, but somehow it was 
important to try.  And, of course, they didn't.

But still, the feeling wasn't acute back then.  After 
all, there was still the whole summer to go before he 
had to leave.  And your friends kept telling you how 
cool it would be with no big brother to cramp your 
style.  You just nodded and smiled and kept your mouth 
shut.  You didn't tell them that it wasn't like that.  
That Ryan was your friend.  They wouldn't have 
understood anyway.

So you spent as much time with him as you could, and 
you told yourself that when he was gone, you would be 
okay.  That every third weekend would be enough.  And 
you knew it was a lie.  You knew, beneath the lie, 
that coming home to this soulless house every day, 
with no-one to share it, would slowly drive you mad.

It isn't that bad, you tell yourself.  It's not like 
they hurt you or anything.  And they don't.  Your 
father has never laid a hand on you.  Not to hit you.  
Not to hug you.  He just sits there behind his 
newspaper, quietly disapproving of the clothes you 
wear and the books you read and the friends you see.  
You abhor his politics and his social views, and he 
abhors yours.  But he's never hurt you.

Your mother is just an empty shell.  She has no 
opinions, except about clothes and makeup and drapes.  
Certainly, she has no opinion of you.  She knows what 
colours bring out your eyes, but she has no idea who 
you are.

Ryan knows who you are.

And in just a few hours, he'll be gone.

"Reese?"

You jump a little.  Disturbed from your reverie.  You 
look up at him.  He has a steaming cup in each hand.  
He puts one down on the windowsill in front of you.

"Thanks."  You smile at up at him, and you feel the 
way the window seat shifts when he sits down behind 
you.  He puts a companionable arm around you from 
behind, and rests his head on your shoulder.  You lean 
back against him.  Tears sting your eyes.

You feel stupid.  What are you, nine years old?  Like 
it's going to kill you to make your own goddamn tea 
when he goes.  You're an idiot, Marisa.  You're 
mooning over him like those stupid girls at school who 
want to ask him to the school formal.  You'll be 
batting your eyelashes at him next.

"I'm gonna miss you, Reese."

You hug yourself.  "Yeah.  Me too."

"You're my friend," he says.  Childlike.  Morose.

You close your eyes and let the tears fall.  "Same."

He tries to kiss your cheek, but it's awkward from 
behind, and it winds up being your neck where it meets 
your jaw.  You turn your face into the kiss, sighing.  
You're going to miss him so goddamn much.  You turn a 
little more, and your lips find his.

Just a single kiss.  That's all it is.  Just your lips 
pressed chastely to his.  More an accident than 
anything.  You don't even know whether it was you or 
him or both that started it.  You just need him close.  
You need him close before they take him away.

His eyes are wide when you break apart.

You grope for something to say.

"Who was that on the phone?" you manage at last.  
Pretty lame, Marisa.

He looks at you blankly.  "What?"  His voice shakes a 
little.  "When?"

"Before," you say.  "About an hour ago."  

In truth, you have no idea how long ago it was.  Time 
has become distorted the last few days.  You've been 
in a fog.

He frowns a moment, but then his expression clears.  
"Oh!  Oh, that.  It was Robbie.  He wanted me to go 
over and hang out for a while before I leave."

Heat rises in your face.  You can taste salt in your 
mouth.  "You're going over there?"

"Hell, no!  I told him I was spending the day with 
you.  I wouldn't do that."

At that, the hurt subsides, and a deeper grief takes 
its place.  Suddenly you want him gone.  You want him 
gone so you can cry.

"You should go, Ryan.  He's your friend.  I'll still 
be here when you come back."

He looks inexplicably hurt.  "Reese, it's my last day 
at home."

"All the more reason, then," you say.  "I have things 
to do anyway."

He draws away.  Releases you, and you feel naked and 
cold without his arm around you.

"Fine," he snaps.

You've pissed him off, but there's nothing to be done 
about it.  Not unless you're willing to fall against 
him and cry your eyes out, and you won't do that.  
You're hurting, yes, but you're not prepared to play 
damsel in distress just yet.  Leave that pathetic shit 
for the other tenth-graders.

He gets up and leaves.  He bangs the door behind him.  
You drop your head into your hands.

You stay there for a minute or two.  Just long enough 
for the first wave of tears to rise up and then ebb 
away.  There are more, many more, and somehow you know 
that you have to get them out - now, while the house 
is empty.

You get to your feet and walk to his bedroom.

His bags are packed, standing neatly by the door.  You 
think that should bring on more tears, but it doesn't.  
It just leaves you feeling cold.  The empty closet 
leaves you colder still.

You stand there in the middle of the room, trembling.

His bed is right there by the window.

You don't question the impulse.  Just slip into his 
bed and pull the quilt around you.  You imagine that 
you can smell him on it.  That the warmth cradling you 
is him.  You hate yourself for the sentimentality of 
it all, but then the tears come again, and you let 
them take you under.  You don't care how pathetic you 
look or sound.  You give over to them and weep them 
out in racking sobs, and let the thought of him 
holding you be your comfort.

It takes longer than the first wave - much longer.  
But at last, the tears subside.  You wipe them away, 
hugging yourself under the quilt, staring out the 
window into the back garden.  Reliving a thousand 
memories.  They overlap with one another, like looking 
at them through broken glass.

It's a big garden, on two levels.  There's a steep 
slope, with steps, leading down to an overgrown area 
you can't see.  What you can see is the big mulberry 
tree with its wide canopy over the far end of the 
garden.  You used to love playing out there together, 
eating the mulberries, rumbling and tumbling in the 
maidenhair ferns on the ground below.  A ghost of a 
smile lights on your face when you think of it.  A 
tremulous smile, tainted with tears, but a smile just 
the same.

You remember chasing one another around the garden.  
You remember him tackling you.  You would land on the 
ground cover of maidenhair, soft like down, and wait 
for him to fall down with you and cuddle you and 
tickle you.  He was always gentle once he got you down 
there, and you never fought it.  You arched your back 
beneath him and let him touch you.  You liked it.  You 
liked his hands on your flesh.  You liked his warmth.  
Sometimes he would pick some of the maidenhair and 
tease it over your face with the lightest of touches, 
and you would lie there, eyes closed, letting him do 
it, feeling adored.

The tickling stopped when you were thirteen.  Your 
father saw you, and you were old enough by then to 
have a vague idea of what he was thinking.  You felt 
like screaming at him, "Damn you!  We didn't do 
anything wrong!"  But you stayed silent, and he took 
Ryan aside after dinner, and after that the tickling 
stopped.

You never talked about it.

You wonder if he remembers that.  It was innocent 
enough at the time.  You liked being touched, yes - 
but it wasn't what your father thought it was.  He 
never touched you anywhere he shouldn't.

Yes, it was innocent at the time.  But you think of 
it, now, when you touch yourself in your bed late at 
night.  You wonder what it would be like to feel the 
maidenhair down the length of your body.

What had Adam said in the Garden of Eden?  "I was 
naked and I was ashamed."  But how did he know he was 
naked?  Because someone told him.  You think that the 
stirrings you feel now might be because of your father 
and the way he reacted back then.

You've never thought of Ryan doing it to you, though.  
In your mind, your eyes are closed.  The boy has no 
face.  No name.  It's all feeling.  Warm breaths.  
Warm skin.  Hands roaming your flesh as Ryan's did so 
long ago.

You unbutton your shirt.  Your fingers are trembling.

Your hands slide over your flesh.  Tentative.  Gentle.  
You have not yet learned the different and equal joy 
of a firmer touch.  You find the rise of your breasts, 
and the shape of them pleases you.  The trails of 
feeling that spread out from your nipples make you 
sigh with pleasure.  You feel the release of dampness 
and warmth between your thighs.

In your mind, the unseen boy has caught you.  His 
hands are upon you.  His mouth is on your neck.  Your 
quaking fingers slip up beneath your skirt and drag 
your panties to the side.  You find the hard, aching 
place there.  You still don't have a name for it, 
besides the textbook one.

You stroke.  Harder than you meant to, and it hurts a 
little, it makes you arch and hiss a little in 
surprise - but God, the friction is good. The quilt is 
warm, but you're shivering with need.

The boy lowers you down into the maidenhair.  When he 
puts it inside you (and that part is vague, because 
even though you've used your fingers there, you don't 
know what that might really feel like) you rock hard, 
grinding against your hand.  You begin to whimper as 
your body rises, and inside you seize up, searching 
for that which should be there and is not.  In your 
mind, the boy kisses you, and you kiss him back, 
hungry, needy.  When you break the kiss, you open your 
eyes, and it's Ryan, it's your brother, and you 
realise that you knew it deep down all along.

You cry out his name when you come.

When the tremors subside, you break down in hard, 
racking sobs.  They leave you in painful thrusts with 
heaving sighs between.  There's nothing delicate and 
girlish about them.  This is grief, raw and brutal.  
It leaves your throat sore and your eyes hurting in 
their sockets.

You love him.

You can't have him.

And he's going away.

You stay there, hugging yourself, staring dully out 
the window for a long time.

Gradually, you get yourself together.  You have no 
idea how long you've stayed here in his bed, but he's 
bound to be home soon.  

You force yourself to get up.  To straighten the 
quilt.  To go to his little bathroom and clean 
yourself up.  You use a flannel, first dipped in warm 
water to ease the puffiness around your eyes, then 
cold, to draw the redness away.

He's waiting in the kitchen when you come out.  He 
damn near scares the shit out of you.

"You mustn't have heard me come in," he says when you 
jump.  "Want some lunch?"

"S-sure," you manage.  Completely unnerved.  How long 
has he been home?  Was he down here when you 
were...were...

"Good," he says brightly.  He lifts up the picnic 
basket from the floor at his side.  You hadn't noticed 
it.  "We're eating outside."

Under the mulberry tree, probably, with your luck.  
You're too fragile for that right now.  "Oh, Ryan, I 
don't know-"

"Reese," he says, unexpectedly solemn.  "This is my 
last day at home.  I insist you have lunch with me."

How can you refuse him anything?

"All right," you say.  "I guess I'll be having lunch 
with you, then."

He doesn't take you to the mulberry tree, after all.  
Apparently, whatever deities decide whether a girl's 
life becomes a bad romance novel (complete with cheesy 
symbolism) are on your side today.  No, he leads you 
down the stairs to the bottom of the garden instead.  

You traipse through the knee-high torpedo grass.  Your 
father says it's a weed - that it germinates wild and 
destroys everything in its path - but you love it.  It 
looks like baby stalks of wheat, fluttering there in 
the breeze.  The whole lower garden is pretty much a 
field of overgrown grass, with a shallow creek at the 
property line.  Any gardener worth her salt would gasp 
in horror about it (and your mother frequently does), 
but it suited you fine as children, and it suits you 
now.

You settle on a spot near the creek - near enough to 
see it and hear it, but not near enough to be sitting 
on the rocks.  Ryan yanks out the worst of the grass, 
and flattens the rest.  He spreads out the blanket on 
top.  

You drop down beside him, picnic basket between you.  
The grass nearby is up to your shoulders.  You like 
it.  It's like being sheltered.  You feel like a 
little kid again, running through the grass, hiding 
from your parents.  Stumbling and giggling.  The 
nostalgia makes you smile.

"What is it?" he wonders, smiling back at you.

You tell him, and soon you're trading memories.  
Laughing.  Dipping into the food, then the wine (which 
your parents will, no doubt, be mightily pissed to 
learn is missing when they notice).  You love him for 
making him laugh when you were hurting so bad.

You wind up lying down, side by side.  Staring up at 
the sky.  It's a bright, cloudy day.  The sort of day 
where you get sunburnt without even knowing it until 
later.  The effect is soporific.  You feel lulled.  
Sleepy, even.  There will be more tears later, you 
suppose, but right now, lying down beside him in the 
sun, you're feeling good.

"Reese?" he says after a while.

"Yeah?"

He rolls onto his side.  You feel his body touching 
yours.  You open your eyes, a little irritated at 
being disturbed, and you see him looking down at you.  
His expression is grave.

"What is it?" you say when he doesn't answer. 

He hesitates.  There's a look on his face you haven't 
seen before.  Cautious.  Guarded.

"I saw you, Reese," he says at last.  "This morning.  
In my room."

It hits you like a punch in the stomach.  You pull 
away from him.  "Oh, my God," you gasp.  He grabs you 
around your waist before you can scramble to your 
feet.

"Marisa, shit, don't.  Stay here.  Talk to me."

You lay there with your back to him.  Shoulders stiff.  
Mortified.  His arm is firm and snug around your 
stomach.

"I didn't go to Robbie's," he says.  "I came back.  I 
didn't get why you were acting so weird.  I thought 
you wanted to get rid of me."

"I did," you mutter.

"Why?" he demands.  "So you could cry?  So you could 
jack off in my bed?  What the fuck is going on with 
you, Reese?  Have you got the hots for me or 
something?"

"Have I got the *hots* for you?" you echo, turning 
your head, meeting his gaze with fury.  "You fucking 
prick!"

"Then what?  You're in love with me?

"I don't know!" you burst out.  "It's all mixed up!  I 
just love you!"  You turn your head away once more.  
Still mortified.  Closing your eyes and wishing this 
whole thing would just be over.

Oddly, this seems to be the right answer.

His grip on you loosens, and he moves closer.  You can 
feel his body against your back.  His warmth.  Just 
brushing you.  Like being kissed by a warm breeze.

"I love you too, Reese," he says against your 
shoulder.

"How," you say dully.  It isn't a question, really.  
You don't expect an answer.  Certainly not one that 
changes anything.

"I don't know," he says.  "I just love you."

"It sounded better when I said it."

He laughs a little.  You both do.  You lean back 
against him with a sigh.  His arm tightens around you 
once more.  You touch it with your hand.  Holding on 
to him.  Relief washes over you, and you feel the 
tension leave your body.

He still loves you.  He doesn't hate you or pity you 
or think you're awful.  That alone is enough to make 
it better.  Not all better, but a lot better.

His hand slips under your shirt.  Comes to rest 
against the flesh of your belly.  Making gentle 
circles with his thumb.

You lie very still.  

Waiting.  Wanting.

"I want what you want, Reese," he says against your 
shoulder after a while.  His voice is low.  You 
tremble when his hot breath reverberates against the 
flesh at your neck. "I always have."

You look at him over your shoulder.  Drawn by that 
hypnotic voice.  His eyes hold yours, and there's 
something demanding there that you've never seen 
before.  Something hungry.

You take his hand in yours, and you draw it further 
around you.  Beneath your breast.  You want him to 
touch it, but you don't know how to ask.

"Do you want this?" he says.  His voice is ragged.

You think about it.  About him going away.  About him 
being your brother.  About being scared of the pain.  
About being alone.  You look at him, thinking about 
it.  In the end, the only thing that makes any sense 
is his arm around you and his eyes fixed on yours.

"Do you?" you ask him finally.

"I want whatever you want."  A bald-faced lie.  He 
wants you so badly he can hardly breathe.  You can see 
it in his eyes, and you wonder why you never saw it 
before.  But the lie is kindly meant, and it tells you 
all you need to know.

You take his hand in yours.  Trembling a little, you 
lift it to your breast.

"I want it."

He closes his eyes and sighs.  Kisses your shoulder 
where it meets your neck.  His palm cups your breast.  
Squeezing, just a little.  His touch is firmer than 
yours.  Heavier.  You like it.

His mouth closes on yours.

It's like flicking a switch.  Hesitancy becomes 
urgency.  You kiss him, hungry and feverish.  Nothing 
like the way you thought your first kiss would be.  
You twist so you can face him, and his hand grows more 
insistent on your breast.  Squeezing harder.  Your 
nipple is hard and swollen between his fingers.  You 
want it softer and harder both at the same time, and 
you arch against him, whimpering his name.

Your senses are in overload.  

He's clumsy.  You both are - trembling and needy - but 
it doesn't matter.  None of it matters.  Nothing but 
the two of you, sharing breaths, sharing sighs, 
whispering each other's names into each other's 
mouths, language lost yet understood just the same.  
You envisaged softness and sweetness, but the truth is 
hard and dark and heavy.  And it's right.  So right.

You're shaking when you work his buttons free.

You've seen his chest a thousand times.  But now you 
run your hands over it, tracing its contours.  You 
love the slight rises and falls.  Your mouth is still 
latched firmly on his, exploring him, demanding from 
him, your eyes closed.  You let your palms tell you 
what you want to know.

He runs his hand down over your hip.  Then your leg.  
Traces his fingertips back up from behind your knee to 
the back of your thigh beneath your skirt.  You cry 
out when the tingling races along your legs.  Your 
panties are wet, and you need them gone.  You need to 
be open to him.  Exposed.  Right now.

Shivering, you reach down and unbutton his fly.  You 
drag down his jeans, first with your hands, then with 
your feet.  Hoping he'll get the message and do the 
same to you.  You tug his briefs down at the back, and 
work the front free of his...his...

Well, it doesn't matter what it's called.  It's him, 
and it's beautiful, even if the words for it feel 
silly.  You look down between you, and you can see the 
smooth, rounded head.  You run your palm over it.  
It's such a strange mix of hardness and springy 
softness.  Like nothing you've ever felt before.

"I don't know what to do," you whisper.  A little 
ashamed of your own inexperience.

"And you think I do?" he teases, and your shame melts 
away.  He tugs down your panties and you kick them 
off, almost as an afterthought.  Your earlier urgency 
is forgotten.  You want to explore him.

Your touch grows surer.  You reach lower.  Cupping the 
sac you find there.  Feeling the twin roundness 
inside.  You play.  Feeling each of them move beneath 
your fingers.  The shapes and textures are all new.  
They fascinate you.

He grinds out your name through his teeth.  Dragging 
it out.  "Ree-eese..."

You laugh.  You can't help it.  He's so serious.  It's 
a fond laugh, and you kiss him.  Then his fingers are 
between your thighs, parting you, and the urgency 
washes over you all over again.  You gasp.  Hitching 
breaths in sudden need.  Spreading wide for him.  
"God!" you whisper.  "Ryan, God, yes."

"Like that?" he asks, tracing circles around your -

(clit, Reese, just say it, clit)

around your *clit*, and you clutch at his open shirt, 
your forehead pressed to his.  "Yes, like that," you 
whisper.  "Just like that."

His breaths are heavy.  Warm.  "So beautiful, Reese.  
So fucking beautiful."

It's so...heartfelt.  His odd little declaration feels 
like worship.  Profane and sacred in equal measure.  
Your body thrusts against him hard.  Your kiss is 
tender.

You want him inside you.  You're afraid to have him 
inside you.

"Ryan," you whisper.  "I haven't- I've never-"

"Me either."

"I'm scared."

"We don't have to-"

You could kiss him.  It would damn near kill him to 
stop, but he'd do it, if you asked him to.  "I want 
to."

"I do love you, Reese.  It isn't just - just -"

"I know."

His hand slowed while you talked.  Moving just enough 
to keep your body humming.  Now, he kisses you.  So 
long.  So deep and slow and tender.  You feel your 
fears melt away.  Like shedding a skin.  Naked.  
Vulnerable.  Your limbs are loose and free.

That kiss brings you to the brink all by itself.

You shiver against him.  Sinking down on his fingers.  
Needing to be touched and covered and filled.  He 
strokes you.  Slides his fingers inside you, drawing 
slick juices and smoothing them out over your clit.  
You're nearly weeping with longing when he touches 
you.  Your sigh is high and keening.

"Now, Ryan," you whisper against his lips.  "Please."

He nods, and he trembles when he puts it against you.  
"I don't want to hurt you."

"It'll be all right," you say.  More confident than 
you feel.  "Just go slow."

He nods, and you make yourself breathe.  Relax.  You 
think about the way it felt in your hands.  How much 
you loved it.  You know it will feel so good inside 
you, if you can just get through this.

You want him inside you so bad.

You feel the dome press against you.  You feel the 
ache.  The need to swallow him up into you.

He sinks into you a little way.  It's tight.  
Uncomfortable.  But not hurting the way you thought it 
would.  You clutch his shoulders and, seeing his 
worried look, you nod for him to continue.

He pushes deeper.  You feel him inside you, parting 
you, making a path.  You feel yourself being...opened.  
Widened.  It feels strange and a little awkward.  And 
yet, beneath the discomfort, you feel something else.  
Something primal.  Something that hungers for the 
fullness.  Something that melds with him, clinging to 
him like a part of yourself you never knew was missing 
until you got it back.

Suddenly you're rising up against him.  Trying to get 
him deeper into you.  He loses his restraint (and you 
suddenly realise how difficult that slow gentleness 
had been for him) and he shoves it into you the last 
couple of inches.  That does hurt, just a little, but 
it also brings that primal hunger to its full height.  
The wind leaves you in a gasp, a sound equal parts 
shock and need, and you grasp at his back with your 
hands.  "Oh, my God."

"Good?" he manages.  Thrusting into you, long and slow 
and deep.  You want it faster, the way you rock 
yourself at night, but after a few strokes, you feel 
the new vibrations in your body.  Deeper than anything 
you ever felt before.  You nod, whimpering a little.  
Beyond coherence.

Too deep, too hard, too primal to be making love.  Too 
much love to be anything else.

"Fuck, that's good," you gasp out.  Not soft and sweet 
like you thought it would be.  But good.  So good.

"Love you, Reese," he says between thrusts.  Almost a 
growl.  Not from the heart.  From the gut.  And 
somehow that touches you all the more.

"Love you too," you sigh out between heavy breaths.  
"Oh!  Ryan.  God."

He kisses you, and then it happens.  The ripples 
explode into tiny trails of pleasure, radiating 
through your body.  Through your limbs.  White heat 
and freezing cold and gentle warmth all at once.  
You've come before, but you've never come like this.  
Never felt such absolute release.  Never felt so 
alive.

You fall back on the blanket.  Limp, except for your 
legs, still twined with his.  You can hear the creek 
trickling behind you.  You feel the air on your body.  
He's still thrusting into you, and you take it all in.  
How he looks.  The taut lines of his body.  The odd 
mix of concentration and tenderness in his expression.  
You trail hands down his chest.  You love him like 
this.  And when he lowers his body to cradle you in 
his arms and match your tenderness with his own, you 
love him even more.

This is a different kind of coupling.  The thrusts are 
barely perceptible.  He's fully inside you, and you 
grind against him while he kisses you.  He holds you 
around the shoulders with one arm, and with his free 
hand, he teases your neck.  Your breast.  You touch 
his lips, and he kisses them.  Licks them.  Reverent.  
You whimper.  Feeling the need rise up all over again.

"I'm gonna come, Reese," he says.

Somehow that sends the longing spiking to new heights.  
You want him to empty himself into you.  You want 
something of him within you when it ends.

You nod.  Breathless.  "Do it, Ryan.  I want to feel 
it."

He does.  You feel the slight pulse inside you when it 
happens.  The thought alone makes you clench around 
him.  Milking him.  You come again - not as hard this 
time, but deeper, somehow.  You shiver beneath him, 
sighing out his name.

You slump together.  He stays inside you as he grows 
soft.  You like it.  It feels nice, being joined that 
way.  Being one.

He smooths back your hair and whispers your name into 
your forehead.  Kissing you.  Loving you.

You tug him close and hold him tight.

"Reese?" he says into your hair after a while.

"Yeah?"

"Will you come and see me at school?  The weekends I 
can't come home?"

There's an urgency, a panic in his voice that makes 
you frown.

"Of course I will."

"I don't know if we'll be able to - to - you know -" 
he breaks off awkwardly, then goes on, "I just need 
you with me."

You nod.  "I'll come."

You lie there, clinging to one another for a long 
time.

At last, he sighs and pulls back a little.  He kisses 
you, this time the way you thought it would be.  Soft.  
Slow.  Tender.  You kiss him too, brushing his jaw 
with your fingers.  Caressing him with the lightest of 
touches.

It seems like the right way to end it.

You break away at last.  You sit up and button your 
shirt.  He lies there, watching you.

"Do you regret it?" he asks.

You shake your head.  "No."  You pick up your panties.  
You ball them up in your hand.  "Do you?"

"No."

You start packing up the picnic basket.  He helps you.

"Do you still love me?" he asks diffidently when you 
finish.

You stare at him.  Shocked that he even needs to ask.  
"Yes, I do."

He looks away.  Out over the creek.  "Remember when we 
were little?  When we used to cuddle down in the 
maidenhair?  How much we loved each other back then?"

An odd kind of nostalgia washes over you.  
Bittersweet.  Almost grief.  "Yes, I remember."

"I don't ever want to lose that, Reese."

You shift over behind him.  You hold him around the 
shoulders.  Drawing him back against you.  "We won't."

He takes one of your hands.  Kisses it.  "I'm going to 
miss you."

You lean your head against his shoulder.  "Me too."

You sit there in the sun.  Listening to the creek.  

Remembering the way he held you in the maidenhair 
down.


FIN


AUTHOR'S NOTE: I found this one really interesting to 
write, because this Reese is younger and more 
inhibited.  It was difficult to write that, and still 
keep the essence of the woman we see in Vicarious 
Satisfaction and Seduces Me.  They all show such 
different facets of sexuality, but I wanted to try to 
keep the characters intact in the process, just the 
same.  So...I liked the challenge of this one.  

Presently, I'm working on another Ryan and Reese story 
(like all of them, it will be able to stand alone), 
and also a separate MF humour piece.  They'll both 
appear on ASSM, and my site, 
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/thesecretgrrl/www pretty soon.
You can jump directly to the Ryan and Reese stories at
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/thesecretgrrl/www/stories/ryanreese.html

Finally, a word of thanks.  I have written erotica 
before, but not for some time, and not in the a.s.s.* 
community.  I've been really touched by the way I've 
been welcomed since I began posting a couple of weeks 
ago.  It means a lot to me.  Thanks so much.


Copyright notice: This story is the intellectual 
property of the author.  All rights reserved.  You may 
not repost or redistribute this story without the 
express permission of the author.  You may link to the 
author's website or to the ASSM archives, both of 
which retain copies of the story.

(C) 2002 The Secret Grrl
thesecretgrrl@hotmail.com
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/thesecretgrrl/www
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