The Return of Carolyn Lord: Part Ten
It was the next morning, and Carolyn was sitting at
her kitchen table feeling very overwhelmed.
She couldn't believe it had actually happened. A
little too much champagne, and she had personally
destroyed a beautiful evening for everyone.
She dimly realized that, in the middle of a public
theater, she had become so keyed up that both Tamiko and
Mrs. Stevens had to physically hold her down for at least
half of the performance. She wondered if she could ever
face her boss again after such a humiliating display.
This morning she awoke to the strangest feelings:
extreme thirst, sore muscles (including her pelvis), and
a pleasant sensation of complete exhaustion. "What in
hell was I doing last night?" she wondered aloud, but the
smiling Tamiko, sitting across from her at the table in
the nude as usual, did not answer.
Tamiko, darling Tamiko, had made them both breakfast,
and Carolyn had discovered she was ravenous. She had
never felt so hungry.
Again she felt compelled to ask herself, "What could
have happened last night to make me feel like this?"
Carolyn was surprised to find Tamiko suddenly standing
beside her chair. She hadn't even noticed her getting
up.
Tamiko took Carolyn by the hands and brought her to
her feet. Puzzled, she stood in front of her dearest
friend as the girl looked deeply into her eyes.
Tamiko leaned up and kissed Carolyn very gently on the
mouth. Suffused throughout the past month with strong
feelings of warmth and affection for her young friend,
Carolyn for the first time hesitantly kissed her back.
Well aware that an important turning point had been
reached in their relationship, Tamiko did not press her
advantage. But, neither did she break off the kiss. The
two stood there in the kitchen, the inexperienced 30-year
old and the very experienced 18-year old, quietly
nibbling each other's lips.
Carolyn finally broke off the kiss when she found
herself pressing tightly against her friend.
"I'm...I'm so sorry," Carolyn whispered, her head down.
"I don't know what came over me."
"I do," said Tamiko. She placed her face directly in
front of the averted Carolyn's, so that the woman could
not help but look at her. "I know exactly what came over
you." She put her arms around Carolyn's neck and drew
her close, looked deep into her eyes, then covered her
mouth with a fierce kiss.
Carolyn, her insides nothing but melted butter,
responded instantly. She threw her arms around the neck
of the shorter Japanese teenager and kissed her with all
of the passion which she had refused herself for so long.
Overcome by an avalanche of inexplicable emotion finally
released, Carolyn rained kisses and more kisses down on
that sweet oriental face.
Finally, she was able to say what she had not been
able to face for so long, that she was hopelessly in love
with the young Japanese.
"I love you, Tamiko. I love you so much. Please say
you'll never leave me, please. Not ever! I'd think I'd
die without you."
Tamiko coolly untied Carolyn's sash and pulled the
robe from her shoulders. "I think I prefer you like
this," Tamiko said quietly.
"Yes, my love, my life. Whatever...whatever you want,"
Carolyn gasped as she continued to rain kisses on the
Japanese girl. "Anything, anything at all..." Carolyn
sobbed, rapidly approaching hysterics.
Sensing immediately that things were progressing much
too fast for this American, Tamiko bent down and picked
up the robe lying at Carolyn's feet. Placing it around
her shoulders, Tamiko told her, "Come on. Let's go in
the living room and relax a bit."
Leading the sobbing woman like a child by the hand,
Tamiko took her into the living room and placed her on
the couch. She gave her a box of facial tissues, then
dashed back into the kitchen to turn everything still
cooking on Low. She filled two large snifters to the
brim with the Greek brandy Metaxas, then took them out to
the other room.
Feeling the fool, Carolyn had meanwhile forced herself
to stop crying and was putting on her robe when Tamiko
re-entered the room.
Smiling wanly, Carolyn, consumed by a bitter self-
hatred, fiercely tied her sash and collapsed helplessly
back on the couch.
Tamiko joined her on the couch. Carolyn gladly
accepted the offered brandy glass and drank the contents
in one angry gulp.
Five minutes of coughing and several tissues later,
Carolyn was finally able to get her breath back.
"Phew!"
"You sip brandy, you know."
"Yes, Tamiko, I know."
Carolyn looked at her friend(?), lover(?), who was
staring at her with anxious eyes.
"You have the most beautiful eyes, you know? Those
eyes hold the secrets of the orient in them. A person
could drown in those black pools of yours. I'm all right
now, Tamiko. Really, quite all right."
The waiting girl said nothing as she continued to
watch her American toy.
"I had always imagined this scene to be a little
different," Carolyn said wryly. "You were suppose to be
this nice Greek businessman about five or ten years my
senior."
Tamiko, sipping her drink, continued to patiently
wait.
"You would be on bended knee, protesting your eternal
love and devotion. I, on the other hand, would be cool
and proper, only accepting if the diamond ring you
flourished was the proper size and if the setting was
good enough for a person of your means."
"That's what can happen when you come from a poor
background. Your values get a little screwed up."
"Which brings us to, well, us. I love you. I love
you with all my soul. I am not a les..., a les..., a
lesbian, and have never, to my knowledge, wanted to be
one. Don't really like them, to tell you the truth, they
seem such an unhappy group. As with most people, they're
always seeking something they can never have. Yet, the
unmistakable fact is that I love you, which, if that
makes me a lesbian, then so be it."
"I hope that this doesn't shock you, the fact that
another woman finds you very attractive, very special."
An amused Tamiko gave her head a slight shake.
"I will not die if you should go away some day,
although if you do I'll shall miss terribly you for a
very long time."
"Well, that's it. That's how I feel. And if you
think that was easy," Carolyn said with a faint smile as
she took Tamiko's glass, "you're wrong."
She drank the contents carefully, in several sips.
"Now, it's your turn."
Tamiko was in an uncharacteristic quandary. When she
first met Carolyn Lord, she was possessed by the desire
to humble and own this proud bitch of an American. She
delighted in the thought of using her vast store of
sexual knowledge and natural cunning to humiliate and
eventually control this beautiful and accomplished
female.
And now the stupid bitch just handed herself over to
her on a silver platter! Unbelievable! Only in America
could this happen! Tamiko knew that, as sure as the sun
would rise in the east tomorrow, that Carolyn would from
now on give herself to her, freely and without
hesitation, all of that awesome body of hers, and would
happily do anything she asked of her. Absolutely
anything.
All that meticulous planning, all that wonderful
guile- wasted! Tamiko was devastated. Worse, she found
herself starting to like the damned woman. Hell, she
even admired her a little. After all that had been done
to her, Carolyn just licked her wounds and went right
back into the fight again, and she never looked back.
What a person in which to find the true samurai
spirit! Who would have thought it?
Now this morning, when the woman dares to bare her
very soul to someone simply because she thinks she loved
them and therefor had absolute faith and trust in them.
And she did this wondrous thing to her, Tamiko, her
would-be betrayer and conqueror!
Shit! What a mess. She herself had never had the
courage to be that honest with anyone, including herself,
about anything in her entire life.
So, she wondered, what do you do with someone like
that? Use them quickly and then leave before their
strange influences have their insidious effect? Lock
them up for their own protection? Or perhaps....
Oh, no, Tamiko thought, not that! Anything but that!
But the thought refused to go away and she was forced to
face it: perhaps stick around and safeguard them for
the rare, precious assets they are, while enjoying some
very good sex indeed?
That was the trouble. Another fact that Tamiko was
absolutely sure of was that any sex with an enthusiastic
Carolyn Lord would be white hot, no question. Tamiko
knew all too well the passion which this woman was
capable of, and the teenager grew wet at the thought of
all that passion directed right at her. Wow!
Tamiko looked deeply into the eyes of her plaything as
she slowly and deliberately untied the sash of Carolyn's
robe. Not getting any reaction, she pulled opened first
one side and then the other of the thin robe.
"I like you like this," Tamiko said quietly.
"Yes, my love," a nervous but eager Carolyn responded.
Tamiko returned to her thoughts. She did not notice
Carolyn stand quietly, take off her robe, then carry it
back towards the bedroom.
Tamiko knew her parents, but especially her mother,
would absolute freak when they found out she had gotten
involved with a non-Japanese.
"Oh, my ancient ancestors!" she thought worriedly.
"Not so fast! I'm thinking like it's already happened,
and it is nothing of the sort."
A completely naked Carolyn returned from the bedroom,
after hanging up her robe in the closet. "I will not be
needing that any more," she thought, looking at her love
still sitting on the couch, wearing a very confused and
worried look on her face.
She looked around the apartment, already imagining
what it would be like with the two of them living
together permanently. "We'll need a bigger place,"
Carolyn observed quietly.
She went over and sat next to the thinking, nude
teenager.
No matter how Tamiko worked it out, to have a Carolyn
Lord as her personal sex toy would be fantastic, no
question. But, to have a Carolyn Lord as an eager lover,
giving freely what so many were able to take only by
guile, that would be simply sublime.
Tamiko sensed her long, black hair being parted in
back, then felt delicate kisses being planted on the back
of her neck.
"See what I mean?" the Japanese dryly asked herself
aloud.
"See what, my love?" Carolyn asked as she kissed her
way around Tamiko's neck.
"Nothing, my precious. Nothing at all. Now, come
here," Tamiko commanded, as she reached for her woman.
"No, you come here," Carolyn replied, pushing the
bemused girl down on the couch. "Now, it's my turn!"
End Part Ten
End of Story!!!