Chapter 3: Up the River Mersey

‘What do you usually do on a Sunday?’ Anette asked him. ‘Nothing much,’ he admitted, ‘It’s a boring day.’ ‘Well, I just had an idea, how about if we went out somewhere for the day tomorrow, perhaps to the coast or to the countryside?’

His face lit up, ‘Yes please.’ he said, clearly delighted at the idea. ‘Does the hostel know you’re back up from down south?’ ‘No, I’ll just tell them I’m back when I get in.’ ‘Ok, a few more questions to help with your lessons then.’

‘Whilst you were working away with Geoff, what did you wear in bed?’ Austin managed, ‘T shirt and shorts.’ without needing to write it down. ‘Did you share a bedroom with Geoff?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How did you feel about that?’ ‘I was nervous. I’d never shared with anyone before.’

‘But Geoff realised and helped me settle.’ ‘Did Geoff see you naked?’ ‘Oh no!’ Austin answered looking horrified at the idea. ‘How would you have felt if he had?’ He picked up the pen, scribbled away then read, ‘I’d have been so embarrassed, I’m very shy about my body.’

‘Did you see Geoff naked?’ More scribbling, then with a red face he said, ‘Yes once, it was when he came out of the bathroom without thinking. He stopped dead and said, ‘Sorry, I was forgetting where I was.’ ‘So how did his body compare with yours?’ ‘He’s got more muscles and er... ‘

‘Go on.’ Anette encouraged him, ‘His thingy is bigger than mine.’ ‘How did you feel when you saw that?’ ‘I just thought, ‘That’s the first time I’ve really seen anyone else’s. I tried hard not to look at it too much.’ ‘It’s natural to be curious.’ Anette told him with a smile.

‘When you dreamt you and I were in bed together, what were we wearing?’ ‘Nothing.’ Austin said going very red again. ‘How did you feel about that, with being so shy?’ ‘It didn’t occur to me then.’ he wrote. ‘If I suggested that we both stripped of naked right now in front of each other, how would you feel?’

‘I couldn’t do it,’ he said looking horrified, ‘I’d be far too embarrassed.’ ‘So how would you get into bed with me to make love?’ Anette asked. ‘I don’t know,’ he said looking very dejected. ‘I wasn’t embarrassed in my dream.’

‘Don’t worry,’ Anette told him, ‘You’ll be fine by the time we get to that point.’ He scribbled away for a while, then he looked at her, gave her a lovely smile and read, ‘Even when I was dreaming about it, I didn’t believe it could ever happen.’

‘I still don’t expect it to happen, and I’d never try to push you into anything. But if we did do it in the future, I’d need you to guide me through what to do. Then I would be the happiest man on earth.’ He gave her another big smile.

‘Well, I will consider it my enjoyable task to make you that happy,’ Anette told him. ‘You want to make love to me, and I want to make love to you. But I don’t think you are quite ready for that yet. So, over the next few weeks or even months, we’ll work on it together.’

‘Remember that when we are alone, once I have let you touch me somewhere, it means I’ve given you permission to touch me there any time you want to without your having to ask permission.’ Anette stood up and held her arms out.

Austin came round the table and went into them. After a long, long, kiss, Anette told him, ‘Together, we’ll try to get rid of your shyness and give you more knowledge of what is involved. Then as soon as I think you are ready, I’ll tell you.’

‘Then, but only if you still want to, we’ll do it. If we do, then on that very special night, we’ll be undressing each other. After that, we would walk over to the bed hand in hand, each of us completely naked. We’ll get on the bed and lie side by side looking at each other’s body’s.’

‘We’ll kiss and caress each other, then you will slide your very hard thingy inside me. Once we are joined together, we will make love. That will seal our relationship in the nicest way possible. Afterwards, we will fall asleep in each other’s arms.’

Austin was making a lot of happy sounding noises and Anette could feel his very excited thingy flexing madly between them. ‘You remember how reluctant you were to put your hand on my breast?’ she asked. ‘Yes.’ he replied smiling.

‘But I persuaded you because I knew we would both enjoy it.’ ‘And how.’ Austin said, beaming. ‘Then remember how you got so upset in case I noticed when you went hard, but now its throbbing against me happily and we’re both enjoying it.’ He nodded, still smiling.

‘Do you know what I’d love to do next?’ Anette said. As he looked at her waiting in anticipation, she said, ‘I’d love to put my hand between your legs and feel your thingy, just like you did my breast. But just like you do to me, I wouldn’t dream of doing anything without you agreeing first.’

She felt him flexing even more in excitement, but although the idea plainly excited him, would he feel confident enough to say yes. They stood holding each other tight. Austins thingy doing a continuous dance.

They were both enjoying the feeling and when he thought about it afterwards, Austin realised it was that enjoyment that decided him. ‘Yes, you can.’ He said firmly. Anettes hand was on his shoulder, so she said, ‘I’ll move my hand down slowly in case you want to change your mind.’

‘As her hand slid downwards, the thingy’s dance intensified. Anette listened to Austins excited noises as her hand moved lower. Then she eased her hips back and slid her hand in between them, resting it as flat as she could over the very active bulge in his trousers.

After Austin had let out a great cry of delight at her touch, they put their lips together and kissed. Anette moved her hand about gently, whilst it was being kicked quite firmly. She let him enjoy it for a while, and herself too of course.

Then they broke away and sat on the settee. Austin sat with his legs apart and let his bulge jump around. He no longer seemed to be concerned that Anette was looking at it. ‘Austin, what am I looking at?’ she asked without looking up at him.

He looked at her then managed to say, ‘My thingy doing a dance.’ ‘How do you feel about me seeing what it’s doing?’ she asked. ‘I’m fine.’ he replied happily, sounding surprised. ‘See, you are losing some of your shyness already.’ Anette told him.

‘You know how nice it felt having my hand resting on it?’ ‘Yes.’ he replied in a tone that left no doubt how much he had enjoyed it. ‘Well now you’ve managed to do that, you can start imagining what it would feel like in future if my hand was resting on your shorts instead of your trousers.’

The bulge did a lot more leaping around. ‘Now, it’s ten o’clock and you can have two choices. At half past ten you can leave and return to the hostel. You can then return here in the morning for our day out. Or you can stop here overnight.’

‘Don’t answer yet,’ she cautioned him as his face lit up, ‘Let me tell you what would happen if you stayed. When we decided it was time for bed, we would each get changed into our night things out of sight of the other. But then we would get into my bed together.’

‘We would kiss and cuddle and fall asleep in each other’s arms. What we would not do is make love or have any form of sex. We are not ready for that yet. In the morning, we would get up, have some breakfast and go out for the day as planned.

‘Having spent the night together I’m sure you would lose a lot more of your shyness. But be sure about it, don’t decide right now, wait until half ten then just go or stay. Either way, we’ve still got a full day together tomorrow. Now, have we got time for another chapter?’

Austin gave her a big smile, nodded and picked up the IPad. Anette lay down and put her head against his bulge which still seemed to be flexing a lot for some reason. Austins heart was beating fast as his mind tried to think about the night ahead and open the book as well.

He knew that two weeks ago he wouldn’t have even considered stopping, he’d have felt far too embarrassed at the idea. But sharing a bedroom with Geoff for two weeks had broken the ice a bit. Not to mention having had his first proper look at a naked man.