Week 2 / Sunday

When Larissa awoke, Julian had his arm around her, holding one of his favourite handles. Lovely. It was light outside, and she could hear footsteps in the sand – someone else was up. She felt like she’d had a good sleep, so sweet, she got her sleep in. She lay in her man’s arms for a while, thinking about their holiday. It’d been a pretty good mix, actually. They’d had some amazing experiences, they’d seen a wide variety of New Zealand, they’d made really good new friends, and there’d been plenty of great sex. The working holiday hadn’t stopped them from making some really good memories, ones they’d remember for ever.

Or would they? Should she step up the game with photos? And maybe video too? She lay there for a while thinking about that, and got the glimmerings of an idea. Something she’d thought of before, maybe it was time. Well, if it was, she’d need to do some shopping. If there was a chance. But thinking about had really revved her up, and maybe it was time to wake her man up. She rolled over so she was looking at him, and that woke him up.

“Morning, Sweetie,” she said to him. “I love you.”

Julian gave her a slow smile back. “Babe, I love you too. You’re amazing.”

They kissed gently, and Larissa’s hands drifted down to his dick almost by reflex. She stroked him for a while, just enjoying herself in a dreamy fashion. Though there was a problem ... they’d used up all her leftover tissues the night before. She figured she’d just have to swallow.

Suddenly Julian reached out to her pussy, rolling her onto her back, pushing her arm away from him, and kissed her intensely. Woo, this was a repeat of last night, and he spent a few minutes warming her up and playing with her just nice. Oh yes, that was really hitting the spot. He moved his head down and licked her nipple. Oh, he knew how to play her now, knew all her buttons, and it didn’t take long. What a nice way to wake up.

Though she wasn’t finished, and after a moment’s rest, she moved down the bed a little, rolled back over, and got her hand on him again. Still nice and hard, and she gently played with him for a while, alternating between his dick and running her fingernails up his balls just how it drove him mad. Soon she had him gasping, shaking, and she was wondering how to get down so her mouth was on his dick – just not that much room in the tent. Suddenly, Julian roused himself and got up on his knees, and moved over the top of her. Well, that solved the problem, she supposed, and prepared for him to stick his dick in her mouth.

But no, he caught her by surprise, and stopped over her chest. Well, she could do that and went back to playing with him, working him hard, and a few seconds later he came onto her chest. A pearl necklace! He hadn’t given her one of them for ages. Then he grinned at her, and said, “Babe, time to get up!” Hah, of course.

Well, it wasn’t going to be a problem, so she followed him out of the tent. When they emerged, she found that they were the last up. The others greeted them cheerfully, and Tui walked over with a drink of water for her. Straight away she saw Larissa’s necklace and gave her a big grin. “Love your jewellery!”

“Well, we ran out of tissues, so Julian had to put it somewhere,” she said with a grin. “How are you this morning?”

Tui was good. They all were. “You know,” Larissa told Tui, “I was lying in bed this morning waiting for Julian to wake up, thinking about our week in New Zealand, and thinking just how lucky we are that you’re so adaptable. This week has been super busy, and we’ve done all sorts of things, even sleeping on the ground, and I’ve done wild things with Julian, and you’ve just smiled about it all and gone with the flow.”

“Oh, that’s nothing. You’re doing it too.”

“Well, it’s not nothing, but I just wanted you to know that I appreciate it. And it was the holiday we chose, you’re just along for the ride!”

“I am, and I’m enjoying it, and I’m learning a lot too. Marty and I woke up early this morning, and we sat at the water’s edge and talked more about what you guys talked to us about yesterday. We think it’s a pretty big deal for us, and we love that you shared all that with us.”

Without thinking, Larissa impulsively hugged Tui. Whoops, her necklace was running down her chest, and Tui pulled back, a funny expression on her face. Larissa laughed and said, “Oh, sorry, I didn’t think. Guess we better both go for a swim!”

Tui laughed too, looking down at her bare chest, now with wet patches, and they ran down to the water. She glanced at Julian, who was standing beside the fire, and he came down for a swim too. She hit the water at a run and splashed her way deep enough to dive in, Tui beside her all the way. When she surfaced, she smiled at Tui and said, “There, that’s better!”

After the swim, she sat in Julian’s arms by the fire, warming up. It was really lovely to just not have to worry about clothes, and her coffee was lovely and warm. She wiggled around to watch the sun over Julian’s shoulder – it was about to poke out over the hill behind them, and she rested her head on him contentedly. This was the life.

The sun was just about fully over the hill when Ollie started yelling that he’d seen some porpoises. He’d been watching out for them, they hung around this part of the sounds, and if they paddled out quickly, they might get close enough for some photos. Larissa leapt out of Julian’s arms in a hurry, that sounded awesome. She ran and grabbed her phone out their tent and made a snap decision not to waste time with clothes, and ran to her kayak, launching it as quickly as she could. She glanced around as she did ... Julian hadn’t bothered with clothes either, and neither had Marty, and they were just behind her. Tui had found some shorts and Ava was pulling a bikini bottom on, so they were back on the beach still. Ollie was already paddling out, so she followed him, paddling as fast as she could, her phone held between her knees.

After a few mad minutes, Larissa had caught up to Ollie, and they were getting out into the channel. Ollie stopped paddling and started hitting the water with his paddle. He glanced at Larissa and said, “These porpoises often come and swim around kayaks – there’s a lot of them around. And we think they know the sound. Oh – there they are.” He pointed further down the sound, and Larissa caught sight of a couple of them cresting out of the water, several hundred meters away. Larissa didn’t see them well enough, so she asked Ollie, and he said, “I think they were swimming across that way?” and pointed around the corner to another arm of the sound. “It goes out to the sea that way too.” By this time, Julian and Marty had caught up, and Tui wasn’t that far behind, paddling furiously. Ava was a little further back, a little more relaxed than Tui.

Ollie hit the water with his paddle again, so Larissa did it too, and Julian and Marty joined in. For a few minutes, nothing – no movement she could see anywhere. And suddenly, she saw something from the corner of her eye, around to the other side from where they were, and not far away from them, a couple of porpoises jumped out of the water, definitely heading towards them. She gave a shout of excitement, turned a little and got her phone ready, videoing the area towards where they’d been.

A few seconds later, three porpoises appeared out of the water between her and where they were before – they were coming straight in, exciting. They all saw them this time, she could hear the excited noises behind her.

The next time they popped up was right on schedule, right next to Julian’s kayak. Larissa had guessed right, and got it all on camera, the porpoises pretty much looking at him as they were only meters from the kayak. And had they changed angle? Larissa guessed that they had turned in, and pointed the video behind Marty, and bingo, they popped up quickly a few meters past his boat. She knew from her textbooks that they could stay down for fifty to a hundred meters, so they’d definitely come up to have a look, or for fun. Maybe they were doing a loop? She spun around behind Ollie and Ava, but no, they didn’t appear.

“Where’d they go?” Marty asked.

But they were gone – none of them saw the porpoises again for a few minutes, and when Ollie did, they were over in the other channel. At that point Larissa went back and watched the video she took. Two things stood out: she got a beautiful shot of the porpoises in front of her, beside Julian, and behind Marty. Just incredible footage, definitely the best in her life. And the other was that she also got a great shot of all the rest of them naked. She was close enough to Julian so that it was obvious he was fully naked, but not the others. Still, great shots of Ava and Tui’s chests. Damn.

She wasn’t the only one filming though – she could hope for better shots from the others. Or at least, shareable shots. They paddled back to the beach while laughing at how they hurried out pretty much naked – Tui had abandoned her shorts, so the only one not naked was Ava, who had got her thong on.

On the beach she showed the others her footage, and checked what they got; nothing like as good as hers, though Marty got a really great still shot of them coming out of the water in front of Larissa that also showed a great shot of her tits in profile. She screwed her face up; such a shame, she had wonderful footage, but how could she share this?

“You wanted to put that in your daily report, right?” Tui asked.

Larissa screwed her face up. “Well, of course, that’s what I wanted. But I can’t now.”

Tui smiled at her. “I reckon you can. I’m just topless; we’ve done that on the beach. I think it’s worth it.”

“Well, and you do look damn good!” Tui grinned at her. “Ava, what about you, what do you think?”

“I think I look just as good as Tui!”

“Hell yes, you look awesome. But Tui was talking about whether I can put that in my daily report?”

Ava spent the next few minutes sitting by the fire reading all of Larissa’s daily reports for the whole trip in WhatsApp, which meant she also got to see some of the comments from Julian’s family. Including Steph’s comments. “All right,” she said when she finished, “you can stick the video in, but you have to add me to your daily report list and you have to tell me what Steph says!” Sure. She’d already added Marty, Tui and her parents, what was another couple?

After breakfast, Larissa said to Julian, “How far do you reckon it is across to that point over there?”

“Maybe a bit more than a km?” Julian looked it up on his phone, and it was about 1300m.

“Want to swim there and back?” Larissa asked him. Yes, that was definitely something Julian wanted to do.

She turned to Ollie. “Will that be safe, do you think, swimming over there?”

“Sure, I mean, it’s open ocean but otherwise...”

“Oh, I was thinking about boats. Would they see swimmers?”

Ollie screwed up his nose. “Maybe not. But if someone goes with you in a kayak, they will – there’s kayaks all over the place out here.”

“I’ll do it!” Marty volunteered. “But tell me you’re not going to do that naked!”

Larissa grinned at him. No, she had a better plan. She went and found her bag, and pulled out Asha’s black bathers, which she’d packed just for this. The others loved those ‘togs’, as they were called in New Zealand, just sooo sexy, so she told them how they got them.

Once Marty was ready, they started swimming across the bay. This was a pretty normal swim for them, so Larissa set out at her normal pace, and Julian matched her. Towards the middle of the crossing, she noticed a boat go by behind them, and at one stage she saw Marty waving to something as she turned for a breath, but she didn’t see what it was. There was a current running, she realised, and turned across Julian a little to swim upstream so they didn’t get dragged into the farming area, and would make it to the point that was their target. The current would probably turn this into a 1500m swim, maybe. A touch longer than she wanted, but whatever.

When they touched the other side, it was rocky, so they didn’t get out of the water; Larissa smiled at Marty who was right there with them, decided she was feeling good enough, and turned to Julian and said, “Race you back?”

Julian got a lascivious smile on his face and said, “Sure. You’re going down!”

That was a game they’d played a few times: loser would have to give the winner oral sex. Usually as soon after the end of the swim as possible. And usually in a pretty submissive position. Julian had won once, and Larissa twice. Right then, game on.

Larissa set out at a faster pace, maybe ninety percent instead of eighty. While she was doing that she considered her tactics. Julian had a bigger kick at the end than her – just a testosterone thing. When it came to power, he had it. So she needed to be clear of him at the end, and she could be – that’s how she’d done it before, since her endurance swimming was better than his. If she held this pace, he’d be pretty tired, and then if she timed her big kick at the end right, she’d leave him gasping, and he wouldn’t be able to overpower her at the end.

After about a hundred metres, she turned and looked, and he was maybe a body length behind her, instead of beside her where he had been to this point. Sweet, unless he was playing with her mind. Larissa decided right there and then that she was going to win this one, whatever it took. She checked every hundred metres or so, and Julian was very gradually falling behind, until he stopped at three body lengths. Yeah, he was playing with her.

She grimaced to herself. She wasn’t feeling that good: this was a long swim and she was firmly in the glycogen warning stage. She was going to hit the wall sooner than she wanted, but she was committed, and she kept pushing through the feeling. So when should she kick? Julian had to be hurting bad now.

She decided to kick with about two hundred meters left. Well, her guess at that distance. It looked close enough, and she stepped up to top gear, changing her kick style and really putting her shoulders into it. She held it for a couple of minutes, pushing through the resistance, and then she looked around for Julian – yes, she’d left him behind, all right.

Time to put her head down, and go for it. And now she was really hurting, and she stopped thinking tactically, stopped looking around, stopped thinking at all, really, and just swam, and breathed.

Was she even OK? Had she maintained her stroke rate? She pushed even harder, she had to win this one, but maybe she’d kicked too early, it was just so far, and she knew she was flagging just a little.

And then she was there, and she touched the sand, and she knew that she’d given it absolutely everything she had. Where was Julian? The race wasn’t over until one of them was fully out of the water, that was the rule, and she lifted herself out of the water, but stumbled out of tiredness. And then she realised, Julian was right there, and he hadn’t stumbled. FUCK!

She gave one last push, but it wasn’t enough, and he was out of the water first. She collapsed, still half in the water, and just concentrated on breathing and not throwing up. She really did give that everything. After a little while, she looked up, and the others were sitting around them looking concerned, and Julian ... he was just in front of her, in worse shape than she was, prone on the sand.

“You OK?” Ollie asked her.

“Yeah,” Larissa answered him slowly. “Just pushed myself to the limit. We’ll be fine in a few minutes, but water!”

Marty immediately produced a bottle of water for her, and she gave him a smile. Then Marty said to the others, “They raced back, they talked about it on the other side.”

“That was one hell of a race, they took it damn seriously!” Ollie said.

“Yeah, well,” Marty said, “Olympic level stuff, it looked like to me. I heard what they said, ‘loser goes down’!”

They laughed, and Larissa smiled and said, “Well, I guess I’m going down on him.”

Tui said, “Well, at least we know that you really tried this time. Damn, girl, you nearly killed yourself. And Julian pretty much has, so that he could beat you.”

Marty leant down and offered Julian some water, which he took, rolling over onto his side. “That’s as close as I’ve ever come to throwing up,” Julian said weakly. “Maybe I pushed that too hard.”

Larissa crawled up to him, slid over his bum, and hugged him. “You must have really wanted to win that one.”

Julian sighed. “I didn’t really want to. I wanted to lose by just a little, but you hammered me, and I just ... lost my mind. I could barely think.”

Larissa laughed quietly, she knew exactly how that felt, right at the end. She sat up, since she was feeling better, and leaned against his back, running her hands through his hair. “Well, sweetie, I’m yours however you want me.”

He smiled at her, and said, “I want you in my heart forever babe, that’s what I want.”

She leant down and kissed him for that. Actually, this would make a good kissing photo for today, so she asked Tui to take that one. She didn’t bother trying to hide anything this time, given that she was planning to put Marty’s photo in her daily report.

“Well, guys, the rules of the game are that I have to pay up pretty much straight away. And it’s generally in a pretty submissive position too. I won last time, and I stood over him and made him lick me on our deck.” She could see that wasn’t a surprise at all to them. “So I’m guessing you’re going to see it, unless you don’t want us to.”

After last night ... they wanted to see it. A few minutes later, they had both recovered enough to sit by the fire, and Larissa sat in front of Julian, hugging him tight. Then he said, “Well, babe, it’s time. On your knees!”

Larissa jumped up excitedly and knelt on the towel, wiggling her butt to get comfortable. This was a display blowjob, and she needed to look as excited to do it as she actually was. Once she was settled, Julian moved into position in front of her, and she pulled him until he was right where she wanted him. She started slowly; no hurry this time, and just licked him, and used her hands on his bum and balls. Then she paused and pulled her head back. “Guys, you don’t have to be bashful about watching. If you don’t want to watch, sure. But if you do, just watch, OK. This isn’t the first time I’ve done this.” They looked at their partners, and then collectively shrugged and moved to see a little better.

Now she got back into it. She wouldn’t describe herself as ‘expert’ but she’d certainly done this often enough to know what she was doing. Or at least, to know what he liked. And what he liked was when she played with his head, so she decided to start by jamming him down his throat, lips to his balls, and working him with her tongue. She heard a couple of gasps of surprise, and then she slid back down the length, letting it make a ‘pop’ as it came out of her mouth. Well, that was a nice surprise for him, but now he was going to go slow and she licked it like it was a popsicle for a few minutes. “Yummy!” she said, “My favourite lollipop!”

She heard them laughing quietly in the background, and got back to business. Gradually she got into it, bring him right to the edge. Suddenly she stopped, and said, “Well, guys, vote time. Is it time? Or does he have to wait?” She grinned up at him, and he rolled his eyes. Yeah, he knew – it didn’t matter what they said, she was going to play with him. Though not for long; that was for another time. She seemed to get more noises for ‘more’ from the audience, so she said, “Guess you’ll have to wait. I don’t know, guys, is more blowjob better or worse for Julian?” More laughter for that, and then she gradually brought him to the edge. Then she stopped, and said, “Vote time again!” Again, she heard more noises for more blowjob than to finish him off. “Well, sweetie, they don’t want you to come yet. It seems that they don’t like one of us. Which one is it?” Julian was past answering at this point, and she wondered whether he could stay standing, actually. Then she decided it was time, and rammed him back down her throat, and used her hands to push him over as quick as she could.

Given all that, it didn’t take long, and he was shaking against her face, and she felt it down her throat. Once he stopped, she eased him out of her mouth, kissed the end of his dick, wiped her face, and then stood up and he kissed her deeply. Yeah, done.

In the background, she could hear admiring noises, and she turned around in his arms and smiled at them. “There, I’ve paid up!” she said.

“Wow, you’re good at that,” Ava said. “Have you always been able to deepthroat like that?”

“Nah. Before I had Julian to save me, my life was a mess, and I spent ages training myself to do that with a dildo so that I’d get me a man. You know, if I could perform on his knob he’d come back for more. Not a fun experience, and now I know that that’s totally not the way to find a good man. Though Julian kind of likes that I can, of course.” More laughter for that.

“Well, sort of,” Julian said. “What I love is that she’s totally committed to our pleasure. I would totally love her anyway and love being with her whatever, and that’s what matters, not whether she can do whatever thing some people care about. But I honour her willingness to do anything for us, and I try to match that, I’ll do anything for us too.”

Yeah, that’s what her man’s about, she thought to herself, and held his arms tight around her. She pushed him down to the ground and sat in his lap, and then they all collectively settled and talked about other stuff.

A few minutes later there was a break in the conversation, so she said, “Are you guys Christians?”

That question caught them by surprise, but then they sort of shrugged and said not really, except for Ava who said, “Kinda, a little bit, but why?”

“Well, its Sunday morning, and you know, that’s church day, right? And Julian and I were talking about this last night in bed, we’ve been blessed with an incredible week in the presence of wonderful people, and we wanted to take a moment to give thanks and remember Jesus. We’re planning to go sit over on the side of the beach and do that, but I thought, if any of you want in, you’d be welcome to join us. We got ourselves some bread and water for it.” She showed them that.

Ava was shaking her head. “Isn’t it supposed to be bread and wine? And you guys ... it’s a bit of a surprise to see you doing the Christian thing after ... what you just did.”

“Oh, the sex thing?” Larissa asked. Ava nodded. “I understand that, sure. Christians are known for being anti-sex, I guess, and we sure know some who are. But God gave us sex as a gift, a wonderful thing to use to bind a couple together so they can make a family, which is a pretty hard thing to do. And that’s what we’re about, as much as we can, use sex to bind us together. So sure, we’re going to thank God for letting us enjoy sex as much as do. But that’s just a small part of what we’re about. God’s given to us generously, so it’s up to us to give back to everyone else as much as we can. That’s what we’re about.” She could feel Julian nodding behind her.

“That’s really interesting,” Tui said. “And I can tell you that these two absolutely give generously to the people around them. I didn’t tell you guys about Amanda.” Typical Tui, she jumped straight into that story.

Larissa shrugged. “Well, sure, that was why, but Tui, who really loved Amanda?” Tui smiled and shrugged. “As you showed, it’s not just us who love other people, but for me, Jesus loved me, and I really do feel that personally, given my past. He loved me so much he gave me Julian, and now it’s for me – us – to pay that forward.”

“Right,” Julian said. “And he gave me Larissa, and wow! My life is so full of love, and we want to help other people find that in their own lives. Having a happy and fulfilled life is way too rare, harder than it should be.”

Interesting, they were thinking about that. “I’m guessing that what you’re going to do is going to be pretty personal,” Tui said, “but I think I’d like to listen, if you don’t mind.”

Sure, that was OK. It was going to be personal, that was for sure. It was just Tui, so they walked over to the end of the beach, and Larissa sat them down cross-legged, knee to knee. She asked Julian to go first. He gave a prayer of thanks for his life, for Larissa and her absolute commitment to them as a couple, and how she gave him her body and her life without reservation, for giving them more money than they needed, for giving them loving family and friends, for letting them have their wonderful honeymoon with generous people who were now close friends, for giving them clear missions to help other people. Then he asked for help: help for him to nurture Larissa in her life, to be everything she could and should be, help for them to build better relationships with people, help them to persuade people to join in the mission of making the world a better place, both for the environment, and in their own personal lives, and to always remember Jesus and to treat people right.

The Larissa gave her own. Thanks for the same things as Julian, and then her deep thanks that she had a man that respected her when so many wouldn’t. Thanks for Tui being Tui, when she was so worried about that, and look how great it turned out. Thanks for Marty, his commitment to the environment and to Tui. Thanks for Tui for loving Amanda. Thanks for so many wonderful patreons who cared so much, and thanks for giving them hope that there could be hope when so many people were deeply pessimistic. Then she moved to her appeal for help: help her support Julian and help him be strong and good, help her to be gentler with people, help her to judge people’s boundaries better, help her to make other people more loving, help to give her the passion not to turn away from people she didn’t naturally gel with. Help Marty and Tui to share, accept and validate their feelings. (She thought a lot about those words). And finally, help her to make all the many fans who gave so generously to their holiday to feel appreciated, that it was worth it for them. And then, actually finally, bless them for what they were about to do, talk about their week, and then remember Jesus.

When she finished, Tui gave her a lovely smile. After that, Julian and Larissa spent a few minutes talking through the week – were there opportunities they should’ve taken to love other people? They’d taken the ones they had seen – Amanda, Tui and Marty, David, those young tween girls. Some of them they’d been pretty marginal, but that’s all the opportunity they had. Was there follow up? Yes, some, and they worked through the follow up they should make. Was there things they shouldn’t have done? They ran through the wild stuff they’d done – was it about loving better, or just about sex? Yeah, they thought it was about loving better. Did they cross the line? Only if the others thought so, and so Larissa asked Tui directly: too far? Did she see any hint that Ava and Ollie thought it was too much? Tui: not at all. Marty and I love it, and they look like they did as well. And Ava definitely didn’t have a problem with, Larissa knew...

Next question: did they live up to their principles? They ran through them, and agreed they were on track, at least.

Then, both Julian and Larissa talked about how they felt about their relationship, how it had grown over the critical last two weeks. Both agreed that they’d been ... nervous ... about how getting married would change their relationship, given some of what had been said about their age. Which is why they’d worked extra hard on their passion, they both agreed. And they were both happy and confident this was right for them. Had they missed anything? They talked about Julian’s work. He worried he was working too much, while she worried he wasn’t doing enough, that she was distracting him too much. They smiled and kissed – it wasn’t going to be a problem, as long as they talked about it.

Then it was time to remember Jesus. Julian and Larissa told each other what Jesus did, and how much Jesus’ sacrifice meant to them, and then they had their bread and water. Then they each gave a quick prayer, just a very emotional thanks and worship. Yeah done, and they both felt good about that, and kissed.

“Well, what did you think about that?” Larissa asked Tui.

“Wow,” Tui said, and she had tears in her eyes. “That’s what I think. Wow. That’s so different from what I expected. So passionate, and personal. You trusted me so much! And I really want to thank you for loving us so much. I was really surprised when you jumped into our relationship, that you’d care so much, but I understand better now.”

“Oh, Tui, we love you both so much. You guys are great.” Larissa gave Tui a gentle kiss. “And thanks for sitting in on this with us, our little naked church. It actually helped, we weren’t just talking to each other, and sometimes we can take each other for granted. You helped us not to do that.”

Back at the fire, Ollie asked Tui, “Well, what did you think?”

“Interesting. Very passionate and emotional. Personal and raw. I’m really glad I watched, it really helped me understand them much better. And maybe there’s something more to Jesus than I’d always thought. Larissa called it ‘naked church’, but that wasn’t about your clothing, was it?”