Chapter 12 - The Great Outdoors
The next morning, we stumbled downstairs around nine-thirty. At around eight, Phoebe had woken me by straddling my face. We moved easily into a delightful sixty-nine and gave each other a liquid breakfast - and an orgasm each - before cleaning up, cuddling and kissing for a while, and finally getting dressed and heading down to the dining room.
Alison was in the kitchen, preparing something for later in the day, and looked rather hot, bra-less in a T-shirt and tight jeans. I could see why Roger had married her, but it wasn't really for me to appraise the sexual attractiveness of my girlfriend's mother, even though I found it hard not to visualise what she and her husband had been doing the night before. So I said "Good morning" and rapidly moved to helping myself to cereal and fruit. Watching my girlfriend's mother's arse in her tight jeans, and stealing the occasional glimpse of what Americans call 'pokies' as she moved around while I munched muesli, was probably inappropriate behaviour. (By which I mean admiring the pokies, not eating the muesli - though some people find that a bit odd).
So I tried to focus on Phoebe, opposite me at the table. Her quirky beauty was beginning to captivate me. She seemed unable to stop talking - about what we'd seen the day before, about what we might do later that day, about thoughts and plans for Oxford. Her unusual features were highly animated, her large eyes flitting back and forth, behind her big glasses, as she ate and talked. I kept looking at her full lips and couldn't help recalling the many times I'd emptied my cock between them.
Later, Phoebe insisted we go for a walk. She put on some tight-fitting shorts, a T-shirt and walking boots. I replaced my trainers with boots and we crossed the family garden and entered some woodland, following a few well-beaten paths. We must have walked for over an hour, stopping occasionally so Phoebe could point out plants, trees, birds and insects I'd never seen before. She seemed very knowledgeable and passionate about nature, and very different from the insatiable nymphomaniac I'd fucked repeatedly over the preceding 36 hours.
We passed through a couple of gates, and I asked her if we'd now gone into public woodland. "Oh, no, this is all ours. We have around eight acres, but there's a public right of way going through one bit."
She stopped to point out some delightful wildflowers in one of the clearings and to listen to birdsong. And all the while my head was spinning. 'Yeah,' I thought, 'Of course it's all theirs. It's part of their lifestyle: the huge house, the big new car, the acres of land, the trophy wife, the private education, the ballet, the skiing - all of it.' And I felt rather dejected, like I was at the opposite end of the social spectrum, living in a small semi with my parents, taking the bus to the local Grammar school, scraping together the money to go to Rome with my class. But I tried not to show my unease to my enthusiastic companion as she breezily showed me around this part of her father's estate.
And then we emerged into a clearing, and in front of us was a treehouse. I'd seen treehouses before; generally ramshackle affairs put together out of bits of scrap by school friends in places they shouldn't have been and defying every piece of health and safety legislation in existence - and there wasn't even that much health and safety back in the late 1980s. But this - this was something else entirely. It had
walls,
made of nicely-crafted tongue-and-groove planking, a sloping felt roof and
glazed windows
! As I watched, Phoebe pulled on a rope, and a ladder - more like a flight of stairs - swung slowly down.
"Come on. I want to show you my sanctuary."
Given how much we'd fucked, it occurred to me that she'd already shown me her 'sanctuary' and I'd occupied it on many occasions, but I followed her long, slim legs and tight, boyish arse up into the room above. I guess I hadn't really noticed how muscular her legs were before but, now, close-up and in daylight, I could see what the ballet training had achieved. The effect was quite erotic.
The treehouse had been constructed by people who knew what they were doing. They'd chosen a very solid oak tree, with several branches, all at a similar height, and then adjusted the levels with well-placed supports. The structure surrounded the tree, with some branches running through it, but where they pierced the walls or roof, someone had fashioned some rubber seals to keep the rain - and small creatures - out. The floor was nicely boarded, and I was impressed that there were glass windows all around. But the ceiling was quite low, and I had to stoop to avoid hitting my head on some of the supports.
Maybe anticipating my questions, Phoebe explained. "I'd pestered Daddy to build me a den or a tree house for years. We moved here when I was ten, and he got some of his carpenters, who were waiting to start on a job that had been delayed, to design and build this for me. I've grown quite a bit since then, so the ceiling is rather low these days. The windows came from a building where they were being replaced with uPVC ones. The guys who built it - Pete, Alan and Jerry - were brilliant. I used to come and watch them working and chat with them. They said they enjoyed being able to make something that they'd designed themselves, and they put in all sorts of features. Like this."
She lifted the seat of a wide bench against one of the walls and pulled out some things from inside what turned out to be a large, low cupboard. There was a big plastic sack that contained a couple of roll-up mattresses - a bit like thick yoga mats, I guess - and a sealed plastic box. "It doesn't really get wet in here, but sometimes insects and spiders and things wander in, so I keep anything important in something waterproof."
She put the lid down, unrolled a mattress along the bench and sat down, motioning me to sit beside her. Then she opened the box and extracted a couple of paperbacks - and, somewhat to my surprise, a pornographic magazine. It was entitled "New Cunts". The cover showed a very attractive blonde, legs spread to show her hairless pussy - only the second such that I'd seen - and holding a guy's erect cock, clearly about to suck it. This was on the
cover
! Now, back in the eighties, hard-core porn was - well, hard to come by. There were plenty of girlie mags - Penthouse, Mayfair, Club International, etc - that places like WH Smith stocked on the top shelf. Inside, they had pictures of girls in various poses, including with their legs spread, but at that time I'd never encountered any showing bald pussies. And the front cover always had a semi-clad babe in swimwear, lingerie or provocative clothing; never any explicit nudity. This magazine was very different from anything I'd seen before.
"You wanted to know how I got to be such a slut."
"That's not what I asked..." I began.
"So this is part of the story; I suppose it was the beginning. I shared a dorm room with three other girls; Alethia, Beatrice and Sophie. My friend Sophie went home for a weekend and came back with this. I'm currently borrowing it from her because I wanted to show you."
I reflected that none of the girls in my class were called Alethia, Beatrice or Sophie. 'A different world', I thought. Oh, and none seemed to have access to hardcore porn - or at least, not that they shared with me.
"So where did she get it?"
"Well, she said she was in her father's office when he was away on business, looking for some paper to write a letter. She opened a drawer in his desk, and there was a big pile of trade magazines, but she noticed something interesting poking out from underneath them, at the bottom of the drawer. She took out the boring stuff and there was a big pile of pornography. Her father travels to Europe a lot for his work, and he must have bought hardcore porn magazines while he was there. She said there were maybe a dozen, so she took a couple - this one and another called 'Private' - and then carefully put the trade journals back on top. She thought that he probably wouldn't notice if one or two were missing and, even if he did, he could hardly ask his wife and daughter if they'd taken some of his porn collection."