A Last Hurrah But Then Romance

This is the ninth episode in my story series, Years Before.

In the last part, the thing with Eva hit an ultimate peak but then came crashing down. Ruthie turned out to be a real friend.

In this part, the friendship between Ruthie and I builds but, in amongst it, the realisation for Cass and I that we were both finally single results in a rampant night that nearly happened more than once before.

Thank you for reading

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Ruthie and I kept in touch. We met up to go for a walk and chat. No intentions beyond just being friends. Having talked about Cass to Ruthie, though, I began to realise that I hadn't heard from, or seen, Cass in a while. It was time to phone her.

"Cass?"

"Andy? Oh..." Cass had none of her usual energy.

"Cass, what's wrong?" Silence for a moment.

"Everything. I'm glad you rang. Do you have some time soon to come over? Now if you like."

"Yes, please."

"Do you want Ruthie to come over too? She's been trying your door for a few days."

"Yes, please." Cass wasn't right.

"Give me 20 minutes. Leave your door open."

A quick call before I leave.

"Hello"

"Hi. Is that Joan?"

"Yes."

"Hi Joan. It's Andy, Ruthie's friend."

"Oh, hello Andy. Don't forget. Cup of tea always here for you. You want Ruthie?"

"Ooh, yes, please, if you don't mind?"

"Not at all, hang on..." What came next in the background made me smile with some surprise. "Ruthie, it's your favourite man on the phone......"

"Mum, stop it! Bloody hell." The sound of pounding footsteps.

"Ah, Andy, Hi, honey. You OK?"

"Yes. It's Cass."

"You spoke to her?"

"Yes, I don't think it's good. You free if I call for you and we go across together."

"Yes, yes. Knock for me, Andy."

I pulled up outside Ruthie's house. I still had to get used to actually going to Ruthie's house even though my car partly lived outside it at times! As I walked up the path, Ruthie came out.

"What do you think, Andy?"

She asked before greeting me with a kiss.

"Something's happened."

We got across and Cass, as requested, had left the door open.

"Cass? Cass, where are you?"

"In the living room."

The sight of her shocked me. I had never seen Cass like it. She was pale, had almost smoked herself out of house and home and had streaks from tears down her face. Ruthie went to her while I tried to find a cloth and a cup of water.

I came back in. Cass was resting on Ruthie's shoulder. Ruthie spoke to her.

"What happened, Cass?"

"So, two things. Firstly, and I'm sure you'll be pleased...David and I are done. He started being a shit again so I told him I'd had it so he could fuck off."

"He's not tried contacting you since?"

"No, I made it clear that I didn't want to hear from him again."

"OK. How long ago was this?"

"Two days ago."

Ruthie held Cass's hand. "Oh, Cass, I was trying your door yesterday. I thought you weren't here."

"I had to be alone especially after the other thing..."

"The other thing?"

Cass waited a moment, lifted her head away from Ruthie and turned to me.

"I'm sorry, Andy."

"Cass, I don't understand."

"Eva came to see me but she didn't want you to know."

"What do you mean?"

"She called it off with you about 6 weeks ago, didn't she?"

"Yes."

"She must have come to see me the day after. We spent hours talking."

"OK." I really wasn't sure where this was going.

"I will tell you because you deserve to know but Eva will not know that you know."

"OK."

"She turned up here and cried her heart out...for a long time. She told me that she had to give up the man she loved for her friend. I realised she was talking about you and me. Ever since then, it was weighing on me what had happened. You know Eva told me everything and, well, with me, finally, calling time on David, it has just been too much. I've been like this since I told him to fuck off."

"Oh." I could feel the tears well up. Ruthie was looking at me and I glanced at her. "You know how deep it got then? Don't worry, Ruthie knows my side."

"Eva said you'd both fallen in love with each other and that the sex had become making love and you were both so close and in a proper relationship but, because of what might happen with me, there was never going to be a commitment if it upset me. I'm so sorry, Andy, so sorry."

I couldn't speak. I was glad Cass knew about it all but I didn't want Eva to be crushed as well. I had to let it out so cried into my hands. Cass and Ruthie came over and held me. I was overwhelmed.

"I loved her, Cass. Really loved her."

"Andy, when did it change for you?" Cass wanted to understand it from my point of view.

"When you went away, we met up and spent the weekend together. It was very special, very physical but we spoke a lot too and I realised we were in a different place by that time."

I recovered my composure a bit and continued.

"Do you remember when we came to see you and you said you were trying yet again with David after coming back from Sorrento?"

"Yes. I was expecting you both to give me a hard time over trying again."

"Well, why do you think we didn't?" Cass thought for a moment.

"Because it gave you more time together."

"Yes, and by the time of the party, we were so, so close, so much in love, properly."

Cass now couldn't speak and both her and Ruthie had tears in their eyes.

"But the harsh reality was that neither of us, at any time, would have considered our friendship with you to be expendable so that we could be together. It was never meant to be that...but it happened because it had the time to develop. I missed her, Cass, really missed her, but it's done now."

The box of tissues got passed around all three of us.

"This whole thing was always going to hurt somebody, wasn't it?" Ruthie, with one line, summed it up.

"Come on, kettle time."

I got up. We weren't here for me. We were here for Cass.

"Cass. You gave so much to David. I don't know how you stuck it out."

"Yes, I wonder now myself...and for what. He couldn't stop himself reverting to the same old fucking bore."

"We didn't see much of you at the party?"

"No, because, in the flush of his renewed interest, I thought I could screw him back into wanting me but, in the end, all I did was fuck myself because, by two weeks later, it was the same old shit, the bastard."

Cass was bitter in a way that was so opposite to her usual countenance.

"I gave him everything. Not only me but, indirectly, you and Eva were sacrificed because it too so long for me to realise he was useless, you guys had fallen in love. What a fucking horrible mess. Fuck, he's a..."

Cass was lost for any more words.

"Tea?" I offered her a mug with a smile. "You know, we're still here with you. Look, Ruthie, me, we're here. I can't be bitter with you about Eva because we put ourselves willingly into that, but we let it get deeper. We'd have to have been pretty soulless to keep it just as sex."

"Well, everything's changed now then, hasn't it?" Cass was right with that one.

"Yes, it has. Can I ask you one question?"

"Yes, Andy, anything for you."

"Are you keeping in regular contact with Eva? Is she OK?"

"We spoke last night. She said there's someone at work who's interested in getting together with her and she's been meeting up with him."

"Good. Tell her I said "Hi". Let her know I hope she's OK."

"I will."

After quite the confessional, and of a very different and serious nature to those that used to take place in Cass's home, we took our tea back into the living room just to chat for a while.

Ruthie was very honest and asked whether Cass and I would get together after all of this because that's why the thing with Eva finished.

"For me" I said, looking at Cass. "This is all too raw and soon to even think about that. We are very different people to even those who went into the "thing" with Eva."

"I can't imagine it either." Cass was very clear. "It would feel, right now, like I'd taken Eva's boyfriend away, even though you weren't together officially in that way, it was close enough. Even more than that, I want my friends back because, it was only through being friends that anything else took place."

As we headed into October, Cass, Ruthie and I fell into the previous pattern of things before it all got complicated, with the added factor that there were no partners involved.

Cass had spoken to Eva a couple of times and then spoken to me. Eva had started hooking up with the guy from work and was spending more time in London with him.

She was happy. It was a shame that she wasn't around so much face-to-face for Cass but, realistically, she wanted her own relationship on her terms. She did send some friendly messages through Cass back to me and I replied but, to this day, I haven't seen her or spoken to her again.

We both moved on.

Cass was happy to be free and we were great mates again. One time we met up a few weeks later at her house pretty much decided our future friendship.

All three of us had been doing the usual Cinzano and Lemonade thing with the usual cigarettes. Ruthie, though, had to go due to picking up extra shifts for Sunday -- 8am start. She bade us both goodbye and headed home.

We were both sitting on her sofa and swung ourselves around so our legs were across each other, as we had done before. We were chatting about nothing in particular to begin with.

"Cass?"

"Yes, Andy."

"Do you realise we're both single now for the first time since we first met?"

"Oh my God, yes we are!" Cass put her hand to her face in genuine surprised realisation. "Fuck me, in all what's been going on, I'd forgotten about that."

"You know we're done for though in terms of getting together as a couple, don't you though?"

"Christ, yes, Andy. I don't think we can go there."

We sat in amused silence looking at each other for a minute sipping our drinks. I think I even surprised myself with what I said next.

"Cass...how would you feel about sleeping with me...tonight."

Cass looked me and moved her foot to rest on my groin

"Are you going to stay then?"

"Yes. if you're happy. You know, after everything, and where we did and didn't go..."

"We went to a fair few places, Andy!"

"We did...but we could just please each other. Make it our "goodbye""

"Oh, the "goodbye"..."

Cass got up and stood by me. She put out her hand.

"Come to bed with me. Let's fuck, Andy, just for tonight. Make it about us."

We went upstairs, kissed and undressed each other while easing ourselves onto the double bed in the room before Cass's bedroom upstairs.

We were wrapped in each other, bodies together, exploring, touching, kissing...

"Andy, would you do the thing I really loved you doing?"

"Ooh, that..."

"You get in my cunt and I'll do you."

What followed would be just like this. Not romantic desire or deep and meaningful but after false starts, threesomes, unspoken desire and the right thing at the wrong time, this would be two people who knew each other physically and wanted to fuck each other to experience it finally with no ties, no back story, no-one else to worry about.

Cass laid back and opened her legs as I moved over her. As I explored deep into her fanny with my tongue. I could feel her mouth surround my very erect dick, almost surprised at how enthusiastic she got with me. That was until I found her clit.

The moment my tongue touched it, Cass's legs widened and I was able to tease it until it met my lips and I sucked her. Strating lightly, I gradually increased until her mouth released me and her loud moan was extraordinary.

"Just don't fucking stop. You're gonna make me come."

I didn't stop. From her murmurs and cries and breathing, I could tell it wasn't going to take long. Cass grabbed my dick and, with growing moans every time her clit was sucked into my lips, she squeezed me as she came, long and hard, almost roaring her cries of satisfaction as I sucked and lapped her clit for all I was worth.

With a last single long lick from her clit down all the way through her vaginal entrance to her perineum, I finished.

She didn't let go of my erection as she came down. It took her a while to gather her thoughts.

"Andy, I don't care how you fuck me but I bloody want you now, Get this thing in me, please." She said, squeezing my cock again.

"I want you from behind, Cass."

With no further words, we got into it. Cass on all fours, her superb breasts hanging beneath her, her bum pushed out. I was behind her. Her pussy lips shone with her moisture. She was so wet that they parted easily for my glans.

The feeling of immersion as I entered her was tremendous, in one movement, my thighs against hers as I felt her vagina close around me to the base of my substantial erection.

All this time, all the anticipation, all the intensity of what might be, all the tension of the illicit trysts, answered and resolved as Cass sighed deeply. We held together for a moment. I stroked her back.

I started to slowly glide in and out of Cass, stroking her skin. Cass sighed again and spoke.

"Andy, I've fucking wanted you in me for so long. You feel...fantastic."

"Cass. Every time you told me, when we were naked, together, so close to getting there. I wanted to fuck you too."

"Do you remember the first time, when Ruthie appeared?"

"Yes, Cass."

"Ever since then, every time we've been close, I wanted this."

"We nearly did it at Easter." I was starting to feel like I wanted to get more lively with Cass. It was taking more concentration to not speed up my gentle pushing into her while we spoke.

"I know...aaah...fuck, you're getting bigger, aren't you."

"Yes, it's you, Cass. You're making me big."

"At Easter, I couldn't let you come in me. I so, so wanted you to but I couldn't do it, not then. You're weren't mine. But Andy?"

"Yes, Cass?"

"Now. Now, I want your fucking wonderful cock to take my cunt until I can't stand it. All your come, in me."

And that was it. No more talking. I held her hips tight and let the rampant urge I had restrained take over.

The sex, our sex, was fabulous and uninhibited. Cass tightened a little around me and I was not being shy. The feeling of her hot, moist vagina was fantastic and every time I slid in, I would be deep inside. Cass was letting go and she was loud.

"I want you to fill my cunt", "Come for me, Andy.", "Fuck me -- hard as you like.", "I want you."

Torrents of breathless words from Cass as we abandoned any subtlety and threw ourselves into a primal, rampant, passionate fuck. The months and months of sexual restraint were being blown away in a riot of mutual carnal pleasure.

I was slowly getting close when Cass changed her mind.

"I want to see you, Andy. I want to see you when you come."

We swung around and Cass's legs immediately gripped round my thighs as soon as I was in her. That just drove me on. Our perspiring bodies rubbing against each other as I reached my peak -- the heat and ache in my cock as the surge erupted from deep inside was powerful as I let myself go into Cass.

I pumped and pumped. This was deep sex, so deep that I was still hard after I came and Cass knew what she wanted to do.

"Get on your knees, lift me up and keep fucking me, Andy."

Cass was in no doubt at all what she wanted. If she was like this with David, he'd never have stood a chance.

I shifted around and re-entered her while on my knees. Cass delved into her fanny and vigorously rubbed her clit.

"I'm ready to go again, Andy. Fuck me please."

"Cass, my cock is so deep in you, It's gorgeous."

"Yes, you fucking are. How...how is it only now we're screwing each other's brains out."

Despite coming, I was so hard still. There was no doubt, we desperately wanted to have each other. The sounds, cries, moans of pleasure were constant from both of us. Our movement together never seemed to clash, our bodies either pushing against each other in rhythm or we were feeling my thrust together.

This was the longest, rawest, most aggressive fucking I would ever experience -- and it was with Cass, who started it all for me.

We were going for what seemed like ages. My pubes, my balls were wet from Cass's pussy. It was relentless. Everything I had to give, every push, thrust, glide -- she was lapping it up.

Cass decided to take a break by pulling back and bending down to give my dick a thorough sucking again. Wet, vigorous wanking of me with her mouth. I was able to reach her pussy while she carried on with me and gave her two fingers in her vagina in return.

"Oh, your cock. You have to fuck me now again. I want it so much."

Our sweat, moans, cries, swearing, stroking, kissing, fingering and sucking was full of need and want for each other. So much restraint released in one erotic, unrelenting night.

Cass kept rubbing her clit and panting as, frankly, I was pounding against her at some pace. She let out a loud "aaaahhhhh" as her orgasm started coming in waves. I could feel her squeezing my erection with her vagina as the pulses shot through her. Eventually, her hand released and she flopped, breathless and, for a moment, we were still.

Cass whispered as we lay close to each other. She still wasn't done. I was in ecstasy.

"Andy, were you close again?"

"Yes I was, Cass."

"Could you still come now?"

"Yes, I think so."

"Can I ask you to be a bit dirty for me?"

"Dirty how?" I was intrigued to say the least.

"I've never had a man come on me, you know, on my tits."

"Would you like me to?"

"If you want to. I want to see your body over me as you get there. I want to see what it does to you. I'll help."

We carefully got into position. I was astride her tummy, on my knees. At first, Cass did all the work, caressing and touching my dick and balls until I was extremely hard.

"I'm close, Cass."

Cass moved, sat up slightly and, fleetingly, took my cock in her mouth. Another series of fulsome, licking, sucking sweeps of my solid dick in and out of her mouth took me closer still.

"Just to encourage you, my gorgeous fucker" she said with a smile.

Cass massaged my balls and perineum while I began to wank myself for all I was worth. Her touch underneath me was gorgeous. I didn't want her to stop, it centred my mind completely on my cock and making sure I covered Cass with my come.

The involuntary hip thrusts were the sign and, suddenly, I did come once more. Not as big as the first time, but Cass was clearly pleased, looking at my dick, pulsing, as I ejaculated onto her chest.

"Oh Andy, your gorgeous cock is so big. I love it."

She looked up at me and smiled. My semen was in a trail across her tits, one drop clinging to a nipple. She examined herself.

"Well, look at you on me. Fuck, that's quite sexy."

Cass got up and grabbed some tissues to wipe herself down. I collapsed, feeling like I'd shot all my adrenaline out of my dick in the last couple of hours. We had been fucking to the point where I couldn't move. Cass laid down and nestled in beside me, looking supremely happy.

"You're a great fuck, Andy, but I couldn't do this every night. I'd never make it out of bed."

In our sweaty, cum and juice covered nakedness, in a room smelling of sex, we were laughing, partly because we knew that, despite having screwed each other nearly senseless, we weren't going to do this again when I left her bed in the morning.

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The light in the sky woke me. We were under the same duvet, kind of entwined.

"Morning, Andy."

"Morning, you, sex queen."

"Me!! Well, yes, when I'm getting great sex, I want it all, and you gave me that last night, you tremendous fucker! Eva must have been very, very happy."

I said nothing. We gently swung round into a spoon with me behind. Cass could feel my erection in her back.

"I would like it..." Cass reached behind to place her hand on my hip "...if we just do it again, gently, cuddling?"