I nodded and returned her grin, and then stood up and helped her sit up. She looked down at him with a snort and then reached down and slipped the rubber off, holding it up with a smile, and repeating: "the proof of your pleasure."
I nodded, and almost expected her to do what my sister had done, but she didn't, only swung it a little with a smirk, and then said:
"I have to go, anyway," and slipped off the table as I nodded.
As she left, she glanced back with another smirk, swinging the rubber in a full circle as though it were a trophy, and then disappeared as I smiled to myself.
Then I thought that it was a good idea to go too, and went in the sink, rinsing him and the sink when I had finished, and wiped him off with the dishcloth, snorting slightly at the thought that it would be used again - but only to wash dishes for us, so it didn't really make any difference.
She came back, nonchalant, despite her nudity, smiling at me, but the sight of her coming into our kitchen that way accentuated the awareness of my own nudity in the otherwise so familiar surrounding, making me a little embarrassed - not at her presence, but at being like that in our kitchen. But it was nice that she seemed comfortable with it. Or maybe she didn't as she looked at me with a wry smile and asked:
"What do we do now?"
She grinned a little sheepishly before she added:
"It's too early to go to bed, ... - Hmm! - and we've sort of done that already."
I could only agree with a nod and an impulsive snort.
"Have another beer?"
"Yes, that's a good idea."
As I got them, it occurred to me that she never said "yeah" like my sister or another American girl would - or I did. I opened them and handed her one, and then we said "skaal", and our smiles were different than before: not quite smirks, more as though we had winked at each other.
"And now'?" she asked.
"I don't know," I replied: "... whatever you want to do. I guess we could watch TV."
"I'll get the towel I used," she replied and went off, while I went and turned on the television, remembering that that was how it all had started the previous evening.
She returned with the towel as the picture on the TV came up, spreading it out on the sofa where we had been sitting the night before. I sat down in the corner of the sofa, and then, before she could sit down next to me, I turned and spread my legs, inviting her to sit between them. "Oh, yes," she agreed; and did, nestling herself back against me before either of us considered what program was on the TV station. It was a film or detective series, but as my hand slid around her shoulder and held her breast, it wasn't very important. We watched it and sipped our beers, more aware of the comfortable position we were in.
"We got a TV for the Winter Olympics," she volunteered: "... to watch the Norwegians win - but only black and white."
"And did they?"
"Of course. "Our school champion almost made the team."
"Like me," I replied, and took a sip of my beer, suddenly wondering if drinking beer with the girls I had made love with had had a negative influence on my training. She chuckled and said:
"Good athletes are good lovers," and then added:
"You should have made the team," and held my leg as she took a sip, too.
I thought she meant that as a compliment, and liked that it had occurred to us both to think about love making, although my thought had sort of contradicted hers.
"Tell me about your family," I suggested.
"Oh, my father works for an insurance company, and my mother started working again last year, when I finished school as a ... for a dentist, like she had before we were born."
"As a dental assistant?"
"Yes, a dental assistant."
"And your brothers?"
"The elder one is almost finished with his studies, economics I guess you call it. He wants to work for a bank, has during vacations. And the other one will start studying when he has finished his military."
"Military service."
"Yes. ... I missed him when he went away for training, ... maybe more than my parents did."
"You were pretty close."
We had a sip of our beer. She glanced back at me, and then rubbed my leg with a soft snort and agreed:
"Yes, I guess we were ... are."
Her correcting the tense made me wonder why she had done so: the "are" to cover for a more specific "were"? When she took another sip of beer and didn't say anything, while I did, somehow seemed to confirm my thought.
"Yeah, I guess," she repeated, and my first thought was that it was the first time I heard her say "yeah", and then my second one was that she was thinking about something specific, something apparently nice, if they had been close enough for her to want to distract from it, but then her "Yeah, I guess" didn't suggest anything, unless she wanted to pursue the subject, maybe from our situation.
"Um-hmm," I responded, wondering what hers would be. She rubbed my leg again and had another sip of her beer, and then snorted again softly and glanced back at me again and said:
"Once at the cabin - we three children share a room, but my eldest brother was away on their school summer trip before "artium," our school graduation. I was thirteen. One night there was a thunderstorm, really violent, like sometimes in the mountains, and lightening struck a tree near us with a great light and crash of thunder, completely frightening me. The boys had a double bunk and I, a bed under the window. I was so frightened that I just ran and jumped in my brother's bed. He had the lower one. And he held me - like a big brother should. After a few moment, he said I should turn over, and I did, clasping his hand, just so comforting after being so scared by the lightening and thunder. He whispered something about also having been scared, but he had been the big brother I wanted, needed at that moment."
She glance back at me again before she continued:
"Oh, nothing happened. He had just done the right thing, and I liked him better for having done it. Oh, we still argued with each other after that, but it was different then."
"A cathartic experience."
"What's that mean?"
"Hmm? Not quite sure: an experience that changes something for the better; I think just for the better."
"It was. I guess he liked it too, since we fell asleep that way. Would have surprised our parents, but we woke up early, both a little surprised. We didn't do that again.
She glanced back at me again, and I nodded with smile. She nodded and after a moment said. "Maybe my dream last night was a little ... , you know, ... trying to avoid being too obvious."
I nodded and agreed:
"They can be like that, at least you remember them that way, or don't, like you said, till the recollection is so vague that it doesn't matter."
She nodded with a smile and then chuckled when I felt her nipple tighten in my palm as she glance at me with a grin, and then asked:
"Why am I telling you this?"
"'Cause I asked about your brothers, and this is what you wanted to tell me, it seems,"
She snorted and thought for a moment and then nodded slightly and agreed:
"I guess so. Yes, it was a little too personal to tell anyone else, and then sometimes you completely forget ..."
"Conveniently," I interjected.
"Um-hmm. Hmm! Like when I was telling about us in the mountains, never told anyone about that either.
She looked at me, and then smiled, and I squeezed her breast, and she snorted softly and said: "Yes, like that. ... Towards the end of the next summer, my mother said I had to start wearing a bra when school started, and bought me a couple. One day, after we had been swimming in the fjord and were back home and had showered, I suddenly wanted to try one on, and then wanted to show him. I guess I really wanted to show him me - that I was big enough to wear it - or just wanted him to see me in just panties and the bra."