SISTERING Part 2
By Norma Jane
1
'Sistering Part 1' was an account of my love-making with Gina, physical education teacher and lecturer, who was experiencing the pleasures of lesbian sex for the first time. She told me about her young lover, Tom, whose fiancΓ©e, Sally was encouraging him to gain experience with Gina in order the better to conduct their relationship after marriage. She was also, apparently, determined to arrive at the wedding night virgin, meanwhile denying Tom nearly all love-making but kissing.
Gina felt there was something amiss about this situation, and I advised her how to induct the young woman into sexual activity in planned stages. I now continue the story when, after three months, Gina and I again coincided at a language-teaching course, in Portugal, and she came to my room on the first night.
She was in some way agitated, saddened, moving restlessly about, making inconsequential conversation. I took her hands and drew her to the bed, and she said, 'I can't make love with you, Norma. Not yet anyway.'
'I know,' I said. 'You need to tell me. Come to bed for a cuddle, and let it out.'
'She let me undress her and got into bed. I undressed quickly and took her in my arms, gently stroking her back. She lay still a long time and eventually said, 'You know, Norma, it's strange and I can hardly believe, but I fell in love with that girl, With both of them, I suppose, but it was my feelings about the girl that I didn't understand until...well, they're married now, and I'm out of it.'
'Are you blaming me, making you lesbian, or bisexual?'
'No, dear Norma, no. You helped me catch up with a part of me that was always there but I hadn't paid it attention. I realised that soon after we made love last time. I told you I'd never looked at another woman's pussy. Of course, I'd seen lots of breasts and bottoms in changing-rooms, especially in my days of competing in gymnastic competitions, but then I remembered that another girl and I used to finger ourselves off together, to steady the nerves before an event. We shared a room, and when we were in our beds we'd do it, and talk as we went. "Is it good, Gina?" she'd say, and I'd say, "Is it coming yet?" and she'd say, "Wait for me, it's nearly there," and I'd say, "What are you thinking of?" and she'd say "My boyfriend's kissing me and sucking my tits, and oh, yes, it's coming. Now Norma, now!'
'It didn't occur to you to be in bed together and do it for each other?'
'No, that would have been wrong, because we shouldn't think of each other that way.'
'But did you want to do it in some part of yourself? To make love with her?'
'Yes, I did, but I didn't admit it to myself...not until after you and I had done it. Then I was sad, thinking of all those missed chances over the years, because I know quite a number of my colleagues and fellow gymnasts fancied me. I always knew if they did.'
We exchanged a gentle kiss, and I stroked her bottom. She said, 'That's so soothing. Of course, it can also be exciting, but I've got to tell you about Sally. I didn't email, because it would have been an epic, and it's got to be told live, like this, to be able to make it clear and properly express it. Maybe understand it.'
Then she did something so moving I felt the prick of tears. She wriggled down, laid her head on my left breast and reached up with her left hand to take hold of and pull my right breast against the left, providing a larger pillow for her right cheek. 'Is that all right?' she asked, as my left nipple nestled into her right ear.
'That is so delightfully intimate, dear Gina, it makes me feel so tender.' Actually the weight of her head was a little painful, but that was nothing to the sense of closeness.
'All these years I could have been doing this,' she said, 'And offering it to other women, though my tits are not very cushiony.'
'We women should always be succouring each other, if we can't be suckling each other. Years ago I had a woman friend who showed me how to offer comfort at the other end. I lay on my front, legs apart, and she lay on her back between them and rested her head on my bottom. Sometimes she turned to put her face against me. So we were cheek to cheek.'
She laughed. 'Oh, I'd like to try that. You should tell everyone about that online.'
'You know, bosoms are as much about comfort as about sex. That's why we're the only mammals in which the females' mammaries are always present. That's my theory.'
2
'You should have seen Sally's, Norma. Yes, we did get to see them, and I'll explain how. And not just see them. But first I should tell you something about Sally and Tom. They're academics, in kinds of mathematics I'd never heard of, and so consumed by their work they've never paid much attention to anything else. They'd never watched anything pornographic or had even slightly sexual affairs, so when they fell in love, aged twenty-three collaborating in some research project, they knew almost nothing about sexual liaisons beyond the basic facts of reproduction. They were happy, eager to find out more, but there was this curious reluctance from Sally.
'Well, the first time Tom and I were together after you and I made love, before she arrived, I outlined your plan, but we decided we should be as straight with her as possible. So when she came and sat down we both spoke to her. I said, 'Tom and I think there must be some other reason than the wedding-night-virgin idea for forbidding anything beyond kissing and holding your breasts and bottom through your clothes."
'Tom said, "You know I love you, Sal. We love each other, and we're going to be married. So, if there are any doubts or secrets I should know about them, shouldn't I? And I don't care what they are. Just let me know, or find out for myself."
'We were not altogether surprised when she started to cry, which was a sign there was something she was really worried or fearful about, and Tom asked, "Are you afraid I won't find you attractive when I see you undressed?"
'She didn't say anything, but I thought she gave a little nod. I asked, "Do you think there's something wrong with you, Sally?"
'She began to cry harder and hid her face in her hands, and we wondered how to tackle the situation. I said, "What's given you that idea?"
'Tom gave her his handkerchief and she scrubbed at her face and stared at the floor. She gulped, swallowed hard and whispered hoarsely, "When I was eighteen, mummy came in my room one morning in her dressing-gown and said, 'Now you're a grown-up woman, Sally, and will be getting married sooner or later there's something I must tell you. I'm going to show you my...bust.' She opened her dressing-gown and she wasn't wearing her bra, like she usually did, and she sort of picked up her breasts and said, "You see these," sort of jabbing her...nipples with her thumbs, "They're peculiar, much too big, and I think yours may be the same, because your grandmother's were." I hadn't ever thought about my breasts since they grew so big when I was fourteen, which was embarrassing, but they were just like mummy's, maybe not quite so big. She closed her dressing-gown and said, "It runs in the family, a kind of disadvantage, because men will find it...ugly. So you must always keep your bra on, as I do with your father. I told him I have to keep myself supported or it's painful. Not that he's ever been very interested. If you do that you can have a perfectly happy married life. Your husband won't need to see your...bust, so long as you're otherwise available." She was talking in this kind of embarrassed way. You see?"
'Tom said, "You think I'm going to find your breasts ugly?"
'She nodded, and I said, "But, my dear girl, they came in so many shapes and sizes. Didn't you see other girls in the showers at school, or in gym changing-rooms?"
She said, "I never looked. I was too busy covering up my own."
'I asked if she'd ever checked on the internet, where there are billions of breasts on view. She said, "That's for perverted people, isn't it? And those women are probably freaks."
'Tom said, "You think you may be a freak?"