Hi! If you find my story enjoyable, please don't forget to vote at the end. I write for the pleasure of writing, and your feedback makes it all worthwhile. Thanks :)
* * * * *
I can feel him watching me.
It's been like that for ages, ever since I left the trailhead and tramped off into the wilderness of the Appalachian Trail two days ago.
At first the path had been busy, filled with hikers passing both north and south on day trips along nature's byways. But this was different…very different. Somewhere out in the profusion of foliage he had been watching me, ever out of sight…his eyes piercing through the filtering gloom as I paused to catch a glimpse of him.
Last night I made camp along the Housatonic, beneath the tall pines that cradle the trail along its route. There, amid the intimate seclusion I felt him once more, his eyes caressing my body as I whipped my fly rod back and forth along the shore, angling for a fat trout to complete my dinner.
He was there again as I banked my fire for the night, his gaze like tiny fingers across my flesh as I slipped out of my clothing and into my sleeping bag.
Who was this man?
That he was male went without question, for every hormone in my body had begun to cry out for him, but what did he look like? Were his eyes as piercing as I imagined them to be? Were his hands large…demanding? Were they soft and insistent or rough and unyielding? Would he touch me in places…
Just the mere thought of him send my blood racing, the mental image of him an aphrodisiac that would not be denied.
Slowly, my hand found the soft flesh of my abdomen, stroking downward…downward until it sifted through the light thatch below. Was he watching now, I wondered? Could he see what I was doing? Was he doing the same?
Gently, I parted the lips of my labia, finding the quivering core that lay beneath, and swirled my finger in tight, tantalizing circles that made my breath quicken…my heart race. How would he touch me, I wondered…with his hands…with his tongue…with the hair-roughened length of his hard, hungry sex?
I felt the first warm rush of fluid against my fingertips, the airless delight building deep in my belly. He had to know, I thought, probing deep inside the gushing well that had begun to flow between my legs. He had to be watching.
Deeper I thrust, his essence filling my mind, driving me…driving me.
A rustle in the bushes…the minute shifting of branches lost in the darkness. Breathing… heavy and rhythmic…the snap of a twig and even the crickets cease to exist.
He's there.
I arch my back, driving my mound into my palm, desperate for release. How can he do this to me? How can he reduce millions of years of evolution to one basic urge?
I want him.
I want him to bury himself deep inside of me…to take what others only ask for…to fill my body with his seed, here in the forest like two rutting beasts.
I'm shaking now, my body closing around my thrusting fingers, soft moans piercing the stillness. Why doesn't he come to me, I scream silently. Can't he sense my need?
And then I slip from the known world into a spiraling swirl of heat and fluid…savage cries rending the darkness…my voice but not my voice.
Oh yes!
Oh please. Where are you?
And then it was morning. The Appalachian Trail was beautiful this time of year, but somehow the allure of nature was lost on me. Ever since I had sensed his presence behind me on the path two days ago, my mind had been filled with nothing but the thought of him, his nearness, the intimate potential he brought to my solitary sojourn into the wilderness.
Last night I felt him near…watching me from the darkness beyond my fire ring, and a longing such as I had never known before had begun to grow in the pit of my belly.
I'd needed him then.
I'd needed the potential to become reality, to become the hard. solid, stuff that flesh and bones are made of…but in the end I'd found no satisfaction beyond that of my own hand drawing out my fevered cries in the ebony darkness of the forest.
Was he there? Did he see? Did he share my need?
This morning I awoke to find a tiny bouquet of wildflowers resting beside my head, a gift from he-who-follows, and the mad rush between my thighs began once more. He'd been here after all, he'd seen me try to fill the need he'd created deep in my wanton body. He knew.
Frantically, I searched the tree line for a sign of him, for some flicker of flannel that might herald his presence, but found instead only the muted shifting of the sun through the dappled canopy of leaves that surrounded me. He was gone. I was alone.
Slowly, I gathered up my belongings and packed on ahead. I had gone a mere half-hour's trek when I began to feel his presence once more, following just beyond the scope of my glance, prickling my flesh as I made my way through the isolation.
The day wore on, and soon it was time to make camp again. This time I found a pool beside my campsite, and above it the cool, welcoming din of a waterfall beckoning me to join it in its rush to places unknown.
Quickly I shed my pack and set up my campsite for the evening, then slipping gratefully from my clothing I immersed myself in the wet embrace of its depths.
It felt good, so good I thought as I ran my fingers over my wet skin, washing the dust of the trail from my body and feeling the sweet, clean smell of the wilderness fill my nostrils. Slowly, I edged back into the shallows and bent to massage my aching calves, sore and worn from their day's journey.
It was then that I felt him watching, probing me with his eyes from the camouflage beyond, and I rushed to cover myself. Slowly I backed into the pool, my hands rising to cover my naked breasts as I heard him press softly through the brush, coming closer and closer with each passing second.
And then he appeared.