AUTHOR'S NOTE: "Last Licks" is an erotic story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. There are two characters, some dialog, and a little plot twist. The length is one-thousand words. The question: Can less really be more?
I hope so.
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"Salty sweet like caramel sea salt ice cream," Billy says out of nowhere.
"What?" Alice asks. Billy's the cute guy from Poli-Sci 101. Alice is the shy girl who's not comfortable in her own skin. Can't be talking to her?
"Or maybe bacon shortbread," he says.
"What?" she asks again. Billy's pale blue eyes and easy smile unnerve her. Heart pounding. Neck blushing carnation red.
"You are," Billy says with a look no guy has ever given Alice before. Hungry. Dirty even.
"Me?" Cheeks burning. Butterflies. Blood roaring in her ears like Niagra Falls. He couldn't mean... No way. Not at two in the afternoon in the middle of campus.
"You," he says, arm encircling her waist, steering her towards an old brick building on the end of the grassy Quadrangle. "I bet you taste like bacon shortbread."
This can't be happening. Frightened. Aroused. Alice's heart stops. Time stops. Her blood flows backwards.
"This way," he whispers. "My dorm."
"But I have..." she starts. Can't finish. Skin ablaze where his fingers touch her waist. She can only follow. Walking on air. On grass. A concrete sidewalk. Glass door. Dim corridor and a dorm room. Not much different from her own room. But with guy stuff. Band posters. Electric guitar. Football on the desktop.
"Cherry Chapstick," he says, her books falling to the floor. Her body tumbling after. Down a rabbit hole of conflicted desires. Tongues touching. Twitching. Wet. Hot. Bodies pressing. Hard. So hard.