One of these days, I will get around to reformatting the Kady stories to make them more clearly chapters of a coherent story. I didn't honestly expect them to get this far. None of this has been planned, so if there are continuity errors (as there are certain to be), I ask that you be kind. XD Something that will help is this: The first four chapters -- Kady Did, Kady Did Anal, Kady Did Mom, and Kady Does More: Morning Glory -- all happen within a week. Kady Does it All: Summer Daze, takes place some months later. Kady 6: Love is Infinite follows a few days after, and then this story follows a few months after that.
It was bound to happen, I suppose.
It was some few months after the party. I had taken some....time off, you might say. There are times the body lets you know it's had enough, and when that happens, the best thing you can do is give it the rest it asks for. But, well, since losing my virginity, I hadn't been used to extended periods without sex. At most, a couple of weeks between sessions with Neil. Occasional dalliances with my mother and my brother Just sort of filled the gaps. Angela and I were better friends than lovers, though we did indulge occasionally; the truth is, Angela much prefers guys, and I can relate. I did make a pass or two at my dad, but he seemed more amused than aroused, thanked me for the compliment, and pretended it had never happened.
My dad's weird.
So, here I was, heading back up the road to Neil's place as autumn descended on our Southern Mississippi community -- I'm not even really sure it was big enough to be called a
town
-- dressed in a T-shirt, tennis skirt, and sneakers. My wild red hair was left loose, like I prefer it -- it pulls at my scalp if I tie it up, and anyway, I like the way it looks, all tumbly and curly and untamable, just like the person it adorns -- and the breeze tugged at it. Even in autumn, it was balmy enough to not need a jacket, but not warm enough to make the half-mile walk more uncomfortable than tedious.
I felt relatively fresh as I knocked on his door, and when he opened it, I greeted him with a broad smile, particularly since he wasn't wearing a shirt.
Then I saw past him, and that smile curled up and died, falling from my face like a leaf off a tree -- slowly, in stages, and with a sort of dreadful inevitability.
Behind the man who had introduced me to the joys of lovemaking, my sweet and funny and handsome sex doctor, was a stunning woman with sleek black hair and wide gray eyes. She was wearing one of his old shirts, and as far as I could tell, nothing else. Her figure was enough so that the shirt didn't hide much. My heart lurched, froze solid, fell, and shattered at my feet; I stood there, stock still, feeling numb for the moment.
Isn't this what I had wanted for him? This was what we had been working for. This was what I had explicitly told him I expected of him in time. That he find someone else. I just hadn't put it together that when he found someone else, he would no longer need me. Now I did.
It isn't in me to hate, and jealousy is laughable. Robbed of those two most obvious reactions, I had no reaction at all, and just stood there, dazed and lost.
"Neil?" the woman asks, and Neil is looking at me, concern filling his face.
"Grace, can you give us a minute?" he asks softly. "Get us coffee or something?" Neil looks at me more closely, and adds, "Maybe some scotch in the coffee. Come in, Kady."
He has to say it again, and actually takes my hand and tugs, before I step uncertainly inside and he shuts the door behind me.
Grace, for her part, doesn't seem put out in the least. She has a look of concern on her face too, and bustles about the kitchen.
I have to say something. I open my mouth to tell him I'm happy for him, that she's beautiful, that he's done very well for himself.....and then I put my face in my hands and burst into tears.
Neil enfolds me, his warm skin, his scent filling my head, the sense of safety and enclosure giving me permission to weep into his chest. We must stand there a good few minutes, because I feel another warm hand on my back, and I look up to see Grace handing me a mug of coffee.
"Why don't we all sit down?" she suggests soothingly, and because I can't muster an argument, we do, moving to the couch in the living room.
I sit down, cradling the hot mug in my hands, not looking at either of them. I don't know what to think, or say. I'm starting to feel a little ashamed of my hysterics, honestly, and when Grace asks after a few silent minutes, "Are you feeling better?" I can nod, jerkily, and I take a sip from the coffee. She was generous with the scotch, and the warmth flows through me, fighting the creeping cold from inside. I sigh with it, and manage to relax a bit. Neil is sitting in his chair, across from me, while Grace is seated next to me, rubbing my back through my shirt.
"I'm sorry," I croak out hoarsely. "I don't know." I hiccup, and cough, and try again. "I don't know what hit me."
"Not hard to guess," Grace tells me, and I look up at her. She really is beautiful, angelic when she smiles, even when the smile has a sad little tilt to it. "He's talked about you, Kady. We were actually talking about you when you arrived. This is the worst way to find out, I guess."
Beautiful, smart, and kind. Now I was starting to hate her a little, but I squash that dirty little darkness in my soul and try for a smile. It feels like I miss, a bit. "I....I dunno," I manage, in a whispery little rasp. What the hell is wrong with me? I am a confident, powerful creature, a young woman of beauty and wisdom -- and right now I can barely talk. It doesn't help that looking at Grace's lips makes me wonder how they taste.
"Obviously," Neil says a bit ponderously, and I start at his voice. I hadn't forgotten he was there, really, but I hadn't expected him to speak. "This changes things."
The look Grace and I both give him causes him to blush and look aside, muttering something about getting coffee as he gets up and goes toward the kitchen.
Grace gets my attention, placing a finger under my chin and turning my green eyes to meet her gray. "I'm grateful to you," she says. "He might have hid in his shell forever. I'm not missing the fact that you brought him out, and because of that, we met." And then, she kisses me, lightly, a touch of mouths, but when I part my lips for her, she draws back. "But it
does
change things. Can you understand?"
I had hoped. Part of me had really, really hoped. Now that part dies, and I set my coffee on the coffee table -- that's what it's there for, right? -- and stand up. "I can try," I give her stiffly. It's all I can give, and she understands.