New Leaves, No Strings (14 page)

‘What’s wrong? Baby what’s wrong?’
he asked. He moved into me and started to gently wipe the tears away from my
cheeks, but it only made more flow down. He clasped my face and looked at me in
surprise and I watched his face change as the realisation hit him. ‘O god, tell
me that wasn’t your first time?’ he groaned. ‘Mia, please tell me it wasn’t
your first time?’

‘It’s no big deal,’ I said, trying
to smile through my tears as I tucked my hair behind my ears.

‘It
is
a big fucking deal,’
he shouted as he stood back and ran his hands through his hair, his face paling.
‘
Jesus
Mia. I thought … I mean the things you said, the things you did. I
just naturally assumed you were experienced too. Christ you must think I’m such
an arsehole, taking you outside, the toilets, the booth and how I just fucked
you now.’ He looked at me with such hurt in his eyes it made me feel even
worse.

‘I thought it would put you off if
you knew how inexperienced I was,’ I said as my eyes welled up again. I hung my
head, too ashamed to look him back in the eyes.

‘Baby please don’t cry. I’m sorry I
yelled, I’m just in shock because I hurt you. I’d never have intentionally hurt
you Mia, you have to believe me.’ He pulled me into him and wrapped his arms
around me and I buried my face into his chest as he stroked my hair over and
over. ‘How could you think you’d have put me off Mia? Don’t you know that men
love being a woman’s first? God if you’d have told me it would’ve been so
different. I would have wooed you and been all romantic.’

‘
Wooed
me. Seriously? How
old are you?’ I mumbled.

‘Mia it’s not funny. I would’ve
waited as long as it took until you were ready. When you were, we would’ve
taken our time. I would’ve got you relaxed and we could’ve taken it nice and
slowly and I would have been so gentle with you. At the risk of sounding like a
girl, I’d have made love to you. Not what I just did, I just fucked you, that
was some hard fucking, which I’d never have done if I’d known. God the things I
did to you in public in the club … I’m so sorry Mia.’

My stomach filled with butterflies
and turned over and over as I looked up at him. I’d never heard anyone so
sincere, he really was upset and suddenly I felt bad for him.

‘No Gabe, please don’t apologise. I
should be the one who’s saying I’m sorry. Now I feel like a shit for deceiving
you. You didn’t force me to do anything I wasn’t ready to do, I could’ve said
no at any time. I told you I wanted sex with you and you did as I asked and it
was amazing. Right now though I’m feeling a little weak and shaky and I’m
worried about bleeding on my nice new cream carpet.’

He smiled and took my hand. ‘Is
this your bathroom?’ He nodded at the connecting door.

‘Yes.’

He led me in and sat me down on the
toilet, washed his hands and then came and unzipped my boots and pulled them
off one by one. He cleaned the inside of my thighs with some wet toilet wipes,
despite my protests and embarrassment, then grabbed my fluffy white dressing
gown off the back of the door and wrapped it around me, kissing my forehead. He
turned and put the plug in the bath and started both taps.

‘Where’s your bubble bath?’

‘In that cabinet next to the bath,’
I replied. I watched as he stood naked, filling the tub. His dick was still
semi rigid and bobbed about as he walked across the room. I took a moment to drink
in the sight of gorgeous Gabe, naked in my bathroom and sighed.

He turned and smiled. ‘What is it?’

‘You just have the most perfect body
I’ve ever seen,’ I whispered.

‘So do you,’ he replied as he
tilted his head and smiled at me. Me? A perfect body? Was he visually impaired?

‘I’m hardly rock hard with defined
abs,’ I mumbled.

‘That’s a man’s look, I hate women
all sculpted, it’s not natural. You’re toned, curvaceous and amazing. How are
you feeling now?’

‘Fine, a bit sore and hungry, but I’m
ok thank you.’ Why was sitting talking to him now, feeling more intimate than
the actual sex?

‘Well I’ll get you in the bath to
relax and then I’ll cook you something.’

‘Cook? You’ll be lucky. I think we
have cereal and popcorn and maybe some milk and apple juice.’

‘Seriously? Popcorn and apple juice
it’ll have to be then. Right I think this bath’s ready.’ He held out his hand
and I reached out to grab it as he pulled me up from the toilet and led me to
the bath. He took the dressing gown off my shoulders and held my hand as I
stepped in, one foot after another and lowered myself down and he leaned over
and kissed me.

‘Right, where’s the kitchen?’

‘Opposite, the door on your far
left.’ As I watched his pert bottom leave the bathroom, I marvelled at how
comfortable he was wandering around the house and in front of me naked. I
leaned back and gently parted my legs, feeling a slight sting as the hot water
hit me. I could hear him rummaging in the cupboards and the beeping of the
microwave. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the warmth of the water and the bubbles
crackling and exploding on my skin. I was totally drained, but in a good way. I
smiled to myself, I’d just lost my virginity and found out sex was seriously good.
I now felt so relaxed and sleepy.

I heard him pad into the bathroom
behind me and opened my eyes. He placed a tall glass of apple juice on the
cabinet at the end of the bath and told me to inch forwards and climbed in behind
me. His solid thighs went either side of my hips, gripping me and he pulled me
back onto his chest, placing his left arm under mine and around to clutch my stomach,
his fingers circling my navel. His right hand came around and balanced a bowl
of popcorn between my bent knees and stomach.

‘I can’t believe this is the best
food you have in the house,’ he uttered as he grabbed a handful and munched.

‘Lexi and I live on the stuff, well
that and takeaway pizza, Chinese, Thai and curry and it never did either of us
any harm.’

We munched our way through the bowl,
without any more words for a while. He nuzzled his face into my hair and kissed
the side of my head. It felt quite natural being with him, just sitting here
eating, our bodies touching and enjoying the silence. He leaned over the edge
of the bath and put the empty bowl on the floor, grabbed the soap and lathered
up his hands and put them both on my shoulders. He started to massage my neck
and shoulder blades and my body started to soften under his fingers, damn he
was good. Was there anything he wasn’t good at I wondered?

‘You know you really shocked me
with your virgin revelation tonight, I’d never have known.’

‘I thought it must have been
obvious. It took me ages to pluck up the courage to touch your … well… touch
you down there.’

‘What? You’re not telling me that
you’ve never given a hand or blow job before either?’ he exclaimed sounding
shocked.

‘The odd hand job over their pants,
but no I’ve never done either of those things or let guys do that to me either.
I’ve kissed plenty of guys though.’

‘Kissing aside, I’m seriously
impressed. Not only was that the best blow job I’ve ever had, you win a best
actress award.’

‘Really it was good? You’re not
just saying that to make me feel better?’ I asked as I twisted my head to look
at him.

‘It
was
that good Mia, it
was amazing. A little hint for future, me telling you how good you are,
groaning and then coming in your mouth is a guaranteed sign you’re doing things
well. How did you even know what to do?’

‘I was given some tips by Lexi and I’ve
watched and read a bit of porn and done internet research.’

‘You watch porn? O my god. You’re
like the perfect woman. Next you’ll be telling me you love sport,’ he laughed
and kissed me again, running his finger along my jaw.

‘Now there I draw the line. I
wouldn’t mind seeing you swimming though if that’s ok? I bet you look great in
your tiny trunks.’

‘Of course it’s ok. If you were
lying waiting for me at the other end of the pool bikini clad, I may just break
a world record.’

He finished massaging my neck and
shoulders and his hands moved under my arms and began to soap my stomach and
waist, moving up to my breasts and I felt my nipples respond and wriggled back
into him.

‘Not again,’ he stated firmly.

‘Why not?’

‘Because I hurt you. You need time
to recover before we do that again.’

‘So we’re doing that again?’ I
asked shyly.

‘Try stopping me, I intend to take
you up on your rule of frequent no strings fucking at every opportunity once you’re
better.’

‘It didn’t feel like no strings
when you meet Milo earlier,’ I said and felt his body tense behind me.

‘Someone I’m seeing having male
friends is new territory to me. I won’t lie I don’t like it, I know what he’s
after, but I’m going to have to trust you and learn to deal with it.’

‘At least I’m not parading around
in a tiny outfit for them all to ogle. It’s bad enough knowing other woman are ravaging
you with their eyes when you’re fully clothed, let alone in your trunks,’ I
pouted.

‘Ravaging me with their eyes?’ he
laughed. ‘Well they can do that all they like as I only have eyes for you, even
more so now as I know how far you went tonight to please me.’

‘Don’t make out like I was totally
selfless Gabe. I wanted pleasing too.’

‘Did I please you?’ he asked quietly.
I was surprised to detect an element of nervousness in his voice.

‘Yes, you were … it was … I
loved
it Gabe.’ I blushed and felt his body relax as he kissed my temple. He gently
put his hand between my legs and soaped me clean, pulling me back with his
other hand on my stomach as I tried to push against his fingers.

‘I told you no Mia, you need a
break before we go there again. You’re insatiable.’

‘I’ve a lot of time and orgasms to
make up for.’

‘Believe me, I promise I’m going to
give you as many orgasms as you want Mia, but not tonight. Come on the water’s
getting cold.’

He stepped up and out and helped me
up, wrapping a big white bath towel around me, mummifying me in it and pulling
me into his arms. We stood for a while, breathing in each other’s clean scent,
before he released me and we dried ourselves off. I removed my makeup and grabbed
my toothbrush and offered him one of my new spare ones and we stood naked, side
by side brushing our teeth and grinning at each other though mouthfuls of
foaming white.

He grabbed me and swung me up into
his arms again making me giggle, he made it seem so effortless. He carried me
back to the bedroom and pulled the duvet back and deposit me gently in it. Once
I was lying down he pulled the duvet back over me and kissed my forehead.

‘You’re not staying?’ I asked
surprised. I don’t know why, but I just thought he would. It seemed a bit rude
to have sex, to be that intimate with someone and then just leave.

‘I’m worried that if I sleep next
to you I’ll be ready for more and I don’t want to hurt you again. I could sleep
on your couch.’

‘Do you have no willpower?’

‘Apparently not when it comes to
you. Anyway sleeping over and cuddling is hardly no strings Mia.’

‘If it was a one night stand you’d at
least have stayed the night in my bed and possibly tried it on again with your
morning hard on before making a run for it. I’ve seen it happen with Lexi lots
of times,’ I pouted.

‘Fine, but you don’t know how
difficult this will be for me, so you’ll owe me one,’ he said as he climbed in
behind me. My breathing quickened as I felt his body brush against mine.

‘Come here,’ he ordered and I
turned to face him. He put his arm under me and pulled my head to his chest and
I could feel my heart pounding. I hadn’t even been this close to Kai when we
fell asleep together, let alone naked. Gabe nosed my hair and kissed my
forehead and I tentatively stretched my left arm and leg over him and heard him
make a contented sigh and felt his dick perk up again. I looked up at him
through my lashes.

‘No. God damn it, stop looking at
me like that Mia.’

I nuzzled back into his chest and
felt myself glowing all over, I felt warm and comfortable and safe. I was
sleeping naked, naked with a seriously hot guy who’d just taken my virginity.
He wasn’t going anywhere for now and I was still in control. Something inside nagged
at me though. He seemed to really like me, was he falling for me? Just like Kai
and the others? The minute they all seemed in too deep I panicked and ran, I
made sure I left them before they left me.

Lexi and I had learnt from an early
age that men were undependable. Tell you they loved you, then leave you with
little or no explanation. After a few repeated episodes we both caught on, we
became the tough ones, who didn’t let anyone in but each other. It had worked
for us both up until now.

As I lay wrapped around his body, listening
to his heart beating, feeling his fingers stroking my hair, I wondered if I
could really do it this time. Especially after tonight. It wasn’t just the sex,
the way he was so horrified at taking my virginity and how sweet he was with me
after had after really touched me. I felt him kiss the top of my head and heard
him made another noise of contentment and I stretched my fingers out and
stroked his firm chest.