Margaritifer Basin (Margaritifer Trilogy Book 1) (83 page)

She grabbed his coveralls with one
hand and punched him in the arm with the other.

“Ouch.”

Jeff
grasped her arms, pulled her to him, and kissed her, passionately, lovingly.
Gabe wrapped her arms around him and responded, ardently. When their lips
parted, she just floated in front of him, eyes closed, mouth open, panting. “Is
there a fire in your belly now?”

She
nodded.

“Would
you like to do something about it?”

She nodded
again, opened her eyes and gazed into his. “Uh huh.”

“Me too.”
He smiled softly. “Your place or mine?”

Gabe cringed and bit her lip. “Um, is your dirty
laundry floating around in your room?”

He
chuckled. “No.”

“Alright,
then we better go to your place.”

He
grinned. “Okay.”

As they
pulled into the truss, heading for Jeff’s room, he shouted down the tunnel,
“Hey…”

A moment
later, Abby and Susan stuck their heads in. “Yes?” said Susan.

Jeff
grinned, sheepishly. “Uh, yeah. Um, Gabe and I are gonna, um… go get better
acquainted. We may be a while.”

Abby
chuckled. “Better acquainted? Is that what you call it?” She shook her head.

Jeff
waved. “Uh, yeah. Later.”

“If you
need a hand,” said Susan, “just holler.”

Gabe’s
head jerked around. “What?”

“You’re
weightless, this may not be easy.”

“Eeew.”

Jeff
smiled. “Um, thanks, but we’ll figure it out.”

Susan
shrugged. “Just saying…”

“Yeah.
Bye.” He grabbed Gabe around the waist.

Gabe
stared at him. “Is she serious?”

“Yeah,
probably. She’s got a point, this may take some work.”

“Jeff,”
she groaned, “it’s my first time. I don’t want it to be work, I want it to be
enjoyable.”

He kissed
her cheek. “Relax, it will be. I promise.”

They
pulled into Jeff’s cabin and he closed the hatch behind them. Gabe floated in
the middle of the room, her back turned to him. He swung over to his desk,
turned on the reading lamp, selected his favorite Joaquin Rodrigo playlist on
the computer, turned off the overhead light, drifted over to Gabe, tucked her
three-foot-long braid between them, wrapped his arms around her waist, and
started kissing her neck. “How’s that?”

Gabe
leaned her head back on Jeff’s shoulder. “Hmmm, nice.”

“The
music to your liking?”

“Of
course.
Zarabanda lejana
. You know how much I like this.”

“Yeah.
You remember the first time I played it?”

She
chuckled. “Yes, at the villa. Why do you keep asking me if I remember things?”

“Well,
because you don’t remember everything.”

“No, I
don’t remember things that aren’t important to me.” She tilted her head back
and kissed his cheek. “But Jeffrey, you’ve been the most important thing in my
life since the day we met. Do you think there is anything at all about you that
I don’t remember?”

Jeff
nibbled her ear and whispered, “That’s going to get me into a lot of trouble
one of these days, isn’t it?”

Gabe
smiled and nodded. “Probably.”

“Uh huh.
I suppose I can also safely delete the phrase ‘I didn’t say that’ from my
vocabulary?”

She
giggled. “Yes, you won’t be needing that again.”

He slowly
groped his way up across her abdomen and ribs, finally cupping her breasts.

She
gasped softly.

“Oh, you
feel really nice.” He nibbled her earlobe and whispered, “You’re not gonna slap
me, are you?”

“No. I’ve
dreamt so many times of feeling your hands on me.”

“I
thought you didn’t dream.”

“Daydreams.
Don’t stop.”

Jeff gave
a tiny chuckle. “As you wish. Just a second.” He reached up to her collar,
grabbed the zipper of her jumpsuit, pulled it all the way down, pulled the top
off her shoulders and arms to her waist, then returned to her breasts, and
fondled her very hard nipples through her sports bra. “Better?”

Gabe
moaned, “Uh huh.”

“See,
it’s not so difficult. Just little steps.”

She
panted, “Uh huh.”

Jeff
raised her arms and grasped the hem of her sports bra.

“Wait.”

“Huh?”

“Just a
minute.” Gabe reached into her pocket and pulled out her glasses case, took
them off, stuck them in the case, and shoved it back in her pocket. “I don’t
think I’ll be needing those for a while.”

Jeff
smiled. “Probably not.”

She
raised her arms over her head. “Okay.”

He pulled
the bra out over her breasts, then over her head and arms, and tossed it in the
direction of the wall, where it stayed, floating. He resumed the neck and
earlobe nibbling and breast fondling. Gabe leaned her head back on his shoulder
and moaned, “Oh, that’s nice.”

He smiled. “Gabriel, do you know
what would please me most?”

She shook her head.

“What would please me most is you
allowing me to please you. Will you let me do that?”

Gabe bit her lip and nodded.

“Good. Because if I can do that,
everything else will fall into place. Okay?”

She nodded again.

“Alright. So, here’s what I want
you to do. If I’m not pleasing you, I want you to tell me what I’m doing wrong,
and we’ll fix it. Okay? Will you do that?”

She whispered. “Yes.”

Jeff
slowly ran his hand down across her belly, slipped it inside her panties, down
between her thighs, and began caressing her.

Gabe
gulped a breath and gasped aloud, “Oh god! Uhn.”

“Mmmm,
seems I found the right spot.”

“Uh huh!”
After a minute or two, she grasped his arm with one hand and the hand on her
breast with the other. Her body quivered. “Faster.”

He
complied.

Another
minute later, her body convulsed as she climaxed. “Oh! Oh god!”

Jeff
whispered, “There, that’s the idea.” When she was finished, hanging limp and
breathing hard, he withdrew his hand, turned her around, clutched her firmly,
and kissed her, long and deep. When their lips finally parted, he gazed into
her eyes and smiled. “Nice?”

She
nodded. “Uh huh. Very nice.”

“Good. I
hope you’re not worn out, cause we’re just getting started.”

Gabe bit
her lip and grinned, then shook her head.

“Okay.”
He worked his way down her body, pulled off her socks and jumpsuit and, finally
her panties, and discarded the lot. “Oh my.”

“What?”

“You
really are blonde.”

She
gently slapped the top of his head and giggled. “Of course I am.”

He worked
his way back up to face her. “Okay, your turn.”

Gabe
undressed him.

Jeff
pulled her up and embraced her again.

She
gasped, “Oh my god!”

“What?”

“I can’t
believe how good you feel.”

“That’s
kind of the idea.”

Gabe
moaned, “Yeah.”

Jeff
quickly discovered that in the weightlessness of space, the term ‘foreplay’
took on an entirely new dimension.
As Gabe floated in the middle of the
room, he nuzzled her flaxen patch, then spread her legs and pulled down between
them. His mass being slightly greater than hers put them into a slow spin.

She groaned, “Oh god, I’m gonna get
dizzy.”

“Close your eyes.” He began
pleasuring her with his tongue and lips.

Gabe shuddered and gasped, “Oh my
god!”

He reached up and fondled her
breasts as he slowly worked her to a frenzy. She let out a soft cry as what
definitely appeared to be another orgasm racked her body. When she seemed to be
finished, he pulled her back into an embrace and gave her a long, sloppy kiss.

She reared back a bit and grinned,
then wiped his face with her hand. “Your face is all wet, and you taste like
me.”

He grinned. “What a coincidence.”

Gabe leaned her forehead against
his and whispered, “I’ve only dreamt of how that would feel, and it feels so
much better than I ever imagined.” She clung tightly to him. “Oh god Jeffrey,
if I’d known then what I know now, I never would have run out on you that first
day at Wrentham House.”

“No?”

“No.” She smiled. “I would’ve
sneaked into your bed the first night.”

“Wow. Then I guess we have four
years to make up.”

“Uh huh.”

Jeff nodded toward the bed. “Well,
would you like to join me in bed now?”

She smiled wantonly and nodded.
“Yes.”

He glanced around and couldn’t find
anything in the room he could reach. “Um, we’re stuck.”

Gabe giggled. “Are we gonna need
Sue after all?”

“Nah.” Jeff took hold of her waist
and gave her a little jerk to the left, then a gentle shove. “Grab the bed.”
Gabe drifted toward the bed while he drifted toward the opposite wall. When he
reached the wall, Jeff shoved off toward the bed and arriving, grabbed Gabe.
“There, that wasn’t so hard.”

She smiled. “I wonder if Isaac
Newton ever contemplated this problem?”

Jeff laughed. “My guess would be…
no.” He glanced at her breasts and chuckled. “Um, I see what you mean about
momentum.”

She looked down, giggled, and
grabbed her breasts, halting their bobbing.

“Ah, shucks. That’s actually kind
of entertaining.”

She snickered and shook her head.

He switched the fan at the foot of
the bed to HIGH, they squeezed under the jersey coversheet, and the foreplay
continued. After a time, Jeff slid atop her, spread her legs with his, and very
gently entered her.

“Uhn!”

“You okay?”

“Yes.”

“I’m not hurting you?”

“No. Oh god, it feels wonderful.”

Jeff wrapped his arms and legs around
Gabe, and they made love. In time, when the climax had passed, they kissed. He
reared up and frowned. “Your mouth’s bleeding.”

Gabe grinned sheepishly and
whimpered. “I bit my lip.”

Jeff licked her lips. “Now, see
what you’ve been missing?”

“Uh huh. It’s not at all like I
thought it would be.”

“What did you think it would be
like?”

“Painful, quick, and unsatisfying.”

“Well, maybe you should have
submitted to your high school prom date.”

She wrinkled her nose. “Eeew. No,
he was a nerd.”

He laughed softly. “Then why’d you
go with him?”

“Because he was the only one that
asked me, and I really wanted to go. I wanted to do something… normal, just for
once.”

Jeff frowned. “Why didn’t anyone
else ask you? That’s kind of hard to believe.”

“Because everybody in school hated
me.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Because all our teachers graded on
a curve.”

“Uh oh.”

“Yeah. By my junior year there was
me…” she shrugged, “and the lower 50%.”

Jeff laughed, “So…” He couldn’t
stop laughing. “Sorry, that’s hilarious. So, why’d the nerd ask you?”

“Because he was a nerd, and every
other girl he asked turned him down. Besides, I was six inches taller than
him.”

He still couldn’t stop laughing.
“What’s that got to do with it?”

Gabe smiled. “When we danced close,
he could rest his head on my chest.”

“Ah ha, I see. That would do it.”

They rolled on their sides and Gabe
cuddled, snuggling in Jeff’s arms. “Oh, I can’t begin to describe how good I
feel.”

“Well, that’s good.”

“Uh huh.” They lay quietly together
for a time, then Gabe sighed and chuckled softly.

“What?”

“Oh, now I understand why Abby was
so upset that afternoon by the pool when she took your car and stormed off.”

Jeff smiled softly. “Oh?”

“Yes. I can’t imagine going six and
a half years without making love with you again.”

He nodded. “If you’d felt that way
then, would you have gone with her?”

“No. I would have waited until the
house was dark and quiet, then sneaked down the hall and into your room.”

“Ah. You always could have done
that anyway.”

“I was afraid of what you’d think
of me.”

“I told you a long time ago that I
loved you.”

“I know, but I was still afraid.”

“You’re not afraid anymore, are
you?”

“No.”

“Good.”

Gabe kissed him again, then yawned.
“Sorry. Suddenly I’m sleepy.”

Jeff smiled. “It’s all that
exercise.”

She grinned.

“Go to sleep.”

“Will you be here when I wake up?”

He kissed her. “You know I will.”

Sometime later Jeff awoke to the
tickle of Gabe’s fingernails gently scratching his chest. “Hi.”

She smiled. “Hi. Did I wake you?”

“Uh huh.”

“I’m sorry.”

He yawned and stretched. “No,
that’s fine.” He glanced at his watch. “Good grief, almost five.”

“Yeah, we’ve been asleep all
afternoon. I can’t imagine what Abby and Sue must be thinking.”

Jeff grinned. “I can.”

Gabe giggled.

“I don’t know about you, but I’m
hungry.”

“Yeah, me too.” She frowned. “But
first, um,” she bit her lip, “I need to use the bathroom.”