The Black Sweater "Another Kamikaze? " Carly looked around the room and sighed. Music, laughter and voices merged to surround her with noise. The room was filled with people, but the only person she wanted wasn't here. Mark. She nodded vaguely in the direction of the person who had just spoken to her. She wasn't drunk, actually. She had downed only one shot already, and had been nursing a Pepsi ever since. And yet she felt exhausted. She looked stunning, even though she had hardly bothered with her appearance - just a denim mini that buttoned up the front, and a soft black sweater with a neckline that scooped down almost to the lace bra hiding beneath. Lingerie was one her favorite ways of pampering herself. She always wore a matched set, under even her grungiest jeans and t-shirts. Tonight she was wearing a sheer coral set, with a thong bottom. It was one of his favorites. The black sweater emphasized the glossy red curls that fell to her shoulders --she hadn't had time to pin up her hair before her friends had dragged her to this party. And now where were they? She gulped down the second shot, closing her eyes for just a moment, and saw his face flicker in front of her. Bastard. Why did she want him to appear so badly? "Get it together, Carly," she thought. "It was a stupid fight, with a stupid person, who is just STUPID. And he's gone now." Unable to convince herself, she turned her head, and saw a couple kissing in a shadowy corner. She felt as though someone was crushing her, standing on her chest and grinding their heel into her heart. She suddenly had a desperate urge to go back to her dorm room, crank up the volume on her CD player, and paint until the sun came up. By now she regretted slamming the phone in his ear. He had made her furious, grilling her about her whereabouts earlier that morning, when she had missed his phone call. The mundane truth was that she had woken up at 5 am and gone running, then spent hours typing up a very overdue paper, not noticing that the light on her answering machine was blinking. Too proud to admit that, she had given evasive answers to his questions. But he had sensed that there was something she wasn't admitting, and pressed her harder for information. The subtle implication that she had been with another male was what had pissed her off the most. His last remark had particularly stung: "Maybe I'll just go and find another girl, who only wants me...." "If you don't know by know that I only want you, you never will," she thought to herself. She thought about the way his bicep muscle felt whenever she stroked it with her fingers, and how much she adored his arms – arms that were strong enough to lift her up and lower her slowly onto his erection – and she felt her eyes beginning to mist up. Deciding that the party was a waste of time, and that her well-intentioned friends had completely deserted her, she squared her shoulders, took a deep breath, and looked for the door. Just as she realized where it was, she saw that it was opening. A surge of adrenaline shot through her as she realized who was opening it. Tall, dark brown hair, piercing eyes; eyes which appeared to be looking directly into her own. She gasped and panicked. Spinning around, she pushed her way through the crowd, away from the front door, heading blindly in the direction which she hoped would take her back toward the kitchen of the frat house. "Please, please, tell me he didn't see me, please, please" she begged silently to the fates. The instant she reached the kitchen, she felt his arm capture her waist and pull her back tightly against him. She heard his voice, low in her ear "Please wait! Give me a chance to talk to you, Carly." Spinning around, she pushed his arm away, her hand betraying her by lingering on the bicep tantalizing her under the edge of his t-shirt. The alcohol chose that moment to affect her, making her wobble slightly. In the stress of the moment, her eyes, normally edged with a layer of brown that faded into a soft emerald, were now flooded completely green. "What do you want, Mark?" she hissed, scowling at him and wishing she could make him evaporate with just the heat of her stare. She wondered if he could hear the echoes of her pounding heartbeat in each word. In dismay, she realized that other party guests were slipping out of the kitchen, glancing knowingly at one another. He hesitated for a moment, sizing up her fury, then took a step closer to her and took her face gently in his hands. At his touch, her heart flipped over, one neat, tidy, perfect flip, and resumed beating triple time as the rest of her insides began a long, slow, lurching descent into darkness. His words rolled out in a continuous stream that she found herself unable to interrupt. "Carly, forgive me. Please forgive me. After you hung up on me I moped around for a while, and then I came by your dorm to apologize, and one of your suitemates told me what an ass I was. Why didn't you just tell me you went running? Why did you let me hang myself with my stupid remarks? I was just worried about you, wondering where you were so early in the morning. Last I knew you went out with your 'mates last night and I wanted to make sure you'd gotten home OK. I didn't mean to accuse you of such a ridiculous thing." He stopped speaking, to gauge her reaction, still caressing her face in his hands, and then spoke in a gruff voice. "I only want you. You're the only girl for me. You know that, don't you? You know how much I love you." As he spoke he had been leaning toward her, and their lips were now inches apart. He looked directly into her eyes, pleading for forgiveness, and she melted. He had never before said the word "love". "I love you too Mark," she whispered, as her eyes began to fill with tears. She started to tell him how sorry she was, when his right hand moved around to the back of her neck, running his fingers up into her hair, and pulling her head back with a sudden intensity. As she gasped, his mouth covered hers, claiming it, in a kiss that was an explosion of love and lust. Shudders raced down her back as he passionately explored every inch of her mouth with his tongue, biting her lips, sucking on her tongue, drawing it into his own mouth. At the same time he was pressing against her, body to body, and moving her backwards until she was leaning against the wall. Half delirious from the alcohol and his kisses, holding on to him tightly, she broke her mouth free just long enough to gasp, "Mark, not here," as his hands began to tug at her clothes. He glanced around, then looked into her eyes again with a sparkle in his stare that made her suddenly aware of a heat, her need to feel him inside her, telegraphed with fierce intensity by the wetness between her legs. Grabbing her hand, he pulled her through a doorway which led to a spiral staircase at the back of the house. As they climbed the stairs, he stayed close behind her, growling in her ear, "Let's go find a room, Carly. I can't wait until we get back to your room. Let me have you right here, upstairs." “Let’s go upstairs and fuck.” Alex heard her whisper the words in his left ear and smiled. They sounded so strange coming from a mouth as angelic as hers. Sarah Isaak was a quiet girl. She was one of those individuals who drifts through college almost invisibly. They always have no more than one or two close friends, get high grades, spend a lot of time in the library, keep themselves to themselves. There were no vicious rumors or sleazy innuendo written on bathroom walls about Sarah Isaak. To most, she was a little bookish, definitely dull, and probably too innocent to have even kissed a boy yet. Yet she was physically very attractive, in a slightly plain, reserved sense. Hers was a quiet beauty that didn’t scream for attention. She was, to put it bluntly, an acquired taste. Alex had spotted her as soon as he’d entered the party. He’d seen her around campus a few times, and something about her had intrigued him instantly. He had always been attracted to well-read, introverted girls; girls who could challenge his mind. And despite appearances, he’d always been surprised by just how passionate and sexually inventive such girls could be beneath their coy exterior. He’d wondered that about Sarah. What did she daydream? What did she feel? What had she done in private moments that no one had ever discovered because no one had ever asked? Seeing her standing in a corner, alone, Alex had decided to be the first to find out. He’d approached her casually, using eye-contact to hold her in place, and introduced himself with a smile. That was really all it took. They had been strangers then, two people alone at a party and wondering how they’d been invited in the first place. Now, two hours later, here they were: “Let’s go upstairs and fuck.” While they’d been talking, Alex and Sarah had moved to an empty couch in a corner of the lounge. They were still penned in by loud music, gyrating bodies, and the furious rally of half-shouted conversation, but they were sitting close enough to talk more intimately. Sarah had shifted in Alex’s direction, causing her knee-length black skirt to rise a little higher on her legs. She was wearing white, thigh-high stockings, the elaborate lace tops striking against the simplicity of her smooth, soft skin. Alex put one hand at the point where lace met flesh, and gently rubbed his fingers there. Their talk had become increasingly more explicit after they’d relaxed with each other, and they were both in a state of simmering arousal. “I like talking dirty,” Sarah had confessed. “I love the way it sounds; so out of place; so private and shocking in the real world.” “How dirty do you like to get?” Alex had asked, equally flirtatious. He’d never encountered anyone like her. “I can’t say it here,” she had replied, smiling shyly as she looked around the room. But no one else was paying attention to them. The music was still blasting out, people were still talking, laughing, dancing, and most were starting to get a little drunk. Still, Sarah had never been comfortable in crowded rooms. “Okay, whisper it in my ear,” Alex had said, leaning close enough to smell her dreamy perfume. Sarah had put one arm on his shoulder, moved her lips close to his ear and whispered those five golden words. There is sometimes a connection that is made when the right two people meet at the right time, unexplainable outside the moment, which leads to circumstances neither could have possibly foreseen. Perhaps Alex and Sarah were both looking for exactly the same thing, and had unconsciously worked towards it together. With the initial awkwardness conquered, their agendas became one. They had seduced each other, and all that was left was to act on the exhilarating impulses that yearned to be realized. Sitting there now, Alex with his hand on Sarah’s bare thigh, the rest of the room melted away into a blurred mesh of background colors. Sarah put her hand to Alex’s face and drew him close. Their lips joined softly at first, a few tentative touches, then collided more firmly. Alex’s hand pushed a little further up Sarah’s leg, and she slid closer toward him, pressing her breast against his arm. Their kiss was hot and deep, dizzy and intense. When they broke apart, they looked around, expecting to be the center of unwanted attention. But few looked their way. People are experts at minding their own business, and no one will stare openly at a kissing couple for long. Alex and Sarah got up quietly, their eyes barely parting as they walked hand in hand through the squirming mass of bodies, and headed for the stairs. Mark and Carly had reached the second floor. The first door was locked, but the next they tried was open. No one was in the room, and they pushed the door closed but were too aroused to lock it. His hands moved quickly to pull the sweater over her head. A dim light had been left on in the room, and she saw a wicked smile of delight as he realized which set of undergarments she was wearing. He traced the lace on her left breast, his mouth slightly open in awe as he watched the nipple stiffen through the sheer fabric. A sigh escaped her lips, and she tipped her head back while he kissed the erogenous zones on her neck, at the base of her throat, and moved up to lick behind her ears. Mark was reaching for the clasp on her bra when the door handle turned. They looked into each other’s eyes in shock for just a moment, then he pulled her through the open door of a nearby closet. He slid the door almost closed, leaving a one inch gap through which Carly could see her sweater, tossed on the bed, as another couple entered the room. "Oh, wow.... we're not the only ones who want to make it, Carly, are we?' His breath was hot in her ear, the words barely audible. The contents of the closet were forcing them to stand extremely close. He was behind her, looking over her shoulder, his dick pressing into her ass. Her back arched with pleasure, and she was gasping for air, feeling the effects of the alcohol she had consumed earlier. Warmth spreading through her body, she leaned back against him, enjoying the buzz. "Have you ever watched anyone fuck, Carly? Will it make you cum, knowing that they're doing it not ten feet away? Don't moan too loud, Carly, they'll hear us. We don't want to ruin the show, Carly." She had never heard his voice so coarse, so filled with passion. He was pressing himself against her, pulling her hips back against him with one hand while the other grazed over her breasts. Alex reached behind himself and snapped the lock shut. His other hand was grasping Sarah’s butt as she hung on to him, her arms around his neck. Their bodies were pressed close together; their breaths came heavily; their kissing was frantic, almost savage. They barely took notice of the room into which they’d stumbled. The subdued light from a bedside lamp whisked their silhouetted shapes across the wall as they moved to the bed, Sarah walking backwards, never breaking their animal lock. Her legs hit the mattress and she bounced down onto her back, Alex falling on top of her. Neither of them noticed the black sweater that lay beneath their heated embrace. They were too lost in their own hazy intent. Alex moved his hand down Sarah’s body and lifted her skirt, feeling his way roughly up her thigh. She opened her legs a little wider, letting him reach the soft dampness of her satin panties. As he rubbed her there, tracing the swell of her mound, she parted her lips from his and gasped, before moving to bite and suck at his neck. Her hand did some traveling of its own, finding the stiff bulge in the front of Alex’s chinos. A deep groan resounded in his throat as she squeezed him there, enjoying the feel of his arousal against her hand. Alex knelt up and began to hurriedly unbutton his shirt. Sarah was simultaneously opening her blouse, revealing an emerald green bra that held her firm breasts perfectly together. She tossed her blouse aside and helped Alex off with his T-shirt. Her hands lingered on his hard chest, her nails plowing through the hair with threatening sharpness. She looked up at him, her eyes drunk on decadent lust. Alex smiled, his mouth open, his shoulders heaving from chaotic panting. He grasped her breasts and moved his hands against them, feeling her stiff nipples poking through the elegant satin of her bra. “You have beautiful tits,” he said, his voice low and dirty. Sarah fumbled with the clasp at the front of her bra and quickly peeled the two cups apart. Now she lay bare before him. Alex grabbed the firm globes of flesh once more and descended, putting his mouth into the deep trench of her cleavage. She felt his hot breath against her skin, his tongue and lips exploring every inch of her breasts. As his mouth sucked one of her nipples between his lips she arched her back and pressed harder against him. Her hand went again to the front of his pants, and she pressed her palm against the outline of his rigid cock, moving it up and down. “Are you gonna put this in me?” she asked huskily. “Take it out,” he replied, lifting his face briefly from her heaving chest. Sarah blindly opened his pants and yanked down the zip. She reached inside and popped the button on the front of his shorts. She could feel the damp stickiness of pre-cum against her hand as she pulled his throbbing dick free. He was long and thick, and felt hot in her hand. Sarah had been with two boys in high school, one at art camp, the other a boy from her neighborhood who had moved away a few weeks after. They had both been hopelessly clumsy, and she had longed for the day when she might experience sex with someone who knew what he was doing. She’d done the Internet thing, flirting and getting off with men online. She’d explored erotic correspondences, but had always turned down the endless offers to meet in person. E-mails and cyber-sex could be fun, but she need someone real. She had been largely ignored since starting college, but now she had finally found the courage to let someone get close – very close – and she felt as though a river of pent-up longing had suddenly burst its banks and was washing over her. She felt alive for the first time in a while. “I want to suck you,” she gasped, lifting Alex’s head from her tingling breasts and shuffling further up on the bed. Alex dropped his pants and shorts, kicked them off, then walked his knees up the sides of Sarah’s body until his hips were over her face. Leaning forward, his weight on his arms, he waited for her mouth to find him. She took his cock in both hands and held him, caressed him, felt his balls. Alex had his eyes closed, trembling in anticipation. When her lips finally sank over the ridge of his swollen head, he groaned loudly in fantastic relief. Sarah lifted her skirt up all the way and pulled her panties aside. In time with gliding her mouth against Alex’s dick, she moved her fingers over her wet pussy, parting the folds of skin and gently stroking her clit. She was on fire. Her whole body, every sense, every muscle and every nerve, felt out of control. She’d ardently desired a good fuck for so long, and now she sighed at the pleasurable warmth of being intimate with another person; the deliriously wonderful freedom of touching and being touched. Alex opened his eyes and looked down his body to watch his dick sliding in and out of Sarah’s mouth. He could tell she was a little inexperienced, but she was brave, and learning quickly. Her tongue felt so good on the underside of his long shaft, and her kisses on his throbbing crown were divine. It had been a while since a girl had gone down on him – despite his past experiences, he was not a ladies’ man by any measure – and he’d forgotten how good it could feel. He rocked his hips gently, knowing that soon he would be enjoying the tight velvet of Sarah’s pussy Sarah was enjoying that herself, sliding a finger inside her moist cunt as she continued to rub her clit. She was quite surprised by how wet she was. When she masturbated alone – in her room, or in the bath, or even sometimes in the restroom between lectures – she usually managed to get herself pretty worked up. But there was nothing to compare with having a hard cock in her mouth while she played with herself, knowing that pretty soon she would feel it pushing inside and filling her up. She quickened the pace of her fingers, wanting to get close enough to orgasm so that she could cum while Alex was fucking her. She had never got off with a dick in her pussy, and tonight she was ready to try it.