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Description She only let him start it in the first place because it was taboo.  If their families weren’t so close that they wouldn’t like it, she never would have touched him.  She had what might be called a strong sexual appetite.  Until it started, she hadn’t known that his basic animal instincts were just as strong.  He was supposed to be like family to her.  He’d sit and talk easily to her parents about his family and his education, just like he had always done as a child.  But he wasn’t a child anymore, and neither was she, and no one seemed to realise.  That was what made the whole thing so damn irresistible.

It wasn’t incest, not a bit of it, but it almost felt that way.  She enjoyed the secret meetings, lying to her parents, saying she was seeing a friend and then going to him.  Usually they stripped noisily in the dark, only catching faint glimpses of each other’s bodies in what light trickled through from the night outside.  She wasn’t beautiful, and neither was he, but when they were together they were both damn sexy.

He quickly started to say that it was more than just sex.  He had ‘feelings’ for her.  She didn’t like that expression.  She thought it was overused.  When she told him, he switched to ‘love’, and she liked that even less.  One of the good things about him, though, was that he dropped it when she asked him to.  He didn’t press things.  He knew she wasn’t deaf or stupid; she had got the idea the first time, and nothing would be gained by telling her again.  She liked that about him.  He moved the conversation along.  Lying beside her, naked, he talked to her like a friend and made her laugh.

Nothing changed in the way either of them acted around the people they knew - not even when they were together.  They didn’t seem to be getting along any better than usual, and they didn’t fake animosity.  She hadn’t always liked him, but she’d grown up a lot since they first met.  Her family thought she was simply being civil.

When it came to deceit, he was a master.  She could almost believe he had done this before, even though it went against his very nature.  He was a good guy - not at all the type she would have thought she’d go for; not at all the kind of guy a woman would expect to turn feral the moment he was alone with her.

Most of the time, he was tame.  When they went to the beach, a place to which heat and bare flesh were integral, he always wanted to play cricket.  Cricket.  The slowest, most monotonous game she knew - and yet somehow the notoriously dull sport became sexy with him.  He played it with her and her brother, crouching in the sand behind her, focusing on the ball in spite of her knees being inches in front of his face.  No one would know.  It was just another cover-up for his true, passionate nature.

He had an expert bowling action.  He had an expert batting technique too.  He had been taught.  That was the kind of school he had gone to.  She and her brother were, quite honestly, crap.  He was very patient with them.  He chased around the beach after their mis-hit and mis-thrown balls, laughing indulgently, never hinting to either of them about what he would be doing when the sun went down.

Once, when he was running down the beach after the ball like a dog, she almost forgot her determination not to love him.
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Comments: 25

twofistedsuckerpunch [2007-11-05 04:18:26 +0000 UTC]

I read this, following along. Going where it took me.
I was hooked by the end.
I could have listed to this tale for a day and then another after that.

Very enjoyable.

I happened upon this quite by accident and I am glad that I did.
I found it here
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Wonderful job. I look forward to reading more of your works.

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to twofistedsuckerpunch [2007-11-05 07:55:38 +0000 UTC]

Well thank you!

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twofistedsuckerpunch In reply to ThornyEnglishRose [2007-11-05 15:01:24 +0000 UTC]

You are most welcome.

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Peachie-Sakura [2007-11-03 05:19:28 +0000 UTC]

bravo! congrats on winning the contest

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to Peachie-Sakura [2007-11-03 10:17:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Clairesimpson87 [2007-09-22 18:53:20 +0000 UTC]

wow that is really good! You're really talented! I love the ending- and the description is excellent! Claire xx

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to Clairesimpson87 [2007-09-22 19:53:10 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Clairesimpson87 In reply to ThornyEnglishRose [2007-09-22 23:38:42 +0000 UTC]

that's quite alright! x

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Katriesen [2007-09-19 00:29:06 +0000 UTC]

That's such an endearing story, even in its forbidden and pseudo-loveless ways.

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to Katriesen [2007-09-19 09:23:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Katriesen In reply to ThornyEnglishRose [2007-09-19 19:55:52 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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callyn [2007-09-18 12:57:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I like the ending too. This is pretty good.

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to callyn [2007-09-18 13:32:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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The-Red-Envelope [2007-09-17 15:37:10 +0000 UTC]

Thqnk you very much for your participation ! It's an interesting story, focusing on why people could enjoy a secret/forbidden Love. Good luck for the contest !

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to The-Red-Envelope [2007-09-17 16:21:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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vix0r [2007-09-17 14:07:49 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that really is a masterful ending. I liked the piece up till then, but didn't think it anything outstanding... but that last line just does it.

Bravissimo!

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to vix0r [2007-09-17 14:41:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Muse21 [2007-09-17 10:39:46 +0000 UTC]

I enjoyed this. It's the kind of off handed almost-not-right love that you have a flare for.

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to Muse21 [2007-09-17 11:25:31 +0000 UTC]

That's good to hear. I really try hard to do well with the romance genre - it can be disastrous if you do it wrong. Thanks.

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batousaijin [2007-09-16 18:05:03 +0000 UTC]

it's not the forbiddenness of this love story that makes me love it; it's the realness, the concreteness of it.

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to batousaijin [2007-09-16 19:47:24 +0000 UTC]

Well thank you.

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Zieza [2007-09-16 01:43:43 +0000 UTC]

Sometimes it seems like forbidden love is the best love there is. Really great story, sucked me right in from the start and held me there.

lol now I wanna play cricket on the beach!

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to Zieza [2007-09-16 09:12:09 +0000 UTC]

Lol, me too - even though, I say again, I actually don't like cricket. Thanks for the kind words.

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showna [2007-09-15 21:16:19 +0000 UTC]

The ending is fabulous.

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ThornyEnglishRose In reply to showna [2007-09-16 09:11:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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