“We talked about it,” Laura said, “and I admitted to him that I really ... you know ... wanted to do things with women from time to time. I mean, I told him I wouldn’t if he didn’t want me to—and I was sincere about that—but I was just clearing the air with him, letting him know where my mind was.”
“Okay,” she said slowly.
“And, well, we came to an agreement that I could do things with other women if I wanted, as long as I didn’t sneak around and do it behind his back. It was just a theoretical idea at that point. I didn’t have anyone in mind or anything.”
“But then you met the maid of honor at the wedding and something clicked between you?”
Laura nodded. “That’s right,” she said. “Her name is Talia, Tally for short. She’s been Neesh’s best friend ever since they were in grammar school.”
“And Tally is into girls?” Celia asked, just for clarity.
“Not exclusively,” Laura said. “She’s bisexual. And yes, something clicked between us. At the rehearsal dinner, she told me about some of her experiences with other girls throughout her life and ... well ... I told her about mine.”
“Is she cute?” Celia couldn’t help but asking, feeling a little surge of sexual excitement starting to develop.
“Yes,” Laura said. “She’s Israeli, used to be a soldier in the IDF. About the same height as Neesh, smaller boobs, pretty face, really cute accent.”
“Okay,” Celia said, trying to picture it. It was a little bit difficult since she had only met Neesh once before, at Jake and Laura’s wedding.
“Anyway, the next morning, after we were all dressed and ready for the wedding, Tally and I were in Neesh’s hotel room, waiting for it to be time to go to the staging area for the ceremony and ... and she told me that she wanted to ... you know ... do that to me.”
“She offered to eat your pussy out?”
“That’s right,” Laura said quietly.
“Just like that?” Celia asked. “She just blurted it out to you?”
“Well ... more or less,” Laura said. “And I really wanted her to do that to me, but there was the agreement with Jake that we’d talk about it first ... so ... so I called up Jake and told him about it.”
“Right then and right there?”
“Yeah,” she said with a nod. “He was in G’s room and they were getting ready to head down to the groom’s staging area, and I told him that Tally wanted to ... to do that ... and he said that if I really wanted to, I should let her.”
“Just like that?”
“Just like that,” she confirmed.
“And she did it?”
“She did it,” Laura said with a smile. “Right there on the couch while I was wearing my bridesmaid dress.”
“Madres de Dios,” Celia whispered, resisting the urge to touch herself between the legs, or maybe tweak one of her nipples a little. “That’s kind of hot, Teach.”
“It was very hot,” Laura confirmed. “It only took me about a minute or so to ... you know?”
“To come?”
“Yeah,” she said shyly. “To come.”
“Where was Neesh during all of this?”
This question had an immediate effect on Laura. Her little smile of pleasant nostalgia turned almost instantly to one of discomfort and indecision. “That ... well ... that’s a really good question, C.”
“What do you mean?”
“Jake asked me that same question,” she said. “And I told him that Neesh was out of the room during it, that she’d gone to freshen up one last time before the ceremony.”
“Okayyy,” Celia said slowly. “And ... was that not the truth?”
“Not ... not the entire truth,” she said quietly.
Celia’s eyes widened. “You mean ... Neesh walked in and caught you two ... doing that?”
“In ... in a manner of speaking,” Laura said.
“Laura,” Celia said. “What are you trying to tell me here ... or trying not to tell me?”
She sighed. “Yes, Neesh walked back into the room while Tally was down between my legs ... licking me.”
“And ... you kept going?” she asked, surprised.
Laura nodded. “We did, but ... but not because we were so involved in it that we couldn’t stop.”
“What do you mean?”
“Neesh wasn’t surprised by what we were doing when she walked back in the room,” Laura said. “In fact, I’m pretty sure she knew before she even left the room that it was going to happen.”
“Really?”
“Yeah,” she said with a sigh. “You see...” She shook her head. “I can’t believe I’m about to tell you this.”
“Tell me what?”
“Right before Tally did that to me ... she ... uh ... she did it to Neesh.”
Celia thought she’d been about as shocked as she could get by this unfolding story. She was wrong. “You mean ... Tally ... she ... she went down on Neesh first?”
“She did,” Laura said with a nod. “In her wedding dress. She spread her legs, pulled her panties to the side, and ate her out until she came.”
“Madres de Dios,” Celia whispered again, feeling that surge of sexual excitement suddenly ramp up by a factor of ten. “In her wedding dress? That’s so ... so...”
“Hot,” Laura said once again. “It was about the hottest thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life.”
“You were there when she did it?” she asked, just for clarity.
“I was there,” Laura confirmed. “I ... I held Neesh’s hands for her so she couldn’t mess up Tally’s hair.”
“Wow,” Celia whispered. This time she couldn’t help herself. She dropped her hand between her legs and gave herself a quick squeeze just to the side of her clitoris, sending a thrill through her. Only reluctantly did she pull those fingers free after one squeeze.
“So ... when Neesh was going to freshen up ... it was because ... she ... uh...”
Laura nodded. “Because she had just come all over Tally’s face,” she said.
“Then this wasn’t the first time that Tally and Neesh ... that they did this sort of thing?”
A shake of the head this time. “No, they’ve been doing it to each other ever since they were in high school basically. Since even before high school if you want to include when they used to feel each other’s boobs up on sleepovers. All those stories I said that Tally told me about her experiences with other women ... they were all the experiences she had with Neesh. And Neesh told quite a few of the stories as well.”
“I see,” Celia said slowly. “This is ... uh ... quite a tale, Teach.”
“Isn’t it?” Laura said bitterly, slugging down another healthy hit of her wine. She then picked up her pipe and her baggie and began to stuff more bud into it.
“What I don’t understand though,” Celia said, “is why Jake would be upset about this. You said you told him about it first, right?”
“Right,” she said, tamping down the bud in the pipe. “But I didn’t tell him about Neesh’s involvement in this whole thing. I told him that Neesh was out of the room while Tally and I were doing our thing, and ... and that she didn’t come back until it was over. And I didn’t mention anything at all about what happened between Neesh and Tally before she offered to ... you know ... service me.”
“Okay,” Celia said slowly. “Because you were trying to protect Neesh?”
Laura didn’t answer at first. She picked up her lighter, put the pipe to her lips, and took a tremendous hit. She held it in for quite some time and then slowly exhaled the fragrant smoke. Only then did she look back over at Celia. “Not exactly,” she said.
“What do you mean?”
“There’s still a little more to the story,” Laura said.
“Like what?” she asked.
And so, she told the story of the night after the Soul Train awards, when she and Neesh had gone skinny dipping on the beach, and then had ended up making out in the surf, and then how they’d gone over to the log with every intention of consummating the new relationship then and there until they’d been interrupted by the realization that the tide was coming in and their clothes were likely being carried out to sea. And that, of course, had led to the incident with the snoozing sea lion and the sneaking back into G’s house.