I didn’t realize how much I missed it.” We rested for a few more minutes, each of us absorbing what we’d just done. I took her right nipple between my lips and pressed them together, then licked the nipple tentatively, circling it with my tongue before turning to her left breast. Not looking for a girlfriend right now, but, yes, I’ll be there.”
“I”m going to ask a big favour, Tom,” as she seemed to draw a breath in,”I want you to take Lucy to the, ummm, mixer.”
“Whaaat? Finally she leaned over me and suspended herself with one hand on each side of my head, lowering herself enough that I was able to crane my neck so that my lips could reach and envelope her nipples. I spent those minutes in self-interrogation, asking myself what had happened at the viewpoint, what my feelings, my response had meant for me and more importantly what it had meant for my grieving sister.
