Stars in Our Eyes ff oral "Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, The river and the mountain yields." Ariana's voice was high and clear in the darkness, the sweet melody drifting through the air and off into the trees. She was singing to Rachel, who was stretched out naked beside her on their sleeping bag, eyes closed, perfect lips smiling. There was no moon that night, but a sky full of stars blazed down at us. Rachel lay on her back, her breasts and stomach outlined by the starlight, her legs open to the night. Lying a few feet away with Julie beside me, I admired the two of them, and moved my fingers idly over Julie's body. It had been a long hot day, hiking halfway up the mountain, and the cool night air was like wine in my throat. Ariana's hair, long and red and frizzy in the daylight, flowed and swirled around her head in the night, and when she leaned over and kissed Rachel's lips, it hid their heads in a cascade of jet. Their mouths, parting, made a soft moist sound. Rachel put her arms around Ariana and drew her body down, and they merged for a moment into one dark curved shape on the cool ground. When they parted again, Ariana was on her back, with Rachel's hands caressing her. Ariana is a slim, quiet woman, pale and thoughtful, prone to shyness and sunburn. But tonight something in her opened, and her voice poured out into the air as her lover bent and kissed her body. "I came out to myself," she said, to Rachel, to us, to the air, "a week after my nineteenth birthday. I didn't want a boy; I wanted a woman. A woman to love, to love me, to sleep with and dance with and hold hands with, and a woman's body to touch, and a woman's self nearby." "Ooh, I like stories," Julie whispered, her lips at my ear. The tip of her tongue gently moistened my earlobe, and her fingers touched my chest. "Of course as soon as I had this figured out," Ariana went on, "every woman I'd ever been attracted to moved to Alaska, or got married, or called me on the phone about this new guy they'd met. It was a long month, just me and my heart and my vibrator." Rachel made a soft sympathetic sound, and her hand strayed for a moment between her lover's thighs. I touched Julie's neck, and my hand imagined the warm compact sweetness of her vulva. "But still, it was a new world. I could dream of women without pain, without wondering if there was something wrong with me, without having to try to dream of men instead. But I did get tired of dreaming. "I paced. I bit my lips alot. I gathered my courage. I signed up for a Women's Retreat one week in August. I got permanent butterflies of the stomach as soon as I had the ticket. I imagined the Retreat as some kind of wild orgy, or at least a long string of dates. I was nervous, and eager, and silly. My vibrator was a busy little thing." My hand drifted down over Julie's throat, up the slope of her left breast. Her nipple was soft and relaxed, the aureola smooth and firm. She sighed as I touched her. "Of course the retreat was nothing like I'd imagined! The first day I went to the orientation, and lunch, and a workshop on female empowerment, and no one once tried to seduce me, or offered to devote her life to me. Or even kiss me. I was nervous and silly and relieved and disappointed. I went to my tent right after dinner and lay there and fantasized about all those women, and cried for no reason." Rachel took Ariana's hand, brought it to her lips. "The next morning another workshop, where I felt young and stupid and ugly, and then lunch. After lunch I went down to the lake, because there didn't seem to be anyone there. In the bathhouse I changed into my suit. I'd packed a skimpy little bikini with great expectation; now it just felt dumb. And naturally when I went out onto the dock, there was someone there after all. But, oh, she was beautiful!" Now Ariana reached up for a moment and brought Rachel down to her, and they merged together again in the dark. Her voice came, quieter, out of the common shadow of their bodies. "I'd seen her across the room in the first workshop, and wished she'd been my partner for the Trust Walk, and even said Hi to her at lunch. She was friendly and nice, and I didn't feel fourteen when she looked at me. And now she was lying on the dock in this gorgeous white one-piece, and she was so serene and perfect! I just stood there with my eyes glued to her, wanting to stay like that forever, until she opened her eyes and smiled at me, and I was in love." I caressed Julie's nipples with my fingers until they stood warm and erect on her breasts. She put her mouth to my ear again. "Are you in love?" she whispered. I kissed her soft perfect mouth. "She said Hi and I said Hi, and I slipped into the water so she wouldn't see my body blushing. I swam out and in a few times, and then hung on the side of the dock and tried to look casual. And she talked to me! The water was cool and deep. I was warm between my legs talking to her, and I wanted to tell her I loved her, but we talked about everything but sex, everything but love. Once she moved her foot accidentally so it touched my hand, and I kept my hand still until it started to cramp, not wanting to stop touching her, wanting to take her toes in my fingers, and kiss them. It was glorious! We talked and talked, until the bell rang for dinner. I got out of the water, all wet and shriveled. She took my hand to help me out, and her face was so close to mine that without even thinking about it I kissed her, kissed her right on that incredible mouth. My heart did something in my chest, and I knew I'd blown it. I ran right to my tent without looking back, and lay on the floor and cried, and this time I knew just exactly why." Julie took my hand in hers and rubbed it over the downy skin of her stomach as we lay listening. Crickets sang in the bushes, and a light wind stirred the trees. Ariana sighed. Rachel's lips touched her neck gently, consolingly. "A few minutes later someone knocked at my tent-flap. It was her, of course, with a little food and this awful kind look on her face. I looked into her eyes, and I knew she was going to tell me not to be sad, but that she was married, or didn't really like me, or was a nun. But she just said Hi again, and offered me some salad, and sat down next to me. Right next to me, close enough to touch. We talked, but I don't remember a word. I was just staring at her face, watching her eat. Then we were done, and she looked at me. I knew I had to do something or she would leave, so I put my hand on her arm, on her smooth pale skin. She was so close to me. I thought she'd pat my hand and go. But she opened her mouth, and touched my shoulder, and kissed me on the lips." Julie's hand guided my fingers down her stomach and over her mons. The curly hair of her vulva was soft under my fingers. She spread her legs. The warm womanness of her filled my palm, and she pressed against my hand. "I kissed her back, hard and starving, with my eyes closed and my heart trying to beat its way out of my chest. Her tongue slipped gently between my lips, and I could feel every hair on my body stand straight up. My nipples clenched. Our mouths pressed together for a long long time, and her arms went around me, and she held me and kissed me and I could have died happy right then. She moved her head back and looked at me and smiled, and one of her beautiful warm hands touched my cold wet miserable bikini top. 'Should I...?' she asked. 'Please,' I whispered. Ah, God, sweet Rachel!" Rachel's mouth covered one of Ariana's nipples, and her hands caressed the small round breasts. Ariana's body arched, pressing herself against her lover's mouth, and she gasped. I kissed Julie's face, and opened her labia. "Very gently she helped me off with my top, and ahhhh took my breasts in her hands. I was tingling all over; I could hardly breathe. Her fingers on my nipples were soft and gentle. Things were happening in my stomach and my thighs; I was coming, in quick little orgasms that made me moan and toss my head. 'Are you okay?' she asked. I put my arms around her neck and hid my head on her shoulder, and came again. 'I love you,' I said. I said it so softly she could hardly have heard it, but she said 'ooh...', and put her arms around me and kissed me again. So sweet and so gentle I knew I was going to break." Julie opened her mouth and wriggled her hips as I slid one finger into the moist heat of her vagina. I kissed her again, and ran my tongue over her lips. She moaned softly, and with one hand between her legs she pressed my hand more deeply into her flesh. "Then she backed away from me, and slid out of her suit. I loved every goosebump of her skin. Her nipples were as hard and erect as mine, and I could smell her -- Oh God -- her sex mixed with the green smell of the lake water. I took off my bikini bottom, and she came back to me. We lay together skin to ooh ooh OOH to skin, with our arms and legs twined, and whispered in each other's ears, about love, and sex, and each other, and she AAHH moved her body against me, and I came again and again and again, and oh GOD oh Rachel I'm coming again NOW!" Rachel's head was between Ariana's legs, and her tongue made soft sounds as it moved in and out, and Rachel's fingers danced a dance of love. Ariana came, gasping and laughing, her body arching in the starlight, her legs spread wide. Julie kissed me hard on the mouth, and rocked her hips urgently around my hand, her vagina squeezing my fingers. I tweaked her nipple with my other hand, and a deep shudder ran through her body, and she screamed softly into my mouth as she climaxed. "She ahhhh she spent the night in my tent, with me, in my sleeping bag. I tasted her body, and sang her lullabyes. She told me her life story, and I knew I wanted to be the next long long chapter in it. I made her come with my tongue and my fingers. Her skin and her mouth were the most lovely things in the world. And they still are, my Rachel, my dear sweet Rachel. Kiss me again." They lay body to body for a long time, just kissing, sighing, pressing against each other. Julie eased my fingers out of her body, and kissed me, and sat up over me. As her mouth moved down my chest and my stomach, I touched her head, and looked up at the stars.