Short Story - May 2007

The Things we do for love

When Kelly said, "Fancy a shag?” Laura replied, "Don't mind if I do", which seemed to satisfy Kelly, although Laura wasn’t too happy with her own choice of words. Don’t mind if I do, was what Norma Next Door, said to offers of tea, cake, Pringles and Bacardi and coke. Fortunately Kelly didn’t know Norma Next Door.
When Laura was fifteen she’d had, well she couldn’t call it sex or a shag, she’d had 'something' with Norma Next Door who was eighteen and recently become engaged to Rick, a deliverer of organic potatoes.
“I want to show you this thing Rick does to me. It drives me wild", Norma said, "It's instead of going the whole way. Rick wants to wait till we’re married. Rick says holding back will increase our levels of sexual pleasure".
"But I’m not a man", Laura protested.
"You don’t have to be, stupid. You’ve got the same hair as Rick though, short and stubbly".

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