Chapter Seventeen - A long ignored past
Mandy got out of the car that had gave her a ride back to Pawa and started walking towards her cabin. Her head still hurt like crazy underneath the large band-aid that she sported on the side of her forehead, but it was manageable. She was just glad to be back in Pawa again, after two days in the hospital and finding out there was a place that had worse food than the Camp did.
She rounded to the front of the administration building, and was surprised to be met by Olivia and the entire cabin nine. They all held up painted banners welcoming her back as they swarmed her to give a major group hug.
So happy with the reception she had gotten, Mandy felt like crying.
“ You guys...” She said, choked up with emotions.
“ Welcome back!!” Said the girls almost as one.
“ Are you sure of that?” She poked back to the gathering, eliciting all of the girls to giggle at it.
She saw the smiling face of Olivia, and felt a sense of belonging flow through her. She sighed as she felt almost back to normal with all of it.
“ So now what do we do, Olivia?” She perked up.
“ What else is there to do but... get back to work...” Olivia smiled.
“ Slave driver!” Playfully pouted Mandy, but her pout turned into laughter.
“ Did you expect anything else?” Smirked the woman, seemingly in a great mood.. “ You probably have not had a smoke in awhile, go have one and meet us in the arts and crafts area quickly.”
Mandy giggled and nodded, she was wanting a smoke badly by this time. She nodded and then hurried off to do just that, while Olivia and the cabin made their way to start the whole arts thing.
That first drag made Mandy a little light-headed within moments, but it felt so good. Sinking into the chair, her body seemed to relish the cigarette and made her feel even more at home again. She took a second drag as she felt the heat of the sun easing her even more to being back at Pawa.
“ Ahhh... Heaven!” She said to nobody.
She paused to look over, and saw Sunny was there, smiling sweetly as her deep blue eyes sparked at her. Mandy broke into a broad smile, as her heart felt so much love with just being back all over again.
“ Welcome back To Pawa there...” The woman said. “ I heard you had been released from the hospital.. and ventured a good guess this would be your first stop.”
Mandy chuckled as the woman sat down and lit up her own smoke. Sunny took a drag and looked over at the small statured woman.
“ How the head today.”
“ A little sore still.” Admitted Mandy, then giggled a little. “ But it seems like nothing got seriously scrambled up there.”
“ Shaken... but not stirred, right?” Cheekily added Sunny, which made the two laugh.
Sunny leaned over and cupped her hand on Mandy’s cheek. She smiled broadly, gazing right into Mandy’s dark orbs.
“ I am glad you were not hurt worse than what you were...” She said, leaning in more. “ Or he had not hurt you as he had planned to...”
The woman seemed to going in to place a sweet kiss onto Mandy, but a very loud and unsettled voice who now called out Sunny’s name. The pretty woman cocked her head over a little, as the voice seemed beyond frantic, then she shook her head and could not help but smile.
“ Damn! My job is never done, I guess...” Sunny giggled.
“ Around here, it seems like it never is...” Agreed Mandy, with her own nervous giggle.
“ Then this has to be quicker than I want it to be...” She smirked, her eyes twinkling. “ Oh, well...”
The woman did as she said she was going to, quickly placed a small kiss onto Mandy’s lips. The smaller woman instantly reciprocating as lips touched so gently, putting her hand up to cup the face of Sunny as well. It was quite a hurried type of kiss, but it’s softness and energy it had against the skin on her lips made Mandy tingle wildly all over. They hung like that for a while, oblivious of anything around them.
Breaking the peck with great reluctance, the woman stood up and hurried herself off in the direction that the voice had been bellowing from, waving as she went. By the step in Sunny hurried walk, it almost like was she was skipping off like a happy little girl would on a peasant summer’s day.
Mandy felt herself blushing a little as she put the cigarette into her mouth, while she was aware that she was shivering with the pleasing after effects of Sunny’s kiss, but there was a reservation about it as well... it was almost like a fragment of doubt in her mind that hung behind the enjoyable feelings.
She took a long drag and made a soft moaning sound in the back of her throat, enjoying the pleasant feelings that had been left by the woman, regardless of whatever this other thing she was feeling. She let out a long plume of smoke onto the very still summer air, her mind feeling so settled at this moment.
“ Great kisser...” She giggled to herself, noting that she had to hurry herself and join the others in the Arts and Crafts building as soon as possible.
She took a few more quickened drags, then threw the nearly finish smoke into an old coffee can that served as a makeshift ashtray for the councilors. She stood up and walked very fast away from the smoking area, not wanting to be lagging behind her first day back. After all that had happened, she was happy to join back in.
She was still worried about Alison and the mess she had gotten herself into... but she knew that she could not help her at this point. The beautiful yet naive bookworm had made all of this for herself, and Mandy knew that well, yet she still could not help but to be so concerned... after four years of loving Alison, you could not turn it off like some light switch on a whim. Four years have been just that... four years of caring.
Mandy just said a little prayer for her ex as she returned to her duties, knowing fully that only God could protect her from harm from Allen. She made herself a mental note to try and have a talk with Officer Dana later on, to see what if any developments have occurred. She already knew that Allen and Alison were still out there on the run together... and that the man was still dangerous dispite having his partner locked up. That still made him dangerous to girls, and Alison.
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The day turned out to be so long feeling for Mandy. She was glad to be back and beside Olivia working again, but it was a little different as well. She had this new sort of appreciation towards the woman she worked along side of... it was an appreciation that was curiously freeing.
She had watched Olivia through out the day as she expertly headed the Cabin, and found herself drawn to that strength she had. She had always thought the woman was a very pretty lady to begin with, and always admired how much caring and respect she gave to everyone around her. Even when she had been a small girl she had seen that, but now working along with her as a co-councilor.. it just made Olivia seem even more like someone to look up to, and to feel this closeness with.
Mandy paused for a moment, A strange thought came into her mind, one she had not had came across, but now begged to be answered. She now wondered if she had a crush on Olivia back then, even though she had not understood the fact that she was a lesbian as yet. She could remember how drawn she was to the woman. Could that be a possibility?
After thinking about it for a moment, going back in time in her mind to simpler days to play it through...it was clear that was more than a possibility, she decided. She had always been so pulled to the woman... now she was feeling the same way. Even now, there was something strongly felt there towards Olivia. It was a little more than just liking this woman... Perhaps their might be and much more, she thought Remembering the doubting she had earlier, she knew that she still liked Sunny a lot... yet this was a much different type of attraction than she had with the woman with the tattoo.
Was she mistaken with what feelings she had for either Sunny or Olivia? She was unsure if she confused, scared from everything or just plainly wrong.
Aside from all of these conflicting thoughts, she knew the that her lead councilor was not a Lesbian in the first place. Even if she was feeling attracted in the way she thought she was to Olivia, it was not possible for that reason.
Putting an end to her thinking, she saw that her cabin was heading off to the athletic field for some fun with bows and arrows before supper was to be served up. She put the thoughts away, as she had resolved them for the most part.
The day was done and night had fallen, and every girl in Cabin Nine was in their little cubbyholes safe and sound for the night. Peacefulness reigned supreme in the Cabin at last.. that was a big time bonus when anybody was working at a summer Camp.
Doing her last ‘walk’ duty before turning in for a better sleep than she had in the hospital, Mandy was pleased with the quietness that had fallen at the end of her day. Standing in the hallway that ran the length of the cabin and looking at each drawn drape, she took enjoyment from it to heart. She had already did a check inside ever single little room, and found who was there was suppose to be there... no one was missing in there group.
There had been a few little bumps through out the day, most notably the screaming match the twins had over a boy they both liked, but it ended up as nothing too serious as the boy expressed that he actually liked another girl in another cabin. The twins ended up comforting one another and cursing the boy for not seeing either one of them as desirable, and the hostility ended there.
Mandy entered her shared bunk-room, where Olivia was sitting up in her bed, a book in her hand.
“ You’ll be happy to know that everyone is tucked in their respective bed and all is quiet.” She announced to the woman, as she began to shuck off her clothes.
“ Even the McCabe twins have gone off to sleep without trying to kill each other again?” Olivia asked.
“ Even they are tucked in and probably asleep.” Happily nodded Mandy, tossing her clothes into the hamper for washing the next day. “ I had a look in on all of them... they are all accounted for.”
Mandy was pulling her hair back into a ponytail for the night when she noticed that Olivia had sat up on the edge of her bed and was looking at her. By what she saw, the woman seemed serious about something.
“ Could we have a little chat here?” Olivia said.
“ Uh, sure...” Mandy said, a little unsure just what was so seriously on the woman’s mind.
The woman crossed the room so smoothly, not even trying to hide the fact that she was as naked as Mandy was. She took a seat next to Mandy on the bed, still carrying the big book she had been holding since the younger woman had came in. Mandy eyed the woman, who seemed to now stare at that book
Olivia seemed to pause for a moment, and Mandy just waited patiently beside her.
“ First thing I need to talk to you about... is that I sort of tucked something away that was yours...” She said finally.
“ Something of mine?” questioned the long haired young lady, a little perplexed at this point.
Olivia opened the book and pulled out a obviously very wrinkled envelope and held it out to Mandy. The younger lady instantly recognized it as the letter she had thrown away unopened awhile back, a letter that was penned by Alison.
“ I threw that out... why did you keep it?” She asked., frowning a little.
“ To be honest... I have no idea the reasons why I picked it out of the trash and ended up keeping it...” Started Olivia. “ I just did it, and I am sorry that I did..”
“ I see...” Said Mandy, a little shaky. “ And now why are you ending up giving it back to me?”
“ It just came over me to give it back now... it’s sort of like something is pushing me to make sure you get it back... As you can see, I never opened it.”
Mandy felt her chest get tight as she looked at the unopened letter that was being held out to her. It was bringing up those feelings she thought she had been almost through... they now appeared in all of their horrible glory.
“ Is there more to the reason your giving me this back?”
“ I feel strongly that you need to read it now...” Olivia said. “ After everything that has happened... I am playing a gut feeling that you are suppose to read it.”
Mandy looked at the envelope, almost holding her breath when she was. She looked into the woman’s face, and saw the light of support in them. She had always trusted the woman, over the many years. She realized that if the woman was doing this and felt strongly about it... it was time to trust again.
“ You stay with me while I read this then?” She asked softly.
“ I ain’t going anywhere...” Olivia smirked, using a drawl that was right out of the south.
Nervously, Mandy opened the letter. Inside was a folded sheet of paper and what seemed to be a small photograph tucked beside it. She pulled out the picture first to look at it, as Olivia sat quietly beside her, good to her word that she was not going to go.
The photo was of her and Alison on their very first day at University. They had their arms around one another and smiling so proudly as they posed in front of the tall stone and brick clock that sat in the center of the campus, it instantly brought her those times. She could see in her eyes in the picture, just how happy and proud she was at that moment. By the look in Alison’s face, she was happy as well. Times sure had changed from that photo.
“ This was taken on our first day of university..” She said with a tear, showing the picture to Olivia.
“ Nice picture...” The woman commented
“ Happy times...” Mandy commented, her words trailing off, a pained expression flowed over her face.
Mandy took out the letter part and unfolded it. She looked at Olivia with a hesitance in her eyes. The woman nodded in support, but said nothing. She took a deepened breath in and finally started to read.
The letter started.
“ Dear sweetest Mandy:” She read, causing a lump to form in her throat, “ How I hurt you... I know that I have. It was not anything you did that caused all of this to come about, I just have fallen in love with Allen. He was the first man who really showed an interest in me as a person, and I always had pushed him away because of my love for you... but I found that I was attracted to him more and more as time went on. I was torn, but I simply have followed my heart even though I still am very much in love with you.” Mandy paused as her anger, hurt and sadness mixed. “ I hope that someday, you too will find the right love with the right person... and not be jaded by what has gone on to the point of pushing people away. My only wish in all of this is that you are going to be happy, and that someday you will look on my child as a sort of God-child to you. I would really like for him or her to know such an amazing person as you are Don’t hate Allen, he is the one I love.” The letter was plainly ended by Alison’s name.
Mandy looked up and sighed. Olivia tried to read the woman’s facial expressions, and she found that there was this curious mix held in those eyes.
“ Are you alright with that... I sort of read along with you.”
The young councilor thought for a moment, skimming over the letter a second time while her friend waited. She seemed to be upset to a point, yet there was this sense of calmness that had came over the woman as well.
“ Actually, I am more than fine...” She finally said, looking over at her friend. “ This seemed to be so self absorbed of Alison... and it also shows me that she was knowing of what she was doing... ending up that she was making her choice on her own.”
“ Seemed almost selfish to me...” Agreed Olivia. “ But it scares me for Alison as well... she does not know what this Allen asshole is capable of, and she really does not understand how much hurt she really caused you..”
“ That worries me too... but I don’t want to see her hurt, even after she has done all of this.” Admitted Mandy, folding the letter like if it had some sort of finality to it. “ I can’t help it that I still love her in some part of myself, but I have to let her find out what she has done for herself, and hope that God will keep her safe while she does it... as well as her unborn child.”
Olivia felt proud at the level of maturity the woman was showing in this, she might have been acting differently if it happened to her. It was not a surprise to her in any way, even when Mandy had been her Camper for all those summers, the girl had always exhibited this type of maturity. It made only her decision to tell her a little harder in a way.
Mandy looked over at Olivia, then paused for a second as she seemed to be remembering something.
“ You have something else for to talk to me about... right?” She smiled, letting Olivia know that she was just fine with this.
Olivia nodded slowly, looking right into Mandy’s eyes. To the woman, it felt like now or never to lay it all out.
“ I need to talk to you about something... er.... rather personal.” She said.
“ Personal? Go right ahead...” Mandy said with her usual grin.
As Mandy waited for the woman to start, she noticed something rather odd. It was a very hot night, and they were both naked... yet Olivia was sitting there and sweating profusely while she was not.
“ Are you alright?” She asked.
“ Yeah..” Smiled the woman, sheepishly.
“ Your sweating badly.” She commented. “ Are you not feeling well or something?”
“ No...Guess I’m a little bit nervous here...” Olivia said, her voice wavering a little.
“ Nervous about what?”
Olivia sucked in a dep breath, and leveled her gaze at Mandy.
“ It is about what I am going to tell you here...” She began. “ It’s kind of hard, considering I was not even sure myself for a while... its sort of like I actually have found who I am finally...”
“ You can tell me...” Said Mandy, smiling to try and settle the woman down. “ We have known one another for a long time... what ever it is, just spit it out.”
The woman paused, obviously figuring just how she was going tell Mandy her feelings. She then leaned over, and planted a strong kiss on to the smaller woman, obviously opting not to use words..
Mandy stiffened a little, then seemed to melt into the kiss. When Olivia pulled a way a little she looked right at the young woman.
“ I think I am in love with you... and have been, much to my own surprise, for a long time.” She whispered.
“ You are?” Said Mandy, feeling her own emotions for the woman coming out.
“ Yes!” Olivia said. “ I don’t know when that came for me, but I feel so strongly for you.”
Mandy was shocked, but seemed like her heart was not. She looked deeply into Olivia’s eyes, and saw that this was flat out truth. She smiled, as she had bee thinking about Olivia as well, and wondered.... could it be they had somehow mind linked?
“ Wow...” Said Mandy, unsure of what to say in actuality as she saw the passion in Olivia’s eyes. “ Now what?”
“ This..” Said Olivia as she leaned in and kissed Mandy again.
The kiss was one of pure passion, as the woman put her hand on Mandy’s bare side. She rubbed the side lightly, trailing her fingers along the entire length of the young lady’s body. She felt Mandy shiver slightly, and could fell the younger woman’s hand now on the roundness of her hip. She sighed, this felt right.
Mandy could feel how well muscled the woman was. Even though the woman was quite a bit older than her, Olivia’s body was as fit as her’s was... she would have guessed even more so. Feeling how the muscles moved and dance, just made Mandy melt.. Kissing those sweet lips back as she felt ever sinew move against her body, she could feel how her heart was pounding in her chest.
The two fell on to Mandy’s bed together, hands roving over heated skin. Olivia traced her fingers across the flatness of Mandy’s belly and was enamored with how it felt to her. She slipped her hand lower with a bit of apprehension, nervously going for the clean shaven treasure that was nestled in between the very lean looking legs.
“ This is my first time with a woman...” Olivia gasped, as she touched the soft wetness of folds on the smaller woman. “ I feel like just like a virgin all over again... but now I feel alive...”
“ You are doing ... amazing....” Said a gasping Mandy, as the woman had slid her finger inside of her. She bucked her hips against the hand in reflex, and it slid in a little further still. “ Really amazing!”
“ I want to make love to you...” Olivia breathed, excited by how her finger were being gently embraced by the velvet lining of the treasure of Mandy, and how she had began to hump back. “ Teach me to love...”
Mandy turned her head, as they were directly beside each other. She kissed the woman back softly, using her tongue to lightly touch those full lips. She moved her hands to cup the small but still very perky breast of Olivia’s, totally enjoying the firmness in her palm.. When she squeezed the delightful roundness with just a light touch, the woman moaned into her mouth and her hand reacted by pushing the finger deeper inside of her. The young lady felt herself shiver over every inch of herself, as a pre-orgasmic spark shot through her.
Taking all the time in the world, they just explored one another. Mandy could not believe the tenderness the woman was showing... every light tough she received from Olivia made her whole body quiver. When she would touch the woman, it seemed almost as if she had never been touched before herself... she would arch against her hungrily, almost as if to get as close as she could to her. Skin to skin in the darkness, they did not even need the small light that was on... touch was all that was needed.
Mandy took the initiative after awhile, gently guiding the woman over on to her back. She saw that the woman had willingly allowed it, her sweat glistening smile told her that she was wanting whatever was coming. She felt herself being excited by this as well, as she looked down at the short cropped patch of now very damp dark hair that awaited her attentions. It was sitting there, open and shining with the wetness that came from arousal. It was breathtaking.
“ I will take it slow.. I promise...” She said to Olivia through heavy panting, surprised at herself at being so bold.
“ I know...and I am waiting..” Breathed the Lady back, her breathing heavy and making her breast rise exquisitely for Mandy.
Olivia watched with wide eyed passion, as the smaller woman slipped down her body. She trembled as she watched Mandy lower her head between her propped up knees. Anticipation mounted, as she could feel the woman’s soft breath on her very wet opening. With ever fiber waiting, she then felt Mandy’s tongue touch her labia and began to move over it with caressing attentiveness. She took a sharp gasp in, as her body was quick to respond by trembling with great pleasure.
Sighing, the woman layed her head back as Mandy began to lap with great tenderness, eliciting so many feelings she had never experienced before. She felt a finger also being put in as an added bonus, and she shivered with delight.
“ Oh, God!” She moaned, as the very amazing young woman carried her off into a state of pure bliss.
Mandy found the woman’s juices to be so sweet tasting, the musk of Olivia’s was strong yet it made for great pleasure as well. She took care as she directed herself onto the very sensitive nub that was already excited, as it just throbbed there in waiting. The first little ring of her tongue she did, caused a flood of juices top come out. She eagerly let herself go and relish the sweet nectar, as the woman’s body was calling her mind...body... and soul.
Olivia was enraptured, encased by every overwhelming sensation that flooded her. Waves upon waved of orgasms thundered through her, each grabbing a hold of her only to give way to another right behind her. She gasped, bit her lip to keep from crying out and waking the girls... as another one pounded through her. Glowing, she just let things come as they may.
Mandy stopped and looked up, as the woman had called out her name.. She saw the sweat streaked face of Olivia looking at her as she sat up. By the smile that was being flashed to her, the woman was very much pleased at this point. She pulled the younger gal towards her and gave a long kiss.
“ I take it that you liked it?” Said a smirking Mandy.
Olivia smiled in reply, eyes sparkling. Without saying anything, the woman pulled the younger one on top of her, then so gently deposited her on to the bed beside her. Mandy was a little shocked when the woman got up on to her knees and moved down to be between her legs this time.. She found her very own anticipation made her entire body now tremble in excitement.
“ I’m not too sure how to do this...” She said with a passion filled smile as she looked down at the girl’s treasure. “ But I think I am going to give it a try... I think I need to put a stop to my virginity again.”
“ You don’t have to... OH, God!!” Gasped Mandy, while her body was wanting the attention at this time, feeling the woman’s already tracing a fingertip over a very erogenous zone
“ I want to..” Was all Olivia said, lowing her head.
Feeling Olivia’s lips contact her now very excited rose petals. She gasped at just how gentle Olivia was doing it. With a sigh of complete delight, Mandy let her legs open fully, and drunk in what the woman started to do to her. It may not have been the most experienced way, but to her, it was bringing her to a level she had not experienced even with Alison. She was in total rapture.
Sighing, she let the first of soon to be many orgasms go, already knowing there would be many more waiting. This night would be filled with many more passion filled minutes... she was sure of that.