Sunday, July 16, 2006
Chapter 16C-Put on the Spot
Char laughed. "You are taking this much too seriously Tobal. For one thing, no one is going to get pregnant out here. Once a year we get birth control shots that last the entire year. In fact, we get them during Samhain, which is this month. The medics will make sure we get our shots if we want to continue in the Apprentice program. I thought you knew that."
Tobal looked confused.
She continued, "It might not be a good idea for two Apprentices to get together like Wayne and I did. It is really hard having a permanent love relationship with someone when you need to train and live with other people like Wayne and I need to do. But it is normal to be sexual with others. Having sex is a form of sharing and a way of deepening a relationship. It is no big deal really. None of us are experts at love. We all need to have experiences and learn from those experiences. Our love partners help us and we teach each other about what pleases us."
"Tobal", she looked at him intently and unfastened her robe. "Do you want to have sex with me?"
He found himself staring at her body, her soft breasts and the mound of blonde pubic hair stirred something inside him. Tobal found himself uncomfortable with the subject and with his own feelings. She had a good looking body.
"I think Iwill wait until I get to Journeyman before I worry about it too much", he said awkwardly.
She laughed. "Well at least give me a hug and a kiss then". She moved closer so her bare body was against him as they hugged. It was a long hug and a long kiss.
It took a while to recover and Tobal wandered around the gathering spot trying to collect his wits together. He thought about what Char had said and wondered if she was right. Maybe he was making too big of a thing about it. Maybe sex could be as casual as shaking hands for some people but he knew it was not that way for him. For one thing there were a lot of attractive girls around the camp and only one or two had ever really drawn his eye.
He thought of Melanie, yes, he was sexually attracted to Melanie. Then Becca came unbidden into his mind and he hastily pushed her back out. He didn't know what was going on between him and Becca but it was more like electric shock therapy than sexual attraction.
Sarah, Mike and Butch had all completed their solos and were talking together when he came up to them. They were going to take this month off and work on their own base camps getting prepared for winter. It seemed most clansmen were either doing that or had already done that. None of them were talking about partnering up for the winter but they were thinking about working together setting up winter camps. Once their winter camps were set up they would decide if they were going to do any training or not.
Melanie, Becca, Nikki and he were the only ones interested in newbies this month. They each received a new chevron except Nikki. Her first newbie was going to solo that month. That made three for him, and one each for Becca and Melanie.
"You're going to travel with us to sanctuary aren’t you?", Nikki asked. "It will be a blast."
"I might", he said evasively. "I need to talk with Ellen first though and I might be running later than usual. If I'm not around just take off without me and I'll catch up with you."
"What do you need to talk with Ellen about?" Nikki asked.
"She wants to know more about when my base camp got burned by rogues", he evaded by giving a simple answer.
"I remember that", Melanie exclaimed. "That's when we found the waterfall by the lake and that weird abandoned gathering spot. Tell her she can talk to me too if she wants. Say, have you ever gone
back there like you said you were going to?"
"That's one of the things I'm going to talk with Ellen about", Tobal said. It's pretty bad weather to go there now though. To easy to get snowed in."
"Maybe we can all go there this spring some time", Becca said. "I love swimming and there isn't a really good swimming spot around here."
"That's a great idea!" Nikki said enthusiastically.
"Well just let me know so I can go with you", Tobal said. "It might be dangerous and there should be enough of us going so no one will attack us."
"Why would anyone want to attack us?", Nikki laughed. "You have something in mind handsome?"
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