The Blanket — 4
#5 of The Blanket
Funny how little anachronous thoughts burrow their way into a mind at the strangest opportunities, little out of place happenings to the conscious.
'Koda's home is really cool' is one such thought, and it occured to Ed as the fourteen year old girl had straddled his waist, dangling each of her legs around the sun chair as she pressed her long smooth muzzle into his. This wasn't his first kiss, but as he looked out across her yard and above-ground below-porch pool and up at her two story home in between kisses he couldn't help but have these thoughts.
There is nothing wrong with Koda, in fact Ed likes Koda, as a friend and a potential lover. Koda was one of those girls who aggregated with several social groups at school, primarily those who were popular and those who kept their faces in books and those who were skaters/stoners. Basically, she could be seen with a dog eared copy of Buck Dies at The End while she talked about how wacky that last football game was. Ed had seen it several times.
This was also an anachronous thought. He closed his eyes and tried to focus on the moment, and he could feel her hot, wet tongue tapping at his lips. He "mmph"ed as he felt it enter and they began an awkward wrestle. Ed thought he could taste lemonade.
There was nothing wrong with Koda, in fact she's a lovely girl. Intelligent, pretty, popular, and currently straddling Ed with his tongue in her mouth. She took his hand and placed it in her waist and he held her. He smelled her fur, a pleasantly earthy and rich scent, and her tail thumped against his legs. He thought about how much of a juxtaposition of temperature it would be if they were in the pool. The heat of their bodies, the cool of the water. A similarity found in the lapping, the licking, the waves. Ed wondered about her dad getting home, Ed wondered about her dad, Ed wondered about her dad and his mom, Ed wondered about his mom and it was a weird taste on his tongue as he thought about her while he was in another girls mouth. It made him nauseous but not in a way that youd suspect. A thought appeared about his mother straddling him, her tongue in his mouth like this, and Ed paused, pulling out of her face. "Something wrong?" She said, panting and brushing his face with her breath.
"No," he panted as well. He set his head on her budding breasts and held her waist, resting his tongue and listening to her heartbeat. That was something he did with his mom, was whenever she would hug him, he'd set his head on her chest and just listen to her heartbeat, thump. Thump. The breath filling Koda's chest and leaving, her voice as she chuckled, her head as she set it on his. Get rid of the straddle, get rid of everything prior to the hug and everything below the belt and it was similar to something between his mother and him. There was something suspicious, subcutaneous, and offkilter with all these mom thoughts, he felt. He didnt want to have them, but they appeared like fireworks -- loud and bright and attractive.
He instead focused on the girl in front of him, on him, previously in him and he began to kiss her chest, even though there was a shirt there and she patted his head, sending familiar chills through him. "You're lucky you're hot, Ed. I normaly don't date short guys."
'Wait so I'm dating her?' He thought. "Shut up," he said to himself and to her as he leaned in abruptly to her muzzle to smother any more snide comments at their source with a kiss. She "mmmph"ed. As soon as she tried to start saying something he shoved his tongue in her face, silencing her.
The kissing proceeded for a while, the weird thoughts came at irregular intervals, with no obvious purpose or direction to them and some source that Ed didn't want to poke at. He'd periodically open his eyes to glance at neighboring houses and worry that ome of his neighbors would be both a snitch and a peeping tom. He held her, kissed her, did teenage things to her like whisper warm nonsense. She replied with her own, husky, penetrating version of 'shut up' that Ed felt he should listen to, lest he embarrass himself. Eventually they pulled away from each other enough to agree to do something else.
They'd both tired themselves out -- there was a little cooler from which Koda produced sodas and set them poolside, before stripping to her bathing suit and diving in. Ed followed, he'd already been in his bathing suit when this all began. Naivete had the best of him. He thought she wanted him outside so they could swim. All his notions went down the drain as soon as she had pushed him into the chair and took him. Koda was like that, she took control of a situation, and if you were included in the situation then you were taken control of too. "You're very... initiating." Ed remarked as he lazed in an inflatable tire that spun in sleepy circles.
"I've been told that." He paddled himself over to the poolside, taking his drink and holding it on his furry belly. The parts of his fur that were kept out of the water were hot in the direct suns rays and he'd been grateful for the cool water. He sipped his offbrand Dr. Pepper. He felt a yank on his tail, another yank that stirred him more.
He was glad he had closed his drink, because two loud, sloshing furry hands exploded from the water in the hole of the tube, both on either side of his body, and pulled him through the hole of the tire. There was no hold on the tire without puncturing it with his claws and he slipped, his pool swallowing his drink as it fell down the deep end. He fell into the water, the pool similarly swallowing him, and he could feel its chlorinated blueness around him. He opened his eyes under water to see Koda's fur moving ghostlike in the water, with a big goofy smile. He surfaced immidiately, paddling to the surface, and catching a breath of air.
"Initiating enough for you, Ed?" A playful, dripping voice laughed. Ed wasn't a sourpus, he could take a good joke amd he laughed too, splashing her with some water.
"Hows that for initiating!" He exclaimed, a spray of water attacking her face by his hand.
"Hey! I initiated it!" She said, getting back at him. "I'll show you initiating." Ed tried to escape her but it didn't work. Eventually Koda's long skinny arms had enveloped him, locked around him. "We're going under, like it or not."
They went under. Ed did not like it.