Next they met the big man with the beard. He was just setting up his equipment, and Mary Alice made it clear that she had just hired him to replace somebody who "hadn't worked out." Nan's hand virtually disappeared into his as they shook, and he grinned shyly. He was like a big pet Teddy bear, and the warmth emanating from the big man was real and irresistible. As they walked away Mary Alice said, "Yeah, isn't he a sweetheart? I took to him immediately. Ii I ever get the time to do anything but run this place, I swear I'm gonna sneak in one night and throw myself on him. We put his picture in the quarterly mailer next week. I bet we wind up with more applicants than he can possibly handle."
Next came the painting class. This teacher's name was Myra, and she was matter-of-fact as painting teachers tend to be; but just once she brushed her hand over Nan's face and said, "You're quite lovely. I must get you down to sit for my pupils. You have marvelous color." Nan stammered, "Yes, yes of course."
The sculptress-the one with the marvelous Polish cheekbones-was even more direct. When they entered her class, several women in dirty smocks were working from the model-a thick-bodied, fortyish nude who stared brazenly at Nan the whole time they were there; somehow Nan felt herself growing warm around the crotch again-and the sculptress, Maxine ("Everybody calls me Max"), was correcting a pupil's conception of the woman's hipline.
"Look," she said. "It goes like this." And her hand swept matter-of-factly down the woman's naked haunch, touching it all the way. (Nan got goose-bumps.) "There has to be a joint under there, and it has to fit together just so. See? Now chop off a chunk of that and build it back up again. Underneath the flesh"-here she patted the naked woman familiarly on the strong buttocks-"is a machine, and the machine has to look like it might work, you know, this muscle pulling that tendon to make such-and-such work." Her hand indicated vaguely here and there on the bare body before her; Nan, flustered, could hardly tear her eyes away from the lush bush of pubic hair in the middle of the strangely sexy figure before her. Then she felt Max's eyes on her again.
"Oh, yes, Annie," she said. Her eyes were business-like, but appraising-frankly sexually. "I couldn't talk you into coming down to sit for me, sometime, could I? I've got a commission, and I need a water nymph. Someone with a nice, petite little body like yours. You'd be just fine, I think. I'm behind schedule on it, you know, and I'd better get down to work one of these evenings or I'm going to be in a lot of trouble. Do say you will? Hmmm? Please?"
"I…Well, if you really think…" Nan stuttered.
"Sure, hon," Mary Alice said. "Just let her get all settled in first." She patted Max on the shoulder in a friendly fashion. "Say," she added as she pulled Nan out the door, "come see me tomorrow about that Saturday class, won't you? I want to give it a real big buildup for the mailer." They went out; Max's eyes were on Nan, and a small smile was on the corner of her mouth. The nude looked at her hard, too-unsmiling, sultry.
"Come with me," Mary Alice said, her arm in Nan's. "I mean, back to the office. Just a second. I…I've got some business for a minute."
"Sure," Nan said. "Say…I was wondering…who was the belly-dance teacher whose picture I saw on the wall back at the main office? The one with…"
"Oh," Mary Alice said, grinning. "Sexy, isn't she? That's Zora. The professional name's Zoraida. She used to be in the flicks. She's one of my best friends. She almost supports this place during the summer season when everyone's away on vacation. The kids in her classes just adore her. Heck, so do I. You'll meet her tomorrow. She doesn't teach every day; she comes in and books a whole day full at a time, and we have to turn away students now and then."
"Gee," Nan said. They came to a back door in the big house.
"This is my own sanctum," Mary Alice said, ushering her in. "I have to have someplace-I mean, besides the living half of the house, upstairs-where I can get away from it all now and then." The little office was as neat as Mary Alice's living quarters were untidy, Nan noticed to her surprise. The big desk was totally bare; the little bed in the comer was made.
"How delightful," Nan said, meaning it. "Would you like me to wait outside?"
"Outside?"
"Well…you said you had business. I thought if you had to phone…"
"Oh, sweetheart," Mary Alice said, giving her a hug and looking her in the eyes with a look of pure puppy-dog affection, "You're my business. It's so good to see you." And, taking Nan in her arms the way a man might, she kissed Nan on the mouth-warmly, voluptuously, with a vigor and ardor that surprised her even after the night before.
"I…" Nan said. But she could find nothing to say. She found herself melting, utterly melting, in Mary Alice's strong and persistent embrace. And, in the highly sexual, highly charged atmosphere of the morning (all those hot glances! The naked woman on the stand, being pawed so by the girl with the broad face, and looking hotly at Nan all the time!), she felt her lap grow wet, her breathing growing heavy.
"Darling," she said, and kissed Mary Alice back hard, boring between the girFs heavy lips with her own Little pink tongue, pressing their two pairs of braless, nearly naked nipples together in an embrace whose warmth and passion surprised her.
"Oh, God, Oh, God," Mary Alice said. "Oh, sweetheart… " and she bore Nan backward to the desk. Then, her large and capable-looking hands reaching down to Nan's waist, she unbuttoned the side buttons of Nan's pants and slipped them down, and bent to slip one of Nan's sandaled feet out of the pants leg. Then she lifted Nan by the hips and sat her, bare-bottomed, on the desk.
"Sweetheart," she said, and kissed Nan again. Then she lay Nan down gently on the desk, spread her legs gently with her hands, and lifted her bare legs high. "Oh God," she said, looking down at Nan's open and glistening cunt, "you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Oh, Jesus. Oh, Annie, I can't resist you, darling."
And, not looking up, her face eagerly intent on her work, she bent over to kiss Nan squarely in the middle of her eager and dripping slit.
"Oh, Christ," Nan said. She'd never been so hot in all her life. "Oh, God. Oh, Mary Alice, don't Oh, sweetheart, I can't stand it. Oh, don't. Oh, Mary Alice, please stop. You can't…I don't…Ohhhhhhh!"
She'd come once already, and she'd barely got her pants off. God, was she hot!
She tried to sit up, but her friend's mouth was busy again. "No…now, don't, Mary Alice…please, sweetheart, I'm sore…I'm raw down there…I can't take any more of it…Oh, God! Oh, heavens, please baby, don't. Don't baby. Oh, God, that feels so good, I can't stand it. I can't I can't take that much more, sweetheart. It's so…oh, God, it's so good…it's so… Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord! Oh, God, I'm coming…Oh, God, oh, no, oh, heavens, no, oh, please…please don't…don't…don't stop, don't stop now, don't…oh, please, oh, please stop…Oh…Oh, Christ…Oh, God, Ohhhhhhhhhh!"
"Mmmmmmm," said Mary Alice from between her
"Now don't…don't do it again…oh, that hurts…it hurts…it hurts so good…Oh, God…oh, don't…not there…I can't take much more of this…oh, I can't take it there any more…oh, please don't.. no, no," her voice was not even recognizable as being her own now; it was some strange new musical instrument that went deep down into the contralto register before sweeping up, into the soprano, in a toneless whine, "now, now, Mary Alice, you can't…No, no, honey, please don't…no, no, no, not there, not there, not like that, no, no, baby, oh, please, I can't take that, it's too much, it's too much, baby I won't…I cant…oh, please, oh, God, no, oh, no, don't do it any more, oh, please, oh, yes, yes, right there, yes, baby, oh, God, yes, right there, eat me, yes, yes, right there, yes, eat me, oh, please, sweetheart, oh, yes, oh, God, eat me, yes, yes, eat my cunt eat me, baby, oh, wow, oh God, yes, yes, oh, baby, don't stop, please don't stop, honey, yes, yes, right there…oh, right there…yes, please, oh God God Godgodgodgodgodohgodohgodoh-god…Yesyesyesyesyesyes…Yes! Oh, Yes! Yes, now! Now! There! There! THERETHDERETHERE!…NNNNNOOOOOOWWWWW!… "