Fallen

Our kiss broke and I looked into her deep emerald eyes... eyes I loved so much. "Get used to it. It will happen again."

Her heart seemed to break a bit and she shook her head, "I can't." she whispered, her voice like dead leaves scraping the ground.

I gave her a hard look. "I liked it. I swear to you..." I finally whispered. "I don't like this weak creature you're pretending to be now..."

There she was! My she-wolf. I saw the light pour into her eyes, that fire that fed her spirit. Her nails started to rake their way down my chest... prickly, moving from my chest down to my stomach...

Some of her normal hunger started to burn in her eyes...

I narrowed my eyes at her, nodded. "Good." I told her. I pulled her up and forced her to kiss me. When we broke, I told her, "You made me feel wanted. I loved it."

Her eyes softened a bit... "You're sure?"

I pulled her in and hugged her tight, just holding her, breathing in her vanilla scented hair, feeling the softness of her skin, the heat of her body against mine... I nuzzled my face into her head and kissed the top of it. "I love you baby girl..." I whispered before drifting off to sleep...

Chapter 5

"Gabby, wake up..." I felt a hand on me... then I felt warm lips on mine... Yum! Karly... I thought. The kisses worked their way across my face, down onto my neck. Her hands crawled down my body and it felt delicious...

I opened my eyes and looked at her. She bit her lips and looked at me. She had the covers wrapped around herself modestly... that in itself was unusual for her. It was interesting to see the difference between her in my home, and in her own home.

She was too delectable to resist...

I sat up and put my back against her headboard, so I was sitting upright with my legs stretched out in front of me. I grabbed hold of her arm and pulled her up my chest, her covers falling away from her and her mouth closing over mine...

Instinctively, she spread her legs over me. I was excited to feel the scratchiness of her pubic hair rub over my stomach...

My hands reached up and cupped her breasts, feeling the delectable softness there... her nipples firming under my fingers, she moaned into my mouth as I worked, apparently feeling that was safer and quieter...

My hands ran from her breasts down her sides, while her kisses worked their way down my face and neck. She was trim and athletic, beautiful in every way, but she was also firm and heavy enough that you couldn't feel her ribs, instead her flanks were covered with a nice layer of muscle...

They finished working their way down, finally settling down above her hips. Her kisses kept working their way lazily along my neck. My kisses found her collarbone, and I alternated between light kisses, and nipping bites. I put more pressure on her hips and started to guide her down on me...

I lined up with her and was just about to go in......

She bucked away from me, "No, no!" she told me, putting her finger on my lips. "I woke you up because it's almost time for gifts and..." She reached down between her legs and grabbed me, stoking me hard a few times just to be a tease...

It was too much for me... I arched my back in pleasure and forced her hips down on me.

The top of me just parted her lips and all the resistance she was giving me melted. Her lips were back on my neck and her arms wrapped around me tight.

She started rubbing herself up and down me, rocking her hips sensually against me. "Baby no..." she whispered. "We don't have time..."

I pulled her into a deep kiss, and slid myself towards her again... I could talk her into it...

I hit her opening just right and she stifled a moan. I broke from her kiss and whispered in her ear... "Just let me put the tip in..."

She kissed my ear passionately and I felt her slide down on me just a little bit, "Okay... just the tip..."

In my defense... she was the one that was on top. She did not stop with the tip...

I moaned and whispered into her ear, "Baby girl... that was more than the tip."

She shook her head, "No. I'm pretty sure that was just the tip..." she muttered as her hair brushed in my face wildly filling my nose with her awesome vanilla scent. She started rocking her hips back and forth on me, slowly... sensually. I loved it when she made love to me!

My hands fell to her beautiful ass and I worked my hips back and forth into her as she worked hers into mine...

The door started pounding like someone was going to break it down! She spun off of me and wrapped herself in the covers, leaving me naked on the bed...

Samantha's voice started screaming from the other side... "Get out of bed lazy bones! It's present time!"

Karly yelled, "Fuck off bitch!"

She turned and looked back at me hungrily.

I gave her a firm look, "Oh, no... you just abandoned me, stole all the covers and left me pretty nearly literally holding my dick in my hand... you're cut off!"

She laughed at me, a little of that pixie mania jumping into her eyes. She crawled over to me. "Don't blame me... I tried to tell you we didn't have time..."

She kissed me and melted against me.

The door started pounding again. "You better not be holding up present time because you're in there fucking your boyfriend!" Samantha yelled.

Karly yelled at the door, "I pretty clearly said, fuck off Samantha!"

The door started rattling again... "Come on! Climb off him and let's go!"

Karly jumped off the bed and ripped the door open... I was still laying on the bed... quite naked...

Karly stepped aside and gave her sister a good view of me... "For your information, I was fucking my boyfriend..." she told her sister.

Samantha and I met eyes, and then hers crawled down my body.

With a yelp, I grabbed a pillow and quickly jammed it down over me...

Samantha laughed, as did Karly!

She's going to pay for that... I thought darkly.

Samantha looked at Karly, "Oh. Sorry to interrupt. Carry on lil sis!" Then she looked at me, mimed picking up a telephone and mouthed, Call Me!

I hid my face in my hands... this was so embarrassing!

Karly closed the door and I chucked the pillow at her head!

She ducked it smoothly, her breasts bouncing nicely, giving me a nice mental image to take with me the rest of the day!

I gave her a dirty look, "What are you doing!"

She just laughed at me, "Hey, sisters share everything!"

My jaw jutted out at her. "Very funny."

She came over and kissed me leisurely. "Don't worry, she won't say anything... Now come on! It's present time!"

We both quickly dressed and headed downstairs.

We went into the living room and once again I was impressed with how lavish the tree was. It was giant, trimmed in silver and gold, and seemed to be sitting atop a small mountain of gifts. I stopped and kissed Karly, "So I have no clue what I'm doing, how can I help?"

She pushed me down on the loveseat! "You can sit there and shut up, while I get you a cocoa and Sam starts bringing you your presents!"

I gave her a funny look, "Presents?"

She leaned in and kissed me, a real world stopper this time... "Yes, it's Christmas. You open presents, you give presents... Getting the idea now?"

I just sat there looking at her dumbly.

She tilted my head back and gave me another kiss. "You want marshmallows in your cocoa?""

I smiled and nodded, looking at Samantha as she brought the first present to me.

Samantha looked a lot like her sister. She was tall, well built, and athletic. Her hair was lighter than her sister's, more of a blondish, but I noticed her eyes were the same green. She was taller and thinner than Karly, but Karly was better endowed in the breast department. I found I liked Karly's heavier looks more than Samantha's thinner look.

Samantha also was wearing makeup, foundation, lipstick, mascara, the whole nine yards. Karly only rarely wore makeup, and even then, usually settled on a tinted lip-gloss and a husky eyeliner that made her eyes pop. I looked at the sister and was glad of Karly's choice to simply enhance her natural good looks rather than try to cover them like Samantha did. I smiled at her as she handed me the little wrapped box,

"You sit there; Karly will sit next to you." She informed me. "We'll pass out presents and then everyone will take turns opening something!"

I looked at the tag, it said it was from Samantha... I looked at her in panic, "I didn't get you anything..."

She smiled at me, "Karly, is so right... you are adorable." She laughed and patted me on the head. "Get me something extra special next year and we'll call it even!"

With that she bounced back to the tree. Karly came back with my cocoa and started examining her pile of presents that were forming quickly around her. I could easily pick out the ones I had given her with my grocery store paper...

I forced that thought out of my mind. Karly hated it when I did that. I busted my butt to get the things I had, and I was going to be proud of that! Karly sat on the loveseat next to me and snuggled up to me. I noticed the presents I had got her were the ones she gave the most attention to...

She loved her purple quilt, insisting on wrapping it around herself, and taking a million pictures of it with me. She loved her earrings and insisted on putting them in right then and there. Again, a million pictures were taken, this time kissing me while she showed off her pictures.

When she got to the ring... I was really nervous. I didn't know if she'd like it, and I didn't know if it would fit, and mostly, I didn't know if she'd accept what the ring truly meant to me. She opened it and her eyes instantly lit up! She dove on me and kissed me and kissed me. I finally got her calmed down enough to show her the engraving... Promise.

Tears spilled over her eyes and she kissed me hard. I moved my lips over to her ear so I could just tell her and whispered to her, "It's a promise ring. I'm yours until you get tired of me and chase me off with a stick."

She nodded at me, her lips came over to my ear. "I accept."

She kissed me hard and I heard a ton of cameras snapping in the room. I didn't care. She accepted it!

She put the ring on her left ring finger and it fit perfectly! Samantha gave me a harsh look, "That better not be an engagement we just witnessed!" she told me bluntly.

I held my hands out defensively, "No!"

Karly just laughed. "No, I'm just wearing it there so guys will know I'm taken!"

Samantha muttered under her breath and looked at her boyfriend... "If my little sister gets engaged before I do you're screwed!"

Karly just stuck her tongue out at her sister!

She smiled and me and got ready to open her last gift. Her pearls.

Finally, she opened them. I thought she was happy with the ring! She squealed and dove all over me! Kissing and kissing, hugging me, tickling me. She insisted on showing them to everyone, and getting pictures and wearing them...

She cuddled tighter into me, like she was trying to become one with me. I looked over at Joshua and noticed his eyebrows climbing to the ceiling... he obviously knew the pearls were expensive and did not approve.

Next, it was my turn. Samantha got me a new set of headgear for wrestling, which was really nice. My old pair was a team set and like a crown. It was not very comfortable. My new set was a turtle shell design, and very comfortable. I thanked her and told her I loved them.

Karly put another one in my lap immediately, "I had to peek at your stuff for this one, but I think I got it right, if not, we can take them back!"

I smiled at her, "I'll love them no matter what!" I told her. I opened it and found a brand-new set of wrestling shoes... very expensive wrestling shoes. I hugged her tight and thanked her. My old shoes were taped up and falling apart and I could really use the new shoes! In fact, I was starting to stress a bit about the shape they were in and was thinking that I might have to pull a rabbit out of my hat and come up with a new pair.

We took more pictures, and I snuck another kiss in on Karly.

My next gift from Karly was a pair of Bose headphones...

I looked at Karly, "Baby girl... this is too much..." I shook my head at her.

She just gave me a shiteating grin. "It's Christmas. You can't refuse a gift on Christmas!" I felt completely guilty considering that she had just given me a very expensive phone for my birthday a week ago...

I also had another gift left from her... if this was a warm up gift...

I grabbed the last gift and held it... I looked up at her. I knew I had to take it. It would break her heart if I refused it. I pulled the wrapping paper off...

And found the best gift I had ever been given. It was a picture of us, from our first date, where she was kissing my cheek. She had blown it up, and put it in a nice frame...

I pulled her in close to me, and gave her a big hug.

She asked me, "Do you like it?" nervously.

I looked at her, "I love it baby girl, it's the best gift I've ever gotten."

She kissed me and I just enjoyed her being there with me.

One gift left, and this one was from Joshua and Martha... I looked at the two of them. "Thank you very much for including me... that means more than any gift you could have gotten me. I didn't think this was going to be fun, but this is one of the best Christmases I've ever had."

Joshua smiled at me, "You're welcome."

I tore the paper, and found a laptop inside...

My heart stopped. A very expensive laptop. I looked up at them in horror. "This is too much..." I managed to mutter. "I..."

Karly leaned in and whispered in my ear... "Remember our deal...!"

I remembered the toy. Fuck! I really wanted to pull that off!

My eyes looked down at the computer, then up to her parents... my eyes misted up a bit. "Thank you."

Joshua smiled at me. "Karly told us you didn't have a computer at home. Every kid needs a computer nowadays. I hope you get good use out of it."

I nodded at him, my eyes misting up a bit. "Thank you, Joshua. Now I have something to write my papers on... you have no idea how much time this is going to save me..."

He just smiled. "You're welcome Gabby."

Next came Karly's mom's turn to open gifts. Karly bounced over and handed her mom the gift she had gotten her mom, and then the one I had gotten her. "Open these first!" she cheered.

Her mom opened the glass horse figurine Karly had gotten her first. She complimented it and I could tell she really liked it. Next, she opened the one I had gotten her. It was like Karly's except it was a unicorn. Marsha's eyes settled on Karly, "Young lady. You're breaking the rules... you're only allowed one gift."

I smiled at Marsha. "Actually, the unicorn is from me!" I put my arm around Karly, "Of course, Karly helped me pick it out!"

Marsha's eyes narrowed, then she smiled, "Very clever Gabby."

I just smiled back at her.

When Joshua's turn came, Karly waited until the end to give him our gifts. He opened her records and immediately I could see his eyes light up. "These are all excellent, baby... where did you find these?"

Karly bounced, bubbly and full of life, "Gabby showed me this excellent second hand shop! And they have more! I just couldn't remember if you had them!"

Joshua looked at me, "Can you give me the address? I think I'd like to stop in there and see what else they have."

I smiled at him, "Absolutely..."

Karly clapped and bounced, "Now open Gabby's! You're going to love it daddy!"

Joshua, tore the paper and opened the box. His mouth actually dropped open when he saw the record player... "You've got to be shitting me..." me mumbled.

Marsha actually started to get up, "What is it dear?"

He pulled the record player out of the box, "It is an actual, I shit you not, Tarantella." His eyes flicked to me, "Young man. If you think I'm accepting a $600 record player from you, you have another thing coming."

Karly burst out laughing! "Daddy, he didn't pay $600 for it! He bought it for $25 and it was broken and he fixed it for you!"

He raised his eyebrows... "Really?"

I bit my lip and said in my shyest voice, "It really wasn't a big deal. It just had a rock jammed up under the table, it really isn't a big deal."

He stood and came over and shook my hand. "I've been wanting that record player for years..."

I smiled at him, "Your welcome sir."

Chapter 6

After dinner, we had a little dancing competition. Joshua set up his new record player and we took turns with each of the ladies, dancing and running each other around the floor, listening to music, laughing and enjoying each other's company.

It was an interesting afternoon, watching the interactions between people. Joshua's mother seemed like a bitch, and he definitely seemed like he was not in the mood to deal with her bullshit. I noticed him looking in Martha's direction several times as he snapped at her, and I got the impression that if not for Martha and her insistence, Grandma Kay would not be invited...

Martha's parents were extremely old, and very frail, but they seemed like nice enough people.

By close to five, I had had more than my fair share of people. I whispered to Karly that I wanted to take a break, gave her a quick peck on the cheek, and quietly excused myself to step out her back door and stand on their spacious deck overlooking an absolutely enormous back yard. It had a swimming pool for God's sake!

The cold air hit me the instant I stepped outside. I was only wearing jeans and my warmup hoody, but I still was more than warm enough. I knew I would be for an hour or so, if that was how much time I needed to let my brain quiet and my anxiety go down. I was learning very quickly that even a small group in tight quarters was too much for me. It seemed like the more hectic it was, the harder it was to get my brain to quiet...

I noticed pleasantly that the snow had started back up. I was a little disappointed, and knew I was going to be letting my customers down by not being there to shovel them out tomorrow, but I consoled myself by reminding myself that I had let them know ahead of time that I was not going to be around, and giving them time to prepare.

Surprisingly, about five minutes after I stepped outside Joshua joined me. I was just sitting there in one of the enormous hardwood deck chairs they had, watching the snow silently fall when he stepped out on the porch.

I looked at him and he held up a cigar. "Do you mind?"

I smiled and shook my head, "No sir. Have at it."

He looked at me with a little smile on his face, one that truly touched his eyes and caused them to light up. "I brought an extra if you're interested."

I smiled back at him. Shaking my head, "No. Thank you though."

He nodded, looking out at the snow as it fell. He nodded to himself and I could see he was thinking...

He lit his cigar and blew smoke out into the cooling air. "Gets hard to handle, doesn't it?" he finally asked me.

I looked over at him. "What's that sir?"

He sat quietly for a moment, and I could tell he was trying to gather his thoughts. "So many people in a tiny space. So much going on around you. Your attention pulled in so many places at once. Seems like everyone is talking at once, and after a while you can feel the walls closing in on you."

I looked down in shame and chuckled, then looked out at the snow and let it calm my mind. "Yeah... I guess it does."

He nodded. Then sighed. I knew he was about to ask me something, and I could tell he didn't like asking me...

"You got my daughter some nice things..." He finally said.

I sighed, and continued watching the snow. I wasn't feeling terribly sociable... I knew what he was trying to say, and while I appreciated his attempt at being polite about asking, it still annoyed me that he felt he had to ask. "What you mean is I got your daughter some very expensive things. Right?"