Chapter 12
When Melinda awoke in the morning and found herself staring at a strange ceiling, she had to think for a moment to remember where she was. Then a recollection of the sordid events of last night swamped her mind.
Now that the excitement was over and she was able to think clearly, Melinda worried about Ed's reaction to what she had told him. He hadn't seemed to condemn her last night for admitting she'-d had sex with Perkins and Josiah, but she wondered how he really felt. She was anxious to talk with him.
Getting up and slipping a dress on over her panties, Melinda walked to the door which led to the living room. She rapped, but there was no answer. She opened the door and looked out.
The bed in the living room had been folded back into a sofa, and there was no sign of Ed or Andy. Melinda glanced at the old-fashioned clock on the wall and saw that the time was eleven-thirty.
My God! she thought. I'm supposed to be at school!
But then she wilted. What was the use? The kids probably hadn't shown up for classes that morning anyway. She recalled that she had been on her way out of town when she had gotten mixed up with Perkins and Josiah. Since nothing had changed in her relations with the townsfolk, Melinda concluded she might as well go ahead with her plan. But now, of course, she would have to talk it over with Ed.
He probably won't want me anyway, now that I've admitted screwing Perkins and Josiah, she thought. She felt depressed.
Melinda had noticed a pitcher of water, a basin, a towel and soap in the bedroom. She bathed herself as best she could and got dressed again. She was very hungry and took the liberty of preparing breakfast in Ed's kitchen.
It was nearly one o'clock when she returned to the living room. She sat down, determined to wait patiently until Ed returned.
In less than ten minutes, Ed's pickup squeaked to a stop outside. Melinda jumped up and met Ed and Andy at the door.
Ed grinned and drew Melinda into his arms. "How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Much better now," she said. But her smile was less than enthusiastic. She watched Ed anxiously, looking for a clue to his new attitude toward her.
He gave her a quick kiss, then flopped into a chair.
Andy said, "I better get out and plow that back twenty. See you later, Melinda."
"I hope so, Andy."
The youth left the house.
Ed said, "Well, Preacher Perkins and old man Banes are safely locked up. The folks gave them a pretty rough time, but they'll live-leastwise for a while."
"What do you mean?" Melinda asked.
"Josiah and the preacher demanded some whiskey, so the townsfolk brought them a case of their own white lightning. The folks told them it was from another still-one of the safe ones."
"Oh, Ed . . . !"
He shrugged. "What could be fairer than that? Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you, the Lord says. If the preacher's hootch is okay, he and Josiah will survive. If it isn't--well, those old boys will just be getting what they deserve."
It was a crude form of justice, but Melinda had to admit it was sound. The more she learned about the people of Horner's Hollow, the more respect she had for them.
"Oh, incidentally," Ed continued, "I found your suitcases by the shed in back of the preacher's house. I brought them here in the pickup."
"Thank you," Melinda murmured.
"You were fixing to skip out, weren't you?"
She looked down. "Yes, Ed, I was. I was going to write you as soon as I got to Nashville. I was hoping you could drive over and we could make plans." She looked at him. "I just didn't want you to chuck everything and run off with me. That would have hurt you too much."
"Nothing would hurt me as much as losing you," he said.
His eyes were sincere.
"Do you still feel that way? Even after last night?"
"Why, sure. Why shouldn't I?"
"Well, I told you how I screwed Perkins and Josiah."
"You couldn't help that," Ed said. "Anyway, you got away from them. That's what counts."
"Oh, darling, you're wonderful!" Melinda exclaimed, and bounded across the room to plump herself on his lap. They kissed passionately and Ed fondled her unbrassiered tits.
He abruptly terminated the kiss and leaned back to look her in the face. "There's something I've got to tell you right now, and maybe you won't think I'm so wonderful after you hear it."
Melinda blinked. "What is it, darling?"
"Well, I got to thinking about the trouble you've been having at the school--the kids not showing up for classes and all. I've known right along how I could put a stop to all the bad talk that's been going around, that silly prattle about you being a Lesbian, but. . . well, I didn't want to hurt your reputation in another way. But after I found your suitcases and realized you were fixing to leave town, I figured I'd better do what I had in mind. It seemed like my last chance."
"Yes, honey?" Melinda prompted.
"I talked to the guys who were hanging around the general store a little while ago. Baby, now don't get sore--but I told the fellows I've been bedding you for the last week. I said you were the hottest little cunt in Tennessee and there just wasn't anything you liked better than fucking!"
Ed paused, waiting for Melinda's response.
She was shocked, because her faith in Ed's character seemed to have been ill-founded. But in another way she was relieved. Undoubtedly the children would return to school now. The hill people didn't always bother to get married before they set up housekeeping, Melinda had learned since she had been living in Horner's Hollow, and they were apt to have much greater tolerance toward a loose woman than toward a Lesbian.
However, she felt she had to frown at Ed. "Darling, that wasn't very nice," she said petulantly.
"I know it," he admitted. "But I reckoned it would be okay in the long run." He paused, then smiled broadly as he continued. "Seeing as how you and I are going to be getting married pretty soon."
"Ed!" Melinda stared at him, her eyes dancing. "Well, baby, can't you say any more than that?"
"Oh, you bet I can, you big oaf! I love you, and . . . yes! I want to marry you tomorrow." She threw her arms around his neck, and they kissed with hotly stroking tongues.
After they came up for air, Ed said, "We can't tie the knot quite that fast, I'm afraid. We've got to wait until a new parson comes to town. I wouldn't want Perkins to marry us, and I don't reckon you would, either."
"That's right," Melinda said, and smiled broadly. "Well, until then we'll just have to go on living in sin, I suppose."
Ed laughed, and they kissed again.
After dinner that night, Ed opened the sofa-bed for Andy and himself to use.
"See you in the morning, honey," he said to Melinda. She could tell by his tone of voice and the sorrowful look in his eyes that he was very unhappy about the arrangement.
Andy was in the kitchen, noisily finishing the dinner dishes.
Melinda snuggled into Ed's arms. "I thought we were going to live in sin," she murmured. "You've got us living like a monk and a nun!"
He took hold of her arms and eased her away from him. "Baby, do you think I like it?" he whispered softly. "My cock is aching for you right now. But we can't go to bed together with Andy here. The poor kid would suffer like hell knowing we were in the bedroom sexing it up."
Melinda got a daring idea. "Honey, you said the other day that you thought Andy was old enough to learn what sex was all about. Remember?"
"Yeah." Ed appeared puzzled.
"Well ..." Melinda took a deep breath. Her body tingled with anticipation. "Why don't we show him?"
"You mean, let him watch us? Melinda, that'd be even worse! We'd give him a hard-on that wouldn't quit, and he wouldn't know what to do with it."
"Shhh." Melinda touched her finger to Ed's lips and whispered, "I mean . .. well, darn it all, why don't the three of us go to bed together?"
She feared, as soon as the words had left her lips, that she might have ruined herself in Ed's eyes. After all, it was a shocking suggestion that a man should share his fiancee with his kid brother.
Ed stared at Melinda for a moment, and her apprehension increased. She was at the point of apologizing and begging his forgiveness when a smile suddenly lit up his rugged face.
"You really wouldn't mind breaking Andy in?" Ed asked.
"I wouldn't if you wouldn't," Melinda replied, trembling with excitement.
"Then, by God, we'll do it! I was wondering who I could get to show him the ropes. If I were to let him get mixed up with any of the young local gals, he'd just get hooked into playing house before he was ready. You're sure you don't mind?"
"Darling, I'd be happy to do it," Melinda said.
They kissed.
Melinda marveled to herself over how much she had changed in the last two weeks. But then she realized she really hadn't changed at all, deep inside. She merely had been forced to recognize herself for the sensuous creature she had always been--the creature Harry Rolf couldn't satisfy because he wasn't man enough and was too selfish. She had to be accepted as a sensuous woman, not merely as a plaything to be used by a man for his own gratification. Learning to recognize people, herself included, for what they really were, instead of for the false images they sometimes projected, was the lesson which Horner's Hollow, and Ed in particular, had taught her.
Melinda and Ed went into the bedroom and pushed the twin beds together. While she made them up in the form of one king-sized bed, Ed had a talk with Andy in the other room. Melinda undressed and slid under the covers, settling herself in the center of the bed.
Ed came in. "Andy's getting undressed in the living room," he reported, and grinned! "The kid's pretty excited. Take it easy with him, will you?"
"I'll be gentle with him, darling," Melinda promised. Her heart thudded with anticipation.
Ed undressed and crawled into bed beside Melinda. He turned down the wick of the bedside lamp, snuffing out the flame. After a few moments the door opened and Andy entered the room, stark naked. In the soft moonglow that flooded in through the windows. Andy's prick could be clearly seen, standing almost straight up in front of his firm, even belly.
Melinda lay back the covers, inviting the fifteen-year-old to lie beside her. He did so, being careful not to touch her. Melinda kissed him, and her cool hand encircled his hot, stiff cock. She thrilled to its bone-like hardness. Andy's cock wasn't as large as Ed's, and Melinda knew it wouldn't give her as much satisfaction, but his youthful eagerness excited her. It gave her a very warm feeling to know she was going to be the first woman in his life.
Melinda stroked Andy's upthrust prong gently as she kissed him with a circling, fluttering tongue. She teased his tongue into responding, and soon Andy was thrusting his tongue into her mouth. Melinda sucked on it.
She lay back the covers and bent to his loins. Andy's young cock was so taut with excitement that it resisted Melinda's effort to hold it perpendicular to his body. She leaned closer and placed her moist, soft lips around the tip of his hot young pecker. Andy groaned. Melinda let his entire slippery cockhead glide into her mouth and she contracted her lips around the ridge of his organ, sucking gently as she fluttered her tongue against the weeping tip of his dong.
"Oooh, gosh!" Andy exclaimed, panting. "I can't. .. stand it!"
Melinda quickly released his penis from her mouth-not because she would have minded taking the gush of his semen in that way, but because she wanted Andy's first sexual experience to be complete. Lying back, she guided the youth's tousled head to her breasts. He eagerly licked and sucked at her thrusting, firm nipples.
Melinda glanced at Ed. He was smiling at her, honestly pleased that she was helping his brother learn about life. That was a further demonstration of Ed's fine character, Melinda believed. She loved him all the more for it.
After Andy had sucked Melinda's tits to his heart's content, she guided him atop her. His eager shaft slid easily into her lathered cunt.
"Oh, wow!" the youth exclaimed as he supported himself on straight arms above the lovely blonde. "Man, that feels great!"
"Better than your hand-huh, Andy?" Ed asked with affection.
The youth laughed tensely. "You'd better believe it!"
"Now fuck me," Melinda whispered as her hands moved up and down Andy's back. "Show me what that fine hard cock of yours can do."
Thrilled speechless, Andy began to pump his prick up and down in Melinda's slippery, clutching channel. She responded and arched against his vigorous thrusts. But she was really only waiting for Andy to finish so that she could be with Ed. He was the man she loved, and that made all the difference.
Andy lowered himself against Melinda, his hairless chest resting on her soft titties. He drove his hard prick into her at breathless speed. Melinda ground her cunt against him and worked its internal muscles, clutching at the youth's fast-stroking cock.
Andy gasped, twitched, then thrust deep into Melinda's belly. He came, his hot juice spurting. Melinda petted him and kissed him around the neck.
"Gosh, that was great!" Andy said as he climbed off.
"You bet it was," Melinda replied.
Then she quickly rolled atop Ed, finding his cock nearly as stiff as Andy's had been and much larger. She impaled her wet, hot pussy on his manly spike and fucked wildly, grinding her hips and pumping them up and down. Melinda swung her head, causing her blonde hair to caress Ed's face and shoulders. He squeezed her luscious tits and directed a tingling nipple to his warm, moist mouth as he drove his long cock upward into her swirling, pumping cunt.
They fucked to a thrilling dual climax as Andy watched.
Afterwards Melinda crouched and took Ed's penis into her mouth while Andy approached her from the rear. She had explained to him beforehand what they were going to do, and she aimed her white, soft buttocks high enough so the youth would have no trouble inserting his resurrected prick into her vagina.
As Melinda sucked Ed to a renewed erection, bobbing her mouth on his fine-tasting, meaty prick, Andy's steel-stiff rod danced up and down in her wet, throbbing pussy. All three climaxed together, Andy's hot semen spurting into Melinda's cunt while Ed geysered into her mouth. This time Melinda held only his glans between her lips as he came, so that his thick, slippery semen would splash over her tongue, thrilling her taste buds before it slid down her throat. A beautiful burst of warmth streamed through her, and Melinda vibrated between her two lovers. She felt blissfully happy.
In the morning, Ed and Andy drove Melinda to school. Her heart leaped as she saw the children playing around the door.
"Oh, Ed, they're back!" she exclaimed, and threw her arms around his neck. She kissed him moistly on the mouth, nearly causing him to drive the pickup into a tree.
Andy got out of the pickup and helped Melinda down.
"I want to thank both of you for bringing me," she said with a smile.
"Well, Andy didn't just come along for the ride," Ed explained. "I'm giving him a few days off from the ranch so he can go back to school."
"What do you mean?" Melinda asked. "Andy told me he graduated from here two years ago."
"That's right," Ed said. "But I figured maybe he could help keep the other kids in line. Anyhow," Ed added with a grin, "a little extra education won't hurt him. Throw him into your eighth grade class."
"You shouldn't do this," Melinda said to both of them. "Andy, Ed needs you on the farm."
"I can get along without him for a little while," Ed said. "You've gotta have a fighting chance with that class of yours, and Andy can see that you get it. Watch that Jasper Banes," he warned his brother. "He's a bad one."
"I can handle him," Andy said confidently, and took Melinda's arm. "Come on, Miss Johnson. It's time for school to start."
"I'll pick you up at three-thirty," Ed called as he drove away.
Melinda said, "Andy, I hope you won't tell any of the other students about being in bed with me last night."
"You're my teacher, ma'am," Andy said, a grin splitting his freckled face. "That's how I'm going to treat you. And the rest of the kids better treat you the right way, too, or they'll answer to me."
Melinda had a warm feeling as she entered the old schoolhouse and walked to her desk. The children filed in and took their seats. Melinda assigned Andy to one of the vacant large seats at the rear of the room. The students looked at him, knowing he was Ed's brother, then straightened in their seats. Perfect silence reigned.
"Children, it's good to see you back," Melinda said, smiling happily. "Now let's get down to work, shall we?"
Not a contrary sound was heard. With a burst of pride, Melinda knew at last how it felt to be a teacher.