“Miss Slone?” Mary said, knocking on her door.

“Oh Hello Mary, did doctor Richardson send you to check on me?”

“No, I was wondering if I could talk to you? But I guess how are you feeling? If he asks… I came on my own.” She said very shyly.

“Here, come in Mary, Where are my manors. I never have company on the weekends. I’ll make us some tea… And if he asks I am almost better, just a little sore… No need for him to see me again. How’s your friend Emmie doing?”

“She’s doing great. Danny is doting over her hand and foot.” Mary responded, walking into the kitchen.

“I’m sure, well what brings you here today?

“Umm… You had a book that I also have… And wanted to ask you about it…” Mary said,as they walked into the kitchen, then standing by the table, staring at her shoes. Awkwardly swaying side to side.

“Oh what book is that?”

“The… dime store one… on your nightstand… The Arab Prince…”

“WHAT! You went snooping around my room!”

“No! It was just out and caught my eye and…”

“How dare you! And you read that stuff?! I need to call your father immediately!”

“No! no please! And you read it too!”

“But I am a grown woman! You are just a child.”

“I am NOT a child! I am nineteen now! Everyone treats me like a kid I am not!”

“Well a woman of your age should not be reading these books and I am going to tell your father.”

“Please no! He’ll beat my bottom purple if you do! Please Miss Slone!”

“You’re much smarter than books like that young lady, you were a great student… what was that how many years ago?... OK well maybe you’re not a kid anymore but…” Her voice calmed down some… “Why do you read these books?”

“I… I.. I… am never going to… get married… and… it gives me…” Mary said her voice shaking trying to hold back tears.

“Stop right there Mary! Why do you say that? You’re a beautiful young lady.”

“Because at 15 I became mom to my five younger brothers, and house keeper to my dad. By the time they are all out of the house I’ll be a spinster! That’s why, and I need the escape! OK that’s why I read shitty novels OK… and I hoped you’d understand… Emmie knows but she thinks it’s some school girl joke that I do… and I hoped you’d just understand.”

“Mary, come here now!” Miss Slone said sternly, suddenly pulling her over her knees then slapping her on her bottom. “That’s for using a curse word… Now as for inferring I am a spinster” another whack with her bare hand came across her dress. “Get up and take your knickers off! A few good whacks for reading these books and I won’t tell your pa…” Mary slowly arose and pulled her knickers down… Feeling more curious than nervous. Miss Slone gently bent her over the kitchen table and lifted her skirt revealing her bare buttocks. She began smacking with her bare hand. Not too hard, just hard enough to make a sound… Mary buried her hands in her face… “Oh you little… You… You’re enjoying this aren’t you!” Miss Slone said, stepping back a bit admiring Mary’s bare bottom… “You… You dirty little…” She suddenly reached out and touched Mary’s quickly moistening slit.

“Miss Slone!”

“No Miss Mason, you are enjoying this… I am in shock!”

“I… I… didn’t mean to… Just…I feel so… confused!”

“Enough of this…” she said sternly, grabbing her by the hand and leading her into her bedroom.

“What are you going to…”

“Shhhh…shhhh…” she said stern faced but relaxed. Pushing her down onto the bed she grabbing a pair of silk stockings from the hamper and tied Mary’s hands to the bed, “You have a lovely little slit Mary… and you said you’re not a little girl anymore… May I do something for you?”

“Miss Slone… Miss… I…” Mary stammered as Miss Slone’s hand caressed her inner thigh.

“Now Mary, remember the chapter in the book? The one about the harem girls?” She said calmly gently caressing Mary’s inner thigh. “may I?”

“Yes…” Mary said, closing her eyes.

“The other women gave the new concubine her first climax… Remember? Have you ever had a climax before?”

“Yes…”

“Oh, I see…” Miss Slone said with a little wisp of disappointment in her voice. “From whom?”

“Myself I swear!”

“Well now Miss Mason, that is very improper! A beautiful woman like yourself shouldn’t need to do that to herself.” Miss Slone’s fingers began to caress her slit. When her finger tip touched her clit she let out a loud moan and began fighting her ties. “Ever been touched like this before?”

“N..N…N.. No…” she barely stuttered out as she felt Miss Slones fingers ever so slowly enter her. “Oh Oh!”

“No one has ever done this for you?”

“It’s not like when I…”

“You’re so close Mary…So close…A young lady shouldn’t have to do this alone… may I kiss it?”

“Please…” Mary squeaked out, struggling hard against her ties. “Oh… Oh… Oh.. no.. yes… Oh.. Oh God!... Aweee!” she yelled out, nearly breaking the silk stockings holding her there as she orgasmed, unable to stifle her cries.

“Oh you’re a loud one Mary.” Miss Slone said with a smile and arose from the bed and began to undress. “You will need to do the same for me now… it’s only fair.”

Mary lay there shaking in aftershocks her eyes still closed. “Un..un… tie me..”

“Of course now Mary…” Mary slowly opened her eyes when she felt Miss Slone untying her… surprised at how lovely her naked body looked. “Now you just had a lesson as to what to do…” she said slowly laying next to her. Moving in close and again slowly running her fingers along Mary's slit again.

Mary very shyly began to run her fingers in Miss Slone’s moistening slit, mimicking what had been done to her… Staring in her eyes, noticing her smile. “Like.. like this?” she said, confused.

“Yes Mary… and you can put your fingers inside me if you’d like.”

“I’ve never…”

“Never what Mary?”

“Touched a woman… a woman there.”

“It’s a rare treat for me.”

“Miss Slone… Can I… Can I look at it?”

“Florence… I don’t want to be Miss Slone right now.” she said, rolling on her back her legs moving into the position Doctor Richardson had her in just a few days before. Mary knelt between her legs and ran her fingers through every little fold she could before slowly putting her fingers back inside…”Put your thumb over my bud…” she moaned, reaching down and putting Mary’s thumb over her clit. “Now faster… move your fingers faster Mary… Faster like in one of our books… That’s it… Please Mary… Oh..Oh… that’s it… Mary…”

When she finally climaxed with a deep moan Mary climbed up next to her… feeling relieved and shocked as to what just happened.

“Florence… I… I think… Thank you? but…”

“Mary, It’s been years since… Someone helped me…”

“Why… Why haven’t you ever gotten married?” Mary said, caressing her former teacher’s hair.

“My… well I was left at the altar and had someone whose hands were too… I just decided not to…”

“How… how… long has it been?”

“Years Mary… please can you stay a bit longer?”

“Yes.. yes… but…can I undress…”

“Silly of you to ask… and we can’t tell anyone about this… we’d both be in a lot of hurt…”

“Oh God no Florence… No one, not even Emmie…” They cuddled together for a few hours until the sun began to set. Mary got dressed slowly, looking at Florence laying there naked. “I’ll come visit again on saturdays and maybe we can read a few books together… and see what happens.”

“Thank you Mary…”

Their secret was safe for a few months until…

“Emmie, do you think it’s weird that Mary goes and sees Miss Slone every Saturday for lunch?”

“No Danny, they have a lot in common… at least personality wise.” she said propped up on the couch her pregnancy now unhidable. “She’s probably just a mother figure for her.”

“I am not so sure…”

“You’re crazy dear. Mary seems so much more happy and Miss Slone isn’t dressing like a schoolmarm anymore so I think some young female company is good for her.”

“It’s just… I saw them kissing at the fair… I was going behind the dairy show barn and Mary was sitting in her lap kissing… kissing like we do…”

“Danny, it's none of our business. They are both adults… Look, I'll invite myself over for lunch Saturday and see what’s going on.”

But Emmie was curious and when she saw Mary walking to Miss Slone’s house she began walking along. “Mary, Danny is so busy today, would you mind if I join you for Lunch?”

“I guess not, I don’t think she was expecting another person but…I was supposed to… well Pa said with the nights getting longer if I was there late I could stay over… Oh! Does Danny know you’re out walking! In these hills.”

“I’m fine Mary, he can scold me later… it’s not that far.”

“Fine, I guess…”

When they arrived at Miss Slone’s cottage Mary yelled out “Florence, It’s Mary, Ummm… Emmie is with me!”

“Oh, Emmie, nice to see you.” Miss Slone said with poorly hidden disappointment in her voice.

“I am so sorry to just come along like this but Danny was so busy today… Don’t worry I am only staying for lunch then I will be off.”

“Oh.. well wonderful! It’s just some sandwiches.”

They sat around the table chatting and then sat in her small living room.

“Florence, Mary… I need to say something but please know… I think… it’s not bad…I mean… well… Danny saw you two kissing behind the dairy barn at the fair… and I saw you ladies holding hands at the town hall movie.If you want to keep it a secret, you may need to be more careful.”

Mary’s tea cup fell out of her hand shattering on the floor and Florence’s eyes darted between them in shock.

“You… know?” Florence said in shock.

“That you’re a couple… Yes… So does Danny, don’t think anyone else in town knows… I won’t say anything and if Danny ever did I’d… I’d… wring his balls through the washer.” she said with a bit of a smile.

“Emmie, you don’t think we’re perverts?” Mary asked bluntly

“You’re both attractive, I can see how it can happen… Don’t think I haven’t noticed women before… I like men but…but… I can imagine… well I can imagine a woman might understand how we tick better.”

“Thank you Emmie, we’ll be more careful.” Florence said in a relieved tone.

“Florence, I am going to go chat with Emmie a bit outside if that’s OK”

“Of course dear.” She said, kissing her. “That felt good to do in front of someone.”

Stepping outside… “Emmie, thank you. Thank you so much for understanding… I’d still be curious to be with a man… But Florence is… well very good to me and… I wouldn’t hurt her and run off… anyways I can’t. I need to stay in town for my family… Pa has just been… Well, he has been very sad since my mom died. I can’t leave the boys alone with him too long or he gets angry… He treats us well and me like a special angel… Just make sure he never knows.”

“OK Mary, So I need to ask… Why, erm how… Well, didn’t you like Billy Mathews?”

“Ha… Yeah I do but… He’s seeing Sally Emerson now, you know that… She stole him… Well she goes all the way on a first date…”

“Oh my! Her?! The prissy whore!” Emmie said laughing and surprised. “No wonder she’s got him wrapped around her finger like that!”

“Well Florence says men only think with their penis.”

“She’s not far off Mary.”

“I am not any better. I only stopped by here to talk about books and… It got sexual pretty fast…”

“Well at least you won’t get pregnant.”

“There is something else… Florence has some problems down there, a lot of pain with her periods that’s getting worse… She had a bad experience with a man when she was younger, that’s why she… well can act like she does around Danny… If I can get her to see him… but now that Danny knows about us… Well if he’s OK with us being us… that will go a long way to making her feel better about it I think.”

“OK Mary, I will talk to him… I think he was surprised but I know he won’t tell anyone… Next week my aunt and uncle will be away… Instead of lunch you and Florence come by for dinner.”

“OK Emmie, thank you so much!” Mary said, kissing her friend on the cheek and rushing back inside. Emmie began walking home, turning around and seeing Mary and Emmie through the window cuddling on the couch.