I can't help it. I'm a little hurt… no more than a little. A lot.' She wet her lips and looked Mara carefully in the eye. 'You see you're the one I'm in love with, Mara.'
The Eurasian girl stared at the girl beside her. The situation would ordinarily have been absurd. It would have been absolutely ridiculous comedy if it weren't for the fact that the consequences were of the most deadly serious nature.
'Look, Patty, I know how you feel,' Mara began.
'Oh I'm glad you do,' Patty said quickly. 'Because I just haven't been able to eat or sleep since that day… I nearly went out of my mind. First because I think I fell in love with you at first sight… And then because you rejected me… '
Mara squeezed the girl's hand. 'You're just imagining that you feel this way dear. It happens often at your age.'
Somehow she had to make the girl back off her feelings or there might ensue real trouble. Patty was too high strung, too emotional. The men who had spotted her and Ruth were older and presumably could keep a rein on their emotions… but who knew what this insecure, unstable girl would do? Mara had heard that Patty was seeing a psychiatrist outside of school and that she had given her parents a good deal of trouble because of her tantrums. She had to proceed very cautiously with Patty.
'Now listen my dear Patty,' Mara said firmly. 'At your age one thinks she's in love half the time. Your probably meet a nice man soon and everything'll be changed. You won't even know I exist. Believe me.'
'That is not true, 'Patty exclaimed, 'I'm not interested in men. I'm interested in you.'
'Because of the fact that I am your teacher dear,' Mara said softly. 'It's a natural enough feeling. Many students feel that way. They feel emotionally closer to their teachers often than to their families. You feel close to me and I guess you were hurt by what you saw. You were hurt because you didn't understand what was happening.
'Ruth Peter and I,' Mara began to explain… ' It's hard to make clear to you what was going on… but I wasn't lying to you when I sent you away. I thought I was going to be alone, I-I-' Mara felt herself floundering. What on earth could she tell this girl? That she and the head of the English department were having a lesbian love affair… that what she had witnessed that afternoon at the picnic went on nearly every day? Oh damn, she thought, why do I have to explain everything!
Patty saved her the trouble of trying again.
'I want you, Mara,' she said softly.
Mara smiled. 'Look, you'll get over this Patty… You're just leading yourself on into a-'
'I'm not leading myself on to anything. I want you, damn it,' Patty said fiercely. 'And I'm jealous. You don't know what I have gone through since that day. After seeing you two making love, I lie in bed every night thinking of going down on you. Of you eating my pussy. Of us in each other's arms together kissing passionately.'
'Patty, you're talking crazy,' Mara snapped, sensing that the girl was rapidly spinning out of control.
'I'm not crazy. I'm telling you how I feel, Mara. Yes I guess I am crazy, about you… I want to hold you in my arms. I want to kiss your breasts… '
Patty suddenly reached out and grabbed Mara and kissed her passionately on the lips. Her hands began to caress Mara's breasts. The Eurasian girl tried to tear herself away, but the teen-aged girl was so determined to maintain her grip that it was impossible. Before she could say anything else, Mara was pushed back on the couch and Patty began to grope under her skirt.
'Oh no Patty no… please don't do that,' Mara said. But her pleas went unheeded. Patty was already burying her face between Mara's thighs and pushing aside the crotch piece of Mara's panties. A second later she felt Patty's hot tongue in her inner thighs, laving them and licking the skin greedily.
Mara fought to rise from the couch but the girl held her down with an iron grip. Soon her lips had strayed to Mara's pubic area and were hungrily licking the Eurasian girl's pussy. Against her better judgment, Mara opened her legs to give the girl a greater freedom of access to her pussy. It was insane but the girl was giving her head and she was so aroused that she could not back away from Patty's relentless tongue.
Mara closed her eyes and moaned aloud as Patty continued to lick her clitoris and then let her lips roam wildly over her entire vulva and mount of Venus. The girl was obviously not only determined to eat her but she was quite expert at it. In a way she did it even better than Ruth Peter, Mara thought.
Ruth Peter! The vision of Ruth waiting impatiently for her to show up at the Farmer's Market where they were supposed to be lunching right now, startled her. She had to get rid of Patty immediately. Ruth might come up and look for her. The Farmer's Market was close by and Ruth would not wait too long.
'Please Patty stop now… you must stop. I've got to leave. Someone's waiting for me,' Mara yelled as the teen-aged girl's head continued to work under her skirt. Patty's head shot up.
'You mean Ruth Peter's waiting for you,' she said angrily. 'You're throwing me out again.'
'No… no,' Mara insisted. 'It's just that we had already made this luncheon date and if I don't meet her she'll come up here and look for me. You don't want that dear. It would only cause a great deal of trouble for all of us. Not only you but your father. Think of him dear.'
'The only thing I want to think about is you,' Patty said truculently. 'I don't know what I'll do if you turn me away again.' She began to cry and Mara looked at her with distress and bewilderment. What in God's name was she going to do with this unstable youngster, she wondered.
'I'm not turning you away dear,' she said, in order to placate her now. 'Really I'm not… It's just that-'
At that instant the telephone rang shrilly, jolting them both. As she suspected it was Ruth Peter demanding to know why Mara was delaying her appearance.
'This place is jammed on Saturdays you know,' she was saying, 'and I can't hold a table forever. Are you coming or not?'
'Yes dear in a few minutes.'
'What's delaying you now?'
'Oh I-I've been waiting for the mail dear. I expected a letter from my father… He hasn't been feeling too well. And well I was worried.'
'Did it come finally?' Ruth asked.
'No… the mail did but nothing from him. I'll be over in a jiffy, Just try to be patient dear.'
When she hung up she turned to Patty again.
'Patty I must leave. You know how temperamental Ruth Peter is… I can't afford to endanger my job by offending her. Do you understand that?'
Patty looked at her in a hurt way. 'Yes I understand that. I understand that perfectly. But I think you'd better also understand that if I'm hurt… if you just turn your back on me… that might endanger your job too.'
'What-what are you trying to say Patty?' Mara asked. She knew very well what would come next.
'I'm in love with you, Mara,' Patty said. 'And I want to see you and be with you. If I have to share you with Ruth Peter that's cool. I don't want you to lose your job by getting into a fight with her. But when I'm hurt I-I can't help what I do… I just have to hit back… even if I don't really want to. Do you know what I'm saying… It's something I can't help.
'I have to hit back to hurt people who hurt me and I stop at nothing… ' She paused and looked at the floor. 'I'm not exactly proud of myself for doing such things but I can't help myself. Do you understand now?'
'Yes,' Mara said, closing her eyes in pain. 'Yes I understand perfectly. Look we'll work things out. I promise you. Somehow we'll work things out.'
Patty smiled. 'I'm glad… I'm really glad because I adore you… I just can't even be near you without wanting to touch you.'
Reaching for Mara, she drew the Eurasian girl close. Then opening Mara's blouse, she removed her firm breasts and began to suck them greedily like a baby needing milk from its mother.
Feeling the teen-ager's tongue licking her nipples, Mara gave herself over to the exquisite pleasure Patty's lips were giving her. But in her mind was the question: what happens next?
Chapter 13
