Candlelight City

by Jessica Tang Von Harper

  Her orgasm came quickly. The pleasure pulsated through her, and she stared upwards, looking at the glint of the sunlight through the leaves, feeling like she was floating. Donald was still grinding into her, and his hands clutched her long legs, sliding up and down her smooth skin. Her orgasm ebbed, but then she felt another one building, maybe an even bigger one. She whimpered, but it was impossible to stop.

  Donald increased his pace, urgently pushing deep inside her, his breathing ragged. When Suzie’s second orgasm hit, she couldn’t help but cry out. The pleasure was intense, and came with a driving need to have Donald as deep as inside her as he could go. She pushed her pelvis against his, furiously thrusting against him. Donald grunted, and a moment later he pulled out of her. His penis began to jet long ropes of cum onto her vagina and stomach. Suzie lay back, letting him coat her body in his gooey semen.

  She rested in the birdbath, breathing hard. Above her, the wind shifted the leaves back and forth, and for a moment, she felt too tired to do anything but gaze up at them. She heard Donald moving, and when she looked at him, he was turning away from her, pulling up his bathing suit. He walked away without saying a word, leaving her lying naked in the leaves, his semen slowly dripping down her belly. Suzie watched him until he disappeared from sight.

  She felt weary, but knew how humiliating it would be to get caught outside in the garden, naked and coated in semen. So she stood and walked rapidly back to the sun room. The coupling with Donald really hadn’t changed her plans much. She had intended to shower, and now she would. She went into the bathroom that adjoined the sun room, and turned on the water, letting it get hotter than she was normally comfortable with. She stood under the water, letting it wash the leaves and cum off of her.

  After she had cleaned up and dressed, Suzie found Tonya in the kitchen. “Long shower?” Tonya asked, offering Suzie a small plate of fruit.

  “Yeah. It felt good though,” Suzie replied. She picked up an apple, and took a bite. “Where’s Donald?” she asked, in a tone that she hoped was casual.

  “He stopped by, but said he was going to work in the yard a little bit,” Tonya said. She smiled. “I think he has a little crush on you. He said for me to say goodbye to you. I’ve never seen him act so shy. It was kind of cute.”

  Suzie and Tonya talked for a little bit, until Suzie noticed the time was getting late. She thanked Tonya for allowing her to come over. “Anytime, lovely,” Tonya said. “And I mean that. You’re always welcome.” She walked Suzie to the door.

  Suzie walked towards her car, but couldn’t stop herself from looking around the front yard for Donald. She glimpsed him in the side yard, with a pair of pruning clippers, cutting some branches. He hadn’t noticed her.

  Suzie glanced at the front door, to make sure Tonya wasn’t watching her. Tonya was back in the house and the door was closed. No one was watching. Suzie felt mischievous. So Donald thought she had teased him before? She would show him what teasing was about!

  She went behind a tree in the front yard. Glancing around nervously, she began to strip, until she was completely naked. She left her clothes in a small pile, and then went towards the side yard where Donald was.

  He was focused on what he was doing, and didn’t notice her until she was five feet away from him. His eyes went wide when he saw that she was walking towards him naked.

  “Hi,” Suzie said sweetly. “I’m leaving, and just wanted to stop by and say goodbye.”

  “You’re leaving… like that?” Donald’s eyes ran up and down her body.

  “Yes,” she said. “I just stopped by to say goodbye.” She stepped forward and hugged him. Donald didn’t react at first; perhaps he was too shocked. But it didn’t take him long to recover, and he put his arms around her, squeezing her against him. His hands rubbed her body freely, sliding down her back and over her ass, then coming up her side to fondle her breasts. Suzie didn’t stop him, letting him touch her body however he wanted.

  She broke the hug, and stepped back. But Donald was still interested in touching her, and reached between her legs to push a finger into her vagina. Suzie acted like nothing unusual was happening; her only acknowledgement of his action was to widen her stance slightly, giving him more room. She smiled and said, “See you later!” even as he inserted a second finger into her.

  Donald didn’t remove his fingers, and for a moment, Suzie stood in front of him, enjoying the sensation of his fingers squirming around inside her. Even after her two previous orgasms, she was still pretty turned on. Finally, she took a deep breath, and stepped back. Donald’s fingers, slick from her juices, popped easily out of her.

  “See you!” she said, and she turned and walked away. She glanced back at him, and was pleased to see he had an enormous erection straining against his pants. She giggled, happy that her teasing had had its intended effect.

  As she reached the front of the house, she glanced back again, and saw that Donald was still watching her. She walked towards her car, anxiously peeking towards the spot where she’d hidden her clothes. If she retrieved them now, with Donald watching, he would know she had just been faking. Taking a deep breath, Suzie forced herself to ignore the pile of clothes; she walked briskly towards her car, opened the door and sat inside. The car seat felt warm against her bare skin. She started the engine and drove away, acting as if it was perfectly normal to drive completely naked in broad daylight.

  Her heart was beating fast as she drove down the road, and she felt totally exposed. After coming to a stop at a stop sign, Suzie quickly ransacked the back seat of her car, looking for something she could cover herself with. Fortunately, she found an old t-shirt tucked under the passenger seat. It was a little small, and didn’t even cover her midriff, much less her bottom half. But at least it might appear she was dressed to someone’s casual glance.

  As Suzie drove home, she thought about her parents. Hopefully, they would be out when she returned. What would they think if they saw her walking through the door, naked except for a t-shirt, having lost all the clothes she was wearing that morning?

  “They might think I’m becoming a whore,” Suzie said out loud, and she couldn’t help but giggle.

  9. A Book

  The following week, Suzie was in rehearsal, and she could tell that it wasn’t going well. Mr. Belfast seemed agitated, and kept having them redo the scene over and over. “You’re being too timid,” he kept saying to Suzie. “Remember, you’ve lived life on the street. You’re tough inside. Be Jenna, Suzie. Be Jenna.”

  Suzie tried her best, but Mr. Belfast seemed frustrated. At the end of the rehearsal, he asked her, “Suzie, can I speak to you for a few minutes in my office?” Suzie tensed. She hoped he wasn’t reconsidering casting her. Tonya was her understudy, and could easily step into the role.

  Brad seemed to sense Suzie’s nervousness, and caught her just before she went into the office. “Hey,” he whispered, smiling. “Don’t worry, you’re doing fine. Belfast is a perfectionist, that’s all.” Suzie smiled back, but she still felt nervous.

  Mr. Belfast was at his desk as she walked in. “Hi, Suzie. Please have a seat.”

  Suzie sat down. Her hands were clutched tightly in her hands.

  “I’d like to talk to you a little bit about Jenna,” the teacher began. “Let me ask you a question. How do you think Jenna is different from other prostitutes?”

  “Um…” Suzie thought for a moment. “Well… she falls in love with Elias. I think most prostitutes try not to connect with their clients. But Jenna allows herself to fall in love.”

  “That’s true,” said Mr. Belfast. “But why does she fall in love?”

  “Because… because she’s able to see him as a person. Not just as someone that will pay her.”

  “Okay. But is it just him? Is there something special about Elias?”

  Suzie considered her answer. “He’s special… Jenna doesn’t fall in love with just anyone. Yes, he’s special in that way. But Jenna is good to all her customers. She treats th
em all like they’re special.”

  “Go on,” the teacher urged.

  “Other prostitutes care about the money,” Suzie explained. “That’s why they do what they do. The sex they have becomes meaningless, it just becomes a task they complete in order to get paid. Jenna… she likes to give men pleasure. She’s more generous than other prostitutes. She likes giving her body to men, and she likes that they’re able to use her body to feel happier.”

  Mr. Belfast nodded in satisfaction. “Yes, yes. I can see that you’ve thought about the character, and I like your interpretation. But I need to see more of that in your acting.” He reached down and opened a drawer, pulling out a book and placing it on the desk in front of her.

  Suzie read the title: “Method Acting: From Dustin Hoffman to Daniel Day Lewis.”

  Mr. Belfast continued, “I’d like you to take a look at this book; I think it might help you to immerse yourself in the Jenna character. You’re doing fine, but this might help you take your acting to the next level.”

  Suzie picked up the book. “Thanks, Mr. Belfast. I promise I’ll read it.”

  “Good. Thank you, Suzie.”

  As Suzie got up to leave, Mr. Belfast added, “Also, do you have a bikini that you can bring in to rehearsal tomorrow? I want to work on blocking the scene between Jenna, Elias and Carlos, the one that starts with Jenna and Carlos in bed together.”

  “Sure, Mr. Belfast,” Suzie agreed, and she left.

  To her surprise, Brad was waiting for her outside. “How’d it go?” he whispered, falling in step beside her. “Everything copacetic?

  Suzie showed him the book. “He gave me this.”

  Brad nodded in approval. “That’s a great book. I’ve read it.”

  “Will it help me?”

  Brad smiled. “I think it will, Suzie. I think it will.”

  10. A Difficult Scene

  Suzie read the first four chapters of the book that night, and she found it fascinating. She hadn’t really known what method acting was all about, and enjoyed the different stories of how movie stars had prepared for certain roles. In a way, she reflected, she had been method acting without realizing it. Going to Tonya’s house and allowing the boys to see her naked had been a form of method acting. It was all about immersing yourself in the character, and allowing yourself to exist in their skin.

  The next day, Suzie arrived at rehearsal with a bikini on under her clothes. She had lost her white bikini at Tonya’s house, so she was wearing a pink bikini that she had dug out of the bottom of her dresser. Brad was there, as was Ricardo Lopez, the boy who was playing Carlos. Suzie shifted uneasily when she saw him; she had met him before, but this was the first time they would be acting out this scene, a scene that required them to fake intimacy.

  The scene began with Jenna and Carlos in bed together. Elias burst in, angry that his friend had sought out a tryst with the prostitute that Elias had said he was in love with. Jenna calmed Elias down then left the room. Instead of an angry confrontation, Elias and Carlos talked through their feelings, with Carlos explaining how lonely and depressed he had been, and describing how Jenna had a way of making him feel like everything would be all right. By the end of the scene, Elias and Carlos reconciled.

  Suzie was not required to be nude for the scene. The simulated sex was to take place under a sheet, and Suzie was supposed to wrap the sheet around herself when she left the room. Ricardo, on the other hand, was briefly nude. He was supposed to get up out of the bed and pull on some shorts while arguing with Brad, and it wouldn’t make sense for him to be wearing anything.

  This meant that he would be naked under the sheet with Suzie. As they prepared to rehearse the scene, Suzie nervously stripped off her clothes until she was only wearing her bikini. Ricardo undressed completely, and together they slipped under the sheet.

  The scene had difficulties from the beginning. Suzie and Ricardo started out with Suzie lying on her back, with Ricardo over her. But Mr. Belfast didn’t like that. “I think it fits the scene better for Jenna to be on top,” he told them. “She’s comforting Carlos when he’s depressed, and I think we feel that more if she’s taking a more active role in their love-making.” So they switched, with Ricardo on his back and Suzie on top of him. Suzie was acutely aware of Ricardo’s nakedness, and as they shifted around under the sheet, she could feel his penis brushing against her bare skin. She noticed he was starting to get erect, and hoped he wasn’t embarrassed by it.

  They continued to rehearse, but the sheet kept slipping off of Suzie’s back. “Bikini!” Mr. Belfast called whenever her bikini was visible to the audience. Suzie was straddling Ricardo, and his erect penis was rubbing against the crotch of her bikini. To her embarrassment, she realized she was starting to get wet.

  After Mr. Belfast yelled, “Bikini!” for what seemed like the hundredth time, he walked onto the stage and rubbed his temple with his hand. “Look, this isn’t working. Suzie, I think it’s better if you take off your bikini top for this scene. Then it’ll be one less thing to worry about.”

  “Okay,” Suzie said. Before she could think too much about it, she reached around and undid her top. She pulled the flimsy piece of fabric away from her breasts, and placed it in Mr. Belfast’s waiting hand.

  “Okay, let’s try again,” the teacher said, and they started the scene over again. Perhaps it was just Suzie’s imagination, but it seemed as if Ricardo’s erection had increased in size after she had taken off her top. It pressed against her bathing suit, rubbing her clitoris through the fabric.

  Because they didn’t have to worry about the bikini being visible, Suzie and Ricardo stopped paying attention to the sheet, and so it kept slipping down her back. There was no question that the audience was going to be able to see her bare breasts. In addition, Ricardo began to improvise using her visible breasts, making them part of their love-making. He palmed and squeezed them, rolling her nipples between his fingers.

  Mr. Belfast approved. “Great, great,” he said, as Ricardo leaned forward to suck one of Suzie’s nipples between his lips. Suzie had to acknowledge that it fit the scene, but still it was hard to keep her wits and think about her lines when Ricardo was doing those things to her body. She could feel the arousal building inside her, and it became more and more difficult to stop moving when Mr. Belfast yelled cut.

  “Cut!” Mr. Belfast hollered, and he walked onto the stage. “I just need more from you two. It doesn’t look quite real. Suzie, let’s pull off the sheet, and let me see what you guys are doing under there.”

  For ten minutes, Mr. Belfast watched them grind against each other, coaching them in ways to make the sex look more authentic. He seemed very frustrated. “The angle isn’t working. It looks fake. Suzie, you need to shift up a little. I keep telling you that, but you keep slipping down.”

  Suzie was also feeling frustrated. She was a perfectionist, but she just couldn’t seem to get it right. Finally, she looked up at the teacher. “Um… Mr. Belfast?”

  “Yes, Suzie?”

  She glanced nervously at Ricardo then looked at the teacher. “Maybe it would look real… if it was real? What if I take off my bottom too, and Ricardo really has sex with me? Do you think that would help?”

  Mr. Belfast regarded her for a moment. “Hmm. I think that would definitely help. Are you okay with that, Suzie? Ricardo?”

  “Yes,” Suzie whispered. Ricardo assured Mr. Belfast it was okay with him as well. Suzie could feel Ricardo’s throbbing erection between her legs, and she thought it was more than just okay with him.

  She climbed out of the bed, and Mr. Belfast waited as she slid her bikini bottom down her smooth legs. To her embarrassment, her bikini bottom was moist and sticky with her wetness, and a thin line of oil stretched several inches from her vagina to the fabric before it snapped. Mr. Belfast held out his hand, and Suzie placed the cloth in his palm. If the teacher noticed how drenched the bikini bottom was, he didn’t say anything.

  Suzie turned towards Ricardo. The boy
seemed tense with anticipation, and Suzie knew how he felt. They had spent so much time simulating the sex act that their bodies were almost bursting with sexual energy. Suzie climbed onto Ricardo and lined his penis up with the opening of her vagina. Slowly, she eased down onto his penis, feeling it split her labia and fill her. She couldn’t help but moan as his shaft impaled her.

  For some reason, it didn’t bother her that much that Mr. Belfast was seeing her have sex. It didn’t even bother her so much that Ricardo was having sex with her, even though she didn’t really know him very well at all. But when she thought of how it looked to Brad, seeing her naked body sliding up and down on a long penis, she couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. Yet it was also exciting. She knew that she wasn’t holding anything back from Brad; she was allowing him to see her completely naked and at her most intimate. It turned her on to act so sexy in front of him.

  She found herself playing to Brad. She lifted herself high and widened her legs, giving him a good view of Ricardo’s penis as it slid into her.

  Ricardo caressed her breasts, and she turned slightly so that Brad could see his fingers stroking her nipples. At one point, she snuck a glance over her shoulder, only to confirm that Brad was intently watching every minute of her sexual display. She couldn’t believe what she was doing in front of him, and turned away, blushing yet feeling the intense need between her legs. I’m going to come in front of him, she realized in a daze.

  But when she came close to an orgasm, Brad burst into the room, playing the angry Elias, and Suzie was forced to stop. It was torture, but Suzie remembered her part, and she let Ricardo and Brad do their scene while she wrapped the sheets around herself and walked out.