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Little Cherine Book 01 - BPost041
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<sup><h6>You would have to give up your child, even before birth she would be ours.”<br>

“She Dommi?” I asked.<br>

“Yes Roberto. She. You heard Natalie.”</h6></sup>
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<p>“That is if you do not take me into your circle?”</p>

<p>“Right.”</p>

<p>“And you will not take me in?” The look in her eyes was breaking my heart.</p>

<p>“Yes.”</p>

<p>I stared at Dommi, the girls also astounded. We have never before had occasion to know this implacable side of her. Cherine sighed and sent to me, <i>*It is the Mother in her.*</i></p>

<p>“Dominique, am I wrong? I get the feeling, you want me to have this child?” Natalie asked, surprising us.</p>

<p>Dommi looked at me - not at Natalie, her eyes though were withdrawn, deep in herself. We all held our breaths.</p>

<p>“Yes. She is already calling, she wants to come to us. Natalie, such a daughter no mother has ever born. She will have talents we do not even suspect exist. She will strengthen our Kaleidoscope World so that it lasts throughout eternity.”</p>

<p>I shivered. For the first time ever I was scared of Dommi, of that gift of hers. I was awed and touched by a superstitious dread, but not afraid of the child to come. I think of Themi as our friend, so I asked, “Dommi? What about Themi? How will he feel?”</p>

<p>“He will treasure her.” Suddenly she sagged, and caught her breath. “Oh Cherine, you saw right. He will love her, Rose too, and their circle will be a strong one. There is a secret pain in Themi and only Natalie can draw it out of him. He will not mind the child. He will love the child more than you can imagine.”</p>

<p>I asked, “He will not feel cheated? That the child should have been his?”</p>

<p>“How could he. She could not be what she is if she were not yours. He and Natalie, they will have many children. Do not worry about Themi, he is wiser than you think. It is up to Natalie, can she give up her daughter to us?”</p>

<p>“I can see her? Will she know she is my daughter?”</p>

<p>“You shall see her whenever you wish. She will love you as her mother, but not as part of our circle. You will even dance with her many times over the centuries.”</p>

<p>“Centuries!!” Poor Natalie looked faint.</p>

<p>I explained the effect of my healer on her. Finally she just shook her head.</p>

<p>“It is too much, please Roberto, no more. Give me time to get used to…” she looked up and her face sparkled with an anger, as if I had done something bad to her, “and you dared tell me you are not special, no gifts!”</p>

<p>Cherine laughed and clapped her hands. “Natalie you did it. For the first time I felt an interest in him for you. Our Robert loves intelligence and a fighting spirit in his woman. He loved that spark of anger in your eyes.”</p>

<p>She stood up. “I’m glad I am not marrying him. A man who finds an angry woman sexy! Is there nothing normal about you Roberto? I’m going to cook and it is too cold to keep all the windows open. The cabbage will stink so go somewhere for a couple of hours. It will also give me time to think.”</p>

<p>She marched out. So, I thought, there is more to this girl than I had thought, not quite the mouse I had imagined. I grinned at the girls. “Did not take her long to find out I’m weird.”</p>

<p>Wendy solemnly told me, “She meant that as a compliment Robbie. I bet you knew that, you’re just teasing us again.”</p>

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<p>I wanted to ask, but I was not complaining, just curious. “When are you girls going to start wanting me just for yourselves?”</p>

<p>“Robert, every time you love, you grow. We are richer. Why should we?”</p>

<p>“That was profound Cherine. I wish I could think the way you do. Maybe with time…”</p>

<p>Cherine almost laughed. “You Robert!? Never! Not that we mind. It makes me feel good to know you care so much about not letting another man touch me. It will cause us problems in the future as we have sons. We will face them at that time, I don’t think we will be the same as we are now. Robert, just be as you are, as we love you.”</p>

<p>Dommi added, “It sounds to you as if we are practising double standards, but there is something important, a difference between you and us, which you must come to understand. As Cherine told you and as you have been told before, every time you love, your heart grows deeper and stronger, so that it is impossible for us to resent our family growing…rather, we feel grateful to the girl who made it possible for your love for us to grow. If one or all of us girls were to love another man, we do not have your ability, so we would be taking some of our love for you for sharing with the other man. If it happens, our family will be shattered, for we need to be totally devoted to each other, or else we will become divided.”</p>
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<p>As she said, I could not understand their double standards, not in the century we live and the way the media hammers the point about sexual equality all the time, but I was humbled anyway. Their hearts are so much bigger than mine. I thought we’d finished the discussion we were having, but Cherine faced me with eyes that were serious and deep with emotion.</p>

<p>“You said something that was wrong Robert. You keep saying it. I did not give you your gifts, I only helped you find them. The gifts you have are not all that you will have, there are still many closed doors and we do not know what you are hiding behind them. You also have another gift that is special, even though you do not think so, or believe it is so, but we all know it - actually, as Dommi explained, I should say we have been discovering it and finding it hard to believe. You love each one of us as if you love no other. Each one is the perfect love for you. There is no other person, man or woman who can feel that way. You love so many of us and yet you are true to each of us. I know you do not like it when I speak like this, like I am older, but you had to be told. It is important you know that we are not blind to what you are - even if you are.”</p>

<p>“How can I not like it when you say such lovely things about me. If that is how you all see me I will not argue the point. I just wish I understood it.” I tried for some levity. “Which healthy man would not treasure having his own little harem?” I then had to admit, “My loves, it is difficult for me to not feel guilty at times.”</p>

<p>“Are you saying you feel guilty about loving me Robbie?”</p>

<p>“Oh god no!! Never, not about that my sweet Wendy!”</p>

<p>“I don’t understand then, in which way?”</p>

<p>As I floundered, searching for a suitable answer, Dommi put her arm around Wendy, giving her a cuddle. “Don’t ask Wendy. He does not really know. All artists are like that, they love to torment themselves and find guilt - it seems to goad them into creating. Just think of Vincent van Gogh. He drove himself mad with it and cut off his ear, but he created some of the most wonderful art.”</p>

<p>“I don’t want Robbie to cut off his ear!”</p>

<p>“Dommi, comparing me to someone who was insane! Do you really see me like that?”</p>

<p>“Go tease Cherine if you want to Robert, not me. You know what I mean and you even agree. Wendy baby, our Robert is even worse than Vincent, the artist who had a soul. Our artist does not cut off his ears, instead he tries to kill himself whenever he allows the guilt to get too strong. It is why he needs us to be stronger than him, so that we can care for him - and protect him from himself. Are you strong enough?”</p>

<p>Wendy stared at me, her eyes a pale blue of sadness that gradually darkened.</p>

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<p>“For my Robbie I can be.” We all noticed the ‘my’ instead of ‘our’, but the picture of this tiny girl deciding to protect me touched everyone. What it did to my heart I have hidden to bring out at moments and treasure.</p>
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<p>We paid Meli a visit. Marian cornered me wanting to know how it had gone with young Robert and the girls. I explained how Wendy had tackled and shamed me.</p>

<p>“That’s my little girl, I’m proud of her. There is a lot more to her than is obvious at first glance. Her sweetness is overwhelming, so it is difficult to see past it, but there is depth there - and a good brain. I gained a wonderful daughter in her.” Wendy ‘heard’ through me and softly cried as her sister Cherine held her with pride in her eyes.</p>

<p>When we left there, I took them to our local coffee shop. They automatically brought my bitter coffee, even before taking the orders for the ladies. </p>

<p>“You know my loves. I’ve been thinking...”</p>

<p>Cherine clapped her hands in delight. “We must celebrate. He actually tried thinking today! And…he did it with the right head this time!” Her infectious cheeky grin had all laughing. Corny as it was, it was good, it broke the tension that had hung over us all. P.S. I doubt she’ll ever get tired of teasing me when I start my statements in this way.</p>

<p>“May I continue? Okay, as I said, I’ve been thinking,” they all burst out laughing again, which I tried to ignore this time, “we have so many miracles of love happening to us, I could not help feeling that surely this must be part of the gift, the circle of love we have. Now I think I was wrong. I believe all people, families, wherever there are relationships of love, there are these miracles. It is just that most of them don’t notice. Maybe our gift is in our being more sensitive to such miracles. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everybody could recognise the miracles of their own loves?”</p>

<p>“You want to know which is the biggest miracle up to now?” We all looked at Dommi, at her teary eyes. “Natalie is going to make the sacrifice. Our girl would not have called to her and me if she was not to be.”</p>

<p>Cherine was awed. “Not necessarily Dommi. If she is to be so special, I would not keep her from becoming linked to us.”</p>

<p>“You will not have to. She will agree.”</p>

<p>I now foresaw the problems we faced that night. “My loves, you will all have the fever after our dancing. What I ask will also be a sacrifice from your side. Especially you Diana. This is also your first time and just a touch from you and I will not be fair to Natalie. If I am to make love to her, let it be that she is the center of our loving. I do not think it should be that I just take her virginity, give her my child and then turn to you. This should be a night she can carry with to her old age. Especially with the sacrifice she will be making.”</p>
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<p>We returned home and the younger girls were not skipping as they often do, they walked by our sides in a sober mood. There is sure to be heartbreak waiting for us when we get home - whichever way Natalie decides.</p>

<p>She was at the door, having sensed us coming. Briskly she whisked us off to the lounge, as if she were our hostess, and returned to the kitchen. Half an hour later she appeared. There was still that brisk almost hard look to her. She sat facing us.</p>

<p>“What you did today was cruel. There will be so many problems. I will be shaming my parents, be ridiculed by all those loathsome ‘friends’. For what? To have a child I cannot even keep.”</p>

<p>None of us spoke and it was obvious she did not expect or want us to. She just stared at us as if trying to reconfirm (επιβεβαιώση) to herself something.</p>

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<p>“I have decided it will be my honour. To have a child by Robert, even a normal child, that would be an honour. To have a child as special as you say Dominique, it would be more than an honour. Do I believe you? Yes, I do! You, my only friend, you would have no reason to lie or want to hurt me. Just tell me again one thing. Will she love me as a mother, or just a friend?”</p>

<p>“As a mother. Natalie, our daughters knew more than any one of us even before they were born. Oh yes, she will know, love and honour you as her mother.” There were tears in all our eyes even as Dommi spoke for us all.</p>

<p>“If you will have me in love tonight Roberto, I will. I will not have a child just because of what she can be. I cannot do something like this cold-bloodedly.”</p>

<p>I told her, “No child will ever be created by us without it being conceived with love.”</p>

<p>“Good! Then you better all go wash your hands. Supper is ready.”</p>
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<p><h3><center>Chapter Fifty Two</center></h3></p>

<p>Natalie insisted on washing the dishes so we were alone. Cherine asked, the problem obviously having been on her mind a while, “Robert, why didn’t you arrange for Themi and Rose to be here?”</p>

<p>“It seemed a good idea at the time - don’t ask me why! Guess I worried it might make her feel we are pressuring her to become part of their circle.”</p>

<p>“Are you going to be able to love her, afterwards?”</p>

<p>“You mean make love? Well, seeing that I will be desperately needing sex, it should not be a problem. Can’t very well project what I want on her, can I? Are you all going to help me? Especially for seconds or thirds - I do not want her to feel I used her to get what we wanted…damn it! I don’t want to feel I used her, she deserves much more from us.”</p>

<p>“Us help you?”</p>

<p>“If you give her some loving, you do not need to go as far as you usually do between you, but if you can help stimulate her enough to get her and yourselves a bit excited, it will help me.” I was truly pleased that none of my loves were blaming her age for the way I feel. I think that part of the problem will no longer exist by the time we return - getting to know her soul I think is going to make a big difference.</p>

<p>“Oh Robert, I’m so sorry, you really do not want her.” Dommi was blaming herself.</p>

<p>“My sweet wife, there are obviously some things meant to be. You only passed on the message. No, what troubles me is that the baby might look back and see in my mind I did not want her mother. I would not want her to be hurt by it. Cherine, while dancing, if I exchange with her, more than I would have I mean, will she become too attached, will I?”</p>

<p>“No, anyway, it would not matter if you love her, we all do already because of Dommi. Just please do not take her into you.”</p>

<p>“I thought he was coming into me, how do I go into him?”</p>

<p>“Natalie! We obviously did not hear you come in. We are talking about the soul-dancing, not the sex. As to even that, there are ways you could come into me - but I’m not telling you. That bit of pleasure belongs to my Cherine.” My mischievous smile had them both blushing. Secretly Cherine stuck up two fingers and waggled them at me, but she was not able to make a threat of it, for her mind was leaking her excitement at the idea of my saying it is hers.</p>

<p>Luckily Alki and Marian came and we spent the next hour with them, the ladies chatting while Alki discussed business with me. He began by teasing me.</p>

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<p>“Roberto, I think I am going to have to fire you. You have not been doing any work and the business cannot afford to carry you forever.” I sensed his mock stern manner was only concealing his true worry.</p>

<p>There was no way he was going to get me down today - not today! “Alki, my life is full of too much beauty, I cannot seem to find the inspiration.”</p>

<p>“We have already lost a major client. I do not want the market to start saying we do not perform. What do we do Robert?”</p>

<p>“The American sect? I was hoping we would lose them, I did not want to create a site for that sect - or for any sect. I promise you I will set aside time for the normal corporate work you’ve signed up. As I have to make the girls start studying, they are getting too lazy, it will give me time to myself. Do I owe you much Alki?”</p>

<p>“Are you joking?” He laughed. “With those big fees you earned, no, you could sit back another six months if you wanted. It just would not be good for business.”</p>

<p>“Alki, as a friend I need to confide in you.” I explained to him what is happening with Natalie. I saw his face pale when I mentioned the pronouncement by Dommi.</p>

<p>“You do not have a choice Roberto mou. You are frightening me, you know that. I am still just a poor superstitious Greek boy in my heart.”</p>

<p>“At least you are not calling yourself an old man anymore. Alki, my worry is, how will Themi feel to know I did this - a woman he is supposed to love.”</p>

<p>“Themi the man, he may be upset. Themi the professor, he will be thrilled. Roberto, you must explain it fully to him. Give him the chance to react and get over it.”</p>

<p>“I do not think you understand. At the dancing tonight they will be bonding. He will return loving her. It is <i>after</i> that I take her virginity and get her pregnant.”</p>

<p>“Oh mana mou! That will not be right. Roberto? What?”</p>

<p>“Come, we are going to my office. I need your presence as a moral support. I must phone Themi and discuss this now.”</p>

<p>“No Roberto, sit down. There are times honesty is wrong. How do you expect him to dance and exchange, love her, with the knowledge in his mind from now? It is wrong, but you must wait.” Alki was broadcasting how much he disliked giving me this advice and that he felt guilty, but he also superstitiously felt that since Dommi said the child will be so important, we must not increase the risks of things going wrong. I also feared making a wrong move.</p>

<p>“This will be a bad dance for us, it is not the place to go to with secrets. I will have to hold my secret buried in me, and the girls too, so we cannot open to each other. God knows how Natalie will keep it a secret.” </p>

<p>“I may just be a superstitious village idiot, but I say this to you Roberto. This child must be born! You sacrifice, you lie, whatever, but she must be born. I can feel it - she must be born.”</p>

<p>“She must be born with love, not in deceit and as a duty to the future. She will be a human being with a heart. Alki, she will be my daughter.”</p>

<p>The eyes of Alki had opened in warning, but I had not understood. A gentle hand rested on my shoulder. I took hold of it and from the tingle knew it was Diana. I pulled her around.</p>

<p>“Robbie, it will not matter. Sam loves you for wanting her.” Alki crossed himself.</p>

<p>“Diana baby, Sam? A girl called Sam?”</p>

<p>“Samantha.”</p>

<p>“You chose the name love?”</p>

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<p>“No, Sam did.”</p>

<p>“You can communicate with her?” </p>

<p>She gave me a smile. “You’ll see, tonight.” She went off, chatting brightly with Wendy so I decided to trust her, no more questions for now. As for Alki, though he never drinks before going to the void, he had a double whiskey, neat.</p>
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<p>They were all making Natalie the center of their attention. She was glowing. She could feel their warmth and love, this was not her usual crowd of friends where she is pitied or has to deface herself, be what they want, so that they include her in their group. I could sense it is not beauty, it is the encouragement to build up her self-confidence she needs. Knowing how we are, I’m certain she’ll get all she needs from us.</p>

<p>I asked Natalie if she would like to share a secret of ours with us and suddenly there was absolute silence. Everyone listened as I told her about Diana. I think that because she knows Diana and is already very fond of her, she did not grow afraid and talk about God. “The reason I had to tell you about Diana is because tonight is her first visit to the void and I expect her soul to have a strong effect on me, I think I’m going to be overcome by her. You see, each of my loves - and I am including my daughters, gave a part of their soul for creating hers. Can you imagine what it will be like for me? A soul made of all those I deeply love? Add to it her own personality and I can’t help wondering whether I’m going to survive meeting her there.” I chuckled. “It is not going to be easy for Diana either; remember each of the girls shared their love for me with her, so for her it will be as if she not only loves me as Diana, but also as each of my loves. I think there are going to be some stunning moments for us, but also my loves are going to have to concentrate on keeping the two of us safe. This is your first time and we all want it to also be very special for you, so please don’t be upset if we cannot devote ourselves to making it as wonderful for you as we want to.” She nodded, showing she understood. I gave her a grateful smile and raised my voice slightly, “Let’s be there to greet the others. Natalie, come sit by me please.”</p>
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<p>The wee ones, my girls and I were there first. The girls first brought Diana. As she appeared Alki, Marian and Meli appeared, with Natalie brought by them. I was blind to them. Even as I sensed Diana I felt a burning and I flared, exploding into a size and brightness that frightened all but Diana. She too had flared. The others sped to get out from between us.</p>

<p>Peripherally I was aware of others appearing, but I was in no condition to greet them. All my being was focussed on Diana, on the glorious ethereal beauty who swirled in shades of each of my loves and yet was a unique creation, the sum far greater than the parts that had made her. It was as if the size, brightness, were a mutual gravity well that drew us into each other. There was no dancing to it. We merged and melded in an uncontrolled rush. I felt I had been just the half of what I was meant to be and had now found the missing half.</p>

<p>We sank to the cores of each other where we must have been burning as brightly as a sun. We began to fuse into the sum of our parts.</p>

<p>Cherine was the first to realise what was happening and with a cry of desperation to the others rushed in. All my girls, including the wee ones rushed into us. This caused the metamorphosis Cherine was looking for. </p>

<p>We became the Kaleidoscope World.</p>

<p>But <i>what</i> a world!!</p>

<p>We must have been a beacon out to eternity. Where the pinpricks of all humanity were barely seen in the darkness of the void, we lit the void, forcing the others to distance themselves. I heard Meli cry out in longing. I answered her. </p>

<p>Because of the desperation in Cherine, her terror, the first thing <i><b>I</b></i> considered were the Robert and Diana personalities. <i><b>I</b></i> saw the urge to unite and considered it. Robert is too important for this to be allowed. <i><b>I</b></i> looked far down the stream of time. Diana has her role to play also, she cannot be sacrificed. <i><b>I</b></i> placed the blocks they’ll need to keep them as separate entities, whatever their compulsion.</p>

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<p>There was another personality calling to me. The voice came to me from outside, from afar, growing stronger even as <i><b>I</b></i> listened. Gradually it appeared in its unique glory. <i><b>I</b></i> recognised it. The one that will be part of <i><b>I</b></i> and stabilise/establish the future of the best probability.</p>

<p><i>*Welcome Samantha. You visit us from the future so you may not enter yet, even I must not learn from your memories, but welcome.* </i></p>

<p>A voice, the warm voice of a strong personality, of a grown woman answered. <i>*Family, my greetings. I had to come to the first calling of my birth mother. The <b>I</b> of my time recognises this gathering as the true birth of ourselves and wanted through me also to be a part of it again. You have done what you were to do, our Cherine has saved my father and Diana. Now you must revert to your separate entities. I would talk with all my family as individuals also.*</i></p>

<p>As we dissolved to our lonely individuality, my flare, Diana’s, had reverted to normal, even though I could see in her the roiling I too felt. I flicked a short tasting and exchange so that she had my love and carefully approached Natalie.</p>

<p><i>*I am sorry, things got out of hand. I wanted to be here to greet you as you arrived. Natalie, do you see our daughter?*  </i></p>

<p><i>*Our daughter, my daughter! Where?*</i></p>

<p>Even as we talked Samantha came over. I made the introductions. I could sense and see the effect this had on Natalie. The truth is, Samantha was an amazing sight even in this place of wonder, and she exuded an aura different to any of us, more stable, more mature, far more complex, with an amazing depth to her. I became suspicious.</p>

<p><i>*Samantha, what is your age in real terms, at this time of your life.*  </i></p>

<p>She projected a loving smile that took away my breath. <i>*Even at this time you are already perceptive. I am over two hundred and ninety seven years old. And so that you need not ask, I still have the physical form of an eleven year old.*  </i></p>

<p><i>*So my love for that sweet plastic beauty of childhood is still a joke centuries from now! Actually what I would like to know is, why that age, nearly three centuries, why not at the age just a couple of years from now? What made you decide to wait for that time to appear now?*  </i></p>

<p><i>*You would not agree to any of us coming earlier. You said we had to be stable first. Plus I had reasons of my own, which do not belong to this time.*  </i></p>

<p>Again she projected, this time a tongue stuck out at me from between her sweet lips. It made me happy, Cherine has had an effect on her, she is also cheeky. <i>*So, I’m still the bossy bum I am now. No revolutions?*  </i></p>

<p>She laughed. <i>*I am not allowed to discuss the future. Robbie, can I spend some time with Natalie and Themi?*</i></p>

<p>I sent and mingled with her motes of love, tasting her own signature which included a heavy mixture of all of us already existing, with a large number that were strange to me. I gave the same sort of ‘kiss’ to Natalie and left as Themi joined them</p>

<p>I greeted with pleasure my mother, Tasso and his family, Maria and Kosta. We all danced to each other, swirling and exchanging. Gradually what had seemed a random dance separated into circles, orbits of love. My mother had joined Themi and the four of them were exchanging and almost sinking into Samantha, who expertly handled it all, never allowing things to get out of hand, but also ensuring the two of them grow to love Natalie.</p>

<p>Samantha must have judged her mission completed, for she left them and returning to us drew Diana to herself. <i>*I wish I was allowed to share with you the intensity of my love for you. Diana, you extend into the future with arrows that shoot out, bringing love, beauty and joy to millions. Thanks to you also, our Cherine will be free to grow, changing all of us. Never doubt your place in our family and among all… those who are human.* </i>I sensed she had nearly said something and weakly corrected herself, but I kept quiet, for even what she had said had filled our hearts unbearably.</p>

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<p>I needed to release some of the emotions swirling in me and Samantha's words recalled to me what I had seen, so I indicated to Cherine I wanted a private chat. We both put our ‘privacy’ signals out.</p>

<p><i>*My love, thank you. You saved me again. I have a special gift for you. I want you to be the first to see it. Will you follow me?*</i></p>

<p>She followed even though I travelled off into the depths of the darkness, leaving all so far, far behind. Our edges were mingled and we gently exchanged as we flew through the tremendous distance. Finally I began to discern the slight glow of our target in the distance. I showed her and told her to be prepared for a surprise.</p>

<p>As we drew closer the sight overawed her. A galaxy (at least a few thousand of them) of Kaleidoscope Worlds.</p>

<p>Even from a great distance it was possible to recognise them as alien. By the time we could see them clearly, we found we were being met by a resistance. Cherine cried out to them, but there was no answer.</p>

<p><i>*Cherine baby. They cannot allow us to come nearer. We are not even as children to them, maybe by that stage they will let us play among them and laugh with pleasure at our frolics. At this moment we are but babies. They could damage us if they made contact, diverting us from our own path. We must grow in our own direction.*</i> I did not let Cherine see, then, that my ‘pronouncement’ was not wise, just borrowed and maybe extended to a presumption from the knowledge I have garnered from the many science fiction stories I have read. I was silent as we watched and the glory of their existence seeped into our souls, for they are a promise to us of what we can grow into. When she was saturated with the miracle of their existence, I drew her off and we returned, with almost a third of her melded to me. We shared a long moment of happiness through the return trip.</p>

<p>On our arrival I was surprised to find them all waiting for us, but without any anxiety. Then I saw Samantha, remembered and knew she had reassured them. I sent her a query and she confirmed she had not told them where we had gone, nor what we were doing. I thanked her and told her I cannot wait for the moment I will have her in my life permanently. She tinkled with laughter.</p>

<p><i>*You do a good job tonight and you will meet me sooner than you think - my poor Robert.* </i></p>

<p>I let her sly teasing remark go by as I remembered the joy of meeting my daughters while they were but still tiny motes in their mothers. It was time and Samantha gave each of us a farewell ‘kiss’  and fading into the distance she suddenly disappeared.</p>

<p>As we returned, I looked first for Wendy’s eyes and saw them as always upon me. I gave her my smile, but with it she got a sunburst of love to warm her. Natalie was still lying against me, so I gently removed myself, pretending to need the bathroom. As I returned the phone rang.</p>

<p>“Roberto, we know and understand. After meeting Samantha, how could we not. Rose and I do not begrudge you this. There will be no hidden resentments.” He asked for Natalie. “And you koritsi mou, you have danced with us, you melded within Rose and myself. We loved what we saw of you. Do you think you could love us?”</p>

<p>She blushed furiously. “With all my heart. Cherine was right. There is something that feels very right in my loving both of you.” </p>

<p>I tried to probe her, feel if there was any regret for offering herself to me. There was nothing but happiness and a feeling, such as a child has at Christmas, a joy that was a torrent, a river deep and wide at the memory of her daughter as she closed the phone.</p>

<p>“Sorry Natalie. I do not want to intrude, but I cannot wait. I have to give him a hug.”</p>

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<p>Cherine sat on my lap and hugged me tightly, squeezing as if she wanted to crush me within her little arms. She had buried her face against my neck, her warm breath upon my skin as she opened and she flooded me with a love and adoration that brought tears to my eyes. When she pulled away, her cheeks were wet, but the love was still shining out of her eyes. </p>

<p>“Thank you my dearest Robert, my husband. I will remember this day, forever.”</p>

<p>“And I will remember this instant forever. I need moments such as these to give me the courage when my heart gets heavy. Not that you girls allow that to happen often.” I was about to give her a smile and let her go, but she covered my mouth with her lips in a kiss almost desperate. </p>

<p>Suddenly Wendy and Dommi were there too, crushing themselves to me. Poor Natalie had to get up, to give them room. I managed to glance at her and saw a sweet smile on her. Then she looked away and the smile died. Disturbed I did not need to tell the girls, they moved, letting me get up. I saw what Natalie had seen. Diana had stayed at her seat, alone, and tears were falling!</p>

<p>I sat by her and pulled her slight form to me. “What is it baby, have I hurt you in some way?”</p>

<p>“Yes.” My heart lurched with the pain and I stared into her eyes in a foreboding of a misery it seems I have earned, without knowing how. I hardly dared to ask what I had done. “You make me love you too much. It hurts!”</p>

<p>We all turned in surprise and shock. Alki was laughing, but his eyes looked as if he were in a great pain. Marian hugged him. Seeing he was alright I turned back to Diana.</p>

<p>“However much you love me, I will still hunger for even more. And the more I hunger for, the more it is that I love you. Oh my own sweet miracle, how I wanted to become one with you. You also hurting that we were stopped?” She nodded and the misery was tangible. </p>

<p>“In that case be glad. It sounds crazy eh? My love, if we had succeeded, we could never have returned to these bodies. If we were truly one, one soul, how would we love each other. I could never love myself, even with you as a part of me, half as much as I love you.” I held and rocked her small body in my arms, for once love stronger than the fires the touch of her always lights in me.</p>

<p>“You’ve had enough Alki. We are going home now!”</p>

<p>Being one of those who wear loose boxer shorts, his erection was painfully clear so he did not protest as they gathered Meli and left. As they were at the door I sent a ‘goodnight Meli’ and she answered me, a soft baby laugh in my ears.</p>

<p>Suddenly I felt as Diana had. I was overwhelmed, all this love, it was too much, I don’t think us human beings evolved for anything like this. Tears flowed and I squeezed Diana even more tightly to my aching chest. In a shot they were all holding to me and crying as they shared my feelings.</p>

<p>Natalie was standing there bemused, not quite knowing what to do with herself. Yet she too had tears running down her cheeks. Of course, she can feel our feelings, she’d mentioned her gift long ago. I thought back to my earlier discussion about not wanting her and was shamed as I realised she had felt it.</p>

<p>“Natalie, do you forgive me? I really am sorry.”</p>

<p>“It was only what I expected. But you are really beginning to love me and that is a miracle. Robert, what is there to forgive now?”</p>

<p>My girls let me go as I got up, silently asking them to give me a short time alone with Natalie. I took her hand and drew her to me. I kissed her on the mouth and was surprised at the heat of her lips. Without a word we went to the bedroom.</p>

<p>“Just stand here sweetheart.” I shall write of the loving in our diary, for it is important, as it is, and also because it symbolises the creation of our Samantha.</p>

<p>Carefully I undressed her, kissing her shoulders, the hollow of her collar bone. As the clothes slowly came off I let my fingers brush against her warm skin. She shivered and modestly crossed her legs as I removed her jeans, leaving her in her panties only.</p>

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<p>“Come love, I want you to feel good about this. Nothing to embarrass or distract you from giving yourself to me.”</p>

<p>I took her to the shower, having felt her fear that she was sweaty. Before removing her panties I undressed. Now when I removed her panties she was not so afraid I would not like what I saw, for she could see my rock hard erection.</p>

<p>Gently I washed her, removing her hand from the soap. She seemed to understand, as she did not try to touch the soap again. When I had finished, she ran her hands over my body, washing me in return. She too left my genitals for last. Her touch, unsure but exquisite.</p>

<p>She laid herself on the bed, expecting me to lie upon her. I lay next to her instead, turned onto my side, facing her. Quietly I looked at her body, seeing the promise of her final shape close to being attained. The woman in her took pride in my looking at her, the first man to ever see her in the nude. I traced the contour of her breasts and ran my fingers down her belly and reaching the curls I gently tugged at them, without really touching her sexually. Then my fingers ran over her cheeks, tracing her mouth.</p>

<p>I kissed, almost a chaste kiss. My lips roamed over her face and as I felt the heat rising so did my kisses turn to erotic probing and licking, sometimes wandering slightly, down to her neck or to her ears, but I mainly concentrated on her face. I felt she needed a lot of kissing, something to make the sexual act an act of love, so I took my time, until she was relaxed and reacting warmly, not inhibited by her fears of not being wanted. I pulled back and turned her over. She was puzzled but complied.</p>

<p>I sat on the small of her back and massaged her. I was right. I felt the knots and worked at her muscles until they loosened. Once I felt she was ready, I turned my massage into a process of loving her. My lips were all over her. </p>

<p>During all this I was softly speaking, telling her how this part or that was lovely. How I loved the taste of her skin, my delight at her body scents. By the time I had reached her fingers and sucked on them in turn, flicking my tongue around them, she was beginning to turn a warm rosy pink. Long before I touched her breasts, the nipples were proudly erect. </p>

<p>What her scents may have been like before I cannot guess. Now she was at peak health, all poisons removed from her body and her scent was sweet. Actually sweet. A thought crossed my mind and whatever lingered of my slightly enforced passion became very real. I thought of the egg, the ova waiting to form our Samantha.</p>

<p>I raised myself over her and as my lips sucked at her, my body was rubbing, twisting and writhing over hers. She began to arch her hips, instinctively searching for the angle to take me into her. I slid my body down over hers until my face was over her crotch. Her actions were becoming ever more urgent and she became vocal, crying out in Greek, asking me to stop, to take her, to rub harder and so on. Her hands were pushing at my head, I could feel she was getting fairly close to her first orgasm. I pulled away. She cried out and tried to pull me back onto her.</p>

<p>“Relax Natalie, take some time to get to know my body first. Wait for your pleasure. It will be even sweeter, I promise.”</p>

<p>She rolled over and zeroed in on my penis immediately. I pulled her away. </p>

<p>“Leave that for last love. Start with loving my face, my chest and so on until you know and want this body.” </p>

<p>As I got her to slowly relax, very much against her will, I called to the girls, told them to come in. When the door opened she quickly tried to cover herself.</p>

<p>“Relax Natalie. They gave us the time to get to know each other, but you did know we are one, we make love with all of us in the room, sharing, even if just by a caress. They also want to be a part of our loving and when we make our lovely Samantha, they want to be part of it. For them, that will be the most exciting part of our lovemaking. Won’t you welcome them in?” The girls had all stopped at the door. They had all undressed and looked very vulnerable standing there, waiting for her to invite them. Cherine emoted their excitement and love and Natalie did not have a chance. At her welcome they rushed in, giggling as they threw themselves at us.</p>

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<p>They were immediately fondling her, exclaiming over the size of her breasts, the shape of her long legs, the soft roundness of her belly. Their hands followed their comments, touching here and there till she could not keep track of who was touching her where. I sat back like a pasha, watching my harem enjoy themselves. I noticed Natalie was responding mostly to Diana, the only one she was touching in return. Suddenly she cupped her chin and pulling her face to her kissed her; not a sexual kiss, just one of love.</p>

<p>Her eyes, dark pools of need turned to me. “Roberto please. You are making me hurt inside. I cannot wait.”</p>

<p>“It is a good ache Natalie. Wait and see.” I almost laughed at little Wendy giving her advice. It was so incongruous, a little child advising an adult about sex. The sight of my girls all over Natalie, the shifting backwards and forwards of all our feelings, Natalie’s now included, were creating a sense of urgency I could no longer fight. As the girls moved out of the way I lay over her body. A minute later her muffled cry of ecstasy cut off as I too felt my climax bursting upon me. We could sense deep within her a small disappointment. She thought I had lost control and would not be able to make love to her again that night. She has heard her girl-friends talk about their men, how they usually make love and turn over to sleep.</p>

<p>I had taken the precaution of asking my healer and it confirmed that the one sperm which is meant to be Samantha is not in either the first or the second ejaculation. She will be coming in the third. I quipped, to myself, that it is polite of her to wait for the third one and wondered whether she’ll be a polite little girl after she is born…I have a feeling that says, nay (όχι). Once we had both hit a plateau I turned and kissed and fondled Natalie, keeping her level of excitement up. </p>

<p>I pulled Dommi to me and began to caress and fondle her. Natalie watched, her eyes hooded, but she was gracious enough to keep her feelings to herself. Of course we all felt her and the girls complained to me I am not treating her fairly. I explained about the third ejaculation and suddenly the feeling among us returned to one of eagerness. Dommi was now happy to be my next lover and her body was just the right instrument to set me on fire again - and help Natalie know it can be beautiful. </p>

<p>Natalie watched and once we had both reached our climax, as I calmed a bit, I turned to Natalie with a smile.</p>

<p>“Samantha is in the next loving. Your ova, the one to be our little girl, is in place. This is a holy moment for me Natalie. Not only are you giving me your virginity, and I do know how important you feel it is, which makes it very special for me, but we are about to make our baby. I guess you could say that you are not only giving your virginity to me, you are, in a sense, also giving it for Samantha, our daughter. Let’s take our time my brown-eyed doe, let’s make this one last and be very special.”</p>

<p>A joy lit her eyes and she clasped Diana to herself. When she felt in control of her joy she let Diana go and turned to me. I sensed she was turning shy. I put my finger to her lips. “Shh. Just give me your love.”</p>

<p>I had built up her previous orgasm to the point where she had been beside herself with the ecstasy of it. She was anticipating the same sensations so her body responded to mine even more eagerly. I had found the beauty in her, the sweetness and her trusting nature all drove me to a passion I had not felt the first time with her. Now it was I who needed to be tearing into her. Cherine was also partly to blame as she incited us with an unbearable swirl of sensations. I nearly lasted as long as I had intended to, before I could not wait any longer.</p>

<p> “The pain is coming my love, I’ll have to break through and hurt you. The pain will turn into pleasure soon.” I gasped out. She tensed so I waited. The moment she relaxed I thrust, slamming myself into her. She screamed and I too gasped in pain. Her hymen had resisted me.</p>

<p>As I waited, both of us recovering, I saw the tears running down the sides of her face, but she did not ask me to stop. I recalled reading that in some cases the girl has a hymen which cannot be torn by a thrust or two. They need a doctor to make a slight incision. My healer rushed into her and while I waited for the go-ahead I kissed and caressed her, doing all I could to bring her passions back to the level they had previously reached.</p>

<p>With the next thrust I felt it tear and I was through. Not as deep as I could go, but I stopped, giving her time to take a breath. As she felt, besides the pain, the sensation of me filling her, she tested the sensation by twitching her vaginal muscles. </p>

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<p>Now I began to thrust and withdraw and I let myself go, my head arched back in the agony of the release long overdue and her nails were digging into me, her head being flung from side to side in her lust and by the sudden jerks of my hips. I gave one powerful grinding movement, and with a final thrust I cried out and sent my angel to her. She had lots of company, but the healer was watching, ensuring no accident prevents her being the first to reach her target. </p>

<p>I sensed the delicious pleasure she felt at the weight of me upon her, so I relaxed and let my head lay alongside hers. Every now and then I turned and kissed her lightly. In one such soft kiss I inhaled her breath, that sweet milkiness I enjoy so much.</p>

<p>Unbelievable as it may sound, after a few minutes, we relaxed so much that we both dozed off; just a short nap. </p><br>
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