Monkey See, Monkey Do : Halloween

“Thanks, again, for taking Katie trick or treating with you.”

“No problem. I was already taking this one, anyway,” Carolyn said, putting her hand on Anna’s head and ruffling her hair.

“Hey,” Anna said, indignantly, as she fixed her hair. She gave her sister a dirty look, which drew a sweet smile from Carolyn. That smile made her want to kick Carolyn in the shin, but she knew better. Her sister had over a foot on her, so it wouldn’t be a fair fight.

Someday, we’ll be the same size, Anna thought, straightening her spine, let her try that then.

“Still, I appreciate it,” Katie’s mother said, smiling at the teenager, “I know the last thing a girl your age wants to do on Halloween is babysit.”

Shrugging, Carolyn said, “Mom and Dad have a party to go to, so…”

“Speaking of which, I need to finish putting on my costume,” Katie’s mother said, then over her shoulder, “hurry up, Kiddo. They are waiting on you.”

“Coming,” Katie said, running down the stairs with her plastic jack-o-lantern. She wore cowboy boots, snug jeans, chaps, and a flannel shirt, a cowboy hat planted on top of her head. She made a pretty convincing cowgirl.

Anna smiled at her friend’s costume, the perfect counterpoint to her costume. They had wanted to wear matching costumes and ended up deciding on cowgirls and Indians. Not wanting to wear another plastic, store-bought costume like last year, Anna had begged Carolyn to help her with her costume. She wore moccasins, a dress made out of soft leather with tasseled edges and colorful geometric patterns, and a handmade feather headdress. She loved her costume because it didn’t seem like a little girl’s costume.

“I love your costume,” Anna said.

“You, too,” Katie said, her eyes widening, “it’s awesome.”

“Carolyn helped me with it,” Anna said, looking down at herself.

“We better get at it before the good houses run out of candy,” Carolyn said.

“Have fun,” Katie’s mother said, closing the door.

They walked down the steps and turned up the block. Out of earshot of Katie’s mother, Carolyn said, “You two make a cute couple in your matching costumes.”

“We aren’t a couple,” Anna said, giving her a look.

“So you keep saying,” Carolyn said, with that smile that made Anna want to kick her in the shin again.

“Shut up,” Anna said.

They hit a couple of houses on this street, then turned up Houston. Suddenly, Amy appeared from behind a tree falling in beside them. The girl wore a Red Riding hood costume, one that was probably a bit risque even for the Brothers Grimm version of the story. The skirt was a bit short, and the top was showing a lot of cleavage. Amy had added a pair of knee-high boots and some fishnet stockings.

“Babe,” Carolyn said, her eyes wide.

“You like?” Amy asked, twirling to show off her costume.

“You look hot,” Katie said.

Laughing, Amy said, “Thanks.”

“You do,” Carolyn said, looking like she really wanted to kiss the girl, “Can’t wait to get my paws on you.”

“Mm,” Amy said, her eyes flashing at Carolyn.

Anna looked from her sister to Amy, then she groaned. Carolyn’s comment about matching costumes made more sense when she noticed that Carolyn’s costume matched her girlfriend’s. The big bad wolf to Amy’s Little Red Riding Hood, Carolyn wore wolf ears and snout, face paint to make her look more lupine. A pair of furry paws on her hands, a gray-haired wig, and a nightgown with a tail poking out the back finished the costume. With Carolyn’s long legs in grey tights in view and the nightgown a little more revealing than the average ‘grandma’ would wear, her costume still managed to be as sexy as her girlfriend’s. Even her wolf makeup was more cute than ferocious.

Looking at Katie in her cowgirl costume, then at her own Indian costume, Anna knew she had given her sister more ammunition to tease her with. Carolyn already joked all the time about Katie being her girlfriend, and Anna thought this costume snafu would only make it worse. Even she had to admit she and Katie sort of looked like a couple.

Too late to worry about it now, Anna thought, shaking her head.

“You were planning this all along?” Anna asked, looking from Amy to Carolyn.

“Amy is keeping me company while you two do your thing,” Carolyn said.

“Didn’t mention that to Mom,” Anna said, pointedly.

“She didn’t ask,” Carolyn said, then added, “don’t forget who helped you with your costume.”

“I’m not going to tell her,” Anna said.

“Good,” Carolyn said, pointing up the street, “let’s get you some candy I can steal.”

“Better not,” Anna said, then cringed, not my best comeback.

“Call it a babysitting tax,” Carolyn said, starting to walk up the street.

The older girls waited on the street as Katie and Anna ran up to each house, ringing the doorbell. Their costumes got a lot of smiles and comments, more so than the generic ones they had worn last year. Her neighbors seemed to appreciate the handmade costumes, were more generous with the treats. With each stop, their plastic pumpkins began to fill up with all kinds of sugary goodness.

When they came to the end of another block, Carolyn suddenly got down on one knee in front of Anna and said, “Mom and Dad are at that party, right?”

“Yeah,” Anna said, catching the conspiratorial tone in her sister’s voice, “so?”

“Which means the house is ours,” Carolyn said.

“What are you…” Anna said, then her eyes widened as what her sister was saying sank in, “you mean…”

“Yeah,” Carolyn said, her smile widening, “what do you think? Do you want to keep trick or treating, or do you want to go back to the house?”

Biting her lip, Anna looked in her bucket. It was only a little over half full, which wasn’t exactly the haul she had been hoping for. Still, what Carolyn was suggesting had its own appeal. She glanced at Katie, saw the girl wrestling with the decision, too.

“Tell you what,” Carolyn said, seeing her sister still on the fence, “we can head back now, hit the houses on the way. You can get more candy, and we can still have an hour or two before we have to get Katie home.”

With the pot- or jack-o-lantern, in this case- sweetened, Anna said, “Okay.”

“But it has to be speed trick or treating. No lollygagging,” Carolyn said, meeting her eyes.

“Got it,” Anna said, grabbing Katie’s hand, “come on.”

She heard her sister and Amy laughing at their enthusiasm as they took off running to the first house. Anna didn’t care. She was sold on Carolyn’s idea, was probably just as eager to get back to the house as her sister was. Ever since that first time she talked Katie into trying what she had seen her sister and Amy doing and learned how good it felt, it wasn’t a hard sell.

An excited giggle got away from her, thinking about doing it again. She glanced at Katie standing under the porch light, and she saw the girl grinning, too. Their eyes met, and they both started giggling. They were still at it when the door was opened, and their voices were staccato as they said, “Trick or treat!”

“What’s got your funny bone tickling?” The woman dressed as a witch asked, smiling at them.

“Um… just a joke,” Anna said, her cheeks hot. She didn’t think the woman wanted to hear what had them all giggly.

“What’s the joke?” She asked, looking expectantly at Anna.

Anna knew a bunch of jokes, but her mind went blank as the woman just looked at her. Panic started to set in but, luckily, Katie came to her aid, said, “Why is six afraid of seven?”

“Why?” The woman asked, being a good sport even though she clearly knew the joke.

“Because seven ate nine,” Katie said, receiving a polite laugh.

They got their candy and hurried away. Anna’s face was still red as she said, “That was too close.”

“Yeah,” Katie said, giggling.

Carolyn and Amy were waiting for them at the end of the walkway. Amy had her arm around Carolyn’s waist, and they were smiling at each other. With darkness falling, they had become a little bit bolder in showing their affection.

Anna smiled, thinking they made a cute couple, even more so in their costumes. There was no denying they were smitten with each other. Anna wondered how their parents never noticed that Amy and Carolyn were in love. It was plain as day to Anna.

Seeing how happy they were standing there in each other’s arms, Anna thought, Maybe having a girlfriend wouldn’t be so bad.

For all of her fervent denial that Katie wasn’t her girlfriend, Anna had to admit the idea had crossed her mind. In fact, every time Carolyn teased her about it, she found herself wondering what if…

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Thanks to Carolyn’s ‘speed trick or treating’, the four of them made it back to the house with plenty of time to fool around. As Anna and Katie ran down the hall to her bedroom, Anna heard Amy laughing as she called, “Have fun, Bunnies.”

Anna wasn’t sure exactly what that meant, but she didn’t stop to ask Amy. She burst into her bedroom, with Katie close behind. Closing the door, she started stripping out of her costume. Katie was doing the same, but hers took a little more effort to get out of. All Anna had to do was take off her headdress, pull her dress over her head, kick off her moccasins, rake her panties down and off, and she was naked.
Katie was still struggling with the buckle on her chaps, only managing to step out of her boots. A little impatient, Anna started unbuttoning her shirt. Between the two of them, they managed to get Katie out of her clothes, too.

That fateful day in June when they first fooled around wasn’t the first time she had seen her friend naked. Katie had a backyard with a big fence around it, so bathing suits were optional as they ran through the sprinkler. In fact, they had done just that only a couple of days before Anna got trapped in Carolyn’s closet.

Seeing her naked now felt a bit different, Anna thought as she looked at her long time friend. Splashing around in the sprinkler, she hadn’t known how soft and warm Katie’s skin was, hadn’t known how well their bodies fit together. Sleeping with Katie had changed her perception of the girl, maybe her perceptions altogether.

Sometimes, she found herself looking at Katie even when they weren’t fooling around. It was then that she wondered if there wasn’t something to Carolyn’s teasing. She couldn’t deny that she liked fooling around with Katie, and she loved the girl with all of her heart. Katie was her best friend and lover… Was girlfriend such a leap?

Anna would be nine next month, so the whole boyfriend/girlfriend concept was still new to her. Because of what she witnessed from Carolyn’s closet, she has sort of come into this ass-backward. Usually, sex entered into the picture much later in the arc of developing sexual interests, but Anna and Katie had skipped over passing notes, holding hands, and that first awkward kiss to the climax- pun intended. Hell, she had slept with Katie a half dozen times before she ever kissed her. Physically, they were ahead of the game, and their emotions were still playing catch up.

Katie noticed her looking at her, asked, “What?”

Caught, Anna blushed and said, “Nothing?”

“Is something wrong?” Katie asked, looking down at herself.

She thinks I’m staring at her because something is amiss, Anna thought, amused, not because she is beautiful.

Katie really was a beautiful girl, something Anna had noticed even before they started sleeping together and something she was noticing more and more. She had a cute smile and beautiful blue eyes, would probably grow up to be as stunning as her mother.

“No,” Anna said, then before she realized she meant to, “you are perfect.”

Giving Anna a funny look, Katie said, “Perfect?”

Her face already red, Anna’s cheeks got hotter as she said, “I just meant… You look hot.”

“You, too,” Katie said, grinning as she stepped close and kissed her.

Carolyn was definitely right about this, Anna thought, kissing her back. The thought of kissing Katie had been weird when her sister first insisted on it, but now she didn’t want to stop. The caress of her friend’s tongue drew her deeper into the kiss.

As the now-familiar warmth spread across her body and her heart raced in her breast, Anna pressed her body against Katie’s. The first time they did it, there had been a lot of excited giggling and nervous energy, but desire had come later when they noticed how good it felt. Their young bodies had responded on instinct, their nerve ending awakening for the first time.

Thinking about that first time, Anna knew what she wanted to do. Still kissing Katie, she moved them toward the bed. When Katie’s legs hit the bed, their momentum sent them sprawling on the bed with Anna atop of Katie. Giggling, Katie moved further onto the bed, and Anna got to her knees. Straddling one of Katie’s hips, she lowered her body onto the girl. Like they were meant to, their bodies fit together perfectly.

The first time, this intimacy had set them off on a giggling fit. It was a couple of minutes before they could stop laughing long enough to try moving. Anna remembered how big Katie’s eyes got when the pressure on their buds sent the first shivers of pleasure through their bodies. Anna figured her eyes were just as wide, caught off guard by how good it felt. It didn’t take them long to figure out why Carolyn and Amy would want to do this.

Anna smiled down at Katie as she started to rock her hips back and forth. Returning it with one of her own, Katie pushed her lower abdomen up into Anna, meeting her with every roll of her hips. They had done this enough times that the motion came easily to them, their timing spot on. Their bodies moving in perfect rhythm, they squeezed every drop of pleasure out of each movement.

Soft moans escaped Anna as the lovely sensations washed through her, and she couldn’t hold them back no matter how hard she tried. With her parents gone, she didn’t have to, luckily. Her little sounds of excitement mingled with Katie’s in the air between them, growing louder as their pace quickened.

Leaning forward, Anna kissed her friend. Katie’s hand slipped into her hair at the back of her head, not letting her pull away from the kiss. Maybe even more than herself, Katie liked kissing, always wanted to even if they weren’t fooling around. Anna didn’t mind, though- she found the girl very kissable.

With a mind of their own, Anna’s hands roamed over Katie’s body. She had found herself doing this the first time they experimented, too, even if she didn’t completely know why. The flex of her hips as she ground against Katie was an imitation of what she had seen her sister and Amy do, but running her hands over Katie’s warm skin was a pleasure she figured out for herself. She loved how the girl’s muscles tensed in anticipation of her touch, loved the goosebumps that broke out as she lightly dragged her fingertips across her skin, loved the change in Katie’s breathing as she responded to her caresses. Anna thought the girl liked it when she explored her like this, craved her touch almost as much as Anna craved her tight young body.

Breathing hard and glistening with sweat, they pushed each other closer to the edge of ecstasy. The first time, that explosion of pleasure had startled them, but now they desired it, the frantic coupling of their bodies hungry for it.

Her eyes wide, Katie said, “It’s going to happen!”

Anna knew what the girl meant, and she felt the tension building inside of her. Anna bit her lip, really grinding her body against Katie’s. The delicious friction was too much to bear, the lovely pressure hastening their climaxes. Pleasure swelled and swelled in their young bodies until, like a balloon filled to its breaking point, Katie cried out beneath her. A half of a heartbeat behind her, Anna stiffened with her own orgasm, her whole body clenching, then shaking itself loose. She sat very still as the feel-good juices started to flow, basking in the afterglow. She hadn’t known her body could feel like this, but she was addicted to it now.

“Better than candy,” Katie said, with a dazed smile.

“Yeah,” Anna agreed, as she carefully got off of her friend. Stretching out next to her, Anna said, “well, maybe not chocolate… I love chocolate.”

Laughing, Katie got off the bed. Propping up on her elbow, Anna watched as the girl went to her plastic Jack-o-lantern and dug through it until she had a handful of miniature candy bars. Katie crawled back on the bed and favored Anna with a playful smile as she said, “Maybe we can have both.”

“Both?” Anna asked, her heart beating a little faster at the smile on her friend’s face. That smile was usually trouble.

The good kind of trouble, Anna thought, wondering what the girl had in mind.

“Here,” Katie said, passing the chocolate to Anna.

Taking the chocolate, Anna watched as her friend moved between her legs. Her pulse quickened even more as Katie pushed them open wide. What the girl had in mind dawned on Anna a heartbeat before Katie’s mouth found her girlhood. The first flick of Katie’s tongue forced a gasp from Anna and the second a moan.

They had come a long way since their first fumbling attempt at this. Anna had witnessed Carolyn and Amy do this at the creek but hadn’t really understood what they were doing. When Anna first tried going down on Katie-that’s what it was called, she knew thanks to Carolyn’s slip of the tongue- it had been awkward at best. She had been doing it all wrong.

Katie definitely isn’t doing it wrong, now, Anna thought as her hips started moving with a mind of their own.

It felt so good, Anna forgot about the candy in her hand for a moment. It wasn’t until Katie’s eyes went to the little candy bars in her hand that she remembered them. Her hands were shaking some as she unwrapped one of those little rectangles of joy and popped into her mouth. She sighed as the sugary heaven began to melt on her tongue, her taste buds crying out for more like every other nerve ending in her body.

A sigh of enjoyment escaped her, and Anna wasn’t sure if it was because of the chocolate or the lovely things Katie was doing between her thighs. As another sigh escaped her, Anna thought, Probably both.

The separate pleasures didn’t fight one another but melded seamlessly into one, the saccharine goodness of the chocolate and the hot flick Katie’s tongue overloading her senses. Closing her eyes, she lost herself in the sensation.

Without much of a chance to recover from her first orgasm, Anna’s nerve endings were soaking up Katie’s attention too quickly. Like soil that had seen too much rain, that pleasure welled up inside with nowhere to for it to go. Anna didn’t even get to unwrap her third chocolate before her body reached that point of no return. Her hand clenched on that treat as she succumbed to her orgasm. It was as intense as any she has ever had, and that foil-wrapped rectangle of goodness didn’t stand a chance. By the time the climax finally released Anna, and she could unclench her fingers, the bite-sized chocolate wasn’t rectangular anymore.

“How was it?” Katie asked, her eyes anxious.

Not sure she could have spoken if she wanted to, Anna just sat up and gave the girl a very appreciative kiss.

Smiling, Katie said, “I take it, it worked.”

“You are a genius,” Anna said, kissing her again.

“You taste like chocolate,” Katie said, then with a naughty giggle, “when I kiss you here, anyway.”

“You should have gotten some chocolate for yourself,” Anna said, grinning at her, “I could have tasted like chocolate down there, too.”

Her eyes big, Katie said, “Now you tell me.”

Laughing, Anna said, “Just thought of it.”

“You’ll have to tell me if it works,” Katie said.

I think that was a hint, Anna thought, amused, I think it’s my turn.

On legs made a little rubbery from her pair of orgasms, Anna retrieved her jack-o-lantern and brought it to the bed. Dumping the contents out on the comforter, she asked, “Which ones do you want?”

Anna watched as the girl found some sweets, then unwrapped the poor chocolate she had crushed in her throes of ecstasy. It still tasted delicious on her tongue as she moved between her friend’s legs. Looking at Katie sprawled out naked on her back, again Anna couldn’t help but wonder at how they had ended up here. She would never have guessed she would ever do what she was about to do to Katie before accidentally getting trapped in Carolyn’s closet.

The first time had been a bit awkward, the taboo nature of the act and the very intimate location on Katie’s body had made her hesitate. She hadn’t known what to expect when she put her tongue to Katie’s bud, but it had been sort of anticlimactic. The taste of Katie down there had been far from unpleasant and not much different from anywhere else on the girl’s body she had kissed.

With the advice Carolyn had given her when she had finally given in and showed her how to do this, the first flick of Anna’s tongue across Katie’s bud forced a moan from the girl instead of the nervous giggle her failed first attempt had. What a difference a little knowledge made.

Carolyn had said to listen to Katie’s breathing and the sounds Katie was making to see if what she was doing was working. Anna smiled, having no trouble telling Katie liked what she was doing to her. Katie wasn’t being very subtle in her enjoyment, her little cries filling the bedroom.

The slightly salty taste of Katie’s bud and the chocolate were an intoxicating mix on the tongue. She couldn’t help but think everything was better with chocolate- even sex.

Still not sure which is better, chocolate or sex, though, Anna thought, although she had to admit it would probably be sex eventually. She knew all the pleasures chocolate had to offer, but she thought she and Katie had a lot more to experience when it came to making love. Smiling, she thought, figuring out the rest should be fun.

The miniature chocolate bar was gone, but the taste of it was still on Anna’s tongue and Katie’s girlhood as her friend started to come. Anna recognized the tightening of Katie’s stomach and thighs, heard the urgency in her cries. Somehow, she managed to keep her mouth to Katie’s thrashing body long enough to finish her off. She pulled back to watch her lose herself to the pleasure.

“Good?” Anna asked, when the girl finally opened her eyes.

Dazed, Katie said, “Yeah. Sex and chocolate…”

“I know, right,” Anna said, grinning at her.

Katie just nodded.

Anna gave her one more kiss, then said, “I’m glad Carolyn talked us into coming home early.”

“Me, too,” Katie said, smiling warmly at her.

For some reason, that smile made Anna think about Carolyn and Amy. Carolyn smiled at her girlfriend like that all the time. She didn’t think the smile meant the same thing when Katie favored her with it, but what if…

Flopping onto her back next to her friend, Anna looked up at the ceiling and contemplated those two little words. Was there something to the way Katie just smiled at her? Something beyond the simple affection for a friend?

Did she want Katie to be her girlfriend? Remembering seeing Carolyn and Amy standing in each other’s arms and lost in each other’s eyes and thinking maybe having a girlfriend wouldn’t be so bad, Anna’s heart started beating faster. There was a lot to find appealing in the love her older sister and her girlfriend had, she had to admit.

I’m I really considering this, Anna asked herself, then realized she was. For all of her denials, the idea has been rattling around her brain for a while now, and it just found a home in her thoughts. It fit so perfectly that she couldn’t deny it anymore.

Anna glanced at her friend and bit her lip. She wanted to ask the girl, but she was scared. She couldn’t remember ever being scared to ask Katie anything. True friends, they could talk about anything and everything. The fact that she was suddenly nervous told Anna how much she really wanted this, which made the anxiety set in. What if Katie said no? What if she hasn’t been thinking about this like Anna has been? Would it make it weird between them if Katie didn’t want to be her girlfriend?

“Katie,” Anna said, getting the girl’s attention.

“Yeah?”

“Um, Amy and Carolyn looked cute together, didn’t they?” Anna asked, groaning inwardly. She had chickened out when the girl turned those beautiful blue eyes on her.

“Yeah,” Katie said, grinning, “I liked their matching costumes.”

“Carolyn teased me about our costumes matching, too,” Anna said.

“The girlfriend thing, again?” Katie guessed.

“Yeah,” Anna said, shaking her head, “it’s probably going to get worse after our costumes.”

“Probably,” Katie agreed, smiling at her.

Don’t be such a chicken, Anna thought, trying to goad herself into asking, just ask her.

Meeting the girl’s eyes shyly, Anna asked, “Do you… Do you think she’s right?”

“About us being girlfriends?” Katie asked, giving her a curious look.

“Um, yeah,” Anna said, blushing, “I-I’ve been thinking about it lately.”

Katie looked at her for a long moment, making Anna squirm. Finally, she asked, “Are you asking me to be your girlfriend?”

“No, I was just saying…” Anna hastily said, then saw the girl’s amused look, “would you say yes if I was?”

“Are you asking, then?” Katie asked, her smile turning up even more.

Taking a deep breath, Anna said, “Yes. I’m asking.”

Looking down at herself, Katie said, “I’m naked.”

“Um, yeah,” Anna said.

“And you are asking me now?” The girl said, amused.

Blushing, Anna said, “I wasn’t planning on asking now.”

“No flowers or candy… Not even a note with boxes for yes and no?” Katie teased.

“Shut up,” Anna said, laughing, “do you want to be my girlfriend or not?”

Katie smiled at her and said, “I do.”

“Really?” Anna asked.

“Really,” Katie said, taking Anna’s hand.

Looking at their interlocked fingers, Anna asked, “Um, now what?”

Katie laughed and said, “I don’t know… Do you think we have enough time to do it, again?”

Anna glanced at the clock, then nodded. She leaned in and kissed her girlfriend, smiling as she thought my girlfriend.

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“Did you and your girlfriend have fun?”

Anna knew her sister was trying to goad her into a response, the usual ‘she’s not my girlfriend’. She just smiled and said, “Yeah.”

Carolyn glanced sideways at her, asked, “Not going to say she’s not your girlfriend?”

“No,” Anna said, her smile widening.

“You finally asked her?” Carolyn asked, an ‘I told you so’ smile tugging at the corners of her mouth.

“Yeah,” Anna said, blushing.

“Good for you,” Carolyn said, putting her arm around Anna’s shoulder, “took you long enough, though.”

“Shut up,” Anna said.

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