//------------------------------// // 14 - Predation // Story: The Woman Who Lived Nextdoor // by Hazel Mee //------------------------------// My head jerked up off my pillow. Nostrils flared and ears stiff, I looked cautiously around my dark bedroom while my heart hammered. It almost stopped when a shadow moved! A quick padding of paws on the carpet and she loomed over me. "Mayree?" "Shh…" She pounced! My blanket was tossed aside and she climbed over me. Groggy and confused, I had barely enough sense to tuck my legs against my chest and belly to make room. Rusty springs twanged sharply as my old bed sagged and bounced beneath us. Her fores slipped around me and we curled up tight together on my narrow mattress. Her warm breath, scented with grapes and alcohol, came in ragged pants as her lips brushed mine. Light and quick, her first kiss was followed by a nervous giggle, and then a dozen more kisses peppered my muzzle as I hesitated. When I finally responded and kissed her, with a quiet whinny rumbling in my chest, her eyes fluttered open to gaze into mine. She seemed to come to a decision, suddenly becoming much bolder and parting my lips with her tongue. We shared panted breaths as I lightly caressed her tongue with mine and her feelers dug into my fur. I slipped a fore around her hip to pull her even closer. Mayree's mouth devoured me as a long bare hind draped over my rump and she pressed her heaving belly to mine. My world spun, and I felt light and delirious as my bed keeled over, dumping us onto the floor with my thin mattress flopping on top. "sнιτ!" Mayree gasped and pushed herself off me. I lay on my back, fores pulled up to my chest and my head ringing. She shoved the mattress aside and gazed down at me. The fall, or her passionate kisses, had knocked the wind from me, and I panted, trying to catch my breath. She was naked! Topless anyway, and I hesitantly reached up to caress soft fur inside my hoof over the curve of a misplaced teat. She laughed, tucked dark tangled locks behind her ear, and flashed her fangs in the dim starlight seeping through my window. This Mayree was a completely different mare from the one with wounded eyes who'd fled to her bedroom — bold, carefree, drunk on wine and lust, and by the stars I needed her! Tossing my worries overboard I lunged up and threw my fores around her, pulled her close, and silenced her giggles with my lips. "Woah, woah! Easy there stud", she gasped and drew away from me again. I wish she'd stop doing that! She stood, rising to her magnificent height as I rolled to my hooves. "Come on", she waved a hand and told me, "My room." Almost tripping over my hooves, I followed, baring my teeth to nip at her… Muffins! What did humans do? Thinking fast, I caught the stretchy band of her frilly black underclothing, pulled it, and let it go with a snap. "Ow! ωнατ τнε ƒμςκ?" She laughed and swatted my poor nose. I guess humans don't work that way either. "Sorry", I muttered while rubbing my muzzle. "But you don't have a tail to nip." She laughed again as she dove onto her bed. "Must be a pony-thing, huh? Well-", she patted the gleaming waves of silk sheets and crooned seductively, "-why don't you come up here and show me a few more pony things?" I leaped onto the bed, into her waiting fores, and drown my worries about her sudden change of heart in sweet kisses. Making love with her was very different from the times I'd been with a pony mare and nothing quite worked the way I was used to. Frustrated, I kicked the tangled mess of bedsheets to the floor, and a moment later her lacy black underclothes followed. She showed me how to please her, and it was blintzing obvious how she could please me! Between her sense of humour and my enthusiasm we found ways to make it work. Afterwards, sweaty and overheated, we cuddled on the massive bed which had barely contained our frantic lust. Satiated and drifting, I nuzzled her slender neck and murmured, "I love you", into her cute little pink ear. Her hand clenched into a tight fist in my chest fur. "Thank you", she whispered. It would have to do.