Diana's Therapy By Diana the Valkyrie Diana meets a cute fellow who stutters but he gets better with therapy. This is the fourth in the series of stories by Diana. I'd just like to emphasise that, although I am rather stronger than average, what follows is entirely a fantasy of mine. I made it up. It didn't actually happen. Although it would be nice if it did. I still haven't actually spoken to the guy on the underground. Maybe he'll read this and remember the girl who pretends not to look at him. If sex and violence isn't you, then don't read it. Actually, there doesn't seem to be much violence in this one, not against people, anyway. Also, if you're a minor definitely don't read it. (C) Diana the Valkyrie, 1996. Email me at valkyrie@thevalkyrie.com Diana: As you might remember, I've been travelling to work on the tube each day, and I've been eyeing this rather cute blond guy who commutes the same journey as I do. We got as far as nodding to each other, as one does, and I had even started to give him a tiny smile, but he hadn't gotten that far yet. It was April, and in April, the sap rises stickily in the trees, the daffodils are at their fortissimo best, and deep inside Diana, something was stirring. Something wet, and squirmy, and deep, and itchy, and soft, and horny. A sort of wishing, yearning, longing, horniness. And I did a few calculations, and I decided that at the rate this was going, Cuteness might actually speak to me round about the turn of the century. Well, women aren't supposed to approach men, it's considered forward. I was brought up not to be forward, it isn't ladylike. But over the centuries, women have evolved ways to make it happen anyway; it's important for the survival of the species, and if women genuinely waited for men to make the first move, humankind would have died out long ago. I'm not really skilled at this, I'm not old enough or experienced enough. So I just did the best I could come up with. I gave up my seat on the tube to someone who looked old enough for it to be plausible, and strap-hung further along, just in front of Cuteness, flaunting myself at him, so he could get a good idea of what was there. Then the car swayed and jolted, I lost my grip on the strap, and accidentally fell into his lap. Oh dear, oh whoops, oh sorry. If you've read my earlier postings, you'll know it's pretty much impossible for me to lose my grip on anything. Once I've got my fingers and thumb wrapped round something, they stay wrapped, until I decide to let go. My hands are very strong, because I got into breaking six inch nails (Gran showed me how) at the age of fourteen, and I've been doing it ever since. It gives me a great feeling of self-confidence, and it makes my hands very hard, and extremely strong. Gran is the famous strong woman of the fifties, and I've inherited her power. I don't look especially strong, although I'm a bit broad across the shoulders and chest, and I'm rather heavier than the charts say I should be, so I tend to wear very feminine long sleeved ruffled blouses and swishy skirts, so there really isn't much of anything to see. But if I get your hand in mine, I can make you do pretty much anything I want, and I don't even have to use my full strength. Not that I'm that sort of girl. But it comes in useful if you get raped or mugged. So anyway, Cuteness got a lapful of Diana, and I wriggled around a bit and squirmed so he could get the full benefit. And then I managed to stand up again, and I gave him a big apology, and he said it was quite all r-r-r-r-right, he stuttered, oh no, he stutters, and then I thought now come on Diana, everyone has little difficulties, let's not be silly about this. Then he said that he knew how difficult it could be to stand upr-r-r-r-right sometimes, and I can't begin to explain how long it took him to say that, and I gave him my prettiest smile (not my sexy smile, I was saving that for later), and agreed that it wasn't easy, and it was jolly awkward sometimes when you were carrying a bag and needed something out of it, because you couldn't let go of the strap or you'd ... You get the idea. We spent the next twenty minutes talking about the difficulties of commuting, as if there was no other topic in the world so interesting. Mostly me talking, actually, I don't know how you make small talk with a stutterer. And then I said "By the way, my name's Diana", and he told me he was W-W-W-W. W-W, W-w. W-Wi l-l-l, W-w-w-wi l-l-l-lliam, and not to call him B-B-B, and I said "Bill", and I laughed, and said if anyone ever called me Di I'd show them the rough edge of my tongue, and he said "I'm sure your tongue doesn't have any rough edges", and he had a bit of trouble with the R, and then I pretended to blush (you do that by bending your head down and putting your hand in front of your face), and he realised how what he'd said could be interpreted, so he blushed too, only genuinely, bright pillarbox red. And then his station came up, and he had to push past me, and I made it as difficult as I could so he really had to press against my backside very hard, and I turned to face him as he squeezed past, which shoved my breasts into him, and if a girl can't use the ancient weapons that Mother Nature furnishes, what can she use? And then my station came up, and I spent the rest of the day thinking what I should have said and done. And should I have interrupted him when he was trying to say Bill? How do you handle talking to a stutterer? Still, it was a few years before the end of the century, and at least we'd introduced ourselves. William: She was a very pretty blonde, much too pretty, and so golden, so blonde, I thought. Every time I saw her, my heart leaped into my mouth and my tongue swelled up to ten times normal size. And then, after I'd been seeing her on the train for several months, we started nodding acknowledgement to each other, and I wished I could say something to her. But I can't, I really can't. R and W give me the most trouble, and often L. So it's terribly hard for me to have the name William. But I also have problems with B and P. It comes and goes, of course. Well, it gets more worse and less worse. It gets especially bad when I'm nervous, of course, and if you'd seen her, you'd understand why she made me nervous, just looking at her. She looked a vision of femininity, soft and gorgeous, every man's dream. In fact, I used to dream about her sometimes, on purpose, just before I fell asleep. Erotic dreams. In which she did erotic things with me. So one day, she gave up her seat to a grey-haired man, and I thought she's kind and nice, too, I bet she's married, or got a steady boyfriend, and she stood in front of me, hanging on to the strap above as the car swayed and rocked, and I didn't have to look very far in front of me to see a sight I wanted to remember to my dying day. As her body was thrown around by the train, I could see her breasts pushing out her ruffled blouse much further than I would have thought possible, and I had an erection then and there, just thinking about her breasts. And then she fell on top of my erection, and I almost creamed myself. Oh, god. Like a gift falling from heaven. And she apologised, and tried to get off me, but she couldn't, so I had to help her, except what do you get hold of in a woman? Well, I held her waist and helped her up, and all the time I wanted to pull her down. She apologised again, and I had to say something, I couldn't just remain silent and smile, like I usually do. I try to plan what I'm going to say, so I can avoid the difficult words and letters, but my mind was still spinning from having her on my lap, and all I could think of was "That's all right", and I got past the L in all, but then the R in Right blocked me. Which is silly of me, because I know that an R directly after an L is one of my worst traps, an accident waiting to happen. You probably don't know what it's like to stutter. Most people take reading, writing and speaking for granted. I'm all right on the first two, but speaking is like walking down a path riddled with land mines and obstacles, some of which you can see and avoid, and some of which blow up unexpectedly in your face. I never know when a normally safe consonant, like D or T, isn't going to suddenly rebel and refuse to get out of my mouth. But sometimes a normally hazardous letter like R or W will behave itself, and I can say my own name. Imagine, if you can, that the thought of saying your own name fills you with trepidation and fear. So, I'm handicapped. That's what people tell me, anyway. I don't think I am, I just have this problem speaking sometimes, everyone has some little problem. Some people go bald, is that a handicap? No, it's just a little problem, because if you bang your head on something, it hurts more. And I really hate it when people feel sorry for me, do you feel sorry for someone who's bald? No, you learn to live with it. You write instead of speaking, for example - I use email instead of the telephone. I just can't use a telephone. For me, telephones don't exist. The only reason I have one, is to connect to my modem. Oh, and I'm not "orally challenged", either. I've got a stutter, OK? It's just a stutter. Pompey had a terrible stutter, you know, and he became an orator. So did Napoleon. So did Julius Caesar. So did Marilyn Monroe, and Winston Churchill. It isn't that big a deal, it doesn't affect me that much. Who am I trying to kid. It's ruining my life. Especially in one important area. Girls. I can't chat to girls the way everyone else can. My stutter gets ten times worse, especially if she's pretty. And not being able to chat to girls, closes down a very important part of life. I expect I'll never fall in love, get married, all that stuff. So the Blonde Vision of Feminine Loveliness started talking about how difficult commuting was, and how the trains never ran on time, and how it was worse for women because if you needed something out of your bag, and I just looked up at her and wished and wished. Then she told me her name was Diana, and stopped, so I knew that I had to respond, and why haven't I changed my name to something at least pronounceable? I got past the W with considerable effort, and then I hit the L and started sinking fast, and I stopped, closed my eyes, I find that works sometimes, swallowed, and managed to get it out. "And don't call me B-B" Aaargh! The B got me trapped solid like a bear-trap, but she guessed "Bill?" and I nodded, and she laughed, and I wanted desperately to make her laugh some more. So she said "And don't call me Di, or I'll show you the rough edge of my tongue" and I gallantly said "I'm sure your tongue doesn't have any rough edges", and the R let me through with barely a struggle, and then she blushed, and then I realised what I'd just said, and I blushed beetroot and wished my stutter was ten times worse so I couldn't make faux pas like that, and then thank god my station came up, so I stood up, and she was in front of me, so I had to press against her to get by, and that's a feeling I'll treasure till the day I die. And then I went to work. I spent the whole day replaying that episode, thinking what I should have said, words I should have used that don't have so many hazards, and endlessly repeating in my mind that appalling gaffe that I'd left her with. And most of all, remembering what it had felt like to push past her. She was soft, but solid. It's hard to describe. How can someone be firm and soft at the same time? Her hair was soft, soft as silk, her bottom was firm and solid like marble. Then she turned to face me as I pushed past her, and I could feel her breasts, which managed to be firm and soft at the same time, and her legs, which were hard, like a statue. The overall impression was of softness, yet with hardness inside. If I sound confused, that's because she confused me totally. Diana: I didn't see him on the train that evening. But there he was again the next morning, so I smiled at him and sat down next to him. "Hi, William", I said. "H-h-h" he stuttered. Oh dear. How do you communicate with someone like this? Then he pulled out a tiny little computer, opened it up, and started typing on it. He pointed to the screen, and I had to move closer to him in order to see it, you couldn't see it from the side, and I'm afraid I got a bit closer to him than I really needed to, and let my hair tickle his face a bit, and I saw something stir slightly inside his trousers. On the screen, it said "Hello, Diana!". "Hey, that's a neat little thing" I said, "What is it?" He typed on the tiny keyboard, his fingers flew so fast I couldn't follow them. I wish I could type as well as that. No, on second thoughts, I'm glad I can't. "It's a Psion, I use it all the time" he typed. I pulled out the Filofax from my handbag, and couple of paper tissues and a six inch nail fell out. I scooped them all up quickly and stuffed them back in, and showed him how his little computer was actually smaller than my Filofax. "Why are you carrying that big wood nail around with you" he typed. Um. I didn't want to start lying to him, and I certainly didn't want to tell him the truth, not at this stage, anyway. I carry a six inch nail around, because you have no idea how much it boosts my self-confidence when I'm a bit down, to pull one out and break it in half. It also turned out to be a great way to intimidate a roomful of men (see Diana Pulls it Off). Diana, when you're in this position, change the subject. "Oh, you should see some of the junk I've got in here", I said, pulling out a Mars bar well past its sell-by date, a mixture of biros and pencils, a mirror, a toothbrush (oops), a lipstick, a purse and a dead mouse. "How did that get in there? Oh, I remember, I was going to get someone in the office to try to fix it for me." "I'll fix it", he typed. I kept wanting to type things back to him, instead of speak, communicating like this felt so funny. I gave him the mouse, and pulling the wire out brought out a headscarf with it and more tissues, and a tampon (you never know when you might need one in a hurry). I hastily stuffed it all back in, there are things at the bottom of my handbag that should ne'er be seen by mortal man. We talked more, in this strange fashion, and I found out that he was a writer for a magazine, a computer magazine, and I told him that I was an executive at a bank, which is very approximate, although actually true, except that it isn't quite a bank, and I'm not quite an executive, but I thought maybe I'll explain more later. And then his station came up, and he closed up his Psion, and walked off with my dead mouse. And I wondered if we were doomed to meet only on trains, and talk via his computer. William: She was there again today on the train. Her coat was open, and she was wearing a sweater that hugged her lovely body, that I remembered so well from pushing past her, and she sat down next to me and said hello to me. I tried to say hello back, but the H grabbed my tongue and wouldn't let go no matter how hard I pulled, but then I had a brilliant idea, and I pulled out my Psion and typed what I wanted to say. It worked even better than I'd expected, because she leaned towards me to read what I'd typed, and her soft blonde hair brushed against my face, and her perfume worked it's way up my nose, into my brain, and then straight down to my groin, which responded in the obvious way, and it was fortunate that I had my Psion covering it up so she couldn't see. We talked a bit, and then she showed me how her Filofax was bigger than my Psion "Heavier too," I typed, "and you're in trouble if you lose it, whereas I have a backup." As she pulled her Filofax out of her bag, a whole bunch of other things came too, including a great big wood nail, so I asked her why she carried that around, and she showed me some of the other junk in her bag, including a dead mouse. Who carries a dead mouse around with them? A serious computer user, that's who. I offered to try to fix it for her, and she said yes, although I don't know the first thing about fixing hardware, but I had a plan. She said she was an executive at a bank. I knew she had to be more than just a secretary, she was so intelligent, so self-confident, so beautiful and so unattainable. I bet she earned twice what I did. I took the mouse in to the office, swapped it for the one on my computer, and then called the PC people to fix it. And I spent the whole day trying to remember what her perfume smelt like. Diana: This was getting a bit like "Brief Encounter". I sat next to him again, and he opened his Psion, and it said "Good morning, Diana". That's right! His little computer spoke to me. I guess he'd recorded it. So I got him to show me how that works, and then I got him to show me how the rest of it works, and it's got a word processor, and a spreadsheet, and it's absolutely the most darling little computer you've ever seen, and I'm going to get Nigel to get me one. Then he pulled out my mouse, he'd fixed it, and I told him he was wonderful, men like being told that, and he went a bit red. And I wondered, how do we get from here to fucking? Sorry, that's a non sequitur, but it being spring and all, and the daffodils and stuff, you know? What did you suppose that girls spend most of their time thinking about, knitting? And then he showed me the screen again, and he was asking me out to lunch, so I said "I'd love to", and we agreed to meet at one. Nigel was *ever* so surprised when I told him I was going out to lunch, because that's usually his role in the Diana/Nigel arrangement, but I told him not to worry, this was private, not business, and he looked ever so relieved that I hadn't found a way to dispense with his services, so I gave him a little tickle under the arms, which I think I enjoyed rather more than he did, because it reminded him of what I did to him there before (see Diana Pulls it Off), which was rather painful. Still, it can't hurt to remind him of his position, occasionally. William: I found a way to speak to her. I recorded some things on the Psion, and kept trying till I got them spot on. The next day, I played "Good morning, Diana" to her, and she was absolutely delighted. And I showed her some of the other neat things I had on the Psion, and she loved it, she said she had to get one, and when I gave her the mouse, she was ever so pleased, and then I sprung my surprise. I'd typed it in before, so I just pulled up the document, and there it was, asking her to lunch. She turned to me and gave me her lovely smile, and nodded, and said "Yes, I'd love to". Diana: Lunch was great. We met near London Wall, and went to a lovely little Italian place he knew about. It was leisured and unhurried; the staff acted like time was not an issue, which it wasn't. I hate it when they hurry you to get you out, so they can get more customers in. I had pasta in a lovely tomato and cheesy sauce, and thick, strong coffee afterwards. We didn't talk much, we just ate in a companionable silence. I didn't like to think about what a mixture of stammering and spaghetti would do, so I just smiled and said how great the food was. We finished at three, and I offered to pay half, but let him pick up the bill, and said "I'll pay next time." I got back to the office to find Nigel still lunching. Wow, that man really knows how to lunch. William: Lunch was a disaster. I had trouble finding the place we were supposed to meet, and I was nearly late, which would have been awful, then we went to an Italian, where the service was so slow, it was terrible. I kept trying to think of something to say, something that wouldn't nail my tongue to a W, R or L, but each time I composed something, my nerve failed. She said she thought the food was OK, she must have thought I was a complete moron. By three o'clock I was getting really worried, I knew I'd get into trouble for getting back so late, and I guessed she would too. She offered to split the bill, but I gallantly shook my head, and she said "OK, I'll pay next time". Next time? There was going to be a next time after this disaster? The gods be praised! I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy. Diana: That evening, I phoned up Gran to get some advice. She gave me two excellent ideas. One was to research stammering, find out a bit about it, and the other idea was to invite him round for a home-cooked dinner. because then, afterwards ... well, afterwards who knows? Gran says there's two ways to a man's heart, one of them being through his stomach. I didn't ask her what the other way is, I think I already know. So I searched around the web, and I found the National Stuttering Project, the Stuttering Foundation of America, and another one for Canada, and I got some tips on how to speak with a stutterer (don't finish words for them, which I'd already broken). And I found out that it's connected with anxiety, and there might be some connection with shyness, although maybe it's stuttering that causes shyness, not the other way round, and that some words cause stuttering worse than others, and there are therapies for it, but that stutterers (sorry, that should be people who stutter) should expect to always be people who stutter. Telephones are the worst. Stressful situations make stuttering worse. About 1% of adults stutter, 4% of children. The opposite of stuttering is fluency. The next day, I started talking to William about stuttering, and it seemed that even the little research I'd done was more than he'd known. He said he'd always tried to avoid the subject, it was just too full of angst for him, and I asked what angst was, and he explained, and I timed it just right and invited him round for a home-cooked lunch on Saturday to thank him for the lunch, I said, and his face lit up and he accepted. William: I always thought girls were just full of thoughts about clothes and makeup, and she was certainly changing my mind about that. The next day on the train, she started explaining me about stammering, and told me that there were over half a million people in the UK that had the same problem as me, and she seemed to understand about how speaking was for me just a long series of painful obstacles. I've never met anyone who knew how I felt before, she seemed to really understand, and I hadn't even explained it to her. And she told me that I wasn't a stammerer, that I was a person who stutters, just like she isn't a blonde, she's a person with blonde hair, the difference being that it isn't just that one attribute that defines you. And when she asked me round to try her cooking, I didn't have a chance to think about it, I just said yes without thinking, and it was only afterwards that I realised that she'd asked me for a date and I'd said yes. What a girl! Diana: Well, it wasn't going to have to wait for the next century after all. He was coming round to my flat this Saturday, and if I can't seduce him there, my name isn't Diana. I'm not that good a cook, but I can do roast chicken very well indeed, so that was what we'd have. And roast potatoes, roast parsnips and cabbage, very lightly boiled. Chicken a la Diana, I call it. And I got a couple of bottles of Liebfraumilch to go with it, I thought it might loosen his tongue a bit. As it were. Because I couldn't really see us using his little computer for communicating. And Blue Mountain coffee beans, I much prefer a Proper Cup of Coffee from a Proper Coffee Pot. And I got myself ready, very carefully. If I did this wrong, he was going to be so scared, there wouldn't be another chance. A fragrance bath, perfume in all the critical places, including behind each ear (for kissing), between my breasts (in case we got to petting), and a touch on my Mons Veneris, in case I hit a home run. Then a teddy (gives a much better effect than a bra, at least on me it does) and a silk blouse without ruffles, so you can see what's there, and a long skirt, which I think looks sexier than a short one, and medium heels, which says more than low heels, but not as much as high heels. William: I could hardly wait until Saturday. I spent the time practising sentences, like "That was ever so nice, Diana", and "Mmmh, delicious", so I'd get them fluently. I knew she'd be a good cook, she seemed to be so confident and competent at everything she did. I bought a couple of bottles of wine, because I know that's expected, and I got a big bunch of flowers for her, purely because I wanted to give her a big bunch of flowers, because she was such a beautiful flower herself, and I wish I could tell her that. And at one on Saturday, I turned up at her front door, and had a major fight with my right hand, which didn't want to ring her bell. I wanted to just run away, I can't handle this, I thought. Then I thought of facing her afterwards on the train, and I knew that I would have to emigrate to South America if I stood her up, so I rang the bell, which didn't work, so I knocked, but the first time I was so nervous I fumbled it, so I knocked again, properly. Diana: Suddenly, the bell rang, and there was a torrent of knocking on the door. I opened it and nearly got his fist in my face. Then I got a faceful of flowers. So I asked him in, sat him down, and got a glass of sherry into his hand. That's what I was taught to do with guests as a girl, and that's what I did. I put the flowers in water, and we chatted a bit. William: She answered the door as I was still knocking, and I was caught off balance. She has a great knack for catching me off balance. I couldn't think what to say (later on, I thought maybe "Hello" would have been suitable, but you don't know what it's like to stutter), so I gave her the flowers. She was ever so pleased, and invited me in. She put them in a big vase, and their flowery fragrance mingled with her musky perfume to fill the room. I got a chance to look at her as she bustled about the place, and she looked wonderful. I'd never really had a chance to look at her before, she always wore a coat or a jacket, but now she was wearing just a silky blouse, and I could see a lot more, and I liked what I saw. Her shoulders were very broad for a woman, or else she was wearing shoulder pads, but I don't think so, her shoulders looked very natural, and I wanted to touch them, feel them. When she had her back towards me, I could look at her carefully without her realising. I could see how her body tapered down to a narrow waist, especially narrow by contrast with her wide shoulders. Then it flared out again to broad hips, then in again to her legs, which reached all the way down to the ground. She was wearing a long, full, pleated skirt, and nylons, and medium-high heels, and her legs were like sculpted in marble. She was all curves, all contrasts, all woman. When she turned round to face me, I tried not to look too obviously, but it was difficult to take my eyes off her. The main difference between the rear view and the front view, was in the rear view, her bottom swelled out toward me, while in the front view, she had a flat stomach down to her hips. Above the waist, the exact opposite; her back was flat, but her front was far from flat, very far from flat. I tried very hard not to stare at her breasts, but although I had my eyes focused on her face, for politeness, my brain was focused a lot lower. She must have been wearing a bra, but it must have been a very natural sort of bra, because her breasts had a very natural bounce to them, sort of perky and jiggly. And they pushed forward more than I'd remembered from our previous encounters, a lot more, maybe that's because she wasn't wearing a jacket. And then she smiled, and I really did focus on her face. And she said "How are you., William?" and I said "Fine, thank you, how are you, D-d- d-d" Oh no, not her name please, not that, anything but that, I've got to be able to say her name, I can't substitute for that. She waited while I fought with the word, and finally got it out. "I'm great", she said, and I wanted to say, yes, you really are, but I held my tongue, besides, "really" isn't a word I would expect to be able to say. Then she offered me a glass of sherry, and I thought "Sherry, how civilised, but how completely unpronounceable", so I said "Yes, p-p-p-p. Great." She brought the glasses and put them on the Long John, and we sat at each end of the settee, and sipped sherry. "I never told you my other name, it's Diana Lorinda", and I instinctively knew I'd have trouble with her middle name. So I wanted to tell her my name, "William Rawlinson", and it's a very ordinary sort of a name, but it contains two Ws, two Ls (the double L counts as one when you say it) and one R. But you can see the problem. So I thought, lets explain it to her. "There's some things I find hard to say", I said. "Anything that's got these things in." and I traced out on the table, R, L and W. "And not so hard, still not easy" and I traced out M and N. She nodded, and got a sheet of paper, and wrote down those letters. "Any more?" she asked. "Uh, sometimes D and T, sometimes B and P. It's the sounds, not the l-l-l. Letters. So, I can say 'tall', cos you don' say the, the, the, things at the end." She nodded. "It must feel terrible for you, never knowing when you're going to get a block." Yes, a block, that's exactly what it felt like, she did understand, she must have stuttered once. "Did you ever stutter?" "A little bit, when I was a girl, nothing really. And I don't now, of course." Diana: I saw him staring at me as I put the flowers in the vase. He thought I couldn't see, but there was a mirror, and I saw him staring at my back, my bottom and my legs. He looked like he was enjoying the view, and shifted a bit to ease the tightness in his trousers, and I thought "Diana, we're onto a winner here." So I turned round and stood facing him; if he liked my back, he'd love my front. I'd dressed very carefully; no bra, but I was wearing a teddy under my bra, so it wasn't too obvious. So without the bra to hold me in, I was sticking out a bit more than usual, and without the constraint, I jiggled a bit more than usual. And no jacket, so I wasn't playing peek-a-boo with him. I stood while he sat, and I braced my shoulders back a bit, to increase the effect. My breasts aren't huge, but they're plenty big enough; people notice them, especially if I help them along a bit. Then after I was sure he'd seen everything I wanted him to see, I sat down opposite him, so he could still enjoy the view, and we talked a bit. I told him my surname, and he didn't ask me about Gran. It isn't that unusual a name. Then he told me about his stutter, and how certain letters are worse for him, and R is one of the worst, also L and W, and sometimes D. So he'd have trouble with my name, I suppose. I asked him his name, and he grinned ruefully and wrote it down. William Rawlinson. Wow. No wonder he didn't want to say it! I wondered if it was just bad luck that his name had all the worst letters in it, or if there was more to it than that. He looked puzzled, and asked how it could be more than bad luck, so I explained that maybe R, L and W are difficult because they're so important in his name, and he looked aghast. He'd never thought of that before, and the implication was obvious, well, it was to me, anyway. Then he told me that M and N were also a big problem, and he's got three of those in his name. QED. Then dinner was ready, and we moved over to the dining table, and he told me that it was ever so nice, and delicious, and then he admitted he'd been practicing what to say, and I laughed, and he laughed too, and he didn't stutter when he laughed. And we had a lovely lunch, the roast chicken had come out perfect, and he'd never had roast parsnips before, they're sweet and nutty. No dessert, I don't like sweet things, and we took the coffee back to the settee to sit and enjoy it. I sat with my legs tucked under me, both hands round my cup, and wondered what the next move ought to be. William: She's a great cook, of course. No surprise there, I knew she'd be a great cook. But what did surprise me, was there was only one course; no starter, no dessert. She explained that by doing that, she could concentrate on the main thing, and get that right. And the wine she'd chosen was just right; I'd brought completely the wrong wine, I think. She said she'd use it some other time. I thought, I hope there are other times. Then we sat on the settee for coffee; she explained it was Jamaican, and she ground the beans and percolated it herself because it came out much better that way, and I have to admit the smell was better than anything I'd ever smelled. We sat on the settee, facing each other. She kept her eyes on me the whole time, she didn't glance around the room at all, she just kept on gazing at me with those lovely eyes. I could see her breasts straining against her blouse, and wondered whether I had the courage to do anything about it. Of course, I didn't. nor did I say very much, words are my enemies. Except, in a pause in the conversation, I said "You're beautiful, you know." I didn't plan it. It just popped out. Diana: He told me I was beautiful, well, that's an exaggeration, I'm too thick- set to be beautiful, but I know I'm not ugly, and men do look at me, especially when I make an effort to be lookable, and I thought, "Diana, let's assume that's an opening gambit". So I crawled along the settee until I was close to him, and I held out my hand, and he took it in his, and kissed it, and then I pulled his hand back to me, and I kissed his hand. And then we looked at each other for a long time, and I wondered if he realised what he was supposed to do next, and then I realised he was scared of me. It must be terrible to stutter. He can't be sure of communicating in the ordinary human way, he can't debate, he can't argue, he can't tell people things. It must all be bottled up inside him, unable to find any escape. And it must make it so difficult socially. "William, have you ever had a girlfriend?" He shook his head. So I got really close, and put my head next to his, and kissed him, very softly, on the lips. "Put your arms round me, William. You don't have to say anything." He did, and we kissed again, a bit harder. I pushed my tongue out, and he pulled back a bit, startled. "You're a virgin, aren't you William?" He nodded, and looked down at his feet. "Have you ever kissed a girl before?" He shook his head. Gosh, I'd have to show him everything. This was going to be fun. I got closer, and kissed him again, this time I put my hands on his waist and tickled him gently, then brought my hands round to the small of his back, and scratched it, just where your tail would be if you were a cat. That's one of the best scratching places, and William loved it. "Scratch me there, William." He scratched my back as I scratched his, then I moved my hand up his back, rubbing as I went. "It would be better if your hand was against my skin" I murmured in his ear, and I pulled my blouse out from my skirt, and pulled my slip up, so he could get inside. When his hand touched my back, I jumped slightly, it felt like an electric shock on my back. I leaned into him, letting his body feel my weight. My breasts pressed against his chest, and I pulled his shirt up and let my hands roam over his body underneath as my mouth pressed against his, and my tongue arm- wrestled against his. William: Well. Well. Obviously telling her how beautiful she was, was the right thing to do, because she came close and kissed me. I must have shown my inexperience, because she asked me if I'd had a girlfriend before, and I had to admit that I hadn't, and I was afraid she'd laugh, but she didn't, she got even closer, and her hair tickled my face, and her breasts pressed against me, and she kissed me again. Then I felt her hands tugging at my shirt, then I felt her hands on my back, and it was, like, bliss. And, with her mouth on mine, I couldn't speak. I mean, there was no possibility of speaking. You can't imagine how wonderful that feels. And she asked me to scratch her back, so I did, then she pulled her blouse up so I could get my hand inside, and I rubbed her back. Her skin felt like silk, and she mewed like a cat as I touched her. Her hands were turning my brain to mush as she touched me here, touched me there, her hands on my waist, my back, then coming round to the front, brushing against my chest hairs. This was bliss, this was heaven, this was paradise. And I wanted to make her feel the same way, so I tried to copy what she was doing to me, and she mewed even more, and I felt her tongue against mine, and I pushed back. And then suddenly she pulled away, and I was scared that I'd done something wrong, but she was smiling. Diana: Woo! Hang on a minute, this is happening a bit fast. He's a quick learner, but if I let him go that fast, it'll all be over in a few minutes. He doesn't know how to control himself, I'm sure, this is his first time. Never mind, I can handle him. "More coffee?", I said. He nodded, so I went to the kitchen and poured us both another cup, and brought it back. I sat down on the settee, and tucked my blouse back into my skirt. He looked a bit disappointed at that, so I smiled at him, and said "It untucks again quite easily", and he grinned, and made a grab at me, which I evaded deftly. He stood up and plunged down at me, but I slipped sideways along the settee, and stood up. This had possibilities. He got himself off the couch, and came at me. I giggled, and ran round the settee, with William in hot pursuit. He can't talk much, so I thought, let's have a bit of action instead. He wasn't very graceful, he wasn't going to be able to catch me, so I slowed down a bit, and he caught up, and just as he was about to catch me, I suddenly stopped and turned, and he slammed into me. I'm harder than I look, and heavier too, about 80 kilos, which is 175 pounds, about 50 pounds more than a girl my height is supposed to be, but it's well distributed, I mean it isn't all on my bum. Anyway, he bounced off me, but I grabbed him as he bounced and let myself fall on top of him, which was a bit of a mistake, because I think the impact knocked the wind out of him, maybe I should have arranged this with me underneath. Too late now. I lay on top of him on the carpet, and started kissing him, and after a few minutes, he'd gotten his breath back and started kissing me back. Then I brought my knee up so it pressed into his groin, not hard, I didn't want to hurt him, but enough so he'd know it was there. And I drifted my hands over his body, and felt him tugging my blouse and slip up again. A quick learner. Then I felt his hands on my back and sides, and I just let myself dissolve in blissful sensuality. William: She came back with the coffee, but I wanted her more than any drink, so I lunged at her, but she laughed and moved out of my reach, so I stood up, and had her trapped in front of me, but as I came down to claim my prize, she moved sideways and stood up, laughing. So I struggled off the settee, and went for her again, but then she danced round the back of it, and I chased her. It must have looked odd, me chasing Diana round and round the settee, but we were both laughing so hard we couldn't talk, and then I caught up with her just as she stopped and turned, and I thought I'd knock her over, but luckily I didn't, I fell over myself, with her on top of me. And I can tell you, although the impact winded me totally, it's very nice falling underneath a girl like Diana, all solid female flesh. Golly, she was heavy, though. Not that I minded. By the time I recovered, she was kissing me again, and I was having trouble breathing, and then she brought her knee up between my legs, but it didn't hurt, it felt great, and I got my hands back on her body, and I wondered what her breasts would feel like. She was still on top of me, lying on me, and it began to feel a bit painful. The floor was very hard, and Diana wasn't as soft as I'd have expected, and she was a lot heavier than I would have expected. Still, you can't have too much of a good thing, and Diana was the best thing I'd ever met. Diana: I had my full weight on him, and I could feel him starting to have trouble with that. Damn this heavy body of mine. I'm not overweight, honestly, when I look into a mirror there really isn't any flab, and I can't pinch the flesh of my waist between my thumb and finger. But I am heavy, I know that, and I guessed I was 15 or 20 kilos more than William, who was medium height, slight build. So I rolled off him, and rolled him over on to me. That also meant I could get my arms right round him, and my hands up and down his whole back, and he shook as I stroked him there. He tried to roll off me, but I wouldn't let him, and I brought my legs up and round his, to help anchor him in place. Then I realised what I was doing, and I said to myself "Diana, calm down, careful, girl." And then I let him roll off me, and he asked me if I was OK, and I said I was, but did we have to roll around on the floor? William: Unh. Maybe you can have too much of a good thing. I couldn't breathe with her weight on me, so when she rolled off me, I let her. But then she pulled me on top of her, and her hands felt like ice and fire on my back, but I knew I must be hurting her with my weight, so after a couple of false starts, I rolled off her and said "You OK, Diana?" And she said she was fine, but suggested that we roll around on something softer than the floor. And when I asked "What?", she led me into her bedroom. I've never been in a girls bedroom before. I don't know what I expected, but it didn't look like a girl's bedroom, I mean, it didn't look all flouncy and feminine. Just a bedroom, with a wardrobe, a rather untidy dressing table, and a bed. A bed. Bed. A bed. Thing you sleep in. Bed. Unh. She threw herself down on the bed, then held out her arms, and it was clear what I was supposed to do, so I lay down next to her. And she sort of enfolded me in, and started kissing me, and stroking me, and before I knew where I was, she had my shirt off, and was running her hands up and down my body. Diana: Things were hotting up nicely. I had him right where I wanted him, on my bed, absolutely ideal. I practically tore off his shirt, and then I said "Hang on, this isn't fair, you're miles ahead of me", and I took off my blouse, and pulled the teddy over my head. William: Then she stopped, sat up, and took off her blouse. I was wrong about the bra, she wasn't wearing one, but she obviously didn't need to. I was right about her shoulders, they were very broad, broader than mine, even. but her chest was wide and deep, with those two magnificently beautiful breasts in front. They weren't enormous, but they were bigger than I'd imagined in my fantasies about her, much bigger. And they stood straight out from her body, I could see why she regarded a bra as optional. They were tipped with sharply defined nipples, pinker than the rest, and they seemed to be reaching towards me, so I reached out to touch them. They were harder than I'd expected, really stiff and firm, but as I felt round the underside of her breasts, it was softer there. She kneeled beside me as I used both my hands to touch her breasts, stroke them, fondle them. Then she lay down next to me and pulled me on top of her. And what happened after that is indescribable. So I won't even try. Diana: I have to do this carefully, I don't want to frighten him. If he's on top of me, he'll feel more in control, more secure, so I'll start off that way. I encouraged him to touch my breasts for a while, and the feeling of horniness built up inside me until I felt I could burst if I didn't do something about it. It was like lightning striking my nipples, and running down a conducting path straight to my clitoris, from where it shot into my brain, almost paralysing me with the sexual feelings of delight. So I lay down next to him, and rolled him over on top of me. I can take his weight much more easily than he can take mine, plus he won't feel quite so dominated if he's on top. I almost tore his trousers getting them off, I had to keep saying to myself "Easy, Diana, easy, calm down, there's plenty of time." I got my skirt off, and then I did tear my tights getting them off, but I didn't care. He had a raging erection by now from all our foreplay, and my vagina was dripping wet and ready for action, so I pulled him into me. Of course, he wanted to start fucking at once, but if I'd let him do that, he'd have come in seconds, and I wanted more than that. So I wrapped my legs round his hips and held him steady, so he couldn't move back. And I used my arms round his body to hold him still. He started moaning and groaning, but I knew I wasn't doing anything that was hurting him, was I? I did a quick check, and no, I wasn't. So that was just his need for sex that was making all that noise. I held him still until he stopped making quite so much racket, and I could feel his excitement level fall from incoherent down to merely over-excited, and then I loosened my hold on his hips and body, and let him start to fuck me. But he was a complete newbie, and he let his instincts rule his head, moving towards the fastest orgasm possible. So after less than half a minute, I had to control him again with my arms and legs, stopping his frenzied movements by hugging him close with my limbs. I hugged him too hard at first, and I started to feel him struggling. At first, I thought it was just his attempts to fuck me, but then I realised he was trying to get loose from me, so I relaxed my grip a bit, and I felt him taking deep breaths. I must have been crushing the air out of him, it's much too easy to do that by accident. After he'd got his breath back, he went back to screwing, he'd picked up the general idea very quickly. But he was still trying to win a race, rather than extract the greatest pleasure, so I had to clamp down on him again, not so hard this time. And when I let go of him, after he'd calmed down a bit, I kept my hands on his hips, so I could control his movements that way. I slowed his strokes into me, and I slowed his withdrawals. He was trying to pump at about three strokes per second, I was allowing him about one every two seconds. He started getting very frustrated with this, and was pushing really hard, but there was no way he could overcome the strength of my arms. And when he tried to roll off me, my legs around his legs prevented that. Although I was underneath him, it was me that was in control, not him. But I pretended otherwise. "Oh, William, you're wonderful, don't stop, faster, harder" and lots of other encouraging noises. He was just grunting, well, you don't really expect a man to say much. And when he tried to fuck harder and faster, my arms were slowing him down, making it more difficult for him to penetrate and withdraw. Even so, he started moving towards a climax, I could tell from the noises he was making, so I bore down hard with my vagina, it's hard to explain which muscles you tense to do this, but it has the effect of gripping the man's cock inside you, which stops him from coming. I gripped as hard as I could, and he started shouting, and I wasn't sure if that was sex or whether I was actually hurting him with my vagina, so to be on the safe side I relaxed my vaginal grip a bit, which was a big mistake, because he started to come. Fortunately, I realised in time what was happening, and was able to reach down with a hand and grip the base of his cock, to stop him from reaching full orgasm. This turned out to be rather good, because it meant he had a half orgasm, you know? When a man has most of the sensations of an orgasm, but doesn't actually ejaculate. Of course, it was his first time ever, so he didn't know it was only a half orgasm, and afterwards, he lay quietly on top of me, recovering, while I told him how good he was. But what he didn't realise, was that I hadn't let go of his penis inside me, so after we'd both gotten our breath back, I squeezed it a bit, kneaded it inside me, and brought it back to life. In no time, he was at full mast, raring to go again, and once more I had to control his enthusiasm with my hands on his hips. This time, I brought him to half orgasm on purpose, controlling his ejaculation reflex with pressure from my hand at the base of his cock, not too hard, but hard enough to stop the semen from spurting out. I can break six inch nails with my hands, controlling a man's orgasm is relatively easy. "Oh, Diana, oh, oh, oh" he kept saying. I smiled, and kissed him some more, without letting go of his cock, which felt so good inside of me. A bit of manipulation with my strong, hard hands brought him to full erection again, and we were at it like rabbits once more. I love the feeling of a hard cock sliding in and out of my vagina, and I can't believe I'm the only woman who loves it so much. That's what cocks and vaginas are made for, isn't it? I mean, only a god with a sense of humour would make sex work the way it does. But it does work that way, and we have to make the best of it. I was making the best of William, and I brought him to a third half-orgasm. I still hadn't had my own orgasm, but by now the horniness inside me would have made a rhinoceros jealous, and I knew that when I did have my climax, it would be world-shattering. but it's men that have no patience, women can wait for good things. Babies take nine months, I could wait a few more minutes for my climax. Meanwhile, William needed a bit of resuscitation. I rolled him off me, onto his side, and spent a few minutes just kissing and cuddling him. "Oh, Diana, you're incredible" he was saying, and other nice things like that. So I whispered back to him, and I explained that I hadn't actually given him a full orgasm yet, and when I did, he'd know the meaning of the word ecstasy. And he moaned and trembled in anticipation a bit, because he thought he'd already experienced the ultimate pleasure, and here's me telling him "You ain't felt nothing yet." And then I asked him "Do you want another coffee? I'm making one for myself." Mostly, I just wanted to slow things down. I put on my sexy silk dressing gown, and his eyes were locked on to my breasts as I did so. They aren't really gigantic, but I think they're big and firm enough to make an emphatic statement when I want them to. And the width of my body makes my chest look even larger. And I put a belt round my waist, to emphasize the contrast between my waist and my bust, which is what counts, I think. I returned to the bedroom with a tray, and on the tray I had two cups of coffee, some biscuits, and a few six inch nails. Time for William to learn something important about me. He knew what to do with the coffee and biscuits, but eyed the nails warily like they were some sex toy he'd never encountered before. But he didn't ask any questions. I had my coffee I sitting back on my heels on the bed; William sat cross-legged with his. When we'd finished, I put the cups and things on the dressing table, and got back on to the bed. Then I took one of the nails, bent it in my fingers, and handed it to William. He examined it, and tried to straighten it, which he couldn't. Then he tried to bend it further, which he couldn't. I let him struggle for a bit, then held out my hand for it. He gave it to me, and I straightened it with my hands, and passed it back to him. He tried to bend it and couldn't, and then I took it back and bent it for him. I gave him one of the other nails, and he couldn't even dent it. Then I took the nails one at a time, and bent and straightened each one until it broke. William was completely silent until I'd finished, and when I did the last one, he looked at me adoringly, and said "Wow, Diana. Wow. You're amazing." I smiled, and took off my sexy silk dressing gown, and put one of my hands on his body while he kissed the other one and stroked my forearm, which isn't that big, truly. Almost as soon as I touched him, his penis snapped to attention, and I lay down and pulled him on top of me. I kissed him, and we caressed each other, and I told him "I'm the strongest woman you'll ever meet." I don't like telling people I'm the strongest woman in the world, because of Gran, but that's close enough. Then I whispered to him about how he wasn't going to be able to stop me doing whatever I wanted to do to him, and I told him about what I was going to do to his helpless body with my strong hands and powerful vagina. I pulled him inside me, and started him stroking in and out, making sure that he didn't move too fast. Every time he started to get too excited, I controlled his body with my hands, slowing him down, stopping him from coming too early. After several minutes of this, I let him have another half-orgasm, which felt pretty good to me, too. Then I gave up even pretending who was the submissive one, and turned him off me, and got on top, astride his body, his cock still inside me. "Touch my breasts" I commanded him, and he stroked and fondled me, bringing white hot fire to my nipples and dissolving my loins in boiling oil. I worked myself up and down, his cock creating havoc inside my cunt, his hands melting my nipples, and I felt my orgasm beginning to build up. He tried to have another orgasm as I worked him, but I slipped my hand down to the base of his penis and stifled it. I could feel him on the verge of coming, and as I slowly moved up and down on him, I used the pressure from my hand to keep him at that point. His hands moved erotically over my chest, and my nipples felt like they were burning, throbbing, on fire. My breasts shared their sensations with my clitoris, and I moved gradually towards a full womanly climax, slowly but steadily, controlling William all the time to stop him from doing what men usually do, stopping him from coming until I was ready. Then I knew I was at the point of no return, and I released my grip on the base of his penis, and vibrated the inside of my vagina. He responded immediately with an orgasm, a full one this time, as I wasn't controlling his sexual organ any more. His orgasm triggered mine, of course, and I was having a full, industrial strength climax. Moreover, my vagina was exerting a milking action on his penis, pumping the semen out of him, reinforcing and strengthening his orgasm as I shuddered through my own. Vaguely, through my own transport of delight, I could hear him shouting my name "Diana, Diana, DIANA". The orgasmic flames ran through my veins as my body recapitulated the ancient reflex that only women can have. I was on my own now, just as William was alone, each of us locked in the individual world of sexual explosion. I don't really know what it's like for a man, but it can't possibly be as good as it is for a woman. I tried not to clench my legs round his hips, I tried not to crush him too hard with my arms, and I kept my hands well away from his body. But there's only so much you can do when you're in the middle of an orgasm, and I saw a few bruises on him afterwards. Gradually, our passions subsided. My main explosion was followed by a series of smaller blasts, then by some pops and bangs, and finally the feeling of well-being that you get after a really good fuck. And I told William how good he'd been. But I could barely get a word in edgeways. "Oh, Diana, that was the most amazing experience of my life. I don't know what you did to me then, but it was terrific, you are the most extraordinary woman I've ever met. Oh, Diana, I love you, I love you, I'll always love you, for ever and ever ..." He went on at length. It was all very nice, very flattering, and exactly the sort of thing a girl likes to hear, although maybe a bit over the top. Eventually, I hushed him by putting a finger over his mouth, and said "William, what's your name?" "William Rawlinson. I'm William Rawlinson, of course." And then he saw what I'd seen. He wasn't stuttering. "Oh, Diana, I can speak fluently. Listen, I'm William Rawlinson, you're Diana, I can say anything I want to, I don't stutter any more, it's like a whole new world, I'm not afraid of words any more, ..." I put my finger over his mouth again, then followed it with a kiss. I'm not really one for chattering after sex. So I pulled his head down onto my breasts and stroked his hair, and we fell asleep like that. William: I woke up the next morning, and said "William Rawlinson". Yes, I hadn't dreamed it, my stutter was gone. So was Diana, so I got up and went to look for her. She was in the kitchen eating breakfast. "Hello, sleepyhead", she said. "Want a kipper?" I had some toast and marmalade, and started to tell Diana about my new-found loquaciousness and fluency with words; I deliberately used long polysyllabic Latinate words in long convoluted sentences. Making up for lost time, I suppose. Diana just smiled at me, tolerantly, I suppose I was making a bit of an ass of myself. "Where shall we go today?" I asked. Diana: He was full of himself. Well, I suppose that's to be expected, he'd just lost his virginity and his stutter, and I wouldn't be surprised if the two were related. And he was full of me, too, he was all over me, which was nice enough, except I was trying to eat my kipper, and unless you're careful, you'll get a bone in your throat. And then he asked what we were doing today, and I knew it was time to explain a few things to him. I've had this problem before. Men aren't used to getting fucked by a woman much stronger than they are, so they aren't used to the way I can control the sex, and make it so much better than normal. And so afterwards, I have this problem with them falling in love with me, which isn't what I want, really. I'm not ready for that sort of relationship, I like to play the field a bit, you know? But how do you explain to a love-sick teenager (which is how they behave) that he was just a bit of crumpet, wham, bam, thank you man. When I fall in love, it'll be the real thing, with happy-ever-after, and declarations of undying love, and promises of faithful-unto-death, and all that stuff. William was nice enough, and the nookie was good, but I wasn't actually in love with him. The trouble was, he was in love with me, or thought he was. And that, of course, made him think I must be in love with him. So I had to let him down gently. The first and most important thing, is don't give them any more sex. If being savaged by Diana once does that to a man, imagine what it would be like if I repeated the dose. And the second most important thing, is don't give them anything to hope for; I made that mistake once, and the guy hung around me like a dog round a bitch in heat for months. No, you have to be firm, but gentle. Nice, but definite. If I hung on to all the men I've screwed, you wouldn't be able to get in the front door. I took William by the hand, and sat him down on the settee, and I held his hands in mine as I explained it to him. "William, I'm just not ready for any kind of long term relationship. It isn't you, it's me. I'm not ready to settle down. Last night was absolutely great, but last night is all there's going to be between us." He stared at me, his eyes big and horrified. "But Diana, I love you, I want you, I need you." "But I don't love you, William. You're nice, and you'll make some girl a wonderful husband, especially in bed, but not me." "Why not? What do you want that I can't give you, Diana?" I thought about my ideal man, and decided not to tell William about him. Not that I've ever met him. Not that I actually ever expect to. "When I'm older, William, I'll fall in love with someone, and then settle down. I'll know when the time comes, and the time isn't now. I'm sorry, William, but that's the way I am." "Well, can't we be lovers until then?" "No, William." How could I explain that if I fucked him again, I'd probably fuck him up for life? As it was, he'd be very unlikely to find a woman who could give him the sort of sex I'd just blasted his body with. If I did it again, he'd be so hooked on me, he'd never get his mind straight. Who'd want an ordinary woman after they've been turned inside out by a woman who can control your whole body with her arms and legs? He stared at me like a Labrador. I stroked his hand. "William, count your blessings. You've lost your stutter, you've know how great you are in bed, and we can still be friends." He grabbed one of my hands in both of his. "Really, Diana? We can still be friends?" "Yes, William, we'll be friends, but a bit more than friends, because of what we shared last night." "Oh, Diana, I'd rather be your friend than anything, but what I really want .." "Shush, William. That isn't an option. Friends, and if you ever get into any sort of trouble, you can always come to me and I'll help you." I gave him a couple of broken six inch nails to remember me by, got him combed and dressed, and out of the flat. Then I washed my hair, put on my fluffiest angora sweater and an old friendly pair of jeans, and spent the rest of Sunday reading a book and feeling the deep contentment inside my thoroughly fucked body. Diana the Valkyrie Email me at valkyrie@thevalkyrie.com Or via alt.amazon-women.admirers