Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:52:58 +0200 From: A.K. Subject: The Strolling Players 18/18 (historical) ---------------------------- THE STROLLING PLAYERS by Andrej Koymasky (C) 2008 written on June 3, 1992 translated by the author English text kindly revised by The Australian ----------------------------- USUAL DISCLAIMER "THE STROLLING PLAYERS" is a gay story, with some parts containing graphic scenes of sex between males. So, if in your land, religion, family, opinion and so on this is not good for you, it will be better not to read this story. But if you really want, or because YOU don't care, or because you think you really want to read it, please be my welcomed guest. ----------------------------- CHAPTER 18 - Vance understands something important They continued touring Savoy, passing from success to success. That region was prosperous enough, even though not very rich, however, people were rather generous. After each show the actors would gather, besides the usual offers in kind from the countrymen, sufficient money. They were happy and satisfied. RŽmy amalgamated well with the others and, even though he never had sex with him, he became a close friend with Roe. The shy and awkward gardener was but a far memory. He was making love with Vance and Lionel, but was particularly tied to Vance. Once when the others were going around publicising their evening show, RŽmy was alone with Roe. RŽmy tried to make love with him. Roe stopped him, with a smile. "RŽmy, you are a dear boy, likeable and handsome, and I like you, but I am in love with Sandro and I want to make love with him only. Don't feel bad about it. Before meeting Sandro I used to have sex with all the others, and I would have done it with you too. I'm keen to have your friendship, but I'm much keener about my Sandro, can you understand?" "I like you a lot, Roe. I like also Vance and Lionel, but you... I once saw you naked and I can't rid my mind of it. After that, I kept on dreaming that I could make love with you. However, even though it will be difficult... I accept what you say." "Aren't Vance and Lionel enough for you any more?" Roe asked him cunningly. "It's not that the problem. Lionel makes love nicely, he is very sweet and Vance is a wizard Making love with him is always marvellous. Sandro attracts me, but... I've got a crush on you. Evidently Sandro has to be even better than Vance, if you feel so attached to him." "No, Vance was more skilled, believe me. But I am in love with Sandro as he is with me. That makes the difference. I like Vance and Lionel a lot, and you too, but Sandro and I are in love." "But Vance said we have eventually to be ready to have sex with some men of our audience..." "If it was needed to survive, we two also would do it, but we have been lucky enough up to now not to need it. If it isn't absolutely necessary, we two prefer not to do it with anybody else. Making love with a lover makes it way better than doing it with skill, believe me." "But... tell me something, you know them very well, are Vance and Lionel in love?" "Lionel surely is. Vance... I don't know. Possibly he is, but in his own way. You see, he is used to having sex with new people. I don't know if he would ever be able to stop. He now has you. Sooner or later he will find somebody else, I know him well." "He will then forget me?" "No, surely not. Vance, if we desired it, would still make love with Sandro and with me. When he will find a new boy, he will neglect neither Lionel nor you. He is made in this way. It is only because Lionel is deeply in love with him that he accepts Vance how he is... even though he would rather like having him all for himself." "Did Lionel tell you so?" "No, never, but I know. Each time that Vance takes someone to his bed with Lionel, Lionel accepts it willingly because he knows that acceptance makes Vance happy." "I would never have thought of it! Lionel, for instance, is always very sweet with me, when we make love. He makes me feel welcome, if you see what I mean." "Yes, I understand, as I have experienced it too. It is the proof of his huge love for Vance. It could seem weird, but it is just the way it is. I would suffer if Sandro had sex with somebody else. Lionel, if he even could suffer, is able to hide it. He probably doesn't suffer, at least I hope he doesn't, but he would certainly be happier if Vance was able to do without other men." "I have still plenty of thing to learn!" Roe smiled and gave RŽmy a caress, "I feel you are a quick learner. You are a dear boy. I am happy you joined us." "Don't tell Sandro anything about that I tried it with you... Now that you have explained it to me, I would feel way too ashamed." "Don't worry, I will tell him nothing. After all nothing happened." "If something happened, would you have told him?" "Of course. Between two lovers there can't and should not be any secrets." The others came back and after they had their meal, they prepared the scenes for the evening show. It was a success as usual. They stopped in that village two more nights, then left for the next village, La Roche sur Foron, a mountain village with about a hundred families. When the first evening's show was over, an eighteen-years old boy approached Lionel. "You have been really good. Unhappily I don't have too much to offer you, just these nuts. But I know you would have deserved much more. You will be here also tomorrow night, am I right?" "Thank you. Yes, we will stop here a little longer. Will you come again to see us? We will perform another play." "Even if it was the same play, I would again come. You made me dream... I don't have many occasion to dream." "What's your name? What do you do?" "I am Fernand. Since my childhood I help my great-uncle to look after his cows. I was left an orphan. Both my parents died under an avalanche, so he took me with him. He treats me well, I can't complain, but he is a man of few words and he doesn't like me daydreaming." "Doesn't he have children?" "Yes, three sons and four daughters." "Do you fit well with them?" "Rather well. There are a few problems, but it goes well enough." "Listen, I have now to carry out my duties. If you can wait for me, we can talk a little more." "Willingly. You are the first one to tell me that you like talking to me. See you later, then." When Lionel ended his performance, Fernand was waiting for him at one side. All the audience had gone. Vance, RŽmy, Sandro and Roe had changed their clothes and were around a little fire. Lionel signalled Fernand to approach. "I have to change in my clothes, then we will go and sit near the fire and we can spend some time together. Is it alright?" "Am I cheeky if I ask you to let me come inside the wagon? I feel curious. If you have to undress, I swear I will not look at you." Lionel smiled. "Come, there is no problem. I am not ashamed changing in front of you." "Some would feel ashamed, others not. For instance, my cousins, Thomas, the elder one, never changes in front of anybody, not even his brothers. Michel, the second one, seems not to be ashamed of men or of women. Robert, the younger one who's the same age as me, is ashamed of women but he seems to enjoy being seen by we men." "That's interesting. And you?" "I? I'm am ashamed with women but not with men, but I don't always enjoy showing my nakedness." At that moment Vance entered in the wagon and said, "That Robert possibly loves men, that's why he likes to be seen naked. He probably hopes that sooner or later a man puts his hands there to feel his tool." Lionel laughed and asked, "Were you listening at us?" "No, passing outside, I just heard your last sentences and felt curious. So then, boy, am I right or not?" "I don't know, sir, I never thought about that." "You know, I think, that there are men who like doing it with other men and not with women." "Yes, I know, but I don't know if Robert is so or not. I never saw him slink away with a man, but to tell the truth not even with a woman. Bah, I really don't know." "Don't you know men who like prefer to do it with other men? To have sex with men or boys?" Vance then asked. "Yes, a couple..." "They have sex between them?" "I don't know." "So then how can you say that..." The boy giggled, "It's simple, they both tried it with me." "And you?" "I would never dare try it with somebody of my village, not even if I wanted to do it, as afterwards you will be targeted with gossip." "Wouldn't you try with a foreigner?" "I don't know... possibly yes, after all I feel curious. It could be worth trying it just once, who knows!" "You never tried it with anybody?" "Nothing long term, never. Only when I was fourteen I made the monkey dance a couple of times with my cousin Thomas who was then nineteen, but then he got a girlfriend and stopped doing it with me." "But... do you know how do it for good, as you say?" "Yes, at times we talked about that with my cousins." "And what did they tell you?" "Well... everybody knows that two men can beat each other or shove it in the back hole. Also to women you can shove it in the hole, they just have two holes and men only one." Vance smiled. Lionel who meanwhile had changed his clothes, said, "Let's go outside, round the fire with the others." Vance winked him and said, "You go, Lionel. I'll show to Fernand, if he likes, our stage costumes." "Yes, thank you, I would like." Lionel nodded and went out. Vance showed to the boy the king's costume, "Do you like this one?" "It's wonderful. This evening you wore it on stage, sir, am I right? It fitted you really well." "Don't call me sir, call me by name, I'm Vance. Yes, it's a really elegant costume. Would you like to try it?" "May I? Really?" "Of course you can. I'm the head-actor, therefore if I say you can... Undress, boy, and I'll help you to wear it." The boy at once started to undress, happily. Vance looked at him and admired what he saw appear, with pleasure. Then, helping the boy to wear the costume, he profited to touch him. At first Fernand seemed not to mind those apparently casual manoeuvres. But after a while, when he was almost dressed, he said, "Why are you touching me so? It seems you do it on purpose to get me aroused..." "Did I manage to?" "Well, almost. But why?" "Because you have a handsome body that makes one desire to touch it. Were you bothered?" "No, not bothered. It's just that I'm feeling weird. Nobody ever touched me in that way." "Not even those two men you told me they wanted to have sex with you?" Fernand giggled, "No, they touched straight between my legs." "In this way?" Vance asked leaning his hand on the swelling of the costume tights, and feeling him. The boy laughed, "Yes, right so. But if you go on, I will get a hard-on." "Feel mine how hard it already is..." Vance said leaning on his back and making his erection throb several times against his arse, while he was going on to fondle between the boy's legs. The boy let him do then asked, "You want to have sex with me, don't you?" "Didn't you come here in the wagon for that?" "No, I wanted just to have a chat." "And now, do you regret being here with me?" "No, I rather... I didn't expect for this, but... it could be the right occasion to get off my curiosity. Just, possibly... your friends out there, could come and see why we don't yet go out with them, and..." "No, no problem. They will surely guess why I am here with you, and they will not disturb us." "Why, do you usually do so with all the boys?" "I did so with all of them and also with some boys I liked as much as I like you. The one with whom you were talking before is Lionel, my boyfriend, my steady lover. When he went out I winked at him and he understood I like you." "That's why you told him to leave?" "Sure. Now it will be better you take off this costume, or we risk spoiling it. Let me help you to take it off." "And then it will be possibly better if I don't put on at once my clothes, am I right?" the boy asked with a sly smile. "I see you catch on quickly. I like you. You are a smart boy, besides being handsome." "You want to shove it in my arse, don't you?" "What do you think?" "I think I would also try shoving mine in your arse, so that I can finally know how it feels." Vance had ended undressing him and was caressing him all over his body in a sensual way. Fernand let him do, clearly enjoying those attentions. When Vance saw that the boy was starting to get aroused, knelt in front of him and started to lick his beautiful hard peg. Then making him spread his legs went down more to lick his firm balls then slowly opened his way towards the hidden hole, spreading his small buttocks with both his hands. The boy was letting him do but, as soon as he felt the tongue darting on his hole, emitted a loud sigh. "My cousins didn't tell me about this. Heck, how good it is! You know that I really like it?" "Yes, I know, that's why I do it to you." "But do you like licking me there? Yes... you have to like it or else you wouldn't do it so willingly... nobody forces you, right? You do it also with your friends?" "Of course. Would you like tem to come here now, to do it all together?" "I don't know... possibly yes. But are all of them game?" "Roe and Sandro like better to do it between them only. The others I bet would all be game." "Call hem, then... I want to try everything." "No, this time only you and I. Then, if you liked it, you have just to come again tomorrow night and we will do it in three or in four." "I will surely come tomorrow night, if you want me to. But don't you undress?" Vance stood up in front of the boy, "If you want to see me naked, and touch me, you have to undress me. It will be more amusing for both of us." "And then I have to do to you what you did me?" "Yes, rightly so." "Alright... How can untie here? Oh, so. Heck how hard you already are! That's done. Now the rest... You have a beautiful body and are also well endowed, in this part. I would like being like you, at your age. How old are you?" "Twenty-five." "Seven more than me. You're beautiful. Spread your legs, come on, so I can give you the same treatment..." Fernand said crouching between Vance's legs and starting to lick him. After a while that the boy was licking also between his buttocks, Vance turned and bent down, taking him in his arms and kissed him long and deep on his mouth. "Hey, let me breath... Anyway you kiss very well. Wait, let me take a breath. So we can kiss some more..." Vance made him lay down and turned head to toe, taking his peg all in his mouth and showing his own, straight and hard, aiming at his face. Fernand, following suit, at once took it in his mouth and they gave head to each other. At a certain point the boy tried to part from Vance, panting, "Careful, I'm about spurting!" "Alright, let me go on... spurt in my mouth." "In your mouth? Is it... good?" "Of course it's good. Go on..." They restarted to suck each other. As soon the boy, without a warning, started to enjoy into Vance's mouth, also the actor started to unload in Fernand's mouth. When they were over, the boy, his mouth full, moaned, "Mmmm-mmmh!" "Drink it as I did." The boy looked at him surprised, for a moment, but then noisily swallowed everything. Then let out a sigh, clicked his tongue, then bent down to lick Vance's tool, carefully cleaning it from all traces of seed. "Heck, it's tasty! I would never have thought it was so good. Also mine has a good taste?" "I liked it. Do you know that each man has a different taste?" "Also the cows milk, if you are a connoisseur, you can tell from what cow it comes. Would you be able drinking it to know from what of your friend's it is?" "I really think so. Lionel's one is the one I like better." "I would like then to taste it tomorrow. Do you think he would let me?" "It's possible. Do you want to dress back, now?" "I think I have to. It got late, unhappily. You know, I was thinking that my cousins don't really know things. Men have two holes, and women three!" "But the two that men have, are enough, I assure you." "Tomorrow night we will try the other one too, won't we?" "Sure. Do you know I really like you?" Vance said while he too was putting on his clothes. "I too like you." They went out, joined the others near the fire ad Vance introduced Fernand to his friends. He then announced, "Tomorrow after our show Fernand will stay with us for some time." "Yes, I'm already longing for tomorrow night. Have a good rest, all of you, my friends!" the boy said and ran away, "Another conquest!" RŽmy merrily said. "How's the boy?" "Really agreeable. And tomorrow night he would like to have also you and Lionel in our wagon, if you feel like. Just think that this night it has been his first time, but how nonchalantly he did it! Yes, it has been really enjoyable." "Eh, not everybody is shy and timorous as I am..." RŽmy said with humour. "How you were! Who can stop you any more, now? All but shy..." Lionel said, laughing. The following evening Fernand was again in the audience. When the tour for the offerings was over, he waited for the others to flow away then approached Lionel. "You have been wonderful tonight also! Well, Vance is waiting for me... Are you too coming, aren't you?" "You want me too?" "I yesterday approached you. Don't tell the others, I don't want to offend them, but you are the one I like best. Moreover I yesterday looked at you while you were changing and I saw you have a really beautiful body." "But, how? You said you wouldn't look at me..." "Are you bothered? I always felt attracted in a way to a beautiful male body... I told you so only to come in the wagon with you without problems." "You then already had planned to have sex?" "No, I really wasn't thinking of it yesterday night. It was Vance who proposed me, and making me discover I like it. So today, all the day long, I thought also of you. So, then will you to come?" "Yes, and also RŽmy will come, the one who did the queen's lady in waiting part." "Wow! A foursome!" Sandro and Roe went to change before the others then went near the wagon to start the fire. So Fernand and the three other actors went in. The actors took off their costumes and the make up and also the boy at once undressed, and started to touch, to caress them, to feel their bodies, so getting them gradually aroused. RŽmy was the first to be ready and at once devoted himself to their guest. When Vance joined them, the two boys were already lying on the straw mattress on their side, enlaced in a sixty-nine. Vance went at Fernand's back, to skilfully lick his nice arse. Fernand shuddered and moaned his pleasure. RŽmy, having guessed Vance's intention, going on to greedily suck Fernand, spread his buttocks with both hands to facilitate his friend's preparation. When Vance felt that the boy's little hole was well wet and relaxed, and palpitating, leaned against Fernand's back and, aiming with his member on the still inviolate hole, prepared himself to take it by storm, starting to gently push, caressing the two boy's bodies and kissing Fernand's neck. He slipped inside his glans and felt the boy stiffen and squeeze his hole. Vance ceased pushing and kept still until the boy relaxed again. He then pushed it in a little more. Fernand again squeezed his buttocks and Vance stopped - he could understand that the still virgin boy was feeling some pain and that he needed to get used to that massive and vigorous presence in his back channel. Also Lionel went near them a started to caress the three tightly intertwined bodies. Fernand's eyes at once ran on Lionel's member, took it in his hands to fondle and caress it, then he gently pulled it to him then, leaving RŽmy's member, took Lionel's in his mouth, fondling, licking, greedily sucking it. Vance sank some more inside the boy, while Lionel bent down to suck RŽmy's member. Finally Vance was fully immersed in the boy's small arse. He then started to fuck him, very gently but also with a will. Fernand was fully involved and was really enjoying those three bodies all devoted to him. They swapped positions, changed roles. When RŽmy offered him his little arse, without a word, the others guided Fernand to his first penetration and when the boy was firmly embedded inside RŽmy, and his mouth was full of Vance's member, Lionel penetrated Fernand, letting him wave back and forth so that when Fernand pushed inside RŽmy was slipping a little out of him, and when he slipped out of RŽmy was taking all Lionel's one. Fermand was radiant and never sated of those erotic evolutions. The three friends were not at all sparing him emotions and pleasure. Then they had RŽmy lay on his back and helped Fernand to go down on his straight meat column, to take it all inside him then to spring up and down at the right rhythm. Vance gave head to Fernand while the boy sucked Lionel. All four came several times, in different moments, and when one of them was coming, the other three devoted themselves to that one with kisses and caresses to heighten his pleasure. They finally lied down in a disorderly heap of limbs, panting and sweating, sated and satisfied, filled of a sweet languid feeling. "How do you feel, Fernand?" RŽmy asked, tenderly caressing him. "In heaven! I would have liked it to never end. All these mouths, these hands, all these dicks, these arses... what emotions!" Lionel caressed his arse and asked, "Is it aching?" "Yes... but I would restart everything at once. It's incredibly wonderful!" Vance caressed the boy's member now at rest and kissed it, "You are beautiful, Fernand, and to have been your first time, you have really been fantastic." "You are beautiful, fantastic. You are really leaving tomorrow morning?" "Yes..." "What a pity. I have now to go back home, before my great-uncle locks the door. I would like spending all the night with you... Even if we didn't anything, just to feel your naked bodies as I'm now... It's really great, but I have really to dress and to go." Fernand stood up, put on his breeches, then lowered on the straw mattress and kissed one after the other the three members, now soft. He then slipped on his cot, then bent again down to kiss their mouths in an intimate way. He ended dressing. Then, looking at them with clear admiration, said, "I have really to go now, unhappily. Goodbye my wonderful friends. I will never forget you. And if a day you will pass again here..." The morning after they leaved the village. They were expecting to see again Fernand for a last farewell, but the boy didn't show up. They reached Cluises, placed the wagon in a suitable place and went to tour the village to announce their shows. Only Vance and Lionel remained near the wagon. Lionel asked, "You really enjoyed Fernand last night, didn't you?" "Yes. I liked the simplicity with which he was accepting and enjoying things that were totally new to him. But you... you remain the only one special to me. Why don't you come inside our wagon? I really need to make love with you, with you alone." "Now?" "Yes, let's take profit of our friends' absence. I'm feeling the need to devote myself fully to you, to have you only for me. With the others... it's good, and yet I'm feeling more and more often the desire to be you and me alone. Especially when I see how happy Sandro and Roe are... I feel I envy them; I too want that same happiness. I think they have much more they two alone than I with so many nice males on my bed. Come..." "Yes, I'm coming. You know that I only care for you to be really happy, don't you?" "And I'm having stronger and stronger the feeling that you only are able to give me happiness, more than any other. I enjoy the others, I can't deny it, but with you it is always special... more and more special. You love me, Lionel!" "Yes, I love you. I love you only." "I too love you and, after all... I don't really need anything else." They went into the wagon and made love for a long time, with extreme gentleness and transport. Lionel was feeling happy as he never had been, and his happiness was fully conveyed to Vance. While they were still making love, RŽmy entered in the wagon. Vance, without losing his cool, said him with gentleness, "Forgive us RŽmy, my friend, but this time we would like to be left alone..." The boy smiled and at once went out. That evening they performed in their first show - almost all the village was attending. While they were touring to get the offerings, Lionel found himself in front of Fernand who did him a wide smile and deposed in the basket a whole cheese. "You here? What are you doing here?" "I came to talk with you. End your tour, I will wait for you near the fire... or rather I will light it. See you later." After they all changed, went around the fire that Fernand had lit and was attending at. They greeted him with pleasure. When all the five actors were there, Fernand said, "Do you know? My arse is still a little aching, after yesterday night. This is possibly the reason why I did nothing but think of you all, all the day long, while I was attending at the cows at the pasture. Thus this evening I told my great-uncle I wanted to go away to try my luck elsewhere. I didn't tell about you, of course. He at once said it was all right, gave me some food, some coins and his blessing. So... here I am. I would like joining you. If I'm able, to become an actor, if I am not, I can care for your things, serve you for anything to earn my bread. But take me with you, I pray you. These are all the coins I have; this bundle is full of good food... I know it is little thing, but it's all I have, nothing more - accept it. I will work hard, I will do anything you ask me, but I would like to join you." "And also to make love with us?" RŽmy asked, slyly. "Well, of course, that also, nor that I know how much I like it... At my village I could never find a lover and anyway anybody... at your level, so to say. Do you accept me?" RŽmy at once said, "I say yes. I like you and I also think you could become a good actor, as you are young and free and easy." Then Vance said, "This can be the right evening to tell you something that for a while is buzzing inside my head. You all know, also because you experienced it first hand, how much I've always enjoyed taking to my bed a new boy, a new man. I never let any occasion escape me. And you, Fernand, are the last of my conquest, and I like you very much. "But for some time I'm feeling inside me stronger and stronger something new. In a word, I am in love with Lionel. So I feel I would like to live with him as Roe and Sandro are doing, that is two of us alone. Therefore, my dear Fernand, even though I really like you a lot, I will never again welcome you in my bed. It has been your presence yesterday night that made me clearly understand that I liked you a lot, I really enjoyed having sex with you... and yet I desired to have there only my Lionel. Of course I am talking only for myself, Lionel is free to do as he pleases, it will just be fair, because he always let me do how I pleased..." "I... I would be happy being yours only..." Lionel murmured, moved. Then Vance said, "So, you see Fernand, if you want to come with us to have more nights like the last one, you will be disappointed. Oh, well, I know myself well enough to know that I can't swear I will be able to stop looking at other males... But I will try, because I think it is fair and beautiful to do so. Therefore, Fernand, wouldn't you reconsider your request? If you think it would be anyway good for you, I will be glad you to join us to become an actor. But not to have sex with me." Fernand looked at RŽmy, then said, "Well, yes, I hoped for more nights like yesterday night... I like Vance and also Lionel. So, now... would you accept me on your bed, RŽmy?" "Sure thing I will! I like you a lot and, especially now that Vance told us what he feels, what he decided, I like the thought that also you and I can be a steady couple. Because I am glad for Vance and Lionel, as I'm glad for Roe and Sandro. And I know anyway that I need a companion, anyway... and I would really be pleased if you were that companion, Fernand, if you can content yourself with me." "I don't think it's a problem of contenting myself. I too like you a lot, RŽmy! So then... do you accept me?" So Fernand became a member of the strolling players' company. At night they put on one more curtain so each couple could make love with a little bit of intimacy. But Vance had some new plans. Back to Chambery for the winter, they were again hosted in the small house in the back of the marquis' park, and they again performed their shows in is mansion. Vance proposed his friends to have two more small wagons built, each long the half of their one. The two smaller wagons would be used, in night time, one by Vance and Lionel, and the other by Sandro and Roe, while the two boys will go on sleeping in the bigger wagon. The evening for the shows, connecting the three wagons in a "C" shape, they could get a wider stage and more space for the scenery. To make the new wagons built they had to spend almost all their savings, but all the actors welcomed the plan with enthusiasm. They put a wide bed for Fernad and RŽmy in the big room-workshop at the lower floor. Now that Lionel had Vance all for him, was really radiant. Also Vance was happy having been able to do that big step. At times it happened he had a short encounter with one of the two boys, or with a few boys of their audience. But never hiding from Lionel and less and less often, until he stopped completely. A night, after he made love with Lionel, Vance said with tender gentleness, "Do you remember when we were prisoner in the Tower, when you made me realise what ward was formed putting together our initials?" "Yes, I surely do - LOVE." "Well, I don't want any other initials between them, at this point, or else this magical word doesn't exist any more. Don't allow me any more!" "My love, I surely can't compel you, you know it." "Yes, I know, it is only up to me. You have been so good with me waiting all these years... It's you who rescued our love with your gentleness, with your patience... But I now know I love you, I now you are everything for me, and I don't need anything or anyone else. I know that only LOVE exists, that is you and I!" "On our wagon, under the company's name, can we write in small letters also L.O.V.E. What do you think?" "Of course, my love. To all the others it will only be the acronym of Lionel O'Neil and Vance Elton, but to us it will be our love oath. Do you know that after I decided I wanted you only, I'm feeling much more happy?" "Yes, I know. I too am so happy." "I gave you a great suffering..." "No, each of us, whether he suffers or is happy, is so only owing to himself." "But you are my happiness, Lionel." "Because you love me and you accept my love." "But if you didn't love me?" "Your desire for my not obtained love would make you suffer. Or else, you would forget me and love somebody else able to love you, and you would be happy... Vance?" "Yes, my love?" "I again desire so much making love with you..." "Yes, my love, here I am..." ----------------------------- THE END ----------------------------- In my home page I've put some more of my stories. If someone wants to read them, the URL is http://andrejkoymasky.com If you want to send me feed-back, or desire to help revising my English translations, so that I can put on-line more of my stories in English please e-mail at andrej@andrejkoymasky.com ---------------------------