Dr. Matilda Honey has dedicated her whole life to helping children, especially those with The Shining, children with special abilities as she was. For many years, she has actively contributed in Eleven Foundation, an organization dedicated to suppor...
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Shining among Darkness
By WingzemonX
Chapter 27 Night without nightmares
The night before his little adventure in Oregon, Cody Hobson was at Lisa Mathews' house. They had a light dinner cooked by her and drank only half a glass of wine because the next day they had to work. Soon after that, they went to the room and made love slowly and delicately, without any pressure or rush.
As a lover, Cody considered himself average. He hoped that his lack of initiative or assertive behavior was compensated for by his dedication and attention to detail. Most of the time, it was difficult for him to be sure about this since Lisa tended to be somewhat silent during the act. However, when he felt her slender legs tightly around his hip, and her fingers gripping his hair violently, then he could be sure he was doing a good job, and that gave him much more confidence and freedom. That night, Lisa just did that, a couple of minutes before they reached a quiet, pleasant climax together.
They had met a little less than a year ago, at a dinner in honor of a veteran professor of Biological Sciences who taught at the University of Washington, and with whom Cody had begun to build a friendship almost since he first came to Seattle. Lisa was a biochemist and worked in the research laboratory of a very important pharmaceutical company. She was also studying for her Ph.D., where she took a class with that professor, so she was therefore invited to the same dinner. The professor, whose last name was Carman, had introduced them to each other without any particular reason except that "I had the feeling that the two of you would get along very well ." Some time later, and looking back on how things had ended after that moment, Cody would wonder if something of shining had to do with that feeling. But, in the end, he concluded that it had been merely good luck.
Or at least, it was initially good luck without a doubt.
Lisa was modest in appearance, with a slim body, curly black hair, and flirty freckles on her face. Anyone would say that she was not precisely gorgeous and, in fact, she could easily pass for the classic girl who spent her college years nailed solely to her studies, with her thick-framed glasses, her teenage acne scars, or his somewhat withdrawn attitude. At least during a first approach. But for Cody, she almost immediately became the real example of how beautiful, attractive, and sensual a woman could be, inside and out.
In the beginning, everything was perfect. Light dinners, comedy and romance movies, talk about biology, biochemistry, or any other random subject that had little or nothing to do with their works... And sex; sex was definitely something special, despite those moments when the young high school teacher pressed himself to play a proper role.
Cody had never consciously considered the possibility of being in love. In fact, they had never used the words boyfriend and girlfriend, at least not between them. Still, he was sure there was something special between the two of them, and he knew it was the same for Lisa. But Cody also knew that it wouldn't last forever, and sooner or later, something would come up that would end up causing trouble. That something began to emerge a month ago. Since then, those small moments that previously were so comforting and pleasant for him ended up becoming almost like Russian roulette, in which this subject could or could not come to the surface. And Lisa still hadn't reacted explosively to it; it was usually more like a cold silence.
