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familiar, and annoying, ringing of the alarm clock. Stretching as he opened his eyes the feeling stole over him again, “shit, this waking up alone all the time is really beginning to suck ass.” A month after the break up with Samantha Thompson and he was still alone, not entirely his fault, Ariel and her father had left town the day after for parts unknown on another of the mans business trips. She called Samantha that morning to tell her friend that she would be out of town for a while, planning to hook up with her when the Collie girl returned. Samantha had told her of the breakup between herself and Mark Ariel had told Samantha she was sorry to hear it, but the joy in her voice at the news the girl had been unable to completely hide made Samantha smile. Samantha called Mark as soon as the two teen girls had ended their conversation, but Mark had missed her at the airport by five minutes. “Another fucking day of waiting, Goddess, Samantha was right, I have got to stop dragging my paws and let Ariel know how I feel about her. Time to haul my furry ass to Prairie Flats and get this day over with, maybe Samantha will hear from Ariel and find out when she's coming back to town,” he said sleepily as he pried himself from his bed.\n\n[center]==========[/center]\n\nAs Samantha Thompson was about to enter her homeroom she felt a tapping on her right shoulder. When she turned to see who was bothering her this early in the day she squealed, her friend Ariel De Marco standing there with a huge grin on her muzzle.\n\n“When did you get back?” Samantha asked excitedly, hugging her friend tightly.\n\n“Early this morning, barely had enough time to get a shower and dressed before I had to bolt out the door to get here on time,” Ariel answered. “We'll have to get together during lunch so you can fill me in on all the details of this breakup, but how are you holding up sweety?”\n\n“We will, I'm doing okay. Really Ariel, I'm fine,” she added seeing the doubtful look on her friends face. “I told you, we ended things on friendly terms, we both agreed that our time together was over and it was time to move on. I've been doing okay since, I miss him sort of, and the weekends at the cabin. But I'm fine, he's a different story though,” she added.\n\n“Oh? Is he okay?” Ariel asked trying not to sound too interested in the boy. She failed.\n\n“He's alright, he just seems to be pining for someone, but it isn't me. He acts like he's waiting for someone to come along so he can be with them, but he won't say who,” Samantha said, watching the Collie girls eyes light up at her words.\n\n“Oh, well whoever it is I hope they show up soon for his sake. I hear his last lover was something else, that's going to be a hard act to follow for them, I hope they're up to it,” she said, grinning slightly.\n\n“Me too, I hear the last person he was with was an amazing lover,” Samantha said rather deadpan.\n\n“I've heard that too, but the source wasn't so reliable so it may just be bullshit,” Ariel replied. “Guess we better get to class,” Samantha said as the bell began to ring. “See you at lunchtime?”\n\n“Sure thing, catch up with you later girl,” Ariel said as she walked down the hallway towards her first period class.\n\n[center]==========[/center]\n\nMark was out the door the moment his second period class ended, nearly beating the bell as it rang. Standing in the center of the hallway he saw her as she came out of Mrs. Sholtzhauer's French class.\nHis phone vibrating in his pocket had startled him, few people had his number. The text had been from Samantha, the message was brief, 'Mark, she's back got in this morning, she's here'. It was like those words ignited his soul, his heart beating so fast he thought it might burst. As she walked down the stairs slowly falling from his sight he quickly went over their class schedules in his head. Her next class was Mr. Bronson's English Literature class, after that she had Mrs. Jones for Advanced Bio-Chem. Which would bring her back up that same stairwell. His next class was at the end of the hall, the very class she would be heading to, after that he had to go down stairs. He had probably been passing her on those stairs for weeks and hadn't even realized it before. That would be his best chance, now he just had to figure out how he was going to break the veritable glacier between them, all those years spent as ships passing in the night.\n\nThankfully Mrs. Jones class was seldom boring, it helped the agonizing minutes to pass quickly. As the stunning black Panther teacher was rapping up her lecture on nanotechnology and the advancements in the last five years his mind kicked into overdrive, searching for the way to do what was coming next. He nearly leapt from his seat when the idea hit him, it was perfect. She would know with out a doubt that he wanted her, wanted to be with her, that her long wait was over and had not been in vain. It was romantic, even if it may seem a bit goofy, which fit his personality just fine. He had a plan, he just had to wait for the bell to release him from the class and time it right on the stairway.\n\nAs soon as the bell rang he shot out of his seat and through the doorway, turning sharply he was on the stairs before they started filling up with people going to their next classes. He watched intently for her, his heart skipping a beat when she came into view. If something would just distract her at the right moment. He raised an eyebrow when she stopped momentarily, but luck was on his side. Debbie Conners joined her as she started up the stairs, she would be distracted as he wished for. He nearly ran down to the landing, waiting as the two teen girls walked up the stairs chatting happily. Moments passed until he saw his chance and acted, surging forward paws going to her waist, fingers gripping her tightly yet tenderly as he lifted her off her paws. He sat her upon the flat top of the handrail post, his paws going to her cheeks, fingertips wrapping lightly behind her head. He pulled her forward, bringing her muzzle to meet his, warm soft lips touching as he kissed her deeply.\n\nAriel squealed as her paws left the floor, stunned that she had been lifted so quickly and easily by who ever it was that had grabbed her.. Glancing down her eyes met his, recognition registering on her face as a broad happy grin, her mind telling her the boy she had loved from afar for so long was lifting her up, setting her above the crowd. Her heart skipped a beat when she felt his paws on her cheeks gently pulling her towards him, beating wildly as their lips met in a tender, passionate kiss. His lips parted slightly and she followed suit, tongues touching, caressing the others as they deepened the kiss, hearts and spirits soaring as the moments slipped by.\n\nThe stairway went silent when he picked her up, everyone around them stopping suddenly to gawk at the odd display before them. When he sat her upon her pedestal, on top of the handrails column, there where whispered questions. 'What is he doing?, Is he going to do it?, Is he going to kiss her?, Really?, Right here on the stairs?'. None of them were heard by either of the canines as they gazed into each others eyes. As their muzzles drew close voices could be heard making, oooo and awwww sounds. When their lips met several comments were made, 'aww, that's so sweet, oh my God he really did it, get a room, lucky bitch, God I wish I was her, wish I was in his shoes'. Neither Mark nor Ariel heard a one of them. All they could hear was the pounding of their own hearts, oblivious to everything except the warmth of each others lips, his paws on her cheeks, his thumbs slowly and gently stroking the short soft fur. When he broke the kiss, leaning back to gaze deeply into her beautiful emerald green eyes, the area around them went silent, as if the school were suddenly holding it's breath in anticipation.\n\nBreaking the kiss Mark leaned back, gazing into her emerald green eyes lovingly, a gentle smile on his lips as he said, “Ariel, the wait is over if you wish it to be, I've known for a long time and I've been a fool, forgive me if you can. You have only to ask and I will be yours for as long as you wish.” As he dropped his paws and began to turn he added, “love you babe, let me know,” before walking slowly down the stairs speaking to no one in particular, but his words intended for the Collie girl on a pedestal. “Hark what light through yon window breaks, it is the east and Ariel is the sun. Arise fair sun and slay the envious moon that weeps for lost loves,” he said before disappearing through the doorway at the bottom of the stairs.\n\nAriel De Marco sat stunned atop the column of the handrail, disbelief on her face as she thought for several moments that she must have fallen asleep and been dreaming what had just happened. As the world reappeared around her, Debbie Conners stepped up to her offering her a paw saying, “if you've come back to earth I think you need to get down off there and we need to get to class before we're late.”\n\n“Did...did that really just happen Debbie? Was I dreaming it or not?” Ariel asked blinking as if she had just awakened from a dream. “Did he really say what I think he just said?”\n\nHelping her friend down from the perch Mark had placed her on Debbie said, “yes, that really just happened. He really did just put you on a pedestal and kiss you in front of about a hundred people. And yes he really did just tell you that if you want the waiting is over. He's finally ready to do what he should have done a long time ago Ariel. All you have to do is ask and he's yours, he just wants you to be sure that is exactly what you want.”\n\n“I'm as sure of it being what I want as I can be. I know how we used to pick on each other growing up in Winter Creek, him tying my hair in knots, or sticking gum in it. Or the times he would sneak into my class room and glue me to my chair. Goddess I thought that boy hated me. But dad would always say 'boys only pick on the girls they really like, you'll end up marrying that boy some day'. I always told him he was nuts, the boy just hated me for no reason. But I feel the same about him as I did the first time I laid eyes on him,” she admitted as the girls walked into Mrs. Jones class room to be met by a rousing round of oooo's and cat calls.\n\nSnapping her head around Janice Jones said, “what are you people, ten years old? Since this started when you walked in girls, which one of you is the cause of this outburst?”\n\n“I'm afraid that would be Mrs. Jones,” Ariel said, “coming up the stairs a boy grabbed me and kissed me and everyone saw it.”\n\n“Some boy? By chance would you mean Mark Jameson?” the panther woman asked, a smirk on her muzzle.\n\n“Yes ma'am, but how did you know it was him?” the girl asked, a confused look on her face.\n\n“Mr. Jameson is in my class the period before you, he was very distracted although he tried very hard to hide it. That fact, along with the fact that it happened between classes and that his work sheets from today have your name scribbled all over them was a clue as well,” she said giggling.\n\n“Oh, sorry for the interruption Mrs. Jones,” Ariel said taking her seat.\n\nThe rest of the day was almost a blur to Ariel as she mulled over his words, “ You have only to ask and I will be yours for as long as you wish,” there had been sincerity in his voice when he spoke those words to her. She considered whether or not she should make him wait. No she decided, there had already been more than enough waiting, hoping, wishing, he was ready and she was tired of waiting. It was time to act and act decisively. But when? How? She wanted to do it right away, today if possible, but how? That's when she thought about meeting him at his vehicle, she knew he drove a tan Jeep, but where he parked she had no idea. Then it hit her, Samantha, his last girlfriend and her friend would know, they had art appreciation class together. Last period of the day on Mondays with that odd teacher Rupin Val Tazidor. The man was more than a few sandwiches short of a picnic in many students opinion, but he had an uncanny eye for art, seeing the beauty of the anthro form unlike any of the artists they studied. She would see Samantha then and ask her where Mark parked so she could tell him she was ready, that she wanted him to be hers for as long as they both wished. When the class was nearly over Rupin lapsed into one of his now famous rants over how artists these days paid so little attention to certain facets of their own work, and Ariel had her chance to talk quietly to Samantha.\n\n“Samantha, do you think Mark was serious about what he said? About all I have to do is ask and he will be mine?” the girl asked hopefully.\n\n“Yes, he was completely serious Ariel. Why, is there something you want to know?” the Saluki asked her friend.\n\n“Could... could you tell me where he parks his Jeep? If the waiting is over then I don't want to waste another minute. I want to let him know that I'm ready too, today right after class,” the Chelsea Collie replied.\n\n“I can do better than that. He thinks he takes a short cut to his parking spot, but he doesn't. I always beat him to it when we were together. I'll take you to it and cover for you while you get your nerve up girlfriend.”\n\n“What makes you think I need to get my nerve up?” the Collie girl asked, sounding almost offended by her friends words.\n\n“Because you've waited for so long, when you get near him you nearly freeze up girl. Hell today when he laid a lip lock on you, you couldn't say a word to save your ass. There was plenty of time to say it when he turned to walk down the stairs. But you sat there dumb struck.” Samantha fought the urge to laugh at Ariel's expression.\n\n“Well I was shocked, I didn't even know if he knew I was back in town yet. Then he grabs me and picks me up like I weigh nothing, puts me on that column and kisses me like that in front of everyone? How the hell did you expect me to react huh?”, Ariel asked.\n\n“Oh pretty much like you did, I told you he could be a romantic fool when he wants to be. In the time we were together he showed me more love, affection and romance then I had seen even between my parents. You'll see what I mean, he gives a whole different meaning to the word lover,” Samantha said, a wistful look in her eyes.\n\n\n“That dear students is why I say that the so called artists of the modern age are fools and idiots. They spend so much time bogging themselves down in details and minutia they lose sight of what it is they set out to create,” Rupin said in closing. “I see we still have a few minutes left, but I grow weary of looking at your faces. Get out and have a good day, pay attention to the beauty that is all around you, take it not for granted before it is stripped from your sight. Now, seriously, get out,” he said as he grabbed his satchel and headed for the door himself.\n\n[center]==========[/center]\n\nSamantha led Ariel to the student parking lot where mark parked his jeep quickly, the Saluki girl was quick and agile on her paws, she knew the route well and how to stay out of sight if he was headed to his vehicle. As she had predicted they arrived ahead of Mark, Samantha turned to Ariel and asked, “okay so how do you want to do this?”\n\n“I don't know, I've never done this kind of shit before. Samantha are you sure he feels the same about me as I do him? I...I just couldn't stand it if he doesn't,” Ariel said, her voice betraying just how nervous she was.\n\n“That's a question you'll have to ask him girlfriend, but I do know that he has feelings for you, that I don't doubt one little bit. But he'll be here in about two minutes so you need to make up your mind. Why don't we do a simple wing man run on him, you hide behind that big bush behind you and I'll wait for him in front of his Jeep. Once I get him chatting you come out and tell him what you have to say,” Samantha suggested.\n\n“Oh, yea we can do that,” Ariel said ducking behind the bush.\n\nAs Samantha leaned back against the front bumper of Marks Jeep she said, “you know, if it wasn't you, this would be kind of weird, helping another girl hook up with my ex-boyfriend ya know?”\n\nBefore the Collie could answer they heard Marks voice calling,”hey Samantha, what's up? What brings you around here?”\n\n“Just thought I'd pester you for old times sake, and check up on you. Make sure your doing okay and all,” the Saluki said.\n\n“Well good to see you on my hood again, though naked would be better”, he said smirking at her. “But I have one question, where is she?”\n\n“Where's who?” Samantha asked trying to act innocent.\n\n“Samantha, I know a wing man routine when I see one, if Ariel has something to say or to ask she needs to just come out and do it,” he said looking past the Saluki girl at the big bush behind her.\n\nAriel came out from behind the bush looking at him sheepishly, “I do have something to ask Mark, did you mean what you said on the stairs today? Is the wait really over? Do I have only to ask for you to be mine at long last?” she asked, her eyes moist with tears.\n\nMark walked over to stand before her, looking deeply into her emerald eyes as he took her paws in his, “Ariel De Marco, I have known how I feel about you, how deeply I feel for you for years, but I have been a fool. I have bounded from one relationship to another instead of what I thought I should have done. Only because of Samantha do I finally realize that those other relationships were needed, to teach me all of the things about myself that I needed to know. To make me understand myself well enough that I could understand how and where I fit into a relationship with the one girl I was meant to be with, the one I would, and will, someday ask to be my mate for the rest of our lives together. To make me what you needed me to be when the time finally came for us to be together. Without them I would have been incomplete and totally undeserving of your love. Even the relationship with Sharleen, and the lose of her and our sons was needed to teach me lessons I would not have learned otherwise. The wait for me to be ready to deserve you is over Ariel, the wait for me to be the man you want, need and deserve is over. If you still want me I'm ready, all you have to do is ask and I am yours and only yours for as long as you want me.” Mark brought her paws to his lips, tenderly kissing the backs of them before turning them over holding her palms to his cheeks.\n\nFor the second time Ariel found herself stunned beyond words, unable to say a word for several long minutes as the Bernese boy, the young man she had waited so patiently for all those years now waited patiently for her response. When she was able to speak her voice was soft and low, barely above a whisper, “Mark, I've waited for you for so very long, watching you from afar, scared to approach you. You always seemed so self assured, so strong, so sure of what you wanted and where your life was going. I always felt like I was unworthy of you, that you were far to good of a man for me and it was just wishful thinking that we could be together. Mark, will you be my boyfriend?”\n\n“Ariel, if your sure that's what you want then yes I'll be your boyfriend for as long as you'll have me. But there is one thing you should know up front,” he said seriously. “I know, without a single doubt that I love you Ariel. With all my heart and soul I love you,” he said softly, wrapping an arm around her waist as he drew her body against his. His other paw behind her head as he pressed his lips to hers in a deep, passionate kiss.\n\n“Sheesh, get a room you two,” Samantha quipped as she watched the display of affection between the two canines, giggling softly.\n\nBreaking the kiss, gazing lovingly into Ariel's emerald green eyes Mark replied, “Why, when I have a perfectly good cabin in the mountains to go to instead? Besides, that's up to the lady, I'm in no hurry to jump her, though getting her naked might be a different story,” he added grinning at the pretty collie girl in his arms.\n\nAriel blushed, tinging the soft white fur of her ears and neck a bright shade of pink. “Samantha, is he always such an out spoken horn dog?”, she asked over his shoulder.\n\n“Pretty much, consider yourself warned Ariel, Mark is a very romantic guy when he wants to be. But most of the time he's just a good looking horn dog,” the Saluki girl said shaking her head slowly..\n\n“I don't seem to remember you complaining when you were in my arms, or in my bed, Samantha. Especially not when you were in my bed, if I remember correctly,” he said winking at Ariel as he made his jest at the Saluki girl behind him.\n\n“So what's this big hunk of canine like in bed Samantha? Is he any good or am I wasting my time?” Ariel asked with a smirk on her muzzle as she stared into Mark's eyes.\n\n“He's not too bad, at least he kind of knows what he's doing once you get him naked. Just be careful if you suck him off, he doesn't try to face hump you, but you could choke to death on that cock of his,” Samantha said, blushing brightly at the admission.\n\n“Oh then the rumors about him being hung are true then?” the collie girl asked sheepishly.\n\n“Ever heard of the party game taste the rain-blow?” the Saluki asked, her blush deepening.\n\n“Where each girl at the party wears a different shade of lipstick and the guys try to collect the most colors by getting the most girls to take them in their mouth and leave a lipstick ring around their cock? Yea, I think I know the game,” Ariel admitted blushing deeply. The Chelsea Collie was a virgin, but she had a reputation for giving great head.\n\n“For shits and giggles we attended a friends party, Mark won the rain-blow contest that night. Out of the thirty possible colors he had twenty eight on his cock from tip to root,” Samantha said grinning at her friend.\n\n“Wait a second, they figure the rings are usually what, half an inch wide on average? So that means he has... a fourteen inch cock?” Ariel asked her eyes going wide as saucers.\n\n“Yes, every inch of it. It's tough for a girl like me to suck him but I did what I could. But when he gets between your legs and stuffs you full of that monster, my God I miss that feeling,” Samantha said huskily.\n\n“Holy shit, he'll split me in two with that thing,”the collie said, a nervous look in her eyes.\n\n“He'll stretch you, probably more than you have ever been before, but you'll get used to it pretty quick, and then he's the ride of a life time.” Samantha looked at Mark and saw him shaking his head, an odd look on his face. “What? You think she's not gonna love having you insider her?”\n\n“Samantha, I know you've probably heard all sorts of rumors about me,” Ariel said her voice soft and quiet, “but I'm still a virgin. At least as far as my cunny is concerned. Yes I've been with a few guys, and even a few girls. But it's always been paw jobs, oral or anal only with me. I've never even allowed anyone to put their fingers or tongue in my pussy. That's always been off limits for everyone except the person I'm meant to spend the rest of my life with. I know it sounds old fashion, maybe even a little hypocritical coming from me, but my cherry is the one thing I've kept for the one that takes me as their life mate. Growing up, and waiting for this big fool, I grew curious about sex like every girl does eventually. The first boy I allowed to touch me in that kind of way was gentle and caring, until I told him that there was one ting that I would not allow. When I told him that I would not allow anyone other then the one chosen for me to enter me as a man does his wife he became enraged. He... did something to me in retaliation.” Ariel was near tears as she made the revelation to Mark.\n\n“What did he do to you Ariel, and who was he. I'll rip his throat out,” the boy said, anger showing in his eyes.\n\n“No Mark, you won't because I'm not going to tell you. Not yet anyway, maybe one day but not now. Now all I want is to be with you as your girlfriend, and maybe as your lover as long as you follow my rules. I fell for you years ago, and I think your the one meant to be my life mate. That's why I waited so long for you, it's something I have to know for sure. But you need to know right up front that you'll have to be patient with me about that one thing. I've dealt with the things that have happened in my past and they don't matter now. From this day forward is all that matters to me, to us, we can't build a future by dwelling on our pasts, if that is what is meant to be,” the words she spoke touched his heart.\n\nMark held her tightly against his chest as she lay her head on his shoulder, nuzzling him under the chin with her muzzle softly.\n\nAfter several minutes of the tender display between the two teen canines Samantha stirred, stretching as she tried to figure an easy way to extract herself from their presence.\n\n“Hey, who all is hungry, how about the three of us go grab something to eat and hang out for a little while. I'm feeling kind of lucky seeing as how I'm with the two sexiest girls at Prairie Flats Prep, Mark said, grinning broadly.\n\n“You two go ahead,” Samantha began to say.\n\n“Please join us Samantha, I know it's a little awkward and all but I'd like for you to stay if you will. I'm still really nervous about being with Mark and I could use a little moral support from a good friend,” Ariel said almost pleadingly.\n\n“Alright, but I feel like a third wheel,” Samantha protested halfheartedly.\n\n“You would be if this was a date, but it's just friends hanging out and getting something to eat, my treat today ladies so where to?”, Mark asked as he released Ariel from his embrace and got into his Jeep.\n\n“Hmm, kind of in the mood for Mexican myself”, Ariel offered,.\n\n“That sounds good to me, how about some place fun?” Samantha added.\n\n“Casa Bonita it is then,” Mark said firing up the Jeep and heading off for an afternoon with two pretty ladies.\n\n[center]==========[/center]\n\n“Okay, well I told them we would be here a while and we would go back up front and order when we are ready. I get the distinct feeling that you two want to talk about me behind my back, so I'll just go to the arcade and kill about an hour. You two ladies enjoy yourselves and I'll be back in a while,” Mark said as he left the two girls alone in the nearly private room he had led them to inside the restaurant. The establishment was well known, and very well liked in the Denver area for it's many small rooms and varied decor. Mark had chosen a small room that very closely resembled a cave where the three of them would have their privacy.\n\nOnce the Bernese boy was out of sight Ariel started the conversation. “Seriously Samantha, I really want to know how he is in bed. Is he rough or gentle? Does he take the lead or is he more submissive?,” she asked her friend and Marks most recent lover.\n\n“He's what ever you want him to be Ariel, and I mean that honestly. But I'm curious, if he sticks to your rules, other than not being a total asshat, what does it really matter?” the Saluki girl asked her friend.\n\n“Well, if he's as big in the pants as you say then I'm a little worried that he might be like most guys with a big cock and have the macho man attitude that most of them have,” she said, a blush coming to her cheeks.\n\n“That is most definitely not Mark Jameson. To be honest for a guy that's hung like he is, he's the most gentle I could possibly imagine. As you know I was a virgin when he and I got together, and he was my first lover. I gave him my virginity after he worked through some things with Jamal White's help,” she said candidly.\n\n“Your help as well from what I've heard,” Ariel said, grinning slightly at the Saluki girl.\n\n“To a point I guess, he was a total mess after he opened up to the psychologist about his relationship with Sharleen McDermott. How he survived that is beyond me. I don't know if I could ever take a chance on love again after something like that. But after he opened up about it he fell apart like a house of cards. I drove him back to his cabin and was going to leave when he asked me to stay with him so he wouldn't be alone when he woke up. On the way Dr. White called and told me that he had contacted the school and informed them, without reveling anything Mark had talked about, that the boy would be absent for a few days to deal with the emotional aftermath of a breakthrough. When he found out I was planning to stay with Mark he got me excused also. That first night was rough on him, he woke up in a panic, screaming and shaking, more than once. I let him sleep in the next morning, but when he woke up his only worry was that he was late for school. It took an hour and a few calls to Dr. White to convince him it was okay to stay home but we finally got him settled down. We had breakfast together, he was in a lot better mood that morning and that's when he took me to a little hide away spot of his on the property. One of his favorite camping spots he called it. It's a really beautiful place, a little hidden valley kind of thing. Anyway, he set up a campsite and we ended up staying there for a few days. That's when I told him I wanted him to be my first lover and take my virginity. The first night he tried, but he still couldn't get past his issue with the loss of Sharleen. The next morning I found out why. I had asked him what the girl would have wanted him to do, stay miserable or move on. That morning he kind of flipped out, he was mad as hell at himself when he woke up, which led to him doing some kind of wiccan ritual thing I guess it was.” Samantha paused for a few moments, as that morning played out in her mind again.\n\nAriel interrupted and said, “I over heard some one talking about what you had told them about the things he did that morning. What he did was an atonement ritual, basically he was asking the spirits of Sharleen and his sons for forgiveness for not keeping the promises he made to them the night they passed away. His guilt over breaking those promises is what kept him from moving forward, he kept beating himself up over it instead of dealing with it. Until you came along and he had no choice but to face it and deal with it. That's why he couldn't have sex with you before then Samantha, it wasn't because of you. It was because in his mind things between Sharleen and himself hadn't been brought to a close because of his broken promise. He had to ask for their forgiveness first, which is what he did that morning,” the Collie girl explained.\n\n“After that he was different, in a good kind of way. He asked if I was sure that I wanted him to be my first, we had breakfast and then he put me in a chair and blindfolded me. I later found out he had called Debbie Conners and had her pick up some things for him and bring them to him. He changed the entire campsite around and set things up so that when we got into the bed it was like we were in front of a big fireplace. He had done that tent up like a fancy hotel room, I know it sounds silly, but it was the most romantic setting I could have imagined. We got into that bed and he made love to me for the first time in my life. He told me up front that my hymen was more complete than most girls and it was going to hurt quite a bit when he popped me. But he did things that made it less painful. It still hurt like a bitch when he popped my cherry and stretched me open with that big dick of his. But I got through it better because he was so tender and gentle with me. It didn't take long for the pain of losing my virginity to ease up and we made love to each other. He was gentle with me at first, until I told him to be a little rougher. He had me so turned on I thought I would go crazy if he didn't make me cum soon. He was amazing, soft and kind and gentle with me, treated me like the most special girl in the world as he made love to me. I will never forget that night, it was so wonderful being with him, giving myself to him so completely,” Samantha said dreamily, recounting the experiences of her first time making love.\n\n“Wow, just listening to you has me almost ready to go find him and jump him right now.,” Ariel said as she gazed out into space listening to her friend speak.\n\n“I'm not saying you should do anything Ariel, you have after all waited to give yourself to the one you'll spend your life with. It's up to you if you stick to that or not. Or if you truly think Mark is that one then if you wait until he asks and your married or not is your decision, but what ever you do, it has to be because that is the way you want it to be. Don't do anything different because you think it's what he wants you to do, that he would take as an insult. Mark likes his women to be strong and self assured, you've always been that way, don't change because of him,” Samantha said looking the Collie girl in the eyes.\n\n“She's right Ariel, never change for me, your perfect just the way you are,” Mark said as he entered the room. “So are you ladies ready to eat now or what?” he asked as he looked from one of the girls to the other.\n\n“Yea I think we are,” Ariel said as she rose from her seat, walking towards the front of the restaurant to place her order as the other canines hung back to talk for a minute.\n\n“After that you need to drop me off at home Mark, it's been nice talking with Ariel and all, but I have things I need to get done. And you two need to sit down and have a very long talk about a lot of things.\nShe's waited for you for eight years, don't make her wait any longer,” the Saluki said looking him in the eyes.\n\n“I know and I won't Samantha, I only hope I haven't made her wait too long already,” the boy said, casting his eyes to the floor.\n\n“You haven't, but she needs to know that you feel as strongly about her as she does you Mark. She's waited a long time to hear you say three words to her, the words she wants to hear more than anything in the world from you. You've always been honest with everyone. Just be sure that you mean them in the way she wants to hear them Mark,” Samantha said as she turned to follow the collie.\n\n“Goddess, help me to know that what my heart tells me is the right thing to do,” he prayed quietly as he watched the two girls walk away from where he stood. “Give me the strength to show this wonderful woman that I love her more than anything.”" }