Fruit from the Tree

Brooklyn was through with wandering around in the rain. A few mushed granola bars would only arouse her appetite further. She looked up and gulped in more of the honey-sweet air, licking her lips. One large piece of ripe fruit dangled from a low-hanging branch just within her reach. It practically begged to be eaten. Whoever's orchard this was wouldn’t miss just one piece, especially if she explained her circumstances. She was alone, covered in mud, and hungry.

“That’s right. All alone,” Brooklyn reminded herself.

She stretched out, balancing herself against the trunk of the tree, and wrapped her fingers around the fruit that showed radiant red and violet and orange. She pulled and it came away from the branch with no effort. She cupped it in both hands and turned it over tenderly. It had the soft, silky skin of a peach but was perfectly round like an orange. And it was heavy and dense, the size of a softball. Brooklyn walked to the edge of the shade of the orchard and held the fruit out to let the rain water wash it. It’s colors now showed more brilliantly, all of its orange and red shades twisting and glistening.

She was clueless as to what kind of fruit this could be or what the tree was that produced it. She turned through her thoughts over and over again, through her studies and her nature hikes, but could not place the specimen. Was it a product of cross-breeding seeds? Some kind of GMO? Brooklyn brought the plump fruit up to her nose, breathed in deep its scent, and all her questions and concerns dissolved. It was delectable- a mixture of honey, vanilla, and freshly cut flowers. She exhaled and every muscle in her body relaxed from her neck, down her spine, and to her toes. All her life, Brooklyn had never associated food with being so sensuous. Her lips twitched. She took in another whiff of the fruit’s scrumptious scent and bit deep into its flesh.

Juice filled Brooklyn’s mouth and poured down her chin. Her eyes went wide with the sudden explosion of intense flavor. Never had she tasted anything like it. She couldn’t stop herself. She chewed and slurped until nothing was left but a smooth pit which she slid into her mouth and sucked on. She rolled the pit on her tongue, savoring every bit of sweet pulp. After the pit was picked clean, she spat it out fiercely and swathed her lips with her tongue. She looked down at hands and saw her fingers were coated with more of the sticky, sweet juice. She slid each finger into her mouth, making loud smacking sounds as they popped out. Brooklyn was drawing in air in gasps.

There was a line of pulpy juice running down her chin that soaked through her sports bra and slid to the center of her abs. Brooklyn ran her tongue across an index finger and traced the line, slipping her finger down her abs, around her naval, and further down, just for an adventurous second.

There was heat growing in her chest and cheeks. She couldn’t explain what was seizing her. She felt alive. She felt natural. She felt savage.

Brooklyn brought her finger to her lips and sucked. Her scent mingled with that of the fruit’s. Heat now pulsed throughout her body. She looked down to see that her nipple showed vividly through her sports bra. She brought up a hand to rub one and there was a pleasurable shock. She couldn’t stand it, she was boiling! Maybe a nice relaxing shower was in order. She could stand out there, rinse off all this juice and put an end to these thoughts that were plaguing her. It was bad enough that she was trespassing and stealing, all without a shirt on! She couldn’t quite place where her thoughts were leading her, but they were most certainly deviant and not for a young woman of academia.

“But…I mean…nobody’s here, right?”

No, no. She had to control herself. Maybe she was just going through some kind of shock from the thunder and lightning. Maybe some more of that nutritious and succulent fruit would clear her head and ease these bizarre impulses.

Impulses…She brought both hands up to her breasts and squeezed passionately. Impulse didn’t seem like a bad idea either.