Forget me not a lesbian.., p.10

Forget Me Not: A Lesbian Romance, page 10

 

Forget Me Not: A Lesbian Romance
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“Billy thought that- that is- he thought that I- that I should

  do something about what you told me, but I wasn’t sure what

  that meant. I’m here, after I basically bribed Jim Johnson into

  telling me how to get here, and I still don’t even know why

  I’m here.”

  Quinn had this habit of smiling when she was nervous.

  She’d always done it and she was doing it now. It was an odd

  smile, like her lips were pulling up against her will or without

  her even knowing it, a knee jerk reaction to her anxiety, but

  Dallas thought that Quinn was beautiful. That her smile was

  beautiful. She felt a throbbing ache start between her legs,

  even though she knew Quinn was off limits. It was against

  some law somewhere that they could ever be friends again.

  Anything more than that was unthinkable. But Quinn was still

  there. And they were still alone in a hotel room. It made Dallas

  wish that everything was different.

  That she had never left Topeka. That they were on some

  secret rendezvous that wasn’t so secret and wasn’t really a

  rendezvous, but was just them taking an afternoon for them.

  An afternoon off work. Meeting up in a hotel room to spice

  things up. Loving each other on both of those beds because

  messing up one just wasn’t nearly as fun. Maybe they’d make

  use of the shower too. It was nice and glassed in and definitely

  large enough.

  Dallas snapped out of that in a hurry. Her nipples were

  now so hard that they felt like kabob sticks. The kind with the

  incredibly pointy ends.

  “Quinn, I-”

  “Are you leaving right away?” Quinn spoke at the same

  time as Dallas did and they both paused. Quinn studied the

  suitcase on the bed across from her.

  Dallas wished that she could say she wasn’t. “I- yeah.

  This afternoon. In a couple of hours.”

  “Oh.” Quinn sounded strangely disappointed. She

  wouldn’t look at Dallas.

  “I- I have work that I have to get back to.”

  “Me too. I keep taking days off. I feel bad because they

  told me to take as much time as I needed, but I feel like I’m

  taking too much. They’re too understanding. I feel like I’m

  taking advantage of the situation, I guess.”

  “You could never do that. If they know you, then they

  probably know that you would never-”

  “That’s the thing.” Quinn finally looked at Dallas. “I

  am. I am taking advantage of it. I hate my job. I really do. You

  knew that I was always kind of aimless. That I- um- I didn’t

  know what I wanted to do. I did. Kind of. I wanted to be a vet

  for the longest time, but I was so bad at science and I also

  really thought about it and I knew I could never do that. I

  could never see animals in pain, or- or have them die on me. I

  was only ever really good at English, so that’s what I made my

  major. I have a degree, but it’s pretty useless. I wanted to get

  into communications, but right now I’m just doing basic work

  for this soulless insurance company. It’s not a good place to

  work. People don’t care. It’s totally toxic. I want to get out, but

  I haven’t found anything else.”

  Dallas gaped at Quinn. “You work in insurance?”

  “Yeah? Why? Are you going to tell me that I have so

  much more untapped potential? Believe me, my parents give

  me that speech all the time. In a loving manner, I might add,

  but still.”

  “I- I work in insurance too.”

  “No you don’t!”

  “Yeah. I do.”

  “Are you for real?”

  “I am. But I like my job. The company I work for is

  great. It’s not toxic. It’s- it’s good.”

  “That’s so weird. Neither of us would have ever have

  seen our teenage selves doing that. Please tell me you don’t

  have an English degree too. That would be entirely too

  creepy.”

  “No. I work in human resources. That was my major. I

  have a business degree.”

  “Crazy,” Quinn muttered. She jumped off the bed like

  it had grown a set of feet and booted her. “I wanted to say that

  I told Danica and Billy and we- sort of understand. I’ll talk to

  my parents. I know that they’ll sort of, or mostly, understand

  too. That’s really all I came to say. I should go, though. Get

  back to the shitty job that I hate.”

  Quinn was leaving. She was the one running now.

  Dallas had a flight to catch in a few hours. But she still had

  those few hours. Her eyes danced towards the book she hadn’t

  read a single word of. She’d so much rather spend the time

  with Quinn, even if it was awkward and hard, than spend it

  alone.

  “No. I- there’s a restaurant at the hotel here. We could

  get lunch. Or a coffee or something. Or I could pull you into

  some dark alley that smells like old gym shorts and mouldy

  socks and we could talk there. Until I have to catch my flight. I

  still have time.”

  Quinn just stared at Dallas. She looked frozen there,

  like a beautiful statue. A statue of a near angel. Dallas’ eyes

  got misty just looking at Quinn. Looking at the perfect,

  wonderful woman that she’d let go. That she’d missed out on.

  Her one time best friend. They’d done everything together.

  She’d thought, a very long time ago, that they always would.

  She hadn’t seen there being an end. A huge gap in time.

  Regrets. Pain. Distance. Emptiness.

  Everything in Dallas burned to touch Quinn. She was

  so close, and she ached at the reality that she would never be

  able to do that again. That all she could do was look and wish

  and regret. Still. Her body warmed painfully. She could

  imagine herself caressing Quinn’s hand. Touching her arm.

  Her shoulder. Her face. Kissing her softly. Hungrily.

  Removing her clothing, item by item, savouring every single

  brush of their skin. Making the moments that they stole last for

  the rest of their lives.

  The thought was so vivid that Dallas almost blanked on

  the fact that Quinn wasn’t hers. Slowly, reality returned. All

  those years they’d lost came tumbling back down on her. No

  matter how strong her desire for Quinn was, Dallas

  remembered all the reasons why she couldn’t let it go

  unchecked.

  “I should go,” Quinn whispered.

  She walked over to the door with the smallest steps

  Dallas had ever seen her take. She got to the door, but then she

  turned sharply and Dallas’ heart started up into a full on, wild

  thrashing at Quinn’s expression. She wasn’t looking at Dallas

  like she wanted to leave. She was looking at Dallas like she

  wanted to stay.

  It had been a long time, but Dallas remembered what

  hunger looked like on Quinn. Desire. Want. Need. She felt the

  ache start up in her own breast, spreading violently and rapidly

  through her body like someone had injected her with some

  colored dye. If they scanned her, she knew that her whole

  body would light up with it.

  “I probably shouldn’t be here,” Quinn said, but it was

  more like a question this time.

  Dallas didn’t say anything. She let Quinn make the

  decision for herself. She couldn’t believe that Quinn was still

  here. That she was here at all. Now she was thinking about

  kissing her again. Undressing her slowly. Taking her time.

  Savouring.

  Quinn’s eyes darkened, the pupils growing larger and

  fuller. She studied Dallas. Neither of them were even

  breathing. What good was something as trivial as oxygen

  when there was something else, something heavier and far

  more fundamental in the air between them?

  “Um… Maybe- I- I should- I should really probably get

  going…”

  But Quinn didn’t. Instead, she walked quickly across the

  hotel room, clasped Dallas’ face and dragged it down to hers.

  When their lips met, it wasn’t just perfection. Quinn kissed her

  with the intensity of every single year that they’d missed.

  Chapter 11

  Quinn

  It wasn’t Quinn’s plan to kiss Dallas. When she said she

  had to go, she’d really thought about leaving. She knew she

  should exit left, or right, or center, or any and all of those

  directions, but it didn’t happen. Apparently she was going for

  the main act complete with standing ovation instead, because

  she was still kissing Dallas, steering her towards the bed.

  Backing her up. Further. Faster.

  Quinn was shocked that she could kiss like this. Like her

  life depended on it. She couldn’t remember ever kissing

  anyone but Dallas this way. Quinn’s hands flew over Dallas’

  arms. Her skin was warm, and between kissing and touching,

  and being touched, Quinn felt like she was going to combust.

  They started tugging at clothing. It was too much. That

  barrier. It was in the way. Quinn wanted it gone. She needed

  Dallas. She needed to remember. She craved it with an

  intensity that made her feel like she’d just been plugged into a

  socket, an ancient appliance, dusty and forgotten, but even

  after all that time, she lit up and worked just fine.

  There had been others. In ten years, Quinn had dated other

  women, but none of it felt like this.

  “Should we stop?” Quinn gasped against Dallas’ warm,

  full lips.

  “Only if you want to,” Dallas responded. She licked

  Quinn’s bottom lip before she thrust her tongue into her

  mouth.

  Quinn’s head swam. She felt giddy and also horribly

  afraid. She knew she was literally on the brink of doing

  something that might be very stupid for her to do. She

  wouldn’t be able to take it back. She might regret it after.

  But then she thought about walking out that door and

  never seeing Dallas again. Or maybe just walking out and

  seeing Dallas as a friend or a missed chance, never having

  done this, and it was too much for her to bear.

  “I don’t want to stop.” She swept her hand under Dallas’

  shirt and when she felt the hot, silky skin, she let out another

  gasp.

  Dallas’ body was familiar and different. Not just because it

  had been so long, but because they were both older. They’d

  changed. Grown up.

  “I don’t want to stop you either,” Dallas hissed.

  She claimed Quinn’s lips again, thrusting her tongue

  into Quinn’s mouth until she felt like she was going to melt all

  over the floor before they even made it to the bed. Her legs felt

  all wobbly. Her entire body felt wobbly. Unreal. Surreal.

  Her heart was beating wildly, knocking against her ribs

  so hard it felt like it was ricocheting straight back into her

  spine. She breathed in deeply and drew in the scent of

  grapefruits.

  “What is that?” she asked.

  “What’s what?” Dallas kissed Quinn’s chin and moved

  to suckle on her neck.

  “Uh- um…” Quinn blanked for a minute as the sweet

  electrical currents tingled their way through her bloodstream.

  “What’s this?” Dallas nuzzled Quinn’s earlobe. She

  swirled her tongue over the little bud and Quinn nearly

  collapsed.

  “What’s…”

  “This?” Dallas’ hand swept over Quinn’s breast,

  cupping it lightly. She brushed her thumb over the nipple and

  Quinn’s back arched while red hot bolts of pleasure throbbed

  through her at the touch. Even above clothes, it was glorious.

  “The grapefruit,” she panted. “Is it perfume?”

  “No.” Dallas swirled her thumb over Quinn’s nipple

  again, pinching it lightly. It was so hard that it was probably

  going to slice right through her clothing.

  “Shampoo?”

  “Nope.” She kept plying Quinn’s nipple until Quinn

  was actually panting. How could such a small touch feel so

  good?

  “Conditioner?”

  “It’s my deodorant,” Dallas laughed. “Not as romantic

  as anything else.”

  “It smells really good.”

  Dallas leaned in and inhaled Quinn’s throat. “You

  smell really good.”

  That was all it took. Suddenly hands were roaming and

  flying. They were kissing again, and while Quinn’s head swam

  and that surreal feeling came swimming back through her,

  their clothing disappeared. Somehow that ended up like a

  sensual dance, not an ungraceful peeling away of items. No

  one tripped or got caught in clothing and fell. Somehow they

  managed to hardly break their kiss.

  Quinn blinked when Dallas came up for air. She was

  standing in her bra and panties, Dallas pressed up against her,

  wearing the same. Goosebumps blossomed on her arms when

  she stepped back and stared. She had to. Dallas looked

  completely different now than she had at eighteen. Her breasts

  were fuller, overflowing the lacy white cups of her bra. Her

  stomach was flat, but muscled too, like she worked out a few

  times a week. Her legs were long and shapely, with smooth

  skin, but they were toned as well.

  Quinn was most surprised to see a small tattoo with

  some writing on Dallas’ right calf.

  “You got a tattoo?” Quinn forgot all about being half

  naked herself and bent down to inspect it. The writing was

  perfect, done in delicate scrolling letters all connected

  together.

  “Yeah. I did.”

  “Did it hurt?”

  “Not really. Not like I thought it would. I guess that

  spot isn’t really very painful. I got it there because most

  people wouldn’t see it, especially at work, since I almost

  always wear pants.”

  “Hope?” Quinn figured it had to mean something,

  considering that Dallas chose it and she didn’t used to do

  anything at random. Quinn couldn’t believe that she would get

  it impulsively. “Hope,” she said again. She liked the sound of

  the word on her tongue. She’d probably said the word

  hundreds of times before, but it never felt like this. Even if

  other people would think it was cheesy, getting a word

  tattooed, Quinn didn’t feel that way.

  “Yeah. I was going to get a rose or something, but I

  changed my mind.”

  “Why did you get one?”

  “I- I don’t know. I guess I thought that- I- I don’t

  know,” Dallas finished. Quinn stood up and studied Dallas.

  She seemed flustered suddenly, a soft blush on her cheeks. “I

  guess I’m not being fully honest. I do know why I got it. I was

  thinking of you when I had it done.”

  “Really?” Quinn set her hand on Dallas’ shoulder. It

  felt strange, but wonderfully strange, to be brushing her

  fingers against her bare skin.

  “Yes. It was years ago. I was nineteen.”

  Quinn couldn’t believe it was that old. Or that Dallas

  had it done that long ago. Or that she’d been thinking about

  her when she did it.

  She studied Dallas’ lips, thinking about kissing her

  again. God, she loved the sweet, intoxicating taste of Dallas’

  mouth. She dropped her gaze lower, to Dallas’ breasts. She

  wanted to taste her there too. Kiss her. Take her time with her.

  It brought back memories of the first time they’d ever done

  this. They were in Quinn’s car. They’d gone for a drive. Dallas

  confessed that she was feeling strange. Quinn had said she felt

  strange too. That lately she hadn’t been thinking of Dallas like

  her best friend anymore.

  It was kind of weird, that night, because Quinn had

  been out for years before then, but Dallas kept what she felt

 

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