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A Warm Place, Part Two

  • Posted on July 29, 2015 at 12:22 am

By Cassandra Blue

Outside, the wind howled and the snow continued to fall and gust. Rhonda reclined on the couch, bathed in the glow of candlelight. She had removed the robe that Kat had given her, and she felt very warm there in Ray’s living room, wearing his daughter’s silky nightgown, the nightgown the girl had never worn but had saved in a drawer or closet somewhere, as if for an occasion such as this. It was like a dream, this night, and if not for a wild winter storm it would not be happening. Nothing out of the ordinary ever happened in Rhonda’s life, but that was about to change.

The bathroom door opened and the light went out, and Rhonda’s heart began to beat faster as she waited for the beautiful young girl to come out to her. She put her hands behind her head, trying her best to look relaxed, nonchallant, all the while knotted up inside, a queezy feeling in her stomach.

Without making a sound, Kat walked out into the glow of the candlelight. She was wearing a shorter silky nightgown. She smiled at Rhonda and knelt down by the couch, taking Rhonda’s hand.

“I’m wearing this for you, Rhonda.” the young girl said. “How do you feel?”

“Great… I mean, nervous as hell,” Rhonda replied, dropping the pretense. “I’ve never done this before.”

“Never?”

“Never,” Rhonda shook her head. “I’ve thought about it. I’ve fantasized about it, but…”

“But you were afraid,” Kat said. “How do you feel when you’re with a man?”

Rhonda looked into the girl’s sparkling eyes. Her expression was so tender. Somehow, she felt as if she were the confused young girl, looking into the eyes of a wise older woman. She wanted to open her heart. She wanted to let it all out.

“Kat, I’m not a happy person,” she said. “I can’t remember ever enjoying myself completely with… with a man. Even with your dad, I feel… like something’s missing. So I drink… and I just let it happen, and he enjoys himself, and I just bill and coo and play the part. But I’ve never really…”

Kat leaned forward, stroking Rhonda’s cheek, wiping away a stray tear. She ran her fingers through Rhonda’s hair and moved closer, pressing her lips to the woman’s brow.

“When I was a girl… younger than you, about thirteen, I fell in love. Her name was Cindy. She was one of those popular girls, but she wasn’t snobby or phony like the rest of the crowd. We were friends, but not close. There were so many people around her all the time, it was like trying to get close to a pop star. I don’t know if she was ever close to anyone, really, but she seemed happy.

“I wanted so much to touch her, to hold her. At night I would think about her, and I would touch myself. I would pretend that my pillow was Cindy, and I would hold her in my arms, and I would spread my legs and rub her against me. But it was all a fantasy, you know… And back then, where I lived, I didn’t dare tell anyone how I felt about her…”

Rhonda began to sob, sob uncontrollably. The tears poured down her cheeks as Kat looked on helplessly, tears glistening in her own eyes.

“What happened, Rhonda?” she asked.

“One night… a Saturday night, after coming back from a party… Cindy found her father’s — her father’s service revolver… and she loaded it… and she put it to her head and she pulled the…”

“Oh, Rhonda,” Kat sighed, putting her hand over her heart.

“That’s why… why it’s so hard to get close to… anyone.” Rhonda wiped away her tears and Kat stood up, walked to the kitchen, and brought back a box of tissues. Rhonda blew her nose and wiped her eyes. “I’m sorry, Kat.”

“Don’t be sorry.”

“You know, I’ve never told anyone about this before.”

“You make me feel special.”

“You are.”

Kat walked to the stereo, above the TV, and put a CD in the player. She returned and sat on the edge of the couch. To Rhonda’s surprise, the music that came from the speakers was jazz, old jazz, not something she would expect a young girl to enjoy. A woman’s voice, sweet and soulful, filled the room.

“My dad loves jazz. It’s the only thing we really share. He started me young on this stuff, and it just stuck. And this is my favorite.”

“It’s beautiful. That singer, she sounds like an angel. Who is it?”

“Billie Holiday,” Kat replied, speaking the name as if it were that of a goddess. She took Rhonda’s hand. “You know, we’re not so different, Rhonda. I mean, I’m lonely, too. Me and Robbie, we’ve been together a long time, and I love her. She makes me laugh, and I enjoy being with her. But it’s all play. You know what I mean. It’s always a party. When I try to get serious…well…”

Kat slipped off the edge of the couch and knelt on the floor once again, and she smiled, taking Rhonda’s face in her hands. She caressed Rhonda’s cheeks, her ears, her neck.

“Let’s forget everyone and everything,” she said. “Now it’s just you and me.”

Rhonda closed her eyes. She felt Kat’s hot breath as she girl moved closer, kissing her about the throat, along her neck, and nibbling at her ear.

“Oh, Kat…” she whispered. She opened her eyes and met the girl’s mouth with her own, putting her arms around the slender young body and holding it tightly. The passionate kiss was laden with hunger, warm and wet and unrestrained. Rhonda clutched at Kat’s long black hair, and then caressed her about the shoulders, slipping the the spaghetti-straps down the girl’s arms. She felt as if she didn’t know what to do next, so caught up in the passion of the moment that she was almost delirious.

Kat’s lips pulled away from Rhonda’s thirsty mouth and moved down, kissing her everywhere there was bare flesh, and her fingers tugged at the nightgown, exposing more, exposing Rhonda’s breasts, small but round and firm, nibbling them all over, then sucking at the pink nipples, nibbling on them, grazing them with her teeth, gently biting them. And all Rhonda could do was lay back and let the girl feast upon her flesh, all the while squeezing her legs together, trying to contain the anxious tingle that was creeping up between them.

“Are you sure… you’re only fourteen?”

Kat lifted her eyes, taking her mouth from one of Rhonda’s succulent breasts, and she grinned. For the first time, her expression actually looked like that of a girl her age.

“Believe me,” she said, lying her head against Rhonda’s breast, “I wish I wasn’t.”

“And you’ve never been interested in a boy… or a man?”

“I’m curious,” Kat said, “but I’m curious about brain tumors too. It doesn’t mean I want to have one.”

Rhonda laughed as Kat returned to nibbling at her breast. She closed her eyes as the girl sucked on an engorged nipple.

“I won’t interrupt again,” Rhonda whispered. “God, you make me feel good. I could lay here all night and let you eat me up.”

“Promise? Because if you come with me to my father’s bed, I’ll take you places you’ve never been.”

*****

Rhonda got up from the toilet seat and flushed. But she wanted herself clean for Kat, so she filled the sink with warm water, added a little soap, and wiped her pussy with a wash-cloth. She let the water drain from the sink turned out the light. She opened the door and stepped out into the hallway, looking across, through Ray’s bedroom door.

Kat stood naked in the soft lamplight. Rhonda approached her, slipping out of the nightgown and letting it fall, taking her panties down and stepping out of them right into the young girl’s arms. The girl spun her around, as if they were dancing, and moved her towards the bed.

“Lie down,” Kat said, “with your arms and legs… spread out… and let me look at you… and touch you.”

Rhonda did as the teenager said. She was self-conscious, a little intimidated by the girl’s boldness, but the way Kat looked at her, with such affection, it overtook her apprehensions. As she lay completely open and vulnerable, totally submissive, the beautiful young mulatto girl crept onto the bed, coming to knealing position between Rhonda’s outspread legs.

“You’re a real blonde,” Kat said. “I knew you would be. It’s such a pretty pussy.”

Kat reached her fingers to the fluffy tuft of blonde hair at the base of Rhonda’s belly. She stroked the hair and allowed her fingertips to trail down to the pink lips below. She pulled them away then, sitting up straight, her hands on Rhonda’s thighs.

“Do you ever play with yourself, Rhonda?”

“Yes.”

“A lot?”

“Almost every night.”

“Does it get you off?”

“It’s the only thing that does.”

“Will you masturbate for me?”

“If you’ll do the same for me.”

Kat raised up, on her knees and stroked her smooth brown skin, cupping her little breasts and moving further down, enjoying the intensity of Rhonda’s gaze upon her body, and she watched Rhonda move her hands down along her own flat tummy, finally reaching their destination, rubbing against the pink lips and spreading them like the petals of a flower. Kat spread the dark petals of her own flower, exposing the pink inside, and Rhonda watched with great excitement as the girl began to play with her own clitoris. Rhonda found hers, already so swollen, her pussy already so hot and wet.

“Oh, Rhonda, it makes me hot watching you. Does it make you hot watching me?”

“You know… you know it does,” Rhonda replied, beginning to breathe faster as her excitement grew. “I’ve never done this… in front of anyone.”

“Have you ever had… had your pussy eaten?”

“Ye-es, I have.”

“Was it good?”

“Ye-es.”

“Did you come?”

“No.”

Kat took her hands from her body and grasped Rhonda’s thighs, lowering herself, moving her legs behind her and lying on her stomach. She moved Rhonda’s arms to her sides and brought her mouth to the woman’s pink pussy lips, kissing them lightly, allowing her tongue to slip out of her mouth and lick the slit from bottom to top. She tucked her fingers in the tuft of blonde hair and pressed her thumb to Rhonda’s clit, rubbing it gently as she licked the pussy up and down. Then, as her tongue made a downward stroke, it moved even further down, flicking at Rhonda’s puckered asshole, and the woman gasped, her legs twitching.

“Oh, Kat… oh, yes…” Rhonda moaned, the girl’s stimulation of her clit and her anus at the same time making her so excited that she was ready to jump out of her skin. “Oh, yes, keep licking right there,” she said, and she moaned and gasped and curled her toes, feeling nothing but pleasure. Her hand reached out and pet the girl’s head, and held it there.

Just as her asshole was beginning to numb itself to the girl’s touch, Kat left it and licked her way up to the clit, where she opened her mouth over the swollen nubbin and began to wiggle her tongue against it. Rhonda’s thighs quivered and she brought her hands to her own breasts, cupping them, pinching the nipples hard. She rose up, tilting her head back, her eyes rolling, her moans becoming whimpers. Never before had she enjoyed anything with such abandon, with such total delight. She was no longer Rhonda. She was in a place where her name and all that went with it no longer mattered, like a woman lost in an island paradise, marooned there by a storm, being pleasured by a young, dark-skinned native girl who was sensuous beyond her years. Lost, yes! Not just lost, but losing herself and all of her inhibitions, forgetting everything she had ever been taught or forced to believe…

Kat’s agile tongue was moving against her clitoris as if guided by the woman’s every movement, and Rhonda was sure that she was going to come any second, but she would not go over the edge. Every time she felt that she was at the top, that her pleasure could climb no further, it did, and she was moaning and gasping and reaching out with her entire being, reaching out with her legs and feet, digging her toes into the mattress, and her arms, one hand grasping the back of her young lover’s head, the other tugging at the sheet at her side, her nails digging into the fabric. With every wave of pleasure, she lifted her buttocks off the bed, sure it was coming, sure it was going to end, and she thought she was going to go crazy if it didn’t happen soon. And then, quite suddenly, it did…

With Kat’s head pinned between her thighs and her back arched, lifting her off the bed, she lost it, crying out with total abandon. Kat nibbled at the clit, her face wet with Rhonda’s juices as all tension and frustration left the woman’s body. Inside Rhonda’s closed eyes, the world seemed to be flashing red and spinning, and tingles ran everywhere on her body, now glistening with perspiration in the warm bedroom. All Kat could do was hold on and enjoy the woman’s pleasure, nurturing it as if it were her own, until it was all but gone, and Rhonda collapsed to the bed beneath her, still tingling, still moaning softly as she rested there, her breasts rising and falling quickly with her breath. Kat took her mouth away then, and inched forward, resting her cheek against that fluffy tuft of blonde pussy hair.

“Wow,” she said, “that was incredible.”

“Mmm…” Rhonda responded, then laughed a little, breathlessly. “Oh, yes, it was. I’ve never… I’ve never come like that before. Not even close.”

“No?”

“I can’t believe that a fourteen-year-old girl has just given me the greatest orgasm of my entire life.”

“Believe it,” Kat smiled, “but really, it was only because you let me. Come, get up, and look at yourself in the mirror. Come see how beautiful you look.”

A full-length mirror appeared on the back of her father’s bedroom door as Kat pushed it back. She helped Rhonda, who was on trembling legs, to move in front of the mirror. She stood behind the woman and embraced her, looking over her shoulder and into the glass. Rhonda smiled at Kat’s reflection.

“I do look beautiful, don’t I?”

“Yes.”

“Here, you get in front, baby doll,” Rhonda said. “Look at yourself.”

Trading places with Kat, she held her close from behind, kissing at her cheek and ear and she looked over the young girl’s shoulder into the glass. She so admired the young girl’s dark-skinned body that it filled her with desire.

“We’re not done here, are we?” Rhonda said softly in Kat’s ear. “I mean, there’s more to be done, isn’t there?”

Kat took Rhonda’s hands from her flat brown tummy and moved them up against her budding breasts, her eyes half-closing as Rhonda caressed her stiff nipples. She then took one of those hands and moved it lower, brushed it past her own fluffy tuft of pubic hair, and pressed the fingers against her own wet pussy, a smile spreading across her full lips as Rhonda responded stroking her lips, exploring the folds of her wet young, pubescent pussy.

“Oh, we are far from done,” Kat whispered.

“Kat,” Rhonda said, “I think I’m falling in love…with…”

“Me, too,” Kat said, and she turned her head, meeting the petite older woman’s mouth with her own.

Continue on to Part Three

 

A Warm Place, Part One

  • Posted on July 29, 2015 at 12:19 am

By Cassandra Blue

{ This story was originally posted at Lesbian Lolita in March 2005 }

Rhonda gasped as she lost control of her car on the slippery road. She veered off the pavement, over the shoulder, and down into the ditch, where the car finally stopped, lodged in a pile of snow. Rhonda kept her hands on the wheel and leaned forward, taking a breath, resting her head on her hands, waiting for her heart to stop pounding. Great! Now what? But she was alive and in one piece. That didn’t really make up for the fact that she had no cell phone. She was one of a handful of people she knew who had no cell phone, and she had good reasons for not having one, though she couldn’t remember them as she sat in her car, looking out at the winter storm.

Well, if there was any consolation, she was only three or four blocks from her boyfriend Ray’s house. She felt better going there than knocking on some stranger’s door. And she did have a key, just in case he wasn’t home. The problem was getting there. Under different conditions, walking four blocks would have been nothing, but to walk them in this shit! And that was if she could get herself out of the car, out of the ditch, and through the deep snow to the nearest side street without breaking a leg. Rhonda was wearing boots but she was also wearing a dress, and not much in the way of a coat, and she had no gloves. It was also dark outside, and she hoped she wouldn’t get hit by some other poor soul sliding off the road.

There was nothing she could do but try, so the thirty-five-year-old woman shut off her engine, put her keys in her purse, buttoned up her coat, and opened her door. The icy gust hit her, stinging her everywhere there was bare skin, as she left the car. She climbed out, shut the door, and looked up through the blinding snow at the road. No one had stopped, was stopping, or was going to stop. Fuck you all, she said, between trembling lips. She found her footing and trudged though the snow, sinking in past her boots so that the snow stung her through her pantyhose. She was freezing anyway, so it didn’t matter. The gust was so strong, she might as well have been naked. She found her way to the first side-street, a walk of about fifty yards, and she at last found pavement under her feet. Stomping to get the snow off her boots and legs, she then, with eyes tearing from the cold, started the careful walk toward Ray’s house.

*****

Her black hair was long, like a cloak about her shoulders and down her back. Her t-shirt was black and her jeans were black and her feet were bare, with the toenails painted black.

Her face was dark with full, coral-red lips speaking into the cordless phone as she lay on the couch in high lamplight, petite and slender, all of fourteen years old, nearly fifteen. Her name was Kathryn.

“My dad called a while ago,” she said into the phone. “He’s stuck in Indy for the night. He got a hotel room. Leaves me here all by myself. Don’t suppose there’s any way you can get over here in this fucking snow, is there? Well, I can think about you, right? Are you cozy? I wish I was there, or you were here. Oh, you know I would. I’m getting hot just thinking about it.” Her jeans were already unbuttoned, and Kathryn slipped her hand down inside the front of them, pressing her fingers against the warm and wetness inside her panties. “Oh, yeah, it’s hot, Robbie, like a blue flame…”

The doorbell rang, startling Kathryn, but she easily recovered, getting up off the couch and moving to the railing of the stairs that led to the front door. “Someone’s at the fucking door, Robbie. I don’t know, baby, but I’ll keep you on the line in case it’s some sort of vicious serial killer, okay?” She laughed, stepping down to the door and looking out through the small windows that flanked the doorway. “Shit, it’s Rhonda.”

Rhonda was just going for her keys when the door opened and she stood, her blonde hair dishevelled, covered with snow from head to toe, shivering, and Kathryn opened the storm-door for her. Rhonda stepped into the warm house and hugged herself. Rhonda closed the door behind herself as Ray’s daughter stepped quickly back up the stairs.

“Listen, Robbie, I gotta go,” Kathryn said softly. “I don’t know, but she’s got icicles hanging off of her. Yeah, I love you, too.” Kathryn hit the off button and set the phone down and turned to Rhonda. “Hi, Rhonda. What happened? Couldn’t make it home?”

“I went off the road into a ditch,” Rhonda told her, and the girl’s smile faded. “I walked all the way.”

“Oh, shit,” Kathryn said. “Well, take off your coat and boots and come on up.”

“Where’s your dad?”

“Stuck in Indianapolis for the night.”

“I didn’t think you’d be here,” Rhonda said. She walked up the stairs and met Kathryn at the top. Rhonda was a petite woman herself, and the two were eye to eye as the young girl handed her a towel.

“It’s my dad’s weekend. My school’s two blocks away, so I just walked here.”

“Thanks for the towel,” Rhonda said, drying her hair with it. “God, what a storm, huh?”

“Yeah. You okay?”

“Now that I’m here. Can I get a phone book and use your phone?”

“Be my guest.”

*****

The kitchen was warm. Kathryn, or “Kat” to her friends and family, set a cup of coffee in front of Rhonda.

“It’s too bad they can’t get to your car until late,” Kat said, “but just the same, it’s okay with me if you hang out here for the night.”

“Really? I didn’t think you liked me.”

“Oh, that bullshit’s for my dad’s benefit. He takes me every other weekend and expects us to be best friends. But I like you just fine. You talk to me like a person. Want something a little stronger in your coffee?”

“Like what?”

“Bourbon. That’s what I’m putting in mine.”

“Kat!”

“Why not? It’s not like I’m a teenage alky or anything like that. You want some or not?”

“Yeah,” Rhonda smiled. “Why not?”

Kat poured out some of Rhonda’s coffee and tipped the bottle of bourbon over the cup. She poured some in her own cup and then stirred both. She brought them to the table and sat down close to Rhonda. They each took a healthy sip.

“Mmmm,” Rhonda said, “that’s a good feeling.”

“Yes, it is. So, what do you want to do tonight? I can cook a frozen pizza, we can each take a hot bath, and we can take our drinks out to the TV and watch a movie.”

“Sounds great, but I’ve got no clothes.”

“You’d fit in mine, I’m sure.”

“I’d feel funny doing that. Do you have anything less ‘goth’?”

“I have a silky nightgown and robe that I’ve never worn, some shit my dad bought me to be more lady-like. I don’t even wear nightgowns. I sleep in the nude.” Rhonda laughed and shook her head. She could already feel a little buzz from the spiked coffee. Kat got up and turned on the oven and took a pizza out of the freezer. “Sausage and mushroom okay?”

“Sure,” Rhonda smiled.

*****

Fed, bathed and dry, wearing Kat’s nightgown and robe and sitting very comfortably in one corner of the couch, Rhonda took a sip of her drink, still bourbon but the coffee had been traded in for Sprite. She was buzzed, but better for having eaten. Kat was still in her black clothes, sitting at the other end of the couch. They were watching “Fried Green Tomatoes,” but not watching very closely. They were enjoying each other’s company, talking about the movie, about the characters, and about other things.

“Are you warm enough?” Kat asked Rhonda. “I could get you a blanket.”

“I’m fine, sweetie,” Rhonda said. “You sure are nice to be with. I can’t remember the last time I felt so relaxed with someone.”

“I like being with you too,” Kat said. “It makes up for the fact that my girlfriend Robbie couldn’t come over tonight. I woulda been all by myself.”

“How about boyfriends? You have one?”

“No. I’m really not into boys… I mean, not right now.”

“Healthy attitude. No need to rush into all that stuff.”

Kat looked down at her black toenails. She looked over at Rhonda. The woman was very pretty. She looked very attractive in the nightgown and robe her legs were shapely and smooth. She smiled, her dark eyes widening a bit, and then she bit her lip.

“Rhonda, can you keep a secret?”

“Sure.”

“You aren’t one of those ‘holier than thou’ people, are you? You’re pretty open-minded, right?”

“I like to think so. What is it?”

“Um… I don’t know if I’ll ever be into boys. I mean, I… I like girls.”

A warm tingle crept over Rhonda’s body as she sat looking at Kat. It was not a reaction she would have ever expected from herself, a giddy sort of feeling, in a way aroused by the thought of this young girl kissing another girl.

“You mean, you’re attracted to… girls?”

“Yes, and I’ve… I’ve been with a girl, too. My girlfriend Robbie and I, we’re lovers.”

“Hm, and how long has this been going on?”

“Since we were twelve, but before that, really. I mean, I remember us touching each other when we were nine. One of us would close our eyes and the other would pretend to be the boy, and then, after a while, we just stopped pretending.” Kat sat very quiet then. “Well, Rhonda, what do you think?”

“I think…” Rhona sighed, “I’m pretty buzzed.”

“Yeah? And I think you’re pretty… pretty.”

Rhonda, in the middle of a sip, choked a little, but recovered.

“Oh, yeah?”

“As a matter of fact, I think you’re beautiful.”

Rhonda blushed like a schoolgirl, and shifted a little bit on her seat, feeling tingly and uneasy. She smiled, not knowing what to say.

“I’m sorry,” Kat said. “I’m making you uncomfortable.”

“No, Kat,” Rhonda said. “I’m just buzzed and you’re taking me by surprise. But you’re so dammed honest, I like it. You just say what you’re thinking. That’s hard for most people. It’s hard for me.”

“Well, I’m going to take my hot bath now,” Kat said. “Would you like to keep me company in the bathroom, or are you into the movie?” Kat looked into Rhonda’s widened blue eyes. “I’d close the shower curtain.”

“Um, yeah, I’ll come and keep you… keep you company.”

*****

Rhonda sat on the toilet seat, sipping her drink as Kat moved about in the tub inside the shower curtain. She could see the faint outline of the young girl through the semi-transparent plastic.

“Rhonda, would you do me a favor and wash my back?”

Rhonda sat very still, holding her glass and blinking her eyes. She turned and set down the drink by the sink and moved to kneel on the floor, pulling back the curtain. Her eyes clouded over as she looked upon the sight before her, Kat reclining in the tub, the front of her beautiful young naked body completely in view. Rhonda stared in awe of Kat. She could not avert her gaze. It was strong, the desire to look. The light reddish-brown skin, so smooth and perfect, so even about the girl’s shapely body, was breath-taking. Kat smiled.

“You know, I wasn’t really ready, Rhonda,” she said. She sat up and leaned forward, handing Rhonda the soap. Rhonda took the bar and began to soap the girl’s silky-smooth back. “So, Rhonda,” Kat said softly, “do you think I’m pretty?”

“You are…” Rhonda said, hesitating, “the most beautiful sight I have ever seen.”

“Wow. That’s quite a thing to say.”

Both woman and girl were silent as Rhonda washed Kat’s back, then Kat lay back in the water and Rhonda remained there, staring once again, her eyes on the girl’s breasts, small but with big, dark nipples, stiff from the reaction of water and air. She started to hand back the soap, but Kat did not reach for it. Instead, she allowed herself to float just above the surface of the water.

“Wash my front, too?” Kat smiled gently. “It’s so much nicer when someone else does it.”

Rhonda hesitated, but finally reached over and began to soap up the girl’s neck, shoulders, and then moved lower, closing on on the girl’s pert little tits. She soaped them up, trying to pretend it was just business as usual, but all the while feeling a strong tingle between her legs, one that she tried to stifle but would not go away. It was something she had not felt for a long time, that tingle. Never with Ray, never without her pussy being touched.

“Use your hands, not just the soap,” Kat said softly.

Rhonda looked into Kat’s dark eyes. They seemed to see right in to hers and through them, to her thoughts. She set aside the soap and wet her hands and placed them on the girl’s breasts, rubbing the soap all around. The nipples pressed against her palms as she basically was fondling Kat’s beautiful young tits, the soap only a buffer to kid herself that she was only bathing the girl. Reaching for the soap, she began to lather the girl’s flat brown tummy and then dropped the soap, her hands trembling suddenly.

“What’s wrong?”

“You’d better do the rest yourself,” Rhonda smiled, laughing it off. “Don’t want to… um… go too far…”

“And what would be wrong with that?” Kat asked her, taking the woman’s hand and pressing it to her own cheek, caressing it.

“You’re fourteen years old, and I’m thirty-five. I shouldn’t even be bathing you. I mean, you’re not a young child.”

“No,” Kat smiled, “I’m not.”

Rhonda got up off the floor, feeling a little dizzy, and picked up her drink. She turned to the door and opened it.

“If you want to be with me tonight,” Kat said, “if you change your mind, just light the candles on the coffee table and turn out the light. If you don’t, that’s okay.”

Rhonda turned, still trembling, and gazed upon the beautiful young body. She watched Kat soap herself between the legs and watched the girl’s shapely brown legs stretch, toes pressed to the tiles at either side of the faucet.

“You know, tonight could be beautiful,” Kat said tenderly, “and no one ever has to know.”

Rhonda slipped out into the hallway and eased the door closed. She stood in the hallway and looked down into her glass. She walked to the kitchen and put the glass in the sink. She took her cup from earlier in the evening and filled it with coffee. She took the cup with her to the living room, sat down on the couch, and looked at the candles that stood at either end of the coffee table. On the TV, the movie was still going. Blanche was on the bed, dying, and Idgie was telling that story about the ducks taking the frozen lake with them to the next county.

A tear ran down Rhonda’s cheek. She reached for her purse and looked inside. She found a book of matches. She struck one and lit it and reached for the first candle, setting the wick aflame.

Continue on to Part Two