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Chapter 17 – Fairer Sex
Liana sighed softly to herself as she sleepily rolled over in bed, her arms encountering and wrapping around the soft, sleeping body of the woman next to her as the morning sunlight slowly filled the room. The young blonde slid her legs along those of her bedmate, feeling the warmth of their bodies radiating from their skin. Liana crossed her arms over the woman's smooth abdomen, just below her breasts, feeling the soft mounds rise and fall with each quiet, relaxed breath. The room was warm, and the two women slept with the covers crumpled down at the feet of the large bed. They had only gotten in the way during the previous evening's activities anyway.
As she pressed herself up against her sleeping partner's backside, Liana heard a quiet shuffling coming from the direction of the door and looked up in the direction of the sound. She smiled to see Star slipping quietly into the room, her body wrapped in a short towel and her hair dripping with water from her morning shower.
"You're awake early," Liana said quietly, sitting up in bed.
"You are too," Star replied, as she walked toward the closet. "What's your excuse? I have to meet with the Jedi Council, or I'd still be in there with you two."
"I didn't even feel you get up, I was sleeping so soundly," Liana said, absently running her fingers through her slightly tangled blonde locks. "Why do you have to meet with the Council?"
"It's about you," Star told her, sifting through the closet for her clothes. "I have to let them know that you're back so they'll call off their search efforts. And I have to explain this all to them without getting you in trouble."
Liana pulled her knees up toward her and hugged her legs, pressing her breasts up against her thighs as she contemplated what Star had said.
"What's going to happen to me?" she asked quietly. "Are they going to remove me from the Academy?"
Star turned from the closet, sensing the fear in the girl's voice. She smiled reassuringly and walked over, sliding onto the bed and throwing an arm around Liana's shoulders.
"I won't let that happen," Star told her protectively. "You have to believe me."
Liana rested her cheek against Star's arm, feeling the just-showered softness of the woman's damp skin and inhaling the sweet scent of flowers with each breath.
"I'm scared," Liana whispered, her heart pounding in her chest. "I don't want to leave here."
"I know you're scared," Star replied, kissing the girl's hair softly. "I know. I went through the same thing when I came back from Dathomir. I won't let you go through what they made me do. I have a friend on the Council, I promise you we'll figure something out."
Star kissed the corner of Liana's lips gently as she rose from the bed, dropping her towel to the floor and walking across the room naked, resuming her search for appropriate attire in the closet. To her surprise, when she turned back again she saw Liana bending over, picking up the towel she had just discarded.
"What are you doing?" Star asked, a slight hint of laughter in her voice.
"Picking up," Liana replied, collecting the various pieces of stripped clothing that lay scattered about the room.
"Stop," Star ordered playfully, snatching a lacy pair of panties out of the blonde girl's hand and throwing it back on the floor. "You're a guest here. If Cora and I don't pick up, you by all means don't have to. Get your sexy body back in bed and keep my girlfriend company while I'm gone."
"I honestly can't," Liana sighed, throwing her hands up in exasperation. "I'm so nervous about what the Council will do. I can't sit still. Isn't there something I can do?"
"Shhhh," Star shushed, gently taking hold of Liana's wrists and pulling the blonde girl toward her, until their breasts touched.
Star slipped her arms around Liana's waist as they stood, eye to eye. Star leaned forward slowly, pressing her lips to Liana's as her arms ran up the girl's back. Star felt Liana's body slowly relax in her arms as the blonde's eyes slipped closed and she began to respond to the kiss, pulling herself up against Star. Star took the girl gently in her arms as their lips locked and their tongues danced. She heard Liana sigh quietly into her mouth as the blonde's fingertips slowly crept over her buttocks, squeezing and caressing the toned, shapely mounds. Star slowly guided them toward the bed, carefully pushing Liana backward until the foot of the bed bumped up against the back of the girl's legs and caused her to fall back, landing on the edge of the bed with a sexy bounce of her breasts. Liana leaned back on her hands and looked up eagerly as Star stepped between her legs, leaning forward and hovering over the voluptuous Jedi student.
"I'll make you forget all about what the Council might decide," Star whispered, brushing her lips over Liana's as she spoke. "Okay?"