Vivian Laaning's final senior year at high school in due course ended. And she could not be happier! She no longer experienced the ordeal of enduring daily insults and mockery from her school mates. And she could not be happier! Her four cows had aged past their productive capability so she no longer had to engage in hand milking chores. And she could not be happier! She was going to move to Madison to live for the first time away from her parents. And she could not be happier!
The dynamics of her relationship with Erin Falconbridge had also changed. No longer Erin's student, Vivian now viewed herself as an equal love partner to Erin. After all they were both university students albeit, Vivian was an undergraduate student whereas Erin was a graduate student. Still they attended the same school: University of Wisconsin at the main campus in the state capital city. And to make their relationship more equal was the fact that there was not that much age disparity between them; Erin was only one year older than Vivian's sister, Erica English.
Erin for her part, also inwardly sensed a dramatic shift in their love affair. Because Lydiaville was such a small town, she was constantly fearful of exposure of their affair and the inevitable unpleasant consequences thereof. It was paradoxically fortunate that Vivian was so detested by her fellow class mates. Being friendless none of her class mates were cognizant of Vivian's constant and conspicuously happy disposition and therefore not suspecting of a close love interest as a determinant of her serenity. They were just too busy in tormenting and bullying her.
Also there was no suspicion of partiality between Erin and Vivian amongst the faculty of the Arthur MacArthur High School. Vivian was be far the most outstanding student at the school easily vastly superior in intellect and in seriousness of purpose than the rest. That made her the favorite student of every one of her teachers as well as the balance of the faculty who had previously taught her. Thus any discerned partiality between the two of them would be chalked up as normal and understandable given the circumstances, and the thought that they may be lovers never entered the mind of any of the teachers.
Of course given the late hour of the night when they did meet for sex and the essentially isolation of Vivian's barn residence rendered detection of their affair hardly possible. Still Erin's was apprehensive of the bromide: 'There's nothing certain in life except death and taxes.' No matter how careful they might be; something unforeseen could occur that would expose their affair, and thereby all hell would break loose.
This subconscious fear had an unsettling edge to their love making. Although all of their sexual congress was as spontaneously joyful and pleasurable occurrences as either could desire, still when they were not in each other's arms, the terror of discovery tended to tamp down their serendipity.
Those fears came to an end when Vivian arrived at Madison. She acquired a basement apartment with her own private entrance to a large house containing four other separate apartments rented out to the university students.
Generally in such a big campus anonymity was so much easier to maintain. One does have acquaintances amongst fellow students but they represent a small fraction to the total student body. And even amongst such acquaintances few of them become close friends. In addition considering the liberal atmosphere of the current big time universities, homosexuality was tolerated and viewed much more favorably than in the general populace; and University of Wisconsin was no exception to such political correctness.
Finally, although sexual relationships between a graduate and an undergraduate student were not necessarily common place, still the same were not condemned. Such were more tolerated than a known relationship between a university professor and his/her student. Perhaps when the student no longer had a class with the professor, thereby invalidating the charge of favoritism such situations would be considered equivalent to Erin-Vivian's affair . Certainly their relationship would not now be censured as it would have been had their high school teacher and student liaison been discovered.
So, once Vivian became acquainted with her fellow tenants who as a matter of course became aware of Erin-Vivian's relationship, no one raised an eyebrow. And when anyone spotted them on campus in a romantic embrace, no one thought anything of it. The extinction of the fear from being discovered in a lesbian affair with possible awful consequences had the happy result of elevating their passion. The freedom to openly acknowledge their love was liberating and they took full advantage.
The sex between them became even more intense and exhilarating as well as more frequent. Erin still traveled from Lydiaville to Madison two week nights to attend her graduate classes and thereafter stay the night with Vivian before returning to Lydiaville in the morning to teach her classes at Arthur MacArthur HS. She curtailed her hours at the Quality Inn and worked only every other weekend; with the other weekends she spent the time with Vivian.
In that fashion they adhered to a usual co-ed college life. They saw some Badger football games; drank at bars frequented by university students and went to various on campus parties. And the sex they engaged in was incredible! All in all their relationship during that academic year was by far the happiest time to date in each of their lives.
Alas as the hackneyed platitude states: 'All good thing must come to an end'. In retrospect two major factors contributed to prevent their love for each other to blossom into a permanent and meaningful relationship. Although each of them had similar career aspirations which helped make themselves more compatible, they differed drastically as how to achieve their end goals.
Erin detested the cold Wisconsin winters and so her ultimate desire was to return to the south. On the other hand those cold winters held no terror for Vivian who knew no other kind of winter. When as a girl she had occasion to go to Chicago on a school field trip, she formed an unshakeable desire to eventually reside in the Windy City. Thus there was no scope for a compromise as to where they wished to mutually settle down.
By far the major road block in forming a lasting relationship was their differing sexual orientation. As Erin had advised, she was a 'gold star' lesbian. She simply had no interest in having sex with a man. None of them, not even the acknowledged consummate desirable male, inspired any romantic interest in her nor aroused her libido or for that matter her soul.
Vivian on the other hand still was interested in cock. In fact she wouldn't want to acknowledge to herself that she was a lesbian. Of course having had sex with her sister and now having engaged in this most desirable, even powerful and torrid love affair with Erin tended to objectively belie such assertion. She therefore had to admit that at the very least she was bi-sexual since she could no longer claim to be exclusively heterosexual.
Although gay marriage had not yet reached legal status, as their time at the University of Wisconsin predated the Obama Presidency, still committed gay couples living in an exclusive arrangement together had become recognized as mainstream and certainly acceptable. So naturally discussions between them of the future centered on the possibility of living together and their different desires of location was always a bone of contention between them.
However the most persuasive argument for Vivian against planning on an exclusive permanent arrangement with Erin was the fact that she would want to eventually become a mother. In her mind having children would be inimical to a lesbian lifestyle.
One day when in a discussion she voiced such objections, only to have Erin protest:
"Just because one is a lesbian does not preclude having children. All kinds of lesbian couples raise children. Why there are a majority of government adoption agencies that will approve of suitable lesbian couples and given our education we sure as hell would be deemed suitable."
"Yes but I would want a natural born child of my body. I would not want to adopt a child."
