Jane awoke with a start in the middle of the night. Her heart was pounding and she was soaked with the cold sweat of fear. She'd had the nightmare again; the one that plagued her nightly sleeps with visions of isolation and loneliness. As her breathing began to relax and the previous chill of her sweat was replaced with an awareness of the humid summer night, she heard someone stirring across the room.
"Jane, are you alright?" It was Emma, her roommate.
"Yes, thank you, just a bad dream, I'll be fine now."
"Was it the same one again? Would you like to talk about it?"
"Yes, it's the same, but no, I don't need to talk." As the words came out, Jane realised that she did, desperately need to talk about it. Her voice caught on the last word and before she could stop herself she found herself shook with silent sobs.
"Oh, Jane, why do you worry so?" said Emma, as she leaped out of bed and crossed the room to put her arms around Jane. "You're not going to end up alone. There's no reason to be so scared of life."
The comfort of Emma's arms around her acted as a catalyst for Jane, all of the desperation, fear, and disappointment that had been accumulating were released in a torrent of tears. Emma simply held her tightly while she wept.
After a time, when she had let it all out she stopped sobbing, but Emma still held her tightly. Jane enjoyed the feeling of being in someone's arms after so long, even if they were the arms of a friend rather than a lover.
As she pulled back to look at Emma and thank her, her hand brushed against one of Emma's small, firm breasts. Jane was suddenly struck by a new sensation, arousal and attraction to a dear friend; she wanted to touch the breast again, to cradle its soft and perfect form in her hand, to lean down
and take her friend's nipple between her lips. What was causing this, she had certainly never been attracted to a woman before, why now?
"What's wrong?" Emma whispered, sensing Jane's hesitation.
Jane quickly shook the thoughts out of her head and quickly pulled back to smile at her friend. "Nothing at all. I'm just a little emotional just now, that's all."
"Are you sure that's all?" asked Emma in a tone Jane had heard previously, but not from Emma. She realised that though she had pulled back, Emma was still holding her. In the darkness she could see Emma was studying her closely, as if contemplating some newly discovered and timid creature. She let go of Jane and reached down taking Jane's right hand in both of hers.
"I think there's something else, but you're not ready to tell me what it is? Should I guess?" Jane could only nod in response as Emma gently guided her hand onto one of her breasts. Through the material of the tank-top Jane could feel that Emma's nipple was already hard and erect, she wondered whether the other breast was at attention now too. As she handled Emma's breast, the first time she'd really felt breasts that weren't her own, she could feel herself getting wet. Emma had let go of Jane's hand and was beginning her own investigation of Jane's body, running her hand along her thigh and back up along her spine before reaching her neck and coming back down gently along her jaw line. Instinctively Jane turned her face into Emma's hand and kissed her palm, feeling a tremble that ran through both of them as she did.
"I've never been with a woman before," she whispered into Emma's open hand.
"Neither have I, but this feels right to me, do you want to stop?"
Now both of Jane's hands were under Emma's shirt, caressing her breasts and kneading the small, hard nipples. Did she want to stop? No, she wanted to continue, to explore another woman's body as she had her own, to see whether she could please a woman as she had pleased men. "No, I want you."
Saying that she pulled off Emma's shirt and lowered her head to take explore each perfect breast with her mouth, taking the nipples gently between her teeth, sucking them, then blowing on to them so that they would become even harder. Emma moaned with pleasure. With her mouth still exploring those firm, perfectly shaped breasts and thinking about how good it would feel when