Second to last part. Enjoy. -L
9
"I was supposed to see
Angie
today," Tessa complains from the kitchen of the apartment. She and Reyna have stopped by after lunch before they leave for the mall. "You never let me
see
her anymore."
This, Tessa says with a pout, her arms folded cutely over her chest. "You know her birthday's coming up and we were going to do something...since she can't invite me to the party."
Reyna smiles, placing a chaste kiss on her mistress's pouty lips.
"Well,
I'll be damned,
" she exclaims. "How rude of me."
Tessa refuses to crack a smile. "You promised you'd let me see her."
"I know, baby."
"Well, when--"
"After I buy you your dress. Okay?"
"Okay," Tessa concedes. It's not so much that she misses Angie, but rather she misses her simplicity. She misses their mornings together and going home and not to her--Reyna's-- apartment to have really good sex with Angie's wife. Tessa misses feeling innocent in a relationship with someone who isn't loved by anyone else.
"Also, I'm sure I can arrange an invitation for you to the party...but you'll be on twin-duty. And whatever other children Angie's
friends
have."
Tessa's ears perk up at this. "Wait, really?"
"Sure, if you don't mind me kissing you when my wife isn't around."
Tessa blushes until her freckles disappear into the red sea of her cheeks. She looks away from Reyna, fidgeting her hands nervously. She hates the effect Reyna has on her.
"God, I hope they don't bring their
husbands
," Reyna frowns, her face now contorted into lines and angles. Tessa has to laugh.
"Well, maybe she'll invite her yoga instructor, Irene. I think she's gay."
Reyna frowns. "Really? Angie told me that she had a fiancé...that he was
handsome.
You know, given her expertise in men."
Tessa frowns. This is not what Angie has told
her
about Irene. Angie has told Tessa about how Angie enjoys watching Irene stretch and that Irene sometimes works with her after class. (This is why sometimes, Angie is gone to yoga for more than an hour.) But, unless Angie was trying to hide something from her wife, there is no reason for her to have lied. The inconsistencies are making Tessa think.
"How is my wife, anyway?" Reyna smiles, following Tessa to the living room. "Has she given you any earth-shattering orgasms? Anything I need to feel threatened by?"
Tessa rolls her eyes, plopping onto the couch. It is as if Reyna knows what happened between Tessa and her wife. And she probably does, if she knows all about Angie's affair. (
Wait.
Are the cameras still up?) This thought makes Tessa blush.
"Don't sit down, baby," Reyna says. "We're about to go shopping."
Standing, Tessa rolls her eyes again.
"Keep rolling them and they're going to get stuck," Reyna says, walking to the front door to hold it open for Tessa.
"Fuck you."
Reyna pinches Tessa's ass as she walks by. "Don't tempt me," she husks into her mistress's ear, dangling her car keys in front of Tessa's face.
Revealing her dimple, Tessa places a kiss on Reyna's lips before hailing the elevator down to Reyna's SUV. The next button she presses is Reyna's keyless ignition. (She ignores Reyna's step-by-step instructions for how to drive her car.)
"Ooh, Reyna. Can I show you around campus?" Tessa says, pulling out of the parking garage.
"Sure." Reyna crosses her hands in her lap, ever polite.
After the three-minute drive to campus, Tessa is looking wistfully out of the window and pointing out all of the significant sights at her school. Reyna sports a reserved smile the entire time, nodding when appropriate and turning her head when Tessa tells her to.
"Why don't you ever pick me up from class?" Tessa smiles after pointing out a sprawling academic building. "Wouldn't that be so cute? You could like pick up your college girl and take her to lunch. And then fuck her and drop her back off."
Reyna frowns deeply, resting her head back against the seat. (She looks very uncomfortable.) "No, I don't think that would be cute."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't date
'college girls,'
" Reyna frowns. "If you weren't the person I discovered my wife cheating on me with, I would have never looked your way." (This is said with Reyna's modest chest.)
"What, if you'd found out about someone else first, you would've seduced
them
instead of
me?
"
"Maybe. The point is, I would not make a show out of seducing my eighteen-year-old nanny like my wife did. I'm not a pervert."
"I know you're not, baby--"
"I have children that I will pick up from college one day. Not you. That's...there is something wrong about that. We're both adults, and I'm only ten years older than you. That's not much older."
"I know."
If Angie hasn't come to terms with her guilt, then Reyna hasn't come to terms with the fact that she has a sexual relationship with a college student. Honestly, it is a bit funny.
This concludes Reyna's college tour.
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The rest of the hour-long ride to the mall is silent save for Tessa's iPhone GPS. Tessa has a fleeting thought about her phone, how Reyna hasn't asked for it in weeks. But now, it is rare that Tessa even thinks about it when she is with Reyna. She is conditioned to focus all of her energy on her beautiful brunette.
Smiling, Tessa rests her hand in Reyna's, her eyes focused on the ever-changing view out of the windshield. There are trees, more trees, then a highway exit, and then a parking lot. Tessa removes herself from the driver's seat and follows Reyna to the front door of the mall. Reyna collects her keys as Tessa leaves the car.
With the seal of the revolving door broken, sound floods into Tessa's ears. Suddenly, there begins a roar of bustling consumers...of their children in various states of displeasure and the dissonant chorus of music playing from different stores. It is a high-end mall, but its natural soundtrack betrays it as what it is, a playground for adults (Reyna and Tessa included).
This far away from home, Tessa is not surprised when Reyna emerges from the revolving doors and her hand slips almost immediately into Tessa's. Tessa interlocks their fingers and relishes the feeling of Reyna's strong knuckles and warm palms and cool rings. She allows Reyna to lead her to the mall directory and to lead her away before Tessa sees where they are headed. When she asks, Reyna's soft lips only part in a smile. Her warm brown eyes are coy and clear (and happy). Tessa shakes her head (happy, too).
The first store looks expensive. Tessa barely has a chance to read its name before Reyna leads her inside by her waist and pushes her to the first rack of clothes they encounter.
"Find a few dresses and we'll go try them on," Reyna says.
Tessa wonders why Reyna says
'we'.
After all, Reyna is not the most devoted dress-wearer Tessa knows...Reyna is not even close. Tessa has
never
seen Reyna in a dress.
Sifting through the rack of clothes, Tessa finds a beautifully tailored, simple, sky-blue dress. It is more casual than fancy but radiates class and color. When Reyna sees Tessa's expression, she removes the dress from the rack. She shows Tessa the size (not the price), and when Tessa nods, Reyna drags her to the dressing room where she waits for Tessa to invite her to judge it.
This procedure is repeated until Tessa grows inevitably irritated and asks if they can switch stores. Reyna laughs and leads Tessa and her five fitting frocks to the register, paying the exorbitant price without so much as a glance at the receipt. Wishing the cashier a good afternoon, Reyna takes the bag of dresses and Tessa's hand to lead them to the next store, a lingerie store.
At the entrance, Tessa glares so fiercely at Reyna that Reyna almost wants to take a picture. (She doesn't; that would require her phone.)
"Are you upset that I want to buy you new clothes?" Reyna smiles.
"No, I'm upset that you want to buy me lingerie. You said a dress."
"And I bought you five," Reyna counters, steering Tessa into the store. If Tessa has a rebuttal to this, it goes unsaid.
In this store, Reyna gives Tessa her bag of dresses and finds the lingerie herself. She presents Tessa with matching sets of bras and panties to try on, sometimes just one or the other. She approves of some and dismisses others, eventually returning with a lacy set that reminds Tessa of the panties she lost in Angie's bedroom.
"Try this on," Reyna says. "I think I'd like to see you in pink. My wife would never wear pink for me."
"I've never seen you in pink either," Tessa counters.
"That's beside the point," Reyna smiles. "Besides, I have reason to believe you like to wear pink."
Tessa huffs and slips the bra and panties between the door and its frame. (The door slams closed.) When the door opens to Tessa clothed, Reyna's frown is only matched by her mistress's. Then, Reyna's arms are full of Tessa's lingerie.
"Did you want something, too? Or are we just shopping for me?"
"Did you see anything you'd like to see me in?" Reyna asks.
Pensive, Tessa saunters to a display of black, lacy thongs. She plucks one out and places it on Reyna's pile of clothes, then a matching bra. She walks toward the cash register and Reyna follows.
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"Where are we going?" Tessa asks when Reyna passes the exit for their neighborhood.
"I'm taking you to my office, baby," Reyna says, her eyes never leaving the road.