Chapter Seven
Skyler sat at the picnic table watching Kaia turn the vegetable kabobs and baked potatoes she had on the grill. The tall and sexy black girl's back was to her, her long white hair pulled back in a band, exposing her regal-looking neck. Kaia wore only a sports bra as a top, her broad yet feminine shoulders and the slim, defined musculature of her back tapering down in a V to her narrow waist. Her darker complexion's exposed skin seemed to catch the sunlight, and her upper back muscles were rippling delightfully with each move of Kaia's arms.
Skyler let her eyes wander even lower to the beautiful black woman's backside. Despite her narrow hips and how firm Kaia's ass appeared to be, the auburn-haired beauty was delighted to see that the object of her attraction had a bubble butt. A throbbing heat began to grow between Skyler's legs as she imagined palming both of those cheeks and squeezing them as she kissed Kaia. One of probably a hundred different fantasies she'd had about the former Marine since they'd parted ways last night.
Skyler had been hopelessly elated when Kaia had issued her invite last night, wondering if it was a date, or if the beautiful black girl was just trying to befriend a kindred spirit. The moments the two had shared, the brief instances they'd spent intimately staring into one another's eyes and the soft little touches and caresses that Kaia had given her told Skyler that the beautiful black girl was interested. And yet it was painfully apparent that something was holding her back.
"We can probably put the steaks on in just a bit, and it won't take them but just a few minutes to cook," Kaia said as she sat down across from Skyler. "So, where were we?"
"I'd asked about your eyes, and you said there was a story behind it."
"Ah, yes," Kaia said with a grin as she stared back at Skyler, the gold flecks circling her gray eyes seeming to sparkle in the sunlight. "My great grandmother on my dad's side was an Irish immigrant, with pale skin, red hair, and green eyes. So that left my grandfather very light-skinned with just a touch of red to his hair, which was also far less coarse than most black people's."
"I guess that made him stand out,"
"You bet your ass it did, and not in a good way either," Kaia said, a hint of sadness in her voice. "My great grandparents immigrated to Canada because of all the grief their marriage caused. That's where my grandfather was raised and where he met a blonde-haired and blue-eyed Swedish immigrant named Elsa at college, and the pair fell in love."
"Let's see then, that makes you what, three-quarters African, three-sixteenths, Swedish, and one-sixteenth Irish?" Skyler asked, her eyes closed as she did the numbers in her head.
Kaia laughed and said, "Yeah, something like that. My hair has always been a bit finer and lighter in color, and of course, my skin tone and eyes are directly attributable to my heritage."
Not even realizing that she intended to say it before the words were out of her mouth, Skyler said, "It's the perfect combination of genes. I know I've never met anyone alive as beautiful and sexy as you, Kaia."
Skyler blushed profusely at having shared her feelings openly, her hands fidgeting at the paper napkin in front of her on the picnic table. The auburn-haired beauty was used to being the one that was pursued and found the prospects of being on the other side of the coin daunting and alien.
Kaia's hand slid across the table and lay atop Skyler's, her gaze seeming to stare a hole through the younger woman and directly into her soul. Skyler suddenly felt naked, her every thought and desire open to the sexy former Marine.
"You're so sweet," Kaia said softly before allowing a slightly teasing tone to enter her voice. "Although I'm not sure the woman you're interested in would be all that happy to hear you say that."
Skyler felt her blushing go an even darker shade of red before noticing the look in Kaia's eyes was completely incongruous with the tone in for voice. They seemed almost to be challenging Skyler, a provocation of sorts to stake her claim.
And suddenly it hit the younger woman that was what she needed to do precisely. She wasn't a child anymore, so why should she hide her feelings? Skyler might not know Kaia as intimately as she one day hoped to, but she could tell that she wasn't the type to make light of her feelings even if she didn't return them herself.
"Oh, I pretty sure she knows how I feel exactly," Skyler replied, dragging a thumb up over the top of Kaia's hand while biting at her bottom lip, her feet bouncing nervously beneath the table.
If the beautiful black girl seemed surprised by her response, then she didn't show it. Her gray eyes seemed to darken and become intense, making the heat already present between Skyler's legs practically burst into flames.
"And her?" Kaia asked, with one eyebrow raised almost in a playful challenge.
Skyler saw no reason to let it come to an end, enjoying the mischievous tone to the banter between them, so she said, "Oh, yeah, I think she badly wants to get in my panty's."
That remark caused the usually composed and collected Kaia to spew the mouth full of sweet tea she'd been attempting to swallow, spraying it off to the table's side. That caused Skyler to break out into a gale of laughter as Kaia struggled to cough up sips of tea that had managed to go down the wrong way.
It was a magical moment for Skyler because, for the first time since she'd encountered the enigmatic cocoa-skinned blonde, it was Skyler who seemed to have the upper hand. Skyler knew where the sudden burst of confidence came from, her late-night talk with her mother. One that had come as a complete and total surprise and left the beautiful auburn-haired teen thinking for the first time that perhaps her immediate future didn't seem as dark as it once had.
Once Kaia had cleared her throat and regained the composure, she turned back towards Skyler giving her an evil look that was done in jest and said, "Alright, I have to get the steaks on the grill, so they're ready before the rest of the food is overdone."
Skyler could only smile seeing the effect that she'd had on the sexy former Marine and basked in the glow it made her feel to know for sure that Kaia seemed to want her every bit as much as she craved the black goddess.
"What about our grill master? Does she her eye on anyone?" Skyler asked, and by the tone in her voice, it was evident that she was baiting the cocoa-skinned blonde beauty with everything she had.
Skyler heard Kaia's laugh, followed by the ribeye's sizzling as she dropped them on the grill. Once she had the meat situated the way she wanted, Kaia looked over her shoulder and gave the high school student a tantalizing look that made the throbbing inside her clit rapidly speed up.
"It just so happens that I have met someone recently," Kaia said before turning back around to study the sizzling meat cooking on the grill.
"Oh yeah? What is this woman like?" Skyler asked, her chin resting on her right hand with both of her eyebrows raised in interest, a smirk on her face.
