"Hey. You ok?" the gentle, familiar voice of Holly's friend broke through the noise. She turned her head to find a pair of concerned, hazel eyes looking into her own blue ones.
"No. Not really," she shook her head.
"Come on," Adena lightly grabbed one of her shoulders. "Let's go take a break."
Holly let her friend lead her out of the maelstrom and into her bedroom. The uproar of 8 teenage girls talking at once, laughing, and listening to music became bearably muffled as Adena closed the door behind them.
They were at Adena's house, working on a big scout project. Holly had volunteered to help out, and never minded helping. But, she hadn't anticipated the level of overwhelm the girls would wreak on her nerves. None of them were being particularly obnoxious or anything, but the volume alone was quickly about to send her into overstimulated, grumpy mode.
"Here, sit down," Adena patted the edge of her giant king-size bed. Holly gladly did as she asked, letting out a deep sigh, as her friend took a seat next to her.
"Sorry. I was getting overstimulated."
"I could tell," Adena smirked, but her eyes still held a hint of concern.
"That obvious, huh?"
"Girl, I can read you like a book," she said incredulously.
"Why don't you hang out in here for a while?" Adena slowly, and unexpectedly, ran her fingers through Holly's long, blonde hair. A tingle ran up her spine and she was a little embarrassed to find herself tightening down there too from the simple gesture.
"I'll hold down the fort for a while." Adena stood but, before walking away, planted a soft kiss on Holly's forehead that was just as unexpected. She tried not to think of the other times her friend had touched and kissed her. That certainly wasn't going to help her calm down.
They'd stolen a few moments here and there, never at convenient or appropriate times, usually in public restrooms, over the better part of a year. Once, a few months after the initial rendezvous at the theatre, Adena had furiously finger fucked her in a matter of minutes in the girls' restroom at the school during a scout meeting. Holly had at least been able to feel her up that time, but it didn't make up for the promise of "next time" Adena had made in regards to letting Holly get HER off.
There was another time in the restroom at a restaurant after they had eaten lunch together. It had been a painfully long time since they had done anything together, at least of a sexual nature.
"Meet me in the bathroom in a few minutes," Adena said as she stood.
"I just," she paused, "I just need to touch you," she whispered before walking off.
Holly felt flabbergasted after the completely normal meeting they'd just had. It had been so long since their last foray, she'd just assumed they were over. Still, she did as Adena said and let several minutes pass before joining her in the single bathroom, where her friend proceeded to eat her out again as she awkwardly balanced at the edge of the commode.
"Hey, sleepyhead," a voice gently broke Holly from her unconscious state. She fought to open her eyes, confused, not having remembered even laying down, let alone falling asleep. It was dark in the bedroom, and she could feel how close Adena's face was to hers more than seeing it.
"Well, that's fucking embarrassing," Holly croaked, sitting up. She was lying on top of the comforter.
"Don't worry about it," her friend reassured her.
"I made some snacks. There's a feast of delicious garbage in the kitchen."
"Mmm, I love delicious garbage," Holly replied. She swung her legs over the side of the bed, but froze when she felt a hand on her shoulder. The room was as quiet as a tomb. Holly couldn't even discern any activity coming from the living room. Evidently, the girls were too busy stuffing their faces full of junk outside, she assumed. Her thoughts were more focused on the hand touching her in the dark, though.
A small movement later, and she felt those lips, the ones that frequented her fantasies, firmly planted against her own. Holly kissed her back as an invisible hand firmly kneaded the back of her head. Briefly, she wondered if she was still asleep.
Sooner than she would have liked, but longer than she hoped, Adena pulled away.
"Come on," Holly felt the unseen hand take her own.
"Before the girls get any ideas."
"You started it," Holly teased in the dark.
"OK. Have fun. ;)"
"Shut up. I'm trying not to get my hopes up." She wasn't stupid. Holly knew what her husband's seemingly innocent comment and emoji were implying.
Normally, she was pretty forthcoming with details of her encounters, but she decided to leave out the fact that Adena had already managed to kiss her. Twice.
"She wants your bod and you know it," Austin teased.
"That may be so," she conceded his point. "But all the girls are here!" Holly couldn't help arguing.
"And?"
She knew he was grinning evilly as he wrote this without having to see him.
"You're horrible...love you!"
"Love you too!"
Holly put her phone in her back pocket after reading her husband's final text. She wasn't quite sure how she'd let Adena talk her into spending the night along with the girls. Actually, funnily enough, they had been a large part of it. Holly had stuck around so late, they all assumed she was spending the night too. Between Adena's, sometimes annoying, persuasiveness and the girls' "Please, please, please?", it hadn't taken much to convince her.
If she was being honest, she had been secretly harboring fantasies of being part of the sleepover off and on all evening. Well, at least her and Adena's own private slumber party. Holly was still shocked when she not only insisted on her staying, but sleeping in her bed with her as well. Not that she announced it to the girls. And it wasn't as if Adena was kicking her husband out of bed (although that wouldn't surprise her either after some of the things her friend had told her about Jared) since he was gone for work that weekend. Still. Holly couldn't help feeling self-conscious about the whole thing, like one, or all, of the girls would somehow know what they were up to. Or, what Holly assumed they would be up to. In her defense, she had at least tried to put up a fight.
"You can just sleep in bed with me," Adena said nonchalantly under her breath in the kitchen after she had convinced Holly to stay.
"What? No!" she spoke louder than she had meant. A few of the girls momentarily looked her way.
"It'll be more comfortable than an air mattress, and you know it. Besides, it's a big bed. Just us big girls having a totally normal sleepover like the rest of them," Adena winked, grinning mischievously.
"Why do I get the impression that whatever you have in mind is FAR from normal sleepover activities?"
Adena just looked at her and smiled.
"For fuck sake, I'm not going to make you sleep in the living room with the girls. THAT would be weird. Now stop arguing," she smacked Holly's ass as she passed behind her and no one was looking.
Now, Holly stood next to the bed, watching as her friend closed and locked her bedroom door. Only one or two of the girls were asleep just beyond in the living room. She knew the remaining ones would probably still be up for a while. After all, it didn't feel like it was all that long ago that she was a teenager herself. Actually, she felt like one right now, the lust evident in Adena's eyes, herself a bit anxious in an exciting, but nerve-wracking way. Her friend crossed the room toward her, never breaking eye contact, until her body was pressed against Holly's and they clashed in a heated kiss.
God, it was hard to tell her "no" when every fiber of her being was screaming "yes". Holly almost hated to admit it, but she'd been craving her friend's touch more and more as the months wore on.
"Wait, wait," she said quietly, finally forcing herself to gently push Adena away enough to speak.
"Let's wait a little bit, ok? Give the girls time to settle down more."
Adena seemed to think before she spoke.
