I rang the doorbell and waited. The music inside thumped some techno beat with an over lay of heavy guitars, I wasn't sure how anyone inside was going to hear me and I considered leaving. But I have nowhere else to go. I guess that's what happens when you tie your life to someone for 6 years and then they cheat on you. I'm 24 years old and having to beg my step sister, Selene, to let me move in with her because my long term boyfriend left me for a 19 year old med student. But that's life, right?
I rang the doorbell again, this time the music softened and someone opened the door. The tall exotic looking girl was not my step sister, but she was gorgeous.
"Can I help you?" the Amazonian woman asked.
"Uh hi, yeah I'm Jazz, Jasmine, um is Selene home?" I stuttered out.
She surveyed me for a second, her bright green eyes scanning every inch of me. I guess that's fair though, I too was surveying her. She had lightly caramel skin, the kind that tells of years spent in the sun. Her hair was dark brown and sleek hanging past her shoulders. She had full pink lips that formed a pout that asked for her lips to be nibbled. In short she was stunning.
"Jesus H. Sara what is taking so long?"
Selene came around the corner, a beer bottle in hand.
"Hey Selene" I waved at her.
"Holy shit, Jazz what the hell are you doing here? Sara let her in, don't be rude."
Sara's scrutinizing face broke into a smile as she reached her hand out to me,
"Sorry love, I was just teasing."
I took her hand and she pulled me into the house.
Selene led me into the living room where there was half a six pack of beer bottles and a bong and rolling papers laying on the coffee table.
"Sorry Jazz, I know you don't smoke, just let me move stuff around and you can tell me what brings you around. Help yourself to a drink, there's wine in the fridge if you'd prefer."
I nodded and helped myself to her kitchen while she cleaned up her smoking paraphernalia.
Selene and I could not have been more different but we got a long pretty well. Her dad moved to our tiny home town when we were 13, she was into bands with guys who wore eyeliner, concerts with boys wearing chains and tattoos, and making out behind the school between classes with guys and girls alike. It wasn't like she was a "bad kid" just a free spirit, at least that's what her dad said. One year she brought home a girl for Christmas and my slightly more conservative mother was a little shocked at first. But to her credit she accepted it.
I, on the other hand was an honors student, I had more extracurriculars than I had time to do them in, but I made it work. I met my ex-boyfriend my first year of college, he was an engineering major in his second year and I was a fresh faced 18 year old. It wasn't like we had a bad relationship; we dated for exactly one year and 6 months before we moved in together. We got a cat 6 months later and a dog the next year. Everything was moving along as a relationship should. Then something happened, I'm not sure if it was me that noticed it first or him but our sex life fell apart. He could no longer satisfy me, then we started fighting more and we had good days and bad but the spark that had been there was gone. We just lost interest in each other. I suppose I can't be angry he cheated, but I wish he would have talked to me first instead of letting her move in and taking the liberty to move me out while I was away for work.
But Selene and I also looked like night and day opposites. She has pale skin that brings out her startling blue eyes and her smirking mouth that forever was painted in crimson red lip stick. She wore dark, winged to perfection, eyeliner, and kept her black hair cut into a bob and it forever changed colors, currently it was her natural black with purple underneath that became visible when she flipped her hair or ran her fingers through it. She was about 5'5" and had curves where women are supposed to. She had a voluptuous chest that spilled over the top of her corset enticingly, accentuated by the ruby red gem she kept resting between the top of her cleavage.
I was about 5'8' with mousey brown hair that wasn't curly and wasn't quite straight but was somehow simultaneously too messy to do anything with. I was slender, I suppose I had curves but they seemed like nothing in comparison to Selene. And my chest was average at best. I never learned to master make-up but simple neutral colors were in my palette. At the current moment my outfit was lack luster when compared to Sara and Selene, simple dark fitted jeans and tank top covered with a zip up hoodie made me appear as about as average as you could get.
Selene came bustling around the corner and pulled me into the living room where she and Sara had changed into pajamas.
"You happened to show up during our bi-weekly slumber party, I put some pajamas over there, they should fit. Go change and then tell me what's been up with you."
Sara handed me the clothes and directed me to the bathroom to change.
Inside I uncovered what they had deemed pajamas for me. A pair of bright pink shorts that barely covered my ass and a black lacey silk tank top. I pulled the clothes on and shook out my hair hoping its medium length would do something to cover some skin, no dice. Sighing I admired myself in the mirror, the shorts fit well accentuating my long legs but the shirt was just a little too short leaving a sliver of a gap between the waist band and the hem of the tank top. Here you could see one of the few hidden pieces of body art I had. It was a book tattooed on my upper thigh with the pages open and swirls coming off the pages that flowed up over the bone of my hip, as if magic was flowing off the pages. Nerdy I know, but I liked it and nobody ever saw it.
I walked back to the living room to see Selene refilling my wine glass.
Sara whistled from behind me as I entered the room.
"Nice ass, can I touch it?" she giggled, her eyes were lightly rimmed in red so I had the feeling she was high.
"Um..." I started.
"Sara down girl, leave her alone you horny bitch" Selene laughed from the couch.
"Sorry, but plain Jane here hides a pretty nice figure under all those clothes and goody two shoes vibe, bet she's secretly a freak"
"Sara!"
Sara threw her hands up in surrender.
"Sorry Jasmine, she's an animal and in heat apparently. So what brings you to my humble abode?"
"Daniel and I broke up; he cheated on me with some 19 year old med student." I replied.
"The fuck!? For real?"
"Yeah, the cheating doesn't bother me as much as the throwing my shit on the curb while I was away for work. Our relationship was all but over, but I'm pretty certain half my DVD collection walked away before I got around to picking my stuff up."
"That's messed up, I'm sorry sweetie, do you need some place to stay?"
"Yeah I was going to ask Mom and your dad but, I was told they are on a cruise for 2 weeks."
"No problem I'll clear out the spare room tomorrow and it's yours as long as you need it, Sara lives here too, but she travels a lot. Tonight I will set up the couch and you can have my bed."
"Oh, no Selene I don't want to impose." I argued.
"Nope shut it, it's been decided. Now who wants to get silly?"
Sara giggled and I collapsed into the couch accepting the terms and forcing myself to relax for the first time all day.
Several drinks later, Sara and Selene were passing a bong back and forth while I sat idly by watching. Finally I spoke up,
"Can-can I try?"
Selene stopped and turned to me,