My name is Lynda... I'm 28...So I'm supposed to just talk. About Diane? You gotta tell me sometime what it is you're looking for here. Is it just jerk off material? Is that it? You just wanna hear about a couple of chicks goin' down on each other so you can...
Oh... For a paper... Well, that's different... Diane...Hmmm.
It's not all about Diane, though. Look, you think you're talking to a lesbian. I mean, if that helps you... if you make sense of it that way, that's fine, I guess. I mean, if you're looking for an argument forget about it. Diane...she's the first woman I loved. She can't possibly be the last. I'm in love with a woman right now. That doesn't mean I hate men...
What?...No, I won't say who she is (giggles). That would get her in trouble (more giggles).
But Diane...of course there was something special about her. There was something VERY special about her. Everything about her was extraordinary - even the bad things. See, when we met - we were assigned to be roommates, we didn't choose each other - she was pretty heavy into...I don't know what you'd call it... with a girl named Janelle. Let's see; to put it mildly, Janelle had some issues. I don't know how serious they were, but whatever. I'm pretty sure someone did some serious damage to that girl.
She was a real bitch to everyone - except Diane. I don't know...maybe she had her reasons. But I stopped giving her the benefit of the doubt when she attacked some other girl in the third floor shower. It was bad. Nobody said much about it, but apparently she thought this girl was trying to get Diane away from her. So she went after her with an aluminum softball bat. The girl wound up in a wheelchair with a speech impediment, and they carted Janelle off to the loony bin where she belongs. If they can help her, great. Until then, she belongs someplace...away from me, at least.
But up to then she was just this weird girl who pissed everyone off. I mean, it wasn't a secret that she and Diane were getting busy. No one knew what Diane saw in Janelle, but it's not like it was any of our business. Besides, when Janelle was with Diane she was a different person. She smiled. She didn't think everyone was out to get her. Diane kept her calm somehow. But that was the thing about Diane - she made you feel like the center of everything. I don't know how. It just came naturally to her. And even then, she was hot. I mean she lit me up like nothing I'd ever felt before. I'd been attracted to women before. That part of it wasn't a big deal.
But I didn't think in terms of love until this one particular day. It was spring and our freshman year was almost over. A bunch of us didn't have anywhere to go for the summer so we got together and looked for an apartment. Me...Diane...a couple of other girls. Janelle was going away for most of the summer, so she wasn't in on it. Thank God... The day we found one, we signed the lease - all five of us. Then Diane and I went back to our dorm room to pack. We wouldn't be moving for another week, but we were excited and we felt like doing something to make it feel like we were moving. You know. Anyway, I got sick of packing and laid down in bed to read a book. I didn't notice what Diane was doing. I kind of sensed her moving around. Beyond that, I didn't care.
Then I heard her say, "this thing makes me look fat."
I looked up.
Now understand - I'd seen every inch of this girl there was to see. We'd been in the showers together, we'd changed clothes in our room.
The single biggest shock I had when I went to college wasn't being away from home. It was listening to Diane play with herself in the middle of the night. Maybe she thought I was asleep. I'm sure she did. But people don't really pay much attention to things when they're doing something like that, and Diane made more noise than she meant to. She didn't scream... No, she stifled her screaming with these deep, halting breaths. Every once in a while she'd let out this low moaning sound....
You get the idea.
So I looked up to see what it was that was making her look fat. But she didn't look fat.
She was standing in front of the big mirror on the inside of the closet door. While she was packing she found this red bikini. It must have been pretty old. It didn't make her look fat, like I said, but it was kind of small on her. I'd guess it was from her early high school days, but...whatever... it was old. All year, whenever we went swimming or we laid out she wore a one-piece. A pretty safe one, too. She'd done some growing since she wore that bikini regularly.
Now why am I wasting time worrying about that stuff?
Well, she was in front of the mirror, like I said, and when I looked up, she was turned away from it and looking back over her shoulder. She was yanking down on the bikini bottom trying to cover her ass. The material only managed to get about two-thirds of it - if that. For Diane, that's far too much cheek showing. But that little detail comes to me now. That's not how it felt then. All I saw were her big eyes, all sad, looking down... and her soft brown hair falling around her neck. Her breasts were straining to get out from behind their dark red prison.
And I saw this aura. Swear to God. There was an aura around her. It was all slow motion, like I was dizzy. Diane turned this way and that trying to get a better angle on her fat problem and I just drank her in. Every inch - from her soft bare little feet to her batting eyelashes. I thought back to all the nights I'd heard her masturbating and all the times I listened to every noise she made, and all the times I heard her drift off to sleep only to find my own hands resting lightly on my nipples or between my thighs. I guess I'd just had enough of wondering.
And then I heard myself say something. "You're beautiful," I think it was. No, I'm sure that's what I said.
Diane turned toward me, suddenly looking very serious. "What did you say?"
"I said you're beautiful."
At first, I thought I'd either pissed her off or embarrassed her. She just stood there, in a bikini too small for her, looking at me like I'd just brought home a pet snake. That's why I got up and walked over to her. Well, from her perspective I must have been walking. For me it was more like floating; like one of those out-of-body experiences people claim to have sometimes. But in my case the bright light was Diane.