Dearest reader
Thanks for sticking with this. Here's the third and final part of Samantha and Sarah's story, although it won't be the last you see (or hear) of these characters.
Obviously, if you haven't read Parts 1 and 2, I suggest you read those first.
All characters are over 18.
Happy reading
T
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Love is a place (Part 3): The Outcome
It was New Year's day and Samantha was coming back to the flat on Falmouth Place.
Sarah had been working solidly since December 26th, including until 3am the night before, and hadn't seen Samantha in all that time. They had been in constant contact via text message since Christmas, plus a few phone calls, but these had been deeply unsatisfying: Samantha's very literal mind and lack of filter did not lend itself to endearments. Instead, she could be quite off-puttingly explicit. One exchange while working a slow shift had left Sarah almost wincing:
Sarah: Hey gorgeous, thinking of you. I'd like to be lying in our bed cuddling you right now.
Samantha: Hi Sarah. I'd like to be pushing a 10 inch dildo repeatedly into your vagina right now.
Romantic it was not. Sarah had felt an aversion to using the pepper mill on customers' pizzas for the rest of the evening.
So, while Sarah was desperate for Samantha to return and, potentially, consummate their newly expressed feelings for one another, to say that she was apprehensive was putting it mildly.
She'd done a thorough clean of the flat yesterday, the fridge was stocked and the bed linen changed. She'd placed candles around their room, had shaved her legs and showered, and picked out an outfit that made her feel sexy.
For her own part, Samantha had dealt with their time apart by doing as much reading and research as was possible, as well as completing an essay not actually due until mid-January. This fulfilled the dual function, in Samantha's mind, of distracting herself from missing her beloved Sarah, and also meaning she would have as little work to do as possible once they were reunited. However, there had been other research to do as well, which had been far less successful at distracting her from Sarah's absence. Quite the opposite in fact. She had also taken advantage of her parents' membership of Amazon Prime to order four items via express delivery to arrive in the days before New Year's Eve. As her mum had been the one to open the package once these had arrived, Samantha had needed to update her parents as to the change in Samantha and Sarah's relationship status.
Having previously resigned themselves to the idea of their daughter living a solitary life, they were overjoyed at this development (after the initial shock). Samantha's mum Rachael had seen fit to bombard Sarah with over-joyed text messages, which Sarah had found both sweet and cringe-worthy at the same time. Nonetheless, this knowledge had helped convince Rachael and Glen to let Samantha return to the flat in Clifton a week earlier than planned.
Glen dropped his daughter off at 11am and sensibly declined her invitation to come up.
"Thanks Dad, I didn't really want you to. I am hoping that Sarah and I will have sex straight away."
Luckily, Glen was rather used to his daughter's rather candid way with words. "I think that's called over-sharing, Samantha."
"Oh. Ok, I will bear that in mind in future. Thank you for the lift."
Sarah, who had been following Samantha's progress with a find-a-phone app with increasing excitement and agitation, was waiting at the door.
"Hi beautiful!"
"Hello Sarah! I'd like to kiss you now."
Lips met and parted. Arms slipped around waists. Bodies pushed into one another as the two nervous lovers closed the space between them. Sarah gasped with both pleasure and relief, letting go of her unacknowledged paranoia that their Christmas kisses had been merely a cruel hallucination.
Samantha's neural networks were firing and expanding, generating dozens of new connections per second. Unconsciously, her rather unusual brain was already adapting and learning her partner's patterns, rooting and storing the sweet smells Sarah's sounds were stimulating and memorising precisely what touches and movements were provoking them. She held happiness in her hands and had no intention of ever letting it go. Up until recently, if you had asked her, her life's ambition - in as much as she understood that abstract concept - was to master the intricate mysteries of DNA sequencing. At 12:42pm on Christmas Day, with their first kiss, that had all changed, and her life's aim was now to be Sarah's ideal sexual and romantic partner. Her not inconsiderable intellect and her rather intimidating ability to be absolutely single-minded was now fully focussed on this goal.
Minutes passed, mouths moved and hearts beat. Tongues tangled, breath mingled and time ticked on.
For Samantha, the feeling was akin to being lowered into a hot bath surrounded by a subtly shifting scent palette, like walking through an aromatherapy demonstration at a Christmas market. She was tasting extra, extra. Her chest had unfolded so far that she felt like Sarah must have stepped inside her.