Soccer Women Ch. 12
"Go get her Tiger."
Carol Rogers and Jen Smith stood in the elevator together as the door closed. They distinctly heard the sound of giggling coming from the other side of the elevator door as they went up the one additional flight to Jen's hotel room.
Carol and Jen were now officially in-laws. Their daughters were just married and they had just left for their honeymoon. Over the almost six years since they had first met, Carol and Jen's relationship had had its share of twists and turns. Jen was widowed and Carol was married when they had first met. They had become best friends almost as soon as they met (much like their daughters). That soon ended up in a sexual relationship. It had taken their daughters two years to get to that point.
At first the sexual relationship was just Carol exploring a heretofore unrealized bisexuality. Jen, who was also bisexual, and was happy to help her friend with her exploration. That was all it was supposed to be. However, the two were beginning to have feelings for each other. With Carol being married, things started to get complicated. And those complications were beginning to affect their friendship.
When Jen was presented with the opportunity for a relationship with Susan McPherson, a younger woman Jen had met through her work, she jumped at the chance. Jen had hoped that by removing the sexual component of her relationship with Carol, it would ease the complications and help preserve the rest of their friendship. Unfortunately, Carol's reaction to this news was bitter and hurtful. Efforts to try to salvage their friendship had limited results. They began to drift apart.
Due to their daughters' relationship, Carol and Jen managed to at least be cordial to each other. Jen did try to reach out when Carol's husband Paul had died, but her relationship with Susan ended up getting in the way again. Carol and Jen's relationship dwindled.
Over time, and with the help of a dear friend, Carol finally came to admit to herself that the reason she had reacted so poorly when Jen had started her relationship with Susan had been because of her own feelings toward Jen. She had refused to acknowledge them at first but gradually she had faced them. Sadly, with Jen in a committed relationship, those feelings would be unrequited. Carol had finally come to accept that fact and her relationship with Jen improved, but it was not like it had been.
Then Susan McPherson left Jen for a younger woman and suddenly both Carol and Jen were single. Carol initially did not want to push things. Carol did not want to have Jen thinking that she was taking advantage of Jen's heartache. Nor did Carol just want to be Jen's rebound relationship. Additionally, Carol did not want to let herself hope that Jen might feel for Carol the way Carol felt for Jen. So, despite some encouragement from her friends that maybe she should try to re-ignite her past sexual relationship with Jen, Carol did nothing.
Then three months after the breakup, Carol and Jen were in Las Vegas for their daughters' joint bachelorette party. They had a lot of fun together over those few days. Then, as fate, or luck (or Carol's friend Jessica Williams) would have it, they ended up spending the night in the same hotel room. What followed was a firestorm of erotic passion that they both would remember for the rest of their lives. It completely consumed all the emotional debris that had built up between them. The only problem was, now what?
Carol and Jen had completely resolved their past, but what would be the nature of their relationship moving forward? Since the girls' wedding was only three months away, they decided that they would take things slow and get past that before deciding where they were going next.
Although a very solid plan, it had two major flaws; each of them already knew where they wanted the relationship to go next and neither really wanted to wait. Over those intervening three months, they spent as much time together as they could arrange since they lived over an hour away from each other. Plus, Jen had her job and was in line for a possible promotion. Carol worked from home and made her own hours so she had a little more flexibility. But they had both expressed how much they hated having to separate during the week. Add to that Katie's college graduation and the wedding and they had just been too busy to do much about it. But now, everything was done and they could turn their focus on each other.
They entered the room. Jen walked past the beds to where the bathroom was and where outside there was a sink and mirror. Jen stood before it and turned on the light. She was about to take the clips out of her hair that held it up when Carol said, "Jen, please don't take those out just yet." Jen looked up in the mirror and saw Carol approaching her. She put her hands down on the counter and stared into the mirror looking at Carol. Their eyes met and Jen could not mistake the lust in Carol's emerald green eyes. Nor could Carol mistake the slight hint of pensiveness in Jen's sapphire blue.
Carol came up and stood right behind Jen. She put her hands around Jen's waist and pressed herself against Jen's body. Carol's breasts pushed into Jen's upper back while her thighs made contact with Jen's ass cheeks. Carol leaned down and placed a kiss on Jen's neck right where it meets her shoulder. Then she looked up and into the mirror. Jen had closed her eyes when Carol had begun to kiss her and now she opened them back up. She continued to stare forward but they made eye contact in the mirror.
Carol asked, "Okay, what's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"Jen, I'm not a guy. That won't work. What's wrong?"
Jen looked down at the counter and said, "Megan and Jessica are very important to you, aren't they?"
"Yes, they are. In fact, next to family..." - at this point Carol hugged Jen a little tighter around her waist and put her chin on Jen's shoulder while still looking straight into the mirror - "...and now you and Melanie are part of my family... - at that point Jen looked back up, meeting Carol's gaze in the mirror and smiled - "...they are probably the two most important people in my life."
"Should I be thankful they didn't invite you to their room?" She tried to make it sound playful but there was a twinge in her voice as Jen again looked down at the counter. Carol realized this needed to be nipped in the bud right now.
"Jen, I can honestly say that I am exactly where they want me to be."
"Why would they want you here?"
"Because they both love me very much."
At this Jen picked her head back up. Again, looking straight ahead but keeping eye contact in the mirror, Jen said," I'm not sure I understand Carol."