"Babe, I don't care how fabulous Salvador City is, no disrespect to the people of Brazil but I bet none of your malls come close to the Toronto Eaton Center," Shadya said to her girlfriend Selena Texeira as they walked around the world famous mega-mall together. Located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, the Eaton Center dwarfed most malls that Selena had ever seen, this much the young Brazilian woman could readily admit.
The multi-level Eaton Center seemed more like a small town than anything else to Selena's cool, careful appraising gaze. The place was packed with people of all hues, reflecting the City of Toronto's racial diversity. This was after all the city that birthed the biracial artist and actor known as Drake, one of Selena's favorite celebrities. Selena, the daughter of an interracial couple, could identify with a lot of the themes in Drake's work...
"Careful, babe, you're triggering my inner shopaholic," Selena replied, playfully smacking Shadya's leather-clad bum. Today, as they walked around the mall hand in hand, they were all dolled up, but couldn't look more different. Selena wore a stylish summer dress, and her long dark hair was tousled, and her makeup on point. A tall, exotically beautiful model, that's how she looked.
Shadya on the other hand wore her trademark black leather jacket over a green tank top, black leather pants and black leather boots. Her short, curly dark hair was glistening thanks to the hair gel that Selena insisted on smearing all over it. The things I do for love, Shadya thought as she carried Selena's shopping bag. Today, Selena, the self-styled originator of Tomboy Hotness was in femme mode, complete with diva behavior.
"Yeah, whatever," Shadya replied, and Selena smiled at her, knowing that she secretly loved shopping. A lot of butches, a category of human to which Shadya belonged, would deny having a feminine side, but Selena countered that both butch and femme could coexist within the same woman. Shadya, who remembered Selena dominating the hell out of her in bed, could definitely concur...
"Don't whatever me sweetie, I've seen the way you looked at those pink panties at Victoria's Secret, butch swag my ass, keep sassing me and I'll buy you a pair and throw away those boxer shorts you like so much," Selena said, flashing Shadya a smile a shark would recognize. Shadya repressed a shudder at the thought of being forced to wear such feminine items. She'd rather walk around Bay Street naked instead of doing that shit...
"What, afraid I might fill them out better than you can? I've got way more booty than you, Miss Brazil," Shadya countered, and Selena blinked in surprise. Shadya smiled, drinking in the look of shock on Selena's beautiful face. Like a lot of "in-between" gals, those who bounced between being super girly and super tomboyish, or butch, whatever, Selena Texeira thought of herself as the beauty on duty. Shadya, who'd seen fellow butches win beauty contests against overconfident femmes, had other ideas...
"You did not just say that," Selena replied, and she slapped Shadya's ass, hard. There was none of the playfulness in that gesture this time. Shadya flinched and looked into Selena's eyes, seeing a steely glint in those orbs. At the same time, Shadya was aware of passersby looking at them. Smiling, Shadya pulled Selena into her arms and kissed her ear gently, before imparting some words of wisdom.