Carly sat down in the corner of the large auditorium; it was already full. Glancing quickly to the stage she saw she had a couple of minutes before the guest speaker would be introduced. The anthropology professor was still droning on about the speaker’s education and achievements. Carly took the opportunity to look around the large room. She wouldn’t consciously admit it to herself but she was looking for someone. When her eyes landed on her, she smiled, her heartbeat raced, and her breathing quickened. Two rows down and five seats over sat Rebecca. Rebecca wasn’t beautiful, she was pretty sure, but no one could say she was beautiful. In Carly’s eyes she was perfection. Rebecca was a couple of inches short of six feet, had curly brown hair that fell to her shoulders, a thin frame, breasts that would barely fill a B cup, and curves so slight they were almost nonexistent. Her face was animated; her clear green eyes always seemed to be filled with laughter over some personal joke.
Carly had first me her a week earlier when they both showed up to a review session for an exam. She’d been wondering ever since how she could have missed her. They had talked briefly that day and had even managed a few quick hellos since then. Rebecca had been on Carly’s mind ever since; Carly had been so preoccupied with her even her boyfriend had started to notice. Carly quickly turned her gaze to George sitting besides her wondering how he would feel if she confessed to having sexual urges toward another female. Carly mentally shrugged and looked once more toward Rebecca willing her to turn around, so she could glimpse at the face that had been haunting her dreams.
Rebecca felt the eyes at the back of her head. She turned around slowly; her gaze moving up toward Carly and she smiled. Her green eyes bright. It was good to know she wasn’t alone in her infatuation. When she had first met Carly, at the review session, she had been blown away. Carly was raw energy wrapped up in a very sexy package. Carly was about her own height, but that’s where the similarities ended. While Rebecca was thin and almost flat, Carly was everything female. Her blonde hair fell straight down to her waist, her bad was curved, her breasts were big without being obscene, and she had the muscle tone of an athlete. Nothing about her could be called bony. As Rebecca looked up at Carly, she wondered if her grey eyes had gone dark as they often did when they managed upon each other for a quick hello. Their eyes met and locked for several moments until the guest speaker finally took the podium and Rebecca turned around to take notes.
The auditorium emptied out quickly after the speaker’s closing remarks. Rebecca was still in her row looking up at Carly, smiling. Carly made excuses to George, kissed him good-bye, and watched as he left the auditorium. She then turned and began walking down towards Rebecca. Rebecca met her halfway. Carly stood when step above her, looking down at her animated face.
“Hi,” Carly said smiling, feeling butterflies flutter around her stomach.
“Hello,” Rebecca replied looking around. They were completely alone in the large auditorium. “What did you think of the speaker?”
“He sounded interesting, but I only understood about a third of what he said.”
“That sounds about right. Everything else was bullshit,” Rebecca replied moving her hand to touch Carly’s where it gripped her books.
Carly looked down to where Rebecca’s pale hand covered her own tanned one. She loosened her grip on the anthropology books and intertwined her fingers with Rebecca’s. Biting down on her lower lip, she looked up to Rebecca’s eyes and smiled. Rebecca smiled back. Neither felt the urge to untangle their fingers.
“Are you ready for the exam on Friday?” Carly asked mostly to end the silence that had stretched between them.
“No, not at all. Maybe we could get together to study.”
“Yeah, that would be great.”
“How about right now?” Rebecca asked. Carly smiled. “I mean this was my last class for today, and it’s my day off work, but if you have something to do we can study some other day.”