Emma
Part 1 "Messy Mouthful"
Emma messed up royally. She couldn't keep her plump lips shut about her new relationship with Marley. Last Tuesday Emma was discussing intimate private details about their new romance with her best friend. Tragedy struck when Emma found out Marley had been standing on the other side of the paper thin walls the entire time!
Embarrassment scorched Emma's face like wildfires catching thicket. She tried to back peddle from the over exposing conversation but could feel Marley's anger start to boil.
"You were talking about me to her?" Marley sounded hurt while she interrogated Emma.
"I, I - " Emma started fumbling over her words but knew lies would be futile. "I did and I'm sorry".
"How could you?" Marley asked as her eyes filled with tears begging to be released from the hot coils of her pain.
Emma reached out for Marley's hand instinctively to soothe her wrong doings. Marley instantly flinched out of the way leaving Emma's hand lingering lonely in the air. She started to turn away from Emma and shield herself from the perpetrator.
"Marley I'm really sorry. It was wrong of me to talk about you to my best friend. Please tell me what I can do for you to forgive me."
Marley stopped in her tracks as she heard the pleading in Emma's voice giving her pause. Emma seized her chance and took a step closer. She gently traced her fingers in the tips of Marley's curly hair as she spoke low and softly, "Please Marley, let me make it up to you."
Marley turned around to meet Emma's gaze. So many emotions swam in choppy currents between them as words wouldn't do their feelings justice. Marley didn't flinch when Emma tried to squeeze her hand for the second time. She let out a small sigh relaxing the tension out of her tiny frame.
Wordlessly Emma approached her with a soft brush of her lips. Marley kissed her back hesitantly, not sure if she was making the right choice.
"Anything?" Marley asked, becoming intrigued by Emma's proposal.
"Anything!" Emma replied giving hints of her apology tour.
Marley hoped the sins of the night would wipe away the regrets of tomorrow as she let Emma entice her with forbidden fruit.
The first forbidden fruit Emma offered was a trail of kisses along her jaw and down her neck. Emma's hands bunched in Marley's shirt as she began to slowly slide the floral fabric up. Marley felt a fluttering as she tilted her neck to let Emma kiss lower, her hands wrapping around Emma's luscious body.
Emma and Marley were from different backgrounds, different cultures, and different childhood upbringings. Emma was a silver spoon daddy's girl from a middle class family. The only hardships she had to overcome was the copper hair, speckled freckles she was born with, and extra weight she carried on her small frame. She was teased and bullied for her ruddy outer shell and binge eating habits.
Marley, on the other hand, grew up in rougher parts of their small town born into a family of deep ebony skin and resilience. She learned how the world worked at an early age through the eyes of being a minority. She was treated differently her entire life due to her heritage, something Emma could never fathom, and a small part of her hated how she would never understand.
Before revealing their affection for each other, they were once enemies. Their opinions were warped by the people around them - pitting the women against one another by friends retaliating. It wasn't until one night alone when they got to learn more about themselves did they discover the heat was not from disdain but from attraction.