Kristen was having the most delicious dream. She felt like she was floating on the ocean, rising and falling with the waves. Overhead, bright blue, cloudless skies seemed to go on forever. The sun was warm. In fact, it was downright hot. She could feel the heat rising in her body, and she reveled in the feeling it gave her.
The waves seemed to be carrying her toward the shore, which wasn't too surprising. That's what waves did, after all, but as she came closer and closer to the beach, the waves seemed to grow in intensity. The peaks became higher and higher, and she tried to guess which wave would be the one that carried her to the burning sand.
Upward the waves carried her, so high now that she started to become somewhat anxious, but the water was warm, and she felt its wetness all over, and it felt amazingly good, so she gave in to the feeling.
The thing about dreams is that they rarely have continuity, and rarely do they reach fruition. The falling man wakes up before he hits the ground; the student sleeps through the final exam for the class she hasn't attended all semester, they always end with us waking up wondering where we are.
As Kristen drew closer and closer to the shore, rising higher and higher on the waves, she was no different. Just as she thought she was about to hit the beach, she awoke from the dream with a start, and in that instant, three thoughts ran through her head. The questions that occurred to her happened at the speed of thought, which is to say, almost instantaneously and almost at the same time, but in order, they were:
1."Where am I?"
2."What is that sensation I'm feeling?"
3."Oh my God! Am I'm cumming?"
Before she was fully awake, the wave that had been building within her body dashed her body upon the shore, where she felt herself writhing and gasping like the two lovers in "From Here to Eternity."
It was then that her brain connected the dots.
First, she knew where she was: She was in Rachel's bed.
Second, she now knew what that sensation had been: It was Rachel's tongue on her clit.
And that second realization certainly explained that wave that was washing over her.
Kristen opened her eyes and looked down her naked body to see Rachel looking up at her from between her legs. Her face was shiny with Kristen's juices, and she was grinning like the Cheshire Cat in "Alice in Wonderland."
"Good morning, Beautiful," Rachel said. "I'm sorry I woke you, but I just couldn't wait anymore."
Kristen laughed.
"Don't apologize! I'd like to wake up like that every morning. In fact, could I leave an 8 a.m. wake-up call for tomorrow too!"
The two women broke into laughter, and Rachel crawled up Kristen's body to snuggle next to her. She leaned in to kiss her, but Kristen turned her head away.
Rachel was momentarily hurt until Kristen said, "Wait until I brush my teeth! Yuck, I have morning breath."
"Yeah, well my breath smells like tuna," Rachel joked.
"Eeewww!" Kristen said, playfully swatting Rachel on her behind. "I hate it when guys say we taste like tuna!"
"I'm just joking!" Rachel replied laughing. "You don't taste anything like tuna."
"Good," Kristen said, "I was about to get a complex. Now let me up. I have to tinkle."
"OK, you go tinkle, and I'm going to make us some breakfast. I'm starved, and if you recall, we left our dinner sitting uneaten on the table last night."
"Last night," Kristen thought. "God, it seemed so long ago. And to think, that in just a little more than 24 hours, her whole life had changed dramatically."
It all began when Kristen couldn't sleep the previous night, and it had ended with Rachel's face buried between her legs, culminating in the first lesbian experience for both women. The reality of what had happened hadn't even begun to sink in, but Kristen knew her life had changed β for the better she hoped β but she knew there would be consequences to deal with.
Rachel could see the look of concern flash across her best friend's face, and knew what she must be thinking.
"Hey ... I love you. Get yourself cleaned up a little and join me in the kitchen. I know we need to talk. Everything will be OK. OK?"
Kristen smiled sheepishly at Rachel. "Am I that easy to read?"
"Yes," Rachel said simply.
"OK. I'll be there in a minute," Kristen said.
Rachel turned to go, but Kristen stopped her.
"Rachel ..."
"Yes?"
"I love you too," Kristen said looking directly into her eyes.
To Kristen, the smile that came over Rachel's face was as pleasing as the orgasm she had just experienced.
Rachel turned for the kitchen before Kristen could see the tears forming in her eyes. She had never had a man tell her that he loved her; at least, not in the simple way Kristen had just said it. She hoped that Mark would feel the same way about her someday.
When Kristen joined Rachel in the kitchen, the gourmet chef was whipping up a breakfast strata with sun-dried tomatoes and roasted red bell peppers. She had cut up fresh fruit and put out some bagels and low-fat crème cheese. A large glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice awaited Kristen, and she gulped it down as if she hadn't had a drink in weeks.
"God, what did you do to me last night," she gasped after downing the juice.
"As I recall, it was you doing the doing last night," Rachel giggled. "That's probably why you're so thirsty."
The thought of what Kristen had done to Rachel last night, and vice-versa this morning, brought renewed wetness between Kristen's thighs.
"God, maybe we'd better talk about something else; otherwise, I'm going to take you back to bed, and we'll waste another meal," she teased.
"Hey, eat all you want, I'll cook more," Rachel said mischievously, lifting up the front of her short silky negligee, revealing her nakedness below.
Kristen groaned.
"You're so bad," she said, slipping into Rachel's arms.
"I recall you wanting to kiss me a little while ago. Is that offer still on the table?" Kristen asked.
Rachel rose up on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to Kristen's, pulling her head close and opening her mouth. Kristen's tongue met Rachel's, and they teased each other that way as Kristen allowed her hands to drop to Rachel's ass. She lifted the short nightie so that she could run her hands over her new lover's ass. She gripped a cheek in each hand and then ran her index finger down the crack of Rachel's ass, eliciting a groan of appreciation that transferred from Rachel's mouth to Kristen's.
The two broke apart and Rachel went back to cooking, but the grin on her face seemed permanently etched there. It made Kristen smile, and she could tell that she had the same glow.
They remained silent for a time, both lost in their own thoughts about what had happened and what it might mean.
Rachel was the first to speak.
"Kristen? I know that what has happened changes a lot of things and that it will take a while for us to process.
"I think there are some things that should be said right away, though."
"OK," Kristen said a little nervously. She wasn't sure what Rachel was going to say. Hell, she wasn't even sure what she wanted to hear.
"First," Rachel said, "I know that you are married to Jason, and I would never try to break that up."
A flood of relief washed over Kristen, but it was quickly replaced by anxiety about Jason, and the fact that she had essentially cheated on him. Sure, it had been with a woman, but Kristen didn't fool herself into thinking that it was anything less than unfaithfulness.
"Second, I love you, and I never want to do anything to hurt you."
"Third, I want to be your lover only if it doesn't mean violating the first two statements."
Rachel saw a tear form in Kristen's eye, and she panicked.
"Kristen, I'm sorry! Did I say something wrong? Oh God, I've already hurt you. Please talk to me."
But Kristen just walked over to Rachel and took her in her arms and held her, stroking the shorter woman's long auburn hair.
"Rachel, Rachel, thank you! Thank you! You've just said everything I was thinking. I was so worried that you would ask me to give up Jason, and I just knew I wouldn't be able to do that."
"Oh babe, I know what Jason means to you. I know how deeply you love him. Hell, I love him for the way he loves you. I also don't believe that love is a limited resource. We have an infinite capacity to give and receive it, and I just want to be part of the group that gives and receives love from you."
They kissed tenderly and hugged again.
"I hate to bring it up," Rachel said, "but what about Jason? What are you going to tell him?"
"God, I don't know!" Kristen said. "I don't even know if I should tell him. Are you going to tell Mark?" Kristen asked. Mark had been Rachel's boyfriend for several months, and they were getting pretty serious. In fact, it was Rachel's recounting of a steamy sexual encounter with Mark that ultimately allowed her to get into Kristen's pants.
"Unless you don't want me to, I will. Hell, if I know Mark, it will totally turn him on. But, I know it's different for us. We aren't married. We aren't even engaged."