Copyright 2012, 2020 Lisa Summers
(Author's note - I decided not to change any of the time periods or political references in this story written 8 years ago, because it's about love, not war.)
Afghanistan 2004
Emily Anderson preceded Kit Taylor by a half hour entering the small house, located in a small village outside Kabul, lent to them by a sympathetic Afghan woman named Anoosheh. It was simply furnished, but an ideal location for a rare, and hard to arrange liaison between two women who were often under the eyes of the Afghans themselves, as well as the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Emily wore a burqa - besides being ugly, it prevented a lot of questions. Such as, why was a fair-haired American woman entering an Afghan widow's house without following the usual formalities?
Emily was greeted warmly by Anoosheh, and was surprised to find that the Afghan woman was both beautiful and sophisticated. Anoosheh grew excited as Emily disrobed from the shapeless blue garment, revealing the slim, young, and blonde American within, wearing a simple cotton blouse and linen skirt.
"You are so beautiful!" Anoosheh exclaimed, clapping her hands together. "And your outfit, it is so lovely." Emily as well admired the Afghan woman, wearing a short dress of French design, her hair beautifully coiffed, her makeup perfect. She was younger than Emily had expected, perhaps thirty, her hair was long and glossy, and black as night.
"Afghan women love to dress up at home, it is really our only opportunity to be real women," Anoosheh said, as she saw Emily's eyes run lingeringly up and down her body. She preened for the pretty American.
"My husband and I were educated in Great Britain, and resolved to help move our homeland into modern times. Unfortunately, we have been less than successful, but I still hold out hope for the future of our people. Sadly, my husband was killed five years ago, but his spirit lives on through me," Anoosheh said in her only slightly accented voice.
"I'm sorry for your loss," Emily said, taking the woman's hands in hers. "It must be so difficult..."
"I have adapted," Anoosheh said, with a smile. "In tribute to his memory, I will never be with another man. But there are compensations..." Anoosheh smiled more broadly this time, and Emily felt a stirring in her loins.
"There are many women here who have 'adapted' to such things, and we often get together. We make do." She laughed, and Emily chuckled as well. It was a pleasant surprise for the svelte American soldier, a Lieutenant in the United States Army.
Anoosheh offered Emily hot tea, and the two woman sat and chatted as they waited for Emily's lover, Kit, to arrive.
After about a half hour, they heard a quick knock on the door frame, then Kit's anxious voice. "Emily, are you here?"
Anoosheh opened the door, and as the shapeless burqa swept in, Anoosheh quickly closed the door after her. Kit quickly pulled off the burqa, and Emily's heart leapt at the sight of her lover. Kit was very similar in looks to Emily, though her hair was several shades darker, and cut somewhat shorter. Both women were of medium height, although Kit was two inches taller than Emily, with slim bodies, petite facial features and blue eyes. Kit was clad in blouse and slacks.
"Sorry, I had to come from an assignment," she explained. Kit was nominally an 'agricultural expert' attached to the United States Embassy, but there was little doubt that she had other, more important even if undisclosed, duties on behalf of the government's intelligence agency, the CIA.
Anoosheh offered Kit some tea as well, and as she prepared it, Kit assisting, Emily thought back to how the two American women had first met.
They each had come from farming communities - one from upstate New York, the other from Kansas, and it was that shared interest that had initially brought them together. They laughed over diet sodas in the military lounge over the thought of two Future Farmers of America ending up in Afghanistan, with neither in reality doing anything even remotely resembling farm work. One thing they found that they had in common was being their daddies' favorites of all his kids - they were definitely 'farmer's daughters,' and jokingly referred to each other that way. Their talk was rarely political, particularly since one of them intended to vote for incumbent President Bush in the upcoming elections, and the other was leaning to Senator John Kerry as her choice.
That first afternoon they talked, for the longest time, and into a chill night, about their families, until they each believed they knew the other's sisters and brothers, father and mother, and their burgeoning friendship quickly grew into love, a deeper and hotter love than either of them knew could ever exist.
Their first sense of that love, a hot and burning sexual desire, was expressed through their eyes. 'Gateway to the soul,' yes, and in their cases, flashing alerts to the degree and amount of interest they had in the other. Emily looked up, that first time, to see Kit's eyes fixed on her breasts.
Rude? Yes. Frank? Yes. But when those eyes then lifted up to fix on her own eyes, Emily caught on fire, Kit the burning match put to Emily's kerosene, and Emily knew that Kit hadn't been rude in her own view, but honest in her need and attraction.
"I don't know what it is, Emily...I have to...I must, be with you." A flustered moment. "I'm sorry." Kit made a move to rise from the table and flee.
"No...wait, Kit. I understand, I think." A pause. "I feel it too." Kit's look of disbelief, then dawning hope, then a glimmer of cynicism - a lifetime of experience in a glance.
"It's true," Emily continued. "From the first time I saw you, I knew that I wanted - well, so much - to know you, to be with you, to experience things with you..."
From that inauspicious start blossomed the flower of their love. Emily recalled their 'recon' mission in a Humvee to a remote Afghan village - ignoring protocol, just a soldier and an embassy attachΓ©, no support personnel. How could they bring others? They hungered for each other's sweet taste, smell and touch.
"God, Kit, in a hummer?"
"Shut up, there've been worse places in human history...you want me, don't you?"
"Oh god, yes! I want you in me...on me...I need to cum with you actually in the same place with me instead of teasing me on the phone."
Kit smiled, and unwrapped Emily's scarf from around her neck, a slight puff of dust erupting from the fabric as she brought it behind her dirty blonde hair.
"What a fucking country." She began unbuttoning Emily's military tunic buttons hurriedly, exposing Emily's sweet, full breasts, still encased in khaki bra.
"God, your breasts..." Kit marveled. She leaned in to nuzzle them, loving the warm, soft feel of the woman's chest against her cheeks, instantly absorbing a sense of security and...home.
Emily instinctively brought her arms and hands around Kit's head, embracing her new lover closer to herself, feeling both protector and protected. Both women felt a tingle growing to a buzz in the pit of their stomachs, knowing it would soon relocate to a sweeter spot.