"Remind me again why I'm doing this?" Miranda asked, even as she slipped her pale fingers into Pari's warm, soft grip and allowed herself to be led out of the bar and down the sidewalk. She knew she was breaking a number of her own rules--club nights weren't for hookups, they were for meeting women the blonde college student thought she might want to date later, and going back to someone else's place wasn't something she did until at least the third date. (Okay, second if they had adorable deep brown eyes like Pari did. God, she was so fucking gorgeous. Miranda couldn't stop thinking about the way their hands were touching right now.)
The young Iranian woman gave her a sly smile and said, in a lilting accent that suggested a British education, "The night is young, the bar is loud, so why spend time among the crowd?" Miranda giggled--she'd been trying to catch Pari out for most of the night, but she'd been unable to stump her new crush when it came to couplets. She seemed to have an intuitive gift for rhyming, and although it was exactly the kind of deliberate eccentricity that usually got on her nerves, Miranda found it utterly charming coming from those cherry red lips.
Of course, looking the way Pari did made just about any habit a little bit easier to take. Miranda couldn't stop sneaking glances at the other woman's wide smile, her gorgeous light brown skin that caught the moonlight so beautifully, the sway of her heavy breasts as they walked along the busy downtown streets... Pari looked so vivacious and full of sexy punk energy with her spiked purple hair and ripped denim jacket that Miranda was honestly surprised that she didn't have to elbow her way through a crowd of admirers to start up a conversation.
But it seemed almost like she was sitting near the back of the bar just waiting for Miranda to notice her. "There's no one that you have to meet," she'd said, her voice carrying clearly over the early evening crowd, "so why not come and have a seat?" All thoughts of Carrie and Leah and Edwina fled Miranda's mind in a heartbeat, and she quickly and gratefully sat across from Pari. Her friends would undoubtedly find their own entertainment. Miranda would just let them know in the morning that she bumped into someone unexpectedly.
And spent the night... spent the night? "Um, yeah, sure," Miranda mumbled, unsure why she felt the need to deflect the other woman's attentions. God, her body was so fucking beautiful--just thinking about embracing Pari and caressing the smooth swell of her hips where they broadened out into that plump, sexy ass made Miranda's eyes glaze over with arousal. But--but she had rules, didn't she? Some kind of rules that she'd made for some reason or another, probably a stupid reason that didn't make any sense. But she should still at least try to follow them. "We, um, we can just go for a nice quiet walk together."
Pari chuckled. "But I have coffee, strong and hot," she purred enticingly, her silvered tones coaxing Miranda with the promise of more than just a warm drink on a cool October evening. "It's just the thing that hits the spot." Miranda's head practically swam with arousal--she knew full well that the young woman wanted to have sex with her, their conversation back at the bar had been laced with flirtatious rhymes until Miranda's panties were almost soaked clean through. But she... she should, um, she had the rules, and she didn't want to break them because--because--well, this was why she made them when she wasn't horny and tipsy and distracted, right? Because sometimes when you were like that it was hard to remember the perfectly good reasons not to wander off and tumble into bed with a total stranger.
Miranda didn't want to break her own rules. But maybe she could just bend them a little. Just go up to Pari's apartment, have a little coffee and conversation, and leave before she did anything too... too.... Miranda's mind momentarily sank into distraction, feeling the other woman's soft, delicate fingers against her skin and wondering what it might be like to have them touch somewhere a little more intimate. She'd never been with another woman before, and the thought of being caressed by someone who knew just how she liked to be touched made Miranda's pulse quicken and her breath hitch.
Miranda frowned suddenly, her legs carrying her automatically down the street as she tried to concentrate on the strange, incongruous note that her recent thoughts struck during their wanderings. It was something, something that seemed simultaneously comfortingly familiar and yet thrillingly new, something that reminded her of Pari's soft, cooing words back at the bar. Miranda's eyes went glassy and unfocused, trying to hold the two contradictory frames of identity in her mind at the same time. She, she'd never been with a woman in her life before tonight, never even thought about it despite so many men's drunken dares on her nights out with her friends, and yet....
"A woman's touch is soft and warm, so why not love a female form?"