Chapter 28
28
One day, they would have a giant clawfoot tub made of brass like the ones they had in the horny historical dramas. They’d fill it up with steaming water and sit on either side, watching each other in comfortable anticipation as they soaked.
Until then, they had the small porcelain one in their little bathroom. The one with a big surface crack down the center that Jade had covered with a plastic bath mat. It was just deep enough and wide enough for one of them to cradle the other between their legs. There was very little room to move around or do anything at all, really. But maybe that was something of a treat all on its own.
Francesca sat with her back to the tub, and Jade squeezed in the space between her thighs. They’d filled the tub with Epsom salt, eucalyptus bubbles, and water that was probably far too hot for most other people. It was perfect for them, though. Franny slid her arms around Jade, cradling her pert breasts gently as if they were the most precious things in the world.
“We should go to Costco tomorrow,” Franny said quietly in Jade’s ear. “We need laundry detergent, and I want to see about getting new pillows for the bed.”
“We should get a chicken too.”
“Oh yeah, angel,” Franny growled. “And after that, we’ll get the tires rotated on my car.”
“Keep going, please.”
Franny bit at one of Jade’s earlobes, sucking the flesh into her ear to ease the sting after. “And when we get home…”
“Mmmm, tell me what’s going to happen when we get home, baby.”
Franny’s thumbs slid over Jade’s nipples, which turned up the heat in the tub by about ten degrees.
“When we get home, we’re going to change all the knobs on the cabinets in the kitchen.”
“I love knobs,” Jade moaned.
“I know you do.”
“You know, if you keep doing that, this is going to go from fake sexy to real sexy very quickly.”
Franny wasn’t the slightest bit concerned with Jade’s little warning. Her thumbs continued their circles around the hard brown buds of Jade’s nipples, and Jade pressed back into her, and that soft, warm skin felt incredible against her own hard nipples.
“I take your sexiness very seriously, Jade. You know that.”
“We’re playing pretty fast and loose with space here, then.”
Franny flexed her thighs, trying to test the bounds of the bathtub.
“Up, up.” Franny tapped Jade’s arm then. “We’re getting out.”
“But we just got in.”
“Do you want to eat my pussy, or do you want to sit in this water?”
There was no hesitation in her answer. “I want to eat your pussy, obviously. Like, what kind of question is that?”
A couple of minutes later, they were silently laying towels across their bed, tangling their damp bodies on top in a tangle of arms and legs and lips. Jade’s hands immediately went to Franny’s ass, pulling their hips together in a slow bump and grind that was too delicious for words. She squeezed the warm, pliant flesh between her fingers, reveling in the way Franny moaned.
“This never gets old.” Jade pulled away from Franny’s lips and spoke the words into the damp skin of her neck. Jade smelled of fresh water and clean sweat, and Franny’s mouth ran wet as the other woman bit and licked her way across her collarbones.
Franny maneuvered until she was lying flat on her back and looking up at Jade as she made a show out of worshipping Franny’s small breasts. Light brown areola, slightly puffy around her hard little nipples. She’d never liked how they looked more than the way they looked between Jade’s lips. She spent ample time on them too. Tweaking one while her lips sucked the other. She made no move to reach between Franny’s legs. Jade seemed to want her squirming and begging beneath her. It worked too, because the insides of Franny’s thighs were quickly covered in slick the second her girl worked them open.
“You’re killing me, angel,” Franny gritted out. “It’s been forever.”
“It’s been three days.” Jade giggled. “And only because I was out of town.”
“Three days is forever when it comes to you.”
“What a compliment.”
“I need your hands on me, always. It’s hard enough going a full school day without being able to kiss you or feel me against you.”
Jade gave her right tit one last nip with her sharp teeth before she paused, looking at her. “Is that right?”
Her fingers trailed down Franny’s flat stomach, straight to where her tummy turned into her pussy. But just before delving inside, she moved them back up to make torturous circles around her belly button. Her tongue following into the deep little indent.
“All day.” Franny sucked in a breath. “All fucking day, I have to stop myself from finding you and dragging you into a supply closet somewhere to get a piece of you.”
“Ms. Lim, what a scandalous thought.”
“It’s depraved, I know. But I can’t help it. I just need you. I need you all the time.”
Jade sank her teeth into Franny’s right hip. It was possible that she should have been concerned about all this biting. It must have signaled something concerning, right? The way Franny almost felt like she was being consumed. What may have been more concerning was how she welcomed it— yearned for it.
“And what do you think about doing to me when we’re all alone in this dark closet?” Jade whispered.
“All kinds of things…”
Jade spread Franny’s thighs then. The scent of her own arousal was heady and intoxicating.
“How about this? You tell me what you want to do to me in that work closet, and after I’ll give your hot little pussy what it wants. How does that sound?”
Franny groaned and lifted her hips a bit off the bed. Her body searching for the ecstasy it knew was on the horizon.
“I want to push you against the shelves,” Franny panted. “And I want my hands down the front of your pants, playing with your clit until you cream all over my fingers. I want to make you shove your fist in your mouth as you scream, desperate to stay quiet while I’m making you come your brains out. And then I want us to run home and do it over and over and over again, until the windows of this room are foggy and you no longer remember your name.”
“Depraved girl,” Jade admonished her lightly. “Look at how wet you are at the thought of having me wherever you want.”
Finally, after what felt like forever, Jade lightly ran her fingers over Franny’s pussy. Franny knew it must have been hot to the touch, and it was so wet that when Jade lifted her fingers away, Franny’s juices clung to them.
“Remember the first time?” Franny’s voice was strained—almost like she was moments away from sobbing.
“In the club?” Jade answered.
“You fucked me against the sink,” Franny bit out. “You looked at me in the mirror as I came around you…”
“If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you had a public-sex kink, Francesca.”
“What gave it away?”
Jade slid two fingers inside her with ease, and Franny sighed like she’d been offered water in the middle of the desert. Jade fucked her fingers inside fast, curling them up. The loud squelching sounds rang through the room.
“That gives it away,” Jade said.
“Please,” Franny whined. “Please fuck me, angel.”
“I will. You know I will. Just tell me how you want to be fucked.”
“What are my options?”
“I can keep giving you my fingers,” Jade answered. “I can give you my tongue.” She leaned down, running her tongue over Franny’s hard little clit a few times before taking it between her lips, sucking until the other woman’s hips were bucking against her face. “Or I can give you dick.”
That made Franny pause. She leaned up on her elbows, her chest rising and falling rapidly as she looked down at Jade. They didn’t use their strap-on that often. And usually when they did, Franny wanted to top.
“Is that what you want, Francesca? Do you want me to give you dick?”
“Yes,” she gasped. “Yes. Please, God, please.”
“You want to choose which one you want while I get it on?”
Franny rolled to standing quickly, going for their toy box under the bed while Jade rummaged around in her bedside drawer for their shared harness. By the time Franny was back on the bed, lying on her side, dildo of choice in her hands, Jade had the harness on. The dark black straps were snug against her skin, and seeing Jade outfitted in the fabric was so delicious Franny could hardly stand it.
“Can I put it on you?” Franny asked.
“Please.”
Jade walked up to the edge of the bed and ran her fingers through Franny’s long hair as she put the dildo into place on the harness, securing it with a little silicone sleeve bumper that would keep the toy from ramming into Jade uncomfortably every time she thrust.
Franny stared up at her with wide eyes, heavy with lust. Jade looked down at her, squaring her shoulders.
“Get on your hands and knees, and back your ass up to the edge of the bed.”
Franny took her time doing as she was told. Laying her face into the comforter and curving her back into a deep arch that raised her ass to the perfect position in front of Jade’s hips.
“Thighs open,” Jade said.
When her pussy was revealed, Jade dove in face-first. Tonguing Franny’s clit while pushing two fingers back inside her, scissoring them in tandem until Franny was begging to be fucked. When Franny finally felt the tip of the toy at her entrance, she shivered. Jade made slow work of her hips at first, working the dick in and out of Franny at a gentle steady pace, keeping rhythm. It wasn’t until Franny started to move her hips back against her that she even considered speeding up.
“You want it faster?” Jade asked.
“Please…”
“Please, what? Use your words, pretty girl.”
“F-fuck me, Jade. Please.”
Jade kept her pace. “Fuck you how?”
“Faster!”
Jade gave her four quick, deep pumps before resuming her original speed. She was a bastard for the dark chuckle that left her lips when Franny started to whine in earnest.
“Jade, please, I need it so bad.”
Jade put her hands on Franny’s hips, making sure her grip was tight enough for Franny to feel it. Then she worked her hips hard, fucking deep into Franny’s body.
“I need you to tell me how it feels, Francesca.”
“G-good, so good.” Franny’s voice was muffled and strained. Her skin was hot, and she was damn near drooling onto the bed.
“Good how? Where do you feel me?”
“Deep in my pussy!” Franny cried. “I feel you fucking everywhere.”
Jade tightened her grip on Franny’s hips to drive her back as she powered forward. The wooden bed frame creaked under their weight, and even though it wasn’t literally Jade inside her, Franny felt the connection between them come alive. She took a quick peek over her shoulders to catch a glimpse of her girl. Eyes wide, hair messy, nipples hard. She looked wild and free and so beautiful Franny grew even wetter around the toy.
Jade’s breaths started to come faster, but she seemed to have no intention of slowing her pace. Not until she saw Franny’s hips start to stutter against her, at least. Instead of throwing her ass back in time with Jade’s thrusts, Franny started grinding against the toy. Jade knew exactly what that meant.
“Are you going to come, Francesca?”
Franny made a guttural keening noise in the back of her throat, unable to answer with words.
“Can you play with your clit?” Jade asked her.
The only response she got was seeing Franny’s hand go between her thighs.
“You think you can come all over this dick?” Jade asked. “It’s okay, you don’t have to talk. Just nod yes or shake no for me, baby.”
Franny’s nod was frantic.
No more words were spared as Jade found her rhythm again, sending the dick deep and hard into Franny’s soaked pussy. Franny’s body shook as she tumbled slowly over the edge. Then, suddenly, she went stiff as a board, a silent scream leaving her lips as the ecstasy of her orgasm overtook her completely. Jade fucked her through it, only pulling out when Franny started to yank herself away.
In a move that surprised them both, Jade grabbed Franny by the thighs and flipped her over immediately. Face back in her pussy in an instant, Jade licked and sucked her twitching insides. Cleaning up the big mess Franny had made and trying to prolong her orgasm at the same time.
“Please,” Franny gasped after a while. “Oh my God, please, I need a minute. Fuck. What the fuck…”
Jade pulled back and up to standing until she was looking down at Franny again.
“What the fuck…” Franny repeated.
Jade grinned. “How’s that for coming your brains out?”
“Pretty damn good.”
“I figured. Can I touch you?”
“Please.”
Franny scooted over to make room for Jade, who crawled into bed next to her, immediately taking Franny’s shivering body into her arms. She laid a kiss on her forehead and another one on each of her eyelids.
“You’re so beautiful when you lose yourself like that,” Jade said.
“That’s nothing compared to the way you look when you’re commanding me like that.”
Franny’s body was still alight, buzzing like a current through a live wire. Still, she wanted nothing more than to be right where she was. Curled up with Jade, covered in her sweat in their bed.
“How do you feel?” Jade asked. “Do you need water or a snack or anything? Are you comfortable?”
Franny smiled up at her. “Look at my top, offering me such sweet aftercare.”
“You’re so silly after you come, you know that?”
“I’m always silly.”
“That’s true,” Jade agreed. “And I always love you.”
“Always? Even when I put the toilet paper roll on wrong?”
“Even when you eat all the leftovers my mama sends home.”
Franny’s arms went tightly around her, and she pressed a wet kiss into the hollow of Jade’s throat.
“That’s a lot of love, Jade Dunn.”
“So much love, Lim.”
“Mmmm… that’s good to hear because I definitely ate the rest of the cobbler in the fridge.”
“You menace,” Jade growled.
“A menace who loves you.” Franny made her way across Jade’s chest with kisses.
“You’re evil.”
“And loves you.”
“For real!”
“And loves you.”
“This is my payback, isn’t it? I pay for my sins by spending my life with a woman who has no respect for common leftover etiquette.”
“And loves you even more beyond that…”
Franny had been an awful league member the past few weeks. Her responsibilities with the football team had increased, and with the start of the school year and Jade taking up every spare minute outside of that, she hadn’t made it to Lucky Leagues for the past three meetups. She missed her old gals, though, so much so that she’d managed to convince Jade to tag along with her to bowling night. It would be a cute date, and she’d finally get to introduce her woman to the friends who’d heard so much about her. Somehow, Franny felt more nervous about this than she had when she’d introduced Jade to her parents over FaceTime.
“Just as a warning, I’m incredibly good at bowling,” Jade said as she leaned against Franny’s car in the parking lot of Lucky Leagues, waiting for Franny to dig her ball out of the mess in her trunk.
“Is that right?” Franny heaved the ball from beneath a mountain of jackets and jerseys. “You’ve never said.”
“It never came up, I guess. I just wanted to warn you before we get out there. Don’t want to accidentally embarrass you or anything.”
They started walking across the lot toward the entrance, and Franny spared a look at Jade. Her girlfriend was practically strutting, shoulders back, chin up, hips moving deliciously—if far too much for the setting. It was deeply adorable how competitive Jade got.
“You know, this is much less about winning at bowling than it is about the gals just getting together.”
Jade paused. “So you don’t bowl?”
“No, we bowl. We just pay more attention to one another,” Franny clarified.
Jade’s face fell almost comically as she continued walking. “So y’all will be easy to beat, then.”
“Probably.”
“I don’t like it when people are easy to beat.”
Franny snorted. “You are such a brat, you know that?”
“You love it.”
They’d shown up a bit late, and Franny could see that all the girls were already seated around their usual lanes when they walked in. She’d had the brilliant idea to surprise them with her presence instead of sending Barb a message letting her know she’d be there. It was an absolute joy to see the shock and awe on their faces when she smoothly slid in front of where they were sitting, Jade trailing not too far behind.
“Well, look who decided to show her face!” Charlie’s bubbly little greeting was followed by a tight hug around the neck.
“We figured you’d moved on to greener pastures,” Barb grunted, using a cloth to polish the ball between her legs.
“Never!” Franny said, passing out hugs. “I’d never leave y’all behind. Things have just been hectic lately. I’ve barely had time to breathe.”
“I can see why,” Janet said slyly, cutting her eyes to where Jade was standing with her hands on her hips.
“Is this her?” Charlie gasped.
“This is my girl.” Franny laughed through her clarification.
“Uhhh…” Jade ground out.
She was far less cocky than she had been when they’d come in. Franny understood her completely. All the women were incredibly kind, but they made a formidable group of queer elders. Especially Barb, with her grumbling and surly disposition.
Franny wrapped an arm around Jade’s waist, tucking her thumb into one of the empty belt loops of her jeans. Making sure she kept a hold on her, showing her that she was right there beside her and wouldn’t be going anywhere.
“Girls, this is Jade Dunn, my girl. Jade, this is Barb and her wife, Stella. They started the league. And this is Janet, Charlie, and Carmella.”
“Hi, y’all.” Jade’s tone was as close to shy as it could be. “It’s nice to meet you. Thank you for having me.”
“We didn’t know you were coming.” Barb’s words were so matter-of-fact, they earned her a light cuff on the shoulder from her wife.
“Don’t pay her no mind,” Stella said. “We’re happy to have you.”
“We need to recruit more baby gays anyway,” Janet said, laughing. “We won’t be around forever, and we’ve got to keep the league going.”
Carmella rolled her eyes. “I, for one, am not going anywhere. But we’ve heard a lot about you, Jade.”
“You have?” Jade looked at Franny.
“Oh yeah. Plenty.”
“Good things?”
Carmella grimaced. “Well…”
Jade laughed good-naturedly. “Yeah, I figured. We had a bit of a rough go of it. Mostly my fault.”
“We told Franny you were into her,” Charlie offered. “She was stubborn about believing us, but we told her.”
“We’d never even met you, but we could see it from a mile away. And look at you now.” Janet was lacing up her purple bowling shoes and kept her eyes on her laces as she spoke.
Jade leaned in and pressed a kiss against Franny’s jaw in response. Franny guided them to two open seats, where they began to get their own shoes on.
The group was quiet, the sounds of the bowling alley the perfect distraction. The lane to their left was occupied by a small family. A mother, father, and their two kids. The kids had small bowling balls and bumpers up against the sides of the lane and every time one of them sent one flying down the glossy wood, sweet peals of childish glee floated through the air.
Franny finished tying her shoes and sat back in her seat, getting comfortable despite the hard plastic underneath her. She’d underestimated how much she had missed this. The smell of stale pretzels and cheap pizza, the sound of balls rolling across the wood. Happy bowlers, serious bowlers, and the ladies surrounding her. She watched with a full heart as Jade struck up a conversation with Janet and Charlie. Her brain and ears found themselves disconnected; whatever words they were sharing flowed in one ear and out the other. All she retained was the soothing timbre of their voices as they all melded together.
She wanted to label this a perfect night, but that gave her pause. How many nights had she had recently that she’d called perfect ? More than seemed fair, surely. They had all been different too. Her first date with Jade. Once when they’d taken a late-night trip to Minnie’s for some cobbler after a bout of hair-pullingly-hot sex. Even one nighttime football practice where it had started to rain and the kids made the executive decision to keep going. Was all this perfection possible? Was it sustainable?
Maybe she’d been using the wrong words to describe them. Maybe all those nights hadn’t been perfect at all. Maybe she’d just been happy. Consistently and deliriously happy. Not just with Jade but with her life in general. She was a coach again, she was a part of something big, she was building connections. Hell, she was even calling her mother more. Franny had spent the past two years wading through, biding her time until the work she was doing actually paid off.
She was there now, and it felt incredible. So much so that she hardly knew what to do with herself. Honestly, maybe there was nothing to do but live it. Enjoy it. Let the good times bolster her for when the more difficult parts of life circled back around. There would be no focusing on that, though. Not while she had her woman at her side and some pins to knock down.
“Are we bowling or what?” Barb stood up, flexing her ball in her arms a few times. “You might be Franny’s girl, but don’t expect us to take it easy on you, newbie.”
Jade’s answering grin was positively wolfish. It slid across her face slowly, transforming her from sweet conversationalist to competitive hellcat. Franny shook her head with a laugh.
“Those are fighting words,” she told Barb. “This woman’s got a competitive streak like no other, Barb.”
“I do,” Jade said. “I don’t know how to play for anything but the win.”
Barb grinned back, and it was genuinely the first time Franny had seen so many of her teeth. “I suppose you’re up first, then. Show us how you roll.”
“Oh lord,” Stella groaned.
Charlie reached out and patted Franny’s hand after Jade got up to choose her ball. “You done good, Franny girl. You done good.”
And she knew it was true.