Page 17 of Liquid Courage
“I’ma tease?”
Vivian smiled again. “Yeah. You’re teasing me into doing things I may not be ready for.”
“Just give me a little hope that it might happen eventually. Like if you give me your number and agree to go out on a real date with me. That might hold me over.”
“And making out with me wouldn’t?”
“Oh, Vivi, trust me, if we make out, it might escalate. Quickly.”
She placed a well-timed peck on Kat’s lips. “That’s it. That’s all you get.”
“You are the fucking tease!”
“You’re the one saying you can’t make out with me and leave it at that tonight. What are you? Some uncontrollable monster?”
“Yes.”
Vivian rolled her eyes. “You’re ridiculous.”
“Not as ridiculous as what I’m about to suggest.” Kat looked around the bar to make sure nobody saw them inching toward the tiny bathroom. “Because there’s only one way to guarantee I don’t take things too far.”
“Oooh, what?”
Sure, Vivian could pretend it was a game as they snuck into the bathroom and locked the door. But Kat wasn’t playing. Not even one little bit.
***
This was a first. Sitting on the edge of a sink, back pressed up against a dingy mirror and a deliriously sexy bartender slamming her tongue down Vivian’s throat.
Yup. A first.
“One of these days,” Kat muttered between kisses, “I’m gonna kiss you lying down.”
As long as you’re still on top.Vivian threw her arms around her date’s shoulders and inhaled every breath Kat offered.
They had about five minutes before someone came knocking on the bathroom door. Too bad, because it was a cute little bathroom, with dark red walls, wicker baskets, antique-finished fixtures, and a framed poster of an old Bikini Kill concert. It was a good environment for making out with one’s potential girlfriend without worrying about things getting too crazy too quickly.
“How many girls have you made out with in here?”
Kat pulled Vivian halfway off the sink and growled into the crook of her neck. Jolts of anticipation claimed at least one of them. “Just you so far.”
“Yet you knew exactly where to come?”
“You may be my first, but we are not this bathroom’s first.” Kat silenced Vivian with another kiss that hit her like love to the heart. “Do you wanna waste time talking right now?”
No, Vivian did not want to waste any time. She wanted to torture herself with these parameters she set, because she knew if she went home with Kat, a repeat of last night would happen.
She also had no explanation for staying out all night. Her sister would have known what happened last night. Tonight? She’d have to explain that she got lucky at a bar, and she wasn’t in the mood.
She would much rather make out with Kat in the bar bathroom than put herself through that.
Even though Kat’s fingers kept creeping up her skirt. Even though Vivian’s heart raced so quickly that she worried she would die.
“You know what I wanna do to you?” Kat whispered. “Take awildguess.”
Vivian had a few wild guesses to share. Turned out they were all correct, even the ones Kat hadn’t thought of until then.
“If I give you my number…” Oh, sure. Vivian supposed she would take a hickey on the shoulder if she wasn’t taking anything else that night. “Will you be content until the weekend?”
