Page 28 of Liquid Courage
These realizations meant Kat worked even harder to make it a great day – for the both of them.
After lunch, where they changed the topic to what high school had been like for them, they went for a walk on the frigid beach. They didn’t see the energetic retriever, but a tiny Chihuahua in booties and a sweater barked at the tide and threatened to tear apart a piece of seaweed while its owner read a book.
“Come to the beach often?”
“No,” Vivian admitted. “Too crowded in the summer, and too cold in the winter.”
Kat took her date’s hand. “Oh, no, is this thing frozen?”
Vivian nodded. “Yes. It’s a terrible problem. Could you please do something about it?”
The only thing Kat could think to do was to kiss the mitten while keeping smoldering eye contact with her giggly date.
“Gorgeous,” Kat said with a sigh. “Somehow, I’ve ended up with the prettiest girl on this beach.”
Vivian looked around. “I don’t see any other women here.”
“You’re the prettiest!”
They ambled for close to a mile, where the city buildings disappeared behind a beachside hill and the vacation homes atop it. There wasn’t another soul in any direction they turned.Sea’s too choppy for the boats to be out.Air too cold for most people to bother with a walk. That meant Kat could get away with stopping in the middle of the sand and pulling Vivian into her arms for a kiss.
She had been talking about something. Work. Coworkers. Uppity bosses who looked down on her… something like that. Kat had been half-listening while trying to decide whether to kiss her or not. She gave Vivian ample warning before locking their cold lips together. Enough warning for Vivian to be ready to kiss her back right away.
“Did you know?” Kat said, as her lips slowly warmed up, “That you have the most kissable lips in the city?”
“You would know, huh?” Vivian’s fingers clutched her date’s jacket. “You get to see pairs of pretty lips every night at the bar.”
“Sipping on beer, no less. And let me tell you, a little liquid courage is really good at opening those lips.”
“Prove it.”
“What?” Kat laughed. “I don’t have anything to drink right now.”
“You could drink me up.”
“You sure you don’t wanna go back to my place right now?”
“Oh, well.” Vivian slowly walked away, always glancing over her shoulder to see what Kat would do. “If you wanna play it that way, I guess I’ll be going.”
“Get back here.” Kat snatched her hand and pulled Vivian into yet another fabled kiss.
She could have spent the whole afternoon kissing Vivian on that beach. Nipping her ear. Sucking her throat. Teasing her tongue and feeling her up through layers of winter clothing that accentuated instead of hiding her figure she was so damn insecure about.She has no right to be, honestly. How could a woman as beautiful as her be allowed to feel so bad about it? To not believe it?Kat was willing to spend the rest of her life proving it to her.
Whoa. There’s a heavy thought.The rest of her life, huh? Damn.Let’s cool our jets, sweetie. Just because you’re thirsty for acknowledgment and love, doesn’t mean you go giving your heart to the first woman who doesn’t outright reject you for whatever asinine reason.
Nah. She would go ahead and think all that sappy shit while she continued to kiss Vivian’s warming lips.
Eventually, though, they would need to get thehellout of the cold.
Vivian had the brilliant idea to go to a movie matinee, her treat, since Kat had paid for lunch. Out of five available movies, they could only agree on one: a mindless superhero movie they had both already seen once before and hadn’t liked enough to see again. But that meant they could spend the next two hours cuddling close in the back row, hands venturing between each other’s thighs and giggles always fresh on one another’s ears. They managed to hold themselves back from making out like teenagers even though the theater was empty. The only reason to avoid it, honestly, was to keep from getting in trouble with the ushers.
“My hands are still cold,” Kat insisted as her hand once more slipped between Vivian’s thighs. “You gotta help me out here. It’s the warmest place on a woman’s body.”
Vivian clicked her tongue,soput out by this flirtation that she clearly had no choice but to open her legs enough for Kat to feel her up.Oh ho ho, I wasn’t lying!Some caped crusader smashed another man’s face in while Kat touched another woman’s heat through a pair of thick leggings.
“Tell you what.” Vivian said with a forced sigh. “You can feel me up all you want if you promise to buy me a drink afterward.”
“What makes you think I wasn’t gonna? You saying you don’t want me feeling you up?”
