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Besides, Carrie was into girls like Christina. So pretty. Leigh-Ann didn’t stand a chance.
“I know what might feel right… right now…” Leigh-Ann looked away again. “I mean, when you said you wanted to meet me in abarn,after what I told you about them…”
Why was Carrie grinning? Why did her grin have to be so cute? “What? That it’s a make-out spot? And I invited you to one, though I’m gay and you might be a bit, too?”
Great. She brought it up like that.
“I don’t know a lot about myself yet,” Leigh-Ann managed to say with the tiniest squeak. “I don’t know if I’m bi or straight. I figure I’ve got time to work it out, right?”
Carrie cocked her head with a shrug. “Yeah, guess so.”
“But I liked kissing Christina. I don’t think it’s because she was my friend. Yet when she dumped me like that a few days later, I didn’t lose someone to kiss. I lost my best friend.”
“What she did was so stupid it makes me mad,” Carrie said. “She was a coward. Didn’t have the balls to ask to be friends and make sure you’d be cool with her dating guys. I’m sorry she did that to you, Leigh. Makes no sense, but it’s not your fault. She was in the wrong.”
Although Leigh-Ann didn’t disagree, it was difficult for her to look up and say, “You wouldn’t do that, huh? I mean… if things didn’t work out after a kiss…”
“Why, Leigh-Ann Hardy!” Although Carrie exclaimed that with her deepest Southern accent, she managed to still say Leigh-Ann’s name correctly. “Are you asking me to kiss you?”
“No!” Leigh-Ann turned away with so much shame deep in her gut that she feared it would give her the most embarrassing gas of her life.I ain’t gonna burp right now! I ain’t!There were plenty of humiliating moments in her life already. She didn’t need to go and kill herself right there. “I was asking if you would still be my friend if it didn’t work out good!”
“So we’re friends, huh?” Carrie tapped her finger against her chin with a knowing wink. “Good to get confirmation about that. I was afraid you might still be into your loner thing.”
“I got issues, all right?”
Leigh-Ann didn’t know what she expected, but shedefinitelydidn’t anticipate Carrie leaning closer to her friend’s ear and childishly whispering, “I bet one of your biggest issues is that you ain’t kissing no girls no more.”
“That… that’s like three negatives in one sentence!”
“I knew you paid attention in English class.”
Leigh-Ann swung her head around, eyes wide enough to swallow Carrie’s face with one glance. “Why you gotta be like that, huh? Teasing me…”
“You’d rather I kiss you?”
“I! Well! I mean…” Leigh-Ann said the very first thing to come to her mind. “At least I’m eighteen, huh? Can’t say that about Christina Rath, now can ya!”
She didn’t know who kissed who first. All Leigh-Ann knew was that it felt damn good to wrap her arms around Carrie and kiss her so hard that she was nearly knocked out on the straw.
That kind of kissing wasn’t pretty, was it? It wasn’t like when she kissed Christina two years ago, in the comfort and intoxication of her childhood bedroom. Oh, no. This was dirty. Right there in somebody’s barn, where they could get in trouble for trespassing – especially in those days, when not only was someone setting fires to them, but Leigh-Ann was kissing the girl rumored to be involved.Damn, maybe I am like Christina…Who needed bad boys when a gal could have a badgirl,though?
Weird sounds. Weird feelings. Weirdtastes.Leigh-Ann liked a little weird. She liked it more when Carrie boldly reached for second base after only two minutes of making out like that’s what they came there to do.
“Oh, my God!” Leigh-Ann so rudely interrupted the event, but only because a girl had never touched her chest before. Never mind a girl who knew what she was doing!She’s slept with soooo many girls, hasn’t she? She seduced a married girl, for God’s sake! What if… what if I suck in comparison?Ah, yes, the death of all confidence. Comparison.
“What’s wrong, baby-doll?” Although Leigh-Ann had never heard a name like that before, she couldn’t say she disliked it. Had a certain Southern charm to it, yeah? Enough charm that Leigh-Ann tilted her head down with a few giggles. Only then did she realize that Carrie was still touching her. “You gettin’ nervous? I can stop.”
Leigh-Ann almost said something. Yet why say anything, when it was so much more effective to grab Carrie by the plaid shirt and pull her in for another kiss? They could get to the sweet and dirty talk later. Right now, Leigh-Ann only wanted tokiss!
On one hand, she knew what they were doing was pretty hot. Carrie knew exactly how to kiss a girl so she sank down to the straw and grasped everything around her like she would completely lose control. Or maybe that was a result of Carrie’s hand making short work of Leigh-Ann’s zipper. How else was it supposed to go down her pants if azipperwas in the way? Leigh-Ann was mired in squeaks and groans of delight as a girl touched her for the first time.It’s happening so fast. Are we having sex? I’m a virgin! I think. Am I still a virgin if she touches me there? I don’t know what this means…Maybe she should stop thinking about it and instead find ways to give back to Carrie’s excellent skills.
On the other hand, though… it may have been hot, and it may have beendistracting,but that didn’t account for the acrid smell of smoke filtering through the walls.
Leigh-Ann was so deep in the moment that she almost didn’t care if they burned alive.
Chapter 15
CARRIE
