Rowans Choice

Chapter Twenty Three - Safe intimacy

If I wasn't mistaken... Bell had just taken a deep breath and sighed as she sat down with her reincarnated Intimacy book. It was a sigh that silently screamed "when is my stint with these two over with"

I think we were most definitely testing her happy nature.

"So" she begins.

"So" I return.

Andy and I had got comfortable. I was resting on the loveseat, leaning casually back, with my head resting on my hand. Andy had her feet up on the end of it, beside me, her chair pushed sideways with the position of her outstretched legs. We were certainly not prickly with each other anymore. Andy had discarded her dresses now that she was without Robins assistance, and was back in her own style of a loose linen shirt and tight trousers.

"Sexual intimacy ..." Bell begins "moved up by a week... for reasons all those present will understand"

Andy smiles, then tries to mask it with her hand.

"What do we think this subject will cover" she asks us.

I pretend to think about it, looking to the ceiling before pretending to pluck it from the air "I don't know Bluebell...perhaps what it says on the tin..."

"How do you know my full name" she asks curiously.

I smile mischievously. She reads me perfectly "did you look me up in the book"

Andy sits up and places her feet back down on the floor, her cute little button nose is wrinkled up "did you" she asks, imitating my smile.

I nod "yes..." I confess "I asked my father to let me get an address out of it for an invitation. I flicked directly to Bells details. I see why this counselling job works so well for you" i muse as I look to Bell "You were born to be one. I believe going back centuries they used Fae like you as healers"

"They did" Bell admits "healers of the heart"

Andy looks between us "so what exactly have you been doing to us" she asks curiously.

Bell leans back in her chair "Helping to put back together the broken pieces...giving you the light you seek to find your way out of the dark... you could say"

"I felt that" Andy muses "I've felt it all week. I knew it. I knew you were manipulating us on a deeper level"

"Me too" I add as Andy looks to me and shared a glance.

"It is not manipulation girls. It is giving you the calm to move out of the storm safely and to see more clearly. In our last session we will find out if it has helped...but until then.... Enough about me. I want to know what you two know about sex"

"Oh for the love of Fae... must we?" I ask .

Andy shakes her head, thinking it was as ridiculous as me. "We are almost twenty one... I think we have an idea"

Bell chuckles "you would be surprised Andromeda. I'm going to ask you a question and I want an honest answer. Have either of you... harmed another, whilst being intimate"

Andy is straight away shaking her head "never"

And in the silence that followed they both look to me, their stares becoming overwhelming.

"Rowan" Bell asks.

"Rowan you said you hadn't been with another" Andy pushes.

I sit up a little more straight and pull up my legs, resting my chin on my knees and creating a barrier between them and me.

"I didn't say that. I said not a handful" I reply honestly.

"What happened" Bell asked.

"She got hurt" I return quietly.