Just Fine (Lesbian Story)

Just Fine Chapter 7

For the next week I swear I was the happiest person on the planet. Who wouldn’t after that glorious weekend? Riley made me feel so good. I have never had that much thought put into my pleasure. Thinking about Riley kept me up in all my classes, even Mr. Turney’s. I even asked questions and participated in class discussions about old American classics and Mr. Turney seemed pleased with my new interest in the class. And I was talking to my swim mates again. I hadn’t realized how much I missed them and they missed me too. Even Trish, though, she tried not to show it. She likes my competition and I know she wants me back on the team as bad as I do.

 I received a text from Kendal earlier telling me to meet her in the library at lunch. I thought something must be wrong because she never goes to the library, so I hurried over after my third hour class. I found her in the periodicals pretending to read.

 “Kendal, what’s wrong?” I ask in a whisper.

 “Oh nothing girl. I just wanted to meet you here so we can talk in private.” Kendal closed her book and pushed it away like it was a disease.

 “So…what’s up?”

 “So you have been seeing someone. Who?”

 “What are you talking about?”

 “Jacob called me Saturday morning all tore up to shit. He said you had been sleeping around on him and that’s why he did what he did and he broke it off between you two. I didn’t want to believe it but these past couple of days you’ve been as happy as a fat kid with cake. How could that be KiKi?”

 I sigh and shake my head, “I wasn’t happy being with him Kendal. Jacob wasn’t right for me. He never was. But I never cheated on him. You know I’m not that kind of person," I paused and looked at Kendal. She smiles.

 “Girl OK but I know your ass has met someone new. You can’t lie, so tell me.”

 “I met them at your party.”

 “Mmmhmm. Continue, what’s his name?”

 “Her name is Riley,” I splurt out. Kendal is silent for a moment and just stares, processing what I just spat at her.

 “So what are you saying? You like pussy now?!”

 “Shhhhhh! I don’t know! I haven’t figured that out yet.”

 “Haven’t figured it out yet? You already had sex with her didn’t you? You don’t even have to say. I already know.” Kendal just there and shook her head.

 “She makes me feel like I’m everything that’s right in the world. This all may seem crazy. I don’t expect you to understand and well I don’t understand it just yet. I know what my heart is telling me.” The bell rings for next class and I get up and grab my backpack. “Please keep this between me and you until I say otherwise”, Kendal just nods and I head to my next class.

After school I decide to meet with coach Sable to see if I could help her with the girls. I figure I can lend a hand with techniques and motivation and if I don’t make it back on the team at least I would have been able to help them ensure a win at the big meet. I took deep breath before I knocked on the door of coach Sables office.

 “It’s open," coach Sable said from the other side of the door and I walk in. Her office is a small room down the hall from the girls shower room. The only furniture the room allows is her desk and chair. The office walls were covered with past swimming victories and her own success in high school and college. Right above her head on the wall behind her is a picture of her and the team at our first meet of the school year. We lost that one.

 “Hey coach”, I say and smile.

 “Hey Kira, I was wondering when you’d pay me another visit.”

 “Yeah, but I’m not here to ask you to put me back on the team. Not yet anyway. I was wondering if I could help you out with the team.”

 “You mean like, with coaching the girls?”

 “Yeah and making sure their needs are met and stuff. I think it would benefit the team, I still want to assist the girls any way I can now that I can’t swim with them.” coach Sable leans back and crosses her arms, then stares at me for a good five minutes. I stare right back.

 “Alright Miss Hunter. See you at Monday’s practice on time and ready to work,” coach Sable holds out her hand and I shake it with a smile and all I’ve got.

When I get home Riley is sitting on the curb, her knees pulled up to her chin and bare foot. She looked like a child and I laugh. I sit next to her and wiggle her pinky toe.

 “Hey,” Riley smiles and my heart melts, “How are you doing?”

 “I’m great! I’ve never been better. How long have you been here?”

 “Uh, since your dad left for work…”

 “You waited here for nearly nine hours. That’s crazy.”

 “I also walked here. So I can see you Kira Hunter,” she took my hand, placed it on her knee and kissed it. “Crazy is only the beginning of how I feel about you. And I had to see how you were doing after what happened over the weekend.”

 “Saturday…I can’t even put in words,” I put my head in my hands, “I never knew I could feel like that. I don’t understand these feelings I have for you.”

 “Sometimes you don’t need to understand things and just go with it. The answer will come to you when you least expect it.”

 I tear a blade of grass and roll it between my fingers and get lost in my thoughts for a moment. The things Riley says are wise, even wiser than some people twice her age. I wonder what has happened in her life to make her that way. It’s so weird how I barely know anything about her yet I feel like I know her so much. Riley shoots up from the curb and I jump up too.

 “Something wrong?” I ask.

 “Come. I have something to show you.”