The following afternoon, Orm comes over to the studio with Pad Thai in hand and a bouquet of blue orchids.
"Orm, Hi" Nene says
"Hi, where's Lingling?" Orm asks, looking around but not seeing her girlfriend anywhere.
"Oh, she's behind there" Nene pointed out to a curtain that was drawn, "Nipple piercing," Nene explained.
"Lingling's getting her nipples pierced?!?" Orm asked in shock
"What? No. She's doing it for a client." Nene said
"Oh" Orm said, not sure how she felt about visualizing Lingling with a stranger woman's boobs in front of her face. A part of Orm hoped she was a stranger though.
"Let me go tell her you're here." Nene said as he got up and went towards the room.
Orm waited. She heard the woman make a sound. Orm's eyes widened. She then shut them real tight and whispered to herself "Don't picture it, don't picture it, don't picture it"
"She'll be right out" Nene had come back to the front desk.
Orm nodded.
Lingling was out in the next 5 minutes, wiping her hands on a napkin
Orm tried to push all intrusive thoughts away. Lingling was a professional. The best there is. She tried to focus instead on just how handsome her girlfriend looked today.
Lingling was wearing a t-shirt that hugged her body beautifully, and a bomber jacket on top of that, and blue jeans that Orm remembers taking off her beautiful legs one night.
"Orm hi!" Lingling said, surprised she was here in the afternoon.
"Hey... I uhh.. I got you Pad thai for lunch... Actually, there's enough for you and the boys too if they'd like..." Orm said.
"I like the sound of that... Thank you, Orm!" Nene said, taking the dish from Orm and Orm stepped up to Lingling, giving her the bouquet of their favorite flowers.
Lingling looked down at it, but was suddenly lost in thought
"Thank you... for last night..." Orm said.
"I didn't do much... just dropped you home" Lingling said
"It was a lot for me... given everything..." Orm said with a soft smile.
Lingling looked into her eyes. Orm looked... sad.
Lingling nodded in acknowledgement
"You didn't have to bring Pad Thai..." Linglingsaid.
"Don't you like it?" Orm asked.
"Oh you know I love it" Linglingsaid quickly
"Then please don't reject it" Orm said
And Lingling quickly, and almost as an involuntary action, reached out to hold Orm's hands in hers.
"Hey.. no... I'm not... I'm not not accepting it" Lingling said, reassuringly.
Orm took a deep breath, her gaze on Lingling's hands on hers. And then Lingling let go so quick, and turned to distract herself with some papers on the desk beside her.
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Angustifolium {LingOrm}
FanfictionThere it was. That sound. Orm recognize that sound because it was a weekly event. Every Saturday, the same time, the same sound, the same person. Orm hated the predictability. It was honestly getting to be a bit of a bore. The sound of the motorcycl...
