Masterpieces {Book 2}

We've got all the ingredients except you loving me

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They'd been together since college, five years now and Lu had still never told Cal she loved her so Cal kept the words locked in too, fermenting on her tongue because she had never been brave enough to take the first step.

The pair were living together, had been since they were eighteen years old, back when they were both young and wide-eyed with dreams they were still chasing. The stars were fading in their eyes now though and everything looked more real in the cold light of day, less attainable.

Lu thought they were friends with benefits - friends with benefits who shared a bed and a pet dog and each other's clothes, friends with benefits who kissed slow and soft when they woke up in the mornings before work - but Cal didn't know what she thought anymore.

She only knew what she wished for - what she still hoped and prayed for if she was being honest with herself - but Lu didn't want the same things and Cal's dreams stayed locked away inside, crumbling to dust just like everything else had.

Lu could never find out that Cal had fallen in love with her.

Not ever.

It was easy to hide it at first. Cal insisted that she wasn't blushing when Lu did something sweet and her cheeks flamed - she just pretended that she was too hot. Cal insisted that the sounds that she fought to suppress after Lu made her come with her tongue were just slurred moans and not three words that would have ruined everything if the older girl had said them out loud. Cal tried to pretend that the sparkling in her chocolate brown eyes and the fluttering of her heart in her chest had absolutely nothing to do with Lu.

(Later, when Cal lay sleepless in her bed and the blonde girl had long since left, Cal would wonder if perhaps it was her fault, if perhaps saying those three words out loud sooner might have persuaded Lu to stay instead of fleeing and tearing the ground out from beneath the older girl's feet - but there was no use thinking like that. Cal would never find out. She could never find out now. It was impossible to go back in time and change things. She could never see Lu again.)

"I still don't understand why you eat banana on toast." Cal's words were rough with exhaustion and they came out muffled because she was cradling her tired head in her hands. The pair of them were sitting at their little dining table with their legs tangled beneath it. The back of Lu's hand was as warm as an oven when Cal let her palm fall to rest gently over it.

"Don't be so judgemental," Lu grumbled as she sliced her banana up carefully, making sure each sliver was the same size. "People eat peanut butter and jam all the time - why's this such a big deal?"

"Because it's banana, Lucy," Cal complained, taking a sip of her sugar-sweetened coffee and pulling a face at how strong it still was. "It's just weird."

"Shut up. You're weird," Lu countered but she smiled against Cal's lips when she leant forwards to press their mouths gently together. Cal's lips parted with a soft gasp when the taller girl's hand fell to settle on her thigh, just a little too high up to be strictly chaste, and Lu took the opportunity to slip her tongue into Cal's mouth, hot and wet.