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Seducing grace helbig (part 1)

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The Seduction of Grace Helbig
Part One

They like to joke about how girls make Hannah nervous (and she really is going to record that song sometime soon) but the truth is a little more complex.
Girls make Hannah nervous at first, but once she's finished doing her introductory spazzing out, she's been reliably informed that she has serious game.

She knows how to compliment a lady, how long to hold eye contact,
when a 'casual' touch on the arm will elicit a shy smile rather than an uncomfortable silence.
She's aware that she's good-looking and that her bright blue gaze has been known to completely capture people's attention. In fact, once Hannah gets a grip on herself in the presence of a gorgeous woman, she's actually pretty good at seduction.

She's never done it by accident, though.
When she'd first met Grace (and Mamrie too, for that matter) she'd tripped over her tongue and blushed and stuttered and generally acted like an idiot,
like she always does around beautiful women at first.
It had passed, like it always did,
and now Hannah has two of the best friends a person could hope for.
The three of them flirt with each other like crazy and yeah okay, sometimes Hannah does feel a fleeting moment of attraction, but when you spend nearly all your time with people who look like Grace and Mamrie you'd have to be blind, stupid and insane not to look sometimes.

Their flirting has always been safe, though, because both of them are straight as arrows and so Hannah never feels the need to check herself like she would with a girl she was into.
She can be wildly inappropriate and indulge her need to touch because Grace and Mamrie are safe.

Were safe.

Hannah is not stupid. She knows what it looks like when someone likes her.
And judging by her behaviour over the last few weeks, Grace likes her.
It wouldn't be noticeable to someone who didn't know her so well.
The clues are tiny.

Looks that linger a fraction too long (even by their standards), or how Grace leans into her slightly when they sit together, or how when Hannah touches her she still tenses up but somehow in a completely different way. Hannah wonders if she's a bad person for finding it cute.

Then, when it doesn't go away, she wonders what to do about it.
She can't help teasing Grace a little.
There's the casual slap on the knee after a joke that lasts a second longer than it would normally,
the flirtatious jokes that used to make Grace roll her eyes but now leave her a little flustered,
the intense stares that Hannah breaks by shifting her gaze to Grace's lips. That one is guaranteed to raise a blush.

After a couple of days, though, Hannah finds she's not doing it to tease Grace any more.
When she stares at Grace's lips it's because she's thinking about kissing her. Hannah knows Grace will never act on this attraction building between them and if anything is going to come of all this tension, it's up to Hannah to make the first moves.

Strangely, she's okay with that.
Hannah loves courtship. She loves to woo a lady in the old-fashioned way, with thoughtful gestures and meaningful tokens and she knows it's going to take something pretty special to get Grace to acknowledge what's happening between them,
so she lets the flirting simmer between them for a couple of weeks until she's thought of the perfect opening gambit.