Then Came Blue_ girlxgirl.

Chapter 8

There's nothing as elating as feeling loved, cared for, knowing you're a constant on someone's mind. It can make you soar. Blue has a way of making me feel special, be it a call in the middle of the day to tell me how much she misses me, just to know if you're doing alright, or send you a random pizza delivery when you tell her you feel too lazy to get out of bed and go look for food.
"Riley seriously? He sent you pizza because you can't get your lazy ass out of bed?" Shae sounded so astonished that afternoon.
"What can I say, I'm loved." And bursting at the seems with affection. I can't believe she indulged my lazy ass. I was going to get up eventually.
"If he can do this every day, he has my blessing." On her third slive, of course Blue had her blessing.
On some days she will pick me up for lunch, like today. My phone rings about ten minutes into my lunch break. Just seeing her name show up on my screen makes me smile.
"Hi?"
"Hi baby, you look mighty fine today," her voice says through the phone when I pick up.
"How would you know?" I know I'm grinning like a fool. I do that a lot with her.
"Is that prince charming? " Lou and Shae who are walking beside me want to know. I roll my eyes and ignore them.
"Because I'm looking at you," Blue replies.
"Yeah right." How would she, she's probably at work arms deep in ink.
"Blue jeans and a red checkered shirt that looks a little too familiar." She describes exactly what I'm wearing. The shirt I might have borrowed from her assortment of shirts. She has too many similar looking shirts.
"What? Where are you?" My eyes beginning to search around for a cute tomboy that makes my heart race.
"To your right babe," she says. I notice while I was distracted Lou and Shae went on ahead without me which I'm grateful for. I turn to my right and spot her almost immediately. She's leaning casually against a wall talking into her phone. She's wearing black jeans, she does love her black jeans, and of course the oversized tank top. It must be the most casual outfit to anyone but to me, she just does it for me in every way. I love everything she's wearing, those jeans and her oversized tank tops including that smile and those smoldering eyes even from such a distance. I think I love her, or maybe not. But then she makes me feel_
"Riley? Are you coming or not?" Shae shouts at me from a distance, snapping me out of my reverence. I shouldn't be losing my head like that but how can I not. I pull my eyes off Blue to talk to Shae.
"You guys go ahead, someone's taking me out to lunch," I say.
"Oh yeah, anyone I know? Maybe someone whose name rhymes with glue?" Lou asks with wagging eyebrows.
"What? Whose name rhymes with glue? How come I didn't know about that?" Shae shouts, looking between me and Lou. Must we be shouting like this though?
"I don't know what you're talking about Louise."
"Everything okay?" Blue says in my ear and I remember I'm still on a call.
"Yeah, sorry. I'll be right there," I say to Blue and to the other two I shout, "Guys, I'll see you." Then I walk off towards Blue without looking back mostly to avoid Shae's questions. I know they are coming.
"Riley! Riley, get back here! What name rhymes with glue? Riley! Why does Lou know something I don't?" I can hear Shae shouting behind my back. She'll definitely be having me for dinner.
 
"So to what do I owe_" My statement ends in an 'omph' sound as Blue pulls me into a bone crushing hug the minute I'm close enough.
"Fuck, you look so good in my clothes," she says over my shoulder.
"Then I'm definitely keeping the shirt."
She pulls back to look at me. "Babe, you can have them all."
"As much as I'd love to see you shirtless every day, I doubt the rest of humanity would be okay with that."
"I think you're probably right." Then she takes a hold of my hand. "Come, I'm taking you out to lunch.
  
We go to O'Neil's, a place I've only heard about but never been to.
"I've never been here before. It looks fancy." I find myself whispering because the place is so quiet.
"Then you're in for a treat." Blue is still holding my hand in hers as leads us to a secluded booth. I've never loved the fact that I'm a girl as I do in this moment. If we were two guys, we wouldn't dare but its very okay for two girls to hold hands and no one would be thinking twice about it. I can put my arm around her waist and not worry much about it because we are girls. I don't do any of those things however.
"I hope it's not one of those places that serve just a leaf but charge a fortune for it because I'm actually hungry,"I warn.
"Have a little faith in me. You know how I love my food."
"Like I could forget. So what are we having? Sushi? Lobster? Caviar?"
"Is that what you'd like? Sushi or lobster?" I smile at the shocked look on her face.
"No babe, never tasted any but I thought that would be the kind of food you people who go here like."
"We people? You make it sound like we are part of a cult," she says laughing. "Anyway I was thinking we could eat a little bit of everything. They serve a very nice platter here."
"They better have an ambulance service on close call because I don't see us being able to walk ourselves out of here."
She smiles at me before saying, "And no talk about watching your weight, no girly antiques on this lunch date," she admonishes.
"Babe, in case you haven't noticed I'm a girl, those things are in built."
"Oh I've noticed you are girl," she say, giving me a side ways seductive leer.
I laugh and shake my head at her. You can not have an innocent conversation with her from start to finish.
"I'm going to use the bathroom real quick, be right back." I've spent the whole day in between classes so my bladder is full and I really need to wash my hands. You'd be surprised how much people like to shake hands.  On impulse, like its the most natural thing in the world, I lean in and plant a chaste kiss on her cheek as I get up and we both freeze in shock. This is out of the ordinary behavior for me so I take flight before things get awkward but not before seeing the shock on Blues face morph into a cheek splitting grin.
 
I'm at the sink washing my hands when I'm startled by a very not friendly voice from  behind me
  "So you two have become that kind of couple huh?"
I lift my eyes and meet Skylar's in the mirror, the contempt on her face unmistakable. She's leaning casualy against the bathroom wall.
"Oh hi Skylar," I say, trying to be nice but she continues glaring. "Okay, so what kind would that be?" I go back to washing my hands.
"The kind that is always sharing clothes," she spits out. I look down at the shirt I'm wearing and smile.
"I didn't know Blue was the only person allowed to own these kinds of shirts." I finish washing and drying my hands. Usually I'd keep quiet when faced with conflict but I really don't want to today, especially not when faced with a jealous ex. I dont want her to think she can scare me. And how the hell is she even here? Why couldn't it have been someone else, like Kiara or Lori? I was having such a good day so far.
"I bet you feel so special right now, you feel like you've won the lottery with her because she takes you to fancy lunches and all, right?" She starts walking towards me as she talks. "We'll I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you aren't any special, she brings all her girls here."
She's trying to intimidate me and tell me she's been there. That she knows Blue more than I do, to make me jealous or angry but really, that shit doesn't work on me. I like to make my own mistakes and learn from them, not from what an ex lover tells me. Conflict of any kind however unnerves me and I can feel myself begin to feel suffocated. If I held something right now I'm sure my hands would be shaking but I manage to school my expression, fake some bravado I'm not feeling and get into her face too.
"It's an eatery Skylar, she has to be able to take people somewhere to eat without it becoming a problem?" I circle around her and make for the door. I have something else to say so I add, "And she already got into my pants so she doesn't need to buy me a meal first for that."
She didn't expect me to challenge her so she looks stricken for a second but recovers fast. "Now I see why she likes you, you're easy."
I've never understood why or how having sex with someone I want to have sex with makes me easy but if that's what it is, then I am easy. "I won't dispute you on that one, I can be a total slut when it comes to Blue."  Skylar however I don't think finds my response amusing in any way. The  disgust or probably loathe on her face you could cut through with a knife. This kind of in your face loathing I'm not used to, especially from someone who doesn't even know me.
"Skylar, I think I'll see you around. " I open the door and step out because that's enough cat fighting for me to last me a life time.
When I get back I find Blue started without me.
"Sorry I started without you, but you took so long." She smiles at me apologetically.
"Its fine, I wouldn't want to keep you from your food." I resume my place beside her and she puts her hand around my waist and pulls me closer to her. As we eat Blue tells me about her clients, who got what ink, who got what altered into something else, the tramp stamps she did but I'm barely listening. My mind is still in the bathroom with Skylar. Does she have to be so nasty to me? And what do I care if she thinks I'm easy, sitting on her stupid high horse and judging me. I'm not cheap, I just like what I like.
"Babe? Riley? Are you even listening to me?" Blue elbows me gently in the side.
"Huh? Yeah, I am, of course I am." I'm totally not.
"Right. What's wrong?" she asks, putting her folk down turning her attention fully on me.
I'm about to say its nothing and that we don't have to talk about me but the warning look in her eyes has me reconsidering.
"You and Skylar, was your breakup nasty?" I ask.
"Why are you asking about breakups? You thinking of dumping me?"
"Don't be silly, if I was thinking of dumping you I wouldn't ask you."
"Oh, okay. Well it was far from amiable. Some things were said, some stuff was thrown, some hearts were broken, people were hurt...", she finishes with a dismissive hand gesture.
"Really? Then how come y'all are still friends?"
"I guess we all learned to move past it, some of us better than others but she'll get there too. We were friends before the whole dating thing plus we share friends so we had to find a way of living with each other."
"I can see that. So what happened? You guys had been together for long?"
It takes her a moment to reply as if she's sorting through her words and trying to find the right words to use.
"You know, the feelings just kind of went away. By the end we were just tolerating each other but still hanging on to something that once was but only ended up hurting each other." Hurting each other? What could have happened that had them smashing stuff and exchanging words.
"Can I ask what finally did it?" This I ask tentatively, maybe I'm being a little too nosy.
"Is there a reason we are talking about Skylar right now?"she asks with no venom in her voice but maybe some irritation. She starts picking at her food again, not looking at me.
"Because I might have bumped into her in the bathroom."
"You what?" Her head snaps up immediately and she begins looking around. "What did she say to you?" she asks, touching my arm gently, concern mirrored in her eyes.
Not wanting to cause any trouble I say, "Nothing really, she just wasn't happy to see me but that's nothing new."
"You're sure? If she so much as looked at you wrong please tell me." She looks concerned and protective it's so endearing. I badly want lean in and kiss her right here right now but I can't so I settle for a smile.
"Calm down Hulk, she didn't say much to me." I suspect she doesnt want to answer my question plus its spoiling our afternoon so I let it go. "Let's eat, after all you ordered a queens feast." But one question keeps gnawing at me and I really need to know the answer and because I can't keep my mouth shut, I find myself saying. "One last question, did you guys have sex after your first date?" The look on her face says 'what the hell?'' but she answers anyway.
"No we didn't," is her answer. Okay, but it still doesn't make me easy. "Can we please talk about us now?"
"Yeah, sure. What about us?"
"Should I pick you up Saturday? I miss you." She whispers, her whole body taking on a whole new demeanor. She bites her bottom lip between her teeth, her hand moving to my hip underneath my shirt. Her thumb dips a little into the waist band of my jeans and a pool of warmth settles in my stomach.
As much as I want what she's offering I'm going to have to disappoint her, actually both of us becauseause I miss her too.
"Oh babe, I'm sorry I can't do Saturday, I have a thing with my friends." Its Lynn's birthday this Saturday and she's been talking about it since forever so I can't miss it. She would kill me. Her hand immediately disappears from my hip.   
"The whole day?" Her voice sounds whiny, her lips forming a childish pout that is uncomfortably distracting.
"Don't pout, its distracting."
"Can't you leave early?" Her pout now becoming exaggerated. It really shouldn't look as cute as it does.
"No, I don't want to be that person, always running off to her boyfriend, in this case girlfriend and ditching her friends."
"But I'll miss you. The Kiara's will miss you."
"It'll be fine I'm sure."
"No it won't, at least not for me. Please come?"
I really don't want to ditch my friends but I find myself saying, "Okay, I'll try."
"Sounds a lot better than 'I can't be one of those blah blah blah'," she says in a poor imitation of my voice.
"I don't sound anything like that."
"But you do," she replies, doing the imitation again.
"If you do that again, I'm outa here."
"No you're not," she says, doing it again. I pretend I'm seriously getting up but she pulls me back down so I land half on the seat and half in her lap laughing.   "Sit your sexy ass down." She plants a little kiss on the shell of my ear.  
"I love the way you laugh you know, its beautiful," she says and my heart swells in my chest.
In this moment I feel so happy and everything else fades away. Skylar and her issues are all swept away, my insecurities, the closet, I'm just here, now,in this moment surrounded by Blue and everything that makes her Blue. If I died right now I'd die a happy woman. I've never been happier in love.
God help me but I think I love her.