Ruby Red and Amelia Green Lesbian Story

Average Life

Fifteen year old Mel Greenbergh was totally certain that life, as it was in her sixteenth year, was as exciting as it would get. And that it was a good thing that her life was average. Indeed a person’s life could hardly be more average. Mel had and average home and an average family, went to an average school and lived an average life in your average small town. Even Mel herself was as average as it got, average height and build, average medium brown hair of average length and rather plain, pale green/grey eyes and a complexion that did not have much color to speak of. Mel was going about her average life as usual that day when something slowly started to change. She skipped math, something that rarely happened, to go outside and enjoy the wonderful spring weather. She wandered through the school park and sat down on a bench next to some budding trees. She never really noticed when the other person sat down at the other end of the bench which was odd because the woman in question was everything but average.

 Mel caught herself staring at the vision in a ruby red dress, like a waterfall of silk it was, draping the woman’s pale legs and the wood of the bench. Ruby red, red like blood and bold like nothing Mel had ever seen before. To the dress the woman wore a black leather jacket and high unlaced black leather boots, her hair was a wild mess of black and red. Mel swallowed and blinked and wondered what such an exotic creature was doing at her school. She clearly did not attend as Mel had never seen her before and she must be at least twenty-five nor could Mel imagine a teacher who looked like that. The woman read in an old leather-bound book and paid no attention to Mel at all which was good because Mel just could not stop staring, she had to stop herself from taking a photo. That would be rude. Suddenly the phone in her hand started ringing and as she picked up she walked a few steps away from the bench so she would not disturb the reading woman in red. It was her friend Ellie who wanted her to come join her at the cafeteria. Mel was just about to say no when  drops of water started to fall and clouds suddenly covered the sun. She turned to grab her bag and ran for the school entrance. The woman in red kept on reading as if nothing was happening, kept on reading in the rain as Mel ran for cover.

The rest of the day and evening was like a blur of people talking and asking questions but Mel did not really hear them, she was thinking of the woman in red, on the bench, reading in the rain. Who was she? Where did she come from? Who read old leather-bound books in the rain?