Toni was fast driver, and they quickly reached Karlie’s home. The car ride had been filled with silence.
She parked the car along the side of the road and glanced at Karlie curiously.
“What’s wrong, Karlie? Something bothering you?”
Karlie nodded, but stayed silent.
“Did you have a fight with Taylor?” she asked softly.
“Yeah…”
Karlie was still looking at the floor.
“What was it about?”
“It wasn’t really a big deal,” she said, “I think it was just a simple misunderstanding.”
Karlie looked up at Toni and tried to smile reassuringly.
“What was it about?” said Toni. She could sense that Karlie did not want to yet get out of the car.
“It was…about…you.”
Karlie spoke hesitantly.
Toni raised her eyebrows. “Continue…” she said.
“Well, she thinks that…you like me.”
“I do like you, Karlie,” said Toni softly.
“I know, but she meant as in more than just friends. She thinks you’re falling for me.”
Karlie looked at Toni. Her face was saying, “Please tell me it’s not true.”
Toni turned to face Karlie, adjusting her body on the seat.
She smiled at Karlie.
“Well?” said Karlie.
Toni stopped smiling, leaned across the seat till her lips were right next to Karlie’s. She placed a hand on Karlie’s thigh. It began to move upwards, slowly, ever so slowly.
Karlie did not stop her hand. She did not know what to think.
Toni whispered almost silently in a raspy voice, “She’s right.”
With her other hand, she turned Karlie’s head to face her. She stopped for a second before closing off the short distance separating their lips.
Karlie did not stop her then. She had stopped thinking.
She did not stop Toni’s legs when she climbed over the seat to be completely on top of Karlie. She did not stop her when they broke apart for air, and Toni whispered again into her ear.
“Backseat.”
Karlie did not stop her when Toni when she urged her, with her body, to move to the back. She did not stop Toni when she reached for her shirt, her pants, did not stop her when she began to caress in ways that only Taylor had caressed her before. She did not stop her when she touched her in places where Taylor had only touched before.
She did not stop Toni when she mounted her; soon after Karlie was moaning and gasping loudly in ways that only Taylor had done to her before.
She did not stop her all night; only stopped when Toni was too exhausted to do anything except collapse and breathe heavily, sweating from something other than the summer heat.
Toni whispered into Karlie’s ear, while resting on top of her chest.
“I love you.”
Karlie stopped her then. Her eyes opened wide, when she finally realized what she had done, pushing Toni off suddenly and scrambling for her clothes. She got dressed in the passenger seat, with Toni hurt and confused in the back of the car.
