Surreptitious

Chapter 38: Actions Speak Louder

Hope slowly lead Josie onto the dancefloor, her armor refracting the array of lights moving about the hall, enhancing her look of gallantry as she pulled her lady close to her body. Even though the floor was full of couples, to them it seemed like they were all alone in a world only meant for them. The music carried them further away as the voice rang out, “You’ve got my head spinning, no kidding, I can’t pin you down…”

Hope’s eyes shimmered an almost electric blue as they locked onto Josie’s chocolate gaze and drew her nearer still, her one arm slipping around the slim waist of the younger girl. Her hand found its perfect placement in the hollow of Josie’s back, while the other held onto Josie’s with the perfect mixture of gentle firmness.

“I’m on your magical mystery ride and I’m so dizzy…” The male voice crooned for them as they readied themselves to be swept away by pure emotion. Josie rested her free hand on Hope’s shoulder and held her close, though not even nearly as close as she wanted to. “Don’t know what hit me…”

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Hope clumsily kicked her bedroom door shut behind her and followed Josie as she led Hope, walking backwards towards her bed, the blush on her cheeks looking absolutely delightful in the dimly lit room – the only light cast into the darkness done so by a low lamp on Hope’s desk. The lamp seemed to cast the whole room in a warm glow, while the lovers themselves could feel a warm glow of a different kind. Warmth creeped up Hope’s fingers; her palm; her arm; her shoulder and spread straight through her chest as Josie pulled her by the hand. Closer still. Hearts beat out of control while anxious fingers clumsily tugged, pulled and yanked at laces and buttons and clasps and leather straps – all of it just in the way now. Metal plates would hit the floor with a distinct clanging sound, but no heed was paid as freed bodies pressed together, blown out pupils settling on their twin pair.
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“My head’s under water, but I’m breathing fine…” The music continued, breaking into the song’s first bridge as Hope swept Josie along with her as she moved. Josie followed Hope’s every step without any need for guidance, their every movement completely and perfectly in sync with one another.

“You’re my end and my beginning…” Josie could read the words of the song in Hope’s eyes as she kept their gazes locked, absolutely no need to be aware of anything happening outside of their swaying bubble of bliss. She could feel each word pumping through her heart as she was as attuned to the song as she was to her own emotions, the two potent mixtures pouring forth together perfectly in a crescendo of absolute adoration for the older girl in whose arms she felt at home.

“You’re my downfall, you’re my muse; my worst distraction, my rhythm and blues…” The song struck the right chords within Hope as she held Josie’s body tightly against her own and stepped either way when needed, though it felt more like mutual floating as they barely noticed their feet touch the ground, so hopelessly too enraptured by one another.

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Hope swept Josie up into her arms as she laid her down on top of her bed, so gingerly and so carefully in her placement of each perfect limb, so careful not to hurt her girl in any way. She felt like the body beneath her was one to be worshipped and so she would bow down in praise in Josie’s honor. Bowing, she let her lips linger close for a kiss from their partner pair, though she’d allow her queen to make the final move and close the gap. Josie kept her gaze locked with the now glowing golden pair above her, so close. Hope’s breath on her lips. Hope’s nose brushing her cheek. Hope’s warmth radiating onto her shivering skin. Josie reached up with both hands to tangle in the messy auburn hair and tugged her knight down to kiss her – no, to consume her.
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As the song reached its climax, Hope was becoming aware of how her fingers grasped tightly at Josie’s back, nearly possessively, digging ever so gently into her flesh, but enough for her to notice. In turn Josie just flushed a rosy color and tucked her face into Hope’s neck, picking up on the scent of her entire future happiness as it all rested right there.

“Cards on the table, we’re both showing hearts, risking it all…” The song insisted and Hope softly folded her chin over the side of Josie’s face, letting her focus shift to how she could almost hear every one of her heart beats beat in time with Josie’s, as if somehow a direct link existed between the two hearts, which Hope could swear was the case indeed.

Hope squeezed Josie’s hand then and the brunette leaned back to observe her beloved’s face, Hope’s own breath immediately sucked out of her once more as if she could forget how insanely beautiful Josie looked tonight. She could not believe this girl was now hers.

Wait, was she? Officially?

“Be mine…” She whispered as she leaned into Josie’s ear, brushing their cheeks together and touching lightly the lobe of Josie’s ear as she spoke. “Be my love.”

“I give you all of me, and you give me all of you…” The song slowly played out its tune to a beautiful end, but the night was only starting for the new couple.

“Always…” Josie whispered from beneath long and dark lashes.

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Hope could feel every little jump and ripple of every little muscle running through the lithe body beneath her, and every time Josie moved, her bare skin scraped over Hope’s own, as if scratching her name into the bark of Hope’s tree. H+J encircled by a heart, like children to express a crush. But this was no crush, as the pleasure ignited by the movement of Josie’s hands all over Hope’s body crushed the last of her sensibility. Hope longed for every layer to be peeled away; let Josie make an onion out of her pretense and strip her down to the bare bones of her emotions. Josie did have such skilled fingers, even though nerves made clumsy work of them when this all started. It was not long till Josie found her rhythm, and then caught Hope in the same rhythm of push and pull, tug and toss, buck and roll. Hope was adrift in an ocean of euphoria by the time Josie’s lips had explored and claimed every last inch of her body. And before long Hope was dragging Josie down to the depths of that warm ocean with her, luring her with a warm and open mouth to come towards her as she sunk further. Soon enough they were both pleasurably exhausted and felt deliciously drowned.
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The sun finally broke through the split in the curtains at Hope’s window, casting a slither of light right across her face. The tribrid blinked sleepily as her senses started to awaken and then suddenly was abuzz all at once as memories of her night with her lover came crashing back through her mind. She smiled even as her skin felt the familiar glow of arousal and she could pick up the scent of Josie’s hair thick in the air around her. She turned then, reaching one naked arm out to where her mate should be sleeping, but the space in the bed was already cold where Josie had left it.

Quickly glancing over at the clock in her bedside table, Hope realized how late it was and that she had already missed breakfast. She could be happy that at least it was a Sunday or she would have completely missed first period by now. But alas, she thought smugly to herself, it was not like she got a whole lot of sleep the previous night.

Rolling out of bed lazily, Hope wrapped her body in some linen and shuffled towards her bathroom for a shower before she would go off in search of Josie. She nearly got lost in the sweetness of her memories as she let her skin soak up the warm water and then gleam with soap. Hope couldn’t help her drifting attention. She had never experienced anything like that – not just the act itself but the intensity of emotion that accompanied it. Hope knew she had woken up that morning a completely new person.

Quickly dressing in a pair of jeans and a black T-shirt, Hope exited the bathroom while still toweling her hair, but nearly swung a fireball at the intruder standing in the middle of her room all of a sudden.

“Hope?” It was Landon, and he seemed utterly confused. “I…I don’t know how I got here. I’m sorry!” He tried to explain even though he was at a complete loss himself.

This wasn’t right. Something was off.

Hope stepped closer, watching him carefully. “What’s the last thing you remember?”

It seemed like he was about to answer when, suddenly, his eyes turned an unholy pearl-white color and he actually started grinning dementedly.