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were lit and the second bed had been tidied of clothes and papers.
"You--" Leah started, but Sophia cut her off by saying, "You
came," and hugging her tightly.
Leah dropped the bag and held Sophia close. "Ward suggested I'd
be safer if I slept elsewhere."
"Is he going to put toothpaste in your shampoo?"
Leah drew back and frowned at Sophia. "Are you?"
Sophia grinned. She backed away from Leah and went into the
room.
Leah closed the door and then followed Sophia. "How was the
show?"
A shadow crossed Sophia's face. "I don't want to talk about the
show."
"Okay. How'd you do all this?" She gestured to the room.
"Oh, in the hour between waking up and going to work," Sophia
said.
"You're already a star," Leah said. "Now you just need New York."
She put her hand on Sophia's neck, intending to pull her closer for a
kiss.
Sophia smiled and moved away. She sat on the edge of the bed, and
asked Leah, "What are we doing?"
"Do you mean, are we--"
Leah felt awkward and out of place in the room, in the candlelight
and Sophia looking sweet and erotic. Her knees went weak. She sat on
the opposite bed, and finished her sentence, trying to be an adult, with
Adam's condemnation in the back of her mind. "Are we going to have
sex?" She wanted to touch Sophia so much she ached, and ached even
more that she couldn't.
Sophia nodded.
"I really, really want to," Leah said.
Sophia looked at the clock, seemingly for something to look at, and
then her gaze flickered back to Leah's. "But?"
"No buts," Leah said. She reached across the space and put her
hand on Sophia's knee. The gesture was so bold she wanted to pull her
hand back immediately, but she didn't, lingering instead, watching
Sophia's face.
"We close tomorrow," Sophia said.
"Is that a but?"
"No," Sophia said. She shook her head. "No, it's just--" She looked
away again, and didn't look back. She hadn't reacted to Leah's hand.
Leah tried to guess the ailment; bad show, bad day, an attraction to
someone new, a realization that Sophia was straight and wanted
children, wanted Ward, or just didn't want a one-night stand.
Or maybe she did, and Leah was looking at her wrong.
Leah gave up guessing, and moved to Sophia's bed, and put her
arms around her. Sophia sank back into her embrace. Leah forgot her
list of insecurities as she kissed Sophia's hair. Sophia exhaled, a sound
of release, and became limp in Leah's arms. Leah kissed Sophia's head,
just above her ear, and decided, "Sometimes it's nice just to be," and
said it out loud, sliding her hands down Sophia's arms.
Sophia turned in her arms, putting her hand on Leah's side. Leah
shuddered as Sophia's hand dragged across her. Her stomach fluttered.
Her skin flushed. Sophia smiled shyly at her and said, "Be in the
moment?"
"Yeah," Leah said. She kissed Sophia, and it was Sophia who
continued the pressure against her mouth, as Leah fell back onto the
bed. Sophia kept their mouths together, slack and warm. She stroked
Leah's waist. Leah raised her knee between Sophia's legs, to trap her,
and the resulting sigh against her lips, seeming to come from Sophia's
whole body. Need surged through her, demanding more, and she
worked her hands down Sophia's back as they kissed. Sophia laughed
against her mouth, and pulled back to smile down at Leah.
"I guess we are," Sophia said.
Leah lifted her head to kiss Sophia, but Sophia leaned back further,
and waited until Leah put her head back down, and leaned down to kiss
her forehead. Leah wrinkled her nose. Sophia kissed each eyebrow.
Leah worked her hands under the hem of Sophia's shirt.
Sophia arched when Leah touched her bare stomach. She kissed
Leah's mouth, offering her tongue, rubbing herself across Leah's hands.
Leah sucked on her tongue, and closed her eyes to the kiss, giving into
the sensation of Sophia's skin, the weight of Sophia's breasts against
hers, the way Sophia was starting to grind her hips against Leah's thigh.
Somewhere close by, a tinny, mechanical version of "Monday,
Monday" began to play.
Sophia groaned.
Leah pulled her into a hug, to keep her on the bed, but Sophia said,
"That's my brother. I told him to call. I just hoped it would be earlier."
Leah let go, going completely slack, flinging her arms to the side.
Sophia climbed off of her, brushing her abdomen in the process, and
got the phone.
"Don't go anywhere," she mouthed to Leah, and then opened the
phone. "Hello?"
At the sound of the voice on the other end, Sophia's expression
became delight. "Hi," she said.
Leah moved up to the headboard and propped herself against the
pillows. Sophia sat down next to her, listening to the voice on the other
end of the phone. Leah could hear low, male tones, but they were just
making a staccato, buzzing sound. She settled her hand on Sophia's
thigh.
The male voice offered a laugh, loud enough for Leah to hear and
then stopped. Sophia started talking. Leah tried to tune her out, to offer
a wall of privacy in the inches between their heads, but Sophia's voice
interested her. She rested her head on Sophia's shoulder, listening, as
Sophia counseled her brother on love. Leah didn't know if the brother
was older or younger; she tried to picture him from his voice, and
ended up just picturing Donny Osmond.
Sophia became a different person as she talked to her brother. She
was looser, funnier, softer, less demanding with the mess of his life
than she was with her own monologues. She seemed completely
unselfconscious, and Leah stayed as still as possible not to break the
spell.
"Oh, Jackson," Sophia said, and a tear formed at the corner of her
eye.
Leah kissed her cheek. Sophia smiled at her and then asked, "What?
Yes." She squeezed Leah's hand, and Leah was glad to be there, not
only to witness but to give what Sophia needed.
The conversation dragged on and Leah's eyes began to droop.
Determined to stay awake, to make love to Sophia, when the arousal
had already pooled between her legs, when Sophia's fingers were
tracing circles on her thigh, she turned on the television, set it to mute,
and watched a talk show. She tried to mimic the exaggerated faces she
saw there in the host and the participants. She longed for a mirror. She
longed to talk. She was rarely this long in a room with someone
without talking. Her jaw worked. She added dialogue to the
expressions.
Sophia covered the mouth of the phone and said, "I think they're
talking in Spanish."
"It's on mute," Leah said.
Sophia furrowed her brow. She went back to the phone.
The talk show got boring. Leah channel-surfed before finding the
news. She couldn't mimic fires or floods or stocks going up, but the
graphics were pretty enough. She stared at them.
"Leah."
Sophia shook her. Leah looked over. Rarely had Sophia said her
name. It sounded strange and exotic and beautiful coming from her lips.
"I'm off the phone," Sophia said.
"How's your brother?"
"Better. He just needed to talk to someone who understands that he
isn't crazy."
"Takes one to know one?" Leah said.
Sophia smacked her side. Then she hopped off the bed and went
into the bathroom. Leah frowned, turned off the television, and went to
retrieve her bag. She'd brought sexy pajamas--the one pair of sexy
pajamas she brought on every trip, just in case, and she changed into
them quickly and put on Chap Stick and bounded back into bed. Her
hair had dried haphazardly, and she considered lunging for the bag
again, and her comb, but Sophia emerged, wearing a white T-shirt that
said Evita on it, and boxer shorts that looked like they had belonged to
a man at one time. Plaid. Leah looked at her legs, as Sophia came over
and knelt on the bed and wrapped her arms around Leah.
"Who were you in Evita?" Leah asked.
"Oh, no one. I just saw it with my parents and loved it. You know.
Theater."
"Of course."
"Madonna," Sophia said.
"Don't cry--"
Sophia cut her off with a kiss, sealing their mouths together until
she seemed sure Leah wouldn't sing. Leah smiled as Sophia pulled
back, and said, "We could..." She slid her hands down Sophia's back
and urged her closer.
"We could," Sophia agreed. She pressed her mouth to Leah's. Leah [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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