Old Friends

She drove, concentrating on the road ahead of her, but still managing to sneak the occasional glance at Megan's profile.

Alice smiled wryly. She was well used to sneaking glances at Megan, felt like she had been doing it their whole lives. And in effect she had, at least from about the age of thirteen onwards, when she first worked out she was attracted to women and Meg was the reason she worked that out.

Unfortunately for her, Meg had never had that same revelation, so sneaky sideways glances, or quick glances at her best friends bodacious behind, were all that she had. She didn't mind. Not really. She had found other women to crush on, to love... to explore.

Then as Meg went from boy to boy, and then man to man, Alice had realised that she and Meg had something beyond what those men were to Meg - besties for life. Who wouldn't want that? And if her heart sped up sometimes at the site of that ridiculously cute, upturned nose or crinkly smile... or if her vulva pulsed in time to Meg's hip swaying walk when viewed from the rear... no one knew but her, so it simply didn't matter.

Her smile widened at that, and she shifted slightly in the car seat, hands gripping the wheel a little tighter to keep both the car and her mind on track. She felt Meg's eyes on her and quickly cast another sideways glance. "What?"

"Nothing - you just look like you are laughing about something, and I wondered what it was." Alice snorted aloud, "You really don't want to know" she laughed. Meg gave her another look and held Alice's glance a little longer. She murmured "You'd be surprised." That stopped Alice short, but then Meg gave a quick, light-hearted laugh and looked back to the road. "Nearly there yet?".

Alice wondered but then shrugged. Meg was a mystery to her sometimes and this was just one of those times. She was probably having troubles with her current man, Alice thought. Out loud she said, "Yep - about 10 minutes away."

*

They had a brilliant day at the cabin. The woods were beautiful this time of year, with the leaves fading from red to orange, and then to yellow. Alice had been lucky enough to inherit the little place on the lake from her grandfather - she amongst all the cousins had absolutely loved the place, so old Hank had left it to her.

Everyone was still welcome to visit and use the space of course, and they did, but it was Alice that looked after it, maintained it... loved it. Because of her grandfather and her memories of family in the beginning, but then just because. Looking at Meg laughing as they walked around the lake's edge, shoes crunching through fallen leaves, face glowing and utterly relaxed in the softly fading light, Alice was so grateful once again for her life and her place here, both of which she owed to Hank and her family.

"What are you thinking of?" Meg asked, looking back at Alice over her shoulder.

"How lucky I am" Alice replied, smiling softly.

"Cause you've got me in your life?" Meg said, with a cheeky smile and an even cheekier wink.

Alice cracked up. "Yep, it is always about you Megan Louise Parker. First, middle and last."

"As it should be" Meg said, her smile widening even further. Alice snorted. Meg was in a fun mood today. But Alice thought, she usually was, if she was away from regular life and her regular man troubles.

They turned and walked back towards the cabin, this time arms hooked companionably. Meg sighed "It is beautiful here. There is something about it that just makes you feel..."

"What?" Alice asked, curious.

"Like you can be whoever you want to be. No - that's not it. Like you can be who you really are. And whoever that is, is right."

Alice looked at Meg's side profile. "Do you worry about that? Not being who you really are?"

"Of course! Everyone does. Well, not you obviously, but regular people like me do."

Alice snorted again. "Why not me obviously? What special privileges do you think I have?"

Meg pulled her arm away and turned to walk backwards, slightly ahead of Alice. "Come on. You know who you are... at least now. Sure, things were rocky when you first came out. But that was so long ago and now you are just..."

"Just what?"

"Solid."

"Solid?" Alice asked incredulously. "Is that how I appear to you?" Alice waved a hand down her body, with a puzzled look on her face.

"God, I don't mean physically. I mean spiritually. No, not that either. I mean you know exactly who you are. No more secrets. Nothing to hide." Meg was busy gesticulating as she was walking, and weirdly, Alice noticed she was blushing. She was worried that she has offended me, Alice thought, touched.

"Ok, I think I understand" Alice smiled. Meg looked relieved and came back to walk beside Alice. Alice said, "But I'm not as together as you think I am. I still have doubts, I still have..."

Meg cut her off with a pfft sound. "Compared to me you are completely together! Come on, let's get back and start getting tea on - I'm starving."

"... secrets" Alice murmured under her breath. "I still have secrets." She smiled a little sadly at Meg's retreating back.

*

"Bedtime?" Meg said, swaying slightly.

"Bedtime." Alice agreed, trying hard not to sway herself. They'd had a lot to drink. Way too much in fact. But the first bottle of wine had gone down too easily, so a second had just seemed sensible. Her smile was decidedly sloppy... crushes were harder to cover up when you were drunk, she realised, with a little hiccup. Luckily, Meg was as plastered, if not more so that Alice.

She pushed herself off the couch and started to pull out the base to create the fold out bed. She tripped over her own feet, overcorrected to stop herself from falling over, and ended up back on her butt, next to Meg who was rolling around, laughing uncontrollably. Alice snorted and trying to gain back her dignity, pushed herself upright again.

"Don't worry about the fold out. Can I just bunk in with you?" Meg said. Alice swung her head around to look at Meg... well, to look at three of Meg if the truth be told, all gently moving in and out of focus.

"Don't look at me like that. It isn't such a big deal. We shared all the time when we were kids."

"It's been a long time since we were kids." Alice said. Meg just grinned at her, so Alice shrugged and let go of the couch end, instead reaching out a hand to Meg to help her up of the couch. Propping each other up, they both started giggling.

"It's going to be a long night." Alice said.

"Hopefully." Meg said. Alice looked at her confused. Meg just laughed "I guarantee we'll be asleep within 10 minutes."

"You're being generous. It'll be more like five." Alice retorted.

They hoped into the old double bed, shivering a bit under the cold covers. Soon they started to warm up, and Alice felt herself drifting away, pleasantly smashed but already regretful of the hangover she would have in the morning.

*

She woke up. Something was wrong. No, not wrong. Just... something. She was on her side, and she opened her eyes slightly, hoping the moonlight would light up the room enough so that she could she what it was.

Staring back at her was Meg. So close. Too close. Had Alice forgotten she was sharing the bed and rolled into Meg? Oh my god, what if she had forgotten where she was, and who she was with, and rolled onto Meg? She tried to back up slightly, but as she pulled back her leg, she realised she was already on the edge of the bed. So, she hadn't headed towards Meg... had Meg moved towards her?

"Is something wrong?" she whispered, not wanting freak Meg out. Maybe she hadn't woken up fully. Maybe she was sleepwalking.... well, sleep lying but with her eyes wide open. Maybe...

"Nothing's wrong." Meg whispered too. Alice leaned back slightly, but rather than lean back herself, Meg moved a fraction forward, so her eyes were still lined up with Alice's and staring straight into them.

"But..."

"But nothing. Nothing is wrong. I was just wondering, that's all."

"Wondering what?"

"Wondering if touching you in person would be as good as it is in my imagination."

"Wha... what?!" Alice replied, trying to whisper, but coming out instead on a squeak.

Meg laughed. "I know you think of me that way. I see the way you look at me... even when you are not trying to look at me. Gets me hot. Makes me wonder."

Alice felt like she was dying. Light the heat had been turned up to 100 degrees. "You... you think of me?"

Meg's eyes laughed at her. "Yes Alice. Yes, I do. I've never done anything about it. I kept waiting..."

"Waiting?"

"Waiting... for it to go away. Or for you to act on it. And either way, I'm still waiting."

"You want me to act on it?" Alice felt stupid. Thick. Leaden. Heavy. Was she hallucinating? Was she asleep and having some desperate, wishful dream?

Meg softly laughed again. "Well, I did." Alice felt her heart plunge. It had been too good to be true. "But today I'm drunk enough to act first."

This time her laugh was a little throatier, and she shifted ever so slightly closer to Alice again. "You can stop me if you want." Alice's heart started hammering then, her mouth dried out, her panties went the other way.

Meg reached out, slowly, slowly, slowly. "I've always wondered what you felt like... here" With the gentlest of touches, Meg brushed her fingertip lightly over Alice's breast. Alice sharply drew in a breath and partially closed her eyes.

"You like that do you?" Meg whispered, her lips now only fractionally away from Alice's. "I wonder how you feel about this then?" Slowly, carefully, maddeningly, Meg ran her fingers over the outside of Alice's pyjama bottoms.

When Alice gasped a little, Meg's grin lifted and, without losing eye contact with Alice, she gently moved her hand inside Alice's pyjamas and carefuly with one finger only, gently slid the digit across Alice's hot, wet vulva.

Alice groaned, she couldn't help herself. It was if all her fantasies were coming true. She looked into Meg's laughing eyes and felt as if she could eat her alive. But at the same time, she was terrified. Terrified to move, to somehow break the spell. She had that childish urge to pinch herself, to check if this was really real. But then Meg gently inserted the tip of her finger into Alice's vagina, her palm making contact with Alice's clitoris at the same time. It was too much. If this was a dream, she didn't care. She had to have more. She leaned into both Meg's hand and the space left between them. Their breasts connected and this time they both groaned.

"Do you want..." Alice's breath caught and backed up, catching even more. Meg didn't seem to notice. Her eyes were closed and she had a dreamy smile on her face. For a horrifying second Alice thought Meg had drifted off to sleep, but the finger inside her gently inserted deeper.

Alice huffed out a quick breath and said without thinking, "Fuck me". The corner of Meg's mouth twitched upwards and she replied, "Oh I intend to."

That did it, all thoughts of asking for consent flew out the window. She pressed down against Meg's hand, forcing her finger to go deeper again. She leaned into Meg, and trying to control her breathing, gently pressed her lips against Meg's, something she had longed to do since they were children.

Meg's mouth parted open on a little sigh and Alice went wild, moving her hips against Meg's hand, which was now busy doing wonderful things to her clitoris.

Alice hands started roaming all the beautiful plains of Meg's long longed for body, one moving up under her sleep t-shirt to cup a breast, the other snaking around behind her to palm a butt cheek. They both groaned again and Alice took the opportunity to run her tongue around Meg's open lips. Meg on the other hand, took the opportunity to move another finger inside of Alice... and then another. Alice, already dripping wet and turned on beyond belief, arched, and climaxed, moaning into Meg's mouth, their mating tongues as intimate as anything else they were doing.

Alice broke away, trying to get her breathing to level off. Meg gently moved her fingers out of Alice, but kept lightly running them over Alice's vulva, drawing little spasms out of Alice.

"Oh my god" Alice breathed. "What?" Meg said, innocently, like she hadn't just rocked Alice's world.

"Where in the world did you learn that?" Alice gasped, slightly shaking her head to clear it. A horrible thought crossed her mind, unbidden and unwelcome. Had Meg been out there... doing THAT... with other women, all the while Alice had been busy crushing over her, but never making any sort of move?

Meg laughed lightly and tapped the side of Alice's head. "Stop thinking so hard. I can almost hear your thoughts." That horrified Alice even more and her eyes flew to Meg's. Meg's sighed and rolled hers. "No, I haven't been with other women. But I have given this a lot of thought... and I may have researched a little."

At that, Alice spluttered out a laugh. "Researched?" "Don't laugh... watching lesbian porn is..." "Is what?!" "Instructive" Meg said on a laugh of her own.

Alice nodded her head, an amused grin splitting her face. "Instructive hey? So how is reality holding up?" She slid her hand up Meg's body to again cup a breast, gently sliding her thumb pad backwards and forward over the hardened nipple. Meg's breath caught slightly as she tried to stifle a groan.

"Ah.. it is.." Alice moved her other hand down and gently cupped Meg's vulva, thrilled to feel the moist cotton of Meg's sleep shorts. "It's ok." Alice rolled her eyes and looked at Meg, whose body was arching against her hands. She laughed a little "Seems a bit more than ok to me. But..." she gently pushed Meg's shirt up and ran her tongue over Meg's other nipple, then lightly applied some pressure with her teeth, drawing out a sharp breath from Meg. "If you are trying to challenge me, I'm up for it." She brought her teeth down and sucked on Meg's glorious nipple, this time earning a breathy squeal in response.

Alice got busy - it was heady, the incredible joy of finally, finally being able to take what she had always wanted. But as Meg arched her back and both breasts were exposed in the light, Alice's breath caught and she felt almost winded. She wanted more. She needed more. She had to have all. Everything.

The mood shifted... her mood shifted. She used her body to roll Meg onto her back, kissing her hard, once, twice, like a staccato beat. She lifted her eyes, a question in them as she met Meg's. Meg jutted out her chin, and a small grin crossed her face and danced into her eyes. For Alice, it was all the confirmation she needed. She kissed the corner of Meg's mouth again, but this time with urgency and ended it with a nip on Meg's bottom lip, eliciting a gasp.

She trailed wet, moist kisses down Meg's throat, bringing her knee up between Meg's legs to force them apart. She pulled Meg's top up and over Meg's head, but not clear of it, which bracketed Meg's arms slightly. For some weird reason that impressed Alice. She liked the idea of Meg not having free range with her movements... something to explore at another time maybe.

But right now, she was still busy. Her mouth drew a wet line down towards Meg's breasts, drawing in one nipple, then the other. Again, she finished on a little nip, but kept going south, knowing that she could spend whole days exploring those breasts alone. Right now though, she had one goal in mind and she was close to achieving it.

She kissed and licked down Meg's tummy, impatient at the pyjama bottoms that were still in her way. She reached under Meg's hips, hands on the material. Through the hot haze in her head, she still knew to check. She looked up, again seeking consent. Meg's head was thrown back, her breathing hard. She sensed the pause but didn't bother looking down. She simply said "Please."

Who was Alice to deny her? With a quick yank, the pj pants were gone. Alice used her hands to gently push Meg's legs up and apart. She was nearly passing out, heady with the fumes emanating from Meg, combined with the desire that was insistently throbbing through her. She pressed her own legs together, trying to distract herself. She'd come if she wasn't careful and she didn't want anything to interfere with this moment.

Gently, she ran a finger down the outside of one of Meg's external lips, ever so lightly crossing over her vagina entry and then just as gently making her way up the other lip. Meg groaned and Alice could see more moisture pump out of Meg, her clitoris throbbing too. She looked up, her eyes meeting Meg's and the look was glory, was everything she'd ever wanted, everything she'd ever fantasised.

Meg propped herself up slightly and Alice spread Meg's legs even further, higher, so the view was clear. Alice was going to come herself. She was so hot, she felt like she was burning alive. Maintaining eye contact with Meg, she lowered her mouth down until she could touch. Taste. Indulge.

Oh my god. Her tongue flicked lightly over Meg's clitoris and Meg groaned. Alice's vagina contracted and she groaned. Alice opened her mouth and took more, greedily lapping and licking. Meg arched in response, groan turning to grunt. Alice kept tonguing Meg but brought her hands down from Meg's legs and used her thumbs to apply pressure. One at the entrance of Meg's vagina, the other at her anus.

"Oh" Meg cried, her whole back arching. "Oh my fucking god". She pushed herself hard into Alice's face, so Alice kept going, but gently inserted both thumbs just a little.

"Ah... ah.... fuck, fuck". Meg was losing her mind. Alice wasn't far behind her. She increased pressure, increased insertion, and clenched her own legs together, praying for control. Suddenly Meg arched again, higher, and higher. She let out a whine, throaty and low and Alice gave in. She mouthed Meg's clitoris and vulva mindlessly, her body humping in time.

Alice's climax hit her like a tonne of bricks, causing her to scrape her teeth up and over Meg's already sensitive clit. Meg screamed, grabbing Alice's hair and furiously grinding against Alice's face. Alice held on for dear life, her own body convulsing in time with Meg's determine thrusts. Alice felt Meg stiffen, once, twice, and then a third time as she finally backed away and down.

Probably fortunate Alice thought, in a dim, oxygen deprived place at the back of her mind. She could have choked to death otherwise.

But it would have been a hell of a way to go.