“Shane?” Carmen asked, her head on
Shane’s bare stomach.

“Yeah?” Shane mumbled, her eyes
closed, her hands lazily stroking Carmen’s thick dark hair.

“Don’t you think we should go do
something?”

“What do you mean, I thought we were
doing something.” Carmen laughed, and looked up at her girlfriends
gorgeous hazel eyes.

“I mean like go out. See our friends.
Get something to eat. Go swimming in Bette and Tina’s pool. We haven’t left the
house except for work and the one night I’m DJing at the Planet in forever. We
hardly ever even see Jenny and Mark and they live here.” Carmen really did
think they should go out and do something, but her voice was light, and more
teasing than anything else.

“Don’t you like it here?” Shane
murmured in her low, tantalizing voice. Instead of waiting for a response,
Shane moved her hand from Carmen’s hair down her neck to her round, beautiful
***** and began to massage Carmen’s nipple. Carmen, almost involuntarily,
moved closer, pressing her hips into Shane’s side.

“Well yeah butI thought we could
” But before Carmen could say anything more, Shane moved her hand down past
Carmen’s taut stomach, expertly sliding one and then two fingers into her.
Carmen was already wet, and as Shane began slowly rubbing her ***** with her
thumb, Carmen started to moan lightly. She whispered “You were saying?”

“Mmmhhhhh” was all Carmen could
manage. Shane rolled Carmen onto her back and slowly added another finger,
sliding all three in and out at a quickening pace. She felt the girl start to
shake as she reached *****, her whole body moving in rhythm with Shane. Carmen
reached up and kissed Shane hard on the mouth, pulling Shane’s tongue into her
mouth, kissing her deeply, and then moving her mouth down to Shane’s neck,
while she moved her hands down in between her legs. Shane climaxed almost
immediately.

As their quivering began to subside, Shane rested
her head next to Carmen’s ear and whispered softly, “I love you,” in
exactly the same way she had the first time she told her. It still blew her
mind that she had allowed herself to love someone, to open her heart and not have
been immediately hurt or disappointed. She still worried sometimes that it
would all fall apart, that something horrible would happen. But slowly her
anxiety was ebbing away, replaced by a contentment, a settled feeling she had
never felt before.

Shane was beginning to actually believe that
Carmen loved her for her, and that she didn’t care if she had slept with every
girl in the LA area that she could get her hands on, that she had sold her body
on the streets, that she had done so many things she barely could admit to
herself. Her past had actually started to recede, and for the first time in her
life, she could imagine a future for herself.

“I love you too. Now how about that
swim?”

Suddenly they heard a loud crash followed by a
short wail coming from somewhere in the vicinity of the bathroom.