Jenny bit her lip and shook her head.  “Now a part of you is here,” she said, placing Shane’s hand over her heart.  “Forever.”

Their lips brushed tentatively, almost reluctantly.

“We’re crossing that line,” Shane murmured huskily, her handing tracing circles over Jenny’s tattoo on the back of her neck.

“What line?” Jenny questioned, rubbing her thumb over Shane’s lower lip.

“The line between friends and lovers,” Shane told her, allowing her lips to hover dangerously close to Jenny’s again.

“Sometimes lines are just crossed.  You can’t help it,” Jenny mumbled as their lips nearly met.  “Besides, perhaps we can justblur the line a little.”

Shane studied Jenny with heavy-lidded eyes, gazing first into Jenny’s wide eyes, then darting a glance down at her waiting lips, then back up to those expressive, honest, yet haunting eyes. 

Their lips brushed once more, but neither moved this time, and so their lips gently met.  They slowly moved their lips against one another’s, hands beginning to move and explore each other’s bodies with soft caresses.

Shane broke away.  “I can’t believe we’re doing this.  It doesn’t feel right.  Are you sure you want this?”

Jenny grinned.  “Of course I do.  Otherwise I wouldn’t be here right now, would I?”  Then she turned serious.  “You know, if you don’t want to do this, we don’t have to.  If you’re worried about ruining our friendship”

Shane frowned.  “But don’t you want it?”

“I can like you and not need to have ***** with you, Shane.  I can also want you but not have ***** with you.  There is more to life than just *****.  That’s not the most important thing.  Feelings are,” Jenny replied honestly.

“*****, you don’t know how badly I needed to hear someone say that,” Shane muttered, pressing her lips hard to Jenny’s before hoisting her out of the water.

Jenny shrieked as Shane lifted her up.  She laughed and wrapped her legs around Shane’s waist as they headed toward the side of the pool.  Quickly getting out, and shivering when the cool night air hit their wet skin, they hurried around the side of the pool, their wet feet padding across the cement.