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Blush: The Kiss That's Always New
Author: Kat
Title: The Kiss That's Always New
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Blush saturation
Supplies and Materials: Seed beads, miniature collection, brush (advocate), feathers (How well does your character sleep?), modeling clay (What's been the best thing about the new year for you so far?), novelty beads (heart toast),
Word Count: 1500
Rating: PG
Summary: Women in love.
Warnings: None.
Notes: At least one of every one of these couples has been mentioned before. I swear I didn't just make them all up for this. Anyway, about three people requested happy lesbians on a meme, and while not all of these ladies are lesbians, they are all happy.
1. soft kisses
"I'm going to get you out," Anna tells Delia, and punctuates it with a kiss.
They are lying in bed together, baby Chiara asleep beside her mother, and Anna with her head propped on her hand, the better to see her lover. Delia's thick dark hair and tanned skin, her sweet curves and sweeter smile...
Delia stretches luxuriously, and says, "Of course you will." There is such confidence in her voice.
"I will," Anna says, and kisses her again.
She'll get them out, and they will live happily ever after, her and Delia and Chiara. It's all she's ever wanted.
2. first date
Priya is so done with blind dates, but Jenny had begged-- "just this once, it's not really a date, just take my friend out so I can see my boyfriend." And because Priya is a sucker, she agreed.
Except she's so, so glad she did agree because Lucia is amazing, silver earrings twinkling like stars in her curly brown hair, smart as a whip and twice as funny, pretty hands with chipped nail polish. Priya's tongue-tied and stammering and wondering if maybe...
"Why don't we get out of here?" Lucia asks with an enchanting smile, and Priya falls in love.
3. proposal
Screaming at each other in a crowded bar did not, Marie decided, count as a proposal. And since this was hopefully the only time she was going to get married, she should do it right.
So she took Gillian on a picnic out by the Potomac basin, when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. The tourists were swarming like rats and their actual wedding was only a couple months away but it was the principle of the thing. She got down on one knee and everything.
Gillian gave her a dry look, but said yes.
Gillian was so perfect.
4. a dozen roses
Leah is having the worst possible day. First her advisor handed back her latest dissertation chapter and told her it needed to be completely rewritten, then some weirdo hit on her, then she ran out of gas a hundred feet from the gas station, then she ran over a screw or something and had to replace the tire. She comes in the door ready to kill something with her teeth.
And Viktorie is standing there with a bouquet of roses and a soft smile. "I heard you're having a rotten day," she says, sympathetic.
Leah has never loved her more.
5. hand in hand
The fingers on Meriel's right hand are webbed together up to the first knuckle. Simple syndactyly, it's called. She likes to hold her hand up above her head and watch the sun through the webs, flushing peach and red.
She likes also to wrap that hand around Lily's and go walking in the park together. She likes to spread it out on Lily's stomach and admire the contrast in their skin. And sometimes Lily kisses it, so delicately, like she's afraid it will tear like lace.
Meriel always liked her webs. She's glad she found someone who likes them too.
6. dinner and a movie
Halima hates the traditional dates, dinner and a movie, dinner and a show. They're just so predictable and boring. So at first she was disappointed. She'd expected Katherine to shake it up a bit.
Except then the show was Shakespeare in the park, and the dinner was a picnic. It didn't hurt that Katherine had picked Midsummer Night's Dream. And the actors frisked through the audience, faeries laughing and tumbling, and Puck sneaked around squeezing love-in-idleness onto the watchers, and when he went by them Katherine kissed her.
She is, Halima realizes, much more fond of Katherine than she expected.
7. sweet nothings
Mary calls her "Pookie" one day, and Alex would be worried if Mary had ever seen Rent, but Mary is not a fan. She just likes stupid nicknames.
As becomes incredibly obvious over the next three years. Pookie's just the start-- there's sugarbean, cuddlebug, Alexadoodle, princesscakes, queenareenie, basically anything that pops into Mary's head. One time she picked Alex up from work and asked for Alexadorable, and the sad part is the receptionist knew who she meant.
So at their wedding, when Mary says, "I do," and grins evilly, Alex knows it's coming.
"...blossom butt."
Eh. It could be worse.
8. you and I
Valerie meets Ruth on the first of the new year, and is smitten immediately. It's a problem of hers, loving the idea of someone rather than the reality, and she tries to hold back, but it seems Ruth is just the same because a week later they're dating, and a month later they're living together.
And Valerie gets used to it so quickly, Ruth curled up in the armchair with a cup of tea, Ruth sprawled over their bed snoring quietly. She could lose this so easily. It'll hurt so much if she does.
Somehow, she doesn't think she will.
9. hearing your heartbeat
Casey's only mostly deaf.
The loss of hearing is profound in her left ear, but the right's only severe, and sometimes if she turns that way and closes her eyes she can hear a little. Loud low sounds, mostly, like if Tim plays his rock music too loud she can follow the drumline. And if she presses her ear against someone's chest, she can hear their heartbeat.
She does that now with Zuri, lying against her on the couch, hearing and feeling the thump-thump-thump against her cheek.
Casey hopes she never goes completely deaf. She'd hate to lose Zuri's heartbeat.
10. side by side
"I always wanted to be a housewife," Colleen tells her, with a wistful little half-smile tucked into the corner of her mouth. "Is that strange?"
Amanda doesn't think so, and she says as much. "It's downright feminist, really," she adds. "If it's what you want."
Colleen shrugs one shoulder. "My mother doesn't think so." She hesitates, then adds, "She was so pleased when I came out to her."
Ouch. Amanda doesn't reply to that. Instead, she says, "Well, I always wanted to be a breadwinner, with a wife and kids at home," and watches a smile dawn on Colleen's face.
11. sleeping together
Joy likes to throw her leg over Lindy's waist, hooking her knee over the jut of Lindy's hip. How she's comfortable like that... but then she is a dancer, more flexible than Lindy could ever dream of being. And Lindy likes the feeling, the sweet soft skin of Joy's inner thigh against her back. She likes to rest her hand on Joy's knee and rub her fingers along its curve.
She lies awake sometimes and listens to Joy's soft breathing, feels the movement of her breasts against her back. Skin on skin on skin, soft and silky.
It's her lullaby.
12. walking in step
They always fall into step, when they're walking together.
They're not very demonstrative, apart from that. Lily likes physical affection, but not in public-- she grew up with far too many homophobic people to ever be really comfortable with it. Bridget just doesn't like to be touched some days. Doesn't mean they don't love each other.
Doesn't mean they're not still in sync, either. They fall into step, when they walk together. They turn their heads at the same time. They finish each other's sentences, sometimes even correctly.
When they walk together, it sounds like one person. Lily likes that.
13. on your arm
Sometimes Ivy hangs off Gina's arm like an overexcited toddler, holding on so she doesn't run off but twisting in all sorts of directions. And sometimes it's the other way around, Gina's hand hooked through the curve of Ivy's elbow, her wrist folded over the joint. She feels so elegant when they walk that way, like a real lady.
She likes the other way more, though, if she's honest. Because Ivy is firecrackers and noise, and Gina likes to think she holds her scattered lover together.
Maybe that's true and maybe it isn't, but she likes them arm in arm.
14. flowers and chocolates
Brittany starts out by sending flowers. Which is sweet, but Sofia is badly allergic to roses and spends the rest of the day sneezing.
The chocolates are also sweet, in more than one way, but Sofia is also badly allergic to nuts, so she hands them around to her office mates and wishes that she could eat them.
"I don't get it," Brittany tells her, in frustration. "What do I have to do to get you to go out with me?"
Sofia laughs, and says, "You could always try just asking."
Sofia is not, in any way, allergic to kisses.
15. put your arms around me
Some days Shannon feels so brittle.
She isn't really sure why. There's nothing wrong with her, physically or mentally, and it's not like she ever got traumatized or whatever. It's just that some days she feels like she needs everything to be a certain way, or she'll fall apart.
So she calls Maggie, or Maggie finds her, and it's like... it's not better exactly, but Maggie knows how she likes things and she knows what Shannon needs, and sometimes they'll just hang out on the couch and cuddle.
Shannon likes Maggie's arms around her. It makes her feel so safe.
Title: The Kiss That's Always New
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Blush saturation
Supplies and Materials: Seed beads, miniature collection, brush (advocate), feathers (How well does your character sleep?), modeling clay (What's been the best thing about the new year for you so far?), novelty beads (heart toast),
Word Count: 1500
Rating: PG
Summary: Women in love.
Warnings: None.
Notes: At least one of every one of these couples has been mentioned before. I swear I didn't just make them all up for this. Anyway, about three people requested happy lesbians on a meme, and while not all of these ladies are lesbians, they are all happy.
1. soft kisses
"I'm going to get you out," Anna tells Delia, and punctuates it with a kiss.
They are lying in bed together, baby Chiara asleep beside her mother, and Anna with her head propped on her hand, the better to see her lover. Delia's thick dark hair and tanned skin, her sweet curves and sweeter smile...
Delia stretches luxuriously, and says, "Of course you will." There is such confidence in her voice.
"I will," Anna says, and kisses her again.
She'll get them out, and they will live happily ever after, her and Delia and Chiara. It's all she's ever wanted.
2. first date
Priya is so done with blind dates, but Jenny had begged-- "just this once, it's not really a date, just take my friend out so I can see my boyfriend." And because Priya is a sucker, she agreed.
Except she's so, so glad she did agree because Lucia is amazing, silver earrings twinkling like stars in her curly brown hair, smart as a whip and twice as funny, pretty hands with chipped nail polish. Priya's tongue-tied and stammering and wondering if maybe...
"Why don't we get out of here?" Lucia asks with an enchanting smile, and Priya falls in love.
3. proposal
Screaming at each other in a crowded bar did not, Marie decided, count as a proposal. And since this was hopefully the only time she was going to get married, she should do it right.
So she took Gillian on a picnic out by the Potomac basin, when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. The tourists were swarming like rats and their actual wedding was only a couple months away but it was the principle of the thing. She got down on one knee and everything.
Gillian gave her a dry look, but said yes.
Gillian was so perfect.
4. a dozen roses
Leah is having the worst possible day. First her advisor handed back her latest dissertation chapter and told her it needed to be completely rewritten, then some weirdo hit on her, then she ran out of gas a hundred feet from the gas station, then she ran over a screw or something and had to replace the tire. She comes in the door ready to kill something with her teeth.
And Viktorie is standing there with a bouquet of roses and a soft smile. "I heard you're having a rotten day," she says, sympathetic.
Leah has never loved her more.
5. hand in hand
The fingers on Meriel's right hand are webbed together up to the first knuckle. Simple syndactyly, it's called. She likes to hold her hand up above her head and watch the sun through the webs, flushing peach and red.
She likes also to wrap that hand around Lily's and go walking in the park together. She likes to spread it out on Lily's stomach and admire the contrast in their skin. And sometimes Lily kisses it, so delicately, like she's afraid it will tear like lace.
Meriel always liked her webs. She's glad she found someone who likes them too.
6. dinner and a movie
Halima hates the traditional dates, dinner and a movie, dinner and a show. They're just so predictable and boring. So at first she was disappointed. She'd expected Katherine to shake it up a bit.
Except then the show was Shakespeare in the park, and the dinner was a picnic. It didn't hurt that Katherine had picked Midsummer Night's Dream. And the actors frisked through the audience, faeries laughing and tumbling, and Puck sneaked around squeezing love-in-idleness onto the watchers, and when he went by them Katherine kissed her.
She is, Halima realizes, much more fond of Katherine than she expected.
7. sweet nothings
Mary calls her "Pookie" one day, and Alex would be worried if Mary had ever seen Rent, but Mary is not a fan. She just likes stupid nicknames.
As becomes incredibly obvious over the next three years. Pookie's just the start-- there's sugarbean, cuddlebug, Alexadoodle, princesscakes, queenareenie, basically anything that pops into Mary's head. One time she picked Alex up from work and asked for Alexadorable, and the sad part is the receptionist knew who she meant.
So at their wedding, when Mary says, "I do," and grins evilly, Alex knows it's coming.
"...blossom butt."
Eh. It could be worse.
8. you and I
Valerie meets Ruth on the first of the new year, and is smitten immediately. It's a problem of hers, loving the idea of someone rather than the reality, and she tries to hold back, but it seems Ruth is just the same because a week later they're dating, and a month later they're living together.
And Valerie gets used to it so quickly, Ruth curled up in the armchair with a cup of tea, Ruth sprawled over their bed snoring quietly. She could lose this so easily. It'll hurt so much if she does.
Somehow, she doesn't think she will.
9. hearing your heartbeat
Casey's only mostly deaf.
The loss of hearing is profound in her left ear, but the right's only severe, and sometimes if she turns that way and closes her eyes she can hear a little. Loud low sounds, mostly, like if Tim plays his rock music too loud she can follow the drumline. And if she presses her ear against someone's chest, she can hear their heartbeat.
She does that now with Zuri, lying against her on the couch, hearing and feeling the thump-thump-thump against her cheek.
Casey hopes she never goes completely deaf. She'd hate to lose Zuri's heartbeat.
10. side by side
"I always wanted to be a housewife," Colleen tells her, with a wistful little half-smile tucked into the corner of her mouth. "Is that strange?"
Amanda doesn't think so, and she says as much. "It's downright feminist, really," she adds. "If it's what you want."
Colleen shrugs one shoulder. "My mother doesn't think so." She hesitates, then adds, "She was so pleased when I came out to her."
Ouch. Amanda doesn't reply to that. Instead, she says, "Well, I always wanted to be a breadwinner, with a wife and kids at home," and watches a smile dawn on Colleen's face.
11. sleeping together
Joy likes to throw her leg over Lindy's waist, hooking her knee over the jut of Lindy's hip. How she's comfortable like that... but then she is a dancer, more flexible than Lindy could ever dream of being. And Lindy likes the feeling, the sweet soft skin of Joy's inner thigh against her back. She likes to rest her hand on Joy's knee and rub her fingers along its curve.
She lies awake sometimes and listens to Joy's soft breathing, feels the movement of her breasts against her back. Skin on skin on skin, soft and silky.
It's her lullaby.
12. walking in step
They always fall into step, when they're walking together.
They're not very demonstrative, apart from that. Lily likes physical affection, but not in public-- she grew up with far too many homophobic people to ever be really comfortable with it. Bridget just doesn't like to be touched some days. Doesn't mean they don't love each other.
Doesn't mean they're not still in sync, either. They fall into step, when they walk together. They turn their heads at the same time. They finish each other's sentences, sometimes even correctly.
When they walk together, it sounds like one person. Lily likes that.
13. on your arm
Sometimes Ivy hangs off Gina's arm like an overexcited toddler, holding on so she doesn't run off but twisting in all sorts of directions. And sometimes it's the other way around, Gina's hand hooked through the curve of Ivy's elbow, her wrist folded over the joint. She feels so elegant when they walk that way, like a real lady.
She likes the other way more, though, if she's honest. Because Ivy is firecrackers and noise, and Gina likes to think she holds her scattered lover together.
Maybe that's true and maybe it isn't, but she likes them arm in arm.
14. flowers and chocolates
Brittany starts out by sending flowers. Which is sweet, but Sofia is badly allergic to roses and spends the rest of the day sneezing.
The chocolates are also sweet, in more than one way, but Sofia is also badly allergic to nuts, so she hands them around to her office mates and wishes that she could eat them.
"I don't get it," Brittany tells her, in frustration. "What do I have to do to get you to go out with me?"
Sofia laughs, and says, "You could always try just asking."
Sofia is not, in any way, allergic to kisses.
15. put your arms around me
Some days Shannon feels so brittle.
She isn't really sure why. There's nothing wrong with her, physically or mentally, and it's not like she ever got traumatized or whatever. It's just that some days she feels like she needs everything to be a certain way, or she'll fall apart.
So she calls Maggie, or Maggie finds her, and it's like... it's not better exactly, but Maggie knows how she likes things and she knows what Shannon needs, and sometimes they'll just hang out on the couch and cuddle.
Shannon likes Maggie's arms around her. It makes her feel so safe.
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