Liquid Courage by Hildred Billings

Author:Hildred Billings [Billings, Hildred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lesbian romance
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2017-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Kat had no idea what to expect on a date with Vivian. Talking about their deepest, darkest issues fifteen minutes in… yeah, that was definitely not on any list of expectations.

Can’t believe I told her about that shit. Kat rarely went into the insecurities she still sometimes felt regarding how she dressed and cut her hair. She had never seen herself as anything but a woman. Growing up, she heard every message from her TV and YA books that said she could still be a formidable woman even if she never wore skirts or makeup. These days? People still assumed she wanted to be a man. Even in the so-called LGBT clubs she left as soon as she joined, because she was tired of explaining that lesbianism still existed.

My mom says I’m not a real woman. Ass-crumpits like Shari say I’m an inferior woman. It never ends. Logic told Kat that the world was set up to brainwash women into tearing each other down. It happened even in the bar, where 99 percent of the patrons were self-identified women and claimed to be totally above that behavior.

Even Kat was guilty of it sometimes. How many times had she looked at Shari working her evil magic and thought, “Real women don’t do this to each other.”

It amazed her that someone as conventionally feminine as Vivian, with her silky long hair, made-up face, and clothes straight from the department store window, could face the same kind of insecurities. People are terrible to each other.

These realizations meant Kat worked even harder to make it a great day – for the both of them.

After lunch, where they changed the topic to what high school had been like for them, they went for a walk on the frigid beach. They didn’t see the energetic retriever, but a tiny Chihuahua in booties and a sweater barked at the tide and threatened to tear apart a piece of seaweed while its owner read a book.

“Come to the beach often?”

“No,” Vivian admitted. “Too crowded in the summer, and too cold in the winter.”

Kat took her date’s hand. “Oh, no, is this thing frozen?”

Vivian nodded. “Yes. It’s a terrible problem. Could you please do something about it?”

The only thing Kat could think to do was to kiss the mitten while keeping smoldering eye contact with her giggly date.

“Gorgeous,” Kat said with a sigh. “Somehow, I’ve ended up with the prettiest girl on this beach.”

Vivian looked around. “I don’t see any other women here.”

“You’re the prettiest!”

They ambled for close to a mile, where the city buildings disappeared behind a beachside hill and the vacation homes atop it. There wasn’t another soul in any direction they turned. Sea’s too choppy for the boats to be out. Air too cold for most people to bother with a walk. That meant Kat could get away with stopping in the middle of the sand and pulling Vivian into her arms for a kiss.

She had been talking about something. Work. Coworkers. Uppity bosses who looked down on her… something like that.

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