Seeing Red: A Sapphic Fairy Tale by Cara Malone

Author:Cara Malone [Malone, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2018-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

When Kiera got back to Nana’s house, she tip-toed to the den and peeked in. Nana’s chair was empty and Hunter was asleep on the sofa, the soft glow of the muted television illuminating her face. Kiera smiled and crept over to her, sitting carefully down beside her and slipping Hunter’s arm around her shoulders.

Hunter stirred and said, her voice groggy, “Hey, you’re back.”

“Please tell me you didn’t lose my grandmother,” Kiera said with a smile, nodding at the empty recliner.

“I helped her to bed about half an hour ago,” Hunter said. “How did the meeting go?”

Kiera sighed and said, “The meeting itself was fine. My escape attempt afterward didn’t go too well.”

“Oh yeah?” Hunter asked, sitting up so she could listen better. “Do you want to talk about it?”

Kiera sat up too, and then tried not to smile too broadly when Hunter surprised her by swinging Kiera’s legs across her lap. With color in her cheeks, Kiera said, “I feel kind of weird talking to you about it.”

“Why’s that?”

“Because it’s about the other girl,” she said, looking down at her lap, and then at Hunter’s hands on her shins.

“Do you love her?” Hunter asked.

“No,” Kiera answered, and it wasn’t hard to say so. She looked Hunter in the eyes again and amended her statement. “I don’t love her romantically, and I don’t think I ever really did. But she’s my best friend so I do love her in that way. That’s why it hurt so much.”

“Tell me about her,” Hunter said. Her hands were moving up and down over Kiera’s legs, and around to her calves.

She looked up at the ceiling and wondered whether Nana was asleep for the night. She got up to use the bathroom sometimes, and occasionally she got thirsty and came downstairs for a glass of water. Hunter’s hands were massaging Kiera’s legs and with every stroke, Kiera felt desire building in her core. She wasn’t sure how much longer she could resist the urge to grab Hunter by the lapels of her flannel shirt and pull her on top of her.

They couldn’t do that where Nana might walk in on them, though, and the den offered no privacy at all. Kiera put her feet down on the floor and asked, “Do you want to go for a walk with me?”

The look in Hunter’s eyes told her that she wanted the same thing Kiera did, which was most certainly not to go walking. But she seemed to understand and the two of them put on their jackets, then went outside.

The moon was large and high in the sky, providing more than enough light for them to walk by, especially down by the pond where it was reflected across the surface of the water. Kiera slipped her hand into Hunter’s at first, and when she started shivering, Hunter put her arm protectively around her. It wasn’t full-on autumn yet but there was a chill to the air and it felt good to snuggle against Hunter’s side.

They went down a small dirt path that Kiera and her cousins had worn in the grass over the years.

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