Best Lesbian Erotica 2014 by

Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781627780155
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2013-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

When Priya left the library around lunchtime, she had to stop abruptly when a skateboard flew across her path and tumbled off the curb. Only two days had passed since Stitch and Bitch; she was not due to see Luisa for another three or four days.

“Hey,” Luisa said, feigning surprise. “Fancy meeting you here!”

“What’re you doing here?”

Luisa shrugged. Her legs dangled against the low stone wall on which she sat, like a tramp riding a train. She looked out of place on campus, a little too dark, a little too wild and messy amid the ivy-covered walls and quiet footpaths. As soon as she thought that, Priya cursed herself for it. By the same token, she too could be considered too dark.

“Sorry,” Priya said, “I’m just…distracted.”

“It’s okay. I—” Luisa started.

At the same time, Priya continued, “What are you doing here?”

They both stopped, then opened their mouths to speak again. Finally, waving off objections, Luisa mimed zipping shut her lips and motioned Priya to go on.

“Surprised to see you here, that’s all,” Priya said. “Is everything all right?”

Luisa slid off the wall and hopped from foot to foot. “Everything’s great! I wanted to show you something.”

Priya didn’t like the sound of that. Luisa’s enthusiasm was always contagious, but it was also occasionally dangerous. Carefully she asked, “What did you want to show me?”

Bending at the waist, Luisa yanked up her shirt and pointed at her bare hip.

There, where the other night Priya had left a line of hickies and scratches, was a much more permanent mark. A dark-inked tattoo, shiny ink on swollen, painfully red skin, captured Priya’s marks, made them indelible.

Luisa straightened up. “Isn’t it awesome?”

“It’s…” Priya didn’t know what to say. She felt horrified and baffled all at the same time. Proud, too, but that wasn’t the point. “It’s permanent.”

“Yeah!” Luisa nodded rapidly, beaming a grin and crinkled eyes. She was so beautiful, if reckless. “Pretty much the whole point.”

Gradually, as Priya stood there, mouth open, frozen into silence and worry, Luisa’s good mood dimmed. It wavered, then flickered, and finally, just winked out.

She folded her arms across her chest. “What did I do now?”

She made it sound as if Priya were always taking her to task. That wasn’t the case. Maybe it was at times, but she was so heedless, so impulsive, that someone had to say something, haul her back from the brink.

“Nothing,” Priya replied. “Sorry. Do what you want.”

“I wanted to do it for us,” Luisa said. She sounded sullen.

That was Priya’s cue to make nice. She should apologize, cheer up Luisa.

She didn’t have the time, however, not with midterms approaching and her next shift at the grocery store across town starting in less than half an hour. “For us?” she said. “What does that even mean?”

Luisa blinked up at her. There were tears on her lashes, and she looked heartbroken. Priya wasn’t a monster; the sight made her chest feel like it had caved in.

“Us,” Luisa said. Her voice rose to make it a question. “Us?”

Priya took in a breath, then another, reminding herself to keep the big picture in view.

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