Lifetime Between Us: Second Chance Lesbian Romance by Diana Morland

Author:Diana Morland [Morland, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Maria took a deep breath, walking to the front door of Erica’s apartment building with flowers. It was Saturday morning, and they’d agreed to go to an early movie at the second-showing theater and then get lunch—the only way both of their schedules would give them time to see each other this week.

She just hoped that this went well. Their first real date. Was it weird to show up with flowers? That sort of felt like a guy thing. But it also felt like something she wanted to do. She just hoped Erica would appreciate the flowers.

She was about to press the button to buzz Erica’s apartment when the door opened. She turned, hoping it was someone who would let her in—but it was Erica, dressed in bell-bottom jeans and a tank top that made the most of her small shapely bust… and holding her own bouquet of flowers.

They stared at each other. Then they both burst out laughing.

“Here, I got you flowers,” Erica said through her laughter, thrusting the bouquet at Maria. Maria grinned and handed the one she was carrying to Erica.

At first glance she thought they’d gotten the same bouquet, but no—the one she’d picked out for Erica had purple foxgloves and pink dahlias among the huge yellow sunflowers, but the one Erica had found for her had pink foxgloves and purple zinnias. She couldn’t help laughing again as she sniffed the flowers. “These are beautiful. Thank you, Erica.”

“Did you get these from a flower vendor on the corner?” Erica asked, laughing as she buried her face in her own bouquet.

“Yes. You did, too?”

“They must be the same company. Or we went to the same one.”

Maria shook her head. “Mine was at the train station near my house. I carried them all the way here on the train.”

“How sweet. Everyone could tell you were on a date.” Erica leaned forward and kissed Maria on the cheek.

Someone cleared their throat. Maria jumped and got out of the way, moving off the steps so a person—she just got a glimpse of a dark jacket with broad shoulders—could rush past them, out of the apartment building. Erica moved more slowly, making a rude gesture at the person’s departing back.

“I admit I was picturing me taking those up to your apartment, and you putting them in water,” Maria said. “Do you want to do that now?”

Erica shook her head. “I’ll just carry it around until it wilts. I don’t know if they spray pesticides on these things, and I don’t want to tempt Cadbury. I already had to keep your flowers out of his nibbly little teeth a few times.”

Maria laughed. “Okay, that sounds good. We’ll just tote them around to the movie, let everyone else see how great our, um, our dates are.” She had wanted to say ‘girlfriends,’ but at the last moment her brain disobeyed her, making her tongue trip over itself. A moment of anxiety twisted her stomach. What did Erica think?

She didn’t seem to have noticed.

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