Page 55 of Burning Both Ends
“Really? It’s good that it’s not a secret then.” She stopped and faced Amy in the middle of the bar, taking both of her hands and looking her in the eye, before leaning in to briefly kiss Amy on the lips. “She was watching us walk away, and she definitely knows now.”
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A few hours later, sometime around midnight, and the party was going strong. Amy had had quite a few drinks by that point and was fully into the swing of it, sat next to an equally tipsy Katie and Luisa's Mexican friend Maria, and explaining precisely how her life plan to retire to Thailand by the age of thirty was entirely on track despite only having two years left to do anything about it and virtually no money saved up.
Luisa was sat next to her, facing across the table in deep conversation with another of her friends, but the two of them had hours before settled into their natural closeness, and Luisa’s hand was currently resting comfortably and gloriously possessively on Amy’s leg.
In a lull in the conversation, Katie asked, “I meant to ask earlier, how exactly did you and Luisa meet?”
“Oh… I know this one, she told me all about it,” Maria interrupted in her nearly West Coast accent. Amy had taken an immediate liking to Maria, who unlike most of the women at the party wasn’t involved in modelling or fashion but rather did a job in finance and had been in LA for a while now. Maria had known Luisa through a mutual friend back at home and she was now Luisa’s closest friend in LA. Despite not being a model she was an attractive woman, but normal world attractive rather than model attractive. It felt good for Amy to chat to someone who worked and lived more in her world.
I’ll bet she didn’t describe it all, Amy thought, but her curiosity was piqued. “I would love to know how Luisa described it?” she replied, laughing.
“Well, the first part was easy. I was there in the club that night with her, I can remember seeing you dance with her and then you and her going somewhere from the dance floor. Right?”
“One hundred percent. You’re her friend that’s into that scene?”
Maria laughed. “Guilty! Well, sometimes.”
“You don’t seem like the type?” Amy teased.
“Neither do you and Luisa, but look at you…” she replied, grinning.
“Very true!”
Katie laughed. “It doesn’t happen often, but I’m feeling outnumbered by all you ladies who like ladies.”
Amy, tongue loosened by the alcohol, couldn’t help teasing a little. “You’re one hundred percent completely straight? Because that’s what I thought three months ago and…” She gestured to Luisa’s hand which was resting comfortably on Amy’s leg, fingers gently caressing her inner thigh, a little promise of what was to come when they were in private later.
“I’d never say never but, yeah. It's probably on my bucket list but...”
“Really?” Maria asked in surprise.
“Really never, or really I’d never say never?” Katie replied.
“Really never? You’ve got try it once.”
“Absolutely,” Amy added. “What are you both doing on Friday night?”
“Nothing planned,” Katie replied.
Maria shook her head. “Same.”
Turning to Luisa, Amy said, “We’re free next Friday night, aren’t we?”
Luisa smiled cautiously. “Yes… why?”
“Because you, me and Maria are going to take Katie to the club where we met. See if Katie can tick something off her bucket list. Sound good?”
“I’d love to,” Luisa laughed. Turning to Katie she said, “It’s great fun and no men hassling you. And… you know, who knows what might happen?”
Katie was blushing, but simply said, “Ok, count me in. I’m going to regret this in the morning…” Maria nodded her agreement as well.
Luisa turned back to Amy as a new song came on and, standing up and holding out her hand, said, “We’ve got to dance, I love this song.” As Amy stood up, Luisa turned to the others and hauled them all up on to the dancefloor.
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