Raven sat on the hard, blue plastic chair and prepared to wait. For how long she was going to have to wait she did not know, the arrival time was three fifteen but planes were always delayed, and who knew how long it would take for the passengers to get through customs. She glanced at her watch, two fifty five, at least twenty minutes to sit and wait. Still, it would give her a chance to think things through. This was what she wanted, more then anything else in the world this was what she wanted. Her soulmate, her one true love, her woman.
Raven and Chelsea, Chelsea and Raven. It had been that way longer then either of them could remember. It seemed that there was never a time they wern't best friends, always round each others houses, always on the phone together, always coming up with daft schemes that were bound to get them into trouble. Sure, Eddie was there for a lot of it, sometimes even Raven's brother Corey was a part of it but at the centre of everything was Raven and Chelsea. Chelsea and Raven.
Their parents used to joke about them and the amount of time they spent together;
"They'll either end up killing each other, or marrying each other"
Well, neither were dead.
It seemed inevitable that one or the other would get together with Eddie, he was, after all, the boy of the group and they loved him to pieces.Then he had his girlfriend Chantelle, he was nuts about her right up until the summer they went off to college. He caught her cheating on him with Chelsea's boyfriend Danny. Both Eddie and Chelsea were completely distraught by the discovery and it took them both a long time to get over it, with the help of Raven of course.
The year they went off to college was a bittersweet one for sure, the girls parted ways with Eddie who was enrolled in Austin University in Texas where the girls had opted to stay in LA. They were messed up at the thought of leaving their favourite guy but also irrepressebly excited about starting a new life together.
They took to college life like ducks to water and it was at a party in their third year that they crossed over a line in their lives and moved their relationship from platonic to romantic.
Raven remembered that moment;
The room was hot and smoky, everybody seemed to be talking ten times their usual volume just to be heard over the sounds of the music blaring out from all corners, there were so many people about it was standing room only. Raven and Chelsea stood near a wall, leaning against it holding plastic cups full of beer . They didn't talk, there didn't seem to be any point, they couldn't have heard anything anyway. They just seemed to watch what was going on around them, occasionally nodding hello to a friend or face they recognised but mostly they were content to be in each others company, the way they always were. Chelsea turned her head towards Raven, about to say something. Raven noticed for the first time how enticing her friends lips were, sort of full and plump, like an orange segment. She wondered what they would taste like, oranges perhaps? Her eyes darkened as she surveyed the rest of Chelsea. Her porcelain skin, her curvacious yet slender figure, her chocolate brown eyes and perfect heart shaped face framed by a flaming curtain of hair that was the envy of any woman. The words Chelsea had been going to speak seemed stuck in her throat as she noticed the look she was recieving from her bset friend. Raven's coffee coloured skin seemed to be inviting Chelsea for a closer look, her lips begging to unite with her own. She had hoped something like this would happen at this party, her feelings towards Raven had changed over the past few months, she had always loved her friend dearly now she appeared to be in love with her. Unable to speak, She simply moved her head towards Raven and their lips met in a perfect kiss, lips under pressure, tongues wrestling. It was a passionate, highly charged kiss...one that was repeated many times over the coming months as Raven and Chelsea adapted to being a couple, something that brought them more joy then anything ever had.