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By the flamelight of the tapers, Miranda can glimpse Irma and Marion writhing on the linens, panting.
They're side-by-side, tugging up their nightskirts, completely aware of their third companion. Their soft, blushing mouths come together, nuzzling gently before opening for a slow, warm kiss, Imra's giggles reverberating in the bedchambers. One of Marion's delicate, brown hands stirs between Imra's legs, touching where Miranda has only once kissed on a whim.
Irma tastes like heat and salt, when they've stolen a lazy kiss or two in the shadows, and a hint of rose oil.
Marion's lips are far more chapped and fuller in sensation against Miranda's neck and her collarbone. She's meeker than Irma, by nature, and has the strongest scent of newly grown lilacs on her blouses and undergarments.
(Miranda hasn't the faintest idea on what associations herself carries.)
Difficulty arises when considering the mystery and terror overwhelming her, fogging away all the pleasure of love. Something profane, hellish and taunting, creeps through Mrs. Appleyard's school and Miranda senses it like a viper.
She's never questioned her sanity of the fragility of her morality, but while lying in the middle of the sheets against her girls, Miranda feels that helpless, hopeless burden weighting down on her chest. Imra mumbles out for Miranda, noticing her restlessness, sleepy and yet devilishly joyous, tickling under Miranda's knee until she laughs in protest, kicking out.
The headmistress said their precious, unbroken virtue and societal image is what others deem important.
Not their minds. Not the celebration of their womanhood.
And perhaps Miranda agrees — she will not celebrate something so natural, so expected of attention, pressing her lips repeatedly over Irma's slim, pale belly and Marion's eyelids quivering in anticipation.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock isn't mine. If you have not watched the original film or watch the 2018 tv series,,, I'm begging you to DO IT. JUST. DO IT. It has canon wlw and mlm and an amazing mystery and horror and drama and I love it oodles and oodles! Watch it! If you got any comments, go ahead and leave them! If you have seen either the film or tv series, come tell me what your favorite bits were! Have you guys read the book too?