Author's Note: I'm actually keeping up with a challenge for once! This is my first attempt at very slight femmeslash, it was written in roughly 5 minutes and I have not proof read it. So my apologies if it really is awful.
Day 5, A Song That Reminds You of Someone: I Feel Like a Woman by Shania Twain always makes me think of one of my friends as, the first time I ever saw her in a dress, I managed to get the DJ in a rock bar to play this three times in one night.
Every Thursday evening, Gemma Kerr kisses her young daughter goodnight on the forehead and carefully tucks her in. It is no different from any other evening.
Every Thursday evening, Gemma calls goodbye to her husband in the living room, gathers her coat and handbag and sets off to see a film with an old friend in the city centre.
Or at least, that is what she tells them.
In actual fact, Gemma Kerr hurriedly walks down the street to the underground station where she is picked up in a black taxi with a frequently disgruntled driver. The driver rarely speaks to her, and for that, Gemma is thankful; she does not think that she could cope with any more lying. Approximately ten minutes later, she is dropped off outside of an imposing apartment building on the West End of the city where she will spend several hours in the arms of her lover.
It started several years ago, she recalls as she rests her warm cheek against the cool glass window; six months before she resigned from her job with the police force to marry a man whom, in hindsight never really was good enough for her. Jacqueline Reid seemed to be the perfect woman, a woman with an intense, fiery passion for her career with a kind and gentle manner, and a soothing voice.
When the taxi pulls to a stop, Gemma steps out and quietly, she walks into the building and up the staircase to the small second floor flat. The moment she opens the door, Jackie steps out to shower the blonde with passionate kisses and quiet, love-filled whispers. Of course, she knows that this is a sin, just as she knows that she needs this. It has been some time since she has been intimate with her husband, not since he had the affair and now they are barely friends, unable to look one another in the eye. And a woman has her needs; sometimes she simply needs to feel like a woman again.
In contrast to her husband, Jackie kisses her, she tells her that she is beautiful and most of all, she makes lover to her and Gemma feels that for once, everything may really be alright.
Every Thursday evening, Gemma Kerr lies to her family.
Every Thursday evening, Gemma feels loved in a way that she has never felt before.