"So...I think I've been bit by the love bug, or cupid shot me with an arrow, or someone spiked my coffee with love potion .9, or all three I don't know."

"What in the world are you rambling about Lena?"

"Ansley, I'm head over heels for a woman whose first name I don't even know." Lena explained to her best friend. "Get your feet off my coffee table." She swatted her legs and took a seat next to her.

"So who's the babe?"

"I don't know her."

"Are you stalking her yet?"

"No asshole."

"Well what do you know about her?"

"She's a cop, a married cop. But she's beautiful, I just...I'm going to make her mine if it's the last thing I do."

"And how do you suppose you do that genius? She's married."

"And straight."

"What? You're kidding right." Lena shook her head. "You've never gone after a straight woman before."

"I know that, but you don't understand Ansley, I must have her."

"So what are you going to do?"

The next day

Lena drove in the neighborhood her cop crush had pulled her over in twice now, but couldn't find her. Although every bone in her body was telling her not to, she drove to the precinct she noticed on the cop's uniform when they met. She brought coffee and muffins at the vendor stand on the corner of the block where the precinct stood. She confidently walked in and smiled at the young man behind the front desk.

"Good morning."

"Morning, what can I do for you?"

"Actually, I'm looking for officer Foster, is she in?" She asked looking around, hoping for the best but preparing to have her heart crushed.

"Uh, yeah. Hold on one sec while I go grab her."

Lena smiled and waited impatiently. Even though the young man was back in less than a minute, it wasn't fast enough for her. About five minutes later, she spotted the blonde, she spotted her too and froze. Lena cocked her head to the side wondering why the cop wasn't moving. After a few beats, the cop ducked her head and walked towards Lena.

"Hello officer, have a moment?"

"Uh, sure, wanna go outside?"

"Sure."

"What in the world are you doing here and how did you find me?" Stef asked the bold stranger in amusement.

"I wanted to see you. Here I got you a muffin and some coffee, cream no sugar right?" She asked handing the paper bag and cup to the cop.

"Okay, how the hell did you know how I take my coffee?" Lena just smiled her wicked smile and sipped her own coffee. "Is there something you want Miss Adams?"

"You have no idea, but for now I want you to call me Lena. Eat your muffin, it's banana."

Stef let out a hearty laugh. "You got intel on me or something."

"No, nothing like that, I'm just a good guesser is all. Can I take you out?"

"Jesus Lena, I'm married, you know this right?"

"Of course, I didn't say on a date, I just said out."

"Why?"

"Because I want to be near you."

"Lena..." Stef started and looked at anything but the woman in front of her that was making her core ache.

"I just want to get to know you. Is that a crime because if it is, you can cuff me." She couldn't stop flirting with Stef, not even if she wanted to.

"Lena..." Stef finally looked at her again and regretted it immediately. Her long curls, her perfect caramel skin, her smile that was making her weak. She wasn't sure what was going on but she was sure the two of them hanging out would be a bad idea. "I can't hang out with you."

"Why not? Do you like making sweet innocent women cry?"

"Something tells me you aren't so sweet and innocent Miss Adams."

"I assure you, I am very sweet. That's what I hear anyway."

Stef turned beat red after understanding what the woman meant by "sweet". She wanted to get away but her feet wouldn't listen. "Lena, please..."

"Okay I'll stop flirting, just come hang out with me. You'll have a ton of fun, and something tells me you don't have a lot of girl friends so...come on. Please, with a cherry on top?"

"You normally get what you want don't you?"

"Normally."

"Not today. I have a ton of paperwork to do, thanks for the muffin, and the coffee." She said walking away.

Lena just smiled after the woman and started for her car. "Okay you won this round." She said to herself.

X

Stef was enjoying a hot shower when she heard the curtain opened behind her. She assumed it was one of the days Mike chose to pay attention to her. But when she felt hand on her hips she instantly knew they weren't her husband's, they were too small, too soft. She turned herself around to see a very naked, very sexy Lena. The one person she couldn't get out of her mind. She opened her mouth to ask her what she was doing in her shower, but her words were halted by the other woman's lips. At first she didn't kiss back, she didn't want to give in. But all too soon she realized this battle was a losing one. Lena's lips were so soft, softer than she had ever felt. She kissed her so slowly and passionately, Stef thought the room was spinning. Lena moved her hands from her hips to her backside which she took a firm grip of. Stef's hands landed in the hair she had wanted to play in for the last three weeks. Their kissing was a perfect rhythm, their bodies fitting perfectly together. Lena's moan brought back the familiar ache between Stef's legs. She took one of Lena's hands and wasted no time directing it where she wanted it. Lena didn't play with Stef or tease her, she slipped her fingers inside without any hesitation. Stef lifted her foot to put it on the edge of the tub so her legs were wider for Lena. Her beautiful Lena. She had never seen a woman so beautiful and she had never thought this would be happening.

They were looking each other in the eyes which only quickened Stef's orgasm, and intensified it. Lena knew how to touch her, what speed to go, when to kiss her. It didn't take long for Stef to reach her peak, and she almost came again when Lena pulled her fingers out and put them in her mouth. Moaning loudly as she sucked all of Stef off of her. Stef opened her eyes after she brought herself to an orgasm, and even though she was alone in the shower and no one knew what or who she was thinking about, she blushed anyway.

X

"What'll it be officer?"

"Hey none of that, I'm clearly off duty." Stef gestured to her casual outfit of a light blue polo and jeans. "Could a get a Heineken?"

"You got it." Stef was in her favorite bar, not too far from her empty apartment. Opposed to her usual self loathing ritual, she went for a drink. Her and Mike got into yet another argument over something she couldn't even remember. Then he took their five-year old to a Padres game. When it was nearing her husband's return, she walked to the bar.

"Officer foster?"

She couldn't believe it. "Miss Adams, are you stalking me?"

"No. Wow, almost didn't recognize you out of your uniform. And although I was hoping to see you out of your uniform in a different way, this will do." Lena snickered at Stef's expression.

"Wow you just don't quit do you?"

"Mama didn't raise a quitter. May i join you?" Lena saw Stef's apprehension. "Just for a beer, if that's okay?"

"Uh, yeah...sure. What can i get you?"

"Corona, thank you." She said taking a seat.

"Jesse, a Corona and another Heineken." She turned back to Lena. "So you live around here?"

"You know exactly where I live, you've seen my driver's license, remember. What's your name?

"Stef." She guzzled the rest of her beer. "So what do you do Miss Adams?"

"How many times do I have to tell you to call me Lena? I'm a highschool Math teacher, hopefully I'll be the principal one day."

"Ah, so you like kids?"

"I absolutely love children, I wish I had a hundred running around my house, like the old lady in the shoe." Lena half joked as she was handed her beer.

She laughed. "So that answers my next question, so no kids yet huh?"

"Nope, unfortunately. Soon though, I hope. Just gotta snag me a wife." She winked at the flustered blonde.

"So you're a...um" Stef struggled with her wording. "You're..."

"A big giant lesbian, yep."

"I wouldn't call you a giant." They laughed, gaining comfort with every passing moment. "I was just wondering."

"Wonder no more. Ever try a woman?"

"No, I can't say that I have, and before you say something smart..." She was interrupted by Lena's burst of laughter.

"Damn, you know me so well already." Her giggle fit continued.

"So I'll assume you're single?"

"Yep."

"Why?"

Lena shrugged not wanting to get into the whole Gretchen thing. "I had a breakup not too long ago, so I've been flying solo ever since. So tell me about the lucky son of a gun that snatched you up." Lena loved the smile and blush that creeped up on Stef's face. "Gosh you blush easily." They looked at each other but Stef stayed quiet. "I like that."

"You like that you make me blush?"

"No, well yes. But I like the fact that you're humble even more. Arrogant people don't blush when they receive compliments, they feel as though they deserve them. Kind, humble people blush. You're so beautiful you know that? Ha, see, made ya blush again."

"Stop it okay." Stef giggled, cradling her fifth beer.

"Stop telling you you're beautiful?"

"Yes, please. Anyway you're the beautiful one. I bet that you can get any guy you want." With the alcohol in her system she was feeling a little bold.

"If i wanted a guy perhaps that would be true..."

"Oh shit, right I'm sorry. Still, I'd bet my whole paycheck you can get any girl you want." Stef said, trying to recover.

"Not any girl." The look they shared sent chills up and down Stef's back. Looking into those big brown eyes had her disoriented, and the beer wasn't helping. Then she smiled and Stef was rendered speechless. "You had to be married huh?"

"And straight..."

Lena couldn't help but laugh. "Sexuality is just a bunch of blurred lines. If you weren't married and you considered yourself straight I still could have gotten what I want from you."

"Is that so? And what do you want?" As soon as the words left her mouth she knew she should stop at five beers. She shouldn't have asked, she was sure she knew the answer already. Too many beers, not enough self-control.

Lena looked Stef right in her eyes without an ounce of fear. "You...with your body pressed against mine." Lena looks in the direction of restrooms then back at Stef. "Up against a bathroom stall, right this second." Stef's gulp was audible. "But you're married, so...guess I'm out of luck. You never did tell me what he did."

"Huh?" She couldn't shake the image Lena had painted for her.

"To get you." She watched Stef wrap her lips around her beer then throw her head back to drink. "I'd give anything to be that beer right now." Stef blushed again and almost choked on the liquid. "You're so easy to get worked up." Lena laughs.

"I've just never had a woman say the things you're saying to me."

"And you like it and it's freaking you out." She stated as if it were a well-known fact.

"Um..."

"It's okay. It's not your fault. I'm a charmer."

"Why are you still flirting with me, knowing it won't go anywhere?"

"It will. I'm not sure when but it will."

"How do you figure?"

"You wouldn't let me keep flirting with you if i didn't have a shot. So this man, he doesn't make you happy anymore." Once again spoken as if it were a fact not a question, how did this woman read her so well?

"What makes you say that?"

Lena laughed again. "It's okay to be honest, I won't tell. I know how to keep a secret. I promise you that. Stef, you're so damn beautiful. You deserve someone who's going to tell you that everyday for the rest of your life. I take it Mr. husband doesn't tell you that anymore does he?"

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Am I expected to answer because you haven't answered any of mine."

"If I said you could take me...up against the stall, what would you say?" Stef wondered, thinking she just might let her do it.

"Hmmm...I'd say as badly as I want you right now, you're married and I'd never do that."

"Why not?" Shocking, to say the least.

"If you were my wife, I'd be ready to kill anyone who tried to touch you besides me. Although I can't really seem to get you out of my mind even though I don't know you at all, I do know how devastated I would be if you were mine and someone was trying to get you. I believe in the law of reciprocity, I don't do things I wouldn't want done the me."

Just like that, she was in love. Lena had captured her heart in a way no one ever had before. She couldn't remember her heart swelling with so much love, not even on her wedding day. The only thing she felt that could possibly be stronger was her love for her child. But that was a different type of love, the love she was feeling for Lena, she'd never felt before. She couldn't believe it, she was in love, with another woman. Someone she didn't even know and had only met three weeks ago. Just that quick...in love.