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Continental Divide

Chapter 10

There's No Place Like Home

(Raven's POV)

Think Raven. She can't leave tomorrow. Two nights and that's it? But it's Saturday. What can I do? I am so in love with her! Stop it! Don't start crying again. Look at her. I have never seen anything more beautiful than her lying there. I wonder how receptive she'd be if I woke her up to make love again. If this were a story, I know the readers would love to see me do that! Maybe later. Right now I just want to look at her.

"I am never going to lose you again, not even for a night. I am going to make you happy every second of every day we're together. You are everything to me. I love you so much. We will find a way to be together. I promise." Raven whispered to her sleeping Chelsea.

As if she had heard Raven at that moment, Chelsea snuggled closer to Raven. Their bodies were intertwined underneath the Egyptian cotton sheets. Raven smiled and kissed Chelsea on the forehead. She looked at the clock on the nightstand. It was 3:22. She closed her eyes to drift back to sleep. She knew her dreams would be sweeter now; she one of them in her arms.

Room 521 of the Washington Square Hotel was quiet. The clock now showed 5:47. A warm and sleepy Chelsea slowly opened her eyes. Only the light on the desk lamp illuminated the room. Chelsea looked up at Raven, who was sound asleep. She smiled. Starting at the top Raven's head she slowly took in every inch of Raven's body. She was still underneath the crisp linen sheet, but at that moment it didn't matter.

(Chelsea's POV)

She is amazing. I still can't get over last night. That was even better than I thought it would be. She just didn't make love to my body, she made love to my mind. That turned me on even more. I'm getting turned on just thinking about it! I could stay here forever. Wait. I've got to go back to school tomorrow. Damnit! We've got make every second of this day count. (Yawns). Chelsea reaches over to the alarm clock and sets it for 7:30. We've got a lot to do. Just… (yawns) need a little… more… slee…

Chelsea quickly drifted back to sleep eager to attack the day and the city with her trademark passion. The next hour and a half went by quickly. The beginning of their day was ushered in by the shrill buzzing of the alarm.

Raven grabbed the pillow she was laying on and put it over her head. Chelsea cracked one eye open slowly turned over and slapped the snooze button.

"Oww!" Chelsea exclaimed as she hit the clock a little too hard.

"Smebd to to sn uff!" Raven said with the pillow over her head muffling her words.

"What?" Chelsea growled.

Raven took the pillow off her head. "I SAID… Somebody…turn… the … sun… off!"

"Ah, boo, that's not the sun. That's the lamp on the desk. The blinds are closed." Chelsea said as she slid off the bed and rose to her feet. She whipped the curtain open suddenly. "That…" Raven moaned and grimaced as the light hit her eyes. "… is the sun!"

"I forgot how much of a morning person you are." Raven said as she slowly sat up in bed.

Chelsea slinked over to the bed, getting on the bed and crawling over to Raven on all fours. "Well, maybe you'll like mornings more if I…" Chelsea swung one leg over Raven's lap straddling her. "… did some of this." Chelsea began kissing that spot on Raven's neck that drives her crazy.

"Hey… Hey… Hey! W-Wait a minute! H-How do you know about my sp-spo-spot? Raven stammered.

"You (kiss) told me (kiss) once." Chelsea said as she continued her demonstration.

"I have a… Shit!…" Raven was beginning to like Chelsea's morning enthusiasm more by the minute. "… big mouth."

Chelsea never checked her speed continuing to assault Raven's weak point. Part of Raven wanted to protest, but it felt too good.

Chelsea then had an idea. She shifted her position and was now kneeling next to Raven, still kissing her neck. "I wonder what happens when you combine this with…this."

She reached between Raven's slightly parted legs and touched her. Raven gasped as her voice went up several octaves.

"What are you doing, Chels?" Raven said as her head fell back touching the headboard.

"I had a dream last night that I woke you up like this." Chelsea responded. "Actually, it was more like this." She then slid two fingers inside Raven causing her to scream.

"Oh, god… damn… Chels!" Raven stuttered, completely overwhelmed by what was happening to her. Raven tried to reach out and touch Chelsea.

"No, not my time. This is for you." Chelsea said.

"But… I…"

"I know you're not a morning person. Don't worry. I won't be long. You're about to come for me." Chelsea whispered in Raven's ear. She pumped her fingers several more times. Raven, who until this point had her hands at her sides bracing herself, threw her arms around Chelsea's neck.

"Oh… my…" Raven said just before the squeal that signaled the arrival of her orgasm. Chelsea felt Raven's warm fluids flow over her fingers as she pushed deeper one last time before slowly withdrawing.

"Good morning, Raven." Chelsea said as she kissed Raven on the lips then tasted her fingers. "That was your 7:30 wake up call." Raven looked at Chelsea in blissful disbelief. She was speechless. "If I knew that's what it took to shut your mouth, I'd have done that a long time ago… God, I love you!" Chelsea exclaimed. Raven felt a warmth flow through her when Chelsea said that. "You hungry, Rae? I'm ordering room service!"

Chelsea bounded off the bed. Raven sat in stunned silence basking in the glow of her "wake-up call". She had never seen Chelsea take control of any situation like that before. And she loved it. She watched Chelsea order breakfast. Chelsea sat in the desk chair naked, phone cradled on her shoulder as she flipped through the room service menu. She was bouncing the leg she had crossed causing her breasts to bounce slightly. Raven was mesmerized as she took in this sight. Chelsea hung up the phone, glanced at Raven and smiled then started toward the bathroom.

"You know I'm gonna pay you back for that." Raven said with a raised eyebrow and the legendary Raven Baxter smirk.

"I was counting on it." Chelsea replied as she disappeared into the bathroom.

Raven dipped into her bag of TV impressions to reply to herself. She chose a line from from Good Times' Sweet Daddy Williams. "Rae Rae… you in trou-bllllllle!"

Twenty-five minutes and two teeth-brushing sessions later, room service arrived. The two bathrobe clad beauties sat down for their breakfast.

"So what do you want to do today?" Raven asked.

"Besides you? Let's see…" Chelsea said as Raven gave her a sweet rolling of the eyes. "Empire State Building, Ground Zero, Times Square and Broadway."

"And shopping?" Raven inquired, hoping Chelsea would answer in the affirmative.

"Of course. Anything for my "Rae" of sunshine."

"You are so sweet. Corny, but sweet."

They finished eating breakfast and went to shower. "Oh, snap!" Raven said. "I don't have any clothes here. I've gotta change at my place."

"Then I'll shower and change over there." Chelsea said. "Unless you don't want…" Chelsea was mindful of Raven's breakup with Claire.

"Of course you can shower and change at my place. What did I tell you Thursday night? Mi casa es su casa." Raven reminded Chelsea. "Come on. Let's go."

The young women threw their previous day's clothes on, Chelsea grabbed an outfit and her toiletry bag and went over to Raven's apartment. On the front door of the building was a note attached to the glass. Raven stepped up to read it.

"Oh that's great, now nothing'll get fixed, this weekend."

"What, Rae?"

"Tim, our super, went out of town and his backup, Henry, is filling in. He lives in Queens and he's either two hours in getting here or doesn't show up until the next day." Raven lamented. "Come on. Thank God the elevator works."

They went upstairs and went into the apartment. Raven walked to the middle of the room and slowly turned around, doing a 360-degree turn.

"Well… she didn't waist any time getting her stuff." Raven said as she took note of all the things she forgot Claire owned. "The TV and the stereo. Microwave. Chair."

"Maybe this wasn't a good idea." Chelsea said.

"Pffft! Please! This is MY apartment. I'm not going to feel uncomfortable in someplace I pay rent!" Raven defiantly proclaimed.

"But for six months, you all shared this apartment." Chelsea said.

"And now we don't. I mourned her loss yesterday morning. This morning, I am sharing this place with you." Raven said as she walked over to Chelsea, putting her arms around Chelsea's waist. "Now… you have exactly two minutes to get undressed and in that bathroom. There is a detachable shower head with your name on it."

"Hold the phone there, missy!" Chelsea broke away from Raven. "I am showering alone! I actually want to get out and see the city today."

"Don't worry. I won't be long." Raven did her best Chelsea impersonation, mocking Chelsea's promise to her earlier that morning.

"Go… watch some TV in your bedroom or something. I'll let you know when I'm done."

"You are no fun." Raven playfully pouted. Chelsea turned and raised a finger as if she were going to speak. "Never mind! You are fun. Very, VERY, fun. Go shower." Raven said with a smile. Chelsea returned the smile and disappeared into the bathroom.

Raven's smile began to fade when the bathroom door closed. Chelsea was right. Six months worth of memories were held inside the walls of this apartment. Raven and Claire's first kiss, the first time they made love, the infamous popcorn fight, the nights Raven would come home and Claire was balled up on the couch studying, or Claire coming home to Raven stretched out asleep. Every turn, revealed a memory.

Before long, Raven found herself wandering from room to room looking around. She reached Claire's former bedroom. It was empty, save for one thing that caught Raven's eye. She walked over to the window sill. There was a white envelope with "Rae" on the front in Claire's handwriting. Raven opened it. There was a handwritten note with a pressed flower attached to it.

Rae,

My grandmother once told me that I was as pretty as a Texas bluebonnet. I never truly felt that way until I met you. She gave me this flower as a symbol of her love for me. Now it belongs to you. You will always be my pretty bluebonnet. Take care and always be happy.

Love, Claire

A single tear fell from Raven's eye. "Damn you Claire. You always have to have the last word." Raven smiled as she placed the note back in its envelope.

"Rae!" Chelsea yelled. "Can you hand me a towel, please?"

Raven wiped away the tear and went to the linen closet to retrieve a towel. She walked up to the bathroom door and knocked.

"Place the towel on the knob and step away from the door!" Chelsea said in her best police voice.

"What?"

"Me naked is too tempting for you, so I need you to put the towel on the knob and step away from the door!" Chelsea restated from the other side of the door.

Raven smiled, placed the towel on the door knob and took two steps back. "Okay, there's your towel."

In the blink of an eye, the bathroom door cracked open, a pale hand emerged and snatched the towel and disappeared behind the door. "I'm proud of you. Good job!"

Raven grinned a sinister grin. "We'll see if you say that later." She said to herself as she went to pick out her clothes for the day.

After showering and getting dressed, Raven and Chelsea were ready for a day of sightseeing and shopping. Chelsea was in the living room on the cell phone with her mother as Raven put the finishing touches on her makeup. Chelsea was just hanging up the phone as Raven came out of her bedroom.

(Raven singing) "Ev'ry rose has it's thorn..."

Chelsea joined in. (Singing together) "Just like ev'ry night has its dawn... Just like ev'ry cowboy sings his sad, sad song... Ev'ry rose has its thorn."

"Man, I love that song!" Chelsea said.

"Gotta love the 80's love ballads." Raven replied. "Let's rock and roll. The Big Apple awaits!"

The two of them walk out in to the hallway and head toward the elevator. Chelsea looks over at Raven and smiles as they wait for the doors to open.

"What?" Raven asks Chelsea.

"Just thinking about how much fun we're gonna have today."

"Yeah." Raven warmly replies as the doors open. They step inside. Chelsea pushes the button for the first floor. "Chels, there is one song I can't remember the title to. Help me out."

"How does it go?"

"It goes, 'Workin like a dog for the boss man, Workin for the company, I'm bettin on the dice I'm tossin, I'm gonna have a fantasy..."

Chelsea begins nodding her head and joins in again. Together they sing, "But where am I gonna look, They tell me that love is blind, I really need a girl like an open book, To read between the lines..."

"Yeah! That's Aerosmith. Love In An Elevator." Chelsea said.

"Exactly." Raven's eyes darkened as she hit the "STOP" button. They were in between the fifth and sixth floors.

The reality of the moment clicks in Chelsea's head. "Time out Rae!" Raven cocked an eyebrow. "We are in an elevator in YOUR apartment building!" Chelsea exclaimed, her eyes as wide as Raven had ever seen.

"We've got three. They break down all the time." Raven countered.

"Somebody could hear us!" Chelsea whisper-yelled.

"I'm grown. So are you." Raven's counter as she took a step toward Chelsea.

"Somebody could catch us."

Raven took another step. "We'd be done before anyone got here."

Chelsea was running out of reasons. "But..."

"Yes, your butt is cute, but were not talking about that... yet." Raven hit her with the "it's time to remove your panties" looked for a route of escape. There was none to be found. "I owe you for this morning." Raven was face-to-face with her.

In an instant, Chelsea's pensiveness disappeared as she remembered telling Raven that she was counting on a response. "Well... what you got in store for me?"

"Well... I seem to remember somebody else in this elevator...having..." Raven turned Chelsea around facing the wall. She placed her hands on the wall as if she were going to frisk her. She then lifted the back of Chelsea's sweater and t-shirt, exposing her back. She unhooked Chelsea's bra for unimpeded access. "... a sensitive area." Raven started between Chelsea's shoulder blades and lightly dragged her fingernails down to the base of her spine. Chelsea shuddered and dropped her head, her forehead touching the wall. She instantly found herself getting wet.

"Tell me you don't like it and I'll stop." Raven teased as she made her second caress. Chelsea said nothing. "So your silence means I should keep going." Several caresses and moans later, Raven planted a kiss on the small of Chelsea's back. Raven placed her hands on Chelsea's and slowly turned her around. Each woman knew that the slower pace excited the other more. Raven's kiss was slow, deep and painstakingly deliberate. She lifted Chelsea's sweater exposing her breasts. Raven moved from breast to breast with excruciatingly slow sexiness. Chelsea began to squirm, moaning louder by the minute. "Let it go baby." Raven said as she kissed the swells of Chelsea's breasts.

Raven trailed down Chelsea's stomach with her fingertips causing her to visibly quiver. Raven reached the button fly of Chelsea's jeans and unbuttoned them one at a time, deliberately, slowly, seductively. Time was not of the essence. As far as Raven was concerned, the elevator was theirs for as long as they needed it to be.

"We... we have to go." Chelsea whispered. She said this just to get a rise out of Raven as she had no intention of going anywhere.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Raven said quoting Queen Gertrude from Hamlet. Raven finished unsnapping the button fly and slipped her hand inside Chelsea's underpants.

"Wait!" Chelsea said suddenly, looking Raven right in the eyes. "Will you still respect me in the morning?"

Raven smiled a wicked smile. "I respect you right now. I'll let you tell me when you're ready to come." She then proceeded to touch Chelsea.

"AAAAAGH!" Chelsea exclaimed at Raven's first touch and continued to exclaim as Raven's pace remained slow and steady. As Raven did this with one hand, she placed her other hand on the small of Chelsea's back. She began kissing Chelsea's neck. "God... Rae! I... am so...turned... on! Damn!"

"I know baby. I can feel it." Raven panted. She indeed feel Chelsea getting wetter with each passing minute. It was turning her on as well.

"Rae?"

"Yeah?"

"Rae?"

"Yeah?"

"Rae?"

"Yeah?"

"OOOOOOH!" Chelsea's breath caught in her throat. "AAAHHH!" Chelsea had the strongest orgasm of her life. It was now Raven's turn to squirm. Chelsea saw this and pounced.

"Come here." Chelsea ordered. She then quickly undid the button and zipper on Raven's jeans.

"No No! No baby!" Raven protested to no avail as Chelsea dipped her finger inside bringing it out quickly and began rubbing Raven's clit. "OH GOD!" Raven cried out. She quickly began again on Chelsea, matching her intensity.

Within moments, Raven found herself climaxing for the second time that morning at the hands of her new lover. Chelsea followed soon after. Physically spent, they collapse onto the floor of the elevator. They looked at each other and began to laugh. After sitting there for a moment, Raven spoke.

"Well, we better get straightened up. We've got some sightseeing to do."

"Pardon my French..." Chelsea said. "But fuck sightseeing! The only sight I want to see now is your bedroom ceiling."

"But what about seeing New York City for the first time?" Raven asked.

"After the smack you just laid down... I'll be back." Chelsea promised.

The two fixed their clothes and Raven pushed the button for her floor then hit the "STOP" button again, allowing the car to resume. They got off the elevator and headed back to the apartment. Raven unlocked the door. Chelsea came in, took her shoes off at the door and made a beeline for Raven's bedroom. Raven slowly walked behind her, watching her as she went.

Chelsea in my bed. Raven thought to herself. "There is no place like home."

Before you ask... yes, there will be a chapter 11. I figured after all the angst at the outset of the story, we all needed a couple of chapters of lovin'! There is more story to tell, so please stay tuned. PLEASE REVIEW!