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Continental Divide

Chapter 11

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Saturday ended the way it began. Chelsea and Raven spent the rest of the day in bed. As the midnight hour approached, Raven was in full worry mode. Chelsea's plane was leaving in less than 10 hours. She did not want Chelsea to leave but she had to. Chelsea had class first thing Monday morning.

(Raven's POV)

In my twenty and a half years on this Earth, today was the best day I have ever had. I made love to Chelsea all day. Raven smiled as she lay on her back, staring at the ceiling. Chelsea was lying beside her on her stomach sound asleep. God, she is so beautiful. I don't know if I can wait another month before seeing her again. Come on Raven, think! I GOT IT!

Raven eased out of the bed and went over to her desk where Chelsea's purse was sitting. I normally don't go through people's things… Raven thought to herself. But this is for a good cause. She found Chelsea's Treo 650 and thumbed through her contacts. She grabbed a pencil and a piece of paper and furiously scribbled away. She then eased out of the room, cell phone in hand and went to the living room to make a call.

"Hey! (pauses) No! It's Raven. (pauses) Yeah, I'm fine. (pauses) Yeah, she's fine. (pauses) I'm not gonna tell you that! But you can hear me smiling through the phone!" Raven laughs. "Look I need a huge favor…"

Chelsea awoke at 5:45 to a familiar, yet surprising smell. She slid out of bed, threw on her robe and walked out of the bedroom toward the kitchen and the sound of sizzling.

"Hey sleepyhead! I was just about to come wake you up." Raven said over her shoulder as she was preparing something at the stove.

"Rae, what are you doing?" Chelsea asked, fully aware of Raven's culinary limitations.

"I'm fixing breakfast. Bacon, toast, orange juice and for you, my dear, a vegetable omelet." Raven said with pride.

"Rae, I'm… thank you, but sweetie, you can't cook."

Raven opened the oven and pulled out a plate that had been warming. "Does this smell like I can't cook?"

Chelsea took a big whiff of the omelet on the warm plate. "Wow! That does smell good!"

"My dad told me that I rush and I don't pay attention to what I'm doing when I'm in the kitchen, so I've been practicing. I just focus when I'm in here. And it works! Now go brush your teeth and come eat before it gets cold. We've got to get out of here by 7:30."

"Ok!" Chelsea skipped into the bathroom to brush as Raven put the finishing touches on breakfast. Just then the phone rang.

"Hello? (pauses) That's great! Now what about… (pauses) They were up? (pauses) It must be my lucky day! (pauses) Yeah. (pauses) Ok. I'll see you then. Bye."

"Rae? Who was that at six in the morning on a Sunday?" Chelsea inquired.

"Oh that? Just somebody in my astronomy class that I'm doing a project with. They are doing some early morning sky gazing. So… are you ready to eat?"

"Let's dig in!" Chelsea said as she practically jumped into her seat at the table.

Chelsea took a forkful of omelet into her mouth. "Mmmm!… Rae, this is good!"

"You really like it? You're not just saying that." Raven said as she looked at Chelsea gobbling up the omelet. "I guess not the way you're lapping it up!" Raven smiled.

"This is delicious! I hate airplane food, so this'll tide me over until…" Chelsea's enthusiasm came to a screeching halt as the realization set in that she was going home in just a couple of hours.

"I know baby. I don't want you to go either." Raven said as she sat down with her plate of bacon, scrambled eggs and toast.

Tears came to Chelsea's eyes as she dropped her head and started crying. Raven got up and knelt at her side. "Baby, don't cry." Raven said as she fought back her own tears. "We'll see each other in a month for winter break."

"I know." Chelsea said in between sobs. "It's just… this weekend was so wonderful… I just don't want it to end." Chelsea dropped her head and resumed crying.

Raven wiped away her own tears and put her finger under Chelsea's chin. "Sweetie, look at me. Look at me." Chelsea lifted her head. "Every day with you is like the weekend… in here." Raven pointed to her heart. "I love you with all my heart. Even if I'm not with you in body, I'm with you in spirit. Okay?" Chelsea nodded in understanding as she sniffed her tears. "Now stop crying. You are too pretty to tear your face up like that."

"You really think I'm pretty?" Chelsea asked. She always felt like people saw her as being a little dizzy. Cute maybe. But she felt the pretty, fine and attractive descriptions belonged to other women.

"Chels, you are one of these women that really have no idea how beautiful you are, inside and out." Raven said as she brushed strands of hair out of Chelsea's face. They both smiled. "C'mere." Raven said as she took Chelsea's hand and led her to the bedroom. She turned the light on and walked Chelsea over to the full-length mirror on the back of the door. "Look. What do you see?"

"I see a frowsy redhead in a fluffy robe that hasn't gotten enough sleep."

"Well… I see a frowsy redhead that doesn't have to put a drop of makeup on and could stop traffic with her beauty." Raven stood behind Chelsea admiring her. Chelsea cocked her head to the side, absorbing Raven's words. "Something else." Raven said before reaching around Chelsea's waist and unknotting the belt of her robe. Chelsea took a deep breath as Raven let the robe fall open revealing Chelsea's naked body. Raven slipped the robe off Chelsea's shoulders letting it drop to the floor.

"You are by far the most beautiful woman I have ever seen." Raven whispered in her ear. "Look."

Chelsea took a good look at herself in her natural state for the first time in a long time. Raven took a step back and admired Chelsea admiring herself. Chelsea put her hand up to her face, slowly tracing her features with her fingertips, slightly parting her lips as she reached them, lingering for just a moment. Raven sat down in the desk chair off to the side and watched her.

Chelsea's hands traced down her neck to her collarbone, continuing down to the valley between her breasts. Raven shifted in her seat, propping her head up on one elbow, the tip of her index finger in between her teeth. Chelsea slowly cupped both her breasts and gently grazed her nipples with her thumbs causing her to slowly let her head fall back to enjoy the sensation. Without realizing it, Raven's own robe had now opened and she was mirroring Chelsea's actions as she sat in the chair.

The auburn-haired beauty's right hand left her breast, her fingertips traveling down the midline of her body to her stomach as she made a small circle around her belly button. Once again, her head dropped to one side, taking in the view. Raven crossed her arms, pinching and rolling her nipples as she watched Chelsea. Several small moans caused Chelsea to glance at Ravens' reflection in the mirror. The slightest of smiles crossed her face. The thought of Raven being aroused by the sight of her was very empowering to her.

With one hand still caressing her breast, Chelsea's other hand moved closer to where Raven was now hoping she would go. Raven slowly slid one of her hands down to touch herself just as she placed one leg over the arm of her chair. When Chelsea's hand reached its destination, she gasped but her eyes never left her reflection. A sexy moan from behind her caused her to look at Raven's reflection in the mirror. What she saw was a fully aroused, fully engaged Raven.

Raven's eyes were the darkest of browns, never leaving Chelsea's reflection. Her left leg was over the chair, her left hand pleasuring herself, her right hand pinching and rolling her nipple.

Both of them continued, first in silence then as they moved closer to climax the breathing started to quicken, the volume of their moaning started increase. Just before they climaxed, Raven's eyes met Chelsea's in the mirror. "You are so beautiful." Raven said sending them both over the edge. Chelsea did everything she could to keep her eyes open as she watched Raven's orgasm in the reflection of the mirror as Raven did the same.

As their bodies began to relax, Chelsea continued to look at herself in the mirror, tracing her body with her fingertips. Raven slowly sat up in the chair, stood up and walked over behind Chelsea and put her arms around Chelsea's neck. "Now you see yourself as I see you… the most beautiful creature on Earth."

Chelsea smiled her trademark warm smile. "Thank you for making me feel so beautiful… I think that will last me until next month."

Raven smiled. "We better get ready." Raven said remembering they had to get to the airport.

"Rae!… Come on!" Chelsea yelled. "It's 7:35! I'm gonna miss my flight!"

"Here I come Chels!" Raven yelled from the other room. She came jogging into the living room. "Okay. Let's roll! You got everything?"

"Yeah, I'm all set." Chelsea said as she headed to the front door.

"Wait!" Raven said as she came up behind Chelsea rolling Chelsea's suitcase. "One more kiss for the ride to the airport." Raven grinned as she licked her lips and closed the distance between the two. Chelsea responded in kind as they crushed their lips together passionately.

"Whoa! You are really trying to get me to stay, aren't you?" Chelsea said.

"Can't blame a girl for trying!" Raven said as she opened the door and led them out.

A 30-minute cab ride later, they arrived at LaGuardia. Chelsea dug into her purse for her phone to look up her gate information. After finding it and pointing them in the right direction they headed for Chelsea's gate.

"My flight doesn't leave until 9:55. Are you gonna stick around?"

"Of course I am Chels. I am going to squeeze every ounce of time with you out of this weekend." Raven assured her. The two of them found a bench outside the gate area as they chatted.

"I am going to miss you." Chelsea said. "I am so glad I didn't do something crazy like go home after our fight. Then we would have never found out how we felt about each other."

"You don't know how glad I am you came." Raven said. "I need you back in my life full time."

"Well… it's interesting that you said that Rae." Chelsea began.

"What do you mean?" Raven was very curious.

"Well I thought we were going to have a conversation like this before but we didn't, so there was no right time to tell you this."

"Tell me what?"

"This." Chelsea pulled an envelope out of the bottom of her purse and slid the letter out. Raven took it and read it.

Raven's eyes grew wide as she slowly looked up at Chelsea. "Are you serious? Is this for real? You're transferring to NYU next semester?" Chelsea smiled and nodded her head.

"CHELSEEEEE!" Raven squealed as she threw her arms around Chelsea's neck, bouncing up and down. All heads in the vicinity turned in her direction. "Ohmigod! I can't believe this! You're moving to New York! We can be together all the time!"

"I have just one problem Rae?"

"What?"

"Do you know where I can find a nice apartment with a thick, sexy roommate that might not mind…"

"You are so moving in with me!" Raven was beside herself with glee. It was then that Chelsea heard a familiar voice.

"I guess you and your girl did have fun." It was the woman from the Starbucks who delivered her line with a smile. Raven had a WTF look on her face until the woman said… "I guess that Teri person had a lot of fun too." Raven and Chelsea laughed as the woman walked away.

"You are terrible." Raven said to Chelsea. Just then another familiar voice pierced the air.

"So exactly how was our girly gangbang, huh?"

Chelsea wheeled around in her seat. "Teri!" She stood up and threw her arms around the blonde cutie.

While they were still embraced, "You didn't think I was going to let you leave without saying goodbye did you?" They released their embrace. "Hey Raven!" Teri stepped over to embrace Raven. "Twenty four hours Chels. Please? That's all I need with her." Teri said referring to Raven as she released her hug. Raven smiled and blushed.

"Not a chance. I'm not sharing." Chelsea said as she shook her head.

"Twenty four minutes and you can watch!" Teri looked at Raven then at Chelsea.

"Well… Rae?" Chelsea looked at Raven with anticipation.

Raven hit Chelsea in the arm causing all three of them to laugh.

"Thank you for coming. That means a lot to me." Chelsea said to Teri.

"Sure thing Girly. But I am also here for Raven." Teri said, drawing a puzzled look from Chelsea.

"We all set?" Raven asked Teri.

"Yes, ma'am. Mission accomplished." Teri said with a salute to Raven.

"Wait a minute, guys. What's going on here? What did I miss?" Chelsea was now completely confused.

"Well, Chelsea, with the help of Teri…" Raven said as Chelsea looked at Teri who curtseyed. "I got you a going away gift."

"Rae… that is so sweet!" Chelsea hugged Raven.

"Don't hug me until you hear see what it is." Raven said. "Teri?"

Teri reached around the corner and pulled out a suitcase.

"Rae, you got me a new suitcase! Aww, thank you!"

"No, no, Chels. The suitcase is mine." Raven said. "This is yours." Teri handed Chelsea an airline ticket.

Chelsea read the ticket. "This… is dated… for TODAY! For LAS VEGAS!" Chelsea was now getting the picture. "But wait… I have to go back to school tomorrow! I can't go!"

"Well, it's a good thing your girlfriend is as conniving as she is, otherwise, she wouldn't have called me with your professor's email addresses and asked me login to your email as you and send them an email saying that you came down with the flu and might be out sick this week." Teri said.

Chelsea looked at Raven in disbelief.

"And it's a good thing that all three of them responded to their email at 11 pm their time sending you the assignments you're going to miss along with their best wishes for a speedy recovery." Teri added.

"So that means…" Chelsea said.

"You and I have a week together in Las Vegas baby!" Raven said as both of them squealed.

"I love you baby!" Chelsea said as she started planting kisses on any part of Raven she could reach. Lips, neck, cheek, ears. Teri looked on and smiled.

"I love you too! Now OUR flight leaves in an hour, so we need to get to the gate and go through security." Raven said.

"You're on the C Concourse, gate 12." Teri said.

"Thank you for everything Teri. I hope you consider me a friend too." Raven said as she reached to embrace Teri.

"Of course you are." Teri said as she hugged Raven. "You just be good to her. She loves the hell out of you."

"I know she does. I'll be good to her. I promise." Raven said.

Teri turned to Chelsea. "Well Red, I guess I'll see ya in San Fran sometime."

"Oh, I didn't tell you… I'm transferring here next semester." Chelsea said.

"Go 'head girl. Do your thang!" Teri said as she pulled Chelsea in for a tight bear hug. "I'm happy for both of you. You better keep in touch."

"I will. Take care of yourself." Chelsea broke the embrace. "I do have one question. How is Claire doing?"

Both Raven and Teri were taken aback by Chelsea's inquiry. But deep down inside, Raven smiled, knowing that Chelsea was, if nothing else, compassionate.

"She's okay. It'll take a while to get Raven out of her system, but she's trying. She's been out partying with Kennedy and Crys just about every night."

"Raven tends to make an impression on people." Chelsea said warmly.

"Well I'm out of here. You lovebirds have fun in Vegas, roll a couple of sevens at the crap table for me and… uhh… I heard the Mile High Club was looking for a few new members." Teri teased as she started to walk away. "Bye, lovers!" Teri did a backwards wave with her hand and disappeared into the throng of people on the concourse.

Raven and Chelsea smiled at each other as they made their way to their gate.

"We are going to have fun in Vegas! Where are we staying?" Chelsea asked.

"Circus Circus."

"I love the circus!"

"You know they don't have clowns there."

"I know that Rae. You hate sad clowns anyway." Chelsea said. "So what are we going to do?"

"Let's see… play a few games, see a few shows, sit in the Jacuzzi and, oh yeah, make lots of love." Raven's eyes lit up when she said that.

"I like that." Chelsea's voice dropped into a purr. "I was just thinking, Rae."

"Mmm-hmm."

"Teri said the Mile High Club needs a few new members." Raven's eyes widened. She had heard that tone in Chelsea's voice before.

"Don't you think the elevator was hot enough?" Raven asked, in shock that Chelsea was suggesting the airplane as their next rendezvous spot. "Besides, you know how small those bathrooms are!"

"Have no fear baby. Where there's Chelsea, there's a way." Chelsea was in full purr mode. "Here is our gate. Las Vegas, here we come!"

"Hey, Chels?"

"Hmm?"

"Just in case I forget to tell you, I had a great time this week." Raven said, paraphrasing a line from one of her favorite movies, Pretty Woman.

Chelsea's answer came as a paraphrase of one of the signature lines from Casablanca. "Raven, I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Chelsea and Raven sealed it with a kiss.


We have now bridged the Continental Divide. Thank you for taking the "trip" with me. I appreciated the company. There is one thing though. My mind won't let me write that they are going to Vegas and not give you a glimpse of the time they had. So look for a one or two-shot fluff piece about Mile High Club memberships, Jacuzzis and the Vegas Strip. And you know how they say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? It's a good thing I don't listen to what "they" say! What happens in Vegas with Raven and Chelsea will be told, by me, very soon! Until next time!