Chapter 3
First of First
There is a first time for everything
Hay Lin, since it was her birthday, had gotten out of helping her parents clean up after her small party and was getting ready for bed. The stunning painting she had gotten from Will hung on the wall above her desk on the wall to the left of her window. She was sitting in her bed; watching the painting when something (or rather someone) knocked on her bedroom window. Hay Lin got out of bed and opened the window only to meet Taranee's beautiful brown eyes.
"Hello, Hay Lin" Taranee said cheerfully as she floated into the Chinese girls room.
"Hello" Hay Lin said a little confused about her friend's sudden appearance.
"I hope you're not tiered cause I still have my real present to give you" said Taranee.
This caught the attention of little dazed Hay Lin and she pushed away the sleepiness.
"Oh, what is that?" she asked.
Taranee just smiled mischievously.
"You will see" she said with a smile.
Hay Lin looked out the window.
"Where are the others?" she asked.
"It's just me, Hay"
"But you're transformed"
"Will borrowed me the Heart" Taranee said as she fished up the glowing crystal from inside her shirt.
"Why did she do that?" Hay Lin asked.
Taranee looked at the clock on the wall.
"Time to go, Hay Lin" she said and used the heart to transform Hay Lin into her Guardian form.
Taranee watched as Hay Lin transformed inside an orb of cyan light and almost sighed lovingly when the beautiful Chinese stood before her. Taranee quickly snapped out of her trans before Hay Lin noticed. Taranee then turned them both invisible and took Hay Lin's hand and flew out the window.
"Were are we going?" Hay Lin asked as she flew up besides Taranee, still holding hands.
Taranee just smiled at her as she turned left out towards the dark waters of the coast. After ten or fifteen minutes of flight they reached the shoreline and Taranee landed on the beach. Hay Lin landed besides her. In a moment they were back in their original forms and just stood and watched out over the blue and black sea, still holding hands. The wind was cool and smelt of salt. The silvery moon was just about half arisen over the horizon and caste a long beam of silver light across the velvet sea. Hay Lin looked at Taranee and saw the moonlight reflect on the girl's glasses and somehow it made her glow with a faint silver aura. Taranee turned her head and looked at Hay Lin and was awestruck by the silvery moonlight in the girl's eyes. Taranee forced herself not to kiss her right on the spot.
"This is nice" Hay Lin whispered as a small wave of still warm seawater pushed over her naked feet.
"We are not there yet" Taranee whispered back.
Hay Lin looked curiously at her friend. Without warning Taranee changed into her Guardian outfit before the girl's eyes and then Hay Lin was scooped up into Taranee's arms and she took flight. Hay Lin giggled and held her friend tight as they flew down the shore until they were about half a mile from Heatherfield city. Hay Lin saw that Taranee was aiming in on a large cliff by the shore. The cliff was decorated with sparsely placed trees and a thick green layer of grass and was connected to the shoreline and then slowly went upwards like a hill until it ended a vertical, sixty feet steep down into the sea. Taranee landed at the top of the cliff and changed back to her original form.
"We are here" she said as she set Hay Lin down.
Hay Lin looked in admiration out over the view. The sparse yellow dimmed lights of the city and the silvery moon and the bright white stars on the dark purple sky lighted up the sea in to a darkened violet colour.
'To call this beautiful would be an insult and perfect would be an understatement' Hay Lin thought.
"I come here sometimes" Taranee said as she sat down by the edge, "I found it by a stroke of luck and I have never told anyone of this place. You are the first I have ever brought here"
Hay Lin sat down close besides Taranee.
"Do you love someone, Taranee?" Hay Lin asked with an uneasy voice.
Taranee thought for a moment then she smiled.
"Yes, I love someone very dearly and have done so for a long time" she said with a somewhat sad smile.
"You seem sad by the thought" said Hay Lin disappointed by the fact that Taranee already loved someone.
"I know that the person I love doesn't know that I love, my beloved" Taranee said low.
"Oh" Hay Lin said and laid her hand on Taranee's, she knew how she felt, "How is he?"
"My love is very beautiful, bright and airy. I mean airy in a positive way. My love is very talented and not a day goes by without the wish of laying besides my beloved and just let the feelings of love flow over the both of us and I know that my love loves me to"
"You sound positive that the feeling is mutual" Hay Lin said with a sad tone of disappointment in her voice.
"I am positive of it" Taranee said confident.
"How positive?" Hay Lin asked.
"Positive enough for a kiss" she replied.
Hay Lin hung her head down. She felt Taranee's hand grasp her chin and the African girl turned Hay Lin's head towards her. Taranee leaned closed and kissed Hay Lin on the lips. The kiss was gentle and sensual. Hay Lin closed her eyes and lost herself in the sensation of finally kissing her love at long last. After about two minutes they broke the kiss and Hay Lin opened her eyes to see the beaming loving smile and love filled brown eyes of her friend. The stars glittered in her eyes and Hay Lin was close to tears with happiness. Taranee caressed Hay Lin's cheek.
"The one I love is you, Hay Lin" whispered Taranee.
That was to much for Hay Lin who burst into tears as she embraced her love tightly and praying to all gods, demons and spirits that this wasn't a dream.
"Oh, I almost forgot" Taranee said and pulled out a small red jewellery box, "You have the key with you?" she asked.
Hay Lin sniffed and whipped the tears out of her eyes before she fished out the necklace she had gotten from Taranee and took of the small key from the chain. Taranee smiled when she saw that she wore the necklace, and more importantly, the key. Taranee handed Hay Lin the box who put the key in and turned it to unlock the small, red jewellery box. She opened the box and let out a gasp. Remember the ring that Taranee and Cornelia made? Guess who got it.
"Taranee" she said wide eyed with disbelief and with a tear broken voice, "It must have cost a fortune"
"Only a really big favour to Cornelia" Taranee replied as Hay Lin took out the ring.
The ring was made out of pure gold with a silver wind patter and a winged heart of silver on it. Inside Taranee had inscribed:
'I am forever yours, my beloved silver wind T. C.'
Hay Lin threw herself at Taranee and rapidly kissed her over and over again. She then stopped and just laid with her head against Taranee's chest. She slipped on the ring and looked at it in silence, listening to Taranee's steady, soothing heartbeat. Taranee smiled and stroked the long purple hair of the young Chinese girl, laying on her chest. If Hay Lin had been a cat she had purred with pleasure.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Hay Lin asked after a few minutes.
"And miss the opportunity to torment you for not telling me?" asked Taranee sarcastically.
"Point taken" giggled Hay Lin.
She then got a confused expression on the face.
"How did you find out that I loved you?" she asked as she looked up at Taranee.
"You know when I studied at your house a few days ago?"
"Yes"
"Well I don't know if your going to believe this, but your diary feel right down on my lap and a page were I was mentioned and you declaring your love towards me turned up" Taranee said truthfully.
"That's odd" said Hay Lin as she laid her head to rest on Taranee's chest again, "Why do you think it happened?"
"Magic or Fate I guess"
"Doesn't matter. It happened and I am very happy that it did" Hay Lin said with a deep, happy sigh.
The conversation ended there and they sat and watched the moon rise on the starlit sky. Listening to the waves crash against the cliff wall below. They just enjoyed the silence between the two and enjoyed the felling of their body warmth against each other. They wished that time would stop right now and freeze them in this one moment for ever. An hour later Taranee stretched her arms and laid a hand on Hay Lin's shoulder.
"We have to get back now" Taranee whispered to Hay Lin as she stroked the girls hair.
Hay Lin nodded but wished that they could stay longer. They both changed into their Guardian outfits with the Heart and then they flew home to Hay Lin's house, hand in hand
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Hay Lin and Taranee flew in to her room at the 'Silver Dragon' half an hour later through the open window. Luckily it was warm outside of the room would have been freezing.
"I had a wonderful time" whispered Hay Lin and she kissed Taranee gently on the lips.
"I had a wonderful time to" Taranee whispered back and turned to fly back to her own home.
Hay Lin thought for a second and realised that she wouldn't like to be alone tonight. She grabbed Taranee's arm and turned her around.
"Grant me one more wish, Taranee" said in.
Taranee caressed Hay Lin's cheek.
"What ever you wish, my love" she whispered with a smile.
"Stay with me tonight. I don't want to be alone and I want to feel your warm body against my own when I fall asleep"
"As you wish, my beloved" said Taranee as she kissed Hay Lin.
When they broke the kiss Taranee remembered something.
"But I haven't got anything to sleep in" she said.
"Don't worry, dearest" Hay Lin caressed Taranee's cheek as she got closer, "It gets very warm in here at night so I sleep naked"
Taranee's brain processed this information for a minute before she realised that Hay Lin asked her to sleep in her bed, naked.
'Well, I have already said yes and this will come sooner or later anyway' Taranee thought with a small smile.
Hay Lin turned her back against Taranee and took of her shirt. Her long hair fell down her back like a silk curtain. Then she removed her pants and panties before she slipped under the silk thin covers in her bed. She left most of her back bare when she pulled the covers over herself. Taranee had just stood and watched in admiration of her beloved's body was stripped in front of her eyes. Hay Lin turned her head towards Taranee and smiled with love then she turned her head back. Taranee then took of her shoes and socks. Then she removed her shirt and bra, along with her pants and panties. Taranee noticed that it was slightly chilly without clothes in the room but her body that got warmer at the sight of her beloved laying with her back against her. Taranee walked over to Hay Lin's bed, her bare feet was sticky against the wooden floor. She pulled up the covers and got in together with Hay Lin. She scooted closer until she was laying skin against skin with Hay Lin. Taranee embraced her love from behind and twisted one of her legs with Hay Lin's. Hay Lin felt more soothed and calm than she had ever felt in her entire life. She felt the warmth radiate from Taranee's body when she turned around to look Taranee in the eyes. Taranee smiled and her brown eyes beamed with love. Taranee looked into Hay Lin's eyes and saw that she was happier than she had ever been in her life. Hay Lin wrapped one of her legs around one of Taranee's and hugged her tightly.
"I love you" whispered Hay Lin as she snuggled up against the young African girl.
"I love you too" Taranee whispered back as she kissed her goodnight.
They Looked into each others eyes once more and they kissed once more before they both closed their eyes and fell asleep. Their body's were sticky because of their combined body heat but they both enjoyed the feeling of a warm, nude body against their own and it added to the pleasure that the body belonged to someone they loved very much and held more dear than their own life. They truly loved each other and now they knew that the feeling was mutual.