The Long Way 'Round

The blow-up mattress wasn't exactly comfortable in the bed of the pickup truck but the starry sky above more than made up for it. This far away from the city, at a small lake near Chloe's hometown in Georgia, the sky was awash with tiny pinpricks of light.

Beca had desperately needed a break from her tour and, after voicing her exhaustion to her friend over the phone, the red head had insisted that Beca visit. It had worked out well. Beca's show in Atlanta had been sold out, so her team had added a second date for later in the year. The timing had allowed the singer to spend three days there just relaxing with Chloe. And here they were, the last night before Beca had to move on to her next performance, and they were getting drunk in the back of Chloe's old pickup. The wonderful simplicity of it brought tears to Beca's eyes.

The singer turned her head to look at her friend. Chloe was giggling, trying to not spill beer on herself. Somehow, her blue eyes were weirdly ethereal in the moonlight. "Can I ask you something I've been curious about?" the brunette asked.

"Sure!" Chloe replied with a grin. "But there'll be a charge for follow up questions."

"Shut up, Dude," Beca laughed. "Remember when we went on that retreat, and we were all in the tent together?"

Chloe nodded and snuggled closer to her friend as if they were back there. "Yep."

"You told me you wished you'd done more sexual experimentation in college."

The red head laughed, eyes scrunching up adorably. "Right."

"Did you ever get the chance?"

"Oh..." Chloe grinned sheepishly. "Actually no. I was with Tom, then I was single and not looking and then I started dating Chicago... I guess I never got around to it." Chloe took her friend's hand and caressed her fingers. "How about you?"

"Uuhh... well... after Jesse and I broke up, I... um... yeah... once or twice." Beca rubbed her cheeks as they heated a little.

"It wasn't with Amy, right?" Chloe asked.

"No," Beca chuckled. "She has too many boyfriends to have any time to try it with a girl."

Chloe rolled onto her side, making the blowup mattress creak. "What's it like?"

"I mean..." Beca swallowed and felt her cheeks heat again. "It's... nice."

Blue eyes narrowed. "That's it? Nice?"

The singer shrugged. "It's kinda... softer... less hairy and..."

"BECA!"

"Dude, ok!" the younger woman exclaimed. "It was hot and sexy and soft and..." She sighed a little. "Boobs are kinda awesome."

"Oh..." The red head breathed out slowly. "Yeah... yours are anyway."

"What?" Beca cleared her throat as Chloe's hand found her breast and squeezed gently. "Uh... what's... what's happening?"

"Yeah, they're really nice," Chloe repeated and the unfocused look to her blue eyes told Beca that her friend was definitely not sober.

"Chlo... you're feeling me up, Babe." She gently took the vet's hand and held it. "Probably shouldn't do that while you're drunk."

"Why?" Chloe mumbled, lacing their fingers together. "I won't have the balls to do it if I'm totally sober."

Beca blinked and then she blinked again. "Chloe..."

"Sorry..." The vet brought her free hand to her face. "I'm... I don't think... Chicago and I..." Her breath hitched.

"Hey," the brunette said softly. She wrapped her arms fully around her friend and pulled her closer, hugging her hard. "It's ok. You can talk to me."

Chloe nodded, face pressed into Beca's neck. Then she took a breath and looked up. "He asked me to marry him and... I said yes but... Beca..."

"You're not sure?" the singer murmured. "Do you not love him?"

"I... he and I have been together for so long... it's comfortable but I don't... I think the spark is gone, Bec."

Beca gently ran her fingertips across the back of her friend's neck, massaging into her hair. "I get it," she said. "That's what happened with Jesse and me. Then I kinda figured out that... guys are ok, but I liked girls more."

"What if that's..." Chloe shifted a little to look into her friend's eyes. "What if that's the way I would feel? How would I know?"

"I think," the brunette replied slowly. "That maybe there's only one way to find out." She swallowed as blue eyes gazed back at her. "Can I... maybe I could... show you?" The vet nodded slowly, and her tongue unconsciously flicked out to moisten her lips. Beca's stomach suddenly clenched and she swallowed again. "Are you sure?" she whispered.

"I'm sure, Beca," Chloe replied, a small smile lifting her lips.

"Ok, I'm going to kiss you now so don't slap me."

Chloe laughed softly and then cupped her friend's cheek. "What if I just kissed you?" she said and then she brought their lips together, barely brushing them at first and then making solid contact.

It was kinda weird but then they adjusted a little, tilting their heads to get a better angle. Chloe sighed softly and Beca couldn't help but sweep her tongue across her friend's bottom lip. The vet's lips parted, her tongue flicking out to meet Beca's and they both moaned softly as the kiss deepened naturally.

The quick and gentle contact the brunette had planned gave way to a slow, deep, open-mouthed exploration and, when Chloe's hand moved from her cheek to her chest to caress across her collarbones, Beca gasped and she eased back, needing a moment to catch her breath. Her heart was pounding, and unexpected heat moved through her body.

"Wow," the red head exhaled. "That was... um..."

"Yeah," the smaller woman replied. "Very... um..."

"Can we do it again?" Chloe's voice was full of sensual tension and Beca's body responded headily. But the vet saw the hesitation in her friend's face. "I'm just a little tipsy, Bec. I know what I'm doing."

'Fuck it," Beca stated and leaned in again, capturing Chloe's lips and parting them with her tongue. The vet groaned and shimmied closer, pressing her whole body against her friend's, bumping their thighs together comfortably.

The singer had always known that Chloe was a very sexual person, but she almost couldn't breathe when the older woman took her bottom lip between her teeth and nibbled, then tugged and let it go with a pop. "You're so hot," Chloe whispered. "I want to touch you everywhere, Bec. Can I?"

Beca closed her eyes as she felt her friend's hand barely brush over her breast. Then she nodded, unable to do anything other than agree. "Yes."

And she suddenly realized what she wanted more than anything in that moment. "Can I touch you too?"

"Mmm... please," the red head replied, already working on the buttons of Beca's shirt. Then her mouth was on her breast, teeth scraping gently at the nipple under its cotton covering. "Mmm... definitely love boobs," she murmured, making Beca grin. In a move that surprised even herself, the singer pushed her bra up and Chloe grinned too. "Why, thank you."

"Shut up," Beca laughed, but it turned into a breathy moan as Chloe's mouth closed over her breast. "Oh... fuck..." she exclaimed.

"You want to?" Chloe whispered. "Because I do." She eased back a little. "But it's ok if you don't want..."

"Shut up, Dude," Beca said again and smiled as she kissed the red head deeper, letting her hands wander. Then Chloe's thigh was sliding between hers, rocking into her and the singer wanted the barrier of her jeans out from between them. "Off," she whispered breathlessly. "Chloe..."

The older woman nodded, and her hand snaked down between them to undo the button fly of her friend's jeans. "Lift."

Beca lifted her hips and Chloe pushed the heavy denim down past her knees. The brunette kicked her jeans off the rest of the way and then grabbed the hem of her friend's t-shirt to lift it off over her head. "You too. I want you naked."

The vet's mouth was already back on her breast and Beca took a moment to open Chloe's bra and get her hands onto her breasts too. She moaned, the softness of the older woman's skin, counterpointed by her already rock-hard nipples, making new heat rush through her. "Beca..." Chloe moaned softly as the younger woman flicked her nipples with her tongue and then suckled them. "That feels so... unnngh..."

And then she arched her hips up as Beca's hand slipped into her panties. "I want you," the singer whispered against her ear. "Can... Can I..." She could already feel how wet her friend was and she closed her eyes as her fingers slid a little.

Chloe was nodding, already opening her pants and pushing them down to give her friend more room, but it wasn't enough and Beca drew back her hand. She took the time to remove every last piece of clothing from Chloe's body to leave her naked, tanned skin glowing softly in the moonlight. "You're so beautiful, Chlo," she murmured as she kissed her skin, across her collar bones, down her chest to spend some quality time with her breasts and then down further to kiss over her ribs and stomach.

The older woman was writhing underneath her, fingers clenched into Beca's hair. "Beca... please... God... please..." And then she cried out as the singer parted her thighs and slipped two fingers inside her.

Beca groaned into Chloe's breast as she pulled back slowly and then pushed into her again. "Oh my God, you feel so amazing." She looked up then to find her lover's blue eyes closed and her lip caught between her teeth. It was the sexiest thing Beca had ever seen, and her own clit throbbed with need. She shifted slightly and lay over Chloe, thrusting into her and kissing her deeply.

"Wait," Chloe suddenly said and Beca froze.

"What... are you... am I hurting you?"

"No," the red head replied. "But..." She rolled them over. "I want you naked too."

Beca chuckled softly and let her friend take the rest of her clothes off, leaving them both in only their skin, on a blowup mattress in the back of a pickup truck. The thought made Beca blush slightly. They weren't kids anymore and it was almost a little embarrassing for two grown ass women to...

But then the thoughts disappeared when Chloe's hand ran down her thigh and then into the soft down between her thighs. "You're so gorgeous, Beca." The hand hesitated then and the singer smiled.

"It's ok, just take your time, Honey. No pressure." Chloe nodded and they kissed again but Beca didn't hesitate to explore, her fingers slipping back into her lover and stretching her deliciously. They were on their sides and the brunette lifted her lover's thigh over her hip, pushing deeply into her as she bit and sucked her nipples. Her other hand caressed down Chloe's back. Then she smiled as the older woman began to slowly rock her hips. "Mmm, that's it," Beca encouraged. "Good girl, you feel so good."

Chloe was breathing hard, and her hips rocked a little faster. Beca's thumb found her clit and gently stroked it, loving how the vet moaned and pressed closer to her. "Beca..."

"Are you ok?" the singer checked in. "Nothing hurts right?"

"Beca, shut up..." Chloe moaned and then she stiffened and curled into her lover as she came, body shuddering, and head thrown back in ecstasy.

"Oh..." Beca grinned, feeling the contractions around her fingers as she eased her lover through her orgasm. She nibbled on Chloe's chin and kissed along her jaw as the older woman slowly relaxed, eyes still closed as she caught her breath.

"Bec," the red head murmured. "That was epic."

Beca held her close, fingers stroking softly through her red waves. "I'm glad you liked it," she said gently. She smiled then as Chloe's hand headed south again to gently caress her. "You don't have to..."

"I want to," Chloe interrupted. "I really want to, Bec."

In the distance, thunder rumbled and Beca shuddered at the stormy desire in the older woman's blue eyes. "Then don't let me stop you."

Chloe grinned and then took the singer's breast into her mouth again to tongue her nipple and worry it between her teeth. "Definitely love boobs," she murmured, as she moved to the other one. She eased Beca onto her back and caressed her stomach, smiling as the muscles clenched under her touch. "Definitely love..." She paused and swallowed. "This."

Beca was too far gone to really listen and, as Chloe's fingers explored between her folds, she gasped and arched into her, chasing her touch with a little bit of desperation. "Like that, Chloe... yes... that feels so good." The vet circled and rubbed her clit with her fingertips, pushing Beca further toward her climax. "Please, Chlo...please... inside."

"Fuck..." Chloe swore as she pushed her fingers inside her lover, immediately feeling the pulsing around them. "Bec, are you close?"

"So close," the younger woman, whined. "Don't stop... Oh my God, Chloe."

A flash of lightning lit them momentarily and, as a clap of thunder followed it, Beca cried out as she came so hard, her back arched off the mattress, lifting the red head with her.

And then the heavens opened, spilling torrential rain down onto them.

"Shit!" Chloe exclaimed, hastily gathering their clothes and shoving them under the mattress to keep them dry as Beca laughed, still trying to catch her breath. Chloe laughed too but then another clap of thunder made her curl into Beca and cling to her.

"It's ok," Beca said softly, caressing the vet's back and pushing her soaking hair back from her face to kiss her lips.

"I just really don't like thunderstorms," Chloe whispered.

"I know," the singer replied. "But I've got you. You're safe."

Blue eyes met brown and for a long moment, there was so much to say between them. But then they both realized that they were leaving the next day and they didn't know how long they'd be apart... so the words were left unsaid.

The words... were left unsaid.