"I like this place." I said smiling.
She gave me a shy smile in return. "Yes, I love it. The food is great and it's just, nice and romantic."
I looked around from our table in the corner. The restaurant was Greek, located near the harbour and named after the Goddess of Love, `Aphrodite'. Of course, both Katie and I found that name highly appropriate for our first date. The walls were wood and there were all kinds of drawings on them, all scenes from the Greek mythology. It gave it a nice authentic atmosphere.
We had already ordered and we were now enjoying each other's company while waiting for our food to arrive. As far as I was concerned, the food could wait, because I was having a great time. Katie, me, romantic restaurant? Really, what more can a girl ask for?
"So you wanna be a shrink." she said.
I chuckled. "Well, if you put it that way, yeah."
She nodded appreciatively. "That's good. It's noble work."
"Yeah, I wanna work with kids." I told her.
"Why? What made you choose this?" she wondered.
Ehm, Shit. I debated whether I should tell her the reason why I wanted to become a therapist. See, when I was in my teens I had been seeing a therapist myself. The guy, Rosenfeld, really helped me with stuff, and after a while I realized I wanted to do that for others too. I wanted to help them, the way he helped me. I just wasn't sure if I should tell Katie that. Not yet at least. I mean, I just found her, I didn't wanna scare her away by telling her about messed up Jessie just yet.
"Aw, I just wanted to help kids out, you know, make a difference." I said quickly.
She looked at me and I thought I saw a quirked eyebrow there for a sec but I wasn't sure. She seemed to be satisfied with the answer though.
"Like I said, noble work." she said.
"So what about you? Why law?" I wondered.
"Well, kinda like you, I guess. I think the law in this country is so screwed up, it's just not right. I mean, a burglar enters a house, an old lady who lives there walks in and the guy is startled, bumps into something, hurts himself, and the old lady ends up paying for his hospital bill. That is just ridiculous." She smiled again. "I guess I wanna make a difference too."
"So we're both gonna be noble people, that will work out." I said.
"Yes, perfect match." she said softly, looking directly into my eyes and turning me into mush.
All I could do was stare and smile goofily at her so that's exactly what I did. I lost myself in her dreamy green eyes. There was no place I could think of where I would rather be and for a few moments there was no one on the earth besides me and her. Well, until the waitress came with our food and brutally ripped us out of our happy place.
I managed to thank her and Katie and I turned our attention to our dishes. Well, I must say, the food was great. We had a wonderful meal as we talked away. Talking with Katie was never difficult. It was never boring, and we were never searching for things to talk about. It was just easy to talk to her. She was never at a loss for words either. I mean, she just goes on and on. Not that I mind. Of course not. I think it's cute. And yes, I know, I'm a sap. But hey, it's Katie, everything about her is cute, so give me a break, ok?
Anyway, back to our date. After dinner Katie insisted she paid for it, which I thought was adorable. We then took a walk towards the harbour where we found a bench and I suggested we sat down on it.
She nodded. "Good plan." she said.
I walked over to the bench but she took my hand and stopped me. I turned around expectantly. She traced my cheek with her fingers and I felt a chill go through my body as she looked at me.
"Look," she started, "I just wanna say something that I've been wanting to say all night."
"Sure, go ahead." I said.
She smiled as she gently pulled me closer and placed her lips on mine. I was kind of taken back by this sudden `choice of words', but I didn't mind at all. Instead I eagerly returned the kiss. After a few moments we pulled back. I took a deep breath, trying to get my heartbeat under control. I looked at her and smiled.
"I like the way you say things." I told her with a goofy grin.
She chuckled. "Really? I should say things more often."
I pulled her closer and our faces were inches apart. "I think you should." I said and moved in to kiss her again. We lost ourselves in each other for a while until Katie pulled back slowly.
"You know, we could sit on the bench and say more things to each other." she said smiling.
"I call that a plan." I answered. So we sat down and almost immediately we were once again locked in a passionate kiss. This felt so damn good, I could see myself kissing Katie for the rest of my days. There were sparks, electricity, fire, thunder, lightning, all of that. It was all there.
Suddenly we heard a male voice shouting something to us. "Hey girls, can I sit in the middle?"
We reluctantly pulled apart to see who it was that had the nerve to interrupt our intimate moment. We saw a group of guys standing about 30 feet away. We immediately picked out the one that had spoken, for he was standing in the middle of the group, and had the biggest grin on his face and the other ones were all chuckling like idiots. It was obvious he was the leader of the pack.
I sighed. Why are there always stupid morons like them? Apparently Katie thought the same thing because she sighed too and suddenly spoke up.
"Do you really think that one day, when you say childish things like that, that there will actually be a girl that says, `Hey sure, come join us.'? I mean, how old are you, twelve? Seriously man, that is never going to happen. And I know, that with an attitude like that, there will never be a girl that will take you even remotely seriously, so why don't you do all girls in the world a favour and take a dive off a huge cliff, you'll end up with the jelly-fish, you'll fit right in. Just leave us alone, cause you're really annoying the hell out of us."
Katie looked at him with fire in her eyes and I knew she had meant every word she had just said. I for one, totally agreed. I looked at the guy with a grin on my face, while his grin had slowly disappeared during Katie's tirade. He was really quiet all of a sudden and by no means did he look like he was gonna make a great comeback. Some of his friends were grinning a little too, for the guy was just totally put in his place. He motioned for them to follow him, as he mumbled something that resembled, "Can get plenty of girls if I want them." and the morons were on their way.
I chuckled as I looked back at Katie, who was still following the group with her eyes. I gently took her face in my hand and turned her head.
"That was great. He didn't know where to look." I said smiling.
"I just hate guys like that. I mean, there's always one of them trying to look tough in front of his friends, while all they are is a piece of shit." She looked down at her lap and then back up at me again. "I just thought someone ought to tell him. He has the right to know he's a piece of shit, right?" she said smiling.
I nodded. "Very noble of you."
We both chuckled. Katie leaned in and gave me another kiss on my mouth.
"I'm all about noble, but why don't we pick up where we left off?" she said, tucking a stray of hair behind my ear.
Of course I was all in for that idea so I answered in the best way ever, by kissing her again. Our tongues explored each other's mouths and I was feelings all kinds of hot, especially when Katie's mouth travelled down, towards my neck. She placed soft kissed and did the most amazing things with her lips and tongue. I thought I was gonna go crazy right then and there. I grabbed her and pulled her back up, I just needed to feel those lips on mine. And I needed a break because I was just losing it. I kissed her hungrily and we forgot all about our surroundings. Suddenly a blow horn startled us both and brought us back to reality.
We both looked up and saw a huge yacht coming into the harbour. It was just a beautiful sight and we snuggled up to each other and admired the ship as it docked. There were two guys and a woman on deck, and they worked together smoothly, and soon the ship was safely tucked away in some place that at first seemed way too small for it. The woman walked towards one of the guys and hugged him from behind. He turned around in her arms and gave her a sweet kiss. Then suddenly a small girl came on deck and ran to the couple, apparently her parents. The father said something to the kid and suddenly he broke himself loose from the woman, picked up his daughter and pretended to throw her overboard. The kid squealed in pleasure and mock fear and all three of them were laughing happily as he put her back down. Then they all went inside. It was a nice, loving scene and both Katie and I were touched by it. A couple, happy, a little girl, playful, that was what we both wanted later in life.
I took a contented sigh. I had just witnessed a loving scene, and I was in Katie's arms. Hopefully I was gonna be able to be in her arms for a long time after this, because I really enjoyed it.
"Katie." I said softly.
"Yeah." she mumbled in my hair.
"I'm falling in love with you." I said quietly. I had no idea if I should have said that. All I know is that I did, because I felt like doing it. It felt like the right thing to say.
I felt her body move a little. "I don't know if it's too soon to say this, but I just wanted to say it, because it's true." I said.
I felt a hand cup my cheek, and my head was gently pulled up. I looked in her eyes and I saw a sparkle in them. When I saw that, I realized I hadn't said too much.
She smiled adoringly at me. "I'm falling in love with you too." she said. "Hard." she added playfully.
We slowly leaned in and kissed each other sweetly. The kiss was short and soft, but no less intense. When we parted we just gazed at each other and I felt like the happiest person in the world. I just confessed to Katie I was falling in love with her, and not only did she not think it was too soon, but she told me she was falling for me too. Things couldn't be better.
We stayed on that bench for another hour or so, until we decided we should head back to our dorms, because it was kind of a long walk and the campus at night was not the safest place to be.
We walked back without any problems and she walked me to my room. When we stood in front of my door I opened it and noticed the room was empty. Well, isn't that convenient.
"Looks like no one's here." I said.
"Looks like it."
"You ehm, wanna come in for a minute?" I asked. "I mean, I don't know when the rest are gonna be back, but we could hang here for a while."
"Sure." she answered.
We went in and I closed the door. I took off my coat and hung it up and then helped her with hers and hung that up too.
"Well, who's the gentlewoman now?" she giggled.
"Hey, I was taught manners, just so you know." I countered.
"I'm sure you were."
"Take a seat." I pointed towards my bed. "You want a drink?"
"Nah, I'm good." she said as she laid down on the bed. "Aw, you have the best bed ever." she said.
I sat down next to her. "Yeah, it's really comfortable. It's a jealous bed though." I said.
"Jealous? Why's that?" she chuckled.
"Well, every morning I leave it and she doesn't want me leaving. I think she has a crush on me. She always gets cranky when I leave." I said playfully.
She grinned. "Well, I say we give her something to be jealous of then." she said as she pulled me down next to her.
I put on an angry face. "Aw, you are so mean to my bed."
"Why, she gets to watch, right?" she said playfully.
I laughed. "You are so weird."
"Hey, you started with the jealous bed." she said. "Speaking of which, are we gonna make her jealous or what?"
"We sure are." I said, as I kissed her softly.
For the next while we kissed, let hands trace bodies, played with each other's tongue, teasingly bite each other's lips, all enjoyable stuff like that. I must say, I was having a great time. So was Katie, for that matter, because there was some moaning too, from both of us.
After some time the make-out session got kind of steamy, so we slowed it down a bit, and we just laid comfortably in each other's arms.
I traced her arm with my fingers and admired the softness of her skin. My fingers found the scar again, the one I had noticed this morning. I ran my fingers across it and once again, found myself eager to know how she got it.
"How did that happen?" I asked her while I looked at it.
"What?" she wondered as she followed my gaze.
"The scar. How did it happen?"
"Aw. Now there's a story. You sure you wanna hear it? It's kind of stupid."
I looked up and smiled. "I'm sure." I said.
"Ok, well, I have three brothers, and they are all tough guys. Now don't get me wrong, they are the best, but of course I was always the girl, so any rough game they were playing, I wanted to be in it. I just wanted to show them I could do it, cause they always said I was a girl and therefore, not fit enough to play."
I chuckled. "So you wanted to prove them wrong, huh. Tough chick that you are."
"Exactly." she giggled. "Anyway, one time, they were skate-boarding. I was like, ten or something. And they were doing all these tricks with the thing so I wanted to try. Of course, they told me I wouldn't pull it off which made me want to show them otherwise even more. Anyway, I got on the thing and I tried this trick, but of course, it went horribly wrong because I couldn't stand on that thing if my life depended on it, and I lost my balance and crashed straight into this wall."
"Ouch." I said.
"Yeah, well, the wall wasn't really the problem. The two inch nail sticking out of it was."
My face showed how much I imagined that would have hurt.
"Yeah, it went right in. Fourteen nice stitches." she grinned.
"That had to be painful." I said.
"Oh, it was. But of course I told everyone I didn't feel a thing." she chuckled. "Guess I was a big show-off."
I smiled. "Yeah well, three brothers. You had to keep up."
"Exactly. See, you understand." she said cheerfully.
"I have an older brother too. We always messed around. It was fun." I smirked. "So I had my share of showing off."
We smiled at each other. This was so easy, just talking to her. Never did we need a subject to talk about, it was just always there. I felt like I could talk to her about anything.
"Hey." I said softly. "I have a confession to make."
"What?" she wondered.
"Well, it's about something you asked me before and I sort of didn't tell you the whole truth." I said quietly.
She looked at me expectantly. "What is it Jess? You can tell me anything." she said sweetly.
"When you asked me why I wanted to become a psychiatrist, well, what I told you is sort of the truth about why I wanted it. Because I wanna help kids, I really do."
She kept quiet, encouraging me to go on, and I did.
"Well, what I didn't tell you was that I was sort of speaking from experience." I said. "I've seen first hand how seeing a therapist can help, and I want to be there for others, like someone was there for me."
I looked up in her eyes, trying to see her reaction.
"So you saw a therapist? Well, that's not something to be ashamed of or anything. I think everyone has something to talk about." she said reassuringly.
"I was anorexic." I admitted. "I hated food, didn't want it. I talked to him a lot about that. I'm over it now. And my parents divorce, I dealt with that, too. I'm over that now as well. And of course the issue of me falling for girls instead of guys." I smiled at her. "Now that is still an issue. Not as in, it's a problem for me, but it's still there."
"Well, I hope you will never get rid of that quality." she chuckled.
"Oh no, don't worry about that." I said. "So you don't think of me as a wacko or anything, for you know, being anorexic?" I asked.
"Jess, are you kidding me, of course not." She pulled me into a hug. "Like I said, I think everyone has issues and sometimes I wished I had someone to talk to about stuff. I don't think this is weird at all."
I smiled shyly. "I just wanted to tell you. When I didn't, I felt like I lied to you or something and that just didn't feel right. I wanted you to know this." I said.
"Well, I'm glad you told me." she said. "And not because I think any more or less of you because of this, but because I am glad you felt like you could tell me." she added.
I looked directly into her eyes. "I feel like I could tell you anything. Which is why it bothered me for not telling you this."
"Well, the next time you want to tell me something about yourself but you're not sure if you should because you think I will run out the door immediately, just try me. I'm not a runner." she said.
"I'll remember that." I smiled at her. I leaned in and gave her a kiss. She had the incredible ability to make me feel so comfortable, it was amazing. No one was ever able to make me feel that way. I felt so at ease. We snuggled up in each other's arms and just enjoyed each other's company.
"Jessie, I think you are amazing." she suddenly said.
My whole heart warmed up when she said that, and just stared at her for a moment. I kissed her again, I just had to. The kiss was slow at first, but became more intense as we forgot everything around us. I moved myself onto her body and placed sweet kisses on her jaw line and neck. I heard a low moan escape her throat. She pulled me back up and kissed me full on the lips. We were really into it when suddenly the door flung open and startled the hell out of us both.
I quickly manoeuvred myself off of Katie and we both sat up as we turned our heads to see Grace and Michelle standing in the doorway.
Oh shit. They just have the most perfect timing ever.
"Uh-oh." Michelle muttered. She looked over at Grace. "I think we just interrupted something." she said.
Grace chuckled and took a step into the room. She nearly tripped over her own feet. Looked like the both of them were totally wasted. Aw, that's just great.
"I think we have." Grace answered with a stupid grin.
"Well," Michelle said, "now that we have interrupted already, I say we join the party, what do you say?" she asked Grace.
Grace nodded, and before I knew what was happening, they both ran over to my bed, as far as their drunken state allowed them to run, and they dove onto my bed, landing on top of both Katie and me.
"Ouch." I shouted. "Get out of my bed!"
Michelle laid her head lazily in Katie's lap. "No, I'm quite comfortable here." she said.
I looked over at Katie apologetically. "I am so sorry." I mumbled.
She seemed to find it rather amusing and gave me a reassuring smile.
"Grace." I tried again. "Get your alcoholic breath out of my bed. Michelle, you too."
Grace, who had positioned herself between Michelle and me, shook her head. "Oh no. I'm your big sister, I have to watch over you so that you don't do any nasty things with miss Katie over here. I'm staying right where I am." she mumbled.
Katie chuckled. "Miss Katie." she repeated.
"You two are so annoying." I said, realizing I would never get rid of them now. I looked over at Michelle and realized she had practically fallen asleep. Michelle had fallen asleep cuddled up against *my* girlfriend! What did I ever do to deserve this?
I sighed in frustration. "Let's get out of here." I whispered, hoping Grace wouldn't hear it. But when I looked at her I realized she couldn't have heard it because like Michelle, she too seemed to be far away in the land of dreams.
Katie nodded. "Let's go to my place."
I slowly got out of the bed. Now that was the easy part, because no roommate of mine was cuddled up against me. Katie looked at me helplessly and I chuckled. This really was a weird situation. Katie moved a little, trying not to wake Michelle. It worked, and slowly Katie got herself off the bed. She still had the biggest grin on her face.
"Shall we just leave them there?" Katie whispered.
I nodded. "Yeah, let them sleep it off." I answered quietly while we grabbed our coats. "They will be alright, it's not the first time. I so don't feel sorry for them in the morning."
I opened the door and looked back at them one more time. They were sound asleep and they hadn't noticed us leaving at all.
I quietly closed the door behind us as we walked out of my room. In the hallway we laughed at the situation.
"Again, I am so sorry." I said to Katie while we started walking towards the exit.
"Hey, it's not your fault. Besides, I thought it was kind of funny." she said grinning.
I chuckled. "They are so gonna get it tomorrow. I think I'm gonna kill them." I said.
"Hey, don't. I don't want you in jail." she answered playfully.
"Oh, I'll make it look like an accident and everything. They just deserve no better."
"I think their hangover in the morning is gonna be punishment enough." she chuckled.
"Hey, you might be right, I should save my get-out-of-jail-free-card for later." I said as we walked out of the building.
We quickly made our way over to Katie's room and as soon as we got there we crashed on the bed. We snuggled up against each other and we laid quietly for a few minutes.
"Jessie?" Katie suddenly said.
"Hmm?"
"I had a great time." she whispered in my ear.
I looked up at her face. "So did I." I said sweetly. I kissed her softly and then laid my head on her chest. She nuzzled her face in my hair and placed a kiss on my head.
Not before long, we were in the land of dreams too. Unlike Grace and Michelle, we weren't facing a huge hangover in the morning, but the pleasure of waking up together. That was just a much better thing to look forward to.