Newspaper Clippings: A Little Tingle
A Rizzoli & Isles drabble by Gigi
A/N: Here you go! Enjoy!
I need some time to think about this.
Curled up on her couch with a beer in one hand, Jane touched lightly at her lips with the other. They...tingled seemed to be the word. Her fingers stroked back and forth along her bottom lip in contemplation, as if touching the place where Maura's lips brushed hers would help her figure out what exactly had happened.
Never in a million years had she suspected that was why her best friend had been avoiding her. Maura loved men. She always had. But suddenly she developed feelings for Jane?
Jane took another swig of her beer. As the cool liquid slid down her throat, her eyes closed and remembered the happenings of less than an hour ago.
The pressure was...pleasant on her lips. There was no movement, just the pressing of one pair of lips against another, but whether Jane was too stunned to move or subconsciously reluctant to was unclear even to herself. When Maura pulled away, biting her bottom lip and fidgeting with the ring on her right hand, Jane just stared at her, her mouth still slightly open.
She lowered the bottle from her lips, her hand automatically going back to her bottom lip. She wasn't disgusted by it. She still felt the tingling, and so many thoughts swirled around in her head that she had no way to make sense of any of it.
She could make sense of one thing, though-if she lost Maura as a best friend, she'd be crushed. The past three weeks had been proof enough of that.
She finally managed to say something: "Oh."
Maura let out a self-deprecating laugh. "Told you it would make you uncomfortable."
"No, no, it's not that," Jane rushed to say. "It's just-It's just big, you know? I need some time to think about this, you know, process it."
Jane finished off the bottle as quickly as possible and opened another one. She liked men. She really liked how men's lips felt on hers.
But her lips still tingled.
A/N: I'm trying to be as realistic with this as possible, which is why, although Maura is more open to experimentation, she's afraid of messing with their friendship and thus tries to suppress her feelings. As much as I'd like for Jane to suddenly realize she's incredibly attracted to Maura during the kiss and start making out with her, it wouldn't fit her character. It's a gradual, confusing process, and I wanted to make sure I captured that. Hopefully, I did, but I won't know until you REVIEW!