28th of December
Cosima unfortunately did not get to spend all of her free time shagging her; Sarah had plans, which meant that Delphine got dragged along to Pilates with Krystal. The small blonde found a forgotten Christmas present which consisted of yoga clothes in the French woman's size, Delphine could not help roll her eyes at her friend as she acted surprised.
Delphine knew Jen; she actually liked her which was not normal as she often found Krystal's friends too over whelming. Jennifer's friend had the saddest eyes that Delphine had ever seen, in contrast with her face that grinned and made sarcastic comments about her friend, her body, olive toned and muscular.
The class started and Delphine felt like a fish out of water not knowing the poses or the positions which clearly irritated the instructor as this was an advanced class he said several times walking in front of her and Elizabeth, who was also struggling with the strange exercise names that the instructor was shouting out. Delphine was grateful for mediation time; they sat crossed legged on their mats listening to their breathing.
A ringing of a phone startled the room as Delphine leapt to her feet knowing the ring tone was hers after all not many people have the element song as their ring tone. Delphine knew if looks could kill she would be dead.
"Hey, what's up?" Cosima's light voice rang out
"Now is not a very good time" Delphine spoke
"Why, where are you?" Cosima asked
"I am at Pilates, because someone was busy." Delphine spoke moodily, which made Cosima laugh.
"When do you finish? Because my sister duties are over for today."
"Well, I am supposed to be going for a swim and a sauna next but if you have something else in mind" Delphine tailed off
"Where are you? I mean what gym?" Cosima asked
"The spirit gym...I think" Delphine looked around the too double check she was right.
"Okay, I'll be there in like twenty minutes" Cosima sung happy that she would not need to get a bus into town or anything.
"Wait you are coming here?"
"Yeah, see you soon. Bye" Cosima ended the call, leaving Delphine a little bit baffled as to what the small brunette was going to do, was she going to go swimming with them or was she going to rescue her from this awful exercise that did not end in orgasm.
Twenty minutes later she appeared wrapped in her red coat with a signature patterned scarf around her neck and dreads swinging around her back. Cosima beamed when she noted the tall woman, in her tight fitting Lycra a loose bun sat on the top of her head with wispy baby hairs at the back of her neck. She had never seen the French woman look so casual, it was a completely different look and she loved it.
Cosima's eyes roamed and Delphine's cheeks coloured red.
"Hello! Hot stuff" Cosima bounced over to her
"Hot stuff? I don't think anybody says it any more" Delphine chuckled leaning down to place a kiss on the side of her mouth
"Are you trying to say that I am not cool? Because dude, I'm cooler than liquid nitrogen"
"Of course you are. How could I forget?"
"Probably cause you were too busy thinking about kissing me" Cosima hinted.
Delphine kissed her properly on the mouth this time. Their essences lingering on each other's lips Cosima blinked slowly opening her eyes to see the blonde's eyelashes flutter open as well.
"Come on I want to take you somewhere" Cosima laced their hands together
"Dressed like this?"
"Please, its five minutes away and then we can get you undressed"
"Okay" Delphine gave in zipping up her black hoodie.
They walked hand in hand down the street. The bitter winters wind sent a chill through the blonde she wished she had taken the car even if it was five minutes away. The light clothes were doing nothing to protect her from the harsh winds; Cosima wrapped her scarf around her neck which she was thankful for but she was still freezing.
They entered a small shop that had heaters blasting which Delphine instantly went to warming her body from the wind. It wasn't until she had stopped chittering she looked around to find guitars hanging from the walls, pianos, saxophones a music shop.
"I wanted to hear you play. I thought we could do that duet together" Cosima said shyly unsure if this was a good idea or not.
"Cosima, I have not played since I was a child."
"If you don't want to play it's alright, we can just look around."
Delphine nodded at that with her hands warm again they browsed the shop. She was not as confident as she made out when the alcohol filed her system, what if her fingers had forgotten how to hit the correct keys and notes. She gave up music for science. It was more natural for her mind to process; there was logic and reason behind it, whereas with music there was no right or wrong answer. It just was. Cosima walked a head picking her different instruments plucking and banging them into a rhythm that she found pleasing.
Delphine looked down at the ivory keys her fingers hovering over the keys, she looked around the store, a father and son stood arguing over guitars, a teen with her headphones on searching through the vinyl records and Cosima looking at music books. Nobody was paying her any attention, she was curious herself so she took a large gulp and sat down on the stool, placing her feet on the brass pedals. She pressed down, her fingers quickly moving to find the next key. She soon found herself with her eyes closed, letting her fingers dance along the black and white keys.
Cosima clapped and whooped when Delphine finished making her flush crimson as the store joined in for a brief couple of seconds swiftly returning to their own business.
"Wow, when you said you can play, you meant like you can play. You had your eyes shut and everything like a proper pro" Cosima said doing a little impression of how Delphine looked when she played.
"Merci chéri"
"What was that you were playing?"
"Clair de lune by Debussy"
"It was beautiful" Cosima whispered softly kissing the top of her head. Delphine move along the stool patting it for her to sit down next to her.
"Put this finger here and this one here. And this hand here" Delphine instructed moving the brunette's ring covered fingers long the keys to where she wanted, pointing where next to move her fingers.
Cosima's mouth opened in a huge wide smile "Jingle bells. Jingle bells" She sang the tune when her fingers hit the keys. The pale long fingers started to play alongside hers, talking out the words of the song. She looked up from the piano; her cheeks were aching from smiling. How perfect, as images of their future together crept into her mind, like a cliché from the Bing Crosby white Christmas music video; as they sung duets together at the piano as their children slept up stairs dreaming of Santa, their dog dressed in a reindeer costume in front of the fire. She could see it all. But most importantly she wanted it all.
Delphine brushed her finger lightly across her face bring her out of her little world. She blinked rapidly, her smile sad not reaching her eyes.
"We made music together" Delphine breathed resting her head on Cosima's shoulder.
"Yeah we did" Cosima leant her head on Delphine's body as the long fingers continued to a soft melody that she recognised from her childhood
"Winnie the Pooh?" she asked
"Oui" They both laughed.
"I want to make a different kind of music Delphine" the blonde stopped playing as soon as her words hit her, she nodded.
They held each other's hand as they ran together down the white frosted street, back towards the gyms car park; she found her car, put her foot down and blasted the cars radiator. She opened her apartment door and soon found herself pinned to it. They made their own music testing each other's vocal ranges, as their fingers danced together creating a crescendo.