AN: this next couple of weeks is going to be a bit mental so sorry if I don't write.. But hey a juicy chapter to keep you occupied! Thanks for the lovely reviews, they make me smile also, is it wrong to have a physical relationship with one of your own characters? Is that weird?
3. The inevitable
'For she's a jolly good fellow! For she's a jolly good fellow!' the girls roared as they made their way into the changing rooms after their first victory of the season. It was a particularly satisfying victory as it was against a rival school, Verncoombe, which happened to have a reputation as being a snobby grammar school, against the state comprehensive attended by Nikki and her friends. This victory was going to be one that Nikki would remember for quite a while, for many different reasons.
The girls carried Jenny on their shoulders until they reached the showers where they continued to chant 'For she's a jolly good fellow! And so say all of us!
It was true, she had played absolutely brilliantly, and she'd even heard someone sitting on the sidelines say 'That girl could go professional!'. Her dive that saved the last goal from Verncoombe and earned her a nasty scrape (that she had allowed to bleed all the way down her arm as a kind of battle scar) was truly something quite special, not unlike Jenny herself really, but Nikki quickly shook that thought away and continued to chant with the rest of her team mates.
'Bloody hell' started Lori 'did you see the one I was marking?'
'What? The one that could only be loosely described as female' laughed Susie doing that hand gesture where you put "speech marks" around a word to emphasise it. "female". She then pulled across the curtain of her shower cubicle and set the water going.
The shower room was tiled from floor to ceiling and consisted of 8 separate cubicles with curtains that pulled across for privacy. The girls were thankful of them after a match like today in the cold and the wet when they got caked in mud (this time through no fault of their own) although the hot water didn't last very long. So after having warmed yourself up, you could find yourself finishing the remainder of your shower standing naked under the cold water scrubbing desperately at your legs to try and get the mud/grass stains/blood off before your next lesson.
Soon the shower room was filled with the steam of the temporarily hot showers and the girls' rendition of 'we are the champions' echoed of the tiles surfaces which became a potential death trap when wet.
As the water became tepid, the Luke warm, then eventually just cold and the tiles were graced with pools of mud and flecks of green grass the team grabbed their towels and headed out to get changed. Nikki stood in the shower, she could see Jenny's feet underneath the cubicle walls, not thinking for one second that perhaps she herself was being watched. To Nikki's dismay Jen turned to leave her cubicle after switching the water off, she thought she should do the same, not wanting to be late to her next lesson so she switched off the water and turned to get her towel. When she turned she saw the figure of someone behind the curtain, it was blurred because of the material but it was someone with translucent white skin and blonde hair, someone with a taut, muscular body. Jenny Wood. She was stood facing Nikki, only the curtain separating them, staring at each other up and down. Finally Nikki reached out and took hold of the curtain, she pulled it back slowly to reveal her naked friend behind it. Friend? Surely this meant they were something more?
Jenny quickly stepped into the cubicle and pulled the curtain closed again. Nikki couldn't look anywhere other than her face, she wanted to, but she couldn't. Jenny on the other hand held Nikki at arm's length, just looking at her body, Nikki let her.
'Hey' said Jen after a while
'Hey' Nikki spoke softly and quietly, not wanting to taint the moment with pointless words or delay the inevitable.
Jen's hand lingered on her friend's cheek before cupping her chin and drawing her in, planting a kiss nervously on her lips, it was strange; she'd never seen Jenny nervous before. The two parted immediately and again Jen was the first to speak.
'Sorry, I shouldn't have-'
Nikki cut her off, 'No'; she stumbled forward and kissed Jenny, right on the lips. She closed her eyes as their lips met. It was magic, having Jenny's lips around her own and in that moment nothing else seemed to matter other than that they were locked in each other's kiss. Each unwilling to be the first one to pull away. It was beautiful. They eventually broke the kiss, only for air, they stood for a minute in each other's arms, it felt so right, so real, skin on skin. Yet they were unsure of how to carry on.
Eventually Jenny smiled and left the cubicle, holding on to Nikki's hand as she walked as far as both their arms would extend before letting it drop. Nikki was left standing alone in the shower cubicle unsure of whether she was crying or whether it was just water from her wet hair that was now dripping down her face. She slid down the tiles on the wall and sat on the cold, wet floor. Her mind was buzzing, she didn't know it yet but the feelings she was experiencing were those of a deep and intense love for Jenny the fires of which would continue to burn long after the lovers would be torn apart.
AN: cheeky spoiler at the end there? Maybe? Don't worry! You know me, I'm a sucker for a happy ending.