"The New Girl"
This is Emily's story so it's in her point of view. Just like "Lying Wolf" is Marin's story so it's in her point of view. I'm not sure that I will show Maya's or Emily's points of views in these stories unless the time comes where I feel it's necessary…
I know you want this story updated more often but I've been fighting an ugly cold and still am. I try to update the stories in order and I see I owe you this one. So here it goes…
Stay with me people…
Rated T for Teen…
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"I know. I know you're right but this feels so amazing. I don't want it to end."
"I have no intention of letting it end. We'll just pick up where we left off another day."
"Another day?"
"Only if you want to."
"Yeah, I want to…"
We help each other with our tops and climb out of the watering hole. We're standing there dripping wet face to face.
"I like you Emily. Just know that," she says as she brushes her lips against mine and smiles. I love you…
We each grab a blanket wrapping ourselves in it before heading back to the pool…
Chapter 16: Everyone Has a Secret
Emily POV
I can't stop smiling from the moment we leave the watering hole to the drive back to the town pool. Probably cuz I can't stop thinking about what I did with Maya! Oh my god, never would I have ever imagined that I would be brave enough to do something like that! I actually took off my top in front of a girl I like! A girl I've only known a couple of weeks, but damn, it feels like I've known her all my life! I really, really love that feeling!
Ben tried touching me and it was always so awkward that I thought maybe it was me. But, hell no, it wasn't! Maya has this way of making me feel so comfortable about sharing my body. And she was so patient and playful. She didn't make me feel like I had to, I actually felt like I wanted to. I took off my top for me and yeah maybe for her too but mostly for me. I needed to be the one who decided without any pressure. I needed to decide to let her see me like that. And I liked how she looked at me. I liked it a lot!
I think, for me, swimming topless with Maya was something I wanted and needed to do. But more importantly she didn't make a move on me. I felt respected. So when she did swim close to me and we touched, it was a mutually respected decision. A decision that felt really good! I never knew a girl's naked breasts could feel so incredibly normal against me. It was the most natural feeling you could ever imagine and when she touched me with her hand and her delicate fingertips I thought I would lose myself right then and there!
And when she looked at me, I'm pretty sure I told her with just my eyes that I want her. I want her to touch me everywhere, especially down there. I squeeze my legs together, sitting in the passenger seat of her car, sitting up straight, trying desperately not to dampen my bikini…
"Hey, you, what are you thinking about over there with that smile of yours?" she asks even though she already knows the answer.
"You. I had a really nice time with you," I say looking down at my fidgeting hands.
"I had a really nice time with you too," she winks reaching for my leg, squeezing just above my knee. I, I just can't. She's perfect!
Her hand sneaks up and down my leg very discreetly and I sit there wondering why I would want to hide that…
"What else were you thinking Ems?" She called me Ems! Happy, happy face!
My fingers lace and unlace I'm so nervous to say but I do, "I'm thinking I want to get to know you better."
"Oh yeah. I'd like that too," she smiles looking straight ahead being the good conscientious driver that she is.
I have a feeling Maya's used to getting what she wants and I'm pretty sure she wants me. Wait. What am I saying! That means sex! I have no idea what to do down there! I'm going to make a fool of myself! Fuck Emily! How are you gonna have sex with a girl who obviously knows what she's doing! I'm such a fool! I could never please her the way I know she can please me!
We turn into the parking area pulling right into the spot we left a few hours ago. Everything should be so amazing between us but stupid me had to go there and think about how inadequate I am sexually! Fuck!
"If they ask where we've been just say we went for a walk to find your mom," she takes my hand but when I look at her nervously she lets it go.
"I'm sorry Maya."
"Don't be. I get it. When you're ready," she smiles reassuringly. I don't deserve her patience.
"You're being awfully good about this," I dip my head cuz I kinda feel guilty for making her keep us a secret.
"That's because I know a good thing when I see it." Wait. What!
"You do?" I face her.
"Em, we have plenty of time to get to know each other so don't worry your pretty little self about what's going to happen next. When you're ready, I'm ready," she tilts her head in such a way I feel like I really am dreaming.
"Thanks Maya. I'll get there one day but today is not that day," I sort of feel like I need to apologize.
"Baby, no thanks is necessary and you will get there one day and I'll be right there with you," she sneaks a kiss on my cheek making me blush all kinds of ways.
We walk onto the pool deck like we've been there all along. Spencer and Hanna are so consumed with their guys that I don't even think they knew we were gone for as long as we were. So Maya and I lie down on the chaise lounges exchanging looks and smiles except her looks give me goosebumps and make me squeeze my legs together again!
"So, where have you two been?" Hanna of course would be the one to notice our absence.
"Just swimming and then went for a walk," Maya answers. I like that she takes charge. It's so caring and sexy!
"Is that all?" She asks with a crazy smile on her face.
"Yeah, that's all," I say kind of firmly cuz she's being weird.
"Hey guys," Caleb comes up behind her. Halleluiah!
"Hey, what's up?" I ask taking the spotlight off of me and Maya.
"Well, I'm kinda hungry. You wanna get some lunch?" He asks all of us.
"Sure. I'm famished," Maya says eye sexing me. I guess we all worked up an appetite!
"Yeah, let's eat. Should we get Spencer and Alex?" I ask.
"I'll go," Caleb volunteers leaving us alone with Hanna. Shit!
"Famished? Huh. That walk must've been pretty strenuous," she's fishing.
"We took our time. It was nice talking to Emily and getting to know her better," Maya jumps right in again to protect me. God, I love her!
"I bet it was nice," she remarks making me wonder what the hell she's getting at.
"You guys ready to go eat something?" Spencer jumps in. Yes! The Hanna Inquisition is interrupted!
We put on our shorts and t-shirts and slip on our flip flops to walk over to the concessions. We buy burgers and dogs and fries and pizza and sodas. I need some greasy food since I'll have to watch what I eat come Tuesday when I go back to swim practice. Once everyone has their food we sit at the picnic tables and unintentionally couple up. I'm being such a nerd feeling so giddy sitting next to Maya! Everything she does makes me tingle all over, even when she dips her French fries in her ketchup! I bite into my burger hoping no one notices my delirium!
Hanna loses interest in us when Caleb starts feeding her his fries as does Spencer and Alex who seem to be in their own little world. So Maya and I have our own little conversation…
"Em, ya want one of my fries," she tries feeding it to me. I want a hell of a lot more than one of your fries!
"Maya. People could see," I lower my voice.
"Sooo," she tries to relax my mood by touching my nose with the ketchup end of her fry!
"Maya!" I wipe it off with a napkin before she gets any more ideas!
But when I look around, no one seems to notice and no one seems to care, except for me. And it makes me sad. I'm the only one who can't be happy on the outside. And I can feel myself getting all emotional and I have to excuse myself…
Hanna POV
"Hey, Emily!" I call to her. "What happened? Is she okay? Should we go after her?"
"No Hanna, you're with Caleb. Let me," Maya says sounding concerned like a concerned girlfriend. Hmmm.
I want to say something like calling them out on sneaking around but this seems serious. So I don't object when Maya offers to go see what the matter is. I actually think it's chivalrous. Did I use that right? Chi-val-rous, I think I did...
"What's up with Emily?" Spencer asks.
"Did we do something to upset her?" Alex asks us.
"I'm not sure. Maya went to see if she could help," I say.
"Well if anyone can figure it out, it's Maya. She has a way of getting people to open up," Spencer says.
"I bet she does."
"What?"
"Nothing Spencer. Nothing at all…"
Emily POV
"Em! Hey Em! Wait up!" Maya yells from behind me. I really just want to be alone.
But she's right there making me stop and talk to her.
"Maya, please."
"Em, what is it? You can tell me," she tries caressing my arm but I jerk it away.
She puts both of her hands up and says, "Whoa. What was that?"
"Maya, I'm so sorry. This is all so confusing."
"Only because you're making it confusing." She's right.
"It's more than that and you know it," I try to get away from her.
"Emily, stop. I told you I'd wait and I meant it but this getting emotional about, I'm guessing, seeing other couples openly happy is really affecting you." I don't even know myself as well as she seems to know me!
I look up at the sky trying to find an answer in the clouds but I already know the answer, I'm a coward who doesn't want to disappoint her parents; the Military dad and his ever dutiful wife with all of her Christian values.
"Maya, I just need to think for a minute." I feel a headache coming on.
"Maybe you're thinking too much."
I know she's right but I can't do this with her here and now so I start jogging along the woods to the town green trying to get away but she's on my heels. She's not giving up on me. I actually start to smile cuz she's being amazing right now and I'm being….
I stop short. She practically runs into me.
"Em…."
"Shh."
I walk slowly towards the shadowy figures. And hide behind a giant oak tree. Maya stands with me.
"Em, who is that?" she whispers.
"It's my mom."
"What's she doing?"
"She's, she's…," I shake my head doubting what I'm seeing.
"She's what Em?"
I take a deep breath, "She's hugging someone and kissing someone who isn't my dad."
"What? Are you sure?"
I turn my back leaning against the tree. I can't look anymore! I'm so fucking pissed right now!
Maya peeks around me.
"It is her but who's that other person? I can't really…ohhh, ohhh!"
She steps back pulling me in for a hug.
"Emily, oh Emily. Is that…"
"Yeah, it's Natalie Kahn, Noel's mom."
"Is your mom…"
"No! She loves my dad! I have no idea what the fuck that is!"
"Shh, they're walking away."
I turn to watch them arm in arm walking towards the town green. Mrs. Kahn's head is leaning on my mom's shoulder. I don't even have the guts to do that with Maya in public yet my mom's doing just fine and she's married! What is happening!
"Emily, let me take you home."
I wipe my tears, "No. I'm going after them. I'm going to demand to know what the fuck that was!"
Maya grabs me, "Oh no, you're not."
"What?"
"You're gonna say something you'll regret. You don't know what's going on. You saw a sort of kiss. You don't know what that kiss was."
"It was a kiss between two married women!"
"You need to calm down and talk to her at home. Emily, don't. You don't want your secret exposed so don't expose hers. Talk to her." Why does she have to make so much sense?
I give up, "Fine."
"Let's go back to the pool. Tell them you don't feel well. And I'll take you home," she caresses my back.
I look like shit so everyone believes me when I tell them I feel sick but they have no idea what Maya and I just stumbled upon. And I don't want them to know, ever!
Maya takes me to my house.
"Em, let me come in with you," she says so sweetly. I should let her but I need to speak to my mom alone.
Maya reluctantly leaves while I wait and I wait for my mom to come home but she doesn't. So I go upstairs to shower trying desperately to wash away those images of my mom and Noel's mom. What the fuck! Yeah I feel clean on the outside but not so much on the inside as I put on a fresh t-shirt and a pullover light blue hoodie. I slip into a pair of cutoff shorts and Toms. And while I'm brushing my hair I finally hear her car pull into the driveway. I hear the door shut and the alarm sound. Now I'm just waiting for her to get in the house…
I make my way downstairs watching her sort through her bags like nothing happened. But something did happen and I'm gonna let her have it! But before I can confront her the phone rings.
It's my dad…
Fuck! I furrow my brows at her and cross my arms in front of my chest, disgusted by her behavior. Then I listen to her talk to him all lovey dovey and ick! I have to get out of here! I call Maya and ask her to pick me up for the bonfire at the lake.
Maya arrives shortly thereafter…
I yell to my mom as I walk out the door, "Going to the bonfire!"
"Have fun!" she yells back. "And be home by one!"
Wow, an extra two hours. Yeah an extra two hours of guilt!
When we arrive at the lake Maya can tell I'm still stewing over what we saw.
"Em, there might be a simple explanation for what you saw. It could be nothing. We came in on the end and we don't know the whole story," she tries to get me to lighten up.
I open the car door, step out and slam it shut, "Maya, you're right. We don't know what we saw so let's get drunk so I can forget about everything!" And find the courage to fuck you…
I smile a seductive smile looking Maya up and down. I can tell she can feel me. But the look she gives me back isn't what I was expecting. It's one of concern instead of one of lust. I walk ahead of her. I don't care. I'm going to get drunk and I'm going to fuck with or without Maya…
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To Be Continued…
Chill people, chill…