They kissed once more at poolside, and then together they jumped in, disrupting the still water and forcing a splash. Coolness covered their warm bodies as they submerged. Under the water, Gretchen opened her eyes and saw Naomi there next to her. Naomi, her eyes open as well, was grinning wide. As she began swimming, pulling herself up toward the surface, Gretchen diligently swam after her. And as they breached, they held to one another, laughing and smiling. It was such a bright day, only made brighter by the rays of happiness that shimmered off of these two lovers.
When Naomi entered their bedroom, she was naked and still dewy from her shower with a white towel wrapped around her head. Gretchen was in bed, wearing just a pink pair of panties, and looking down into her phone. With Naomi’s arrival, however, the phone was tossed aside. It had been such a wonderful and relaxing day. An afternoon at the pool, a hike around the local nature preserve, and a satisfying homemade dinner of whitefish and wine all culminated in subsequent showers and now this. The fading dusk sunlight shown in through their open bedroom window, along with a cool evening breeze.
Pulling the towel off and tossing it to the ground, Naomi shook her head side to side to let her hair down. Over the summer, Naomi’s pale body had darkened as much as it could, leaving tan lines along her chest and her middle. She crept closer to the bed as Gretchen shot insinuating glances her way.
“Put on some music,” Naomi intoned gently. “You know I like music.”
“Mm hmm,” Gretchen agreed. As Naomi climbed up onto the bed, Gretchen took up her phone once more, swiped through it, and then tapped a few times. A small wireless speaker on her nightstand came to life with low, dreamy, electronic pop music. The beat was steady and firm.
“Why are you still wearing these?” Naomi asked, tugging at the elastic of Gretchen’s underwear.
“I really don’t know,” Gretchen said with a laugh. “Take them off.”
“Gladly,” Naomi said. She grabbed at the panties and she deftly pulled them down Gretchen’s legs and took them off of her feet. She then tossed them blindly over her shoulder and moved closer once more to Gretchen. Leaning in, she planted a sweet kiss on Gretchen and Gretchen eagerly returned the affection.
Gretchen wriggled back into the bed to get comfortable and she spread her legs wider. The girls kissed some more, while Naomi’s hand moved down and explored between her lover’s thighs. With a happy groan, Gretchen melted into Naomi’s touch and found her arousal mounting quickly. As Naomi’s fingers kneaded and massaged, Gretchen easily grew wet with excitement.
“I love your body,” Naomi mused. She lowered herself slightly and pushed her mouth to Gretchen’s tit, taking in her nipple and sucking it, ending with a tender bite. This sent an energetic shock through Gretchen and she couldn’t help but giggle. Goosebumps appeared on her arms.
“You can do whatever you want to it,” Gretchen hummed. She was dissolving into the lust, her limbs relaxing, her love tingling and growing wetter still.
“Don’t mind if I do,” Naomi teased. After kissing Gretchen’s navel softly, she shimmied down between Gretchen’s legs and enthusiastically started up. Naomi buried her face into Gretchen’s pussy, pushing her lips sloppily into Gretchen’s, kissing and licking and sucking flesh. Releasing her tongue, she flicked against Gretchen’s clit before giving it a full, deep, vocal kiss. Naomi had gotten good at eating pussy and she was happy to demonstrate.
“Damn,” Gretchen mewed, reaching her hand down and running it through Naomi’s damp hair. She could feel the dampness of that hair on her thighs, but it was nowhere near as wet as what was going on between them.
“You like it?” Naomi asked between kisses.
“I love it.”
“Good,” Naomi said, and then gave another pressured kiss to Gretchen’s clit.
Gretchen eventually flipped over, perched on her knees, and buried her head into the pillows. Her ass hung in the air, and Naomi was behind it, spreading her cheeks and licking everywhere. For a moment, Naomi pulled back and admired her lover’s pussy glistening in the low light of the room. She smiled to herself and reached out to touch it, a bead of gooey sweetness dripped from Gretchen’s lips and slowly made its way down to the sheets.
“You’re so wet,” Naomi said. “You’re dripping.”
“Don’t stop,” Gretchen pleaded with impatience. Naomi laughed.
“Sorry,” she replied in a teasing voice. She again dove in, parting Gretchen’s lips with her tongue and licking furiously. Moving upwards, she licked herself to Gretchen’s ass which Gretchen, if her noises and movements were any indication, obviously loved.
With her hand between Gretchen’s legs, fingers fondling her clit, Naomi’s mouth moved back and forth along Gretchen’s crevice. Gretchen’s hips were gyrating and her breath was growing more fierce, she was gasping for air as her arousal became impossible to ignore. Soon, she was bucking and Naomi slapped one hand on her ass cheek and squeezed, all while maintaining a steady and firm licking of her pussy.
“Oh God,” Gretchen called into a pillow. “Mmm!” She was exploding, and it was all the more magical and powerful as Naomi just wouldn’t let up.
Gretchen was shaking, and Naomi finally pulled back to admire her work. She grinned to herself, still feeling an intense lust as Gretchen’s backside stared back at her. Bringing her hand up, she used the back of it to wipe her mouth, and then wiped that hand on her own thigh. Naomi then smacked Gretchen’s ass a few times coaxing a few more groans out of her beautiful best friend.
“I think I’m getting the hang of this,” Naomi quipped. Gretchen replied with an exhausted laugh.
“Yeah, I’d say so,” she said after a moment. “Holy shit, babe. I’m still tingling from that.”
Gretchen then rolled over on her back and smiled up at Naomi, who was still looking down and admiring her lithe and supple body. The girls’ eyes met and they stared at one another for a tender moment, both wearing joyous smiles on their faces.
“You’re so sexy,” Naomi said. “It’s hard not to go full steam. I just want to rip you apart in bed,” she said, wrapping her arms around herself, overcome with desire. “Mm mmm!”
“The beast is out,” Gretchen joked. “Lots of pent up lust in that body of yours.”
“You don’t know the half of it,” replied Naomi, laughing at herself. “Masturbating to thoughts of you is nowhere near the real thing.”
“You masturbated to me?” Gretchen said with wide-eyed excitement. “For real?”
“Oh yeah,” said Naomi. “A lot. But now I don’t have to.” She smiled sweetly.
“That’s awesome,” mused Gretchen. “Wow. I love it. Great for my ego, you know.” Naomi laughed.
“Yep,” she said. Leaning in, she kissed Gretchen a few times gently before shifting herself downward and pressing their bodies together. They lay there idly, kissing each other slowly and with fondness.
After some lazy moments of touching and kissing, their bodies feeling tacky with sweat as they lay together, Gretchen felt a new wave of energy and she jumped up from bed and ambled into the closet. Naomi flipped around, she now laying on her back, with her head tilted to watch Gretchen. She knew full well what was on Gretchen’s mind when she went into the closet and Naomi waited with excited interest all over her face.
“Here it is,” said Gretchen from the closet. Stepping back into the bedroom, she held a large white massage wand in her hand, with a thick base and a round bulbous head on it. Naomi grew physically excited and she squirmed in anticipation.
“The magic wand,” said Naomi happily. “Gimme gimme!” Gretchen laughed as she climbed onto the bed, holding the wand aloft.
“Keep your pants on,” teased Gretchen.
“I’m not wearing pants,” Naomi shot back, giving Gretchen another laugh.
“Oh,” she said, feigning surprise. “I guess you’re not.”
Gretchen swung a leg over Naomi and mounted her, sitting upright on Naomi’s thighs. Naomi watched with thrill, squi
rming a bit in anticipation. She had her arms crossed over her chest, her own nipples between her fingers, giving them expectant squeezes. Gretchen then turned the magic wand around so that the bulbous head was pointed downward and she lowered it further and began positioning it between them.
Resting the head of the massager on Naomi’s clit, Gretchen adjusted herself so that her pussy pressed against the other side of it.
“Turn it on,” Naomi beckoned. “Come on. Turn it on.”
“You ready?” Gretchen asked slowly, with a teasing grin.
“Yes!”
“Okay,” replied Gretchen simply. Reaching down to the wand’s base, she flipped a switch and the head began vibrating firmly. They both began to shiver with the vibrations.
“Oh my God,” Naomi called out, bending at her middle and sitting up for a beat. She then dropped back and dissolved into the pleasure. Gretchen grinned wide and held the wand steady, she too melting with the reverberations. The heat between them grew as quickly as their wet arousal.
This was the life of freedom they both had desired, and this love between two best friends was more than either could have hoped for. Naomi felt as though she could be wide open with Gretchen, and that meant the world to her. And Gretchen, finding a partner in Naomi, discovered balance in the lifestyle she was trying to achieve. Their love was powerful and bright, and it burst out between them in what felt like a vibrant rainbow of cascading colors. They squirmed and quivered together, as one, happily reveling in their devotion to one another, an escalating bliss, and a fulfilling and sweaty climax.
Together, these women were unstoppable. And they knew it.
Epilogue
A few months later, in December…
It was cold in the desert, but the girls were smiling big as they watched the sunrise over a large sandstone arch, each of them cradling a steaming cup of coffee. It was Nova’s thirtieth birthday and they had made the trek out to Moab, Utah and Arches National Park. When Nova had suggested the trip, Piggy laughed at her and asked if she knew that the desert got winter, too. Nova just shrugged and smiled and said she wanted to do it anyway. So that’s what they did.
They were both bundled up in puffy jackets, wool hats, and wearing climbing pants but neither wore socks underneath their sandals. The high desert of Arches with its deep red sand indeed succumbed to winter, though fortunately it hadn’t snowed on the girls’ trip. Still, overnight, sleeping in their tent, they covered up in thick down sleeping bags and cuddled together to stay warm. After stargazing up into the immensely dark sky populated with more stars than either had seen in their lives, of course.
Nova wanted to try bouldering for her birthday—free-climbing small rock formations without the use of any kind of harness or rope—and that was their plan for the day. The proceeding days were spent hiking through the various trails in the park, and reveling in the sight of all those amazing sandstone arches. There were over two thousand arches in the park, and it never got old seeing another one. They were ecological marvels, always awe-inspiring.
But on the morning of her birthday, Nova cuddled up against Piggy, the two of them seated next to one another on a rock, trying to keep warm, drink their coffee, and enjoy the sunrise. It felt magical. It felt like they were exactly where they were supposed to be.
“I told you the desert would be cold,” Piggy teased, grinning as she leaned over and kissed Nova on the cheek.
“At least we’ll get to try out climbing a few boulders we wouldn’t get to do in the summer, Nova replied. “I read that it gets way to hot in the summer for some of them.”
“Right,” said Piggy. “I’m excited for that. This is my first time bouldering, too.”
“And God, the hiking out here is incredible,” said Nova. “Pictures do not do this place justice. I feel like I’m inexplicably drawn to the beauty out here in the desert. We should just move here.” Piggy laughed.
“Maybe one day,” she said. “Though we do have a lot going for us back in Traverse City.”
“I’m just excited,” Nova said with a big grin. “I love this. I love that we got to come out here for my birthday, and I love you.”
“I love you, too,” said Piggy. They kissed slowly and tenderly, ending their kiss with comfortable and confident smiles.
“Do you think we’ll see any desert snow?” Nova asked.
“I don’t know,” said Piggy. “At first, I felt like… no way do I want it to snow on us. But being out here, seeing what the landscape is like, now I think it would be really pretty if we saw some snow.”
“Right?” agreed Nova. “I think it would be supremely pretty. I’m kind of hoping it snows.”
“We have a few more days out here,” said Piggy. “It could happen.”
“I love being out here and camping,” Nova continued, smiling as she looked out onto the horizon. “It’s like being in a different world. It’s so simple and so freeing.”
“And we found a spot to camp with nobody else around,” added Piggy, looking around them to remind herself of how remote they were.
“You’re all I need,” Nova said, leaning her head down and resting it on Piggy’s shoulder.
“Aw,” said Piggy. She kissed Nova’s wool hat.
“I’m so happy about so much lately,” Nova went on. “This new job has been great, my parents are finally coming around and treating me normal again, I love having my own apartment—I mean, living with you, of course—it just seems like everything is going my way, and I’m so grateful that I get to live all this. For the first time in my life, I feel really, truly, authentically happy. I was hiding from so much of myself, and now that I’m not anymore… everything has gotten better.”
“You are an amazing person, Naomi,” Piggy said. “And I’m so happy that you’re really getting your chance to shine bright.”
Nova smiled as she looked into Piggy’s eyes. Piggy and Nova, Gretchen and Naomi, they were all one in the same. But sometimes it takes getting out of your element, out of your comfort zone, and donning an alternative moniker to find out who you really are. For Naomi, taking that chance on a trip to the wilderness, allowing herself to be someone else—if only for a week—had been the key to realizing that she wasn’t being someone else at all. Away from everything she knew, she finally got a chance to be herself. And once she saw who she truly was, there was no going back.
The girls had discovered a great love of exploring the unknown together, and no longer was Naomi afraid of what the unknown might hold. Heading out on a trail, whether in the woods or in the desert or anything in-between, was always an adventure worth having. There was always something new to see, always something different to survey. And Gretchen, too, was excited for what the trail might reveal. She had found balance with Naomi, and Gretchen knew it would be that balance in her lifestyle that would help her move forward and find her way.
“I really like being able to shine,” mused Naomi tenderly. “I think everybody needs to find their shine. It’s so important to discovering your true happiness. If you’re always hiding, you’ll never get there.”
“You’re not hiding anymore,” said Gretchen, feeling the happiness emanate from Naomi. “And I can see it all over your face how happy you are.”
“I am happy,” Naomi agreed. “So, so happy.”
Naomi smiled, and they looked at one another for a few joyful moments. Then, Naomi leaned in and pressed her lips firmly to Gretchen’s, the two of them kissing once again as the sun continued to climb the horizon. The desert was cold, but there was intense warmth between Gretchen and Naomi. And it was a fire that would surely burn bright, like a celestial blaze in the sky, for as long as there was a sky above.
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