Girl Games: A Sweet Lesbian Romance

by Mia Archer

  She looked up at me and frowned. “You don’t know the half of it. My mom has always been obsessed with pairing me off with someone. I guess it doesn’t matter if it was a girl or a boy. Next thing you know she’s probably going to start hinting at sperm donors or adoption agencies so she can finally have a grandkid!”

  I snorted. I couldn’t help it. The whole thing seemed so ridiculous. I could understand parents being obsessed with becoming grandparents, but that felt like putting the cart before the horse.

  “You know now that it’s legal for us to marry she’ll probably just bother you about that,” I said.

  Kylie rolled her eyes again. “Thank you Supreme Court. Is it bad that I’m feeling nostalgic for the days before that was a thing just because my mom wouldn’t have an excuse to meddle?”

  I leaned down and kissed her. She was starting to freak out, and that wasn’t good. Sure it was a little funny that the thing she decided to freak out about was her mom pressuring her about her relationship and not the asshole who’d tried to punch her out by the pool just an hour ago, but I figured she needed to calm down and a kiss seemed like just the thing.

  It certainly distracted me. It was a little awkward kissing her at this angle, but I didn’t care. I’d gladly take a sore neck if it meant I had an opportunity to suck face with Kylie for a little while!

  I pulled away from the kiss after a moment and winked at her. “So you know we’ve been given an open invitation. What would you say to finishing up that swim?”

  Kylie’s eyes darted towards the hall her mom had disappeared down. I heard a TV start up and the sound of some nighttime drama drifted faintly through the living room.

  “Damn. She must really have that thing turned up if I can hear it this clearly out here,” Kylie said.

  “So why not make the best of an opportunity?” I asked with an arched eyebrow.

  Kylie smiled. “It’s a little weird, but I guess I could go for it.”

  I grabbed her hand and practically dragged her back out towards the pool. Things had been going pretty darn well before Dave so rudely interrupted us, and I wanted to pick up where we left off!

  21: Next Game Night

  Kylie:

  I wasn’t quite sure what to expect at the next game night. I half expected Dave to come walking through the door to the pool house at any moment. Sure that wasn’t very likely considering the restraining order that was in place. One my dad had served personally to make sure Dave got the picture.

  Dad’s description of the look on Dave’s face coupled with the way his mom had reacted to his baby spending a night in jail and getting hit with a protective order was pretty good. I almost wished he was wearing a bodycam or something so I could see it for myself.

  “All set over here,” Lisa said.

  I glanced over at the preparations on the other side of the room. We’d gone ahead and put our money together to splurge for pizza from the nicer place in town. I felt like it was worth it to celebrate the first game night where Dave was legally not allowed to be in the same room as the two of us.

  “Looking good so far,” I said.

  “Not as good as you,” she replied.

  I rolled my eyes. “You know cheesy pickup lines like that will get you everywhere.”

  Lisa slinked across the room and wrapped her arms around me. Damn how I loved feeling her in my arms. Feeling her body pressing against me. Toned yet soft at the same time and in all the right places. Feeling her arms around me felt right in a way that feeling a guy pressing against me never had.

  It was as though everything clicked into place and I realized what I’d been missing out on for years when I held her in my arms.

  “Are you sure you still want to do game night?” Lisa asked.

  I sighed. “I don’t know. I mean I know he’s a jerk and he deserved everything he got, but Dave has been around this table for so long that I still feel just a little guilty about kicking him out.”

  Lisa fixed me with a look that I could only describe as “are you fucking kidding me?”

  “I’m not saying I actually want him around. Far from it. There’s just a lot of lingering guilt,” I said.

  “Well you shouldn’t feel guilty about it at all,” Lisa said. “And besides, I wasn’t talking about him. I don’t ever want to talk about him again.”

  “Then what were you talking about?”

  Her look went from “are you fucking kidding me?” to “are you interested in fucking?” in no time flat. She traced a finger down my arm and I shivered. She had that effect on me.

  “I was thinking more that if we didn’t have game night then we could go for a swim instead. After all, your dad is still at work and your mom is off at bingo night.”

  “Oh. Well that does sound very tempting, but Arnold and Travis are already on their way over with the new guy. Wouldn’t do to disappoint them,” I said.

  Lisa stuck her lip out in a pout, but it only lasted for a moment. She moved in and kissed me, just a quick peck on the cheek, and then she was off to the other side of the room again making sure everything was set up just right.

  I stood by the game table and surveyed the room. It looked pretty damn good if I said so myself. I’d put out a little tablecloth on the game table so the pizza and soda wouldn’t stain the plastic underneath. The chairs were comfortable and padded and nothing like the hard metal and wood monstrosities from Dave’s basement. The food was probably the best we’d had at game night in a good long while.

  Yeah, I was one hell of a hostess on top of being an awesome dungeon mistress. This was going to be a fun night.

  If anyone ever showed up. I glanced down at my watch. Ten minutes after things were supposed to start. Sure I’d built in a little wiggle room because I figured Arnold would be fashionably late as always, but nobody showing up was a little weird.

  Lisa caught me staring at my watch. “Are you worried they’re not going to show or something?” she asked.

  “Why wouldn’t they show?”

  “I don’t know? Maybe they’re upset that Dave isn’t going to be part of the game or something. He was a creeper and an asshole, but if you’re feeling guilty about kicking him out of the game with the damn good reason you have then I can only imagine how they must feel,” she said.

  Lisa had a good point. One I hadn’t thought of over the past week. I’d been too busy with a whirlwind of activity from making sure that protective order was in place to spending every other free moment I had with Lisa making out an carrying on like we were a couple of teenagers.

  I mean we’d been a couple of teenagers just a couple of years ago so it’s not like it was much of a stretch, but still.

  “They’ll be here,” I said.

  We had to wait another five minutes. Five minutes that stretched off into an eternity as I wondered if Lisa was right. If the other guys really were pissed off at me even though everything that happened was Dave’s fault. It was a ridiculous thought, but sometimes the mind wanders to ridiculous places.

  Finally Travis bustled through the door and I let out a sigh of relief.

  “Glad you decided to join us,” I said.

  “Hey, I can’t help it that slowpoke here got lost a couple of times trying to find the new guy’s place,” Travis said. He gestured to Arnold who stepped through the door looking more sheepish than usual. Then again he was later than usual this time around so I figured that was more than deserved.

  The new guy came in behind him. Travis said his name was Jeff and that he was pretty cool. Although any coolness he might have possessed went right out the window when he stepped through the entrance and saw Lisa standing over by the pizza table.

  “Holy shit. That really is Lisa Soren! I thought you guys were full of shit when you said she was at this game,” Jeff said.

  Travis shook his head. “And this eloquent gentlemen here is Jeff. He’s a senior out at the high school. That would’ve made him a freshmen when all of us were out there getting ready to graduat
e.”

  I suppose I should’ve been jealous or something that he was ogling Lisa, but it seemed like your garden variety ogling. Nothing like what Dave used to do to me or to Lisa later when she joined the game. He quickly got over the staring and looked away when Travis introduced him.

  “Sorry about that,” he muttered. “I just didn’t believe one of the hottest girls to ever grace our school would actually be at a game like this,” he said.

  “Well believe it,” I said, making my way across the room to wrap my arms around Lisa. “But she’s spoken for.”

  Jeff’s eyes bugged out again. “Kylie? And Lisa? Two of the hottest…”

  He seemed to realize the path he was going down before it was too late and had the good sense to shut up. I guess my reputation was still good for something even with people who’d only gone to school with me for one year. I turned and gave Lisa a quick kiss for good measure. There wasn’t anything possessive or jealous about it. I just wanted to make damn sure he knew she was spoken for!

  “So are we going to play or what?” I asked.

  “Well yeah, but we need food first,” Arnold said.

  “Holy shit. You sprang for the good stuff tonight?” Travis said as he surveyed the pizza laid out for our enjoyment.

  “Yeah, we figured tonight was a night to celebrate just a little,” Lisa said. “The first game night in ages where we don’t have to worry about Dave coming around and ruining everything.”

  “I’ll drink to that,” Travis said, raising everyone’s favorite green gamer fueling soda to the sky. I grabbed a can and raised it as well and everyone else followed.

  “To no more Dave,” I said with a grin.

  We all chugged down our first sodas of the night in honor of that sentiment. I spluttered and coughed just a little. That stuff burned almost as much as a shot of whiskey when you chugged it. Carbonation and chugging did not go well together.

  “Y’know Dave getting the boot is a big part of the reason I finally decided to join all of you,” Jeff said between stuffing his face with pizza. “I know a few people who wanted to get in on the old game, but they didn’t want to have anything to do with it if he was running the show.”

  “Well there’s a new DM in town,” I said. “And anyone is welcome to come out here. If we run out of space at the card table then we’ll just get a bigger table.”

  “Sounds like a plan!” Arnold said.

  We all sat down around the card table and I paused for a moment to enjoy the moment. My friends at the table. I was running the game. My girlfriend right next to me ready to dive into a new adventure in the shared world that had been passed down over the years from people at our school. And finally evidence that world wasn’t going to die off when all of us got too old and too busy for this sort of gaming because there was finally fresh blood joining the game now that Dave wasn’t in the way any longer.

  It was a good feeling.

  I realized everyone was staring at me. Looking at me expectantly. Oh, right. We had a game to play. I’d been so preoccupied with looking out at the table and thinking about how wonderful everything finally was that I’d forgotten that important little detail.

  I looked down and shuffled my notes. I figured we needed to start somewhere new to have a break from the tavern disaster last week that resulted in Dave leaving our gaming table permanently.

  “Right, we have a game to play,” I said. I paused for one more smile at everyone at the table. Particularly for Lisa who looked so beautiful in a Star Wars T-shirt I’d bought her earlier this week after we watched the movies. She’d never seen Star Wars before. What kind of person has never seen Star Wars before? She absolutely loved it when she did see it, though. Original trilogy. Not that prequel bullshit.

  I was going to make a geek out of the cheerleader yet.

  “Okay, so you’re all standing at the entrance to a massive overgrown forest. Ahead of you are thick trees where it grows dark enough to be almost like twilight after about ten feet. You think you can hear the sound of laughter between the trees and if you look just right you almost see glowing eyes out of the corner of your own eyes. Behind you are the massive ruins of a castle and you can hear a deep steady rumbling as though there is something very large breathing very regularly in there. What do you do?”

  Travis held his dice up and rolled them. “Obviously I pull my sword out and go to attack the giant monster or whatever it is hiding in that castle!”

  Arnold joined in. “And I’m going to charge straight into the forest and show whatever’s having a laugh in there that there’s nothing funny about my arrows and sneak attacks!”

  Both of them stared at one another for a beat and burst into laughter. I rolled my eyes.

  “Very funny guys. Now that you’ve gotten the Dave moment out of your system can we please play the game?”

  And that’s exactly what we did. No interruptions. No blowups. At some point Lisa reached out under the table and took my hand. Gave it a good squeeze. It was just a bunch of good friends and my new girlfriend gathered around the table having a good time.

  Yeah, for the moment life was pretty damn good.

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  1: Anticipation

  Anna:

  “I’m coming for you.”

  I blinked at the message. Okay, so that was a little melodramatic. It also wasn’t a very good idea to telegraph attacks like that, but I figured that’s why I was ranked so high in the game while Colin was still
more or less riding on my coattails. Not that I minded. He was fun to have around.

  “What are you talking about?” I asked.

  “You know what. Watch your back,” he said.

  I rolled my eyes and went back to looking at dresses in the ARealms online store. Most people came here to look at new accessories for the game. A custom set of glasses that popped up a pretty heads up display so you weren’t forced to look at your phone’s screen all the time while you were concentrating on the game. Extra add ons for your phone that were supposed to improve your game.

  I didn’t care about any of that stuff. I’d risen to the top of the biggest alternate reality game in the world, at least in our region, with nothing but my phone and a pair of wired glasses. No, I was far more interested in the pretty costumes they offered for live events. Pretty costumes that were a hell of a lot more expensive than anything I could ever afford.

  Finally I flipped over to an advertisement for the Alternate Realms Gathering. It was being billed as the biggest Alternate Realms gathering in the history of history, and it was within a short driving distance from where I was. Just five hours away by car. I sighed as I thought of getting away from the drudgery of cubicle life and coding and getting out there in the wilderness.

  Out there where hopefully there would be other players at my level. Players who could actually present a challenge. Players that wouldn’t crumple the instant I unleashed one of my patented spells that kept most people in the office from even bothering to challenge me these days.