Ava chuckled.

  “Ava, I love you,” Hollis finally said.

  Ava smiled in awe and surprise. She leaned in toward Hollis and kissed her. Hollis pushed her back onto the blanket while Ava laughed. “I want to be with you too, you know. Does this mean we are, like, ‘o cial’ now?”

  “It sure does.” Hollis pulled Ava’s top over her head and unclipped her bra. “Seeing as there is nobody for miles around and it is a beautiful day, I thought we could celebrate our new relationship in a naked way.”

  Ava giggled.

  “Your breasts are the most incredible things I have ever seen,” Hollis said, burying her face in them.

  “It’s genetic,” Ava said, laughing. “I was blessed.”

  Hollis leaned over her and undid the denim skirt Ava was wearing. She pulled it down over her hips. Then Hollis reached her thumbs under the waistband of Ava’s panties and rolled them o , too. Hollis knelt up and smiled, happy with the beautiful sight in front of her. She stripped o her

  own clothes and positioned herself on top of Ava, her body hard and heavy, her right thigh pushing itself between Ava’s legs.

  Ava moaned with excitement. The sun was warm on her naked body and she loved being out there in the forest with Hollis. Hollis’s right hand moved between Ava’s legs, pushing insistently at her wetness. She whispered in Ava’s ear, “I want you so much. You are so wet for me.”

  Hollis knew Ava was ready, so she pushed her fingers straight into her. Ava’s back arched while her body responded and opened to Hollis.

  Ava moaned loudly. “Fuck me, please. Hard! I want it so badly!” she begged.

  Hollis went to work with her strong right arm, fucking Ava hard. Knowing it was what she wanted.

  Ava moaned as she took all that Hollis gave. “Oh god, I love it!” she cried. “It feels so amazing. Please, don’t stop!”

  Hollis positioned herself on her knees between Ava’s legs, so she could get a better angle, with which to fuck her. She looked deep into Ava's dark eyes and watched her pupils dilate as she entered her again. She built up the speed gradually as she fucked Ava, watching Ava’s breasts bounce as she did it. Hollis put her left hand on Ava’s pubic mound and used her thumb roughly on Ava’s clit while she moved inside her.

  Hollis felt Ava tense and moan beneath her, then climax hard on her fingers. Ava’s head was back and her eyes were closed. She looked so beautiful in the sunshine.

  Ava gradually revived and opened her eyes.

  “Hollis. I love you too,” she murmured, while the prairie flowers waved in the breeze.

  AVA WAS SITTING at the kitchen table in Hollis’s house a couple of days later, drinking tea while Hollis was making lunch.

  “So, Ava! You finally told your girl then! You and my mom are totally together?!” Vivienne bowled into the kitchen and cried. Ava was caught o guard by the girl, who ran up to the table, pulled out a chair, and sat down. Hollis had never seen Vivienne this happy before.

  “Vivi! How did you know?!”

  “I see a lot more than you think!”

  Ava and Hollis looked at each other and then at Vivienne and both blushed.

  “Well, yeah, it is true, I told my girl. Finally! But hey, did you keep your end of the promise, little one?” Ava asked Vivienne, who blushed.

  “Yeah, I finally gathered the courage to tell him,”

  Vivienne replied, a happy smile on her face.

  “Oh, my God! Well, tell me all about it then! What happened?” Ava squealed in excitement, putting her co ee mug down and turning fully to Vivienne.

  “Eric said that he likes me back and that he had wanted to say it too, but was scared. He called me ‘ serious face,’

  though. And that’s not true! I laugh with him all the time,”

  Vivienne said, frowning, as Ava tried to hold back her laughter and Hollis looked at the two in sheer amusement.

  “He did ask me out, though,” Vivienne continued. Then she blushed and played with the hem of her pajama shirt.

  “Maybe the poor guy thinks you are laughing at him, and not with him,” Ava said, breaking into laughter as Hollis chuckled, shaking her head.

  “HEY, you guys! Why am I not a part of the gossiping club?”

  Hollis tried to sound sad, but she couldn’t help but smile.

  “Oh, this is inside conversation between Vivi and I. You don’t get to know,” Ava said, waving Hollis o .

  Hollis gaped at Ava. “Oh, come on! Tell me!” she tried again, her tone impatient.

  “Okay, okay. Just so you don’t feel left out. Vivienne and I had a little bet. I did my part: I told you I love you. Then she told Eric and now they are boyfriend and girlfriend. ” Ava laughed as Vivienne squealed once again.

  “Oh, that’s amazing, honey! I am so happy for you,”

  Hollis said, pulling Vivienne into her lap and playing with her daughter’s hair. “But I don’t agree with the ‘serious face’ part,” she added, after a while.

  “Oh, please. I thought the same about you for a long time,” Ava quipped.

  “Okay Mom. I’m going upstairs. I am happy you two are together now, by the way. And, Mom, I can’t think of a better girlfriend for you than Ava.”

  Vivienne got up and headed to her room.

  “Remember you have another session with Dr. Blackwell at 2pm,” Hollis shouted after Vivienne.

  “Yeah. I’ll be ready!” Vivienne shouted as she ran up the stairs.

  “Its helping her so much seeing Dr. Blackwell. I can’t believe how far she has come since that day I responded to the 911 and found her on the floor here.” Ava said.

  “Yes, Dr Blackwell has helped her. But, so have you, you know. You have been the best medicine she could have had.

  She adores you.” Hollis smiled at Ava and took her hand.

  “Funnily enough, I can’t think of a better girlfriend for me than you, either,” Hollis said. She pulled Ava in toward her, carried away by the scent of her. Hollis kissed her deeply.

  EPILOGUE

  ONE YEAR LATER

  Ava and Hollis held Vivienne’s hands as they walked up the hill in the cemetery. It was a chilly autumn day, the leaves lay on the grass around the headstones as they walked in the lazy autumnal sunshine.

  They came to a halt in front of a gra ti covered headstone.

  “Murderer,” it said in red paint on the headstone.

  Vivienne sighed and smiled weakly. “I’ll help you now, Andy,” she said. She placed down her bag of cleaning supplies pulled on some rubber gloves and got out the paint stripper.

  She started to scrub o the red paint, revealing his name underneath.

  ANDREW WALLIS

  2005-2018

  That was literally all it said on his headstone and Vivienne felt sad for him. No ‘Beloved son’ or ‘greatly missed’ or anything like that. Because of what he had done, Andy had just been left here with just his name.

  Ava looked at Vivienne. “How are you feeling, Vivi baby?”

  “I feel sad for him. I just wish there was something we could have done to help him before this all happened.”

  “You talk about him and what happened in your therapy sessions with Dr. Blackwell?” Ava stood back with Hollis.

  “Yes. Often. I couldn’t get my head round why he would do something like this. Why anyone would.”

  “What does Dr. Blackwell say?” Hollis asked.

  “That sometimes, we just don’t know why and we never will know. But that it is ok to feel empathy for someone, regardless of their actions.”

  “And you do feel empathy?”

  “Yes. So much. I acted di erently than Andy when I felt desperate. But, most likely, the pain inside was the same. I forgive him for what he did. We are all fine now, yet he is gone forever. He paid the ultimate price.”

  Ava smiled as she tidied around Andy’s grave and carefully placed the flowers that Vivienne had picked for him. Hollis stood back and watched her daughter and her partner.

  The paint came o well and the headstone looked good as new and Vivienne rocked back on her knees and appreciated her work. She pulled a letter out from her bag.

  “I wrote him a letter.” She looked at Ava and Hollis. “Do you mind if I read it to him?”

  They both nodded and left space for Vivienne to speak.

  DEAR ANDY,

  I wanted you to know that I forgive you for what happened. I can only imagine how desperate and scared you felt on that day and I am endlessly sorry that we, as your classmates, had not recognised your pain earlier and that we had not managed to help you.

  From everything that happened, I have thought a lot about the kind of person I want to be when I grow up.

  I know I want to be kind and compassionate and I want to help people who are in trouble mentally. I want to help people who are in their darkest times. Whether that is as a psychologist or a mental health nurse or a rehab counsellor or something else, I’m not quite sure yet, but I know I want to be able to help.

  I wish this hadn’t ended like this for you. I wish you had survived it and I would have tried to help you.

  I will come and visit you here, Andy. Every time it will remind me of how important it is to look out for others who might be struggling and to always have time to help them.

  Love from Vivi.

  Ava squeezed Hollis’s hand and tears beaded in both of their eyes. Vivienne glanced at them as she folded the letter and placed it under a stone.

  “I’m so proud of you, baby. You are growing up into such an incredible and compassionate young woman.” Hollis smiled at her daughter.

  THEY DROPPED Vivi o to meet Eric at the farmhouse where the party had been the year before.

  “Have fun, Vivi. I’ll play water polo in the pool at home with you tomorrow if you can handle the cold?! I’ll even make your mom play!”

  “Ha. If YOU can handle the cold, Ava!”

  “Ha. You wish. I’ll come and collect you later.”

  Eric and Vivienne smiled at them.

  Eric had proven himself to be the most loving, caring, sweet and respectful boyfriend that Vivienne could have chosen.

  Lucky for him, Ava often thought. She couldn’t imagine Hollis’s wrath if a boy ever hurt Vivienne.

  Watching them together was always so sweet. There was a real innocence to their teenage love.

  AVA SMILED TO HERSELF, then looked across at her girlfriend who was driving and smiled again. She’s taking me home, Ava thought. To our home. Hollis’s home is our home now. She looked at the ring on her left hand. A beautiful blue sapphire with a diamond either side of it. Soon we will be married, like a real family.

  Hollis’s arm was strong on the wheel, its definition showing well in the T shirt she wore. Her eyes were focussed on the road behind her sunglasses and her short blonde hair was slicked back. Ava reached her hand across and put it on Hollis’s denim clad muscular thigh. Hollis looked across at her and smiled.

  “I love you, Hollis. Like, really love you. This last year has made me so happy. I can’t wait to be your wife.” She squeezed Hollis’s thigh.

  “Oh, you and me both, babe.” Hollis smiled at her girlfriend. “I honestly never thought I would get serious with anyone again after Karen, but here we are.”

  “It’s so good that Karen is so supportive of us. I used to wonder, you know, when we first got together if she secretly wanted to be back together with you.”

  “Well, you’ve seen her. You know now. We were done so long ago. We couldn’t live with each other. I love Karen as a friend and co-parent and we both know that is all it will ever be.”“I also like how we actually don’t clash anymore, like when we first met and there was that case we disagreed on!”

  Hollis laughed heartily. “ You INFURIATED me. Honestly, I thought, ‘Who does this jumped up, bolshy paramedic think that she is. And why can’t I stop looking at her ass in those tight pants?’”

  Ava laughed too.

  “I knew you were looking, you used to look at my boobs too,” she giggled.

  “Oh, you knew, did you?” Hollis pulled the car over and cut the engine. They were on a relatively quiet road outside of the city. There were no houses or people around.

  Hollis grabbed a giggling Ava and unclipped her seatbelt dragging Ava onto her lap.

  “Did you wear extra tight clothes on purpose whenever you were around me?” Hollis tickled Ava, her hands running all over her and Ava couldn’t stop laughing. “Well, did you?”

  “Maybe.” Ava smirked and looked at her seductively.

  “Let’s release these incredible breasts then and have a look at them. Seeing as your shirts are always bursting open.” Ava was wearing a simple white T shirt and her favourite short denim skirt. Hollis pulled her T shirt up as Ava kept laughing and wriggling.

  “Stop it! You know I am ticklish.”

  Ava’s red lace bra was exposed and Hollis made quick work of unclipping it behind her back.

  Hollis reclined both their seats giving them as much room as there was. Hollis pushed up the bra and the T shirt looking at the smooth caramel skin of Ava’s stomach and her large gravity defying breasts.

  Hollis’s pushed Ava back in the reclined passenger chair and leant across over her and ran her hands over her body.

  “You are a goddess, babe. Your body is like nothing I have ever seen before. I’ve not been able to stop looking at you since the first day I saw you.”

  Hollis took Ava’s full plump nipple in her mouth and sucked. Ava groaned. Her nipples were always so sensitive.

  Hollis’s hand ran down her body. They both heard the sound of a car as it went past. Neither of them cared.

  Ava wriggled her ass and pulled her denim skirt up round her waist.

  “So, now you’ve got me all hot and bothered with your mouth on my nipple, I was wondering if your left hand could just get in my panties already?”

  Hollis laughed. “You are so impatient! You know that, right?!”

  “I just want to feel you inside me so badly. Your fingers in me and your mouth on my nipple would just be THE most delicious combination right now!” Ava took Hollis’s left hand and pushed it to her soaked panties. “Just pull these aside, and get inside me already.”

  “Ok, Ms Ava, as always, pleasing you is my life’s work.”

  Hollis looked briefly at Ava’s puckered and swollen nipple.

  Her nipples were the most erotic thing. Hollis had a big thing for how they felt in her mouth. She leant her head back down, taking Ava’s nipple back in her mouth and using her fingers to push the wet crotch of her panties aside. Ava moaned loudly.

  Hollis slid her fingers smoothly up and down Ava’s wetness and then pushed inside her. Ava groaned, “God, you feel so good.” She smiled widely, looking down and Hollis’s short blonde hair as her head moved on her breast.

  Hollis’s fingers started to move faster and more insistently inside her. Ava reached with her right hand to touch her own clitoris in firm motions. Her orgasm started to build as she knew it would as she felt Hollis’s fingers so deep inside of her. She felt the heat building deep within her pelvis and then it exploded and flooded throughout her body.

  She smiled.

  “Mmmmmmmm. That was exactly what I needed, Dr Roman.”

  Hollis raised her head and smiled lazily. “Oh, was it now?” She pulled her left hand from between Ava’s legs and licked her own fingers, tasting the sex that was heavy on them. “You taste amazing,” she said.

  “You are so filthy, “ Ava quipped, smiling.

  “You love it.” Hollis said as she sat back into the driver’s seat. “So, I’m hugely turned on now, babe. I know you are a big believer in equality. Come over here with your fingers, I won’t take long.”

  “No.”

  “Pardon?!”

  “I have a better plan.” Ava smiled devilishly.

  “And, what is that?!”

  “You take me home, I’ll fuck you when we get home. I want to wear the strap on and I want to do ALL the things.”

  Hollis smiled to herself. “Oh, you do? You are at your sassy best today, aren’t you?”

  “And then, I want you to buy me pizza, order it in, and we can eat it in bed.”

  Hollis laughed out loud.

  “God, you are demanding.” she laughed as Ava rearranged her clothes.

  “But, you wouldn’t have me any other way.”

  “Come on, future wife, put your bra back on, let’s go home.” Hollis started the car and begun the drive home. She was uncomfortably wet between her legs. She couldn’t wait to get home with Ava. Her world and Vivi’s world had been transformed since Ava had been in their lives.

  Hollis reached her right hand across to hold Ava’s hand.

  “I can’t wait to marry you, I want to spend the rest of my life loving you,” she said.

  Ava smiled back and squeezed her hand. “Take me home, lover.”

  THE END

  CHRISTMAS EVE

  A LESBIAN CHRISTMAS ROMANCE

  1

  Eve made the final cut through the dense, white plaster cast. She then split it down the middle to expertly remove the cast from the patient’s arm. The patient looked gratefully up at Eve as a smile spread across her face.

  “Oh, wow, thanks so much, Nurse Foster. I was hoping to get this darn thing o before Christmas so that I could go sledding with my kids.” The rosy-faced, middle-aged woman glowed with joy.

  Eve smiled graciously. “I am so glad that worked out for you, Helen. But I need to warn you, please be careful with your arm; it’s still quite tender, and the muscle needs to become stronger before you can do anything strenuous.” Eve then applied some pressure with her gloved fingers, feeling the forearm from elbow to wrist. “Make sure that you do your daily exercises, like the ones I showed you. That will assist in the healing process. And considering that Christmas is only two weeks away, I’d consider watching from the snowbank instead of actually sledding yourself.”