Housemates

Chapter 91

She wasn’t sure she cared.

Mia finished with her undies, and picked up her skirt. “Wait,” Ellie said. “Please?”

Mia looked at her. “What?”

“Just stand there for a moment.”

Mia seemed self-conscious.

“I just want to look,” Ellie said. “I just want to remember you like this. For today.”

Mia grinned, and relaxed. She stood where she was, waiting. She was surprisingly comfortable being stared at, Ellie thought, once she knew why. Ellie looked at her bare legs, her bare arms, her smile on her wanted, needed face.

“I really have to go,” Mia said, after a minute.

“I know,” Ellie said. “So go.”

Mia hesitated.

“Go,” Ellie said. “I’m being silly.”

Mia stepped into the skirt, a little awkward because it was so tight, and then zipped it up. Ellie stroked Mia’s knee as she did, and squeezed the shorts in her other hand. Mia looked at the shorts.

She bent over and kissed Ellie, and said, “I’ll see you later on.”

“You will.”

“No, I mean, I’ll being seeing you later. So don’t get carried away with your stuff and wear yourself out.”

Ellie grinned some more. “I have no idea what you mean.”

“Yeah you do.”

“Maybe I just said that to turn you on.”

“Maybe I caught you doing it, remember?”

“Oh yeah.”

“So don’t get too carried away. Don’t wear yourself out or anything.”

“I won’t,” Ellie said, and kissed her.

Mia stood up, and went over to Ellie’s mirror and looked at herself. She poked her hair, and seemed to decide it was fine. She picked up her bag, and then her shoes, and looked around as if making sure she had everything. She went over to the window, and slid it open, and then looked back at Ellie.

Ellie didn’t want to just lie there. She slid out of bed, and went over to Mia naked, and kissed her again. Kissed her desperately and properly. Then she took Mia’s shoes and bag out of Mia’s hands, and said, “I’ll pass them out.”

She was just being practical.

Mia nodded, and pushed the window open. She sat on the sill, slightly awkward in her skirt, and swung her legs outside. She climbed out, down onto the ground, and then turned around and looked back at Ellie. Ellie passed everything out, and Mia put the bag on her shoulder, but kept hold of her shoes. To make less noise walking, Ellie supposed.

Mia was looking at Ellie. “Bye,” Mia said, very softly. Being very quiet because of noise outside the house, Ellie supposed.

“Bye,” Ellie whispered back.

Mia started to push the window closed.

“Hey,” Ellie said. “Tonight, we should go somewhere we can be on our own.”

Mia nodded. “Okay.”

“There’s things I want to do to you.”

Mia looked at her.

“You know what I mean,” Ellie said. “Don’t you?”

“I know. But only when you’re ready.”

“I’m ready.”

Mia hesitated, as if trying to decide what to say.

“Tonight,” Ellie said. “I’m going to.”

“Shit,” Mia whispered. “I want to make a big deal, but here, right now…”

“Make a big deal tonight.”

Mia glanced around, then climbed back up onto the wheelie bin and leaned in the window. She was smiling. She kissed Ellie. She opened her mouth, and pressed her tongue against Ellie’s, then whispered, “I can’t wait to. I can’t wait to do you too.”

“Good,” Ellie said.

Mia smiled. She kissed Ellie again, and seemed about to climb back down.

“So is it better,” Ellie said. “If I do or I don’t?”

“Do what?” Mia said, suddenly looking a bit wary. As if she thought Ellie was changing her mind.

“Stuff,” Ellie said. “With the shorts.”

“Do stuff to yourself?”

Ellie nodded.

“On your own?” Mia said.

“Yep.”

Mia seemed to be thinking. “I don’t know. Either? Both?”

“So should I?”

Mia hesitated. She really didn’t seem sure.

“Then I won’t,” Ellie said, because of that hesitation. “I’ll wait for you. And for tonight.”

“Tonight,” Mia said.

“Yep.”

“I can’t wait. I really can’t.”

“We need to be alone.”

“We’ll work it out.”

“Go,” Ellie said, and kissed her a last time. “Please. Before I…”

Mia smiled. “Bye,” she said, and climbed back down from the wheelie bin, and pushed the window closed. Ellie waved, and Mia disappeared. Walking quietly, Ellie thought, still in bare feet, creeping down the drive.

Ellie lay back down on her bed. She had been going to masturbate and breath in Mia’s smell from her hand, or put the shorts back on, or something sexy and weird that made her feel connected to Mia.

She almost did anyway, but she’d told Mia she wouldn’t.

She made herself not.

She lay there for a while, thinking, listening for Mia’s car to start but hearing nothing. Then she went to sleep again instead.