Kendal"All right, so tell me who this woman is again?" I clasped Dana's hand between mine and held it in my lap as she and I rode in the back of a New York cab with Jackie."She's my best friend from high school. Well, really from elementary. We've known each other all our lives." Dana snuggled against my shoulder and let out a soft sigh.Jackie leaned forward and looked back at us. "Did Olivia grow up in Texas or were you raised somewhere else?"How close were Dana and Jackie? Not very close from what I could tell. I'd always assumed that girls knew every intimate detail about their friends. Maybe not. Or maybe Dana was a private type?"We all grew up in Houston, but my family moved up to Dallas when I started at UT five years ago.""Five years?" I smiled as Dana turned to give me a look. "You just like college, or what?""I have a double major." She released my hand and moved more into her own seat. "Business and nursing, though to be honest, I'm not sure that's where my heart is l
DanaThe building Olivia lived in was far more grandiose than anything I would have imagined my childhood best friend wanting. We were simply country people, or used to be. Olivia having her reputation ruined our senior year by the boy she thought she would spend the rest of her life with had changed her - dramatically. Not so much that I didn't still enjoy being around her, but enough that the trajectory of her life took a completely different path altogether.After checking in at the front desk like one might a hotel, we walked to the elevator and pressed the button for the twelfth floor."Wow. This is beautiful." Kendal stood at the back of the glass-wall elevator and glanced down. "Would you ever want to live in a big city like this?""No. Dallas is as big as it gets, and honestly, I'd love to move back to one of the suburbs of Houston eventually. I'm from the country.""No... I couldn't tell." He moved up and wrapped me in a warm hug. I loved how often he reached for me now that
Dana"Clean it up." I slid my fingers into his hair and closed my eyes at the sound of his dark chuckle. He was so proper outside of the bedroom, convincing everyone around him that he had rules that he intended to keep, but that wasn't the real him. This was.He tugged my panties to the side and ran his tongue over my sensitive skin before pulling at my clit playfully with his lips.A groan ripped from me as my legs began to tremble."On the bed, sweet girl." He moved back before standing up and pulling his t-shirt over his shoulders. "You're tired. Let me take good care of you."I nodded and walked to the bed as I pulled my dress over my head. The white cotton panties and bra I had on were all I had left in my drawer that morning, but at least they matched."On your back." He worked his jeans over his taut hips and moved toward me with nothing but his black briefs clinging to his perfect body. Lean muscle covered every inch of him, and a small spray of black hair covered his chest a
Kendal"You know we're going to have to get up soon, right?" I leaned down and kissed the top of Dana's shoulder as she lay in the bed on her side, her back pressed against me. I'd come three times during our afternoon love making session. I should have been exhausted, but I was alive again, completely on fire for the woman beside me. She'd offered herself up for my pleasure in a beautiful way that felt natural and right."No..." She glanced over her shoulder and up at me. "Are you really falling in love with me?""Yes." I wrapped my hand around her throat lightly and leaned down to make love to her sweet mouth again. "But don't feel like you have to return anything, okay? Just ease into this with me.""I'm already there." She pulled from me and turned on her other side to face me before cuddling back up. "I just didn't want to admit it to myself.""Why is that?" I brushed her hair back and ran my hand down over her arm slowly. "Does love scare you?""No. I just can't imagine waiting
KendalDana's friend Olivia was beautiful and seemed like a sweet girl from what I could tell. She'd gotten home about an hour after Dana and I finally pulled ourselves from the sweaty sheets and made ourselves presentable. I'd rather have stayed in the bed for the rest of the evening, but Dana seemed pumped over getting to hang out with her best friend again."Olivia. This is Dr. Kendal Tarrington. He's a professor at UT in Dallas." Dana moved back with a huge smile on her face as Olivia extended her hand toward me. If I didn't know better, I'd say Dana was rather proud of my accomplishments, which just seemed to make me love her all the more."Just Kendal, please." I shook the busty blonde’s hand and gave her a warm smile. "Dana says you guys grew up together.""We sure did." Olivia shook my hand firmly and moved back. "We ran the town and the school back in the day, didn't we?"Dana chuckled. "Something like that."A knock at the door interrupted the conversation."That's Luke. You
DanaLuke hadn't shut up about his firm from the time we got into his overly pimped out sports car until they served dessert at the high-end restaurant. I couldn't tell if Olivia was as over him as I knew Kendal and I both were, but either way, I felt like shit for my best friend."I'm going to run to the ladies’ room." I stood up and glanced down toward Olivia, trying to give her a look that would urge her to join me."Yeah. Me too." She stood up and put her napkin on her plate."You girls are weird." Luke shook his head and turned back to Kendal, bringing up another point about his firm."Does that guy ever stop talking about himself?" I mumbled as we walked toward the back. I hated to dump on Olivia's man, but there was no way in the deepest parts of hell that she was happy with him. If she was, then she wasn't at all the girl I'd grown up with."He's pretty proud of his accomplishments." She pushed the door to the bathroom open. "He keeps trying to get me to come work for him, but
DanaWe suffered through dessert and finally headed back to Olivia's place. By the silence in the front seat, it was more than obvious that Luke was pissy over Olivia denying him.I couldn't handle the silence anymore. It was driving me mad."Olivia. You remember during our junior year when your mom and dad let us throw that party out on your father's back forty?" I snorted as memories raced through my mind, leaving me to feel young again - adventurous."How could I forget?" She glanced over her shoulder and smiled. "It iced over that winter and we skated on the old pond for hours, busting our asses until we were covered in bruises.""You guys are talking about 2008, aren't you? I remember being in college and me and Damon enjoying that freeze. It was nuts for Texas. All the schools closed and businesses took the day off.""And this is an unusual phenomenon?" Luke's tone was less than friendly."Absolutely." Olivia turned to face him. "It usually gets cold back home, but nothing like
KendalI shouldn't have brought work with me to New York, but something told me that Dana would be a late sleeper. It had to be her laid back persona. Seeing that I usually woke up at five on the dot unless the world was falling apart around me, I knew I'd have a few hours to myself to get some grading done.After kissing her back and shoulders a few times in the darkness of the early morning, I slipped on my jeans and t-shirt and snuck out into the living room with my briefcase.The coffee pot in the kitchen was set to go off in two hours, but I quickly adjusted it and made myself comfortable at the kitchen table. I plowed through a handful of grading assignments before I heard someone moving around behind me.I glanced up and peeked over my shoulder to see Olivia standing in front of the coffee pot."I started it about an hour ago." I stood up and stretched as I turned to face her."Oh good. I usually let myself sleep in on Saturdays and use Sundays to catch up on all the work I did