It was a sunny afternoon in Bloomington when Kathryn stepped outside the school complex. The chirping of the cicadas and the birds filled the hot air around her. A slight breeze played with her red hair which had already grown beyond her shoulder blades.
She shaded her hands with her eyes as the menacing sun hurt her eyes. She saw Vanessa standing at the fountain. As she had promised, she had waited for Kathryn, who had to stay in detention for yet another hour due to an incident in the lesson before the last.
Kathryn still held the conviction that her actions were justified when she hit Thomas with the thick volume after he had groped her breasts for the third time. And how come it was her fault when no one else had seen what he did. After all, she was not a liar; however, this teacher seemed to have a grudge against her. Maybe it was because Kathryn knew more about analytical geometry with her fifteen years of age than she ever did. It's my right to show how smart I am, is it not?
It was lucky that Ms Grababble was only a two weeks' supply teacher until Mrs Snyder came back from her holidays. She would most certainly had believed her, at least agreed to discuss the matter. Ms Grababble, however, did not even allow Kathryn to defend herself. Because she was afraid of losing against my arguments.
Only because Thomas had been so stupid to hold his nose right into the flight path of the book, so that he fell off the chair after the impact had broken his nose, that she had to copy a text from a book for a whole hour.
Kathryn waved happily at Vanessa when she finally saw her and Vanessa returned the greeting.
Vanessa had moved to Bloomington with her father about three months ago; and Kathryn had soon been friends with her. Vanessa's mother had died shortly after Vanessa's birth. Maybe that was why she looked so boyish, because she only had her father as guidance. Nevertheless, Kathryn found that she looked pretty, very pretty indeed, to be honest. She always wore trousers and T-shirts, or shirts; Kathryn had never seen her in a frock or a skirt.
Vanessa's light blue eyes and short blond hair that didn't reach beyond her ears were always a welcome sight for Kathryn.
"Hey, Janeway, if you ever again expect me to wait for you for a whole hour in this scorching heat, you will have to make it more palatable to me."
"Do you need to cool down? Apparently, you are not accustomed to the heat of Bloomington." Kathryn splashed some water from the fountain at Vanessa. The blond girl closed her eyes but did not make any indication to ward off the drops. When Vanessa opened her eyes again, she gave Kathryn a long and intense look and spoke silently: "It's not the heat of Bloomington." Her lips sported a cheeky smile.
Kathryn was quite aware that Vanessa flirted with her every now and then. She did that with other boys and girls too, which was why she hadn't really paid very much attention to it until a few days ago.
During the last few days, however, and especially during the nights, when she was lying in her bed, she was overcome with thoughts about Vanessa she hadn't fathomed before. She only had to add one and one to realise that she was slowly but steadily falling for this taller blonde girl.
But, love, to fall in love, had, so far, not been and issue in her life yet.
It was obvious that it would happen sooner or later, some of her friends had already had experience in the matter, and were very willing to share information after she had asked them once. How it was to caress a girl between her legs when it was wet there. Or how little time it took for boys to get an erection when you only touched the item quickly. How good it felt to kiss when you did it with your tongue.
Yes, it could be something Kathryn could be interested in, this kissing with tongue. But how could she persuade Vanessa, and where would be the ideal place, in case it happened that her sexual activity would move towards the nether regions? The plan was soon hatched, and Kathryn would not have been a true Janeway had it not been for a Plan B, too!
The first move of Plan A was on the brink of completion. While Kathryn was adjusting the rucksack on her back, she smiled a broad smile at Vanessa: "Okay, then, let's go to my place, have something to eat, then do our homework. And then I would like to take a walk at the lake with you."
"A walk?"
"Yes, why not?"
They took the Hoover bus to Kathryn's place and ate there. Kathryn's mother, Gretchen, was a wonderful cook, Vanessa thought; which she never forgot to mention when she was happily sitting there with a far too full tummy. Kathryn, however was not so fond of home cooking, it was what she got every day, after all. She was glad to have at least access to replicated food while at school or when on the move, a welcoming change of routine, as she thought.
Her mother always tried to interest her in cooking, but Kathryn always reclined and tried to make and evasive manoeuvre to escape. She had absolutely no interest in preparing food by hand when it was so much easier to have it replicated instead. And after all, stellar phenomena, astrophysics, and mathematical equations were far more interesting.
Kathryn's father was in space a lot through his work, or he was busy in San Francisco, so he was rarely home. Kathryn's mother was a mathematician and housewife - and a mother Vanessa could only dream about. The relationship between mother and daughter was almost perfect.
After the meal, they went up to Kathryn's room to do their homework.
Facing each other, they lay on the big bed, still bending over their tasks, actually really occupied with their homework. Until they started smiling at each other from time to time, exchanging glances. Kathryn bit on her pen while she tried to cast a seductive glance towards Vanessa. "Are you a good kisser?"
Vanessa looked into Kathryn's face with surprise, she had never heard the smaller girl talk with such a voice, she sounded slightly hoarse.
"With tongue, I mean." Kathryn added because Vanessa was not answering yet.
The blond girl opened her mouth to answer when the door opened and Phoebe, Kathryn's younger sister bolted in. "Kathy, Kathy! Look what I found!"
Angrily, Kathryn jumped up from the bed and hissed at her sister. "Get lost, you brat, you are disturbing."
Shocked, Phoebe stood still and looked at the bed, where Vanessa was still lying, then she looked again at Kathryn and back to Vanessa. "Why am I disturbing?"
"Out!" Kathryn bellowed at her sister and indicated the door with an outstretched arm.
"But, I just wanted to …" she couldn't finish her sentence, as Kathryn was grabbing her at her collar and at one arm roughly. "Fuck off, now!" And with that she threw her out of the room. Afterwards she slammed the door and leaned her back against it.
"I'll tell Mum!" Phoebe shouted through the door and a kick followed instantly, hard enough to send a shock through Kathryn who was still leaning against it from the other side. Then she heard her sister crying and running down the stairs.
"Sisters' love" Vanessa said after she had watched the whole incident with an amused and interested smile on her face.
"Be glad you don't have a sister." Kathryn moved away from the door and sat down on the bed again.
"Be glad that you have one."
"Huh?"
"Being an only child is sometimes very lonely, believe me I have experience."
"When I was the only child in the family everything was so much more peaceful, and I was Mum's and Daddy's little angel. She can so get on my nerves! I would so love to shoot her into the skies!"
"You would miss her when she was gone."
"Definitely not!"
Kathryn was very skilled in manipulating her sister, but it turned out to be more and more complicated to keep the manipulative upper hand the older her sister became. Very early on, a sound hate-love developed between the two sisters which, however, seemed to cease eventually the older the sisters became. It actually developed into exactly the opposite direction. Phoebe was more and more adept to nagging and angering her sister.
"And, can you?" Vanessa asked.
"Uhm?"
"Kiss well."
Kathryn's mouth opened and closed instantly again. When she wanted to answer, the door had flung open again.
Phoebe was standing in the doorframe, both arms akimbo. Kathryn turned her head round to the door, an angry expression on her face and again bellowed at her sister. "Get…" she shut her mouth abruptly when her mother appeared behind Phoebe.
Kathryn received a very stern and angry glance from Gretchen, a feature she was actually trying to copy from her. It was causing anyone faced with it to feel really small and unimportant; even Edward Janeway was helpless against this stare. Kathryn, however, did not flinch under her mother's stare.
"Young woman! I don't agree with you using certain expressions, and I will not tolerate that you use them against your sister. You are going to apologise to her now."
"But..."
"Kathryn!" Gretchen's voice was carrying a threatening undertone and Kathryn realised instantly that it was futile to resist. Her mother was a very good humoured woman who valued good manners and respect for the feelings of others. Kathryn was a very strong willed girl, a fact her mother supported, but she still had to remind her of her boundaries every now and then.
Kathryn glanced at Phoebe. "Sorry! But it would be appropriate if you knocked before you entered a room with a closed door."
Gretchen hinted at Phoebe. "And what do you do when you received an apology?"
"Apology accepted," Phoebe replied.
As her educative measurements were finished for now, Gretchen was on her way downstairs again. Phoebe showed her tongue to Kathryn and then vanished from the door, too.
Kathryn stood up to close the door. Then she turned around. Vanessa was sitting on the bed with a cheeky grin on her face before she started laughing.
"You think this very funny, don't you?"
Kathryn launched herself on top of Vanessa and tried to pin her hands onto the mattress, a plan that failed to materialise as Vanessa was far stronger than her. They continued to jest for a few more minutes before their strength left them.
Towards the evening, they went for a walk at the lake, according to Plan B.
As plan A, thanks to Phoebe, had not been put into practise, and she had been unable to kiss Vanessa in her own room.
The lake, which had a reasonably small size, was framed by fine, light sand. Had the lake been so big that you couldn't have seen the shore on the opposite side, you would have thought yourself to be at the seaside. The area was pretty deserted, only a few people were still scattered over the beach, most of them were packing up to leave as the sun was half behind the trees already. The sky, as a result, had a fantastic red hue to it and woke romantic feelings in Kathryn.
Carefully she locked her arm into Vanessa's and graced her with a shy smile. "You know, Vanessa, I like being with you, you are so…" Kathryn stopped in mid-sentence and fastened her eyes on a small hut. Vanessa only realised it when Kathryn took her by her hand and pulled her towards the little tool hut.
"Hey, what's the matter?" Vanessa asked curiously.
Kathryn pulled Vanessa behind the building and peeked out on the other side. "I think we are quite undisturbed here." she whispered and turned around, a sparkle settling in her eyes. She leaned against the wall and took a deep breath, with a facial expression that was difficult to interpret for Vanessa.
The redheaded girl stretched her arms out for Vanessa and pulled her closer. Now, don't make any mistake here, Kathryn, you have almost succeeded! Kathryn's heart was beating so hard that she thought it would jump out of her chest any minute.
Now she was so nervous that she hardly remembered what she wanted to say, but something had to leave her lips now, as it dawned on Vanessa already what she was planning here, and she turned pretty scarlet. Their bodies were closely pressed together, their eyes interlocked and they both felt each other's breath in their faces.
"Kiss me, …please." It was the only thing Kathryn could whisper, and she slung her arms around Vanessa's neck and pressed her lips gently onto the other's to see if she would answer her move.
When she then felt Vanessa's tongue in her mouth, a strong tingling sensations ran through her body she had never felt before and the relief of having Vanessa reacting to her kiss and not being taken aback let her heartbeat accelerate.
Those soft and cautious kisses turned into something far more intense soon, stronger, longer and more and more tongue involved. When their lips finally parted from each other, both were breathing heavily.
"More," demanded Kathryn in an authoritative voice and tried to plant her lips back on Vanessa's. Vanessa, however, pressed Kathryn against the wall where they were still standing and looked into her grey-blue eyes. "You can be quite bossy."
"I am used to getting what I want." Kathryn gave Vanessa a nudge, which was enough to send her to the floor. Kathryn planted herself on top of her. "And at the moment, I don't want to stop kissing you." While Kathryn's thirsty lips were again nearing Vanessa's face, her hands were moving under the other one's shirt.
Vanessa was turning her head away slightly to say a sentence before Kathryn's lips were again connecting with hers. "And, am I good in kissing?"
"Oh yes." Kathryn whispered between shorter and gentler kisses she was busy planting all over Vanessa's face.
"Oh, what are you doing? Leave it shut!"
Kathryn couldn't suppress a giggle when she saw what her action caused. Vanessa's expression was precious when she realised that Kathryn was about to open her shirt and have her expose parts of her female attributes.
Kathryn sat up and watched while Vanessa was fastening the buttons again. "Do you think this is the right place for such things?"
"Do you have a different idea in mind?" Kathryn answered gently and gave the blond girl underneath her a radiant smile Vanessa could only answer with a long kiss.
The next few days, the freshly paired girlfriends spend smooching, cuddling, kissing, giggling; everything love had in store was exercised as far as it was possible in public. But to really go further, they would have needed a room after all. Finally, the opportunity turned up all on its own when they had to stay inside, in Kathryn's room while a thunderstorm was raging outside, so that is was quite impossible to do anything outside. What else was there to do in such a situation than to watch holo-videos or listen to music.
One of Vanessa's peculiarities was that she could thoroughly get lost in a holo-video, so much that there could have been an ion storm howling right beside her and she wouldn't have realised it, even if everything around her would be torn to pieces.
"Vanessa!?" Kathryn purred, closely leaning against her friend's back. She planted a hasty kiss on her right cheek. After all, Phoebe could be storming into her room, and it was far below her honour to be caught by her little sister while cuddling and kissing her friend. It was not necessary that this little beastly brat went to their mother straight afterwards to tell her everything. It wouldn't have surprised her very much, though, if her mother had by now realised that this friendship between the two girls was becoming more and more intimate.
"Are you listening to me after all?"
"What?" Vanessa asked only marginally paying attention. Kathryn wrapped her arms around Vanessa's neck and leaned gently against her friend, pressing her bosom into her back. She almost breathed into her ear so that a shudder ran down her friend's spine. "I had asked you if it was maybe possible that you stayed overnight today."
At this moment, Vanessa's eyes opened as if they were exploding, and all her attention was with Kathryn's wonderful voice.
"My Mum is setting off to San Francisco tonight, to meet my Dad who will be there till tomorrow before he has to return to Deep Space 1. And Phoebe is going for a sleepover with a friend. That means we would be alone."
"All alone?" Vanessa asked and turned around to look at Kathryn dreamily for a few seconds.
"All alone, my sweetcake." A radiant smile settled on Kathryn's face while she was stroking both of Vanessa's cheeks. At exactly this moment, the door burst open and Gretchen entered her room. "Well, you two, fancy some cake?"
If Kathryn hadn't been so quick, it would have been quite and embarrassing awkward moment.
Gretchen was proffing two plates with a huge slice of cake on each into their direction.
"Vanessa?"
"Oh, thank you, Miss Janeway."
"Darling?"
"Of course, anytime, Mum, thank you."
Gretchen sat down beside the two girls. "And? Have you asked Vanessa already if she wants to sleep over tonight?"
"Just as you entered, Mum."
"And?" Kathryn's mother was looking at Vanessa inquisitively.
"Yepp, no problem at all."
"You know, Kathryn doesn't like to be in this house all by herself. Isn't that so, darling?" Gretchen gently stroke her daughter's long hair.
"Yep."
"Right, I will have to leave now or your father will be in bed before I arrive." Gretchen winked at them with both eyes and left the room.
A quarter of an hour later, Kathryn's mum had left the house. As soon as her Hoover car had cleared the driveway, the two girls launched from the window, where they had watched her disappear, onto the bed and engaged in their new favourite pastime.
"At last, alone. And one and a half days as well." Kathryn giggled lounging relaxed on her bed while she watched how Vanessa slowly crawled over her legs and sat down on her hips. While she was busy to quickly switch on the music and then let the remote control hit the floor, she saw that Vanessa was nervously pulling the buttons of Kathryn's blouse. The smaller girl had to smile again when seeing the helpless sight she was witnessing and put both her hands on Vanessa's who couldn't open the blouse with her impatience.
"Vanessa, let me do it before you starve." Only with a lot of effort could she suppress her laughter after finishing the sentence. Vanessa had felt it though, however, she quickly focused back on the gentle hands of her friend who was now gracefully and slowly opening her blouse button by button.
Vanessa leaned back, sat on Kathryn's legs and waited. Slowly Kathryn's hands worked button by button while she gave Vanessa one of her most innocent looks she could muster. The blond girl, who was impatiently waiting to trace her hands over her lover's bosom, licked her lips and watched every move of her adorable girlfriend.
Kathryn looked at Vanessa with a cheeky glance, then she had opened the last button of her blouse, stripped it off elegantly and tossed it aside without a further glance.
To Vanessa's surprise, Kathryn didn't wear a bra, which made her pulse jump to it's all time high exactly at this moment. Immediately, Vanessa's lips were on Kathryn's and her hands were moving over Kathryn's hips, up her belly, till they reach her breast, which she instantly began to caress carefully, decking it with kisses.
Kathryn moaned quietly under the gentle pressure her friend's fingers and tongue applied to her skin; until Vanessa's mouth discovered one of the stiff nipples and cared for it.
Kathryn's self-restrain very soon vanished under such delightful circumstances and she let her hands trail through the sand-blond hair of her lover. She pushed Vanessa's head even closer towards her. Meanwhile, she had begun to purr low and deep, and only when Vanessa had completely disconnected from the body of her friend did she realise what she was doing.
With slightly narrowed eyes did Kathryn watch as Vanessa was hastily discharging her pullover and her T-shirt, only for her to discover that it had something magical, erotic to help another girl out of her bra. But the best bit was to see what appeared underneath. It was so pretty that Kathryn didn't realise that she was frankly staring at Vanessa's bosom.
"Don't dare to bite into them now!"
Kathryn literally gave a jump when she heard Vanessa and turned slightly red when she realised what she was doing. Embarrassed she lowered her head, only to have it lifted up again by Vanessa.
"I am sorry, I didn't want to make you uncomfortable. Please, I am sorry!
"I… I have never before…" Kathryn felt Vanessa's hand hesitantly, which had returned to take care of her soft breasts again. "Can you please undress me totally, now?"
That was a clue Vanessa was not to ignore. She gently pulled the rest of the annoying clothes off Kathryn's body. "Shall I undress the rest of my stuff myself, or will you be able to do it for me, now that you have quenched your hunger watching?" Vanessa was grinning cheekily.
Kathryn lie back slowly. "Just you go ahead, I will enjoy for starters."
Vanessa proved that she could be fast when she wanted. In seconds, she had undressed, too. For both it was the first time that they saw each other naked.
Vanessa's eyes were positively gleaming with the sight she could delight in now. She audibly sucked in air.
Kathryn Janeway, there she was now underneath her, naked as delivered by the gods, and all of a sudden not cheeky any more, not self-assured any more, as she had been only a few minutes ago. Kathryn appeared rather nervous.
It's her first time after all, Vanessa thought and was immediately back to her delightful vista. Kathryn's delicate white skin, even lighter now under the moonlight, her freckles that sprawled over her face and down on to her cleavage, her wonderful bosom. With one hand Vanessa stroke gently over the body underneath her, over the belly which raised and fell evenly, the small bosom and the nipple that reacted instantly and grew larger and firmer while she was moving her palm over them carefully.
Kathryn bit her lip and watched Vanessa who had the same thought and looked back at her admiring every inch of her body, while her hand followed what her eyes explored on Kathryn's body.
She wanted to kiss this bosom, wanted to caress it, touch it, stroke it… how could Kathryn only think that they had turned out too small and didn't really enhance her body properly? No! Quite the opposite, for Vanessa it was almost the most erotic attribute of Kathryn's body. And those wonderful eyes, those glances you just had to answer; her whole face was that of an angel's.
How many people has she slept with already? She is so self-assured in how she does it; how certain she moves about me and sends her hands on explorations. She either has had loads of experience already, or she had a really good teacher.
Kathryn watched while Vanessa's hands stroke her body and saw how concentrated she seemed to be.
"Vanessa?" The tall blonde was torn from her trails of thought when she heard Kathryn's voice and bend down towards her. "Uhm?"
"I don't know what I shall do…I want… to touch you." She uttered with insecurity. Vanessa gave her a warm smile.
"Why don't you just enjoy, as you offered earlier on, and let me do the pampering first, hm? Afterwards, you can do with me what you want." Vanessa finished her sentence with a small kiss on Kathryn's lips and let her tongue trail downwards inch by inch, caressed her neck, her breast and bit gently into it and sucked Kathryn's nipple. Kathryn moaned longingly for the feeling this gentle sucking sensation left in her.
Knowing fingers glided over her mound of Venus downwards, through thick and wet hair. Willingly, she spread her legs a bit. When she felt a finger moving over her pearl a moan fled her lips. Then she felt two more fingers in her wet crevice, they alternately touched her pearl and her fold, which was hurting with the sheer longing for touch. When one finger finally entered her, she moaned and pressed her pelvis upwards quite automatically, to allow the sensation to enter her even deeper. "Oh my god!" Kathryn moaned and allowed herself to be overtaken by her desire.
It didn't take many pushes from Vanessa's fingers, suddenly Kathryn was overcome with her orgasm. She raised her pelvis and held her breath. Seconds later, the tension left her body and she started breathing. Her lower body touched the bed again. Vanessa pulled her fingers out of Kathryn's opening and two arms jerked her downwards.
Kathryn pulled Vanessa down on top of her, hugged her dearly while she enjoyed the ceasing feeling of her first orgasm she didn't have to administer herself. After a few moments, Kathryn lifted her head slightly and looked deep into Vanessa's eyes, kissed her gently on her cheek and said: "Now, it's my turn."
They enjoyed each other for several times until they finally fell asleep in each other's arms.
FIN