Intersection (22 page)

“No.” Cassidy took a seat on the other side of the bar and accepted the glass. “I always wanted to learn.” She had tried a few times in college when she and Chris would go out but he liked to tease her and show off so she stopped being a participant and became a spectator.

Alex took a sip of her wine and moved around the bar. Cassidy took another large sip from her own glass and watched as Alex re-racked the pool balls on the table. The agent’s hands began to tremble as she picked up a pool cue and the teacher made her way over, accepting it with a longing gaze into the agent’s eyes. “First,” Alex began, “you have to learn how to hold the cue.” She stepped behind the smaller woman and positioned the long stick in her hands. Cassidy felt the agent’s body press up against her. Alex leaned into the teacher and whispered her instructions. “Feel the weight of the stick,” she placed her hands over Cassidy’s and Cassidy closed her eyes at the sensation of Alex’s breath on her neck. The agent gently guided the stick back and forth and Cassidy became unsteady by the overwhelming sensations their physical contact brought on. Alex instinctively dropped a hand to Cassidy’s hip in an attempt to steady her, but the smaller woman took her by
surprise, dropping the stick and turning in the agent’s embrace. Cassidy looked up at Alex who was instantly entranced by the green eyes searching hers. The agent gently moved to touch the smaller woman’s cheek and silently bent over for their lips to meet.

Alex felt Cassidy’s fingers press into her side as their kiss deepened and the agent lost her senses. She moved her kiss to the woman’s neck and heard Cassidy sigh her name aloud. It sent a jolt through her body unlike any she had ever felt and she moved to meet the blonde’s lips again. Cassidy’s breath was shallow and Alex was ready to lift her onto the pool table when their eyes met again. The agent closed her eyes and sighed. She was lost in the moment, and had this been any other woman she would have taken Cassidy right there. But, it
was
Cassidy. Cassidy caught her breath and looked deeply into Alex’s eyes. It reminded the teacher a bit of the night before when Alex had insisted they stop and she was suddenly fearful. “Alex…”

“Cass… I just want this to be…”

Cassidy closed her eyes and inhaled. “Alex…”

“Please, just…let’s just go upstairs…please.” Alex stroked the woman’s long blonde hair. “Just go up to your room…I will be right behind you. I promise.”

“Alex…I’m so…”

Alex knew what the teacher wanted to say. She understood that this was not only their first time with one another, it was Cassidy’s in many ways. That was all the more reason that she wanted to be certain the woman in her arms understood that this meant everything to Alex. It did. The agent knew that the stops and starts were difficult for them both. She also knew that within a short time everything would change between them. Feeling Cassidy as she did now, she had no doubt that making love to the woman would mean the complete surrender of her soul. “Cass… not here…just trust me.”

“It doesn’t have to be perfect, Alex.” Cassidy felt the butterflies in her stomach swarming. She was so self-conscious about
the prospect of being intimate with the agent, and at the same time she desired Alex in a way that she had never experienced. She was afraid of disappointing the woman who held her now; afraid that in spite of the fact that Alex loved her; maybe she would not be enough.

“Cassidy, you are worth far more to me than a lustful spin on a pool table. Not here.” She kissed the woman gently. “I will be right behind you. I want to be where I can wake up beside you.”

The smaller woman reached up to the agent and caressed her cheek. Those were the words she needed to hear. “Don’t take too long,” she whispered tearing herself reluctantly from the agent’s embrace and moving out of the room.

Alex sighed and closed her eyes as the woman walked out. “God help me, I love you,” she said as she grabbed the bottle of wine and the glasses.

“I love you too,” a voice called back. Alex smiled. It might be a long night.

assidy was thankful to have a few minutes to pull herself together both emotionally and physically. She had no way of knowing when she packed to leave for Washington that this would be happening here and now. She rummaged through her bag on the bathroom floor wishing she had something appropriate for the occasion. She looked in the mirror and laughed at her own silent admission; she felt like a teenager. She wanted to take the agent’s breath away like no one ever had. She shook her head disbelieving that she was actually touching up her makeup and refreshing her perfume. This was an unfamiliar routine and not something she would have imagined in her wildest dreams a few days ago. She smiled and closed her eyes as the memory of Alex standing at her front door passed through her thoughts. Her nervousness was rivaled only by the incredible sense of how much she was in love with Alex Toles. She chuckled softly as the question entered her mind for the first time. “Oh my God; am I a lesbian?” She chuckled again and shrugged in amusement. The lipstick in her hand fluttered when she heard the bedroom door close. True to her word, the agent was close behind her. Her amusement at the situation changed suddenly to palpable anticipation. She continued her tasks wondering what the sounds outside the door were.

The bedroom was large and it was elegantly decorated. Alex stopped to place the bottle of wine and the two glasses on a bedside table. There was a large four poster bed adorned by a
beautiful white and blue quilt. The agent smiled noticing that all of the artwork on the walls depicted the ocean. Perhaps this wasn’t as far from what she had imagined as she initially feared. In the corner was a gas fireplace. The agent crossed the room and started the flame. She turned off the other lights, allowing the glow from the fire to create a soft light that filled the room. There was a large cabinet across from the bed. She opened it and found the flat screen television inside. She clicked the mute button while she searched for the music channels, finally finding one she thought was appropriate and increased the volume to a low but audible hum. The agent took a deep breath and looked at her clothes. She was wearing jeans and a white blouse; her signature attire when she was not at the office but expecting to be away from home. “Shit,” she groaned, wondering how she must look and feeling the need somehow to impress Cassidy. She pulled the elastic from her hair and ran her hands through it, imagining what the woman behind the closed door was doing. She felt her body trembling, picturing the expression on Cassidy’s face just moments ago as they looked into one another’s eyes.

Cassidy heard the sound of soft music emanating from the other room. She had decided that she would at least attempt to entice the agent in some unexpected way. She feared that Alex might view her inexperience as unattractive somehow and she wanted the agent to desire her. She took in a nervous breath and tugged on the oversized denim shirt she had put on. After another moment of attempting to calm her increasing jitters, she looked in the mirror a final time hoping that her efforts would be appreciated by the woman outside. She closed her eyes, inhaled a breath for courage and opened the door. Alex Toles turned as the sound of the opening door carried through the small room. There she was, Cassidy O’Brien. The agent felt her heart jump inside her body but she could not move. The sight of Cassidy in the denim shirt that fell just to her mid-thigh and buttoned just below the line of her cleavage was the sexiest
thing Alex had ever seen. If the teacher had worried that any woman might rival her in the agent’s eyes, those fears had been vacant and unnecessary. The woman’s blonde hair fell gently to the front of her right shoulder and slightly behind her left. The glow of the orange and yellow flames further softened her feminine features. Alex fought to swallow. The agent labored to take a full breath and stepped toward the woman who was slowly walking toward her. “You are beautiful,” the agent said as her eyes traveled the full length of Cassidy’s body.

Cassidy thought that her knees might give way as she moved closer to agent. Alex’s hair fell softly on her shoulders, framing her face perfectly. She was the most incredible vision Cassidy had ever seen. Since they first met the teacher had found Alex attractive and marveled at her body and the blue eyes that at times seemed to dance. But now, here in the firelight, the way that Alex was looking at her, the light that was cast on her skin, Cassidy was certain she had never been so riveted by any person. She reached the agent who looked deeply into her eyes. They stood impossibly close and impossibly still for what seemed like many minutes until finally Cassidy reached out and touched the opening of Alex’s blouse.

The agent felt the slight brush of the woman’s hand connect with her skin and she trembled. Cassidy was completely enraptured by the way the fire highlighted the opening in the agent’s shirt, barely revealing her skin. The smaller woman looked up to see that the blue eyes she searched for now had closed at the slightest touch from her. Alex took in a breath and opened her eyes to meet the shimmering green searching for hers. Her hand brushed Cassidy’s blonde hair aside and she whispered softly to her as she moved her lips closer, “I am so in love with you.”

The smaller woman reached up and pulled the agent closer. “Alex, I need you,” she confessed. The agent felt her heart quicken and her hand continued to tremble as it reached slowly for the opening of the denim shirt. She let her hand softly
travel along the opening, feeling just enough of the woman in front of her to send a pulse throughout her entire body. Finally, the agent pressed her lips to the other woman’s. Slowly and gently their lips began to part and Alex lightly brushed Cassidy’s tongue with her own. She felt the woman’s desire as Cassidy began to deepen the kiss, still soft but her tongue searching with more urgency. Alex tried to breathe. She felt the teacher’s soft caress travel the length of her back. Cassidy’s touch was so gentle and so loving. The agent lowered her kiss to the woman’s neck. She gently kissed every inch, longing with each soft kiss to continue her journey. “Alex…” the woman sighed, “I love you.”

The agent smiled and inhaled the words into her soul. She took the smaller woman’s hand silently and led her to the bed. Again she lowered herself to accept Cassidy’s lips to her own. She had no words as she guided the beautiful woman she loved so deeply onto the bed, taking a position over her and returning her lips to the softest she had ever tasted. Again she moved to Cassidy’s neck, soliciting a soft moan. Alex pulled away slightly looking down at the woman underneath her and marveling at her beauty. The agent’s eyes began a loving dance as they whispered her desire silently to the woman she loved. Her hand carefully moved to the buttons on the denim shirt. Slowly she released them, returning her kiss to Cassidy’s waiting lips and stopping only to allow the kiss to follow the trail her hands had left behind. She pushed the shirt gently open, revealing to her for the first time the full sight of the woman who held her heart. Alex drank in the sight, and Cassidy was overcome with emotion as she witnessed the expression in her lover’s eyes. “You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen,” the agent said as she trembled from her own desire.

Cassidy reached for the buttons on the agent’s blouse. Alex was surprised at the deliberate and confident way the woman addressed them. The small blonde’s fears evaporated as her
thoughts became consumed by her desire for the strong and sexy woman above her. She reached the last button and pulled the blouse open, instantly losing her breath at the sight of Alex’s breasts. The agent smiled slightly with satisfaction feeling her lover’s desire increase. She lowered herself again and kissed Cassidy. Her kiss was passionate and more demanding now but it remained incredibly gentle. Her lips trailed over Cassidy’s body, discovering on their journey the places that seemed to solicit the desired response. The agent’s hands made their way along the woman’s curves as her kiss finally reached the soft breast that she so longed to taste. She looked to Cassidy for permission, but the teacher had closed her eyes feeling the agent’s warm breath wash over her. “Alex…please,” Cassidy asked her lover. It was the only permission the agent required to continue.