Love is a Place Ch. 01: The Puzzle - Sex Stories

Love is a Place Ch. 01: The Puzzle

... It had been a really, really good day, she reflected. This calm, comfortable time with Amanda; the excellent essay on SNVs she had read; buying tickets to concerts for Sarah; discovering she had more friends than she realised; cooking; the conversation with Dr Alison; Dr Summer's lecture; her nice packed lunch; her challenging but successful assisted laboratory practical; swimming; and waking up with Sarah. She looked at the time; it was 10:30. Sarah would be finishing soon. She decided she wanted to see Sarah as soon as possible.

"Thank you for sitting with me Amanda and for helping me earlier. I want to go and meet Sarah from work so that I can talk to her on the way back."

"You're welcome sweetie. That sounds like a nice idea. Do you know which way she walks home?"

"Oh. No."

"You could, like, use the find a friend app on your phone."

"Oh, that's a good idea. Then I won't miss her."

"Tell her about the concerts, like so she can make sure she isn't working on those nights."

"Oh, yes, good idea. I'm going to go now."

Samantha was pleased to see Amanda holding out her arms in a clear indication that she wanted to give Samantha a hug. Samantha decided she would try to give Amanda and Lydia a hug each day. She wasn't sure about Keith: she would ask Sarah about that. After hugging Amanda, she put on an extra jumper, her coat, a scarf and her boots. She also decided to take a large umbrella in case it was or started raining. Then she set off to the ...

... Lounge.

As it happened, she was just a few metres from the Lounge when Sarah stepped out. It had started to rain.

"Hello Sarah. I've brought you an umbrella."

"Samantha? What...? You came to meet me?"

"Yes. I did."

"Oh, that's really lovely. Come here."

They hugged under the umbrella. It seemed to Samantha that the hug was longer than usual and it also seemed to her that this was really nice. Sarah's hair smelled of frying oil and beer, but the sound of her breath in her ear smelled like vanilla and A grades.

"I'm very happy that you came to meet me Sarah. But why?"

"I had things I wanted to tell you, and I thought that if I came to meet you we would have more time together. I'm also glad I did because it's raining and you don't have an umbrella."

"What did you have to tell me, gorgeous?" Samantha wanted to think about Sarah calling her "gorgeous", which she often did, or "beautiful", and what it might mean and to try to remember how long Sarah had been doing it for. But she couldn't because Sarah had asked her a question and so now she needed to concentrate on having a conversation. They walked along, both holding the umbrella between them and their other arms wrapped around each other, and Sarah asked questions as Samantha told her about her day.

Samantha was feeling proud of herself that Sarah seemed interested in what she had to say. She had thought about the proper order of information on the walk over and decided that, as much as she had enjoyed ...