Chapter 2

The work was coming along well despite my continuing distraction...

The memory of that little fantasy of Jocelyn makes me smile, little Ms. Park had surprised me with her passion when we eventually got together. I feel a little twinge of guilt for my behavior in those days. I became quite girl crazy, seducing girls and being very free with my favors. Sofi ... ahhh Sofi ... she was tolerant of my playing around even though I now realize she just wanted it to be us, just us. For me it was like a hazy film had been pulled off my eyes. I saw the world, life, in a whole new light. Ripe with opportunities I had been blind to in the past.

That bus ride was something else though, a languid grin sliding into place.

My performance made Jocylyn more aroused, she was not pushing herself though. It seemed she was slowing down, wallowing in the pleasure her fingers brought. For me, it made me think about where we were, I didn’t want to have my first orgasm with a girl, another person, Sofiya here ... I followed Jocelyn’s lead, still performing for her, seducing her in a way I suppose. I relaxed into Sofi’s warmth, drawing out our pleasure. Imagining what it would be like when we got to her bed.

I pulled my hands free, kissing Sofi again. I whispered, smiling, “I need to get my phone, but this feels too good.” Sofi smiled, pulling her hands from under my shirt and giving me an eager little push... “Get your phone!” she urged, the spell we had breaking a little as responsibility intruded. Mom was pretty cool, she was the principal though and I didn’t want her to give up time relaxing to come get me if she didn’t need to.

I grabbed my phone eagerly, “Hey Mom! Can I stay over at Sofi’s?”

She replied faster than I thought she would, “I was just getting ready to come pick you up, I don’t mind as long as her parents don’t”

YAY! I kind of expected she would be cool with it, Sofi and I had been having sleep overs at least once a month since eighth ... That made me wonder {overthinking relationships ... useful or not? The jury is still out on that one ... analyzing things had helped in so many ways but sometimes I let my head get in the way of just letting myself feel ... but ... meh Ill tease this tangle out another time}

I turned to Sofi, my eyes caught a glimpse of Jocelyn ... she gave me a quick smile and a wink... “She said yes, but only if your parents are OK with it?” I asked my voice coming up at the end of the sentence to make it a question.

She smiled ... we both knew her dads would be fine with it. Ron was suuuuper sweet, and though people were scared of Andy (he looked VERY intimidating) he was actually just a big old muscley teddy bear. Sofi was adopted by them when she was only two years old. Her parents were killed by the stupid Russians when they shot missiles into apartment buildings during the war. Ron was really smart (they both were to be honest), he was a computer engineer and Andy ran his own custom made furniture business. They met when they were stationed in Japan, Ron was a Marine and Andy was in the Air Force.

Sofi grabbed her phone, “Hey papa! Can Anna stay over?”

Honestly, our parents were probably expecting us to ask ... it was our last swim meet after all. Summer and trips and lazy days lay before us. Sure year round school didn’t allow super long trips like those my mom and dad talked about from their days, but we still had the longest break coming up soon. I was really looking forward to next summer though, after graduation we would have like 3 whole months off ... I could hardly imagine such a luxury.

I heard Andy’s deep rumble on the phone, not able to make out the words. As he spoke, Sofi’s eyes and smile brightened. She nodded enthusiastically caught up in her papa’s words.

“OK, great, yeah don’t worry we’ll be fine ... will you ... oh you already called her, Awesome! Thanks papa, I love you give daddy a hug for me!”

“Papa said yes and get this ... they need to go out to a farm to harvest some wood from an old barn so we’ll have the house to ourselves until Sunday!” she smiled, happy, excited talking so fast...” He even already called your dad, and they said it was cool and PLUS.” She paused for dramatic effect, “ ... PLUS we can order pizza and they are letting me use daddy’s car since they are taking papa’s truck!” She was so excited and happy ... in the light from the highway she was the picture of youth and beauty and happiness...

I could barely contain myself. Their house was very secluded on the outskirts of their neighborhood. It looked out over the green rolling hills. They had a beautiful pool and house ... this would have been a great time before but now ... well now I could only imagine...

I remember thinking at that moment that I had never been so happy that my parents had let me ‘finish’ high school instead of going to college as soon as I completed the required work. Sure they pushed the school to give me access to higher level instruction and resources, I essentially had my own lab and computer in the corner of Dr H’s class (Dr Takashi Himeda, retired research physicist who only taught AP and dual-credit science at Ginsberg High).

That was a big fight, dad was all ‘You could finish your bachelor’s before you ‘finish’ high school, that would mean you could get into your research faster!”