And that is what made Kitty so magical. First of all, no words needed to be spoken. And there wasn’t any marveling at the fact that she was a cheerleader and that while it was no longer “weird” to be a lesbian in some parts of America it was weird to be a cute, popular lesbian in high school. Kitty didn’t care about any of that stuff and she never questioned it. She just accepted Rachael’s love and gave it back with interest. What was so significant wasn’t what they said to one another, it was what they didn’t have to say to one another. Rachael couldn’t lose that. It was too rare and too precious.
She had a far less difficult time deciding what to do when compared with Kitty, perhaps because she was young and didn’t have as much respect for the consequences of her action. But when she woke up the next morning after her meeting with Ariel she had decided to do whatever it took to keep the woman that she loved and she decided she would set about it with her characteristic steely resolve.
The problem for Rachael was that once she decided that there was something she would do there was nothing in the world that could stop her. It didn’t matter if she later found out it was a bad idea or that she didn’t really want to do it anymore or anything else. She didn’t have it in her make-up to quit at anything. It was part of the reason she resisted the beauty pageants her mother wanted her to do. She knew that she would do them for the rest of her life and hate every second of it. So after she had decided she would do whatever it took to keep Kitty, she started to think about what she would have to do and it made her stomach hurt, but she shucked that feeling aside. She knew that her love for Kitty overcame anything else she might be feeling.
She thought about her mother and realized that she wasn’t ready for that sort of thing. Maybe if she eased herself in, started with something a bit easier, she might be able to force herself into more… unorthodox behavior. While Kitty was still trying to decide what she was going to do, Rachael already knew that she was going to try to bed her best friend’s little sister. She was going to try to seduce Cindy’s sister Tess. While coming to that conclusion was half the battle, she still had to decide what she was going to do to make that happen.
She rode to school with the two sisters the next Monday. She had been nervous all weekend that she would be nervous when she saw them or that she would blush and have a hard time meeting their eyes. But she found that it was just another day. She talked to her friend in the front seat and everything was normal and she looked at Tess in the rear view mirror. She appreciated how pretty the girl was. Her skin was so clear and white and her long, blood red hair was pulled back in a ponytail. She had an easy confident smile and a naivete that was very sweet. She giggled like a little girl, but her breasts and bearing showed her to be a young lady.
Rachael began to think that she might be able to do this. She at least was able to convince herself to go farther. She just had to be sure that Cindy would be out of the picture. She didn’t want to lose her friend. That afternoon, after cheerleading practice, Rachael decided to try and mine her friend for information. They were in the locker room, getting undressed after practice and preparing to pop into the showers.
“Ugh!” Rachael said.
“What’s wrong?” Cindy asked, slipping off her bra from underneath of her tank top.
“Nothing, it’s just I think my mom is going to make me go ‘observe’ a beauty pageant this weekend and every weekend for like the next month to try to convince me to get into it,” Rachael lied. She was surprised by how cool she was with this. She had never realized what a smooth liar she was. She didn’t know how to feel about the fact that she was quite proud of her skill.
“What is her problem,” Cindy said shaking her head.
“I don’t know,” Rachael said, pulling a towel around her body and starting towards the shower, “but I guess that means any plans you’ve had for me for the next few weekends are off.”
“Oh man!” Cindy said in a fake whine, “There is so much action in this town that you are going to miss out on!” They both laughed at this, but Rachael needed to keep digging.
“Seriously, what are you doing this weekend? Anything fun?”
“Why are you trying to torture yourself,” Cindy said, getting into one of the stalls and turning on the water.
“I just like to know what I am missing out on so I can most accurately bitch at my mom,” Rachael explained and Cindy smiled at her over the divider in the shower. For a moment, Rachael caught a glimpse of Cindy’s body as her friend took off the rest of her clothes and before the steam from the shower obscured her ands he wondered if Tess had as toned and sexy a body. She wondered if Tess had her sister’s small, pink nipples and smooth skin. But she tried to focus on the task at hand.
“Well if you must know, I am going to be out of town this weekend,” Cindy explained.
“With the fam?” Rachael asked, holding her breath.
“Nah,” Cindy said as she started to clean her body, “My cousin Mary is picking me up to take me to her college. It is really cheap or something and my parents really want me to go there, so I am going to check it out.”
“Cool, I guess, is your sister going” Rachael said.
“No, you know she already decided she is going to Tech. She loved it there when she went to soccer campe last summer,” Cindy explained. Rachael didn’t want to prod too hard, but she needed more, “Anything else planned for the rest of the month?” she asked, trying to sound nonchalant.
“Well Sherlock, next time just submit your questions in writing,” Cindy said but she was laughing, “No. I am going to just hang out the next few weekends actually.”
“Gotcha,” Rachael said and now she had a timeline. She had a week to do what needed to be done. But she needed one more thing, “You still have piano lessons on Tuesday and Thursday?”
“Yeah, why?” Cindy said, she seemed a little concerned now. Like she was wondering why Rachael was so desperate to know what she was going to be doing.
“Oh, I am probably going to go down to the mall on Tuesday and I was going to ask you to go but I realized that you’d probably be away for a few hours,” Rachael explained and then realized she hadn’t started to clean herself and quickly began to shower.
“Oh,” Cindy said in such a way that showed Rachael that she had definitely bought it. She had a week now she realized. She was going to have to try and make the most of it. She finished up her shower and Cindy drove her home, none the wiser.