Chapter 1 - Home
She unlocked the door and stepped into the apartment.
"Elle?" she shouted but no one answered. It was only four in the afternoon, so Elle was probably still at work. Claire made her way to the fridge and took a carton of milk out. After pouring in a glass for herself she sat down at the large wooden table in the middle of the living room.
Since she went to College in New York she came here almost every day.
Elle had turned her back on the Company. Her father had accepted that but they broke contact after Elle left. She was now working at a university. Her speciality was of course – electricity. To not fall back into her old habits took her quite some strength, so she decided to try her luck with a phychologist again. Good thing she found a guy had powers too (he could truly understand people and the exact means of what they are trying to express), so he could relate to her and did not freak out.
She and Claire ran into each other when the university had an open day for college students.
"Hey Elle, long time no see! As I see you finally use your abilities for something useful."
"I couldn't work for my dad forever. Had to stand on my own two feet someday... Um, do you want to go for coffee?"
"Yeah, sure."
After that they spend nearly every day together. They knew they'd always been like-minded but their familys made them be enemys. Claire invented one excuse after the other why she couldn't study in her dorm room and after a while Elle simply gave her the extra key to her apartment. She started to think of it as their home.
Neither of them seemed to mind being constantly around each other. It became a habit to Elle to lay her arm around Claire's shoulders when they were watching a movie together and sometimes they would hold hands when they were going somewhere but it took about tree month until their first kiss.
It was a nice warm summer day and they were lying on a blanked in Central Park. Claire was reading a book when she felt Elle's hand softly touching her stomach. She put the book beside her and looked into Elle's blue eyes that were sparkling playfully.
"Claire," Elle sighed, "When will you learn to eat properly? You still have some of the ice cream on your mouth." She had eaten a cone of strawberry ice cream about fifteen minutes ago. Elle leaned down and kissed Claire's lips until they were clean.
"Much better." she said pleased and smiled at a surprised looking Claire.
Claire took a sip of milk, then opened her book and began to do her homework. She new she wouldn't get much work done once Elle came home.
About an hour later she heard a key turn in the lock.
"Hey sweetie, I'm home!" said Elle, walked up to her and kissed her on the head. "Uh, the lizards again. When will you get tired of amphibians?" said Elle which made Claire throw a pen at her.
"Don't make fun of me! Lizards are very interesting."
"Well as long as they are not more interesting than me..." Elle gave Claire a short, but delicious kiss on her lips and continued, "... but of course they are not. How could they?" Claire let out a sigh.
"You are so full of yourself!" she said and laughed.
"Maybe, but what I am not full of is food. I brought some Chinese. Come on, pack your book away. I'm starving."
Later that night they were lying in bed and Claire continued her reading on the amphibians. Elle, however, had other plans and let her fingers wonder up Claire's thigh. Hearing the other girl's breath fasten made her smile and her fingers made their way up to the shorts Claire was wearing. She lightly pushed against the cotton seeing that Claire no longer had her eyes on the book. She decided to increase her efforts a little more and began kissing Claire's throat. That's when the younger girl surrendered and threw her book away.
They started kissing each other lightly but soon it turned more passionate and demanding. Claire slid her fingers under Elle's top caressing her bare breasts which made the other woman let out a short moan. Claire loved being able to make her lover react like that.
A few moments later all their clothes were gone and they melted into each other; their bodies becoming one until both collapsed into each other finding beautiful release.
Claire snuggled up into Elle's arms. Elle softly stroked her hair and said "Tomorrow is Friday. We should go out."
"Yeah, good idea." Claire agreed. "We could meet up with Daphne. We haven't seen her in ages."
"I'll call her." Elle reached over to grab her phone from the nightstand. She dialled in the number and waited for Daphne to pick up.
"Hi, Daphne. How are you? ... I'm pretty good myself. Look, Claire and I were wondering if you wanted to go out with us tomorrow... Awesome... Yeah sure but what about... Oh, okay... See you tomorrow then. Love ya. Bye." She hung up and turned her face towards Claire.
"She's coming. But she's bringing Hiro. Matt and her seem to have some troubles again."
"I'm sure we'll hear all about it." Claire sighed. "But that's what we're her friends for... So now we got that set could we continue what we did earlier?" she asked and looked at her girlfriend with puppy eyes.
"Hey that's my trick." Elle complained and started tickling her sides until Claire pleaded her to stop. Elle was now sitting on top of her, grinning over her victory.
"Only if I can do whatever I want to you."
"Yes, fine, but stop!" Elle finally let go and crushed her mouth onto Claire's sending a small jolt of electricity through her lips. This was sure going to be a fun night...