****
"Sel...."

Selena caught her breath.   Beth was doing it again.  She felt her friend's
fingertips stroking along her arm, little touches of flame.

*Steady, girl... she does this all time, it doesn't mean anything...* And
softly aloud, "What is it, Beth?"

The smaller girl snuggled up behind her in the darkness.

"What's it like?"   The hand stroking Selena's arm stopped, but didn't move
away.  It rested there, warm.

*Breathe, Dummy.  Remember to breathe.*   "What's what like?"

Beth's hand began to move again, a life of its own.   "When Charlie kisses
you, what's it like?"

Selena smiled.  "You're asking me?  Like you've never been kissed?"

Beth's other hand dropped to the bottoms of her companion's baby doll pjs.
She pinched gently.   "That's not what I mean.  How do you feel when he
kisses you?"

The simple question landed like a blow. *Nothing special.  Nothing at all
really.  He's nice, he doesn't taste bad when he hasn't been drinking, but
nothing special.  It's not like your hand down there.  Is that all you're
going to do?*  She opened her legs slightly, breathed in, answered.
"It's OK."

"Just OK?"

The hand pushed harder against the flesh of her upper arm.  In good humored
exasperation, Selena rolled over to face her friend.  The quick movement
caused the hand to brush her right breast.  It lingered too briefly,
retreated.

"Just OK."  Selena captured the dark haired girl's shoulders in a firm but
gentle grip.  "No sparks, no fireworks, no sky rockets, OK.  Why do you
ask?"

Beth dropped her eyes.  "It's like that for me, too, with Jim.  OK.  Just
OK."  She raised her head, eyes flashing, glinting with tears. "Damn it!  I
want more, I want..."  And she moved her face, her lips, forward, and up..

Time stood still for Selena. *This is it!  She's going to do it!  You want
it too.. but it's .. *   And Beth's lips met her's, bringing a warm moist
sweetness that she had never felt before; and her belly glowed with a
wonderful combination of fear and hope.

*I don't believe this is happening... and I don't want it to stop...*

Selena felt Beth's small hands encircle her jaw, taking possession of her;
her lips parted to deepen the kiss.  She moved her hands down from Beth's
shoulders, slid them under the bottom of the tee shirt Beth wore, moved them
up the smooth surface of the smaller girl's back, to her shoulder blades.
*Mother used to tell Sis and me these were the stumps of angels wings....*
She pulled Beth to her.  *And now I can believe it...*

Beth growled softly into their open mouths and squirmed against her
childhood playmate, now someone totally familiar and deliciously strange at
the same time.  She sighed into Selena's mouth, moved back, and sought her
friend's eyes.   They were closed, and the lips she had just kissed for the
first time were curved in a smile.

Beth ran her finger along Selena's mouth, tracing the puffy curves.  "Selly?
Talk to me?"

The brown eyes opened, smiling.  "I have just one thing to say to you, Beth
Farqhuar."  Selena's tone was stern, but Beth could hear the laughter
bubbling beneath it, trying to escape.  "Do you think you can do that to me,
and then I'll want to _talk_ about it?"

A pause.  One heartbeat, two heartbeats, three...

"Do it again."

Beth leaned down in the darkness, then stopped, suddenly aware of what they
had done.  "Selly?  I'm scared... I want to but it's wrong.... isn't
it....?"

In answer, Selena reached up and cupped Beth's face as her's had been.  She
pulled the smaller girl down to her lips, and kissed her gently.  After a
moment, Beth opened her mouth, an invitation that was accepted.  Their
bodies came together softly, Beth's smaller breasts pushing into Selena's,
whose leg pushed up between Beth's thighs, while her hands cupped small
buttocks and pulled them closer.

Their second kiss ended like the first, with smiles and tenderness.  Selena
ran her finger over Beth's cheek bone.  "I don't think that could ever be
wrong, Beth; I know I've wanted to do it for the longest time."

"I'm glad.  Me too.." Beth said softly.  Then her impish nature reasserted
itself.  "What do you think?  Better than Charlie?"

"I'm not sure.  I've kissed him hundreds of times, and you twice.  I think I
need to kiss you a lot more before I can decide."   Selena tugged at Beth's
tee shirt, raising the hem a few inches.  "Do you mind if..."

"Not at all."   Beth rose to a sitting position, pulled her shirt over her
head and off.   Her small breasts, tan then abruptly white, glowed in a
shaft of moonlight.

*I've seen them every time we've changed to swim; I've seen them in gym
class, I've seen them when we've been dressing for dates.  I've wondered
what it would be like, I've wanted to...  But this is different, now.  Now I
have to DO something with them!  Now for the first time, they're mine to
touch...*   Selena reached out hesitantly, stopped.

Beth smiled, barely visible.  "Go ahead, it's all right."

And her friend's finger traced the outline of a shadowy nipple, ran over the
growing center.  Beth gasped.  Selena took a deep breath, and brought her
palms to cup the breasts that Beth had given to her.

"Now let me help you with that decision."    And Beth lowered her face to
Selena's once more.  The movement pushed her breasts deeper into the hands
that were loving her so gently.  This time, more than their lips were
involved.

*We're embracing, like lovers...* Selena thought.  She blushed; *we're
lovers, and we're starting to make love.. *   Suddenly she needed to feel
more of Beth's body.   She rolled, coming on top of her smaller friend,
breaking the kiss, the embrace as she sat up to strip off her own top.
Then, saying nothing, she fell upon the smaller girl, reclaiming her mouth
and reveling in the feeling as their breasts came together.   Her nipples
ached as they pressed against the softness of Beth; she could feel Beth's
nipples against her own so sensitive body.

Her thigh had fallen between Beth's which opened for her.  Beth rocked
against its hard muscle, whimpering into the tunnel of their mouths.
Selena broke the kiss, whispered, "slow down, ok?"  She kissed Beth's neck,
and down across her clavicle; Beth's breath was loud in the night, waiting.

Her friend, now also her lover, continued to the slope of her breasts, ran
her tongue between them, moved to a nipple, captured it, teased it with her
tongue.   Beth wrapped her hands in Selena's  brown hair, held her head
close, savoring every breath and lick.

The taller girl's hands dropped lower, fingers trailing lightly down Beth's
center, pausing at the panty line, then going over the nylon surface of the
bikini panties, stroking down to where the thighs began, stopping moving
back.  Beth captured a hand, held it against herself, while her other arm
urged Selena's head and lips back to her's.  "Kiss me again, Selly!"

Midway through the fourth kiss, but who was counting, Beth's hands dropped
to her panties.  As best as she could from her bottom position, she
attempted to pull them down and off.  A shift of weight, other hands,
helping, and they were gone.  Selena accepted the invitation. *I know what
she wants... *  She smiled. *I'm self taught, but I can do this..*   And she
touched, her fingers gently parting Beth, slipping inside.  Beth moaned and
her hips jerked as she welcomed the delicate invasion.  Selena kissed again,
catching Beth's passion in her mouth, while she loved her friend as she had
so often loved herself.   *Come for me, Bethy.. It's all right, I've got
you, I'll give it to you..* and she felt Beth shake, and tighten her thighs
around her hand, shake, surge, moan into the kissing mouth, and finally go
limp.

"I love you, Bethy," Selena whispered, and held her close.   Beth sighed,
and touched her lover's cheek, and snuggled in, and slept...

****

Selena awoke into a half sleep.  As usual, she was on her stomach.  As
often, especially when she had _that_ kind of dream, she had a hand between
her legs.  But something was different.

She came three quarters awake, and felt the weight of someone else in the
bed.  Beth's gentle touch on her shoulders and spine brought her fully awake
into a golden glow.   Beth was here, Beth was sleeping over like she often
did, but there was one glorious difference.  Tonight her dream had come
true; tonight she had kissed and made love to Beth Farqhuar.  She was damp
with excitement between her legs; she squeezed her thighs together to keep,
to savor the feeling.  She gathered herself to roll over for a kiss.

"No."   A gentle hand stopped her, keeping her prone with her face towards
Beth.  "I'll come to you."

And Beth brought her lips down to Selena's.  Despite the somewhat awkward
position, the kiss was warm, sensual, exciting.   Selena moved her hand back
between her legs, into her pj bottoms, touched herself, sighed.

Beth noticed this, and broke the kiss.   "So you want to be touched, do
you?"  She whispered.  "I think I can help you with that."  The smaller girl
rose and straddled Selena's back.   Her hands started at the shoulders,
moved to the sides and down, stopping to tease the breasts, then continuing
down.  Up and down again, and again.  Selena pushed her bottom against Beth,
an invitation to do more.

Beth moved to the side and pulled the bottoms off and away.  She ran her
hand over the smooth slopes of the shapely buttocks, down and between,
reaching to the front to trace the damp folds she found there.  A slight
upward pressure; Selena rose halfway on her knees, while keeping her face
down.   "Touch me... now... please....."

There was no need to ask again.  Beth's right hand caressed the hanging
breasts, while her left slid easily into her friend.  One finger, two
fingers three.  Selena gasped, and began a rocking motion, seeking more
contact, more sensation.   Beth somehow found her lover's clitoris, and
added that to the dance of her fingers.  The uneven contact there, then
gone, then back with a shock, a rush, stronger than before drove Selena over
the top.  She gave a series of moaning grunts, each louder then the last,
until with her last shred of awareness she knew she had to be quieter.
Biting her pillow, she shook, then collapsed like a rag doll, every ounce of
strength spent in the intensity of her orgasm.

"Shh.. Shh... There now lover..." Beth spoke softly, as she stroked Selena's
neck and shoulders.

After a minute the power of speech was regained.  "Beth, come here."  Selena
opened her arms and pulled Beth into them.  Their heads shared the pillow,
almost touching.

"This pillow is wet where you bit it," Beth said quietly.

"You know what?  That's not the only thing that's wet around here.."  Selena
dropped a hand between Beth's legs, ran her fingers through the still damp
curls.

Beth replied in kind, tracing Selena's lower lips with a gentle hand.  "I'm
not the only one, I see."

"That's right.  Your old pal Selena is right with you.  Wet, wild, and
willing..."

"You're not my old pal anymore."  Selena stiffened, then relaxed as Beth
continued, "you're my new lover."

Selena pulled Beth close for a long tender kiss.  As they separated she ran
a finger tip over the planes of Beth's face, her eyes and nose.

"Maybe it's true after all, then.  Maybe High School is the best time of our
lives."

Beth smiled in reply.  "Don't say best.  Because I think it's going to get
even better from here."

And they kissed again.

Finis.