“A Dream Come True”

A Lesbian Romance

Christine L’Amour

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Hailey Martin was convinced to go out with some friends for her birthday. Not sure where they were going, she’s hitting thirty and she knows that her friends want to do something wild.

Standing there in the full-length mirror she puts on the black dress that her friends have bought her, the black knee-high boots and she already got her black hair done, thin and layered. She can’t believe that she looks more like a twenty-year-old than she does thirty, it makes her feel good as she runs a hand through her hair, staring into her own blue eyes and the smile she gives herself she feels like a different woman.

“All right, I wonder what you guys have planned,” Hailey whispers to herself and hears her cell ringing in the bedroom.

She runs to go get it and sees that it’s Michele calling.

“We’re downstairs.” Michele giggles into the phone.

“All right, I will be right down.” Hailey feels the smile growing wider across her face.

She doesn’t know how Michele could have kept this night a secret. She can’t keep a secret if her life depended on it.

Now she knows that she can.

Grabbing her house key, she heads out the door and locks it. Out front, there’s a stretch limo that is waiting.

She shakes her head, it can’t be for her, but when the door opens and Michele calls to her, waving her over, she almost trips remembering that she has the damn boots on that she’s never worn before and goes to the limo.

Slipping inside she closes the door behind her.

“Where are we going?” Hailey asks, looking at Michele.

She sees that Julie is there, running a hand through her blonde hair, dressed up nicely, the same as Michele and herself. She sees that Belinda is there as well, her blonde with pink-streaked hair just for tonight looking good as ever.

Staring into Michele’s hazel eyes she can see there’s a mystery there.

“Do not tell her!” Julie cries out, knowing Michele just as well as the rest of them. She would tell if they weren’t right there.

“I’m not going to. You all think that I can’t keep a secret. I’ve kept it in long enough.” Michele pouts at them and the pout turns into a small grin.

Hailey can’t believe that they are sworn to secrecy as glasses of champagne are being poured into plastic glasses and handed around the limo.

“This is a night that you’re not going to forget. Just because we’re getting older doesn’t mean that we can’t still have fun and act young.” Julie tells them, clinking her glass against all the rest that are in the circle.

Hailey laughs and shakes her head.

“Whatever you have going on, I’m glad it’s the weekend. I can sleep in tomorrow.” She tells them, sipping at the champagne.

She’s never been one for drinking, but she can’t get the girls down. She had given it up back when she was twenty-five.

Looking at the girls in the limo they’ve all been together since they were little. Living on the same street, living in the same town. They only live a few minutes away from each other. And the last bit.

They are all single.

Hailey is happy to be single right now. She doesn’t have anyone to answer to, no one to get upset with her because she’s not going to be home at a certain time on her birthday.

“I have a feeling this is going to be one hell of a night.” Julie throws her head back and laughs, getting ready to pour herself another glass of champagne.

She offers some to Hailey and she shakes her head, showing her that she’s only taken a few sips of her own.

“Come on, don’t be a downer of the party.” She winks at her.

The wink that Julie gives her is letting her know that the best is yet to come, and Hailey is thankful that she’s not getting drunk in the limo if it’s going to be a long night.

When the limo stops Hailey has a chance to look out the tinted window before Michele opens the door to let everyone out.

“You didn’t waste your money here.” Hailey laughs, shaking her head and covering her mouth.

“No, we are about to though,” Julie tells her, slipping a wad of cash into her purse.

“I’ve never been to a strip club before.” Hailey feels her face blushing.

“This is exactly why we are doing it we are here to do it together. None of us have been to one and let’s face it. We’re not getting any younger.” Michele is happy that they are here, eager to talk about the night now that it’s no longer a secret.

They walk toward the entrance while the limo finds a place to park and Hailey looks over her shoulder.

“Don’t worry, he’s being paid to stay put. He knows not to leave until we’re ready to go.” Julie whispers in her ear.

Hailey grins at her and rolls her eyes. This is one thing that she didn’t expect. In her wildest dreams, she didn’t think that her friends would bring her to a place like this.

She can’t see inside the windows are tinted as well. To keep privacy to the understandable building.

Belinda holds the door open for everyone. Julie walks in before Hailey does and Hailey notices that Michele is behind her as if she doesn’t want her moving anywhere.

Hailey finds out why when they make their way to a table that has a reserved card on it. There’s no one on the stage yet, no one taking the pole.

“Drinks!” Julie shouts to the waitress that comes over.

Everyone tells her their order when it’s Hailey’s turn, she just asks for ice water, already feeling hot from the crowded room.

Julie rolls her eyes and shakes her head.

“Tonight, is supposed to a wonderful night. Relax, enjoy yourself!” She calls out from across the table.

Hailey laughs, willing to give it a try because the girls wanted to do something wild for her birthday, it didn’t mean that she had to drink while she was out.

“I want to remember this night!” Hailey calls back to her and they both laugh.

Glad that she hasn’t offended any of the girls, she can only imagine how much they had spent on her, on the limo, and wondered how much Julie shoved into her purse.

Then the dancing music comes on and even if they were to holler at each other from across the table she knows that they wouldn’t be heard.

“I hear there’s a special lady in the crowd tonight, someone’s birthday.” A thin, brunette speaks into a headset.

Hailey’s eyes grow wide and she doesn’t even have to guess. She can’t believe her friends would put her on the spot like this!

Her heart is racing, she feels her face growing red and when the brunette looks at her, she winks at Hailey before she takes the pole in her pink panties and bra.

What she thought was a strip club to see men is a strip club to see women. Looking at Julie and Michele she can see that they’re just as surprised.

They grin at her and shake their heads, trying to give her an apology. The girls didn’t know that it was a strip club for men!

Hailey wants to get up, but the room is so crowded, the chairs are so close together that even now if she got up, she was sure that some spotlight would be put on her since she’s the birthday girl.

She watches the woman slide up and down the pole, watches as she shimmies her way toward Hailey.

“You don’t look a day over twenty-one.” The brunette grins at her, making her way down the stage steps and getting closer to Hailey.

Hailey feels the woman’s hand come around her neck, she watches as the woman begins to thrust her breasts into her face, watches as her body moves so close to hers that she doesn’t know what to say, she doesn’t know how to act.

The woman takes the mic away from her mouth, pulling it down so that no one can hear her.

“Relax, it’s all about fun.” The woman whispers in her ear as she begins to shake her breasts closer and closer to Hailey’s face.

Hailey looks at them, the calm voice that the woman uses makes her relax completely and she’s enjoying the show in front of her wondering if the bra is going to break and her breasts flop out to hit her in the face.

She can picture it.

“There you go, I see you staring at them. I like the way you look at them with your dark eyes.” The woman murmurs against her ear.

The woman thrusts them a little more and gasps as her hard nipple graze Hailey’s cheek and then slowly turns around and begins to twerk for her.

“Go, Hailey, go, Hailey, it’s your birthday!” Her friends are singing and cheering for her, clapping for her.

Hailey laughs and watches the ass cheeks bounce against the pink panty thongs that the woman has on.

Knowing it’s all fun and games Hailey makes them cheer louder when she spanks one ass cheek lightly and then the other.

The woman turns to look over her shoulder and winks at her biting down on her lip and shaking her ass some more letting her know without words that she can continue to spank her.

Hailey does, she spanks her ass cheeks harder and harder, feeling herself getting aroused by what’s happening, feeling her buds getting harder against her dress wondering if anyone can see it.

“There you go! Get into it!” Julie shouts and claps, whistling for Hailey to continue to control the stripper that’s shaking it for her.

Just as she goes to spank her one more time the brunette turns around and Hailey gets her breasts instead.

“That’s how I like it.” She moans against Hailey’s ear and pulls out something from the strap of her panties.

Slowly she slips it into Hailey’s dress, right between her breasts though Hailey doesn’t know what it is exactly, and she doesn’t reach in she feels it going into her bra.

Hailey goes to take out money from her purse, not caring what type of bill she gives her she sees that there’s a twenty in her hand and she watches as the brunette turns back around to shake her ass in Hailey’s face.

Hailey slips it in and before she knows it the brunette is topless, spinning around and wrapping the pink bra around Hailey’s neck as if it’s a tie.

“You can keep that sweetie.” The brunette tells her, licking her lips and smiling as she makes her way back on stage.

“There you have it, ladies. A special birthday present sent out to Hailey from Coquette.” The announcer calls out as Coquette heads back up the stage, staring at the crowd and grabbing her breasts.

Hailey feels like Coquette was only looking at her though, the smile on Hailey’s face is so wide that she feels a slight pain. Right before Coquette leaves the stage completely, she gives Hailey a wink.

At least Hailey thinks it’s for her.

“Wow, did you see how hot she was for you!?” Michele asks her.

“Come on, it’s not like that. They do it for the money, it’s their job to do that. Have you ever watched movies with strip joints in them?” Hailey laughs, rolling her eyes as a beer is handed to her before the second show starts.

“This is for you,” the waitress tells her.

“I don’t drink beer!” Hailey calls out.

“You’d better drink it. It’s on the house, Coquette bought it for you.” The waitress winks at her and nods her head.

Chapter Two

Julie and the other girls are talking about the show, another girl comes on stage and Hailey finds her chance to use the restroom.

None of the girls are paying attention to her, they have their eyes set on the next hot thing that’s coming down the stage.

“Thank you for the beer, but I hardly drink,” Hailey tells her.

“It’s okay, neither do I,” Coquette whispers in her ear.

Coquette then slaps her hand on the bar and asks for two ice glasses of water which come in just a matter of seconds.

Hailey can see that the girls are treated right at the workplace.

“I’m Hailey Martin, by the way,” Hailey says.

“My real name is Susan Goodwin. But my stripper name is Coquette. Call me Susan. Nice to meet you too.”

“You like this sort of thing?” Hailey asks her, nodding her head at the stage.

“No.” Susan shakes her head.

“Then why do you do it?” Hailey is shocked by the answer and Susan laughs at her a little.

“For the money, the only reason people work. If we didn’t have to worry about money then we sure wouldn’t be working, right?” She asks her, grinning from ear to ear.

“How long have you been working here? How old are you?” Hailey looks around and notices that most of the girls in the strip club look much younger than her and her friends.

“I’m twenty-two. I meant what I said up there.” Susan tells her, nodding at the stage.

“You’ve said a few things.” Hailey reminds her.

“You don’t look a day over twenty-one. You look really good for your age.” She winks at Hailey and Hailey feels the smile come to her face.

She can’t tell whether or not Susan is hitting on her or if she’s just trying to be nice. Either way, she can tell that it’s genuine she’s not up on the stage or giving lap dances when she’s telling her this.

“If you could make money somewhere else, would you?” Hailey asks her.

“Of course, I like the girls here, but this isn’t my dream job. We make a lot of money here. Depending on the night.” She explains to her.

“What if I told you that you could get steady pay, would you be interested?” Hailey asks her, seeing the smile come across her face but seeing that her eyes are on the stage.

“I would if it’s going to move me up the ladder in a career. This isn’t what I want to tell my family about.” She looks at Hailey.

“They don’t know you’re working here?” Hailey asks her.

“No, I would die if my parents walked in here. Are you kidding me, they think that I make my money selling books,” She rolls her eyes, and laughs.

Hailey can’t believe how much of a dishonest life that she’s living. Keeping everything secret. She can see the hurt in Susan’s eyes before she turns away.

“Are you a writer? Do you like writing?” She asks her.

“I do. I have a few books out there, but no one buys them. Not as much as my parents think I do.” Susan bites down on her lip.

“When do you get off?” Hailey asks her.

“In another two hours.” She tells her.

Hailey unzips her purse and rummages around for one of her cards and hands it to her.

“What’s this?” Susan asks her.

“In case I’m not here when you get off work. I’m a publicist. I guess I came to the wrong place at the right time.” Hailey winks at her and gets off the barstool.

She doesn’t look behind her, she can feel Susan’s eyes on her though as she makes her way through the crowd and goes back to her table.

“Are you having a good time!?” Julie shouts at her.

“A blast, who would’ve thought!” Hailey laughs.

Susan looks at the card and reads it over. Seeing that Hailey wasn’t lying. She thought she had seen her before, though she had looked familiar.

She’s known all over the web, in some books stores as well. This is her opportunity to make something of herself. To make herself proud, to have her family be proud of her. She’s not sure how much longer she can keep up with the story of selling books, or if one of her parent’s friends is going to walk in and watch her shaking the pole or for someone in the crowd.

Slipping the card into the back pocket of her jeans she makes her way backstage and has a better feel for the night.

She isn’t going to take the stage for the rest of the night. She will call Hailey in the morning and see what she can do.

Not wanting to quit right away in case it falls through, she needs this job. It’s all she has, and she’s made good friends.

“Saw you with the birthday girl at the bar.” Her friend Leslie winks at her, the redhead that’s about to go on stage herself.

“It’s nothing.” She tells her.

“Mm, I bet.” Leslie rolls her hazel eyes that are growing more excited.

Susan takes her by her hair, pulling her closer and kisses her hard on the mouth, thrusting her tongue inside.

She hears Leslie moan for her, and she knows that she’s getting what she wants tonight. Leslie is coming over after work and they are going to have a party of their own.

“I told you that it was nothing.” Susan moans against her mouth and slides a hand down between her legs.

She teases her, rubbing at Leslie’s gem between her lips as the kiss grows stronger and she feels Leslie growing wetter.

The second Leslie’s name is called she pinches the gem to remind Leslie who she wants.

“Go get them, tiger.” She lets go and as soon as Leslie turns, she feels Susan’s hand spank her ass.

Leslie giggles as she feels the stinging sensation and the handprint that Susan has left on her as she makes her way down the stage.

Susan watches from behind the curtain, but her eyes aren’t on Leslie. She has a good view of where she is to look at Hailey.

Hailey’s eyes are on the stage, but she can tell that she’s not really into it. Hailey turns her head to the left, to the right as if she’s looking for someone.

Maybe, just maybe Hailey liked her lap dance so much that she is looking for her.

“You, going back out there tonight?” A dark-haired woman asks Susan.

“Nah, I’m going to give the spot to someone else. I just want to watch the rest of the shows.” She explains.

“Can you afford that tonight?” The woman asks her.

“Of course, I can boot, I don’t spend my money like it’s water. I’m saving it up. I’m not broke.” She grins at her.

“You just like the cute birthday girl.” Boots whispers against her ear.

Susan rolls her eyes and shakes her head she knows damn well that if that got out someone would go to Leslie and their fling would be done. Over with, without hesitation.

“Doubtful. She’s not even my type.” She looks at Boots.

“Your eyes say different than your mouth. Hell, I would go for her.” Boots shrugs her shoulders and makes her way to get into line to take the stage.

Biting down on her lip, Susan wouldn’t know what she would do if she and Hailey were truly alone.

She knows what she would want to do, but Hailey doesn’t look like the type that’s interested in girls. Though the spanking that she got from Hailey could’ve fooled her.

“Stop.” She whispers to herself and laughs as she leaves from behind the stage and goes back to the bar to get more ice water.

Instead of watching the stage though, she watches Hailey and notices that Hailey has finally found her with her eyes.

She watches as Hailey smiles at her and she gives her a wink. Hailey doesn’t break eye contact until one of her friends nudges her arm and points at the stage.

That’s when Hailey is looking at Leslie who twirls upside coming down the pole. Much more entertaining than what Susan had put on for a show that evening.

Thinking more about what Hailey had said she hopes it works out, she’s going to miss the girls that she works with, the bonds that they have made, but this isn’t the life for her.

It’s stable work. Stable money.

Just not something that she wants to be doing five years down the road, having her own secret goals in life to be someone. To make something of herself.

“The wrong place at the right time,” Susan whispers and laughs a little.

“What was that?” The bartender asks her.

“Nothing, talking to myself!” She shouts so that the bartender can hear her.

“Don’t do that, people are going to think you’re crazy.” She laughs and turns away, paying attention to a paying customer.

Susan scans the crowd and she feels her heart leap into her throat. There’s someone she knows, right across the room.

Her eyes are on the stage as Leslie makes her way up the stage and turns around, blowing the crowd kisses.

She hurries away from the bar thinking that she’s escaped without anyone noticing until she goes out the front door and hears her name being called.

Hailey is standing there behind her, it’s dark outside.

“What’s the matter?” Hailey asks her.

“Be quiet,” Susan tells her in a quiet voice, looking at the doors to see if anyone else is coming out.

“Sorry, I didn’t realize that we were hiding from someone, come on, I know where we can go so that you won’t be seen.” Hailey sees that the limo is still in the parking lot and she takes her hand.

She can see the worry in Susan’s eyes as she continues to make her way toward the limo. Happy to be of help.

She opens the door and lets Susan inside first since she’s in such a hurry.

“Thanks,” Susan whispers staying away from the windows.

“No one can see you, the tinted windows and it’s dark outside, who are you running from?” Hailey asks her.

“No one,” Susan tells her.

“Don’t lie to me. I’m the last person that you should think about lying to. I’ve been nothing but good to you.” Hailey points a finger at her.

If there’s one thing that Hailey doesn’t like is someone lying to her.

“Fine, I saw my Uncle in there. If he saw me, he’s going to go back and tell my parents.” She whispers to her.

She watches as the doors to the strip club open and out walks her uncle. She knows for a fact now that he had seen her, he looks up and down the parking lot before walking to his car and leaving himself.

“He saw me, now all I have to do is wait for my mother to call.” She rolls her eyes and the worry sets in.

“Are you sure that he’s going to say something? Why would you lie to your parents about something like this?” Hailey shakes her head.

“They don’t think that I can make it in the book world Hailey. They don’t think that I’m going to be able to make my dreams come true.” Susan sits back.

“You can though, you will.” Hailey is more than determined to help her.

“You know that I can’t get paid unless those books become published. What else do you have for me? I can’t wait on a check.” Susan tells her.

“Are you good at typing?” Susan asks her, not wanting her to go back to stripping and teasing women, maybe men, or both.

“Yes, I bite my nails for a reason.” She shows her fingernails that are more like nubs.

“Mine too.” She laughs, showing off her own.

“I can’t go home, not tonight. I don’t want to be anywhere near my parents.” Susan sighs, biting down on her lip.

“You don’t have to.” Hailey knocks on the window and it slides down to show that the driver is still very much alert.

“Please bring me home and come back here to pick up the girls when they’re done.” Hailey gives him the address and he closes the window.

Susan looks at her with confusion in her eyes.

“You can come home with me at least for tonight,” Hailey tells her.

Chapter Three

Susan is surprised that Hailey is willing to let her stay at her place. Neither of them knows each other, but she feels comfortable. They are going to have to get to know each other sooner or later if they’re going to work together.

“I have an office in town. I need a typist. Someone who can type fast.” Hailey tells her.

“I’m the woman for the job.” She states happily.

“Great, then we won’t have any issues and if anything is said maybe you should come clean to your parents?” Hailey asks her.

“No, I’m not willing to do that.” She points out to her.

Hailey can see the fear in her eyes when she brings it up and doesn’t want to continue to put pressure on her.

They talk about the books that Susan has created over the years. Never finding the right person to go to have her work shown, to show herself that she can make a living from it.

She talks about how she was set up with the strip club by one of her friends and her eyes grow wide.

“What?” Hailey asks her.

“I forgot to tell Leslie that I was leaving. She’s going to go to the house and ask for me. Not that she would give out the fact that we work together there. She knows not to do that she knows my parents. I just can’t believe that I’ve forgotten all about her.” Susan groans leaning back against the seat.

“It’s all right, you can just call her.” Hailey smiles at her, letting her know it’s not the end of the world.

Susan bites down on her lip. Hailey doesn’t know the reason she was having Leslie over though and she doesn’t want to tell her, the last thing she needs to do is talk about Leslie with Hailey.

The limo stops out front, and Hailey gets out first, taking her purse and holding the door for Susan.

She slams it shut and watches the limo drive off. She has her explaining to do when she sees the girls.

Not that it’s a big deal, they were having more fun than she was.

Hailey opens the door and first thing she does is she takes off the boots in the kitchen, going down a small hallway she takes another turn.

“I would say make yourself comfortable, but you have nothing to sleep in.” Hailey laughs a little.

“I don’t mind sleeping in my clothing for one night,” Susan tells her, not wanting to be more of a bother as she follows her to the living room and sits down on the leather couch. Seeing that all her furniture is leather and black.

“You have a nice house.” She nods her head.

“Thanks, the upstairs has my office and a den if you would prefer to sleep upstairs instead of down here. You’re not being a bother. You’re not going to be comfortable in that.” Hailey looks at the jeans, the pink hoody that she’s wearing.

“Maybe you’re right.” Susan nods her head, realizing that she hasn’t taken her boots off and sees that Hailey is already down to her socks.

“Don’t worry about it, I had to get out of those boots. They were killing me.” Hailey waves off the look of worry.

“I can sense that nothing seems to bother you.” Susan points out.

“Most of the time it doesn’t. I’m thirty, I don’t want to worry about every little detail of my life.” Hailey tells her.

“That’s good. I wish I could be the same way. Did you have fun tonight?” Susan asks her.

“I did.” She nods her head.

“What was the best part?” Susan wants to know she wants to know if she did enjoy it and most times if someone’s hesitating, they’re lying.

“The lap dance I have never spanked another woman’s ass before. Never had one get so close, whispering in my ear.” Hailey giggles and sits down beside her.

“Nothing else interested you?” Susan asks, unzipping her hoody and Hailey’s eyes go directly to her breasts.

“Sorry.” Hailey blushes when she’s been caught.

“Don’t be sorry, I have a lot of people looking at them most of the time, even when I’m not on stage.” She giggles.

“You know, I do private showings too. House parties.” Susan tells her, getting up from the couch and seeing that there’s a radio in the living room she turns it on.

“What are you doing?” Hailey laughs at her as she bounces to the music that’s coming from the speakers.

“Even after I get out of work I like to unwind.” She giggles and slowly strips out of her boots, lowering her pants as Hailey continues to watch.

When she’s down to her panties and bra Hailey notices that she’d changed sometime during the show because they are matching black now.

She doesn’t want Susan to dance around her living room, but she doesn’t want her to stop either, finding herself in a tough spot.

Hailey laughs as she makes her way back to the music getting closer and closer to her as Susan’s ass cheeks bounce against each other.

“I don’t even know how to twerk!” Hailey shouts out over the music and covers her face.

“Come on, it seems that you were having more fun at the club. Let loose! It’s still your birthday.” Susan laughs at her.

Hailey knows that she’s right. What’s the matter with a private showing? It’s not like she hasn’t seen Susan like this.

“Spanking it.” Susan giggles.

Hailey does, she slaps one ass cheek and then the other. She can see the back of Susan’s panties and watches as not only does her ass cheeks bounce but her eyes go lower seeing that her lips that are tucked away in the panties are as well.

“There you go.” Susan encourages her, bending down lower just in time to have Hailey spank her again, only she moves up quickly and feels Susan’s fingers slip and they touch her between her legs.

Hailey blushes, but she hears Susan moan. She doesn’t move her fingers right away and she watches as Susan twerks higher and watches her fingers sliding back and forth over the wetness that she feels.

She takes her fingers away quickly hearing Susan’s moans of pleasure turning into something much more.

“I’m so sorry,” Hailey tells her, clearing her throat when the song ends, and Susan goes to shut the radio off.

“Why would you be sorry? We’re just having fun.” Susan rolls her eyes at her.

Hailey laughs and feels like a young adult again. How she would like to be a young adult and feel this way all the time.

“Just because you’re a year older doesn’t mean that you don’t know how to have fun. I’m sure that you do.” Susan is breathing heavily, and Hailey is concentrated on that.

“I do.” Hailey laughs at her.

“Where’s your boyfriend?” Susan asks seeing that there’s no one else in the house but her.

“I don’t have one, I haven’t had one for a few years.” Susan tucks her black hair behind her ear. Susan bites back a moan.

She looks down at Hailey’s dress and wonders if she’s just as excited as she is. Wanting to find out, knowing that she just can’t slide her dress up.

“Come on, it’s your turn.” Susan winks at her, going back to the radio.

“What do you mean, my turn?” She giggles her eyes growing wide.

“You can dance to anything you don’t need to have a pole in front of you. I don’t.” Susan shrugs her shoulders like it’s no big deal.

“Right, I’m not going to prance around here acting foolish.” Hailey rolls her eyes, but the thought of her doing so makes her catch her breath.

“No one is going to see it but us. See, this is how you get old.” Susan shakes her head, pouting at her and then she gives her a silly grin.

“All right, all right,” Hailey tells her, getting off the couch.

Susan finds a song that she will be able to dance to and she sits down on the couch watching as Hailey starts slowly to the beat of the music.

Hailey hears Susan clapping and swings her hips back and forth, turns so that her back is to Susan and finds more confidence in herself, lifting her arms over her head and shaking her ass to the beat of the music.

“Yeah! Take it off girl!” Susan claps and cheers, whistling.

Hailey laughs at her but brings her hands to the sides of her dress and quickly whips it off her before she can have any second thoughts.

She continues to shake it to the music, turning to face Susan.

“How about you give me a lap dance. You can make me feel silly like I did you earlier.” Susan tells her.

Hailey covers her face and laughs at her, letting her hand slide down her neck.

“I wouldn’t know the first thing.” Hailey shakes her head.

“I can take you step by step,” Susan assures her.

Hailey’s not sure where this is coming from, maybe she doesn’t want to feel old. Maybe she wants to prove to Susan that she does know how to have fun. Though she doesn’t need to prove anything to her.

“All right.” She agrees as Susan moves from the couch to the leather chair. Sitting back in it.

“Bring your foot upon the armrest, move your hips back and forth,” Susan tells her as another song begins to play.

Hailey does just what she says.

“Yeah, that’s good.” Susan looks between her legs and does see a wet spot that’s barely there against Hailey’s white panties, but it’s there.

“Good, now bring your hand around the back of my neck, gripping gently,” Susan instructs her further and moves closer to Hailey.

Hailey does it, thrusting her hips a little faster. Susan moves a little closer to her, so close that Hailey can feel the hot breath at her panties.

When she looks down at Susan, she’s staring up at her, showing her that she wants to show her that it’s just a dance.

“Great, now take your foot off the arm and bring thrust your upper body.” Susan makes it sound so simple and Hailey finds out that it is.

She thrust her breasts in Susan’s face and Susan watches them jiggle at her, barely touching her. There’s a smile on her face.

“Now turn around and bend. Spread your legs a little wider and thrust those hips as fast as you can.” Susan shrugs her shoulders.

“It’s that simple?” Hailey asks her.

“Yes, it’s that simple.” Susan laughs at her, shaking her head and Hailey feels silly for asking.

She spreads her legs and Susan likes the look of her ass in the panties that she’s wearing, how it almost looks like a thong, but it doesn’t show as much skin.

The faster she thrusts her hips the more Susan wants to spank her the jiggling ass cheeks, looking down and seeing how the puffed lips that are hiding.

Chapter Four

“I can see that you want to spank me. Go ahead, spank me.” Hailey giggles, teasing her and shaking her ass just a little more.

Susan does, she isn’t going to be told twice. She spanks one and then the other, realizing how hard she had spanked Hailey, she begins rubbing and massaging her ass cheeks.

The song almost over, she runs her hand down just a little and touches under and between her legs.

She finds herself massaging Hailey and though Hailey is staring straight ahead now she can feel the wetness growing as she continues to pet and rub.

Hailey gasps when the music is finally over and closes her eyes tightly.

“It’s been a long time,” Susan whispers to her, licking her lips.

That’s when Hailey moves away from her, hearing the whisper and knowing that she can’t do it. She just can’t.

“You were liking it.” Susan giggles at her.

Hailey can’t deny that fact. She knows that she can’t.

“We both are hot and bothered, no one has to know about this; we don’t even have to take our clothes off,” Susan tells her, clearing her throat.

When Hailey stops in the middle of the room Susan’s afraid that she’s gone too far.

“What do you mean we don’t have to take our clothes off?” Hailey looks at her confused.

“Go get on a tighter pair of panties and I will show you.” Susan feels her heart hammering against her chest.

Hailey leaves the room and goes upstairs. Knowing that this is the way out for her she can change her mind if she wants to. This is time if she’s going to.

“Stop being such a baby,” Hailey mutters to herself.

She’s thirty and she’s never had another woman touch her, not even in college. She has to admit that she liked Susan touching her more than she thought she would.

She liked that Susan spanked her, took the risk of going lower and she quickly gets out of her panties.

She goes to her bottom drawer and takes out the red thong that she had gotten over a year ago. She hadn’t thrown it away, but she wouldn’t wear it either because it was too tight.

Not wanting to go down without a matching bra she takes out the red lace almost see-thru bra and puts it on quickly.

Susan is wondering if she might have changed her mind, if she had been too strong with her. Knowing damn well she should’ve just had Leslie for the night, she never should’ve come here. She gets out of the chair and as she does, she hears the footsteps coming down the stairs.

Sitting down on the couch she watches Hailey enter the room. Her eyes grow wide and she can’t believe what a goddess Hailey is.

“Too much?” Hailey asks her.

“Perfect.” Susan shakes her head and watches as Hailey makes her way to her.

Susan sees that she has bigger breasts than Leslie, she has a better body than Leslie. Licking her lips, she can’t believe how nice her breasts bounce in the short distance from the doorway of the living room to the couch.

“All right, so I don’t know how to do this,” Hailey whispers, sucking in her breath and letting it out slowly.

“I don’t mind showing you. It’s almost like a lap dance,” Susan tells her, spreading her legs and watching Hailey’s eyes go between them.

“Come here, straddle me. I know that you know how to do that.” She giggles and Hailey feels a little better.

Hailey gets on top of her, gasping when she feels their breasts graze against each other. Susan moans as Hailey sits on top of her.

“All right, put your hands on the back of the couch on either side of me,” Susan tells her, licking her lips.

Hailey smiles at her, she feels better knowing that Susan can’t seem to take her eyes off her body.

“Like this.” She asks, feeling Susan spreading her legs further apart.

“Yes, just like that. Now rub against me.” She looks down between their legs and Hailey can’t bear to watch.

She slowly does it. She rubs against Susan through their thin, tight, panties, and she feels herself getting turned on.

“Maybe we should try it another way,” Susan tells her, she can feel her but not that well.

“Am I not doing it right?” Hailey asks her.

“You’re doing fine, there’s just still too much room between us.” She assures her, watching Hailey get off the couch.

Hailey looks down at the floor and Susan makes her way to her.

“Right here on the floor. Lay down and spread your legs as wide as you can. Let me do the work. If you like it, next time you can.” Susan whispers against her ear and Hailey feels the nubs in her bra getting hard.

“Yes, you do like me whispering to you.” Susan runs her hands slowly up and down her bra, pressing her palms against her nubs and rubbing them.

Hailey sucks in her breath and lets it out slowly.

“It’s okay to enjoy it, Hailey. It’s perfectly fine.” Susan whispers to her.

That’s when Hailey let out a soft whimper before Susan steps away.

Hailey slowly gets on her knees, then onto her back looking up at Susan who is taking in the scene in front of her.

Susan watches as Hailey spreads her legs wide.

“What are you doing?” Hailey asks her, wondering what’s taking her so long.

“I also like to take in the beauty of a woman. You are very beautiful.” Susan explains to her, feeling her face turning red.

Hailey can see it and she feels much better knowing that she can attract someone as young as Susan. Let alone the same sex.

“Have you ever fantasized about something like this?” Susan asks her, getting between her legs now.

Hailey had back in college but had never gone through with it. She would never find someone who would want to experiment with her back then.

“I can see it in your eyes that you have thought about it,” Susan whispers to her, kissing the middle of her stomach and heading upward.

Hailey licks her lips and loves the way that Susan kisses up her body, the way Susan keeps eye contact with her.

When she feels Susan’s mouth on hers, she opens her mouth slightly, inviting Susan’s tongue into her mouth.

“There you go,” Susan whispers to her, hearing Hailey moan and slowly their tongues begin to dance together.

Susan brings her body down onto her, kissing her a little more.

Susan can feel how wet she is through the panties and breaks the kiss. Straddling her she can see that Hailey still wanted to kiss her.

“You’re going to enjoy this.” Susan grins down at her, giving her the same wink that she had given to her while she was at the club.

She pushes her panties down on Hailey’s and hears the shocking gasp come from her mouth. She puts her hands-on Hailey’s breasts, squeezing them only slightly as she begins to thrust slowly.

“This feels better, doesn’t it?” Susan asks her, raising her eyes.

“Yes,” Hailey whispers to her, followed by a soft whimper as Susan continues to push down and thrust a little harder.

“Yeah, this is so good. I can feel the wetness. I can feel…” Susan tells her, licking her lips.

Susan doesn’t have to tell Hailey what she feels because she feels the same thing. Their lips spreading, their jewels touching through their panties and she can feel Susan’s sliding up and down against hers.

“Then you go faster and faster.” Susan grunts at her, feeling her breasts bouncing inside her bra.

Hailey grips her hips tightly, wanting to bring her down for another kiss, wanting to feel her body on hers again.

She doesn’t know where this urgency is coming from; doesn’t understand what she’s been missing for so long now.

Hailey cries out for her, feeling her panties soaked now because she’s cumming for Susan. Susan nods her head, encouraging her.

“I told you that it would feel good, I told you that you would like this. God, I can feel your wetness soaking into my panties.” Susan’s panting for her now, loving how wet she can get Hailey.

“I want you,” Hailey whispers to her, her eyes growing wide. She hadn’t thought about the words before they came out of her mouth.

The words that fly out of Hailey’s mouth makes her cum for her. Hailey nods her head, bringing her back and forth, pushing her down harder as Susan continues to straddle and thrust against her.

When they are both done Susan gets off her and gets on her knees, looking between Hailey’s legs.

Hailey giggles and shakes her head, seeing just how wet she is.

“I can’t believe I just did that.” Hailey shakes her head, wiping the sweat from her face.

“You liked it?” Susan asks her, licking her lips.

“Liked it? It felt amazing!” Hailey cries out and can’t stop grinning.

“All on your thirty birthday, happy birthday to you.” Susan throws her head back and laughs. She can’t believe how intense it was.

“Thank you.” Hailey sits up.

“Now can you imagine how great it would’ve been with no panties on?” Susan asks her.

“I can only imagine.” Hailey shakes her head.

“Next time we can do it with no panties,” Susan tells her.

“It was that good that you want to do it again?” Hailey gives her a shocked look.

“With you, yes.” Susan can’t help but laugh at her.

Hailey bites down on her lip and slowly gets to her feet. She can’t believe that she had let another woman please her.

Never thinking in a hundred years that it would ever happen, she had given up on the idea when she was younger.

“You didn’t know that it was a gay club, did you?” Susan asks her.

“I didn’t until you came out on the stage. I looked around quickly and noticed that there were no men there. My friends too. They all gave me an apologetic look.” Hailey rolls her eyes.

“I love it when women come in for the first time and realize that they’re at the wrong place. I guess the saying is true for you too.” Susan points at her, getting up and sitting on the couch.

“What?” Hailey asks her.

“You were at the wrong place at the right time. You never would’ve been doing this if your friends hadn’t made the mistake.” Susan raises one eyebrow.

“No, You’re right. We never would’ve met. This opportunity for you, I think it’s going to work out. We don’t work on the weekends, so you have some time to yourself if you want. You don’t have to stay here. You can go back home too, if you want.” Hailey tells her.

“I’m not going home tonight I know that I’m going to have to sometime this weekend. I have to get the notebooks that I have. My laptop. I have all my stories on that. They are edited and ready for release if you want to take a look at them.” Susan gets down to business now that the pleasure is over.

“I’m not an editor. If you’re happy with your work, then all we have to do is start getting it out there.” Hailey tells her.

“Great, then we are already what twelve steps ahead?” Susan asks her, thinking about the future. Wondering what it would be like to have her books out there.

“Yes. I can set up radio interviews and we can get it in the papers. We can do a lot of things with what we have.” Hailey tells her.

“You can do that for me?” Susan asks her.

“My name has proven itself time and again. I’m popular all over the place, not to toot my own horn.” Hailey tells her.

“No, I know that you are. I’ve seen the billboards around the city, I remembered why you looked so familiar when I took your business card.” Susan confesses to her.

Chapter Five

Before Hailey even gets up in the morning her phone’s ringing. Opening her eyes, thinking that it’s her alarm clock, Hailey glares at her phone that continues to go off.

“What?” She asks when she sees that Belinda is the one calling her now.

“What do you mean what? We didn’t know that you left until we went looking for you. You could’ve told one of us that you were leaving. That’s what you could’ve done.” Belinda points out to her.

“I’m sorry about that, someone needed help and so that’s what I did. I helped them.” Hailey clears her throat and knows that she should’ve said something.

“We took you out to have fun, did you have fun?” Belinda asks her.

“I did, a lot of fun. I haven’t felt that young in a long time.” Hailey tells her, feeling a smile come across her face.

“Good, the girls are going to like hearing that. Are you sure that everything is all right? It’s not like you to just ditch out without saying something.” Belinda presses the phone to her ear remembering last night she was smiling.

“I promise that I’m okay. That girl that was on the stage, the first one that walked in?” Hailey asks, the smile growing wider across her face.

“Coquette.” Belinda giggles into the phone.

“I’m going to get her job. She’s the one that needed help last night. She had to get out of there, and she had to get out of there fast.” Hailey knows that she can’t tell her the rest, can’t tell her that there was an after-party without them and what had happened.

“I knew she had a thing for you. You just be careful. Make sure that she doesn’t take your money.” Belinda teases her.

“Trust me, I’ll be careful. There’s nothing to worry about. I’m just helping her with a few things and then when she doesn’t need my help, I’m sure that she will be gone.” Hailey tells her, making it sound like it’s no big deal.

Secretly she hopes that it’s not going to be like that. She knows that they will be working together but doesn’t know how long Susan is going to stay at the house with her.

It could be for the weekend, could be for just the day.

There’s a light knock on her bedroom door before she gets off the phone and Hailey looks up to see that Susan is dressed in clothing Hailey let her borrow.

“I’m going to take the bus and head home. I will be back in a little bit, with my books and a few things,” Susan explains to her.

Hailey gets off the phone quickly and gets out of bed.

“I can give you a ride home,” Hailey tells her, wanting to make it a little easier on her. Wanting to get these books up and running.

“Maybe it’s just best that I go home and do this on my own. I don’t want them questioning me in front of you. I’m pretty good at lying when it comes to not getting into trouble with my parents.” Susan gives her a small smile.

Hailey can’t wait until she can help Susan so that she doesn’t have to sneak around anymore.

“They’re going to be proud of you. When they see your books on the shelves, in the papers, magazines they’re going to be proud of you and you can put the rest of this behind you.” Hailey gives her a soft smile getting out of bed and heading downstairs with Susan.

“I would like that. I really would.” Susan grins at her.

“It’s going to happen. I know that it is.” Hailey smiles at her, remembering last night as she opens the front door for her.

“I’m not going to be gone long, maybe I can get a friend to drop me back off.” Susan winks at her, letting her know that she didn’t forget about last night.

Hailey leans against the door frame of the house and watches as Susan walks down the street. The city bus station isn’t that far, and Hailey continues to watch her until she walks around the corner.

Closing the door behind her she gets on her website when she walks into the living room. There’s nothing like the present to start a website for Susan they could go back and add the titles and even though it’s Saturday she makes a few phone calls to people who owe her a few favors knowing that she’s worked for them before on the weekends and now they have bestseller books.

Hailey’s not sure if it’s because she likes Susan or if she wants to help someone make their dreams come true.

Either way, she’s having fun setting up the site. She’s making different colors and by the time she looks up, it’s almost lunchtime with no signs of Susan yet.

She doesn’t expect a phone call because she hadn’t given Susan her number, she thinks about calling the club knowing that they’d be open, but not for business.

Hailey doesn’t want to believe that she had gone back there instead of her parent's place, but if she can lie to her parent’s she can lie to anyone.

“Stop thinking like that,” Hailey whispers to herself.

Saving what she’s created on the computer already she goes to take a shower in hopes that by the time she gets done that Susan will be back at the house.

The warm water rushes over her body, she feels the smile come across her face again it had been the first time and she can’t stop thinking about how good it had been. How she had felt when Susan was making her feel special.

She closes her eyes tightly and shakes her head. Needing to get the thoughts of last night out of her mind.

Hailey knows that she has to think about the work product of the books that Susan’s supposed to be bringing over.

She paces the floor of the living room wondering where she could be, wondering if something had happened to her.

Hailey saw a bright future for Susan and all she had to do was come back with the books, not stop anywhere else, not talk to anyone else unless her parents had confronted her and she had told the truth knowing that she had been caught in a lie.

Hailey found herself worrying about someone that she hardly knew. It was hard not to worry about her since she had seen her on the stage, the lap dance that was done for her, the drink and glass of water. How she had invited her back to the house as if she were a superhero and now there’s nothing.

It was like Susan had never been there she hadn’t left anything to show proof that she had been at the house, not even her panties and Hailey knows that if she never sees her again it doesn’t mean that she’s going to be gone from her mind. That she’s going to forget what happened between them.

“Come on,” Hailey whispers to herself, thinking about book covers and what angles to go with. There are a lot of good things happening all Susan has to do is show back up at the house so that she can set a calendar date and call back the ones that had offered to help her.

Book-radio was willing to have Susan on-air three days out of the week for a month. Hailey knew that if she could just Susan back to the house that everything would work out just the way it was supposed to.

The first thing that needed to happen was for Susan to come back.

Hailey looks at her phone and wonders again if she should call the strip club. It’s of importance, it’s about Susan’s future and how she climbed the ladder like she was talking about last night.

“Why the hell are you doing all of this, you hardly know her,” Hailey grumbles at herself in the hall mirror that is hanging on the wall above a small stand that holds a flower pot and she waters the plant that’s inside of it.

Hailey shakes her head, she could be waiting and wasting her time for nothing. If Susan doesn’t come back, she knows that she’s going to look as if she’s slipping in the publicist world. It wouldn’t be good for her image if that were the case.

Hailey has enough to worry about, her books that she one day wants to get published instead of publishing other books, meeting strangers with different ambitions when she has her own. Different storylines that they have. Knowing she has her own that no one has ever heard of before.

Behind the scenes, how Hailey feels, and she knows that one day she’s going to take the time for herself and get her books off the ground.

“You can do this. You’re going to make it just like all the others who made it. The reason they did was because of you, you’re the one who made it happen for them.” She whispers to herself.

Hailey sits down in the living room and turns on the television, flipping through the channels she knows that there isn’t anything good on, it’s Saturday and she flips through the movies that are on the shelves that are hanging to the wall.

If she has to wait all day for Susan she will. She has faith that Susan is going to make something of herself, that she’s going to go places.

She’d never felt so attached to another writer before. Not because of what happened, but because of her back round, and how she has to make her money. How she has a dream, at the same time working her ass off to survive and still keeping that dream alive in the back of her mind.

Hailey feels a smile come to her face, no matter what happens she knows in her heart that she has helped Susan. She had brought the hope to Susan last night, her card.

The card.

Hailey’s eyes pop open.

There’s a way to reach Susan if she truly wanted to and a way for Susan to get a hold of her. They each have their business cards.

Why hasn’t Susan called her? Has she been ignoring her all day? Maybe Belinda was right, that she had to watch Susan.

Maybe her thoughts were right that once she got what she wanted she was gone. Hailey has to go with her thoughts until proven wrong.

She can’t say that Susan wouldn’t do anything like that, only meeting her one night. Not knowing a lot about her, just that she’s into women. She works at a strip joint and that she wants to become a writer.

The only reason she had brought Susan home last night was that she thought Susan was in trouble, the way she had rushed out of there.

“You’re a good person,” Hailey whispers to herself, she doesn’t need any convincing there.

Has she become so lonely that she had turned to another woman, that she needed a woman’s touch to feel better?

Had Susan thought that she wasn’t all that good, that maybe she had gotten what she wanted last night and had to exit coming up with her lies about going to get her things and coming back.

If that’s the case Hailey just made herself look like a fool in many different ways trying to help her. She hopes it’s not the truth, but what if it is?

Chapter Six

Susan looks at the clock on the wall, she’s downstairs in her basement bedroom. She should’ve already been back to Hailey’s house by now and she doesn’t know if she’s going to make it there any time soon.

“Where have you been?” Leslie asks her for the hundredth time.

“I told you that I couldn’t come home last night. My uncle, he was in the club and I don’t know if he saw me. I have to gather a few things. My computer, my notebooks. I have a lot to do and I have a way out to make my books sell.” Susan tells her, sitting at the foot of her bed, gathering the clothing that she’d had picked out earlier in the day and throwing it into a bookbag.

“So, you’re not coming back to the club?” Leslie asks, shaking her head.

“I didn’t say that.” Susan lifts her head and glares at her.

“You didn’t deny it either. Are you coming back or not?” Leslie points a finger at her.

Susan has been skirting around this question since Leslie popped in. She doesn’t want to fight with her, doesn’t want to take the chance that Leslie is going to say something.

“I don’t know. I just don’t know. I have another job, which means that I will have two jobs. I am going to be working on books. I have a lot of things that I’m going to do, things that are going to help me reach my goal. Are you going to stay at the club all your life?” Susan asks her.

“It’s good money, it helps me with my apartment I don’t want anything that should be good enough,” Leslie tells her, sitting on the bed.

“Right, what happens when you don’t have a career at thirty? Maybe forty years old? You can’t work at the strip club for the rest of your life. Don’t you want to make a name for yourself? To have people remember you when you’re gone?” Susan asks her, zipping up her bag she looks at her notebooks and her laptop knowing that she’s ready to go.

She has to get out of her, she doesn’t want Hailey thinking that she just ditched out on her. She has Hailey’s card in her back pocket.

Thinking about calling a cab as soon as she leaves the house with her things instead of waiting for the bus again.

Glad that she hadn’t let Hailey talk her into giving her a ride. Leslie would’ve seen where she had been all night.

“What’s going on with us? We were supposed to meet up last night and come back here. To have fun. Did you forget about that?” Leslie asks her softly, feeling a little hurt.

“I didn’t forget. I just couldn’t come back thinking that my parents were going to question me. I would be out of this bedroom, out of this house.” Susan shakes her head.

“Right, not like you don’t have money to find a place,” Leslie mutters, not wanting to believe that it’s over between the two of them but the vibe that she’s getting is telling her exactly that.

“I have the money do you know how hard it is to find a place without credit, without someone to state that I’ve been a good tenant? My parents aren’t going to give me that if they find out what I’m doing. I want to work in a nice environment to be able to make my lie into the truth. I don’t want to hurt anyone.” Susan explains to her.

“Well, you’re hurting me,” Leslie whispers to her, feeling the tears coming to her eyes.

“How?” Susan glares at her.

“I tried calling you numerous times last night to find out where you were when we closed. There was no answer from you. I tried to find out where you’d gone, and no one knew. I highly doubt that your uncle had seen you. All I know is that the bartender saw you sitting there one second and the next time she turned you were gone.” Leslie doesn’t want to hurt anymore, but she doesn’t want a lie either. She wants the truth.

Susan has a sick feeling in her gut, and she has to get rid of it, she has to tell Leslie the truth even if it means risking Leslie going to her parents.

“Last night I went to Hailey’s house.” Susan clears her throat.

“The girl that you gave a lap dance to, the birthday girl?” Leslie asks her sharply.

“Yes, she helped me get out of there. We took the limo that her friends had rented and went back to her place. I’m not sure if it’s because of the music, the way she was dancing or maybe it was just the high of knowing that it had been her first lap dance last night, but…” Susan’s voice trails off.

“Come on, don’t keep me waiting.” Leslie snaps at her.

“We had sex. It was her first time and I was excited. I hadn’t had it for a while. I know that I was supposed to meet up with you. I know that we were supposed to please each other, but there was just no way that I could come back here.” Susan feels the tears welling up in her own eyes when she looks at Leslie.

Leslie’s face is red, the tears of anger and hurt are sliding down her face. The last thing she had wanted to do was hurt, Leslie.

“I can’t believe that you’d do something like that to me.” Leslie finally tells her as she wipes her tears away.

“It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t I can assure you of that.” Susan whispers.

“It doesn’t make it right. How could you just throw away what we had?” Leslie shakes her head.

“I don’t know what you were expecting of me. We are friends, we got close and we found out that we truly enjoyed making a woman happy. It’s not like we’re together. It’s hard to even find time to spend with one another and you’re going to act like this?” Susan asks her, trying to turn it around.

“We might not have been an item but everyone at the club sure thinks that we are. Neither of us had told them differently and now look at you. All because you were fixated on a woman who doesn’t know anything about lap dances, doesn’t know anything about a woman’s touch?” Leslie turns her back on her.

Susan wants to tell her to wait, to let her explain that she’s sorry but she doesn’t stop Leslie from opening the door and heading out of the basement apartment that she has.

She looks out the window and watches Leslie get into her car, hearing it start-up she knows that Leslie is upset, furious.

If Leslie wanted to throw her under the bus, she would’ve. She would’ve gone right upstairs and told her parents.

They were both up there having coffee and laughing, she can hear them. Leslie doesn’t want to do anything to her, she just wants to getaway.

Susan throws herself onto her bed, on her back and stares at the ceiling. One day she will make everything right with everyone that she’s ever hurt.

She closes her eyes and pictures Hailey there, thinking about last night and her thoughts drift away from Leslie as she feels a smile come to her face.

It was amazing, she wants to teach Hailey how good it can feel. Better than last night, hoping that she still has a chance when she gets back to the house.

Sitting up quickly Susan finds the card that Hailey has given to her and calls her. She wants to explain why she’s so late, to apologize for not being there sooner.

“Hello?” She hears Hailey’s soft voice in her ear.

“I’m going to call a taxi and be on my way. I have all my things I didn’t realize that it was going to take so long. I had one of the girls from the club come and talk to me.” Susan tells her.

“Is everything all right?” Hailey asks, concern in her voice.

“Yes, everything is all right. I called you the first chance I got.” Susan tells her, making herself feel a little better about the situation with Leslie.

Susan tries to convince herself that she had done nothing wrong last night, that what she had done was teach a woman that had never been touched by another woman before that it can be just as good if not better than any man touching her.

“Good, I have a few things to tell you when you get here.” Hailey is excited, she wants to tell her right now but knows that she can’t it will keep her at her parent's place longer.

“All good news I hope.” Susan sighs, that’s the only kind of news that she wants to hear. Knowing how rough her day has been already.

“Don’t worry about that, just get here.” Hailey laughs in her ear and Susan feels her heart racing as she presses the phone harder against her ear.

“I will. Soon as I get off the phone with you, I’m calling the cab.” Susan giggles and bites down on her lip.

She waits for Hailey to hang up the phone first and then puts her phone down. Going to the closet she strips out of her clothing and throws on a black bra, a see-thru red shirt and a pair of white jeans. Her high boots and looks at herself in the mirror.

“You look hot,” Susan tells herself, giving herself a wink.

She calls the cab and grabs her things, waiting by the window downstairs in the basement when she sees it pulling up, she doesn’t even bother going upstairs to tell her parents that she’s leaving again.

She wonders if they even know that she’s home.

The less she sees of her parents the more she doesn’t have to explain to them, the more she doesn’t have to converse with them and have them find out all this time that she’d been lying to them.

Just thinking about getting caught makes her stomach turn, knowing that they wouldn’t approve of the truth.

Her uncle hadn’t seen her there wondering what he was doing there, to begin with now that he hadn’t noticed her the curiosity is killing her.

Before she has a chance to think any more of it, she sees the taxi and hurries out to it with some of her things.

Giving the taxi guy the address, she slips into the backseat with her belongings, her heart racing as she thinks about her mother seeing her and rushing out to find out where she’s going with her things.

None of that happens though, she looks for any signs of it. Her mother and father are probably still upstairs laughing and talking over coffee.

The way it should be.

Normal family life, thinking that there’s nothing wrong with their daughter, not wondering why she hasn’t even come upstairs to say hello.

Susan doesn’t talk to the driver until she points out the house afraid that he’s going to drive by it.

She gives him the money and a nice tip before getting out and heading to the front door.

Hailey already has the door open for her and the smile on her face makes Susan weak in the knees.

The thought of needing to tell her everything comes to the surface and she knows that she has to get it out before they get too close. Before there are any feelings involved. She doesn’t want to hurt two people with the truth, but she’s not much of a liar. The only thing that she’s truly lied about is what she does for a job. That’s it.

That one lie is making her sick to her stomach. It makes her stay away from her parents. Like Hailey has told her, she can’t continue to lie.

Chapter Seven

“It’s so good to see you. I thought that I was going to have to wait until later. Afraid that you might have changed your mind.” Hailey tells her, shutting the house door and watching Susan carry her things to the living room.

“No, I was caught up with something.” Susan bites down on her lip.

“Okay, now this is where I want to start,” Hailey tells her, taking out her computer.

“I need to talk to you first. I need to get something off my chest.” Susan tells her, sitting beside her on the couch.

Hailey looks at her and sees that Susan is being serious, she doesn’t know what’s going on, but she can see that Susan is pale.

“All right. Do you not want to go through with this? Do you have cold feet?” Hailey asks her calmly hoping that it’s just that. Nothing more.

Hailey thinks about making herself look like a fool needing to call the radio station and telling them to give the slot to someone else. Thinking about the ads that she already has out for an upcoming new author.

“Nothing like that. This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life.” Susan tells her, shaking her head and watching Hailey relax.

“Then what is it?” Hailey sits the computer down and gets comfortable on the couch, tucking her feet under her.

“There’s this girl, Leslie at the club. I was supposed to meet up with her…” Susan tells her.

“Yes, I remember you telling me that.” Hailey nods her head.

“Well, she came to the house today wondering where I had been. Questioning me until I told her the truth. Until I told her exactly where I was and why. How you had helped me out of the situation I was in.” Susan whispers to her.

“That’s good, it’s all right.” Hailey smiles at her.

“It’s not though.” Susan shakes her head back and forth.

“How so?” Hailey stares at her and Susan knows that she has her undivided attention, she doesn’t look mad, she doesn’t look sad.

She looks confused.

“I was supposed to meet up with Leslie last night so that we could please each other. We aren’t seeing each other by any means. We aren’t in a relationship. Nothing like that. We’re close friends. That’s it. We worked together at the club and she feels as if I betrayed her.” Susan tells her quickly sucking in her breath and letting it out slowly.

“I don’t understand why are you telling me all of this? It has nothing to do with me.” Hailey tells her.

“I told her about the night we shared last night. How it was your first time and I was excited to show you how good it could be. She wanted the truth and I don’t want to lie anymore. I don’t want to hide anything. Just lying to my parents is bad enough. So bad that it makes me want to puke just thinking about it.” Susan confesses to her.

“So, you’ve been thinking about what I’ve said.” Hailey smiles at her.

“Yes, but at the same time, the truth has hurt Leslie. I didn’t lie to her at all. Hiding and lying are the same things. I didn’t get further into this and have you finding out about one incident. I didn’t want you thinking that I wasn’t being honest with you.” Susan bites down on her lip.

“So, you think that this is going to go further?” Hailey asks her, licking her lips.

“Yes, last night told me that it was going to the way you looked at me, the way you smiled when we were done. I can’t believe that you would think I would forget all the emotions that I was feeling then. Do you remember?” Susan asks her.

“Yes, it’s all I’ve been thinking about. I mean other than putting your website together, calling radio stations to have you speak about your books to the ones that are in the radio world three times a week for a month. You know, doing all the hard work.” Hailey pushes her head back against the couch and laughs.

“You’ve managed to do all that for me in such a little bit of time?” Susan asks, her eyes lighting up and she feels the smile growing wider across her face.

“I told you that I had some good news for you. All I need is a yes or no and the spot is yours or it goes to someone else.” Hailey laughs at her.

“I want it, of course, I want it.” Susan grins from ear to ear. Happy to hear the news, amazed at how quickly Hailey could get it done.

“I have friends in the business world that owed me favors and well, I thought that today would be a good day to cash in on them.” Hailey boasts.

“Thank you, thank you so much,” Susan tells her hugging her tightly.

Hailey hugs her back as she thinks about all the good things that are coming Susan’s way. How upset she had looked when she said that they had to talk, glad that Susan had gotten it off her chest.

“You’re not at all worried about what people might say about Leslie coming out with what I’ve told her?” Susan asks her.

“Not at all, it doesn’t matter. What is she going to do, ruin my career? She doesn’t even know me. You haven’t told her step by step, have you?” Hailey asks her.

“No, just the pieces of supposedly betraying her and your name. She calls you the ‘birthday girl’.” Susan explains to her.

“It’s fine, let me call back the radio station and I will show you the website. I need to take a look at your books and see what we can do for a cover page. I want them in print, and I want them where customers can buy them on the web as well if they want to do a quick payment and get the book in just a matter of seconds.” Hailey picks up her cell.

Susan watches her, admiring her and seeing the confidence that she has. She hears her talking to the radio station and the spot is filled for her.

“I don’t know exactly what she has for books, I do know that she has them here right now and I can get back to you tomorrow on what genre it’s in. That way Monday we can come into the station and talk on the air. This is going to boost it for you when it comes to writers that want to be published. I’m going to make payments on the bill, so you don’t’ have to worry about that.” Hailey tells the manager at the radio station.

When Hailey gets off the phone Susan bites down on her lip.

“Look, I don’t mind giving you the cash to have me do this. It’s not up to you to get me there all the way. When it comes to money, I can get it.” Susan tells her.

“I know that you can, I’m expecting that you will.” Hailey grins at her.

Susan’s eyes light up and Hailey just wants to reach over and kiss her she wants to touch her like she had last night.

Just as Hailey leans in for a kiss Susan grabs her laptop not noticing that Hailey was going to kiss her because her eyes weren’t on her.

“Now that you’ve got that taken care of, I want you to take a look at the books that I have on here. The notebooks have more stories that I haven’t typed up yet.” Susan explains to her.

Hailey clears her throat and takes the laptop while Susan opens up one of her first books. She watches Hailey’s eyes as they move the line to line, sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph.

It’s at the end of the first chapter that she looks up from the laptop.

“Horror, you like a lot of thrillers, gore.” Hailey can tell by the first paragraph and she can’t stop reading it.

She doesn’t want to put it down.

“You said that it’s all edited?” Hailey asks her.

“Yes, all of it is,” Susan tells her.

“I’m going to design a few book-covers for you tonight and I will have you go through them tomorrow morning before I call the radio station. This is going to work I don’t want to stop reading the book. If I don’t want to stop, I know the horror fanatics out there won’t want to either.” Hailey tells her.

“You’re not just saying that?” Susan asks her.

“No, I wouldn’t waste my time reading and blowing sunshine up her ass if I thought it was bad. It would be a waste of my time and yours.” Hailey tells her strongly and watches the smirk wash over Susan’s face.

Hailey loves the hope in her eyes that shines.

“You’re going to make. After a month of being on-air and getting your name out there, we’re going to go to libraries, bookstores to sell and advertise throughout the last week on the station that you will be at different places throughout the city. Cali is a big state and we can go from place to place to make your books hit the charts.” Hailey explains to her.

“That sounds like a lot of work.” Susan bites down on her lip.

“It is, but at the same time, you can’t have success without hard work. Without doing the work you have nothing.” Hailey points out to her.

Susan nods her head she knows that she’s right.

“Monday morning we’re going to get to the office and have you working for me. I’m going to pay you a good amount each week. Whether you want to save it or spend it, that’s up to you. By the way, you talk you’re good at saving money.” Hailey compliments her.

“I am. I have a lot of money in the bank because of the club. I don’t go out and shop like the rest of the girls. I wasn’t brought up without any money, but I don’t see the point in wasting it either. I get what I want and what I need.” Susan explains to her.

“That’s one thing that we have in common.” Hailey giggled at her, throwing her head back against the couch cushions again.

Susan leans over and kisses the side of her neck and Hailey gasps, sucks in her breath. She closes her eyes when she feels Susan’s tongue sliding down the side of her neck slowly.

“I’ve wanted you to do this since you’ve come back,” Hailey confesses to her softly.

“Mm, why didn’t you tell me to? Why didn’t you take control?” Susan asks her softly, bringing her hands to the buttons on Hailey’s shirt and slowly undoing them.

“We had a lot to talk about. Your career. When you’re famous don’t forget about me.” Hailey moans to her when she feels Susan’s hand slowly pull the shirt apart feeling Susan’s hands sliding up her body and how soft they are.

“Now we have a lot of time on our hands,” Susan whispers, bringing her mouth back up and brushing her lips against Hailey’s her hands gently squeezing her breasts.

“Yes, we do.” Susan moans to her, arching her back and pushing her breasts against her hands, wanting Susan’s hands all over her body.

Just as Hailey begins to bring the top of her bra down with the tips of her fingers, they hear a knock on the door and Susan groans as she pulls away from her.

“Bad timing.” Hailey giggles and gets off the couch to go see who it is.

Chapter Eight

Hailey looks out the window and sees that it’s Julie who’s standing there. Waiting for her to come to the door.

“Hey, haven’t heard from you. I was wondering where you’d taken off to last night.” Julie smiles at her.

“I had to help a new friend,” Hailey tells her, she can’t help but smile at the thought of helping Susan.

“Could that new friend be the girl that was giving you the lap dance? She’s pretty cute.” Julie winks at her.

“I’m going to publish some of her books. I want to make sure that it gets around town, so the local radio station is going to do interviews and her talk about her book. Make sure that you’re listening.” Hailey points a finger at her.

“I will be, I have to get to work, I just wanted to stop in and see you for a few minutes. Face to face and make sure that everything’s all right.” Julie reaches out to hug her.

“Thank you.” Hailey hugs her tightly.

“That’s what friends are for. I’m just so glad that you had a good time last night.” Julie tells her, letting her go and turning back for her car.

“I had a wonderful time,” Hailey assures her and watches her get into the car. Watches as Julie pulls away from the curb and out of sight.

She closes the door and locks it behind her, it would be something if she and Susan had gotten in the middle of it and someone just waltzed in like some of her friends do.

She’s always told her friends that they don’t’ have to knock, they can just come in. Now she’s going to have to make sure that no one walks in unless they want a show depending on the moment.

Hailey walks back into the living room but Susan’s not there thinking that maybe she’s gone to the bathroom she waits on the couch for her picking up the laptop and reading some more of the story that Susan has opened up for her.

She doesn’t bring her eyes up until she hears someone clearing their throat and when she looks up, she almost drops the laptop.

Susan giggles at her watching as Hailey puts the laptop down on the couch beside her.

“God, you look gorgeous.” Hailey gasps.

Susan is standing in the doorway of the hallway, and the living room completely naked, she can see how full Susan’s breasts are, how nice they are and how her nubs are showing off for her. She hadn’t seen Susan’s mound without her panties on and it’s nicely shaved. It’s begging to be petted. She licks her lips and feels the heat getting to her.

“I told you that we would take it slow and the next time that we would do it without panties,” Susan whispers to her, licking her lips and walking further into the living room.

“I didn’t think that you were going to do that right now.” Hailey feels her heart racing, she feels her nubs getting hard for Susan and she feels the heat between her legs.

“I can’t think of a better time unless you have more company coming over.” Susan winks at her and giggles a little.

She turns around slowly and Hailey can see her ass cheeks, nothing new. She’d seen them last night during the lap dance for the first time. Realizing then that she was changing, but not thinking anything of it.

Just thinking it was in the moment and that it would be gone. Never once thinking that something would spark between the two of them.

Hailey stands up when Susan’s standing right in front of her.

“How about we take this off?” Susan asks, undoing the buttons again as Hailey nods her head, keeping her eyes on Susan’s.

Susan slides her hands under the shirt and touches Hailey’s shirt. Pushing the short sleeve shirt off her and watching it fall to the floor.

“This.” Susan moans, kissing the hollow of Hailey’s throat as she undoes the clasp and feels the bounce of Hailey’s breasts being set free.

Hailey moans when she feels Susan’s hands on the sides of her breasts, massaging them as Susan brings her mouth to the side of her neck again.

“How about this too?” Susan asks, bringing her hands to the button of her pants.

“Yes. God, yes.” Hailey whines at her.

“Mm, I like that answer.” Susan moans to her, unbuttoning the pants and finding the zipper, slowly sliding it down.

She brings her thumbs to the waistband of her pants and hooks her thumbs inside, sliding them down and off her until they reach her ankles.

Susan looks up and sees the puffy mound in the panties that Hailey’s wearing.

She kisses slowly up one of Hailey’s legs and slides her hands up as well. One on the outside of her legs and the other one on the in.

Susan feels Hailey shaking slightly when she brings her fingertips to the front of her panties, slowly rubbing in a circular motion.

“You like that?” Susan asks, looking up into her eyes.

“Yes,” Hailey tells her, biting down hard on her lip and feeling Susan teasing her, running just one finger up and down the middle of her panties.

“Even if you told me no, I would know that you do. I can see your nubs, Hailey, I can feel the slight wetness.” Susan murmurs to her.

Bringing her fingers up to the waistband of her panties, feeling Hailey’s legs shaking.

“You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?” Hailey giggled at her.

“Oh, yes,” Susan tells her, nodding her head and slowly slides the panties down, growing more excited when she sees Hailey’s mound being exposed to her.

“I knew that it was beautiful. I just knew it.” Susan gasps, pressing her mouth against it, running her lips up and down it and spreading Hailey’s lips teasing her.

Hailey feels the heat of Susan’s breath right there! She opens her eyes wide.

“Wait, not so fast. Not so fast.” Hailey tells her quickly, shaking her head.

Susan grins at her, nodding her head and smelling how sweet she is Susan slowly gets back on her feet.

“I will go as slow as you want me to. Do you want your clothes back on?” Susan asks her.

Hailey shakes her head no.

“Are you sure?” She raises her eyebrows.

Instead of answering verbally Hailey presses her mouth against Susan’s that’s only inches away from her own.

She thrusts her tongue into Susan’s mouth and moans for her brings her hands to Susan’s hips and hears herself whimpering.

“I will take that as you want to touch and play,” Susan whines against her mouth, sucking on Hailey’s lower lip before she lets go of it.

Hailey nods her head up and down, pressing her body against Susan’s and trying to grind.

“Slow down, slow down.” Susan giggles at her.

Hailey’s hands on her ass cheeks feel good, she looks down between them and sees that their mounds are almost touching each other.

“I want it.” Hailey purrs at her.

“Me too, get on the couch and spread your legs wide for me,” Susan tells her, watching as Hailey turns away from her.

She spanks Hailey’s ass and watches it bounce slightly when she turns away and Hailey giggles at her.

“We’re going to try this again?” Hailey asks her.

“Yes, only I’m going to be on top. You’re going to love it.” She winks at Hailey as she sits down on the couch and spreads her legs very slowly.

“You’re such a tease. I love it.” Susan moans to her, looking between her legs watching Hailey’s lips spread for her, seeing the long jewel that’s swelling already. She’d never seen one so long, so puffy.

“You don’t like it?” Hailey asks her, getting ready to close her legs.

“I love it. I’ve never seen one like this before.” Susan tells her quickly and continues to stare at it.

Hailey laughs at her shaking her head. She’s sure that Susan has told many women this before, but when she looks into Susan’s eyes, she can see that Susan is telling her the truth.

Susan goes to her, walking slowly as if in a trance and she can’t hide the fact that she wants her more and more the closer she gets to her.

“I’m going to show you how good it feels. You’re going to feel so much more than you did last night.” Susan whispers to her, straddling her.

Hailey reaches for her hips and Susan shakes her head, taking her by her wrists she pushes Hailey’s hands to the back of the couch cushions.

“I’m going to show you.” Susan raises her eyebrows and rubs her mound against Hailey slowly, feeling the long clit as she runs her mound up and down it.

Hailey is already wet she can feel it. The heat growing between her legs.

“Yes, you’re going to enjoy this.” Susan moans to her, pushing her mound down onto Hailey’s special spot until she feels Hailey’s gem slipping between her lips and touching her own.

“Fuck.” Hailey gasps.

“It feels good, right?” Susan asks her, looking into her eyes.

“Yes.” She nods her head up and down.

“I told you that it would.” Susan giggles, letting go of one of her wrists and running her hand through Hailey’s hair.

She slides herself up and down between Hailey’s legs and feels their breasts grazing each other, touching each other.

“I want you closer.” Hailey whines at her.

Susan moans against her ear and grinds harder, faster, gasping against her ear as she does this. Hailey feels her hands shaking.

Feeling Susan’s breasts touching and grinding against her own she tries to spread her legs even wider.

“Yes, you want more of what I have to offer you,” Susan tells her softly.

“Kiss me, please, kiss me,” Hailey tells her looking up at her.

Susan can see her pleading even more with her eyes and she presses her mouth hard against Hailey’s mouth.

The two are teasing each other with their tongues, whimpering and whining. Susan is trying to get closer and closer to her, grinding her body against Hailey’s.

Hailey cries out for her, but the noise is muffled because Susan refuses to take her mouth off hers, refuses to stop pushing her tongue further and further into Hailey’s.

Thrusting back and forth Susan feels their holes touching and sliding against each other. She loves it when they suck at each other, the wetness between them.

Hearing the wetness makes Hailey cum for her. Turning her on even more knowing that Susan is just turned on as she is.

“Give it to me!” Hailey cries out when Susan takes her mouth off hers catching her breath.

“You like it, god you like it!” Susan cries out over and over again as she continues to slip and slide against Hailey’s body.

Hailey nods her head, feeling one of Susan’s hands running through her hair quickly, the other one behind her back and drawing her in closer holding her tighter as she closes her eyes and feels herself cumming.

“I didn’t think that it could be so good!” Hailey yells out to her, gasping and whining. The heavy breathing between the two of them and she feels Susan cumming just a little more for her.

“I told you that it would be, you didn’t believe me. You didn’t want to believe me.” Susan shakes her head, feeling her body shaking and pressing her forehead against Hailey’s.

“It’s not that I didn’t’ want to believe you. I’ve just never had it before, not like this, not with a woman.” Hailey reminds her.

“I’m going to teach you everything. You’re going to love all of it.” Susan promises her.

“I know that I will. You’ve proven it twice in a row now.” Hailey laughs at her when Susan kisses her quickly on the mouth and slowly slides off her.

Chapter Nine

They don’t get dressed right away. Susan walks around the house like she has lived there forever. Getting ice out of the freezer, getting glasses and filling them with ice before adding the water and bringing it back into the living room.

“Thank you,” Hailey tells her, feeling parched and drinking down half the glass, feeling the water drip off the glass on the side and it touches her breast she gasps at the coldness and the two of them laugh.

“I didn’t realize how thirsty I was,” Hailey tells her, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.

“So, you make a lot of money to take care of this house?” Susan asks, looking around the living room.

“Not all of it. I work two jobs. One for the clients and I have a boss of my own. One that I can afford to quit, but things would be tight.” Hailey nods her head.

“You’re a self-motivated person,” Susan tells her, sitting down in the leather chair and putting her glass on the stand.

“Yes, you have to be in my line of work,” Hailey tells her, giving her the professional tone and clearing her throat.

“I see that I guess at the club it’s the same way.” Susan shrugs her shoulders.

“That’s a good quality to have though, a lot of self-motivation will get you to where you need to be most times. It depends on where you want to go.” Hailey tells her, grinning at her.

“That’s true. Very true.” Susan looks around the room.

“What’s the matter?” Hailey asks her.

“Nothing, I just can’t believe all this is happening. I mean if you hadn’t come into the club, I wouldn’t be here right now. I would suit up for another night. Strange things happen. Like I prayed for this every night, to be someone. Be someone.” Susan looks at her.

“I understand where you’re coming from. I do. For the longest time, I thought that my work wouldn’t take off. I didn’t think that I would be this publicist that I wanted to be. I didn’t think it would get off the ground. I continued to work for it, toward it and I wouldn’t let anyone get in my way.” Hailey looks at her and Susan can see the pride that she has, seeing it happen again only for a different person.

“You’re enjoying this.” Susan smiles at her.

“I am, I can now see myself where you are. The looks that I didn’t see in the mirror. The way people saw me as I’m seeing you. There are going to be a lot of strange looks, prideful looks.” Hailey explains to her.

“Why would you help me? I’m a stranger to you.” Susan gets up.

“There’s something in you. When I saw you sitting at the bar, I knew that you didn’t want to be there. It was a quick look that no one would get unless they were looking at you completely. It was nice to sit and talk with you. I mean when someone talks about their dreams, I want to help to bring them to life. That’s what I’m good at. That’s what I do for a living in the writing world. It’s the best. I just wanted to help.” Hailey tells her.

“No one in my house believes that I can make it, my friends. Just wait and see when they hear my voice on the radio.” Susan can’t wait for them to be surprised.

“Well, they’re going to be super amazed when they see that you have book signings. I think that the first book signing we should give a book away for free. A sample of sorts. Can you write up like a twenty-six paged book? They will love that you care about your readers and leaves them room for starvation. Being hooked on a book is one of the best addictions.” Hailey explains to her.

“I can do that. I can start right now. Do you have a place where I can work in peace? I can’t work with someone in the same room, I can’t have someone looking over my shoulder while I do it.” Susan tells her, feeling silly, feeling the heat come to her face.

“I get it. I think that’s the same way with every amazing writer to tell you the truth.” Hailey laughs at her, biting down on her lip.

“Why are you laughing?” Susan gives her a smug look.

“You just look so cute like that. You don’t even know.” Hailey tells her, shaking her head. She can’t believe she’s let the words come out of her mouth.

“Do you have a place or not?” Susan giggles at her, shaking her head she gets up from the living room chair.

“Down the end of the hall. The last door on the left.” Hailey points toward the doorway that leads down the hall.

“Thank you. I will get dressed and then start to work. I don’t feel as if it’s work, though. I’m excited about that.” Susan tells her.

“Good, because if it feels like work and you have to push yourself to do then you’re not hyped about what you do. I’m glad that I love my job. I wake up every morning excited about getting to work. I look forward to the weekends too, but even then, work comes across my mind.” Hailey grins at her, going back to the laptop and thinking about the book covers and how to advertise.

“Thank you, I will see you around dinner time then,” Susan tells her.

Hailey lifts her eyes just in time to see the smooth, naked, ass disappear and almost laughs at herself.

She can’t believe how her life seems to be changing already. Meeting a young woman at a strip joint and now she’s helping her bring her dreams to life.

“Crazy,” Hailey whispers to herself and gets back to work.

Hailey works the rest of the day to get everything finalized for Monday. She only looks up from the laptop when Susan leans against the door frame.

How are things going?” She asks with a tired smile on her face. She didn’t want to rush Hailey, but it had been hours since they had talked.

“Good, I think that we’re going to be ready for the radio station. I want something that’s going to pop.” Hailey tells her, setting the laptop down.

“I’ve done something too. It’s more than the pages that you wanted, but at the same time, I think that it’s going to come together. It’s the beginning of a book that will come out later if everything goes well.” Susan tells her, sitting beside her and shaking her leg slightly.

“Yeah? Tell me about it.” Hailey looks at her with interest in her eyes. Noticing that it’s important to her.

“I want to come out with my life as a stripper in away. I mean, I don’t want to put my name in it. I can change the name and the description. I just want to get it out there to show that there are times that you think your life is going nowhere and then someone just pops in and says hey, here I am. I’m here to show you that life is going to get better.” Susan feels her face growing hot, she looks down at her fingers instead of at Hailey.

“That’s a great idea. I like that. I can almost bet that it’s going to be a best seller because I know where you’re going with this. It’s based on a true story. Your story.” Hailey’s eyes grow wide, she feels the smile on her face grew wider.

To be so bold and brave to do something like that and how Susan wants to come out to the world that she has been able to turn her life around.

A story six months down the road of everything that she’s achieved within herself, where she got in that time is something that the public wants.

True drama.

“You don’t think it’s over the top?” Susan asks her.

“No, I like it. It’s intriguing. I don’t know much about you myself and that would be a big piece that you’re showing to the public.” Hailey pushes back against the couch and can picture her book, Susan pacing back and forth on how to word things, wanting the book to be perfect.

“I’m going to still do a piece for Monday. I thought that’s what I was doing and then the story took another turn.” Susan assures her that her homework will be done.

“I believe you. I have a laptop in my room that I’m going to put in the office. I’m going to let you use it. I find that it’s a lot easier to type out, edit and do all the things you need to for the pages that you need. You could probably have it done in two hours or so.” Hailey estimates.

“Thanks, my fingers are hurting from the pens that I’ve been using. I usually just use my laptop.” Susan nods her head at the one that’s on the couch.

“I see that.” Hailey laughs a little.

“Are you hungry?” Susan asks, getting up from the couch.

“I am,” Hailey tells her.

“Great, Chinese sounds good you order, and I’ll pay.” Susan grins at her, happy that they are getting along so well.

Susan gets out her wallet and Hailey gets on her phone.

Hailey can see that Susan is determined to do this. She’s excited and can see that even though their done working for the night that Susan’s mind is working overtime on how much information she should put into the book and how much she should leave out.

Not knowing Susan’s backstory, she orders the food and waits for Susan to look at her.

“What?” Susan blushes at her.

Hailey laughs, it’s not the same girl that she had met at the strip joint. Not the same girl that she had been giving he lap dances and taking the pole.

“Why are you laughing at me?” Susan asks her, licking her lips to wet them.

“I can see that look in your eyes. I see it all the time, how much you should put into the story, how much you should leave out. If you want your story told you can’t have too much detail. The readers look for that Susan. They want to know more when it comes to real facts. The ones that only you can tell. If you have to make it into a series that would be great too. Everyone wants to know more. They want to be inspired even if they don’t say it.” Hailey explains to her.

Susan nods her head, taking it in.

“I just think that it’s amazing that you want to do this. That you want to put yourself out there. Maybe not with your name inside of it, but a lot of people are going to know. That’s the risky part. If your parents by the book…” Hailey reminds her.

“I know. I was thinking the same thing.” Susan tells her.

“I don’t want to discourage you. I think that you should come out with it. I think that you should sit down and talk to them about it, not in some book.” Hailey advises her.

“Yeah.” Susan grunts.

“There are some risks to all of this. You don’t know if Leslie is going to say something.” Hailey whispers.

“If she was going to say something, I think that she would’ve done it already.” Susan believes that she knows Leslie, that she wouldn’t just throw her under the bus because they argued.

Chapter Ten

Susan takes the couch for the night, watching television as Hailey goes to her room. Closing the door tightly behind her.

Tomorrow she can rest, she can do what she wants to. Everything was done and organized she closes her eyes and can’t wait to be on air with Susan and see how she’s going to answer the questions to the books that she has come out.

‘Into the night’ a book based on a serial killer, a horror book, and she sees that it’s a great one to sell. Then there’s the one that Susan has to write up for free. Hailey can see that she loves writing, loves typing. She has watched Susan typing after dinner and she’s just as fast at it as she is. Maybe a little faster but she wouldn’t tell her that.

“This is going to come out great,” Hailey whispers to herself, feeling sleep taking over and looking forward to another day.

Hailey has a good feeling that the future is going to bright and successful. In helping Susan and maybe, just maybe she might have found the one that she’s meant to be with.

She had never thought that it would be another woman, but things happen for a reason. It’s a strange feeling, but an exciting one at the same time.

Susan can’t sleep even with the light of the television so that she can see. Looking at her laptop she knows that she could get most of the story done tonight that she needs for the giveaway book signing and reaches for it.

“Success is never just given. You need to work for it. Earn it.” She tells herself and opens the laptop.

The glow of the light makes her eyes squint a little as she starts a fresh page. Her fingers on the keyboard she goes with another horror story.

Her fingers gliding over the keyboard and a smile on her face as she creates what she hopes to be a book that gets her name out there.

She hasn’t heard anything from Leslie and wonders if she will hear from her again wonders what she’s told the girls at work and knowing if she had then they were probably laughing at her right now.

Looking at the time, it’s almost midnight. She knows that the girls are getting ready for another show. Talking about what they want to do after the show. They usually go out to dinner.

“This is more important. It will pay off in the end.” Susan whispers to herself, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. She’s trying to clear her mind as she opens her eyes and reads the paragraph that she’s already written to stay focused.

Susan doesn’t look at the type as she writes through the night, she doesn’t even look up from the laptop until she hears the buzzing of the coffee pot and sees that the light of Sunday morning is coming through the window.

“Damn.” Susan rubs her eyes, saving her work and putting the laptop down.

Getting up she stretches and goes to the bathroom, Hailey’s not up yet she believes that it’s a timed coffee pot where she doesn’t have to get up and make the first pot.

Susan makes herself at home, finding a coffee mug in the cupboard she begins to make her coffee.

She sits down at the small wooden kitchen table that has a few stains on it, seeing that someone had spilled a liquid on it.

Sitting on the stool she thinks about how her life is going to change. She’s excited but she’s scared too.

Never thinking she could do something important with her books. Though it was a lie, to begin with when it came to her parent’s it was starting to become reality.

“Are you ready for the big day tomorrow?” Susan jumps when she hears Hailey’s voice.

“Yes, I’m ready. I worked all through the night so I wouldn’t have to today. I think that it’s going to be a big hit. It’s on the laptop in the living room if you want to see it.” Susan explains to her, letting her know that she’s taking as seriously as she can.

“Good, I am sure it’s wonderful. I will take a quick look over it and if everything goes well tomorrow night, we might just launch the book signing sooner than I had planned.” Hailey walks into the kitchen and to get herself a cup of coffee.

“What do you mean?” Susan asks her.

“Sometimes people call into the show wanting to hear more, wanting to know when the first book is going to come out. Hoping that it’s going to come out soon. You know how you have to wait for a movie to go from the theatre to DVD before you can think about watching it?” Hailey asks, comparing them.

“Yes.” Susan states.

“Like that, readers don’t want to wait for months on end to read a book that sounds interesting, most of all free one and a free signed one. If it’s good that is what’s going to launch you into the book world.” Hailey points at her.

“Are you saying that I’m not good?” Susan raises one eyebrow.

“I’m saying I like your stuff. It doesn’t mean that everyone else will. I want to help you on this path and people like to read different kinds of horror, drama, thrill-seekers.” Hailey assures her that her writing is good from her perspective.

Throughout the day Hailey works and she looks at the newest book. It’s not until almost sundown that she makes her way into the living room.

Susan looks tired, bored.

“I have 100 copies of the book that you’ve written last night on its way. They will be at the office first thing tomorrow morning. I don’t want to sit on this.” Hailey tells her, seeing the shocked look on Susan’s face.

“Yeah. That’s wonderful. I didn’t think that you would want to rush this.” Susan bites down on her lip.

“I’m not rushing it. I think it’s great. I want to get it out there for all the readers. I know that it’s going to be a hit. I can feel it.” Hailey tells her.

That night they go to bed early, Hailey upstairs and Susan downstairs. Susan can’t believe that her parents haven’t called her.

Maybe Leslie had told them, and they didn’t know how to approach her about it. Maybe they knew the truth about where she had been working.

Susan tosses and turns all night, not wanting to think about what could happen. Not wanting to think about arguing with her parents. Knowing that she has to tell them sooner or later.

Susan hears the alarm going off upstairs. She hears Hailey silence it and the coffee beginning to brew.

It’s time to get up, rubbing her eyes she hopes that she can make it through the day that’s ahead of her.

“It’s going to be nonstop. We need to get dressed and on the go.” Hailey tells her as Susan sees the black slacks and the white shirt that she’s wearing. Her hair is done professionally.

“Yeah, I’m going to get dressed,” Susan smirks at her.

By the time that Susan gets out of the bathroom Hailey has both cups of coffee ready and heading for the front door.

She hurries after Hailey, getting into the car and heading toward the office.

“You have a big office or a little one?” Susan asks her.

“A small one, just to get the work done that my clients want. Some contracts need to be typed up. That’s where you come in. You’re pretty fast with the keys. I have to talk to them about how their path is going with books, magazines, what stands out and what doesn’t at least to me.” Hailey continues to rattle on about what she does for her.

“So, I’m your typist.” Susan nods her head, an easy job.

“Yes. I think that you’re going to enjoy it more than lap dancing.” Hailey grins at her.

“I don’t know about that. We’ll have to see.” Susan laughs, shaking her head.

Hailey pulls into a parking lot and gets out. Susan does quickly as they make their way to the brick building.

There are two small rooms as Hailey turns the sign from closed to open. Putting down her briefcase and things that she needs.

Going to her desk she picks up a big folder and hands it over to Susan.

“There’s a room right there, I don’t have a door for it so you’re going to hear people coming and going. It’s Monday so it’s going to be busy, clients are going to want to hear back from me. They’re going to come in etc. Your job is just to type up the things that I have in this folder, print them out, email them, whatever it says to do on the bottom.” Hailey explains to her.

“Great, thanks. I will get to work and allow you to do the same.” Susan nods her head, going to the office and seeing a small wooden desk.

A chair that’s hard plastic and wonders if Hailey ever thought about doing a makeover. Something to talk about in the future.

Susan hears voices in the other office, not loudly as she works throughout the day. She doesn’t stop for any breaks, doesn’t stop to get something to eat.

Her goal is to get everything done that’s in the folder not to impress Hailey but to show her that she’s done a good job in choosing her.

It’s hard to keep her mind off the radio station and the future that’s ahead of her, feeling her heart skip a beat wondering how she’s going to sound.

“Are you ready?” Hailey asks her, raising her eyebrows.

Susan looks at the clock it’s almost five.

“I didn’t realize what time it was,” Susan tells her, surprised at how fast the day has gone.

“We have enough time to get to the radio station. All that we need is in the car. Come on, let’s go make you a best seller.” Hailey winks at her.

Susan blushes and nods her head.

The moment that she’s been waiting for. The future that she’s wanted. It’s time to see if she’s going to make it, if she’s going to become the writer that she wants to be. Someone to be proud of.

“You look ready,” Hailey tells her as they get into the car.

“I’m nervous,” Susan confesses now that they’re headed to the radio station.

“That’s a good thing. It means you’re on your toes.” Hailey tells her.

Susan only nods her head and looks out the window. It’s not long until they’re pulling into the All-Night Q22.

“I don’t know if I can do this,” Susan whispers to her, gripping her seatbelt tightly.

“You can. You will. I’m going to be right there with you and your writing is great. I love it, I want you to know that this is going to be a great night for you. Wait and see.” Hailey points a finger at her.

“You’re never going to know Susan if you don’t try. You need to do this. Reaching our goals in life is sometimes scary, but we push through it.” Hailey continues to talk to her, knowing that this was coming.

“Let’s do this together,” Susan whispers, taking off the seatbelt, opening the door before she changes her mind.

Hailey walks closely beside her to the doors, ready to grab her if she turns and runs but Susan doesn’t do that. She goes through the door that Hailey opens for her and to the left where the small radio room is.

“Henry, this is Susan. Susan, Henry.” Hailey introduces them as Susan sits down behind the table and Hailey sits beside her.

Henry is an older man with graying black hair, dark blue eyes and Hailey can see the twinkle in his eye.

“I always like meeting new writes in hopes that they continue to be great.” Henry talks to Susan’ seeing that she’s ready to take the mic.

There’s a bottle of water set out for them in case they get thirsty.

“We’re going live soon,” Henry tells them, looking at the mic, checking it. Pushing the chair closer to the table.

“What’s your first and last name?” He asks her.

“Susan Jameson.” She tells him.

“Great, I’m going to introduce you and you’re going to start talking about how you want to make something of yourself in the writing world. How Hailey here is helping you through it. Talk about your newest book and the one that’s going to be at the book signing…When is the book signing?” He looks over at Hailey.

“Friday if everything goes well.” She tells him seeing the surprised look on Susan’s face.

“That’s fast.” He grins.

“Yes, I believe in this book that she has. We have the copies at the office and we already have a place set up outside the bookstore in town.” Hailey tells him that they are prepared.

Chapter Eleven

Susan is super excited to hear the news, but she wished that Hailey would’ve told her just how soon the book signing would be.

“I’m on air with your favorite publicist Hailey Scott. I think that we all know her from around town, there have been a lot of writers going to her wanting to make it big. Tonight, we have Susan Jameson on air with us. Ready to talk about her new book, for which there will be a book signing at the end of the week. Folks, it’s going to be a free book signing, the book is free as well. It’s a short book, but I think that you’ll like it.” Henry’s voice calls out through the mic, a smile on his face.

Hailey sits back, her eyes closed. She can hear the smile in his voice. Which means the ones that are listening can hear it as well.

“Tells us about your book.” He turns the mic over to Susan.

“Well Henry, it’s a horror book of sorts. Lots of twists and turns for a short one. I call it Axe Man, it’s about a man that has been in jail for several years; half the community thinks that he’s innocent the other half believe that he’s guilty. I think that the readers are going to enjoy it a lot. It fits in well with today’s society of being judge and jury. It’s supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. With this book, it’s more like guilty until proven innocent.” Susan explains to him.

Hailey feels a big smile coming across her face, she can hear the confidence in Susan’s voice. She can hear how she handles herself. Taking charge, when she opens her eyes, she can see that Henry is impressed as well.

“We’re going to take a little break and will be turning the mic back to Susan when we return,” Henry tells the listeners.

He puts on a song and watches as the switchboard lights up, his eyes grow wide. The smile is on his face even wider.

“What’s going on, what’s all that?” Susan asks him, pointing at the switchboard.

“It means that there are a lot of people calling in.” He picks up the phone and the buttons just keep lighting up.

“What time is the book signing Friday?” A voice asks over the speakerphone.

“Noontime out front of Acadia Book store. We will be set up and ready to go.” Hailey answers, that’s part of her job.

Each caller that they get in asks the same thing and the more the switchboard lights up the happier Susan becomes.

They are on the air for a little while longer, Susan can’t believe the short amount of time that she’s talked to people on the phone, going back on the air.

“That wasn’t enough time.” Susan shakes her head as they make their way back to the car.

“It was two hours is long enough. Trust me.” Hailey laughs at her, seeing that she was nervous before and now that they’re coming out, she’s more confident than ever.

“It was a big hit tonight,” Susan tells her, nodding her head as they go back to Susan’s house.

“It was. I think that this is the start of stardom for you.” Hailey takes her hand and squeezes it as she pulls onto her street.

“We are headed for stardom together. I couldn’t have done it without you. You know that I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.” Susan points out to her.

“I don’t hear that nearly enough. Thank you.” Hailey tells her and Susan’s smile fades from her face quickly.

“What is she doing here?” Susan gasps when they pull into Hailey’s driveway a woman is sitting on the stoop.

“Who is that?” Hailey asks her.

“My mother.” Susan bites down on her lip and gets out of the car.

“How did you know where I was?” Susan asks her, giving her a small smile.

“I heard your voice on the radio. I wasn’t the only one. If it weren’t for Leslie telling me about it, I wouldn’t have known at all. All your friends at the strip joint took a break just to hear you talking about your book release this Friday.” Her mother gets up from the stoop and there’s no smile on her face.

Susan’s small smile slides off her face, at least she doesn’t have to tell them.

“I can’t believe this. I can’t.” Her mother hisses at her, watching as Hailey goes into the house, ignoring the two of them.

Susan is looking for help but she knows that she can’t go to Hailey. She was the one who had told her to come clean.

“I was going to tell you. I was, I didn’t want to tell you too soon.” Susan clears her throat.

“I don’t think that you were going to tell me. I think that you were just going to lie to me until you could make it concrete with your books. All that money wasn’t from selling your books, it was because of that job down at the strip joint.” Her mother glares at her.

“I wanted to tell you, I did. Who told you, Leslie?” Susan asks her.

“One of the girls there called me and I was confused. It wasn’t Leslie though. She didn’t throw you under the bus. Someone else did. You should’ve told me what you were doing instead you were worried that we were going to look down on you.” Her mother points out.

“You were going to. I know you I know dad. You would’ve been ashamed of me.” Susan glares at her this time.

Her mother doesn’t know what to say, she can’t tell her that she was wrong. Instead of answering her she walks past her and goes to her car.

Slamming the door and starting it Susan doesn’t even turn around to watch her mother pull away from the curb. There was no point in it.

Susan goes into the house like nothing’s the matter, she doesn’t see Hailey anywhere in the kitchen or the living room.

“Where are you?” Susan asks.

“Upstairs,” Hailey tells her, standing at the top of the stairs. She can hear Susan making her way to the bottom.

“Why didn’t you…” Susan doesn’t get to finish her sentence.

Looking up at the top of the stairs she sees that Hailey is completely naked. Never thinking that she would be waiting for her to come to the stairs.

“You’re not the only one who’s gained their confidence in a short period. Are you coming up?” She giggles at her, turning away from the stairs slowly and wiggling her ass just a little to show Susan that she wants her.

Susan takes the stairs two at a time, eager to get her hands-on Hailey. It’s been hours, they’ve both been busy getting the book together and making it all possible to make Susan’s dream come reality.

When Susan gets to the bedroom doorway, she can see that Hailey is laying in the middle of the bed, her arms spread wide, her legs even wider.

“You don’t want to waste any time,” Susan tells her.

“I don’t want to lose my confidence. That’s what this is about.” Hailey confesses to her with a little laugh.

“You look beautiful there shouldn’t be any loss of confidence at all.” Susan looks at her buds getting hard, she looks down her body and sees that Hailey is completely ready for her.

“Rollover,” Susan tells her, watching as Hailey turns slowly so that she’s on her stomach.

She wants to do exactly what Susan says, feeling a smile come wider across her face.

“That’s good,” Susan tells her softly, going to bed and reaching out for Hailey’s ass cheeks. Happy with how Hailey’s being.

She feels Hailey flexing her ass cheeks as she digs her nails into them gently, she bites and nibbles on each one making Hailey laugh at her and she feels her heart racing.

Slowly Susan slides a hand down between Hailey’s legs and she touches the backside of her. Dipping her hand down a little further.

“Touch me, touch me in my hot spot.” Hailey gasps, pressing her cheek against the pillow and trying to spread her legs wider for Susan.

Susan giggles at her, slipping two of her fingers into the back of Hailey, feeling the heat, the wetness.

“I didn’t think that you’d be so wet so soon,” Susan whispers to her.

“Tonight, has been a great night, I’ve wanted to do this for you and figured we had to get the work out of the way first. Now we can play.” Hailey moans to her.

“Yes, now we can play,” Susan whispers against the back of her ear and kisses, nibbles down the back of her neck.

Hailey gasps when she feels Susan getting on top of her, feeling her breasts rubbing against the sides of her neck.

“You like that?” Susan whispers to her thrusting against her.

“Yes. I can feel the heat.” Hailey confesses to her.

“Good, you have me turned on so much right now.” Susan murmurs, biting down on her lip and closing her eyes.

Hailey relaxes her body, feeling Susan sliding up and down it, hearing Susan gasping and moaning she giggles just a little.

“What?” Susan asks.

“I want to feel you,” Hailey tells her.

Susan gets off her slowly and watches as Hailey rolls back over.

“This is your favorite position, huh?” Susan teases her.

Hailey nods her head, glad that Susan has asked her.

Susan wraps her arms around her tightly, pressing her body against hers, wanting her to feel everything.

Susan finds her rhythm and is panting against Hailey’s ear. The heat of her breath is making Hailey grow wetter and wetter.

“There you go, I can feel it. Relax.” Susan whimpers against her ear.

Hailey closes her eyes and nods her head up and down quickly, feeling the sweat collecting between them.

Hailey feels herself shaking, she can’t stop herself from doing so. Hearing Susan giggling makes her smile, even more, it feels right. Everything feels right with Susan this close to her.

“Cum with me Hailey, please.” Susan whines at her, biting down on her ear and hearing Hailey whimpering softly.

She feels Hailey cumming for her and lets herself as well. Susan feels Hailey’s hands come around to her ass and feels her hands shaking, feeling her fingers digging into her.

“Yes, do what makes you feel good.” Susan gasps at her, feeling the dizziness and numbness take over her body.

The biggest orgasm that she’s ever had. Comparing it to Leslie this is better than she’s ever felt. Susan has never had this much sweat come off her body, she’s never shaken so much in her life.

Chapter Twelve

When she’s done, she can still feel Hailey cumming for her, biting down on her hip she keeps her smile hidden.

“I can’t describe it. It’s better than being with a man, better….” Hailey tells her, feeling her breathing going back to normal.

“Mm, I am so glad that you said that. I want to talk about us for a moment.” Susan tells her, clearing her throat and sounding serious.

“What about us?” Hailey asks her, feeling Susan’s soft lips on hers.

Susan kisses her face, her nose, her eyelids and remains on top of her.

“I want to find out where this is going to go. I mean here we are, two women who are interested in each other, two women that are going places. Are we going to go hand in hand with this or is it just a friendship and work-ship?” Susan asks her.

“I would like for it to become more. I don’t think I’ve ever invited someone over like this. Since I saw you at the club, I knew that there was something special about you. I want to see where it leads.” Hailey whispers when she feels Susan’s soft lips on top of hers again.

“Good, me too. I just know that I can’t go home any time soon.” Susan licks at her lips and pulls away from her again.

“Your mother, things didn’t go well.” Hailey guesses.

“No, not well at all. I have enough money to look for a place. I can find one cheap enough, that’s not the problem. I have nowhere to stay until a place comes through.” Susan explains to her.

“Yes, you do.” Hailey nods her head.

Susan smiles at her, feeling better about her situation.

“I can even do you one better. I will move stuff around in the basement. There are things I need to throw away and then you can have that. It has a working bathroom, it has a room for a bedroom, a living area. Even a kitchenette. I just haven’t used it. I’ve not needed to.” Hailey tells her, not wanting her to move out, but not wanting to ask her to share the house with her either.

“Great, you just tell me what the rent is, and I have no problem paying for it.” Susan nods her head, sliding off her.

“We will split the bills and I have the rest.” Hailey’s glad that Susan has made this so easy for them.

“This is going to be a big game-changer. I don’t know how I’m going to repair things with my mother, being caught in a lie and then having her come here. I didn’t know what to say to her. I didn’t know how to explain how I wanted to do things for myself, wanted to support myself. Either way, I’ve lied to her and I have to make it right.” Susan sighs, leaning her head back against the pillows that are on the bed.

“That is a tough one,” Hailey mutters, not sure how to help her. Not sure what advice she can give her.

There’s a moment of silence between them and Susan sees no other way out. She doesn’t know how to fix it.

“There’s only one thing that you can do,” Hailey tells her.

“What’s that?” Susan turns her head and looks at her.

“You need to apologize. Saying sorry goes a long way. It will take time for your parents to adjust to the life that you used to live. You don’t live that way anymore. Maybe if they see that your actions speak louder than your words it will be a little easier.” Hailey gives her a small smile.

“It can’t rain forever,” Susan smirks at her.

They talk until they fall asleep, throughout the week on the radio and working for Hailey Susan is finding her place.

Susan likes the routine that she’s getting herself into. She can’t wait for Friday. The start of the book signings.

“You know, I think that we should’ve ordered more books. Some so many people are calling in wanting to know more, I should’ve ordered more books.” Hailey tells her.

“Maybe, but at the same time the other books can be sold on the shelves, we can get the book into all the book-stores around Cali. This is going to take off.” Susan tells her.

“I know, didn’t I tell you not to worry about it?” Hailey asks her.

Susan and Hailey work the rest of the week, laughing and having a good time. Talking about the book signing and how beautiful the day is going to be.

Thursday night arrives quickly with still no contact from Susan’s mother. She wishes that she would be there for the book signing, but she doesn’t want to call her. She wants her mother to come on her own.

It’s almost midnight and almost time for bed when Susan and Hailey hear the doorbell.

“Who would be here this late at night?” Susan asks, looking at Hailey as if she’s expecting company.

“Not my friends, their either sleeping or working.” Hailey shrugs her shoulders, getting off the couch and heading for the front door.

Wrapped in her housecoat she opens it, seeing that Susan has company and not her, she wraps her coat around her tighter.

“Susan is here?” Her mother asks, questioning her.

“Yes, I will get her for you. Please, come in. You can sit at the table.” Hailey tells her, watching Susan’s mother walk in without smiling and looking at her.

Hailey turns away and goes into the living room.

“Your mother is at the table. I’m going to go to bed.” Hailey tells her, leaning over and kisses her on the cheek before she makes her way up to her room.

Susan sucks in her breath and lets it out slowly. She knew that Hailey wasn’t going to sit there and eavesdrop, but she had hoped that she would be there for support.

Susan walks into the kitchen and sees her mother sitting at the small table.

“Is there more that you would like to tell me about the woman that you’re staying with? I don’t understand why you’re not coming home.” She tells her.

“Mother, I’m sorry about lying to you. I just didn’t want you looking down on me at the same time I didn’t want to go to you and dad about anything that I needed. I live in your basement for free, I don’t want to be more of a burden. When I heard that there was an opening at the strip joint, I took it. I jumped on it knowing that one day I would eventually get to sell my books.” Susan tells her, she has been going over it in her mind in case her mother did come to see her she wanted to be prepared.

“You didn’t have to lie to us. Who is the woman?” Her mother asks, warming up just a little and Susan sits beside her.

“That’s Hailey. I met her at the strip club. It was her birthday her friends took her out and didn’t realize that it was just a strip joint for women. Not men. She’s the one who has helped me get out of that job. I don’t do that anymore. She’s the one who has gotten my book off the ground, she’s my publicists. During the week I work at her office typing out contracts and sending them where they need to go.” Susan tells her.

She can see the smile on her mother’s face. One that she hadn’t seen since she was a little girl, a look of pride.

“Is there anything else…” Her mother continues, knowing that there’s more, she’s just waiting for Susan to come out with it.

“We are lovers.” Susan clears her throat, feeling her face grow hot. Wondering what her mother was going to say.

“What does Leslie say about it all?” Her mother raises her eyebrows.

Susan gives her a shocked look.

“Come on, you can’t tell me that you didn’t think I was smart enough to figure it out? You and Leslie have been friends forever. She sleeps over all the time, you two spend a lot of time alone. I’ve put two and two together with that a while ago.” She tells her.

“Leslie and I weren’t together as a couple. We were just having fun with each other. I want something real with Hailey. I’m serious about this, I want to be with someone that I can share my life with. I want someone that’s going to push me in the right direction.” Susan explains.

“Leslie doesn’t do that for you?” She asks.

“No, she doesn’t. She wants to stay at the club for a long time. She thinks that she can make a career out of it. I wasn’t planning to stay there for life mother. I just wanted to gather enough money and well, it seems that Hailey being there was a miracle in itself.” Susan smirks at her.

“Good, now what time is this book signing?” Her mother asks.

“You want to go?” Susan asks, feeling her eyes growing wide. Feeling her heart racing.

“Of course, I do. I want to see how good you do. I want to see how you work professionally. I can’t say that I’ve always had faith in your dream. That’s not what I’m saying. I’m excited for you, but it hasn’t really hit to reality yet that you’re doing this maybe that’s why I wanted to believe that you were selling books left and right, I wanted to believe that you were making your dream come true. That’s why it was so easy to believe the lies that you were dishing out.” Her mother explains to her, looking down at her hands.

“I’m sorry that I lied. I am. I just knew that you would look down on me for the work that I was doing. I wasn’t ashamed of it. I was afraid that you were going to be ashamed of me. You don’t’ know how many nights I worried that I would see one of your friends, a family member, someone going to you about me and the line of work that I was in.” Susan whispers to her.

“Tomorrow is going to come early. You need to get some sleep. I will see you there out front of Acadia bookstore?” Her mother asks, getting up from the table.

“Yes. I will save one for you.” Susan tells her, getting up from the table and hugging her mother.

Feeling her mother hugging her tightly comforts her all her fears and worries are gone, almost like there’s a heavy weight-lifted off her chest.

“It’s going to be a good turnout. I just know it. I know that you’re going to do great.” Her mother whispers, kissing her on the cheek.

“I hope so,” Susan tells her, opening the door and holding it for her.

She watches her mother leave before she closes the door and locks it behind her.

Susan slowly heads upstairs and sees that Hailey is sitting at the top.

“You were listening.” Susan grins at her, slowly making her way up.

“Yes, you think that I would just go to bed?” Hailey asks her with a smile on her face.

“Well, at least that’s worked out. As you’ve heard my mother is going to be there. That’s a step in the right direction.” Susan grins at her.

“She didn’t freak out about the fact that we are lovers. That’s another good thing.” Hailey laughs a little, feeling like a kid again.

“I didn’t think we had to worry about that. My mother doesn’t care much about who I’m with as long as I’m happy.” Susan tells her, walking toward the bedroom.

“Tomorrow is going to be a great day,” Hailey assures her, following her and getting into bed.

Chapter Thirteen

Hailey feels Susan’s arms wrap around her, feeling the warmth and affection that comes with it she feels better about everything.

The vibes running through her are hard to explain so she doesn’t say anything at all, just lets Susan hold her as she snuggles closer to her.

“Everything is going to be great. Not just tomorrow.” Susan assures her, kissing her bare shoulder and closes her eyes.

First thing in the morning they get showered, dressed in matching slacks and shirts. Susan laughs a little.

“What?” Hailey asks, not seeing what’s so funny.

“Everyone’s going to think that we worked it this way, dressed the same way. You’re taller than me though.” Susan wrings her hands, feeling a little anxious about it now that they’re just hours away.

“It’s going to be a good day for it. The sun is shining, the sky is clear. Today was made for a book signing.” Hailey wraps her arms around her waist, leaning her chin on her shoulder.

“Yes.” Susan takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly.

“You’re going to do fine. You just need to introduce yourself to each person that’s in line when they come up to you. We will have the books on either side of you at the table. Give that sexy smile of yours and you’re sure to win them over.” Hailey makes it sound so easy.

“Yeah, easy for you to say. I’ve never done this before.” Susan pulls away from her slightly.

“You’ve never been on a radio talk show before either. You did great, the ones that we're listening, they were calling left and right, you heard it.” Hailey reminds her of the success that they’ve had all week.

“We should’ve gone to work today.” Susan sighs.

“No, we are doing this for you. I’m your biggest supporter. I think that it was a good idea to close up the shop for one day. I want to make sure that we focus on this. It’s important for your future. The career that you’re going into.” Hailey tells her seriously.

“No matter the outcome we’re going to survive,” Susan tells herself, nodding her head before turning to Hailey and giving her a big smile.

“That’s the smile that I want you giving everyone. That confident, loving smile.” Hailey points at her and they both laugh.

“That’s my regular smile. I don’t know how to smile any other way.” Susan rolls her eyes at her.

“Then it’s perfect. Be yourself and everything else will fall into place. Your mom is going to be on one side of you and I will be on the other. If they ask for pictures the answer is yes. You want as much publicity as you can get out of this.” Hailey tells her.

“Pictures?” Susan asks.

“There are a lot of people that want pictures taken with a new book author. In case they make it big. They want bragging rights that they have pictures. I can’t say that I blame them, I would want that too.” Hailey explains to her.

“That’s one way to go about it. I can see a lot of them wanting their pictures taken with me.” Susan feels herself growing confident.

“Me too. Keep that right there. That tone that flash of yours. That shine.” Hailey makes her way out of the bedroom and down the stairs.

Susan feels like she’s going to throw up with all the excitement that’s running through her. They have gotten up early just to make sure that they could go over how she’s going to act, what she’s going to say.

“I bet the book signing will only be an hour long. We didn’t get a ton of books they’re going to go fast.” Hailey tells her.

Susan hopes that she’s right. As soon as the books are gone it means that the signing is over, and the happy fans are going to enjoy their books waiting for another one to come out.

They eat breakfast and Susan doesn’t know how she manages to keep the cereal down, but she does while she sips on the rest of her coffee.

Susan finds little things to do like the dishes, tidying the living room up and vacuuming the hallway to pass the time.

It’s not until she’s almost tired herself out with anxiety and worry that she sees the smile on Hailey’s face.

The smile that says it’s time to make her a star.

“We can do this. You’re not doing this alone.” Hailey reminds her as they leave the front door and get into the car.

An hour before the book signing, the weather is warm, there’s no wind and when they make it to Acadia book store she can see that the table is set up out front of the doors for them, there’s a banner with Susan’s name on with Hailey’s underneath in the corner.

Hailey doesn’t care that her name’s not first, that it’s not in bold. It’s not about her, she’s behind the scenes.

“Today is all about you.” Hailey shuts the car off and they get out.

Susan doesn’t see her mother yet as they take out the books and stack them along the front of the table.

Susan sits down and reaches for a book, opening it and seeing where she’s going to sign each one. The left top hand corner.

She practices this as if she’s going to forget and Hailey bites back a laugh. She watches her until she sees her mother getting out of her car.

“Good afternoon Mrs. Jameson.” Hailey gives her a welcoming smile.

“Good afternoon, I’m glad that I came early. I want the first book.” She grins and stands at the front of the table.

Susan takes a book down and signs the first one for her mother, closing the book and grinning at her as her mother reaches out and takes it.

“See, it wasn’t so hard. You didn’t die.” Hailey laughs at her a little.

Before Susan can say anything though there’s a small line forming, and she’s surprised that a lot of people have shown up all at once.

“Lunch break, I’m sure. Instead of getting something to eat they want to get a book.” Hailey winks at her when Susan gives her a look of shock.

Susan nods her head and says hello to the ones in line. She tells them that she hopes that they enjoy the book and to look for new ones coming out soon.

Hailey’s right.

Susan takes pictures with her book, takes pictures with the ones that are in line that ask for one when they get her book.

Her face hurts from all the smiling that she’s been doing, thinking that a hundred books were enough and seeing how they were stacked on the table before the signing started Susan can’t believe just how fast they’re going.

A few of the people who showed up were just happy to be there, even at the end of the signing. Some were looking for pieces of paper just for her to sign.

“When you’re a huge success and have your name in lights I’m going to be able to tell my friends that I got one of your first autographs.” A short, blonde-haired woman tells her as she leaves with a big grin on her face.

Susan looks at Hailey out of the corner of her eye and sees the wink that proved what she had been saying earlier in the day.

It’s only when they’re breaking down for the day that there’s one more person that comes to the table with a printed copy of papers that are stapled together.

“I thought that you might have time for one more autograph. Do you remember what this is?” Leslie’s voice makes Susan’s head snapped up quickly.

When she looks down at the printed papers that are stapled together securely, she smiles.

“I know exactly what that is. It’s what I wanted to be when I grew up.” Susan is surprised that Leslie still has a few pieces of paper.

“I kept it, found it today rummaging through some old things. You’re going to make your way to the top. I can already see it, looking how far you’ve gotten in just a matter of a weekend.” Leslie takes out a pen from her shirt pocket and hands it over to her.

“You’re kidding me, right?” Susan laughs at her.

“No, it’s not a joke. I want to have it signed. I’m going to frame it when I get home. Sign each piece so that I can put the pages next to each other. I want to be able to say that I knew you when we were just setting goals for ourselves.” Leslie explains to her.

Susan smiles at her, shaking her head.

Taking the pen from Leslie she signs each piece and hands it back to her along with the pen. Not sure what to say.

“The girls at the club are happy for you. I thought you might like to know that. They miss you, don’t get me wrong. We all do. They are happy for you though.” Leslie states, looking at Susan a little bit longer before she turns to Hailey.

Hailey nods her head.

“I guess in a way it was a good thing that your friends brought you there that night. You made a difference for her. I hope that you two are happy.” Leslie tells her softly.

Hailey can see that Leslie is letting go of whatever she and Susan had in the past. She doesn’t bring it up, but she can see the freedom in Leslie’s eyes.

“It was nice seeing you, Leslie.” Mrs. Jameson tells her, seeing that Leslie hadn’t spoken to her before heading toward her car.

“It was nice seeing you too.” She calls over her shoulder, giving one wave and pulling away from the curb.

“That was nice of her, it was big of her. I didn’t think that she would show up.” Susan tells Hailey as they take the table down and put it inside the bookstore. Folding the chairs and set them inside against the wall.

“Yeah, it was nice of her. I don’t know why she came.” Mrs. Jameson grumbles.

“Mother, she’s just trying to be nice. We are still friends even though we don’t work together anymore.” Susan rolls her eyes at her.

“Maybe.” She shakes her head, holding the first book that Susan has published tightly in her hands as if someone’s going to steal it.

“The best part is that it’s hardcover, it’s not going to get crumpled.” Hailey nods her head at the book, changing the subject.

“I can’t wait to go home and read it with a cup of tea before going to bed.” Mrs. Jameson hugs Susan tightly.

“Make sure you tell dad that it was a great turn out. I was hoping that he was going to show up at least.” Susan mutters.

“He’s busy. You know that he’s going to be so proud of you. He already is, but more so now when he sees the book in my hand.” She tells her, kissing Susan on the cheek before she lets go of her.

They watch as Mrs. Jameson gets into her car and heads down the road, out of sight.

“Are you ready to go home?” Hailey asks her, not thinking about the words that have come out of her mouth until they’re out.

“I’m ready, so tired. I want to get into the shower and go to bed. I didn’t think that it would make me so tired after everyone’s left.” Susan tells her, stretching as they head for the car.

“I don’t think it’s all the people that have tired you. I think that it’s all the worry that you went through before we got here.” Hailey laughs at her.

She’s seen in time and again with her new clients. How they always wear themselves out instead of taking a deep breath and seeing out things go.

Chapter Fourteen

Hailey sees Susan’s eyes slowly drifting even before they make it back to the house thinking she’s going to have to wake her when she pulls into the driveway, but the second the car shuts off Susan is up and out.

“That was fast.” Hailey laughs at her, unlocking the door for the two of them.

“If I didn’t get out of the car as soon as I had I don’t think that I would be able to get out at all,” Susan tells her, rubbing at her eyes.

“We can watch a movie and go to bed,” Hailey suggests.

“Yeah, maybe after I take a shower. I will make it quick so that you can take one too.” Susan tells her, biting down on her lip.

Hailey can see the look on her face, taking control and feeling comfortable doing so until she realizes exactly what she’s doing.

“If you want to take a shower first you can,” Susan tells her.

“No, it’s okay. You can take one first. As tired as we are, we have the rest of the weekend to sit around being lazy if we want to.” Hailey tells her.

“When do you think that we will get reviews on the book?” Susan asks her, unbuttoning her shirt and sliding it off her shoulders before heading up the stairs.

“I would say by Monday we will take a look at the site that I set up for you. At the end of each book, there’s your site and where to make comments. I think that it’s a good way to finish off the book, considering it’s a freebie.” Hailey explains to her.

Susan heads upstairs and sees that there’s one of her books on the stand in the bedroom where Hailey lays down.

“You got one,” Susan tells her.

“I did, now you have one last book to sign. I want to have a signed copy as well as everyone else. You’re going to be famous, if not for yourself for me.” She winks at her.

Susan laughs at her, taking the pen off the nightstand and opening the last book of the day. She signs her name and puts a heart before her name and after before closing the book and setting it back down.

“You already know what the books about.” Susan shakes her head.

“I skimmed through it. I haven’t had a chance to look at it. A few parts here and there. I can’t wait to read it.” Hailey points out to her.

Susan laughs a little and walks down the hall to start her shower. She takes out the towels that she needs. The soaps that she hasn’t even bothered to even ask if she could use them. Turning the hot water on as hot as she can stand it, she gets into it feeling her muscles relaxing, feeling her head going back down to the normal size now that her headache is gone.

She’s had one all day, not wanting to complain about it. Not wanting to take a break from the table, showing every person that showed up her undivided attention not realizing just how much it would take a toll on her.

However, she can’t help but smile when she looks back on the day that she had. There were so many people. The line was long most of the day and she is happy, tired, but happy to see that her writing career is taking off just like she always hoped it would.

Washing up and getting out of the shower she throws on a white shirt that goes down to her knees.

Walking out of the bathroom and going back into the bedroom she notices that Hailey isn’t even worried about taking a shower.

She has her face in the book flipping one of the pages as she enters the room.

“The shower is free when you’re ready,” Susan tells her, seeing that Hailey’s eyes are glued to the book.

"Yeah, I’ve changed my mind. I’m going to take one in the morning. This is good, I like the way you describe the scenes of being taken and no one hearing a sound, no witnesses.” Hailey compliments her.

“Thank you.” She tells her, getting into bed and fluffing her pillows.

“Where do you come up with the ideas for your books?” Hailey asks her.

“If you think that I copy off someone or change it around a little I don’t.” Susan giggles at her.

“That’s not what I was thinking at all.” Hailey raises her eyebrows.

“I don’t know, I can’t explain it. I would like to say that I have a plot, and everything worked out before I even start writing but I don’t. I just sit at the laptop or in front of a lined piece of paper and it just comes to me. I don’t have to force it. I don’t have to worry about what’s coming next. I go with the flow and it just all ties together in the end.” Susan shrugs her shoulders and feels her cheeks getting hot, wondering if it sounds silly or even slightly stupid to Hailey.

“That’s wonderful, you have a true talent for writing. I wish that it could be so simple with some of my other clients.” Hailey sighs.

“It’s not as simple as all that?” Susan asks her.

“No, sometimes they pace the floor wondering what they should put into the story next. Or change their minds a million times and I have to make sure that it connects, that it flows before giving them advice or telling them that it’s good. I don’t know how many times a client changes right in the middle of the book.” Hailey rolls her eyes.

“It keeps you in business though. Do they pay you by the hour?” Susan asks her, not sure how she does get paid.

“No, if I’m working with one client all day, they will cut me a check for what I tell them to. I don’t give an hourly rate.” Hailey shrugs her shoulders.

“How much do you charge a day?” Susan’s eyes grow wide.

“Two hundred and that depends on how many things we have to go over, how tired I am or how smoothly I think things are running. If we’re working day and night over one chapter then yeah, I’m going to be charging more.” Hailey nods her head.

“Wow, that’s a lot of money if you look at it.” Susan’s eyes grow wide.

“It is, but they pay the price. I don’t know how we end up doing so well with the books, but everything comes together in the end.” Hailey shrugs.

“It’s always a success because they have the best publicist in all of Cali. That’s a simple answer.” Susan tells her, covering up with a sheet and taking the remote.

“It’s not going to bother you if I watch some television is it?” Susan asks her.

“No, the noise doesn’t bother me at all. I can read even with music playing so loud that it could bust your eardrum and still keep up with the storyline.” Hailey shakes her head, going back to the line that she was on.

Susan shuts her light off and feels the warmth of the room from the dim light that Hailey has still on for reading.

She watches her for a few seconds noticing how concentrated she is on the book, the squint of her eyes, how her eyebrows are downward, and her eyes are moving over the pages quickly.

Susan goes back to watching television, getting comfortable in bed and slowly feels her eyes growing heavy.

Thinking that she’s going to rest them for only a few seconds, she takes a deep breath and feels the days excitement leaving her body.

Hailey looks over at her when she’s done with the chapter. She sees that Susan is sleeping, a slight snoring coming from her and she can’t help but grin at her.

This is the way it’s supposed to be. She can see how happy Susan has become in the few days that they’ve been together. It’s been like a whirlwind for the two of them.

She closes her eyes for just a second and sees the sparkle in Susan’s eyes each time she signed a book. A little nervous in the beginning, not sure if she should continue talking to the person that’s waiting on their book or if she should just sign it and hand it back.

She had watched Susan go from nervous to finding her confidence and her words throughout the day. Seeing that sometimes she would sign her name in cursive and other times she would print her name, switching it up.

“You are going places with this book,” Hailey whispers to her, knowing that Susan can’t hear her.

Susan is catching on quickly at work and with the books; Hailey just knows everything’s going to work out for the two of them. They’re going to be side by side through the books that she publishes for Susan and hoping to get out there on the radio for each one.

“This is going to be fantastic,” Hailey whispers, putting a bookmark in place so that she can continue reading tomorrow.

She shuts off the light, leaving the television on so that they can have some light in the room in case they wake up and need to get out of bed for any reason.

Hailey moves closer to Susan and wraps around her, feeling Susan instantly roll over, but at the same time, she feels Susan grabbing her hand. She’s happy to see that Susan is just as comfortable taking her hand while in sleep mode as she is when they’re awake.

Hailey closes her eyes, presses her face against Susan’s back and finds her body relaxing, glad that she’s tired enough to get some sleep in.

The warmth of Susan’s body helps her go to sleep and the noise from the television that’s barely even up lets her know that the world is right at least for the moment.

Taking a deep breath and letting it out herself she can feel the emotions running through her, she can feel the tired smile coming to her face and even though it was a busy day, it was a good day and all she can do is continue to hope for the good days.

Neither of the girls wakes up until Hailey’s alarm goes off.

“You’ve got to be kidding me, I thought we were going to sleep in this weekend.” Susan groans, throwing the sheet over her head.

“Sorry, I forgot to shut it off again, I don’t know why that happens.” Hailey groans and shuts the alarm off, closing her eyes again but it’s too late. Her body is up, it’s ready for another day.

Susan doesn’t move as Hailey gets out of bed and goes to her dresser to get some clothes so that she can take her shower.

“You’re getting out of bed now?” Susan asks lowering the sheet just a little to see what she’s doing.

“Yes, I’m not going to be able to sleep. Not now. You can go back to sleep if you want to though.” Hailey grins at her.

Susan nods her head and watches Hailey leave the room. She hears the bathroom door open and shut and hears the shower turn on seconds later.

Trying to settle back down against the pillows, trying to get comfortable and wanting to fall back into that foggy sleep she knows that it’s an epic fail when she can see the sunlight coming from the windows.

“Yeah, might as well get up,” Susan grunts at herself and throws the sheet off her, getting up from the bed and heading downstairs.

Chapter Fifteen

Susan doesn’t have to worry about getting the coffee pot ready, even on the weekend it’s already set and brewing.

She doesn’t know why Hailey would want to get up every morning at the same time that she does for work on her days off.

Shaking her head when she hears the doorbell ringing wondering who it could be, she goes to the door.

Without thinking about it she opens it, hoping it would be her parents coming over first thing in the morning, though they both know how she likes sleeping in.

“Is Hailey home?” A woman asks her.

“She’s in the shower. We just got up.” Susan tells her, leaving the door open for her and turning her back as she hears the coffee pot beeping.

“You guys just got up?” The woman asks her.

“Yes, I’m Susan.” She introduces herself.

“I remember you from the club, Susan.” The woman nods her head, giving her a strange look.

Susan doesn’t say anything as she grabs for a cup then another one for Hailey when she gets downstairs.

“My name’s Julie. It’s nice to meet you.” She finally gives a name and sits down at the kitchen table.

“It’s nice to meet you,” Susan replies hoping that Hailey has heard the doorbell and is rushing to get done.

“So, what are you doing these days?” Julie asks her, remembering the last time she had seen her was when she was giving Hailey a lap dance.

“I’m working as a typist. I just got done with a book signing yesterday. One of the best things that have ever happened to me.” Susan grins, remembering how good it felt.

“I’ve heard about that. I think this morning my friend next door was babbling about some book that she got for free and how she has already read half the book. She seems to like it.” Julie recalls, nodding her head and giving a bigger smile.

“That’s good. I hope that she was talking about me.” Susan tells her, hearing Hailey’s footsteps in the living room.

“Coffee is done already, good morning Julie.” Hailey smiles at her, making her cup of coffee.

“Good morning, I saw that you were quite busy yesterday. There was a big line and you were having the time of your life.” Julie grins at her.

“I was, I had an awesome day yesterday. I wish that it was yesterday all over again.” Hailey agrees with her.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a turn out when it comes to book signings as I did yesterday. You sure know how to work them.” Julie tells her, seeing just how happy Hailey truly is.

“You should’ve stopped in we would’ve given you a book for free. It’s really good.” Hailey turns, leaning her back against the counter as she takes her first sip.

“I had to hurry along. I don’t think that I would’ve been able to get a book, by the time I got there the table was almost empty.” Julie points out to her.

“Then you should’ve come first thing.” Hailey shrugs her shoulders.

“I’m going to take my coffee upstairs in the office and start on another book,” Susan tells them, getting up from the table.

“It was nice to meet you with normal clothing on,” Julie tells her.

“Gee, thanks. I’m a normal kind of person.” Susan laughs at her, shaking her head.

Julie and Hailey don’t say much after Susan leaves. It’s Julie who has to begin the conversation.

“Are you two…” Julie’s not sure how she should finish what she wants to ask. Not wanting to offend one of her best friends.

“Yes. I mean, we aren’t a couple yet but we’re going to get there. We’re lovers and friends. I have so much fun with her. I can see that she’s ready for her future. She knows what she wants, and she goes for it.” Hailey tells her, walking over to the table.

“I’m glad that you’re happy. I thought that you would be single forever. I can see that sparkle in your eye when you look at her, almost like you had for Thomas.” Julie reminds her of the last person she was with.

“I am much happier than that. I know that she has her flaws I just haven’t found them yet, just like I know she’s not perfect because I’m not. We’re going to take it one day at a time. Not rushing anything, letting the days take us where we need to be.” Hailey explains to her.

“That’s great news. I’m glad. There doesn’t seem to be any pressure.” Julie tells her, glad that she’s gotten that out of the way.

“None, I’m really glad that we had gone to the strip joint for my birthday now. She didn’t belong there it wasn’t something that she wanted to do for the rest of her life anyways. Talking to her is so easy, we have so many things to talk about.” Hailey grins at her, thinking about Susan and imagining her sitting at the desk and typing away on the laptop.

“See, I wish I had something like that. Out of nowhere the love of my life in the strangest of places.” Julie giggles.

“Your day will come. I know that when we went out for my birthday, I didn’t think anything would transpire between us, but it has. I’m shocked every time that I think about that night. It was just last weekend and it feels like it was months ago.” Hailey tells her.

“Tell me, does she know how to work those hips in the bedroom too?” Julie winks at her and Hailey blushes.

“She taught me how to do a lap dance.” She throws her head back and laughs.

“You, having fun and it’s not a special occasion?” Julie asks her, laughing so hard that she feels the tears coming to her eyes.

“Yes, that’s hard to believe, but yes. It was weird at first and then I got better at it and it wasn’t so bad. I don’t think that I’m going to put myself out there for parties any time soon, but it wasn’t as strange as I thought it was going to be.” Hailey wipes her happy tears that have spilled out of her eyes from laughing so hard.

“I came by to tell you how proud of you I am. Seeing you out there yesterday was amazing. The confidence and the way you looked at Susan, I could tell that you were proud of her if I could tell that from my car, I know the ones who were in line could see it as well. That’s always a good thing. I’m so happy for you.” Julie tells her getting out of the chair and hugging her.

“It’s been a long time. I think it’s time for me to be happy.” Hailey whispers, hugging her back just as tightly.

“Me too, you’ve been through the lonely stage, the alone stage, you just figuring out yourself and being happy with who you are. Now, this is the time to live it up. To have that love shine through you.” Julie tells her, letting her go and heading for the door.

“You have to work today?” Hailey asks her.

“No, but a couple of the girls and I are headed to the beach,” Julie tells her feeling a little weird that she wasn’t going with them.

“I hope that you have fun. I think it would be a good thing for all of us to meet up again. I don’t want to get too busy with work. The weather is getting hotter these days. I’m sure that we can all find the time.” Hailey winks at her, letting Julie know that she doesn’t have to worry about going off and having fun without her.

Julie smiles at her and nods her head before opening the door and closing it behind her.

“You two were talking about me.” Susan guesses as she makes her way down the stairs to get another cup of coffee.

“We were, you were eavesdropping.” Hailey points out to her, accusing her with a gleam in her eyes.

“All right, you caught me. Are you really happy with me?” Susan asks her, biting down on her lip.

“You have no idea how happy I am. You heard Julie she hasn’t seen me like this in a long time.” Hailey hugs her tightly before Susan gets a chance to get another cup of coffee.

“I think that we were meant to find each other, to head down this path together. You never know what the future holds for two people that know that they’re alone and don’t mind it, but they want someone to share their life with too. That’s us, we were paired up.” Susan kisses her on the cheek.

“I think so too. We are both very lucky to have found one another. Now there’s only going to be happier days from here.” Hailey whispers, hugging her tightly.

Susan silently agrees with her, happy to have found someone that just wants to be with her and not for just an appointment because they’re lonely. To want to be with her and see what the future is going to hold.

Susan can’t wait to see what the next days bring as long as Hailey is by her side.