Papaya Maya
YOU’RE SO ANNOYING
Lilith
Hmmm but you have a smile on your face no?
Papaya Maya
Lilith
You love it
Papaya Maya
Secretly
Hanna not so secretly
Lilith
Lilith Named the group chat “My Girls”
Lilith
I am going to go bother my Aunt Julia for a while but hit me whenever
Papaya Maya
Will do, we are switching in a couple of hours.
^From both of us
Lilith ‘from both of us’
Lily set her phone in her pocket and smiled. Dirty old man antics aside, she really did hope someone sent nudes,soon.She wasn’t sure how she was going to make it till spring before seeing her girls–at least, that’s what they had agreed upon after not being able to get enough of each other the last few days.
Since the first time a few days ago, they’d taken to sleeping in the fort that was still partially constructed in the living room.
Lily loved it, and she didn’t care that it was very apparent Hanna and Maya knew how much, since they both always snuggled closer into her when she asked if they wanted to move to the bed.
Something had definitely shifted. That first morning, Lily had opened her eyes feeling completely at ease. She’d listened to the soft breathing of both Hanna and Maya and knew they were still sleeping. Like usual, she had an arm around Maya, who was curled up with Hanna. But the sight hadn’t made Lily feel lonely that time. Instead, she’d nestled closer to Maya and took a second to treasure waking up to such a sight. To afeelingreally. They had all still been naked, and the wetness between her legs had been a reminder that the night before had been incredible. Both her and Hanna taking care of Maya like that. And while whatever had happened between her and Hanna was not entirely resolved, they had needed to put it aside to take care of Maya, the same way she had tried to take care of them. Then Maya had fucked both of them at the same time while Hanna had kissed Lily feverishly. A truce of sorts.
Hanna and Lily hadn’t realized how much strain they’d put on Maya, and there had been a silent agreement from that moment on to not add to Maya’s plate. And they’d kept that agreement during their last few days together before Maya and Hanna made their way south, back to Boston.
Lily had a few more days of break and expected that she’d help Aunt Julia around the retreat. Julia had returned from a trip the night before. Maybe Lily would ask her advice on whatever was brewing between her and the other two women; she had a feeling Julia would be able to lend some wisdom. Certainly, she would prefer that to being stuck with Felicity and Sruti for the remainder of her time here. Not only would Hanna hate it, but Lily wasn’t ready to dive intothatawkwardness.
Lily took one last longing look at the fort. She knew she’d sleep in the bed tonight, not wanting to sit in the fort alone, missing the two other women. She felt like she wouldn’t be able to stand not waking up the next morning to hearing Maya and Hanna in the kitchen, dishes clinking and Maya insisting on weird concoctions like hot chocolate and coffee, like some domestic soundscape playlist. It was a playlist she had never woken up to and had never known she missed. It sounded likesafety,liketogetherness,like she was still being held even though both of her lovers were no longer in the bed with her–well, in the fort.
The fort they’d built together.
It’s how Lilyknewthat this wassomething.Something they were all in together, navigating together, like a family. Sure they had fucked all night long, every night since the building the fort, but it certainly felt like something else had occurred too. Another unfamiliar scenario, something Lily only had a sense of.
Something that Lily couldn’t wait to see more of.
PART III
IN FULL BLOOM
