NOVEL NEXT Ch 2.11: ❤ Talk
Elaina felt Flora rolling to the side, and she followed, the two of them tumbling in the flowers until Flora was underneath her, still reversed, each of them eating out the other. It was hard for Elaina to focus on what she was doing with the constant distraction from Flora’s tongue down below, swirling around her sex, stroking her lips, probing her folds. It was also a hard thing to focus on in general, the act of pleasuring someone in a way that she was very new to. But maybe…
It wouldn’t exactly be unpredictable, but she did have an idea, one that she should have thought of sooner to be honest. She started copying Flora, not as an exact mirror, but repeating moves Flora had done, the ones that had felt oh so good. Elaina readjusted her focus towards the clit at first, giving gentle kisses at first.
No, that was what she did at the start, we’re deeper into it now.
She became more aggressive, still focusing the same spot, but making sure to do it more forcefully, pressing in with her tongue. She wanted to go even further, to gently bite it, she knew better. I might want that, but I’m not sure if she would like it.
They continued their intertwined dance, Elaina doing her best to learn from her partner as Flora showed her different avenues of pleasure, the soft suckling of the clit, the aggressive love towards the labia, the little diversion to the inside of the thigh, just long enough to let things calm down before going back in to the main course, all while soft fingers caressed her, running up and down her legs, across her lower torso.
She heard it coming before she felt it, Flora moaning from underneath her, into her pussy. The muffled wails of pleasure. Just the knowledge that Elaina’d done it, actually brought her new friend to this climax was enough to set her off. She started bucking into Flora’s face, unable to control herself as the feelings inside of her welled up, screaming into Flora the same as Flora was doing to her until her body finally relaxed.
Going near limp, she rolled off of Flora and onto the ground. She only had a moment to relax before she half came to her senses, covering herself and looking over to Flora. She couldn’t believe what she saw, the girl just lying there, in the middle of the glade, eyes closed and a wide smile on her face.
“That was fun.”
“Uhm, yeah,” Elaina said, clutching her chest with her arm and pressing into her groin. The whole situation was getting her turned on dangerously soon again. “How— how do you not get bothered by this?”
“Oh I get bothered, but only down there,” Flora said, rolling over and looking at Elaina with a smirk. “You did good, learning throughout the process.”
Elaina looked away, blushing even more. “Uhm, thanks…”
Flora giggled, laying an arm over Elaina. “You don’t need to be embarrassed. I know you’re new to this stuff.”
“Yeah, it’s just… I don’t know. I feel like I’m so behind on this stuff. Like, I figured that Carline hadn’t ever actually done anything like this cause of how she acts, but that was wrong.”
“Yeah, she’s more than she seems. Although I wonder how much of that is my fault.”
Elaina let her grip on herself relax as her eyes drifted down Flora’s body. It was leaner than even Tira’s body, but still such a nice line for Elaina’s gaze to follow. “I can believe you can be a bit corrupting.”
Flora laughed, rolling back over and splaying her limbs out. “I don’t want to speak too much about what she and I have done, just in case it embarrasses her. If it ever comes up between you two though, you can tell her I don’t mind her sharing.”
“Gotcha…” Elaina had been curious, and she’d secretly been hoping to talk to Flora about it since she had the feeling Flora would be more open, but she understood Flora deferring to Carline.
“By the way, did things work out with the Fireguard girl?”
Elaina almost jumped up at the question, eyes widening as she processed it. “Uhm, I guess, kind of?”
“I heard you fought with her, and the Ferris boy too. That you saved them.”
Elaina rolled over, facing her back to Flora. “More like they saved me. I guess it kinda went both ways, but they weren’t in trouble until they came to help me, so it’s hard to say I saved them when they would’ve been fine if I hadn’t been there.”
“But you talked?”
“Mhm. Didn’t really change much, but… I guess I’m more clear on where we stand.”
“Did you tell her how you feel?”
“How I—” The lump in her stomach returned, as intense and real as it had been when she’d talked to Prisma. “Yeah, I did…”
She felt Flora’s arm lay on top of her, pull her in close. She was so warm in the cool spring air, so soft against her back. “Sorry. Didn’t mean to upset you. I just wanted to see where things were for you.”
Elaina nodded. “It’s fine. It is what it is. I just wish I knew why things were the way they were.”
She felt comforted by Flora’s grip tightening for a second, even though no words of encouragement came. Elaina closed her eyes, focusing on the warmth from her friend and the sun both as they enveloped her.
“I’m in love with Carly.”
Elaina almost jumped at the sudden declaration, rolling out of Flora’s arms and staring back at her. “What?”
Flora actually looked concerned, embarrassed even as she stared into the ground. “I’m sorry. I probably should have mentioned it earlier, before we… I kind of got carried away.”
Elaina blushed back, but only from seeing Flora finally do it. “I mean, that’s fine… I just don’t really know why you’re telling me instead of her.”
Flora smiled, exhaling from her nose as a look of fondness grew on her face. “I have, multiple times. But she’s more dense than you when it comes to these things. She always thinks I’m teasing her. And I do tease her, a lot, but never about that…”
The smile on Flora’s face wasn’t exactly one of happiness. It wasn’t really sad either, but the smile of someone remembering a bittersweet memory. “I’m sorry,” Elaina said, still prying to process the admission. “I can, uhm… I’ve kind of messed around with her, but I can stop, if that’s what you want.”
Flora laughed, shaking her head. “That’s not why I told you. I mean, it’d be pretty hypocritical to ask that after what we just did. It’s more… I don’t want you to get the wrong idea about us, you and me. I’m fine fooling around, obviously fine with her fooling around since we’re not an ‘item,’ but even if we were I wouldn’t mind. She’s just special to me, in a different way.”
“Well, you should tell her! Tell her it’s not a joke, that—”
“It won’t work. It can’t work, rather. The nobility isn’t exactly prudish around these sorts of things, and there are even rare cases of same gender marriage, but there are certain expectations on us. Our parents will decide who we marry, and it’ll be for the purpose of carrying on the family lineages. It’s not exactly a good thing to fool around outside of marriage, but as long as you’re bearing children like you’re supposed to then the only consequences are usually whispers behind your back, especially if it’s with other girls where it doesn’t cause any questions about paternity.
“That’s why she always thinks I’m joking, that I mean we can just sort of keep up this sort of thing as we get married. But I’m not. I know there’s not really a way for us to have that life together, but…”
Flora was still mostly composed, but Elaina could see the water welling up in her eyes. She did an excellent job keeping them back, making sure that none fell, but not good enough to hide the hurt completely.
Elaina knew she should be focused on comforting Flora, reassuring her that everything would be okay. But try as she might she couldn’t focus on being a good friend right now, the burning question inside of her needing to come out.
“Is it always like that? For all noble girls?”
Flora stayed still for a moment, breathing in and shutting her eyes. They were dry when she opened them, but red. “Not… always. Carline and I are both the eldest daughters, only daughters actually, but despite that the eldest daughter is the most important child from a strategic standpoint, the one most valuable to be ‘married off’ so to speak. Our brothers are more ‘important’ than us technically, but it is different for them.”
“Eldest daughter…” Elaina said, thinking back to her fencing class. Ranlit had mentioned Kohpicia, so she knew Prisma was very much not the eldest daughter. That means there’s a chance. She couldn’t help but smile a little as she looked back up to Flora. “I think there’s still a way that things can work out.”
Flora nodded, but she somehow looked even more pained than she had before. “Maybe…”
Elaina scooted over, taking Flora into her arms and squeezing tight. She’d given Elaina something, a morsel of hope to cling on to. In the back of her mind Elaina knew that there was more to it. She knew that she didn’t know everything, and maybe even knew that Flora was holding something back. It did always seem like everyone knew just a little more than her, but for the moment Elaina could pretend she had the full story, pretend that everything would be alright.