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“I sure do. Will I be getting a grade in this course?”
“I wouldn’t be a legit teacher if I didn’t grade you.”
Hope, excitement, and anticipation all bubbled up in Annalise’s stomach. Everything about this was so different, it might just be exactly what she needed to get some of that spark back in her life. She scooted closer to Brinley. “And what grade did I get on my kissing?” she asked as she brought her lips a whisper away from Brinley’s.
Brinley swallowed hard but quickly recovered, her lips brimming into the most beautiful smile. “Inconclusive. I guess I’ll have to keep testing you.”
***
Days later, Annalise couldn’t stop thinking about that kiss. Or kisses. It had definitely been multiple. That was the only explanation for the fact that she had spent three hours at Brinley’s apartment after they left the bar together. Of course, now that her lips were no longer entangled with Brinley’s, her excitement was also riddled with questions and anxiety. Was her perception clouded by all the alcohol she had consumed? Thank God for rideshares because the kisses definitely hadn’t sobered her enough to drive home. If anything, they only made her feel more intoxicated. Even if the alcohol hadn’t thrown off her judgment, it was just kissing. Where was her limit? Could she actually follow through and do more than that? Could she let another woman touch her? Would she be able to touch another woman? The scariest part of it all was how excited she was to find out. She had literally been counting down the days until she could see Brinley again and it was finally only a day away.
First, she had to survive Wine Wednesday with her grandma, an every-other-week tradition that had started when she moved back after college. When she walked up the sidewalk and found her grandma waiting by the door for her, she knew she was about to be attacked with a million questions.
“So…?” Her grandma raised both eyebrows.
“So, what?” Annalise asked, feigning innocence.
Her grandma smacked her butt with the newspaper she was holding as Annalise moved past her into the house. “You damn well know what, young lady. Have you been using the app?”
Annalise threw herself into a chair at her grandma’s kitchen table and sighed. “I hit a bit of a snag, but I’m working on it.”
“What kind of snag?”
Annalise could feel her face turning red at what she was about to admit to her grandma. She was really going to need this wine tonight. “The girl I met up with wasn’t too happy when I told her my grandma had set the app up for me and I wasn’t actually gay.”
Annalise’s grandma scoffed and waved her hand. “Some people are way too sensitive. I’m sure the next one won’t be like that.”
“I won’t be sharing any of that with the next one so I don’t need to worry.”
Her grandma’s eyes lit up as she grabbed a bottle of wine. “So, there will be a next one? Good girl!”
“We’ll see.” Annalise poured some wine into the glass her grandma sat in front of her and gulped it down to prepare herself to say the next part. She wasn’t sure why she was about to admit this to her grandma, but for some reason, she wanted to. “I actually have someone helping me.”
“Helping you how?” Her grandma sat down beside her and watched her with wide eyes.
“She’s going to… you know… teach me how to…” She moved her hands around in a circular motion that was in no way representative of anything she was talking about. “With a woman.”
Her grandma’s eyes lit up and she wiggled around in her chair as if she couldn’t contain her excitement. “I love it! Who is it? One of your friends? It’s Nathalie, isn’t it? I always got the feeling she wanted to tickle your naughty bits.”
“What?” Annalise spit out the sip of wine she had just taken. “First of all, if you never said tickle your naughty bits ever again, it would be too soon. Second of all, no, Nathalie does not want to tickle my naughty bits. She has a husband, for God’s sake.”
“Oh, I would totally tickle your naughty bits. I’m sure Boden wouldn’t care.”
Annalise’s grandma pointed to where Nathalie had just walked in the door. “See. I told you.”
Annalise looked between the two of them. “What the hell are you even doing here?”
Nathalie shrugged as she walked across the kitchen and took a seat at the table, picking up the bottle of wine and drinking directly out of it. “It’s Wine Wednesday. Grandma invited me. The two of us want to get weird.” Nathalie wiggled her eyebrows at Annalise. “I just didn’t realize how weird we were getting.”
“Nobody here is getting weird,” Annalise said much louder than she meant to, her blood pressure rising with her anxiety. “At least, not in that way.”
Annalise’s grandma patted her arm as she shared a knowing look with Nathalie. “Aw, sweetie. Take a chill pill. We’re just joking. Although, I do want to know who is teaching you.”
Nathalie’s head shot from Annalise’s grandma to Annalise as if it was on a swivel. “Whoa. Hold up. Someone is teaching you how to have sex with women and you didn’t tell your bestie? The girl who was there when you first kissed a boy? The one who cheered you on during your first blow job?” Nathalie looked back at Annalise’s grandma and flashed her an innocent smile. “Sorry for the overshare, Grandma.”
“Don’t worry, dear. I already knew all of that. I read Annalise’s diary when I was staying at her parents’ house after my second heart attack.”
What the actual… “Seriously, Grandma?”
