Meeting the competition?

So there Dawn sat in her car, parked just outside of the house on 1375 Oceanic drive. What was she going to do? what was she going to say? Why did she really come here? Was it to check out her former competition? She began to feel unsure and nervous about the whole situation. She took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and slowly opened the car door. She got out, and took a few rubbery steps around the back of her car. It was at that moment a very tall, lovely looking woman with dark red, curly hair came out of the front door of the house where she was headed. "Gawd! She's beautiful!" she thought to herself as she appraised her from afar. "Is that really her?" Now her curiosity kicked into overdrive, and she had to know. Her steps became more confident as she stepped up on the curb, toward the woman just a few feet in front of her.

The redhead smiled up at Dawn in recognition. "Hello Dawn!" she called out. "I wasn't expecting you. Or maybe I was hoping you'd come. I don't know. I'm Nicole, the one you're looking for."

Dawn smiled back at her nervously, still half unsure of why she came as she walked up to her. "Sorry, my curiosity got the best of me. But I must say I can see why Jason picked you to cheat on me with. You're stunning! You should be a model, or something!"

Nicole's face flushed red, and she gave Dawn a shy smile. "Thank you for the compliments, but I think you're more beautiful than I am. You're also sweeter and ****, and I deserve to catch all kinds of hell from you."

For some reason, Dawn found herself opening her arms to give Nicole a hug. Nicole accepted her hug without any hesitation. "No, I didn't come to give you hell. I now know what a charmer and a cheat Jason is. My two best friends also admitted they had something going on with him, behind my back. You, at least, had the courage to admit it to me. I respect that. My two best friends kept it from me, until today. It's been months, maybe a year since he did both of them. i know how Jason can be, and he probably seduced and charmed you right out of your clothes.. I know that's what he did to me when we first met. Of course back then, he swore I would be the only one he ever wanted. Now I'm unsure if I was ever the only one, or just one of many. I know I feel heartbroken, cheap, and used, but I think you feel the same way."

Nicole hugged her tighter as she began to cry. "You're so understanding, and a much better person than I am. Yes, he seduced me, and charmed me. He said you were a queen bee, and he was going to leave you, and that he wanted us to be together. He hounded me day after day, until I finally gave in. I didn't feel right about it even then. And then, when I met you at the office party, I knew I had made a big mistake. i tried to break it off with him, but he wouldn't let me. Then something happened, and he dropped me for another girl in the office."

Dawn gently pated her on the back. "I made the mistake of marrying him. And that's a mistake I'm going to fix. Will you help me?"

"I'll be glad to help you in any way I can," answered Nicole. "I owe you."

Dawn lifted up her chin, and looked into her tear stained eyes. "No, you don't owe me. However, I think we both owe Jason a little ****. Don't you?" Then it registered to Dawn. "Wait a minute... You said something happened, and he dropped you?"

"Yes. He got me pregnant. He didn't want anything to do with me after that. Then he started spreading rumors around the office about me that I was a whore and a gold digger. I guess I should have stayed, and fought all of his lies, but it was easier to just give up. So I quit my job, and I wrote you that letter to let you know what was going on behind your back."

"That bastard!" Dawn seethed. "Do you know how many years I begged him to have children? He always came up with some lame excuse as to why we couldn't have any. He's scared of kids. I guess. Maybe to him, they represent the last nail in the lid of his coffin? I don't know."

"I think you're right," replied Nicole. "As soon as I mentioned I missed my period, he was on me to get an abortion. There's no way I'm doing that. The baby is part of me, and I'm going to keep it."

"How far along are you?"

"About three months now, I think."

"Well, you won't be raising that baby alone. I'll help you. So don't you worry about a thing. We're going to take that bastard for everything he's got, and then some."

Nicole looked deep into Dawn's eyes. "I never expected such kindness from you. I knew you were special the moment I laid eyes on you."

Dawn couldn't pull away from her at that point. Her face got dangerously close to Nicole's as she closed her eyes, and parted her lips. their lips met, and it set off a tingling spark inside both of them that soon ignited into a full blown flame.

After sharing the steamy kiss, they both stood there, still embracing each other, looking dumbfounded into each other's eyes. "Did we just... kiss?" came Dawn's voice in almost a whisper.

"Yeah... I think so," came Nicole's breathless answer. "Come with me." She turned around, opened her front door, and took Dawn by the hand, leading her inside.