Ribs and Cookie Dough

The warm water washed over Jill as her heart pounded in her chest. She couldn't think of a time she was more scared, riding a bull once on a dare was a close second, but the worst that would have happened is she would have been gored. Jill shook her head under the water. She knew how Sarah felt about her.

Sarah slipped on her thong, taking a moment to stare at her butt in the mirror. She could definitely see what Jill loved about thongs. Suddenly her phone lit up as it silently rang on the bed. Tara's face was cross-eyed and her tongue hanging out, Sarah felt this best illustrated Tara's personality. "Hey." She answered, clicking on the phone.

"Hey girl. How's your spring break going?" Tara was shouting over loud music, most likely at a party.

"It's going good. I met Jill's mom."

"Whoa!" the music and background noise suddenly died down as Tara stepped outside. "That's pretty big. How'd it go?"

"It went well. I think she likes me. Jill says it's kinda hard to tell with southerners though."

"Oh yeah."

"But I think she did. She taught me to play the piano."

"Fun."

"So what are you up to?"

"Just the first party of spring break. I had to get away for a bit, this guy was trying to steal third when the base coach was waving him off ya know?"

Sarah sat for a moment, confused. "Someone's playing baseball at a party?"

Jill snorted whatever she was drinking. "No girl. You know about the bases right?"

"N..no."

Tara never realized just how naive Sarah was when it came to sex. "First base is kissing, second is touching above the waist and third is touching below the waist. A home run is sex."

"T-touching below the waist?"

"You know...finger stuff. If you're with a guy, it's going down on him." Tara realized who she was talking to. "Putting his penis in your mouth." There was an extremely long pause before Tara finally broke the silence. "Sarah? You there?"

Sarah was blushing so hard she had to set her phone on the bed. 'People put their...things in each other's mouths?!' she screamed internally. "That's so gross!"

"No, no, no, no!" Tara corrected "Well, it can be but when you're with the one you love it's beautiful and fun."

Sarah shook her head wildly. 'Sex was for making babies not for fun!'

"You okay?"

"But we...." She wanted to make love to Jill, she had realized that months ago but what she had been taught for years by her dad and her camp counselors were conflicting with her reality.

"We what?"

She had purposefully not thought about these facts she realized. "We um..." She heard the shower turn off. "We have to go to dinner."

"Okay, sweetie. Just call me if you need to talk, about anything."

"Sure. Talk to you later."

"You too."

Sarah hung up and finished getting dressed, Jill smiled as she caught a peak of Sarah's thong as she pulled on a skirt. Jill strolled over to Sarah suddenly feeling hungry for something else and practically tackled Sarah onto the bed. Sarah giggled happily for a moment before she realized Jill was still naked. "What are you doing?"

"I got hungry." Jill smiled, snapping her teeth together like she was going to bite Sarah.

"We can't..." Sarah moaned as Jill kissed her neck. Damn, if her tongue didn't feel amazing on her neck. She felt Jill's fingers against her thighs as they slowly traced their way upwards. Her heart was beating in her ears as Jill's fingers stopped at the gusset of her panties. "Please."

Jill saw the distressed look on her love's face. "Are you okay?"

"I'm...I'm just hungry."

"Okay." It wasn't lost on Jill that Sarah was behaving like she had when they first went out as she dressed. Sarah breathed a sigh of relief and stood in the bathroom to use a wet rag on her face. Her body was as disappointed as Jill.

The walk to the bar-b-que restaurant was silent and awkward to say the least. Every time she tried to speak, her voice would catch in her throat. Once they were seated Jill fingered the velvety box in her pants all through dinner trying to decide if she should even go through with her plan. Sarah seemed to be in better spirits looking at the pig shaped menu. "Oh look they have little diagrams!" she laughed. In truth Sarah was **** to stop thinking about her issues regarding her conflict with sex and her religion once again.

Jill smiled finally, infected no doubt by Sarah's smile. "I'll be back, I need to..well you know." Jill waved a hand at her empty glass of Sprite before leaving the table. Sarah nodded, still cruising the menu.

Jill found their waiter and explained she had called ahead for a special request."Oh, I remember, we don't normally get requests like this."

"I'll bet." Jill smiled and thanked the waiter. Dinner came and they laughed at one another's sauce stained faces. "I hope you saved room for dessert." Jill asked as she waved at the waiter.

"I don't know I didn't see anything I like on the menu."

"I actually called ahead and asked them for a favor." The waiter sat a small bowl of cookie dough ice cream in front of Sarah.

"Oh my god! My favorite!" She beamed to the waiter and Jill as he sat her bowl in front of her.

Jill thanked the waiter and explained how she called ahead "and asked if they would get it for you"

Sarah kissed Jill softly. "I love you."

"I love you too." The girls at their cold treat, Sarah laughed when Jill ate too fast and got an ice cream headache before kissing her cold head.

Later they were walking back to the hotel. Jill stopped her on a pedestrian bridge that overlooked the city and held her close, swaying to the music in her head. Sarah rested her head on her shoulder gliding with her on the deserted bridge. "Sarah?"

"Hmm?" she hummed not opening her eyes.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

"I was never one for plannin'." Sarah chuckled softly, she loved when she could hear Jill's accent. "Well, I mean I never really thought about my future much. Until I met you. A-and now whenever I think about my future, you're it."

Sarah finally opened her eyes. "What are you-" Her eyes met the small velvet box. "Are you..."

Jill slid to one knee, taking Sarah's small hand "Sarah Watkins, will you continue making me the happiest woman ever and marry me?"