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Ainsley smirked.

“Good heavens! Did I cause another reaction?”

Chapter 13

Amy was so super sweet.

On Friday, Valentine’s Day, Amy called Rachel from Catalina, where she and Sally had gone for a romantic holiday weekend.

“Hey, Sally is in the shower,” Amy told her when the call connected. “I just wanted to call to make sure you’re not going out with some sleazy bum tonight named, I don’t know, Chad, who’s going to end up taking you to dinner at Burger King.”

Rachel laughed.

“No sleazy bum tonight,” she promised Amy. “I’m going out with a new girl I met named Ainsley.”

“Ainsley?” Amy paused. “Why does that name sound familiar to me?”

“I don’t know,” Rachel said. “Oh, wait! Probably because she knows Sally!”

“She knows…?” Amy paused again. “Wait! Blind date Ainsley?”

“Yep; that’s how she told me she met Sally.”

“How did you meet her?”

“I sold her a house,” Rachel provided. “She’s moving to Carlsbad.”

“As long as she doesn’t think she’s getting another blind date with Sally.”

Rachel laughed.

“Relax. From what she told me, that was their mothers’ doing.”

“Fine. Wait! Why are you going out with a woman on Valentine’s Day?”

Because she’s a sexy goddess and for some reason suddenly everything I thought I knew about myself has been upended.

“It’s a friend-date,” Rachel told her instead and then explained how she and Ainsley had hit it off right away and had decided to be two single but fabulous women hanging together on Valentine’s Day.

“That actually sounds like fun,” Amy said. “Actually, anything not involving men sounds fun. Well, have a good time. I’m glad there’s no Chad.”

“Or Josh,” Rachel added. They said their I love yous and their goodbyes and then Rachel continued getting ready. Ainsley was due to arrive in about an hour.

Rachel was trying to convince herself that this friend-date was really no big deal.

Just two friends hanging out. That’s all.

Yet earlier in the shower, she had very carefully shaved every inch of flesh where she didn’t like hair growing, some of it ahead of schedule. For example, she had just shaved her mound and around her vagina on Wednesday and usually, when single, she’d let at least three days pass before shaving that area again. Yet this evening, she had guided her Venus over it once more, as well as over her legs and underarms.

Then, after the shower, she had put on her Victoria’s Secret Pure Seduction shimmer lotion. Not only did it make the skin on her legs and arms buttery soft, but the scent was pure sex. When she wore it, there was no need for perfume, especially since she had a special trick of rubbing just a bit of the lotion between her breasts. Usually, it was her date night-only lotion.

No big deal! It’s a friend-date! It has the word “date” in it!

In any case, between the shaving and the lotion, Rachel suspected that right now, her skin was among the smoothest surfaces on the planet.

Now, after her phone call with Amy, Rachel was telling herself how it was also no big deal, really, that she was now putting on the new bra and panties set she had just bought yesterday and that were definitely not Tuesday-going-to-work underwear. The bra was a super-soft lilac-colored lace which supported her round breasts perfectly and which her dark nipples were clearly visible through. The panties, a thong, matched and were high-waisted, accentuating the curves of her upper legs and ass in a way which Rachel found rather artistic.

Dressed only in her underwear, she spent some time admiring herself in the mirror, turning this way and that, pleased with the reflection beamed back at her no matter the angle.