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Fanning the Flame	By : Shaellin Category: +S through Z > W.I.T.C.H. Views: 5686 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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- 1-Fanning the Flame
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It was a gorgeous sunny day at the beach as the Guardians enjoyed some well-earned downtime after defeating Nerissa. Oddly enough the forecast had called for partial overcast with a 10% chance of showers, but since their arrival there hadn't been a cloud in the sky. Every so often each of the other Guardians would cast a suspicious glance at Irma, but if the Water Guardian had anything to do with the clouds staying away she wasn't giving any indication. Irma glanced over at Will as they dumped more buckets of sand on the growing mound they were constructing.

"It sure was nice of your dad to invite us to spend the weekend at the beach with him Will. After Nerissa nearly ruined our last beach weekend with my folks I didn't think we'd be getting back here again this year."

Will shrugged as she scooped more sand into her bucket.

"It was his way of getting to spend more time with me since I live with Mom all the time. He didn't really fight too hard when I insisted I'd only come if you guys got to come along with. I think maybe he's hoping that bringing me along on his beach vacation with Sarina will help me 'bond' with her a little bit more."

Irma gave a mock shudder.

"Brrrr! Bonding with the wicked step-mother? That's not exactly your typical fairy-tale ending."

Will gave the brunette's shoulder a swat.

"She's not a wicked step-mother. She's actually pretty nice. And technically she's not even my step-mother yet, although actually I don't think I'll mind too much when she does marry Dad, now that I know she's not Nerissa in disguise."

Irma stopped rubbing her shoulder and smirked at the redhead.

"Yeah. There's nothing quite like the horror of finding out your future step-mother is really a wicked witch, unless it's the horror of finding out your future mother-in-law is a wicked witch."

Cornelia opened her eyes to glare up at Irma.

"Don't even joke about that! It's bad enough Caleb has to live with finding out that Nerissa is really his mother. There's no need to go rubbing it in how weird it'll be for me if I wind up marrying him someday, knowing I'll be related to her too."

Taranee dragged her bucket through the sand to refill it.

"What I think is weird is this warm weather lately. I mean, is this November or isn't it? We just celebrated Halloween last week. If this keeps up we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving outdoors."

Irma gave another smart-aleck smirk.

"Hey, you gotta love global warming."

Hay Lin up-ended her bucket of sand on the pile.

"More like Indian Summer I think. But what's really weird is the way Cornelia's letting us bury her in the sand like this."

Cornelia closed her eyes and grinned.

"Hey, I'm the Earth Guardian, remember? I can shift this pile off me any time I want. When it comes to this sort of thing I've got less to worry about than any of you guys."

Irma's smirk intensified as she mischievously hoisted her bucket into the air.

"Oh yeah? Well how about when it comes to this sort of thing? Heads up!"

Cornelia's eyes flew open wide with panic as she realized where Irma intended to dump her load of sand.

"Irma! Don't you dare!"

Cackling wickedly, Irma up-ended her bucket directly over Cornelia's head. The blond barely had time to close her eyes and mouth before the sand struck. Shaking her head to clear the sand off she opened her eyes to glare murderously at her smart-mouthed friend.

"Irma, when I get my hands on you... !"

Irma jumped to her feet, laughing as the mound of sand covering Cornelia's body began to tremble and heave upward.

"Look out everyone! Mount St. Cornelia is about to blow!"

The sand suddenly geysered skyward. The other four Guardians had to turn their backs and shield themselves with their arms as Cornelia's powers sent sand flying in all directions. A significant percentage of the sand seemed to surge in a single direction however, enough to bowl Irma over and send her tumbling to the ground. She came up spitting sand as Cornelia towered over her smugly.

"So how do you like getting sand in your face, Irma?"

Irma rose to her feet with an 'It is so on!' smirk on her face.

"So that's how you wanna play it, huh?"

She thrust out her hand toward the ocean. A hundred yards offshore one of the little waves coming in started to grow and swell in size, gradually towering higher and higher as it approached the beach. Will stepped between her squabbling friends and grabbed Irma's wrist.

"Hey! Cool it with the powers you two! Do you want my dad and Sarina to find out about us?"

Irma stared at Will pleadingly for a moment, then lowered her arm in defeat. The incoming wave, robbed of its supernatural support, crashed down into a spray of foam that washed up harmlessly on the beach and back out again. Before anyone could say anything further on the matter Will's father Tony Vandom came up to them with his fiancée Sarina Sanchez on his arm.

"Whoa! Did you girls see that freak wave just now? It must have been ten feet tall! Lucky for us it didn't make it to shore or we all would have been swamped!"

Will gave Irma a meaningful glare.

"Yeah. It might have washed us all away."

Irma put on a sheepish grin and gave a nervous chuckle.

"Heh heh. Yeah. Good thing it didn't make it to shore."

Hay Lin clasped her hands together down by her legs and bowed to Will's father respectfully.

"We'd really like to thank you again for bringing us out here Mr. Vandom."

He waved it off with a magnanimous smile.

"No need for that. Friends of Will are always welcome. You kids enjoying yourselves?"

The girls gave a chorus of affirmative answers.

"Sure thing!" "You bet." "Absolutely." "Couldn't be having any more fun if we tried."

Smiling warmly at the girls as she stood beside Will's dad in her tiger-striped bikini, Sarina glanced at the one member of the group who hadn't answered.

"How about you... Theresa? Tanya?"

The mousy, bespectacled black girl looked down at her feet self-consciously under the older woman's gaze.

"Um... It's Taranee, actually."

Sarina winced at her own faux pas and placed an apologetic hand on the girl's shoulder.

"I'm sorry. Taranee. So are you having fun today?"

Taranee kept her head down, raising only her eyes to glance over the tops of her glasses at the lovely woman.

"Mm-hm."

Sarina smiled that warm, friendly smile again as she took Taranee's chin between her thumb and forefinger and gently tilted it upward.

"Good. I'm so glad to hear that."

She let go and turned her attention back to Will's father as he started speaking.

"We're gonna go start lunch now. I hope you're all hungry. I'm fixing barbecued chicken."

Will gave her dad a look of mixed surprise, amusement and skepticism.

"Wait. You? Cooking?"

Mr. Vandom pulled himself up straight and raised his chin proudly.

"I'll have you know that barbecuing is a man's job!"

Sarina patted his chest condescendingly and grinned at Will.

"I let him do it because it makes him feel useful."

Will's dad looked mildly affronted as the girls giggled.

"Ha ha. Very funny. Lunch should be ready in about half an hour. We'll call you girls when it's ready."

Will gave him a teasing grin.

"Sure thing Dad. Just try not to set the whole beach on fire before then, okay?"

Mr. Vandom put his hand on Will's head and mussed with her hair.

"I'll do my best to restrain my manly urges."

As Tony and Sarina walked away to start lunch there was another round of giggles from the girls. Cornelia shook her head and spread her hands.

"Men. Why does it seem like they've always got something to prove?"

Irma rolled her eyes.

"I know, right? Like this one time my dad took a week off from work and before you know it he was 'fixing' everything in sight. He started out by changing a light bulb, which of course he dropped. After he got done sweeping up the glass he decided to tighten up the hinges on the cupboard door, which then fell off into the sink and broke some of Mom's favorite dishes. Then he repainted the porch railing and accidentally glued his hand to it somehow. That's a 9-1-1 call I'll never forget. When he started working on some pipes which were banging Mom took the rest of us to Aunt Vera's for the remainder of the week. By the time he got done with the place it took us two weeks to make the house livable again. He made pretty much every mistake in the Man Manual."

Hay Lin's face was a mixture of curiosity and confusion.

"There's a Man Manual?"

Irma grinned at her teasingly.

"Of course! It was published in 1979 by Dr. Irving M. Manley as a self-help guide for men trying to come to grips with their masculinity. Unfortunately it was released prematurely and sales were limp. It became one of the most under-read books of all time. No surprise really. Everyone knows that real men never read the directions."

While Hay Lin tried to figure out whether or not this was just more of Irma's weird sense of humor Will looked around with an expression of mild concern.

"Hey guys, has anybody seen Taranee?"

Cornelia glanced around in surprise.

"Well... she was just here a minute ago..."

Hay Lin looked worried.

"She couldn't have just vanished into thin air, could she?"

Irma gave her a wry smirk.

"Not unless she's been stealing your shtick."

Will gave Irma a warning frown.

"This is serious Irma. You remember how sensitive Taranee can be about thinking we don't notice her. Now she's gone and disappeared while we weren't paying attention. If anything happens to her..."

Irma laid a hand on Will's shoulder.

"Hey, relax glorious leader. We'll find her. She can't of gotten too far. She's probably just sitting behind a sand dune somewhere waiting for us to come looking for her. Let's just spread out start looking. She'll turn up."

Cornelia planted her hand on her hips.

"Irma's right. There's really not that many places she could have gone. If we all split up we should find her pretty quickly."

Will looked from one to the other and nodded.

"Alright. You two check up and down the beach. Look everywhere you can think of. Hay Lin, you turn invisible and see if you can spot her from the air. I'll check back at the beach house in case she decided to head inside. We'll all meet back here in about ten minutes."

As the Guardian of Air, Hay Lin was the only Guardian who retained the power of flight while not transformed. Since the capture of Prince Phobos and the removal of the Veil she had also gained the power of invisibility. This combination of powers made her the perfect choice for stealthy aerial reconnaissance without resorting to their transformed states. Considering that Will's dad and his fiancée were just up the beach it would have been pretty hard to hide that kind of light show from them, so searching as their non-transformed selves would have to do.

After turning herself invisible, Hay Lin took to the air. She started by flying a little way out over the ocean in case Taranee had decided to go for a swim. Not seeing anything out among the waves she reversed directions and headed inland, arriving at the beach house just behind Will. She was just in time to hear Sarina tell Will "No, I'm sorry. We haven't seen Taranee in the past few minutes. You're welcome to check inside just in case she slipped by us." Will looked over at her dad, who was bent over blowing on the charcoal in the barbecue grill.

"What's dad up to?"

Sarina smiled good-humoredly.

"He seems to be having a little trouble getting the charcoal lit. He thinks that it's not getting enough air flow."

Will couldn't help thinking it was too bad Taranee, the Guardian of Fire, wasn't there to light things up for him. Hovering invisibly nearby, Hay Lin had a different thought. She waved her hand and directed a small gust of wind directly into the grill. This fanned the stubborn coals and got them burning brightly. It also stirred up a cloud of ash left over from previous barbecues right in the face of Will's dad. He fell back from the grill coughing and sputtering as he waved the ash cloud out of his airspace. Sarina came over and placed her hands on his shoulders in a mix of mild concern and mirth.

"Hm hm! Are you alright Tony?"

Mr. Vandom coughed a couple more times then beamed triumphantly at Sarina through a soot-blackened face.

"I told you I'd get it going! It just needed a little more airflow to get it going good."

Will grinned back at him.

"Gee. And all it took was a little help from a girl."

Mr. Vandom looked at her with a puzzled frown.

"What girl?"

Sarina put an affectionate arm around his shoulder.

"Mother Nature. Who else?"

Will turned and winked in the direction the sudden gust had come from, figuring it was too big a coincidence to have been anything but Hay Lin's doing. Hay Lin swooped past her, giggling just loudly enough for only Will to hear before moving on to resume the search for Taranee.

She retraced her path back to the spot on the beach where they'd all been standing when Taranee had disappeared. She hovered over the spot for a moment, reconstructing the scene in her mind in an effort to glean some clue that might help narrow down the search effort.

"Now let me think. When we were burying Cornelia in the sand Taranee and I were on that side, Will and Irma were on this side."

She turned around in the air to face the other way.

"Then Will's dad and Sarina came down and stood over on this side, across from Taranee and me. We all kind of closed ranks, forming a line facing them. Well, more of a loose cluster than a line really, but whatever. I was standing between Will and Cornelia and Taranee was standing on Cornelia's other side. Irma kinda got caught in the middle. I remember sidestepping her to thank Will's dad for bringing us. We were all facing that way, looking at the grown-ups. Sarina spoke to Taranee and touched her face right after that, so we know she was still there at that point."

She crossed her arm over her stomach, supporting her right elbow with her left hand as she held her chin between her thumb and forefinger. The frown of concentration on her face would have been cute if only she wasn't still invisible.

"Okay, then the adults left and Irma started telling us about her dad and the Man Manual. I gotta see if I can find a copy of that book at the library after we get back."

She turned in place and pointed at the last place she remembered Taranee standing.

"It must have been at that point, when all eyes were on Irma, that Taranee took off. So if we were all looking at Irma here..."

She turned around again and hovered backwards into the position where she had been standing before. From this position she noticed that she could look down the beach and see Irma ambling along looking for their missing friend.

"... then Taranee couldn't have gone that way or we would have seen her. That means..."

Turning around once more she spotted Cornelia's blond hair just disappearing behind a nearby sand dune.

"... she must have gone that way!"

Holding her arms down at her sides she shot up into the air at a forty-five degree angle, carrying her simultaneously up and forward. At about thirty feet up she stopped to survey the lay of the beach. From this height she was able to make out what Cornelia evidently couldn't see from the ground, the last faint remnants of a swiftly fading set of footprints along the waterline, rapidly being washed away by the waves. She followed them with her eyes to where they disappeared behind an outcropping of rocks that formed a sort of natural rock wall further down the beach.

"Ah ha! So that's where you went!"

She went into a shallow dive, heading toward the rocks in an easy glide. She had been using her powers for several minutes non-stop by now and she was starting to feel the drain on her personal energy. Normally the most she would ever use her powers in her non-transformed state was just a few seconds at a time. In her full Guardian form she could draw upon the power of her Auramere to keep her going indefinitely, but in her untransformed state she could only draw upon her own reserves of energy, and those were rapidly being depleted by this constant usage. Flying and remaining invisible were each taxing on her endurance separately. Doing both at once was eating up her energy at a ferocious pace. She realized she wasn't going to be able to keep up this level of effort for much longer.

Taking a bit of a chance with her power she swooped upward several feet and went into a steeper dive, racing to achieve the cover of the rocks before she exhausted herself and turned visible while falling from the sky in plain view of anyone who might happen to be watching. If her powers conked out just a few seconds too soon she could wind up smashing into the rocks, and at this speed she'd probably die on impact, but she knew she didn't have enough time to make it going slower so she took the risk.

As she hurtled toward the far side of the rocks she spotted Taranee lying in the sand on the far side. Hay Lin rather thought something looked off with the scene, but at her breakneck rate of descent she had no time to stop and figure out what it was. She flipped herself around feet-first as she shot over the rocks and started braking as hard as she could.

In the end her efforts were almost enough. Her power gave out five feet from her chosen landing site. She cried out in alarm as she felt herself turning visible and switching from powered flight to freefall. Though her momentum carried her clear of the rocks she hit the sand hard. Her legs absorbed the brunt of the impact before flipping her end over applecarts in a graceless tumble that left her lying face-down in the sand. The next moment she heard a strangled shriek from Taranee.

"Eeek! Hay Lin! What are you doing here?"

Hay Lin groaned and pushed herself upright. She kept her eyes closed for the moment while she brushed sand off her face and spat it out of her mouth.

"Puh! Pluh! Not exactly one of my better landings."

She opened her eyes as she climbed cautiously to her feet, her weariness and soreness from the rough landing making that a delicate operation.

"But you know what they say. Any landing you can walk away from..."

Taranee didn't sound the least bit mollified by Hay Lin's reassurances.

"Hay Lin, get out of here! You shouldn't be here!"

That struck Hay Lin as a strange thing to say. She looked over at the black girl where she sat with her knees drawn up to her chest and her arms wrapped tightly around her legs.

"I shouldn't be here? Taranee, everyone's out looking for you! Why'd you go and run off on us like... Wait a minute. Are you naked?"

Taranee huddled in on herself even tighter as she glared at the Asian girl.

"No I'm not naked. I'm in my birthday suit."

Hay Lin looked a bit surprised.

"Oh, okay. Well anyway..."

A look of confusion crossed her face.

"Wait, isn't 'birthday suit' code for-"

"YES, I'M NAKED, okay?"

Taranee put her head down on her knees and began to sob.

"Now will you please just go away?"

Hay Lin was taken aback by the force of Taranee's emotions. She realized that her presence was causing her friend severe distress. She wanted to do something to make Taranee feel better but it didn't look like Taranee wanted her around at all. Feeling dejected, Hay Lin half turned away.

"Well, if that's what you want, the-e-e-en I guess I'll just go."

She turned and started walking away toward the waterline where she'd be able to pick her way around the end of the rocks the way Taranee evidently had done to get here. As she walked away the muffled sound of Taranee's sobs followed after her, tugging at her heart strings. After about half a dozen paces she stopped. This wasn't right. She couldn't just walk off and leave her friend hurting like this. Then something occurred to her, an idea so simple she wondered why she hadn't thought of it straight away. She turned back around to face her friend.

"You know, on second thought no, I won't go. I've got a better idea."

She reached up and pulled the shoulder straps of her one piece bathing suit off her shoulders and started peeling herself out of it. Taranee looked up and was shocked at what she saw. Her voice squeaked with trepidation as she spoke.

"Hay Lin, what are you doing?!?"

Hay Lin finished pushing her bathing suit down her legs and stepped out of it, then straightened up and gave Taranee a shy, hopeful smile.

"Well, I figured part of the reason you were so upset was because you were naked and I wasn't, so I thought if I was naked too we'd be even and then maybe you could talk about what's bothering you so much."

Flames danced in the lenses of Taranee's glasses as she unfolded herself and stood up, speaking in low, soft tones that got louder and angrier as she rose.

"You wanna know what's bothering me? I'll tell you what's bothering me! What's bothering me right now is you!!"

She held up both hands palm up, summoning twin balls of fire that swirled ominously just above her palms.

"Get out of here Hay Lin! Put your suit back on and go!"

Hay Lin was shocked and more than a little afraid. Taranee had never threatened to use her Guardian powers on her before!

"Taranee, it's me! I'm your friend! I just wanna help you!"

Taranee took a step forward and drew back her right arm.

"You can help me by leaving me alone!"

She hurled the fireball in her right hand. It struck the sand at Hay Lin's feet and exploded, sending a spray of heated sand in all directions. Hay Lin flung up her arms protectively, crying out in dismay as she fell over backwards onto the sand. She looked up at the sound of footsteps approaching to see Taranee standing over her with fireballs in hand.

"Taranee, what's wrong?! Why won't you talk to me?!"

Taranee raised the fireball in her left hand.

"Get out of here! Now!!"

Hay Lin covered her head with her arms, cowering in fear.

"Taranee, please don't do this! I used up all my powers looking for you! I can't protect myself!"

Taranee stood there with her arm held high, the flames dancing in her glasses mirroring the emotions raging in her eyes. For the space of three heartbeats it looked like she was on the verge of making up her mind to actually hurt her friend. Then she turned to the right and started flinging fireballs at the barrier of rocks separating them from the rest of the beach. Hearing the noise, Hay Lin opened her eyes and looked up to see what her friend was doing. She watched in awe as Taranee continued slamming fireball after fireball into the rocks, giving vent to her frustration. Finally the fireballs stopped coming and Taranee fell to her knees, sobbing once more. Hay Lin picked herself up off the sand and moved over to put her arms around the black girl. Taranee looked up at the Chinese girl, the flames in her lenses long extinguished, replaced by streams of tears running down her face.

"Why Hay Lin? Why didn't you just leave?"

Hay Lin gave her a sad, sympathetic smile.

"Because you're my friend, and friends don't abandon their friends when they're hurting."

Taranee threw her arms around Hay Lin's neck and bawled into her shoulder. Hay Lin just held her and let her cry, stroking her back comfortingly. They remained like that for a little while, until Taranee's sobbing eventually ran down and trailed off. She sniffed a few times, then started talking in a strained, cracking voice, without raising her head off Hay Lin's shoulder.

"I'm sorry Hay Lin. I'm so sorry."

Hay Lin gave her friend a consoling hug.

"It's okay Taranee. Really. It's okay. Whatever's bothering you, we'll get through it together. And you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. Just don't shut your friends out, okay? We're all here for you when you need us."

Taranee nodded her head against Hay Lin's shoulder and mumbled "Thank you." Hay Lin smiled and gave her friend another squeeze. After a few moments Taranee said "Hay Lin?". Hay Lin looked down at her.

"Yeah?"

Taranee didn't move a muscle.

"We're still naked, aren't we?"

Hay Lin got a thoughtful look on her face.

"Last time I checked, yeah."

Taranee still didn't move.

"Then we probably shouldn't be hugging like this, huh?"

"Well..." Hay Lin hesitated a moment, torn between her natural inclination toward giving an honest reaction and the more socially acceptable answer she figured Taranee would feel more comfortable hearing. In the end she decided to err in the direction of Taranee's comfort zone. "... probably not."

Taranee nodded without raising her head.

"Yeah. That's what I thought."

For several seconds then there was silence. Neither girl moved or spoke. Finally Taranee spoke up again.

"Soooo... are you gonna let me go?"

Hay Lin grinned.

"I will if you will."

Taranee was embarrassed to realize that she had been waiting for Hay Lin to make the first move toward breaking their embrace.

"Oh."

She pulled away and Hay Lin did the same. Taranee laid her hands on her knees and gazed down at her lap. Somehow it seemed a little pointless to make a big deal out of being naked at this point, but she didn't want to risk staring at her friend's naked body. Hay Lin reached out to lay a hand on Taranee's arm.

"Are you feeling a little better now?"

Taranee stared at the pale hand resting against her dark skin and nodded.

"Yeah. A little bit at least."

Hay Lin gave her arm a gentle squeeze.

"Taranee, look at me."

Taranee snapped her gaze up to her friend's eyes. Hay Lin closed her eyes for a moment, shook her head and looked back at her friend.

"Not my face. Look at me. All of me."

Taranee turned her face away in shame.

"Hay Lin, I can't."

Hay Lin shifted her hand up to Taranee's shoulder.

"Sure you can! We see each other naked in the showers after gym class all the time. This isn't any different."

Taranee's cheeks darkened.

"I never really looked."

Hay Lin smiled and gave her shoulder a friendly rub.

"Then look now."

She let go of Taranee's shoulder and spread her arms invitingly. Slowly, hesitantly, Taranee shifted her gaze to Hay Lin's knees. She swallowed nervously before slowly allowing her gaze to drift up the Asian girl's legs, casting only the briefest glance at Hay Lin's crotch before hurrying on past. She took in the sight of her friend's narrow hips and slightly narrower waist as her eyes slid up the girl's thin frame, pausing the briefest of moments to gaze at her small budding tits, still too small to merit the name breasts, before moving on to Hay Lin's chest, shoulders and neck, finally resting her eyes on the relative safety of her face. She couldn't bring herself to look her in the eyes after all that, settling for watching her mouth instead. Her heated face turned an even darker shade of reddish brown as she noticed that Hay Lin was smiling at her.

"There, you see Taranee? Nothing bad happened. You didn't get struck by lightning or burst into flames just because you looked at me."

Taranee ducked her head in embarrassment but kept her eyes pinned on her friend's mouth.

"Only because I used up all of my powers on those rocks a minute ago, otherwise I'd be a pile of cinders right now."

Hay Lin giggled and reached out to ruffle her friend's hair.

"Hm hm! No you wouldn't. Honestly Taranee, this isn't a big deal. All you're seeing is me, the real me. It's nothing that hasn't been there all along. I'm just a bit easier to see right now, that's all."

If it had been possible for Taranee to blush any harder she would have. That didn't stop her from trying though.

"Hay Lin, this just isn't right. There's a reason that people aren't supposed to see each other naked."

Hay Lin raised her eyebrows and gave a wry smirk.

"Why? So we don't jump each other's bones and have sex all hours of the day and night? Come on Taranee. We're not animals. We have self-control. Heck, even animals don't actually do that."

Taranee buried her face in her hands in mortification at her friend's candor.

"Hay Lin, can we please not talk about this while we're naked? Or at all?"

Hay Lin held her hands out in front of her in a 'calm down' gesture.

"Okay, okay! No more talking about sex. I promise."

She grabbed hold of the black girl's wrists and stood up, tugging Taranee up with her.

"Come on! Let's go splash around in the ocean for a bit. I haven't been skinny-dipping in ages!"

Taranee looked at the Asian girl with shock and disbelief as she was dragged reluctantly to her feet.

"Skinny-dinning?!? Are you crazy?!? What if somebody sees us?"

Hay Lin laughed as she hauled her nervous friend toward the water.

"Huh huh ha! Don't worry! Nobody's going to see us! This little corner of the beach is so isolated we might as well be on the moon. As long as we don't stray out beyond the end of the rocks we'll be fine. Come on Taranee. Live a little!"

Taranee groaned as she let herself be led into the surf.

"For the record, this is a bad idea and we're really gonna regret it."

The two girls waded out until the water was over their knees. Just a little bit further out was where Taranee had come around the end of the ridge of rocks to reach this isolated location sheltered from the rest of the beach. Taranee looked at Hay Lin doubtfully.

"Well, so much for that. It's a little on the shallow side to actually go swimming here, and if we go out much further we'll be seen. Guess we'd better head back in and grab our suits."

Hay Lin gave her a cock-eyed grin.

"What for? They'd just get wet. Besides, it's not too shallow to do the butterfly stroke."

Taranee gave her an incredulous look as an incoming swell lapped up her thighs and back down again.

"The butterfly stroke? In this surf? Forget it!"

She folded her arms and turned her back on her friend. Hay Lin got a mischievous look on her face as she bent down to scoop up a double handful of water.

"Well then I guess we're just gonna have to settle for splashing each other!"

She raised her double handful of water high and dumped it over Taranee's head. The black girl gave a shriek and turned to glare at her friend.

"Ohhh! You are so dead!"

She reached down and batted a spray of water at the Chinese girl. Hay Lin raised her arms to protect herself and laughed.

"Ha haa! You're gonna have to do better than that Taranee!"

She reached down and flung another double-handful at her. Taranee ducked the worst of it and retaliated by sweeping two successive sprays of water at her friend. Hay Lin shrieked as she got thoroughly doused. She crouched down and started driving the heels of her hands into the water, sending spray after spray at the black girl. Soon both girls were totally drenched and laughing as they continued splashing at each other. It was about that time that Cornelia came wading around the end of the rock wall.

"So this is where you guys got to! Taranee, everyone's been looking for... Whoa!"

Cornelia's eyes bulged out as she caught sight of her two naked friends standing wet and dripping in the surf. Taranee froze for a moment as she stared in horrified disbelief at the blond girl staring back at them before giving a shriek, crossing her arms over her underdeveloped chest and ducking down in the water so that only her head and shoulders showed. Hay Lin turned toward Cornelia, stood fully upright and waved at her cheerfully.

"Hey Cornelia! We were just having some fun in the surf! Come on over and join us!"

Cornelia stared in stunned disbelief at her friend's uninhibited display and started backing away nervously.

"Uh, no thanks. I, uh, really don't want to get my suit wet."

Hay Lin stuck her hands on her hips.

"Well that's no problem. Just take it off. That's what we did."

Cornelia kept backing away.

"Yeah, you know what, thanks anyway but I've got to get back to the others and let them know you guys are okay and we can stop looking for you."

Hay Lin raised a hand and waved goodbye.

"Okay then. We'll see you at lunch."

Cornelia turned and waded as quickly as she could back around the end of the rock wall and out of sight. From where she sat crouched in the surf Taranee sniffled and moaned.

"I told you this was a bad idea. Now she's gonna go back and tell everyone what she saw. My life is over."

Hay Lin turned and gave her a half smile.

"Oh, come on Taranee. It's not that bad. I mean sure Cornelia saw us but I'm sure she won't tell anyone. In a way we're actually lucky it was Cornelia that found us. If it had been Will she'd probably have been so freaked out she wouldn't be able to keep it to herself, and Irma would have blabbed just to see what kind of reactions she'd get out of everyone, but I really don't think Cornelia would tell anyone else."

Taranee looked up at her miserably.

"What makes you so sure?"

Hay Lin just shrugged.

"Call it a gut feeling."

Taranee looked down despondently.

"Great. So then maybe Cornelia is the only one who'll think we're a couple of freaks."

Hay Lin crouched down beside her friend and put an arm around her.

"Oh Taranee. She won't think you're a freak. You covered yourself like most people would have done and looked real embarrassed to be caught. If she thinks either of us is a freak it'll be me, not you."

Taranee looked Hay Lin in the eye and managed a weak grin.

"So then, nothing's changed?"

Hay Lin blinked in surprise before pasting an annoyed look on her face.

"Hey! That was a cheap shot."

Taranee started to chuckle, intermittently at first, then more consistently as he spirits started to rise. Hay Lin looked at her strangely for a few moments, but soon found herself chuckling along. Moments later both girls were laughing openly. As their laughter wound down Taranee wiped a few tears from her eyes.

"I'm sorry Hay Lin. You're right. That was a cheap shot."

Hay Lin grinned and shook her head.

"I guess maybe I am a bit of a freak. But you know what? I don't care. I like who I am."

She poked Taranee in the chest with a finger.

"And you've been hanging around Irma too long. You're starting to pick up her sense of humor."

Taranee gave an embarrassed grin.

"I guess you guys are starting to rub off on me."

Hay Lin pulled Taranee tightly to her with a slightly twisted grin.

"Well obviously I haven't rubbed off enough if you're still scared of what people think of you. Guess I'll have to rub a little harder."

Suiting actions to words she started bobbing up and down in the water, rubbing her front against Taranee's side. Taranee freaked out at that and hastily shoved Hay Lin away from her.

"Ack!! Hay Lin! What do you think you're doing?!"

Hay Lin waved at her to calm down.

"Chill out Taranee! I was just teasing!"

Taranee glared at the long-haired girl.

"The heck you were! That's called sexual harassment."

Hay Lin pulled an amused face and waved her off.

"Pfft! As if! I mean it's not like I was doing it in a pervy way or anything. And it's not like I was touching your girl bits or making you touch mine."

Taranee stood straight up, raised her arms to either side and leaned forward to shout down at her friend.

"Hello?!? You so totally just did!! You were rubbing your breasts against my shoulder and you had my arm pinned between your legs!"

Jay Lin looked up at her with a mix of emotions. There was a touch of awe, a tiny bit of admiration, a dash of 'Eep! She's scary!', a hint of 'I'll have some of that please!', a dollop of 'I really messed up this time!', a smidgen of 'If I started running right now...', and a healthy helping of 'You really didn't think this through, did you?'.

"Um, I'm not sure that's something you really wanna be shouting at the top of your lungs, especially with our friends just down the beach."

Taranee slapped both hands over her mouth with a startled look as she realized that her friend was right. Hay Lin stood up beside her and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"For what it's worth Taranee, I'm sorry. I totally wasn't thinking when I did that."

Taranee took her hands off her mouth and glowered at her, recalling that she was in fact still mad at her.

"You know Hay Lin, that's your problem. You don't think about the way other people will see the things you do. You just do them."

Hay Lin rubbed the back of her head.

"Well, that's true I suppose. I don't put a lot of thought into the way people see me. But you know, the flip side is that you think about that too much. I mean so what if you screw up every once in a while or do something that makes people look at you funny? What's the worst that could happen?"

Taranee looked down at the water and hugged herself, speaking in a very quiet voice.

"I could lose all my friends and wind up all alone."

Hay Lin's eyes widened a little as something clicked in her mind.

"So that's why you were so desperate for me to go away when I found you naked? You were afraid I wouldn't like you anymore if I saw you that way?"

Without looking up, Taranee nodded disconsolately.

"Mm-hm."

Hay Lin gave her a strange look.

"So because you didn't want to lose me as a friend you almost turned me into a charcoal briquette? Gee, I'm glad I'm your friend. I'd hate to find out what you do to people you hate."

Taranee blinked and looked up in surprise. A moment later she rubbed the back of her head as she smiled weakly at her friend.

"Yeah, when you put it that way it doesn't really make a lot of sense."

Hay Lin grinned and shook her head.

"Not really. That's why you don't want to make decisions based on fear. Fear can make you do stupid things you later regret."

Taranee gave her an uncertain look.

"Yeah, but doesn't fear also keep you from doing stupid things?"

Hay Lin shrugged.

"It can. That's why when you're afraid you should take it as a warning to think about what you want to do rather than just acting on it."

Taranee looked down at the water again.

"Easy for you to say. You're not afraid of anything."

Hay Lin put an arm around her friend's shoulders.

"Come on Taranee. Let's get of the water before our feet start to prune up."

The pair waded ashore and located their discarded swimsuits. Taranee used hers to wipe the droplets of water from their splash fight off her glasses, then both girls sat down on their suits so they wouldn't get sand stuck to their butts. Hay Lin regarded her friend seriously.

"It's not true you know, that I'm not afraid of anything. I'm afraid of lots of things."

Taranee looked at her skeptically.

"Oh yeah? Name one."

Hay Lin looked upwards and tapped her chin thoughtfully.

"Well, just a few minutes ago I was really afraid of being crispy fried."

Taranee hung her head in shame.

"Hay Lin, I'm sorry. I never really wanted to hurt you. I just wanted you to leave. I guess I went a bit too far."

Hay Lin shook her head and placed a hand on her friend's shoulder.

"No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up again. But it's a good case in point. And it's not just when my life is on the line either. I used to get scared every time I had to go see the dentist, but as often as I wound up having to see him about my braces I eventually got over that. And I still get scared every time I'm out with my family and we go through a carwash that the window's going to roll down and my hair is gonna get caught in one of those spinny things that buff the car. And remember when Nerissa kidnapped Eric and strapped him to that model of the sun and we had to fight Nerissa and the old Guardians to get him back before he fried? Talk about scared!"

Taranee held out her hands in a 'Whoa! Stop!' motion.

"Okay! You've made your point! You get scared too!"

She lowered her hands and gazed at her knees.

"But not like me. There's so many things that scare me. I actually keep a list at home of all the things that I'm afraid of. Sometimes I think a list of all the things I'm not afraid of would be shorter. Actually, I'm not exactly sure what I would put on that list."

Hay Lin gave her a friendly, humorous smile.

"Well for starters how about 'Sitting around naked talking to Hay Lin about all the things that scare me'?"

Taranee blushed and pulled her knees up to her chest.

"Hay Lin, did you have to remind me that I'm naked?"

Hay Lin gave her a lop-sided grin.

"So now you're only afraid of being naked if someone reminds you that you are?"

She reached out and placed a hand on Taranee's knee.

"It sounds to me like you're really only bothered by being naked because you think you're supposed to be. When you stop thinking about it you're fine. You didn't seem to mind it when we were splashing each other, or all the times we've been sitting or standing around just talking. It's only when someone points it out that you get all embarrassed."

Taranee gave her a stunned look.

"Well, yeah, now that you mention it. I guess I kind of did start to forget I was naked. But that's not normal, is it? Not to be bothered by being naked?"

Hay Lin grinned and gestured toward herself.

"Okay, think about who you're talking to, then look at me and ask that question again. I'm not exactly the world's leading authority on what's 'normal'. Besides, if we lived in one of those nudist communities, that would be considered normal."

She leaned back, propping her arms behind her.

"If you're asking me if it's alright I say why not? I don't see anybody else around this sheltered little corner of the beach who's going to object to it besides maybe you. I sure don't have a problem seeing you naked. I think you look cute that way. It's a good look for you."

Taranee's cheeks turned scarlet as she folded her arms on top of her knees and ducked her head to the point where she was barely peering out over the top of her arms.

"You... you think I'm... cute?"

Hay Lin gave her a puzzled look.

"Well yeah, sure I do..."

Just then it dawned on her just what she had been unwittingly implying. She brought her hands up quickly, gesticulating frantically as she tried to clarify what she had really meant, seeming truly flustered for the first time.

"Er, I mean, not that way! Not that there's anything wrong with that of course! I mean, you are cute and I can totally see how a girl could be attracted to you that way... Not that I am, mind you, although that doesn't mean that I couldn't be if you were into that... Not that I think you're into that or anything, but you know, if you were I wouldn't..."

"Hay Lin?"

The twin-ponytailed girl stopped her babbling and glanced apprehensively, worried how the timid black girl had taken her blathering.

"Um, yeah?"

Taranee took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

"I... Ithinkyou'recutetoo!"

Blushing furiously she buried her face behind her arms. Hay Lin sat there stunned for all of two seconds as the rush of words replayed in her head over and over before she found the words to respond.

"You do? Really?"

Taranee nodded without looking up. Hay Lin continued cautiously.

"You mean like... in that way?"

Taranee nodded again miserably.

"Mm-hm."

What happened next was the last thing Taranee would have expected, as she felt Hay Lin's arms wrapping around her in a gentle hug.

"Oh Taranee! I never realized you felt that way."

For the second time that day Taranee threw her arms around Hay Lin's neck and sobbed into her shoulder. Through the girl's tears Hay Lin could just make out her friend blubbering "Please don't hate me Hay Lin!" She ran her hands up and down the black girl's back.

"Taranee, I could never hate you for saying something nice like that! It's okay, really. I'm flattered that you think I'm cute."

Taranee squeezed her friend tighter and kept on crying, occasionally sobbing out something too incoherent for Hay Lin to make out. Eventually her tears ran down and she quieted apart from the occasional hiccup. Hay Lin rocked her gently and spoke in a soft, soothing voice.

"It's alright Taranee. Everything's gonna be alright."

Taranee sniffled a couple of times and spoke in an unsteady voice.

"Hay Lin?"

The Chinese girl looked down at her friend.

"Yeah?"

The black girl continued speaking without looking up.

"Is your hand on my butt?"

Hay Lin tensed up a little.

"Um, it might be."

Taranee nodded.

"Are you going to remove it?"

Hay Lin thought about that for a moment.

"I guess if you tell me you want me to."

Taranee sighed and snuggled into her friend's embrace a little more.

"Thank you."

It took Hay Lin a moment to process that. Not 'Please,' as in 'Please take your hand off my butt,' but 'Thank you,' as in 'Thank you for making it my choice.' Once she figured that out she smiled and laid her cheek on top of her friend's head.

"Any time Taranee."

The two friends sat like that for a while longer. Eventually Hay Lin raised her head and looked down at her friend.

"So, mind if I ask what brought all this on?"

Taranee gave another sniff before she answered.

"Sarina."

Hay Lin tilted her head curiously.

"Will's dad's girlfriend? Why, did she do something to you?"

Taranee buried her face more deeply in her friend's shoulder.

"Um, you cooouuulld say that..."

Hay Lin thought about that a moment. Then a soft grin spread across her face.

"Or maybe I could say she does something for you? Is that it?"

Taranee nodded her head shyly.

"Mm-hm."

Hay Lin gave her a comforting squeeze.

"So that's why you ran away. She paid attention to you and was nice to you and sort of got you all turned on and you didn't know how to handle that so you ran away when no one was looking."

Taranee nodded and sniffed.

"Mm-hm."

A look of slowly dawning comprehension spread across Hay Lin's face as she worked through the rest of it.

"And that's why you were naked when I found you. You weren't just sunning yourself, you were pleasuring yourself. You were masturbating! No wonder you went nuts when I wouldn't leave!"

Taranee drew back with a horrified look as Hay Lin blurted out her most shameful secret aloud.

"Hay Lin?!"

Hay Lin looked at her in amusement.

"You know you're gonna wear my name right out if you keep calling it out like that. And don't look so shocked. It's not a big deal. Everyone does it."

Taranee gave her an extremely skeptical look.

"No they don't. Normal people do not masturbate."

Hay Lin placed a hand on her shoulder and grinned.

"Trust me Taranee, there is nothing normal about people who don't masturbate. You show me someone who honestly doesn't masturbate and I'll show you someone who's sexually frustrated and probably doesn't even know it because they're so brainwashed they think that's 'normal'."

Taranee crossed her arms and glared at her.

"Hey!!"

Hay Lin jerked back in surprise.

"Was I just describing you? Whoops! Sorry!"

Taranee tilted her head to peer at Hay Lin over her glasses, but dialed her glare down to a glower. Hay Lin gazed back with raised eyebrows.

"So you seriously don't masturbate? Today was like your first time ever?"

Taranee shifted uneasily and glanced down.

"Well, not exactly my first time really..."

Hay Lin grinned understandingly.

"I thought so. So come on. How often do you masturbate, really?"

Taranee felt her cheeks burning yet again. How many times could she blush in one day without dieing of embarrassment?

"I don't... I don't really do it all that often. Maybe once in a blue moon. Just when something gets me so... so..."

She ground to a halt, unable to utter the word she needed. Hay Lin held her hand palm-up and helpfully offered "Horny?" Taranee closed her eyes and nodded.

"Yeah, that. Just when it gets so bad that I can't take it anymore and I've got to get it out of me before I go crazy."

Hay Lin stared at her in astonishment.

"Wow! I can't imagine holding it in that long. I do it almost every night."

This time it was Taranee's turn to stare at Hay Lin in wide-eyed amazement.

"Every night?!? Wouldn't that get boring after a while?"

Hay Lin grinned and shook her head.

"Not really. If the fantasy material I'm using starts getting stale I just switch to something else. Anyway, it's not always about getting off because I'm horny. Sometimes I do it because I'm bored, or sad, or frustrated, or having a hard time falling asleep."

Taranee blinked at her.

"Wait, are you saying masturbating can help you fall asleep?"

Hay Lin nodded enthusiastically.

"Oh sure! It works great! It's one of the most effective sleep aids I've found. Plus it's all natural, has zero side effects, and best of all it's free! Sometimes I don't even get off before I fall asleep, like when I'm really tired but just can't relax enough to doze off. Usually if I do get off though I fall asleep pretty soon after that. If I do get off and I'm still lying there awake five minutes later, that's when I know I'm in for a long night."

'Chalk up one more,' Taranee thought as she felt her cheeks burning again from the thought of Hay Lin lying in bed pleasuring herself. Strangely, she was starting to feel like maybe it wouldn't be so bad to die from this kind of embarrassment. As ashamed as she felt, she couldn't deny that all this open and frank talk about sex was starting to get her really turned on. She pressed her knees together trying not to squirm around or grind her hips against her bathing suit as the arousal she felt from seeing Sarina in her bikini started coming back in a big way. She kind of wanted Hay Lin to leave so she could get back to what she'd been doing before she found her, but on the other hand she kind of wanted her to stay and keep saying things to turn her on even more. She bit her lip and whimpered as she fought to hold back a moan that was threatening to break loose. Hay Lin noticed her friend's agitation.

"Taranee, are you okay? You kinda look like you need to go to the bathroom really bad."

Taranee turned away from her friend and buried her face in her hands in abject humiliation.

"Please go away Hay Lin! I... I'm getting... and I can't..."

Hay Lin's face lit up with realization as she figured out what Taranee was trying to say.

"Oh! Well in that case..."

She got up and moved around to kneel behind the black girl, wrapping her arms around her gently.

"... let me help you out."

Taranee gasped in shock as she felt herself being enfolded into Hay Lin's embrace, her back being pressed up against the Asian girl's chest, her ass nestling into the V between her legs, Hay Lin's left hand cupping her underdeveloped right tit, her right hand gliding down her stomach toward that most forbidden of places. She grabbed hold of Hay Lin's wrists to stop her hands from moving as she squirmed in torment between wanting her to let go and wanting her to keep going.

"H-Hay Lin?!? W-what are you doing?!?"

She felt Hay Lin's lips brushing against her right ear, her breath a soft caress as she spoke in a gentle, breathy voice.

"Helping out a friend in need."

Taranee moaned as her friend gave her mini-breast a gentle squeeze.

"I really don't think we ought to be doing this Hay Lin."

Hay Lin raised and lowered herself, rubbing her front up and down against Taranee's back.

"That's because you're over-thinking this Taranee. You're worrying too much about what people will think, but the only opinions that matter are those of the people who are here right now, and that's just you and me. I'm here to do whatever I can for you, so it all comes down to what you really want. Forget what you think we should do. What do you want to do? I'll stop if you tell me that's what you really want."

Taranee drew in a shuddering breath, leaning back into Hay Lin's body as her own responded to the things her friend was doing to her. She knew this was wrong, so why did it have to feel so good? So right? This wasn't the sort of thing friends should be doing to each other, so why didn't she want for it to stop? Desperately she drew on the one argument she could latch onto.

"Hay Lin, please! I'm not a lesbian! I've got a boyfriend!"

Hay Lin nibbled lightly on her earlobe.

"That's funny. Now that you mention it, so do I! Think our boyfriends would be turned on if they knew their non-lesbian girlfriends were doing it with each other? I'll bet if they were here right now watching us they'd both be rock hard and ready to do us both."

The image of their boyfriends standing there watching them, urging them on, rubbing their stiff, hard cocks while they waited their turn, completely shattered Taranee's last vestige of resistance and self-restraint. She let go of Hay Lin's hand on her stomach, moaning loudly as she reached back to stroke her friend's thigh.

"Oooh! Haaay Lliiiinnn!"

Having gotten Taranee this far, Hay Lin wasn't about to let her off the hook without committing herself fully. Rather than resume her southward trek with her hand she instead began rubbing small, slow circles on her friend's belly while she nuzzled her face against the black girl's cheek and neck.

"Well that didn't sound like 'No! Don't! Please stop!' to me, but then I'm not necessarily sure that was a green light either. I'm gonna need a little bit more from you than just my name moaned in passion if we're gonna do this. I need you to tell me what it is you want me to do for you."

Taranee groaned. Why was Hay Lin teasing her like this when she needed it so badly? She pressed the Asian girl's thigh firmly with her hand and arched her head back.

"Hay Lin, please!"

Hay Lin cocked her head thoughtfully while enlarging the circles she stroked with her hand, causing it to dip a bit lower on the downstroke.

"Mmm, nope! Still not hearing it. Don't just tell me how bad you need it. I need you to tell me what it is that you need."

Tears leaked from the corners of Taranee's eyes as she shook her head in frustrated desperation.

"I can't! Hay Lin, I can't!"

Hay Lin pulled Taranee's body more tightly against her with her left arm.

"Yes you can Taranee! You can! Don't be scared! You're one of the bravest people I know! For all the fears you've got inside you I've never once seen you back down when we really needed you. Now for once it's time to be brave for yourself."

She took the nipple of the tit in her hand between her thumb and forefinger and gave it a gentle but firm twist. At the same time she speared downward with the fingers of her other hand, spreading them on either side of her friend's mound, almost but not quite touching her pussy lips.

"Forget about everything else. Just let it go and tell me what you want. I promise I'll do anything you ask of me, and I'll never think any less of you for it."

Taranee simply couldn't take it any longer. She needed release in the worst way, and she knew there was only one way she was going to get it. Her cheeks burning with shame, she turned her head to where she could just barely see the long-haired girl out of the corner of her eyes.

"Please Hay Lin... Touch my p-, p-... my pussy!"

Hay Lin smiled at her radiantly.

"Okay! I'd love to!"

She drew her hand back up, closing the split between her fingers as she did, then plunged it back down again without opening them. As she felt Hay Lin's silken fingers stroking her pussy lips Taranee threw back her head and thrust her pelvis up in the air, using Hay Lin's shoulder for support as her body went totally rigid. A mewling cry escaped from her lips as she felt a spurt of liquid gush between her nether lips, making both them and Hay Lin's fingers slick and slippery. Hay Lin held the black girl until her body unclenched and relaxed back into her embrace. When Taranee's eyes fluttered open she was embarrassed to see Hay Lin gazing down at her in amazement.

"Wow! I barely touched you! You came just from that? You must be wound up tighter than a drum. I've heard of guys having problems with premature ejaculation but I've never heard of it happening to a girl before."

Taranee closed her eyes and turned her head away, tears of bitter shame streaming down her face.

"I'm sorry Hay Lin. I'm so sorry."

Hay Lin smiled sympathetically.

"You're sorry? What are you sorry for? You did fine for your first time with a partner. We just need to figure out how to pace things a little better between us."

She ran her fingertips through the folds of Taranee's young cunt, drawing a moan from the black girl as she scooped up a sample of her nectar. Feeling the hand leave her crotch Taranee opened her eyes and was greeted by the sight of Hay Lin bringing her fingers to her mouth and licking them. Hay Lin closed her eyes and gave an appreciative moan.

"Mmm! You know, you taste pretty good."

She opened her eyes and smiled at her astonished friend.

"I could definitely get used to that flavor."

Noticing that Taranee was staring at her with her mouth agape she proffered her cum-coated fingers.

"I'm sorry. Did you want some too?"

Taranee drew her head back with a look of disgust.

"Hay Lin, that's just gross! Don't you realize where that's been?"

Hay Lin smiled at her.

"Of course I do. It came from you. That's part of what makes it taste so good."

Taranee shook her head in dismay.

"That came from my pussy! You know, the part that bleeds a couple of days each month?"

Hay Lin raised one eyebrow.

"So are you saying that you're bleeding right now?"

Taranee looked taken aback.

"Well, uh, no, not really. Actually I, uh, haven't quite... started yet."

Hay Lin gave one of her fingers a casual lick.

"Huh. Guess you're lucky then because I have, and let me tell you, it's a bitch."

Hay Lin's unexpectedly colorful language shocked Taranee nearly as much as anything else she had done so far.

"Hay Lin, where did you learn to talk like that? And all this sex stuff you know, where does that come from?"

Hay Lin just shrugged.

"My folks have cable, including the movie channels. You can learn a lot from late night programming."

She waggled her cum-coated fingers at Taranee.

"You sure you won't try some? It's really good. Tastes kind of like honey."

Taranee ducked her head in embarrassment.

"I'd... rather try yours, actually."

She buried her face in her hands as Hay Lin's face lit up with a big smile.

"I can't believe I just said that!"

Hay Lin threw her arms around her and laughed.

"Hm ha ha! I'm so glad you did!"

She let go of Taranee, spun her around to face her and held her by the shoulders as she looked her in the eyes.

"You see? You can ask for what you want!"

The black girl gave a leery look at her left shoulder.

"Um, Hay Lin? You're getting... cum on my shoulder."

Hay Lin raised her right hand and looked at it in surprise.

"Oops! Guess I better clean that up."

She quickly sucked her fingers clean, then pulled the dark-skinned girl in close and started licking her shoulder. Taranee lolled her head back and moaned.

"Oooohh..."

When she finished Hay Lin pulled back and grinned at her bespectacled friend fondly.

"I'm so glad you're getting into this Taranee. I was so afraid I was gonna scare you off once all this started."

Taranee ducked her head and glanced up at her oriental friend shyly.

"To be honest I've felt like I was on the verge of running away screaming ever since you started diddling me earlier. But being here with you somehow makes me feel safe no matter how scared I get."

The look that crossed Hay Lin's face at hearing those words was a curious mixture of sadness and joy. She looked like she was on the verge of tears, but her face shone with happiness.

"Oh Taranee!"

Taking the black girl in her arms, she leaned in and kissed her on the lips. Taranee was stunned for a moment. Then she closed her eyes and melted into the kiss. It lasted for several long seconds. When they finally broke apart it was Hay Lin who ducked her head, glancing up at her dark-skinned friend shyly.

"I'm sorry. That was... I didn't mean to..."

Taranee placed a finger on her friend's lips to hush her.

"It's alright. That was... actually rather nice. Thank you."

Hay Lin smiled as Taranee took her finger away.

"Hey, what are friends for?"

Taranee grinned at her.

"If all my friends were this friendly I'd probably never have to masturbate again."

Hay Lin chuckled and grinned back.

"Nope. You'd be so busy getting eaten out you'd never get a chance to touch your own pussy."

Taranee ducked her head and blushed, but she smiled through it. Hay Lin placed her hands on the black girl's hips.

"Speaking of which, I seem to recall somebody wanting to taste my pussy a minute ago."

A nervous look appeared on Taranee's face.

"Uh, that's not actually what I said. I said I wanted to taste your cum, not your pussy."

Hay Lin shrugged.

"Same difference. Your way you wind up with sticky fingers. My way you get to taste my honey straight from the comb. I'd say it's a no-brainer."

Taranee placed her hands on Hay Lin's upper arms and ducked her head.

"Hay Lin, I'm not sure I'm ready for that. I'm not as experienced in this stuff as you are."

Hay Lin gave her an odd look.

"Experienced? What do you think I am, some kind of slut or something?"

Taranee started to look even more embarrassed and uncomfortable.

"Well, when you said I didn't do too bad for my first time with a partner I just assumed..."

A look of surprised understanding appeared on Hay Lin's face, to be quickly replaced by one of amusement.

"Hm hm! Oh, I get it! No, I'm not actually 'experienced' at all. I guess I just come off sounding like I am because I watch so much porn. I've actually never done anything like this before either. This is my first time with a partner too. You could say your my first mate."

Taranee closed her eyes and groaned at the terrible pun. Hay Lin giggled and drew her in a little closer.

"So how about it First Mate Cook? Ready to take this love boat on its maiden voyage?"

Taranee opened her eyes and smiled.

"Aye aye Captain Lin!"

Hay Lin gave her a quick, playful kiss, then disengaged herself from the shorter girl and stood up.

"Okay Taranee, lie down on your back. We're gonna do a sixty-nine."

The black girl gave her a questioning look as she moved to lay herself down with her suit spread out beneath her as far as it would stretch.

"What's a sixty-nine? Is that some sort of sex code? Are there like sixty-eight other sex techniques we're skipping over to get to this one?"

Hay Lin giggled as she stepped over to stand just beyond Taranee's head.

"Hm hm! No silly! It's called a sixty-nine because the numbers look like they're doing what we're about to do. We're about to form our own yin-yang symbol: my mouth on your crotch and yours on mine."

Taranee gaped at her Chinese friend, perhaps as much from the view she now enjoyed as from the shock of what she said.

"Wait, we're gonna do what?"

Hay Lin knelt down near Taranee's head and leaned over to look her in the eyes, hands on the girl's shoulders.

"Taranee, do you trust me?"

Taranee looked up into her friend's face.

"I, uh, well, I um, ..."

She watched as pain and apprehension clouded Hay Lin's eyes at her hesitation. She closed her own eyes for a moment, sighed and reopened them.

"Yes, Hay Lin. I trust you."

Hay Lin smiled gratefully and moved her hands to gently cup the sides of Taranee's head.

"Then trust me when I say that you'll really enjoy this if you give it a chance. I know it may sound kind of sketchy at first but everything I've seen and heard about cunnilingus, that's pussy licking by the way, suggests it's a really amazing sexual experience. Doing each other at the same time in a sixty-nine may make it a bit harder to concentrate on what we're doing to each other, but I figure it'll help us figure out faster what really works and what doesn't."

She bent down lower, bringing her face within inches of Taranee's.

"I understand if you're scared Taranee, and if you don't wanna try this I won't hold it against you, but I really think you're gonna enjoy it if you do. So how about it? Wanna try something that'd knock your socks off if you were wearing socks right now?"

Taranee shook her head and grinned up at her oriental friend.

"You know you're completely crazy, right?"

Hay Lin grinned back down at her.

"Not the first time someone's told me that."

Taranee chuckled and smiled.

"Then I guess I must be crazy too. Let's do it."

Hay Lin bent down the rest of the way and sealed her lips to Taranee's in a very passable inverted French kiss. Though taken by surprise, Taranee didn't object to the invasion of the other girl's tongue, even when she detected a sweetness she figured must be the remnants of her own juices on her tongue. If anything it only whetted her appetite for the promised pussy licking pleasures to come.

Hay Lin didn't linger overly long on their upside-down kiss as she was eager to get to the main event. She gazed down at her four-eyed friend fondly.

"Thank you Taranee! You won't regret this!"

With that she crawled over the length of her friend's body and gently lowered herself into position. Then she called back over her shoulder.

"How's that? Am I too heavy for you?"

Taranee was having some difficulty breathing, but it had nothing to do with the weight of the girl lying on top of her.

"No, you're fine, but do you think you could scootch down a little more? Your pussy is hanging over my nose."

Hay Lin giggled.

"Oops! I forgot I'm a little taller than you. Guess I figured it was mostly in the legs."

She pulled herself up and forward a couple of inches, then lowered herself back in place.

"How's that work for you?"

If Taranee had difficulty breathing before, the sight that now greeted her eyes completely took her breath away.

"That's... perfect."

Hay Lin giggled again and lowered her head to give the dark-skinned girl's mound a playful lick. Taranee inhaled sharply and moaned. Hay Lin grinned.

"Now you Taranee. Lick me just like I licked you."

Taranee hesitated, and for a moment it seemed as though she wasn't going to go through with it. Just as Hay Lin was drawing breath to ask if she was alright though, she felt Taranee's tongue sweep once across her labia. She closed her eyes and groaned.

"Oooohh, yes! That's good Taranee!"

She turned her head to look back over her shoulder, even though she really couldn't see Taranee's face beneath her own ass.

"Okay, this time we're not stopping at just one lick apiece. We'll both go at the same time and just keep right on going, not stopping for anything until we both cum. Just follow my lead and do what I do, okay?"

Taranee gave a brief nod.

"Okay Hay Lin. I think I'm ready."

The Asian girl grinned and turned back to her friend's pussy.

"Okay then. Here we go!"

She began licking her friend's mound like a lolly pop, and moments later felt Taranee follow suit. Both girls were soon moaning and making yummy sounds as they tasted each other's flesh. After a few seconds Hay Lin positioned the tip of her tongue at the entrance of the black girl's twat and started moving it in tiny circles, as though she were attempting to drill her way inside. Taranee quickly imitated her and soon both girls had worked their tongues deep between each other's outer lips. They then used their fingers to pry back the puffy outer lips and reveal the moist pink inner lips. They quickly set to lapping at each other's cunts, the sounds of their arousal growing with each passing moment. As their juices started flowing more and more the two girls increased their pace to keep up, which in turn served to increase their arousal and thus the rate at which their juices flowed, which spurred them on to lick even faster, and so on. Soon both girls were feasting on each other's pussies with abandon as the sounds of their moaning and whimpering filled the air.

When Hay Lin started thrusting her tongue in and out of Taranee's hole like a miniature cock the black girl knew she wasn't going to last much longer. Rather than simply follow her friend's lead, she instead started thrusting two fingers into the other girl's hole and wrapped her lips around the bright red nubbin of her friend's clitoris, flicking the tip teasingly with her tongue. This sent Hay Lin immediately over the edge. She threw back her head and moaned loudly as her orgasm overtook her.

"Oooooooooohhhh, Taaarrraaaaneeee!!!"

Sweet nectar gushed from her hole, coating Taranee's hand and spattering her glasses. The moment she recovered enough from her orgasm to continue, Hay Lin started pumping two fingers of her own in and out of Taranee's wet box while swirling the tip of her tongue around the black girl's clit. When Taranee's orgasm hit, her body shook like she was having a seizure. She threw back her head and screamed at the top of her lungs.

Well down the beach, back where the girls had first noticed Taranee's disappearance, Will, Irma and Cornelia were busy building a sand castle while they waited for their two friends to return. Neither Irma nor Will had any idea why Cornelia had insisted that Hay Lin and Taranee needed some time alone to talk about some things in private, but as long as they knew their two friends were alright they didn't press too hard for answers. They had heard occasional muffled noises from down that way but nothing distinct enough to tell what was going on. The sound of Taranee's scream however reached them loud and clear. Irma's head whipped around in the direction of the sound.

"That was Taranee!"

Will dropped her plastic shovel and jumped to her feet.

"She's in trouble! Come on!"

As Will and Irma took off Cornelia hesitantly rose to her feet, remembering what she had seen the last time she went looking for Taranee and drawing her own conclusions.

"Um, guys? I'm not so sure that..."

But the other two girls paid no heed, racing to reach their friend before it was too late. Cornelia sighed and shook her head with a frown.

"Taranee, you better be in trouble, or so help me you're gonna be."

She took off after the other two, pursuing them over the dune of sand and around the end of the natural rock wall, catching up to them just as they came to a halt, staring in disbelief at the scene before them. Hay Lin, who was busy lapping up the juices from Taranee's cunt, looked up with a jerk as she heard Will's startled voice.

"Hay Lin? Taranee?"

Taranee looked up too, barely able to see over Hay Lin's coltish ass as she stared in horror at her three friends through cum-spattered glasses. Hay Lin gave a weak grin, her mouth coated in clear, shiny fluid as she raised one hand in greeting.

"H-hey guys! What's going on?"

Will could only stare in stunned disbelief. Cornelia squeezed her eyes shut and slapped her palm to her forehead. Irma shook her head.

"I so did not need to see that."

Taranee dropped her head back onto the sand, her face burning with humiliation as she closed her eyes.

"Please, someone, just kill me now."
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