A good friend doesn’t fear to bath with you PART 1

Selina ran herself fingers lightly over the smooth marble handle as she ascended the Huntinton’s staircase enjoying the feel of the cool, flawless stone beneath the warm fleshy tips of her fingers.

 

She hadn’t called to let Becca know she was coming by, but when she’d shown up on the front step, Joana had smiled told her that Ms. Becca was always happy when she came by and that she should go on up and surprise her.

 

Selina smiled at the thought as she reached the landing.

 

There was a time not very long before when Becca would have greeted her by throwing a vase at her instead of throwing her arms around her.

 

“Surprise!” Selina called flinging open the door to Becca’s bedroom, her most winning smile on her face as she peeked her head inside to find the room completely empty. “Hmm, looks like the surprise is on me,” Selina muttered withdrawing back into the hallway, her eyebrows furrowing together as she tried to figure out where Becca might have gone.

 

Then just as she was about to call for Joana she heard the faint sound of singing coming from down the hall and smiled.

 

Coming to a stop in front of the bathroom door, Selina reached out for the door handle then changed her mind, leaning against the frame of the doorway and tilting her head towards the soft voice beyond the door instead.

 

“And that’s when you need me there/With you I’ll always share/Because …” Becca sang from within bringing a smile to Selina’s face.

 

She knew Becca loved the song no matter how much she complained that it was overplayed. Becca was so busted.

 

“When the sun shines, we’ll shine together/Told you I’ll be here forever/Said I’ll always be a friend/Took an oath I’ma stick it out till the end,” Selina sang back from outside the door, her smile growing as Becca’s voice suddenly quieted.

 

“I’ma stick my foot up your ass, you perv!” Becca called out from within the bathroom a few seconds later. Selina was unconcerned. She could hear the smile in Becca’s voice and see the expression on the brunette’s face in her minds eye, and it was adorable. “Why are you lurking outside of my bathroom?”

 

“Best friends don’t lurk, we … okay, we lurk, but it’s cute and playful not creepy and weird,” Selina responded grinning at the door, knowing, just knowing that Becca was rolling her eyes at her while simultaneously grinning like mad.

 

“You’re not going to keep standing out there are you?” Becca called finally, brushing some wet strands of dark hair out of her face, and smoothing her hair down, making sure it looked presentable.

 

“I can come in?” Selina asked already reaching for the door handle.

 

“Duh,” Becca responded as the door pushed open and Selina stood glowing in the doorway.

 

“Surprise!” Selina said smiling winsomely putting her hands up in the air and wiggling her fingers excitedly.

 

It would have been better if Becca had actually been in her room when she showed up and her appearance was actually surprising, but she figured that self-deprecating humor had its place too.

 

Becca clapped her hands to the sides of her cheek and did her very best impression of Macaulay Culkin.

 

“You know, when you do that it just makes me wanna pinch your cheeks and go ‘yessss you are, yesss you are’,” Selina responded kicking off her shoes and moving further into the large bathroom, her thumb and forefinger making cheek pinching motions as she did.

 

“Shut up,” Becca said laughing, blushing a little and turning away from Selina as the blonde approached the tub.

 

“You should sing more,” Selina said softly, taking a seat on the edge of the tub, leaning against the back wall as Becca’s rested on the ledge near her hip.

 

“I sing every day,” Becca responded glancing over at Selina, pausing for a second before dipping one of her feet back in the water and then using it to to flick a little bit of water at the blonde.

 

“Where everyone can hear you,” Selina said, lowering her hand into the water, grasping Becca’s big toe and shaking it lightly, smirking over at the brunette a few seconds later when Becca began to wiggle her foot trying to free her toe from Selina’s tyrannical grasp. “What?” Selina said innocently looking over at Becca. “I’m just trying to take this little piggy to market.”

 

Becca rolled her eyes ignoring the comment.

 

“Where everyone can hear? Like the school choir?” Becca asked dubiously, making a face as she left Selina to play with her toes without complaint. “I think I still remember what dignity is, and I’d like to keep however much I have left, thank you very much.”

 

“You’re good,” Selina said softly looking over at Becca abandoning her toes for the moment. “I love listening to you sing. Everyone else would too,” she continued holding Becca’s gaze unblinkingly.

 

Everyone thought that Becca was arrogant to the point of having a goddess complex, but Selina knew better. Becca was extremely self-conscious and she calculated with a scientific precision how her every word, gesture, clothing choice and expression could be interpreted and used to compliment her or embarrass her. And if she thought that there was slightest chance that something could embarrass her, she’d snuff the idea out like the flame of a candle.

 

“What’s in here?” Selina asked a few seconds later when Becca failed to respond to her, drawing her fingers through the bathwater and bubbles for a second before bending down to roll up the legs of her jeans.

 

“Bubbles,” Becca responded slowly, blowing at some of the white suds that were floating above her chest, masking the fleshy mounds underneath from Selina’s eyes.

 

“Yes,” Selina drawled looking over at Becca with a smile. “I can see that.”

 

Becca was silent for a second, Selina’s previous comment still troubling her mind. But then the blonde’s grin began to affect her the way it always did and she found herself smiling as well. “Jasmine,” Becca offered softly a moment later.

 

“It smells nice,” Selina said finishing with her jeans and shifting on the edge of the bath a little so that she could dip her feet and the bottom of her calves into the water, her back resting against the tile wall behind her that enclosed the tub.

 

“No, that’s me,” Becca replied smirking, laughing when Selina kicked some water and bubbles over in her direction.

 

“You’re going to disturb my bubbles,” Becca declared looking down at the suds covering her naked body though she made no move to gather any more of them around her, leaving a few see-through patches visible.

 

Selina could just make out the swell of Becca’s right breast, her hip and her knee.

 

“What, do you have a tail under there that you’re trying to hide?” Selina asked quirking an eyebrow. She’d seen Becca in various states of undress before, but she had never seen the brunette completely naked. “You don’t have anything I don’t. Yours just comes in brown.”

 

Becca fake laughed and then glared at Selina.

 

“It’s easy for you to be glib about it, you’re fully dressed. I doubt you be so blasé if I asked you to prove you were a natural blonde,” Becca finally responded a challenging tone in her voice as one of her eyebrows shot up questioningly.

 

Selina nodded gravely. “I am. But I swear, I can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

 

“Oh, yeah? Then prove it,” Becca replied, blinking more rapidly than usual after the words left her mouth. She hadn’t meant to say that exactly, although a shiver of excitement ran through her when she thought about Selina actually meeting the challenge.