Chapter Four
Brushing the dirt from their feet, the two stepped onto the blanket and then lay full-length across it side by side—close, so close that Sarah's faintly trembling hand almost touched Nikki's. She could feel the heat of Nikki's body against her naked skin, friendly and intimate. The cloudless blue above was bright with glare, making Sarah squint and blink, until finally she just gave up and let her lids slide shut. Light still soaked hotly in, red as it filtered through her closed eyelids, and she draped her wrist over her face to shade herself. That was better.
Forearms chastely across their eyes, the young women both lay naked, basking drowsily beneath a warm summer sun which now seemed less oppressive and more so comforting. Sarah felt the droplets of water which still cov
