Love in the Moonlight

Chapter Three

“What is this gossip I’m hearing about that you’re going out with a certain blonde next week?”

Reina can feel a deep blush forming from her neck up to her cheeks. She kept chewing her food as if she heard nothing but she knows the blush didn’t go unnoticed by the other occupants of the dinner table. She is so going to kill Rebecca after this dinner with their parents.

“Really?” their mother, Rowena Miller, asked with a playful smile from across the table that happens to be in front of Reina.

“Aunt Reina has a date?” Robyn asked.

“Really, Auntie?” Willow seconded with wide eyes.

“Is that true, mija?” Leandro Miller also asked.

“She does!” Rebecca said with a laugh, her eyes full of mirth.

Every question asked made the blush on Reina’s face deepened. She couldn’t answer them because of embarrassment and… well… because she doesn’t want to jinx it.

It’s no secret that she has been seeing Leia whenever the blonde visits Shallowbrooke. From those moments for the past four and a half months that they see each other at the docks at midnight she found out that Leia was visiting her former foster mother Orla Fredrickson who happens to own the only ice cream parlor in Shallowbrooke; Any Given Sundae. Leia only lasted a few months with Orla because the moment Orla fostered Leia she was on her way of aging out of the system. The reason Reina didn’t get the chance to meet her then was Leia didn’t stay in Shallowbrooke for that long. The other reason that most of the town's citizens don't know her was because she's just like Reina; she's a private person and she likes to keep to herself. She only visits once or twice a month and stays in town for two days at most.

During Leia’s visits they sometimes go out for lunch at Grandma Denny’s Diner or have a midnight snack under the moonlight at the docks with small talks in between. They talk about anything that comes to mind, even sharing some stories from their childhood, the small bench at the docks being their only witness to everything.

But on their last meeting, both of them knew something changed. There was something different that made them not want to meet each other’s eyes. The atmosphere changed, neither one of them wanting to say anything. It was so heavy with tension that Regina almost wanted to stand up and leave. But Reina stood her ground; she knows that she wanted Leia to be more than just her friend. Even though there’s this lingering fear that makes her want to recoil and hold back, she fought it. She’s been living in the past for so long that it makes it hard for her to breathe. She needs to free herself from the past that brought her nothing but pain. She wanted to be free from all the hurt and suffering her previous lover caused her. It’s time for her to move on and live in the present so she can do better in the future.

That was the most agonizing fifteen minutes of her life. Fifteen minutes of complete silence aside from the waves crashing into the shore. When she looked up, she saw how Leia looked at her with those piercing green eyes, how her breathing became ragged as if she just did a 5km run. Reina knew in that moment that both of them wanted the same thing. That what’s happening between them was something more. Something they both craved.

Reina didn’t know who moved first but the next thing she knew was that her lips were pressing into Leia’s.

The kiss started as small pecks, still a little cautious if the other wanted to continue or not. Reina, not wanting Leia to think that the kiss was nothing more than just that, pressed her own lips firmer into thin ones. She kissed Leia deeper and more passionately making Reina feel all this wonderful feelings hadn’t felt in a long time. What started as small pecks and gentle nips turned into something that made them catch their breaths. Wanting Leia close to her she pulled the woman into her lap and they started making out like a couple of horny teenagers.

Ignoring the throbbing pain between her thighs, Reina reluctantly pulled away from the kiss and stared at Leia’s lust blown eyes, hormones and pheromones mixing so deliciously together it created a very arousing scent that could be sensed a mile away. No matter how much Reina wanted to take Leia right there and then claiming her as her own on that bench with only the gentle waves, some seagulls flying by, and the light coming from the moon as their only witnesses, she knows they're not ready for that step yet.

"Go out on a date with me," she said to Leia once she stopped panting after that mind-blowing kiss from the blonde. Leia breathed out an "Okay" before claiming her lips again.

Reina stared at the almost empty plate with a small smile whilst remembering what happened that night. She's happy that she's not the only one who feels the connection between them. Happy to know that her blooming feelings for the blonde were gladly reciprocated.

"Uh-oh, I know that smile."

The moment she heard her sister's voice she suddenly woke up from her trance. When she looked up she saw her parents smiling knowingly at her whilst Rebecca had a mocking smile on her face.

"What?" she asked with a blush.

"You guys did it, didn't you?" Rebecca asked with a sly smirk.

"Did what?" she whispered, feigning ignorance.

Her sister's blue eyes went wide with a big smile on her lips. "Oh my God! You guys totally did!"

"Did what, Mom?" Willow asked her mother.

"She and Leia fu—"

Rowena immediately put her hand on her daughter's mouth to stop her from blurting out something she didn't want her eight and twelve year old granddaughters to hear. "Not in front of the children, dear," she said to Rebecca. She then looked at her granddaughters. "Why don't both of you girls set up the board game we'll be playing in the family room? We'll be coming there shortly."

"But I want some churros." Willow mumbled.

"I'll bring it there, alright?" Rowena said softly, her hand still firmly pressed against Rebecca's lips who wouldn't stop mumbling because of excitement.

"Come on, squirt. This is an adults only talk." Robyn said with a roll of her eyes as she stood up and led her younger sister out of the dining room and into the family room.

Once they made sure that the children were out of the room and out of earshot Rowena pulled her hand away from Rebecca's lips and gave her a firm slap to the back of her head.

"Ow! Mother!"

"In front of your children? Really?" Rowena said with a raise of her eyebrows.

"I'm sorry, alright! I'm just so excited!"

Leandro let out a small chuckle at his eldest's antics. "Tone it down, Rebecca."

"I'm sorry, Daddy," Rebecca said, not the least bit apologetic. "Oh, Reina! I'm so happy for you!"

Reina grimaced. "Don't get too excited, Bex. We still want to see where this is going."

“So you’re in the ‘taking-it-slow’ phase? How boring! I thought with the eye-f*****g and all both of you should’ve had pups by now.”

“Thank goodness the kids are out of the room.” Rowena mumbled under her breath whilst gently massaging her temple. Leandro just shook his head with a small smile on his lips.

Reina looked at her sister with bewilderment. “Eye-fu— How can you even say that? And no, we are not eye-f*****g, mind you.”

Rebecca rolled her eyes. “That’s not what Dona told me.”

Reina groaned in frustration when she realized that little detail. She completely forgot that her sister’s girlfriend was working at the diner where she and Leia sometimes went for lunch whenever the blonde visited.

"Forgot that little detail did you?” Rebecca said with a smirk.

"I hate you,” she said with a pout.

"I love you too, sis.” Blowing her sister a kiss, Rebecca stood up from her seat and walked out of the dining room, carrying her dishes with her with a victory smile on her lips.