The moment Ruby closed the door, Jen was all over her, kissing, touching. Despite all this time, her hands, her lips, felt comfortable, felt right. Ruby managed to set their dessert on the counter before Jen kissed her all the way across the room and to the couch. Outside the window, Earth turned slowly, so slowly—the planet they had both left behind for a new beginning here. Orbiting above their past, it was almost easy to imagine being with Jen like this regularly, like they had tried and failed to do decades earlier.
“I missed you,” said Jen through her teeth as she bit Ruby’s bottom lip and pulled.
“It’s been too long. A year?”
“Two.” Jen moved closer on the couch and slid her hands along Ruby’s legs, up her skirt. Her touch tingled like the twinkle of a thousand stars. “Remember wh
