It was dawn now. Carol's fingers tightened in her hair, Carol kissed her on the lips, and pleasure leaped in Therese again as if it were only a continuation of the moment when Carol had slipped her arm under her neck last night. I love you, Therese wanted to say again, and then the words were erased by the tingling and terrifying pleasure that spread in waves from Carol's lips over her neck, her shoulders, that rushed suddenly, the length of her body. Her arms were tight around Carol, and she was conscious of Carol and nothing else, of Carol's hand that slid along her ribs, Carol's hair that brushed her bare breasts, and then her body too seemed to vanish in widening circles that leaped further and further, beyond where thought could follow. While a thousand memories and moments, words, th... (查看原文)
"South Dakota?" Carol smiled at her."You wouldn't prefer Santa Fe? It's warmer."
"I'll wait and see it with you."
"Not Colorado Springs?"
"No!" Therese laughed, and got up.She took her toothbrush into the bathroom."I might even take a job somewhere for a week."
"What kind of job?"
"any kind. Just to keep me from thinking of you, you know."
"I want you to think about me. Not a job in a department store."
"No."Therese stood by the bathroom door, watching Caroltake off her slip and put her robe on.
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Carol pulled Therese's nose when she passed her."And you're not going to use that car to pick any strangers." Carol went into the bathroom and turned on the shower.
Therese came in after her."I thought I was using this john."
"I'm using it, but I will let you come in."
"Oh, thanks," Therese too... (查看原文)
"How do you ever expect to create anything if you get all your experiences second hand?" Carol asked, her voice soft and even, and yet merciless. (查看原文)
Their eyes met at the same instant, Therese glancing up from a box she was opening, and the woman just turning her head so she looked directly at Therese. She was tall and fair, her figure graceful in the loose fur coat that she held open with a hand on her waist. her eyes were gray, colourless, yet dominant as light or fire, and caught by them, Therese could not look away. She heard the customer in front of her repeat a quesetion, and Therese stood there, mute. The woman was looking at Therese, too, with a preoccupied expression, as if half her mind were on whatever it was she meant to buy here, and though there were a number of salesgirls between them, Therese felt sure the woman would come to her. Then Therese saw her walk slowly towards the counter, heard her heart stumble to cathc up ... (查看原文)
Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now, because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. (查看原文)
