she can’t help but laugh at the others enthusiasm. she was VOCAL – a plus in cathy’s book. she doesn’t mind working hard to make the other feel her best. she was intoxicating. ❛ yeah ? alright then, come on. ❜ she climbs off the other & grabs her hand, tugging her to come to the bedroom. she’d hated the room since jamie left – the bed too big. she’d changed sheets & comforter so something grey & drab – now bright yellow & cheerful.
cathy guides the other to lay down & smiles as she crawls atop the other & gets back to work, fingers digging into her skin. her hands crawl down her back, working her spine down to her tailbone. she bites her lip before slipping her hands under her shirt to work her bare skin better ; knowing her fingers could get in deeper if she could feel it. ❛ this would work better if your shirt wasn’t on, ❜ she teases, giggling to herself ; she hadn’t been BOLD in a long time.
With a groan as she got to her feet, ( for, even with the promise of relaxation, her body still felt the need to complain ) Chloe’s fingers tangled easily with Cathy’s own as the smaller woman lead her towards the bedroom. Inside it was easy to see the ghosts -- the bed was too large; the walls and drawers bare and lacking in the clutter that came with more than one person. Still, she smiled at the ways Cathy had made it her own -- especially with the cheery sheets and comforter.
❝I should get you one of those floral covers!❞ She mused aloud, barely noticing how domestic the words sounded in their delivery. But, if she and Cathy were going to become roommates, the least Chloe could do was try to provide items that helped fill in the void.
As she climbed onto the bed and collapsed into the mattress, another loud groan emanated from those lips at just how comfortable the thing was. It was obvious that Chloe was not expecting such small luxuries -- she had been planning on staying at a hostel, after all -- and, as the other climbed upon her back, the ginger’s arm stretched over her head and touched the headboard, feeling the way her bones in her spine popped and cracked.
❝I’m so old,❞ she began to complain, her muscles easing up to the places where Cathy began to massage, and her skin prickled the moment her fingers slipped beneath her shirt. It was because they were cold, she told herself. She’d have to get used to the New York chill. ❝Oh, my shirt?❞ she asked. Play it cool, Chloe. ❝Yeah, just let me --❞
It was not exactly graceful or flirty the way that she removed her shirt, but Chloe was seldom a graceful person. Careful not to throw Cathy off her as she pulled, the accompanied grunts would ease the cotton over her shoulders, revealing her pale back and the grotesque curvature of scar tissue.
Where she had survived, it had not been without a cost. Whilst Chloe was lucky not to be disabled or ‘disfigured’, beneath the layers of clothes she wore spelled just how bad the accident had been. The skin was red and newly healed, with grooves from the stitches, and the flesh raised where it hardened from the damage. She had completely forgotten about it until the shirt was off, which prompted Chloe to go pink. ❝Oh. Yeah, um... don’t worry about my war wounds. They don’t hurt.❞