A Love That Heals Page 3

  “I am sorry,” said Alissa, and she kept a hand on Jenna’s and gave it a squeeze, “but, don’t mind me asking, do you love your husband as much as you loved her?”

  “I do love my husband, but...no. I don’t think I can ever love someone as much as I loved her. And you know what, Alissa?”

  “What?” asked Alissa, gently caressing Jenna’s hand.

  “You look exactly like her,” said Jenna, and finally looked into Alissa’s eyes, as the barren, cold New Mexico desert sped past the car, a stark contrast to the beautiful moment that just passed between the two women.

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  “Take a right turn right here,” said Alissa.

  “But the last time we kept going straight?”

  “Yeah, I know, I just have to stop somewhere for a bit.”

  Jenna took the right, and soon, the car arrived at the cemetery, and that is where Alissa asked Jenna to stop the car.

  “I will be back soon. Wait here.”

  “Oh no, there is no way I am letting you wander the cemetery alone.”

  “I will be fine. I have to do this alone.”

  Jenna understood, and there was nothing else that she could say now, except nod and unlock the door for Alissa.

  After about 15 minutes, Alissa was back, and Jenna could see her eyes were puffy.

  “We can go now,” said Alissa in a grim voice.

  “No. I want to know what is going on.”

  “Hmm. I guess we had a deal. Well, today was the first time I visited my mother’s grave since her death a month ago. And you know why? Because of you. I don’t know what you have done to me, but just being with you these past two days has given me the strength that I had been searching for. So...there you go. You have done two things for me in two days that have almost changed my life.”

  “I am glad to know that, but why weren’t you visiting her grave? And why were you visiting night clubs instead?”

  “Because I was broken, Jenna. My mother and I had always had a very tumultuous relationship, and ever since I was a kid, she had been addicted to drugs, but to her credit, she did do everything in her power to make sure there was food on the table, and that I had a proper education. And then, a year back, she completed 5 years of staying clean, but that is also when we found out she had lung cancer because of the cigarettes. And since then, I have been taking care of her, working two jobs, paying for her medical bills, going to school at the same time, and then a month back, she passed away, and I found out she had never quit smoking in the first place. Whenever I would leave the house, she would smoke, and then hide all the evidence of it when I would come back. In the past one year, we had grown very close to one another, and I had thought I would finally have the mother that I always wanted, and then bam! She gets taken away from me, and I get to know she had never changed. And that is when I started to rebel, I guess, started to be more like her. I even did drugs, partied, all of that, until the night you saved me from getting raped, which was a wake up call. And I am sure I wouldn’t have realized if you wouldn’t have told me that story about the girl you loved. So...I guess, that is all, and now, I think we can go home. I need to finish work on your cover so that your beautiful story can come out in front of the world.”

  Jenna listened to whatever Alissa had said, and for the second time in the night, she had to control herself from not weeping. The pain on Alissa’s face reminded of the pain that would sometimes show up on Emma’s face, the girl she loved and lost.

  And Jenna decided she was going to care for this girl, and not let her succumb to the same fate as Emma.

  “Alright, let’s go home,” said Jenna, and pulled the car onto the road.

  For the remainder of the journey, Alissa had her hand on Jenna’s and when they reached her home, the two women hugged, and they kept hugging.

  Neither of them wanted to let the other go.

  And when they did leave each other, Alissa looked into Jenna’s eyes, leaned forward, and kissed her right on her lips.

  It was only a peck, and Alissa almost ran back instantly to her house after the kiss, but Jenna, who was rooted at her spot, felt the girls’ lips on hers for many minutes after, and that is when she realized, she may just be falling in love once again.

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  Jenna’s class was packed the next day as well, but there was a face missing.

  A face that Jenna had grown very fond of.

  Needless to say, Jenna did not enjoy teaching the rest of the class. She was more hurt because not only had Alissa gone back on her promise of being regular to class for the next week, but also because her not being present showed Jenna that Alissa wasn’t really that excited about seeing Jenna every day.

  Grudgingly, Jenna taught the class, and finally reached the end of it.

  The class emptied, and Jenna stayed back, sitting on her desk, wondering what had led to this behavior from Alissa.

  As Jenna sat on her desk, fiddling with her pen, looking at the chair where Alissa had been sitting yesterday, she heard someone say her name.

  Absentmindedly, Jenna looked at the doorway, and saw Alissa standing there, dressed in a skirt, which was a long departure from the kind of clothes Jenna was used to seeing her wear, and a very cute white top, full sleeve, with a buttoned-up collar, and a headband in her hair, and Jenna could not believe how pretty Alissa looked, dressed like a proper, posh girl.

  “May I come in, teacher?” Alissa asked, with a smile on her face.

  “Yes, although you are an hour late in asking that question.”

  “I am really sorry, teacher, but if you give me some time to explain myself, I am sure you will not be so angry with me,” said Alissa, entering the classroom, her short skirt dancing around her lower thighs, her cat-like eyes twinkling, and her youthful charm making her seem prettier than ever.

  “I have brought something for you,” said Alissa, and kept a plastic box on Jenna’s table.

  “What is it?” asked Jenna.

  “Open it,” said Alissa.

  Jenna opened the box, and suddenly, her nose was hit by the smell of pasta which she had only eaten one spoon yesterday because Alissa had been in a hurry to get home.

  “You made this today?”

  “This morning. And I want you to have it because you couldn’t eat it yesterday,” said Alissa, smiling wide.

  “Thank you so much, Alissa, but that is still no reason to miss your class. You are already behind,” said Jenna.

  “But you can’t deny that you liked the fact that I cooked this for you.”

  “I love it,” said Jenna.

  “I want you to have it with me,” said Jenna.

  “Of course, however...I don’t want to eat it over here,” said Alissa, and closed the box once again, “I know a place, not far away from here. School is already over for the day, so we can drive there.”

  “But...what about work?”

  “I have already created the cover. But I will only show it to you if you come with me to the place where I want to take you.”

  “But where is it?”

  “Will you just come with me?”

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  “No way, you can’t take me in there! There can be students around, and you have no idea what might happen if someone sees me in there.”

  “Why? Aren’t you allowed to visit the swimming pool?”

  “I am, but not with a student, and where did you get that key from?” Jenna asked, surprised, as Alissa unlocked the door that led to the stairs that eventually led to the newly constructed rooftop swimming pool that the school had commissioned.

  “I am the swimming captain. Although I may have put studies on the back burner for a while, I never left swimming. Swimming is one of the things that has always helped calm me down whenever I have been very anxious about anything. The pool is one of the places where I am almost always happy. “

  “Oh, so that explains the amazing physique that you have,” said Jenna, as Alissa started climbing the stair
s.

  Jenna was a little hesitant, but when Alissa held out her hand for Jenna, she grabbed it and the two women climbed the stairs together, and finally reached the roof, where the blue water of the newly constructed swimming pool was glimmering in the setting sun.

  “This is beautiful,” Jenna exclaimed.

  “I know, right, and see, there are loungers to the side as well, and if you walk over to the edge, you can see almost the entirety of Los Angeles,” Jenna exclaimed, as she almost ran to the edge and pointed towards the miles and miles of suburban houses that were scattered all around the school.

  “Alright, let’s get started on that pasta before someone catches us. I can still see a few students loitering around in the parking lot, and although it is difficult for them to spot me from the parking lot, I just don’t want to take any chances.”

  “You are a teacher, Jenna. A member of the school team. I am pretty sure you will be fine, and I am the swimming captain, and so I have a reason to be here.”

  “And what would be my reason? Am I teaching you Eng. Lit. here?”

  Alissa giggled, “we will cross that bridge if we get there, and I am only saying this because I know we will never need to cross that bridge. Now, I want you to eat this pasta that I prepared by getting up hella early in the morning.”

  “First of all, it is a sin to use words like ‘hella’ in front of an English teacher, and secondly, bring it on!”

  And then, sitting on the loungers, with the box filled with pasta kept between them, Jenna and Alissa ate the dish, and talked about everything from the school, to Alissa’s swimming prowess, to Alexandra, until the box was left empty, and the two women were left satisfied.

  “That was amazing,” said Jenna.

  “You enjoyed it?”

  “I really did.”

  “Well, then will you do something for me?”

  “I have already done something for you. Something very dangerous. What else do you want me to do? Raid the principal’s office?”

  “That does sound tempting, but I have something better in mind,” said Alissa, and took off her top, revealing the upper half of a swimming costume.

  “Wait...Wait...what are you doing?”

  “I am thinking of taking a dip,” said Alissa, and then removed her skirt as well.

  Jenna could hardly believe what she was seeing. She was shocked, and surprised, but mostly mesmerized.

  For the first time, she was seeing Alissa’s body in its truest, purest, and most beautiful form. A swimming costume, worn by Olympic swimmers clung to her sculpted, athletic physique, and Jenna’s eyes wandered over her curves, the shape of her breast, the hint of a cleavage peeking from behind, the outline of her waist, the texture of her skin, the smoothness of her legs, and then she looked back at her face, and saw how beautiful she looked with a naughty smile on her face.

  Suddenly, a strong desire to kiss her, right then and there arose in Jenna’s mind, which she forced back in the back of her brain.

  “It’s your turn now, Mrs. Smith,” Alissa said, leaning towards Jenna, and tugging on her top.

  “No way. There is no way I am undressing in front of you. I don’t even have a swimming costume!”

  “You must be wearing something inside, A bra and panties? I don’t care if they are granny panties. I am sure you can pull them off as well.”

  “Of course I am wearing underwear. And no, I don't wear granny panties.”

  “Prove it,” said Alissa, arching her eyebrow.

  “Sorry. Not happening.”

  “Jenna, we have shared our most deep secrets with each other, and cried in front of each other in just three days. And finally, because of you, I am starting to feel like myself again. Enough of weeping and crying, I want to have fun. And not the kind of fun where I take drugs. And, you are the only one right now with whom I can have this safe fun.”

  “Shit, don’t play this card with me,” said Jenna, and then, she did it.

  She took off her top, and then wriggled out of her jeans, and sat on the lounger in just her Victoria’s Secret lingerie, looking at Alisa, who was staring at Jenna with her mouth open.

  “Oh My God! You are one hot piece of ass, Mrs. Smith. I knew you were hiding something behind those layers of clothing, but I did not know this was that!”

  Jenna stood up, turned around, and posed for Alissa.

  “Glad you like dit, now, we have to be quick about this, because if someone catches me like this, then I am sure me being in the school management will have no bearing on anything,”

  “Alright, then off you go,” said Alissa, and pushed Jenna into the pool.

  Jenna went in with a splash, followed by Alissa, who dived expertly into the water, a picture of perfection.

  Jenna went underwater and then reemerged, breaking the surface of the water, and pulling her wet hair back from her face.

  “Fuck! That felt so good! It’s been ages since I dove into cold water on a sunny day,” said Jenna, waddling closer to Alissa, who had already swum closer to Jenna.

  “You look so hot, Mrs. Smith,” said Alissa, staring at Jenna and her wet body.

  “Why are you calling me Mrs. Smith all of a sudden,” asked Jenna, a little shy because of what Alissa had just said, and the way she had said it.

  “Because I find it cute sometimes. I do it when I feel this sudden rush of emotions towards my favorite teacher, not my friend.”

  “Oh,” said Jenna and felt the fierceness of Alissa’s gaze, which was unrelenting in the way it was studying her from head to her boobs.

  Alissa splashed water towards Jenna, and then giggled.

  Jenna did the same, and soon, both the women were engaged in all-out war.

  After a truce was called by Jenna who suddenly started feeling very exhausted, Jenna and Alissa swam to the corner of the pool, and leaned against the wall of the pool, and rested for some time.

  “I am sorry if I tired you out. I forget that you are old,” Alissa took a jab at Jenna.

  “I am only 35. And I don't tire out so easily, in fact, I can tire you out, before you can tire me out.”

  “Why did that sound so sexual in my head?” asked Alissa, stepping nearer to Jenna, and standing right next to her, their arms rubbing against each other, and their thighs coming in contact.

  “That is the product of your dirty mind,” said Jenna.

  “How do you know that I have a dirty mind?”

  “I just know. I have a thing where I know how dirty a girl is.”

  “So, tell me, how dirty am I?” asked Alissa, and turned her head to look at Jenna, who was still trying her best not to look at Alissa, because she knew if she did, she would succumb to temptation.

  “You are very dirty. Let’s just leave it at that,” said Jenna.

  “Okay, if you don’t want to tell me, then that is fine, but yes, you are right. I am very dirty. So dirty, that right now, all I can think of is, how your lips will taste, Mrs. Smith. And how your boobs will look without that wet bra.”

  This time, Jenna had to turn her head to look at Alissa, and she saw that the young girl’s face was right beside hers, and her hand was already on her thigh.

  “Alissa…” Jenna whispered.

  “You said that I look like the girl you loved. Well, don’t you want to kiss her?”

  “I am married now.”

  “But, you love her more than your husband. Just imagine it is her, grab my waist, and kiss me, Mrs. Smith. I am aching for you.”

  “That won’t be right Alissa. You are young, you can be careless and immature, but I am supposed to be the voice of reason.”

  “Chuck reason out the window, Mrs. Smith, because I know you want it as well. And I want it too. Let’s forget our pain, and just...enjoy the moment,” said Alissa, and her hand traveled up Jenna’s thigh, until it was right between her legs, her fingers tracing Jenna's pussy lips from over the panties.

  A moan escaped Jenna’s lips, and she bit her lip.

  “See,
I know you like it,” said Alissa, now caressing Jenna’s pussy with her entire hand, but still from above the fabric of her underwear.

  “Just one kiss,” said Jenna.

  “We will see about that,” said Alissa, and she grabbed Jenna’s waist, and turned her around to face her, and then she went in for the kiss.

  Alissa wasn’t gentle with it.

  With a hand on Jenna’s buttcheeks, and the other in her hair, Alissa started to smooch Jenna wildly, as if days of pent up sexual frustration was being releases through this kiss, and Jenna moaned into the kiss as well, for she had been thinking about this moment the second she had laid her eyes on Alissa’s pretty face that looked so much like Emma, her former lover, and Kendall Jenner, her celebrity crush.

  Jenna opened her mouth, and both of their tongues lashed out and started licking each other with intensity.

  Jenna’s hands started exploring Alissa’s body as well, and with excited expectancy, and desperation, Jenna slid her hands down Alissa’s back, and cupped her ass, and gave it a hard squeeze, feelings now getting out of her control and her lust taking over her senses.