Housemates

Chapter 88

Ellie sat up, and pulled Mia onto the bed. She was about to kiss Mia again, kiss her properly, when she suddenly wondered what her mouth tasted like. She hadn’t brushed her teeth yet this morning, and she hadn’t last night either.

Ellie stopped, and wondered about her breath.

Mia was kneeling in front of her, waiting to be kissed.

Ellie put her hand over her mouth, and spoke through her hand. “Does my mouth taste awful?” she said.

“No,” Mia said, looking startled. “What? No.”

“Yeah,” Ellie said. “You have to say that. Could you get the gum.”

Mia looked as if she was wondering whether to argue.

“Gum,” Ellie said, feeling bossy. She pointed. It was still on the floor beside the bed from last night.

Mia reached down, and got the packet, and handed to Ellie. Ellie took a piece, and chewed it for a moment.

“I’m sort of in a hurry,” Mia said, watching her. “Remember? I was leaving...”

“Yep,” Ellie said.

“Your breath’s fine, by the way. I hadn’t noticed.”

“Except…”

“I have to say that?”

Ellie grinned. “Yep.”

Ellie kept grinning for a moment, then decided she’d probably chewed enough. She pulled Mia closer. She kissed Mia, and stuck the gum into Mia’s mouth with her tongue.

“Look after that,” Ellie said, and Mia laughed.

Mia laughed with Ellie’s tongue in her mouth, and the gum too, and it suddenly seemed almost dangerous to Ellie, like one of them might get bitten, or choke, or something. She decided she’d better stop kissing for a moment, until they’d both finished with the gum.

She’d have to think of something else to do instead of kiss.

Mia was still kneeling, looking at Ellie. Ellie licked her fingers and slid her hand down the front of Mia’s pyjama shorts, without any more warning than the lick. Mia didn’t seem to mind. She sighed, and went still as Ellie touched her, concentrating.

She also stopped chewing.

Ellie was quite proud of that.

Ellie slipped one fingertip wetly down Mia’s lips, and looked at Mia’s face, and felt proud.

Then she thought about the gum again. She was a little worried how distracted Mia was. She didn’t want Mia to swallow it by mistake and choke that way. She decided she’d better get it back. She kissed Mia, kissed, and opened her mouth, and tried to find it with her tongue.

She couldn’t. Mia must have stuck it up beside her teeth or somewhere.

“Give it here,” Ellie said.

Mia opened her eyes. Ellie was still sliding her fingers against Mia, and Mia seemed confused.

“The gum,” Ellie said. “Give it to me.”

Mia grinned, and stuck her tongue out with the gum on the end of it. Ellie picked it off with her mouth. Then, with it back in her own mouth, she had no idea what to do with it. She spat it out onto the floor.

The floor was wood. It shouldn’t stick unless one of them trod on it.

“Don’t stand on that later,” Ellie said, and Mia nodded.