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Beginnings: Chapter 1 - Veronica
Date: 8/12/2017, Categories: Lesbian, Author: claire2013, Rating: 15, Source: LushStories
twenty-one without the hidden depths of my life and thoughts being seriously challenged by anyone. As I sat there, waiting, the most intense feeling arose in me that all of these questions were probably going to be brought quickly to the surface in the company of someone like Veronica Hamilton, and that I was going to be challenged in a way that I never had been before. I was brought back from the swirling mist of my thoughts by the sound of a wine glass being placed on the table in front of me. “I thought we’d have red,” said Veronica, sitting herself in the booth opposite me and placing her own glass down on the table in front of her. “Thank you,” I said. “That’s perfect.” Veronica’s eyes were fixed on mine again. “Well?” she said. I was confused. “The wine; aren’t you going to try it?” “Oh, of course. Yes.” I lifted the glass to my lips and took a long sip. I felt the smooth, red liquid coat my lips and ease its way down inside me like a languid dream. “It’s delicious, isn’t it, Lucy?” I nodded. It was. It was the first alcohol I had tasted in probably nine months. I was no expert, but I realized that the wine was both expensive and treacherously potent, and I knew that I was going to have to be careful. “Your mother tells me that you got a first class honours degree at university, Lucy. What a bright girl you are, aren’t you.” Veronica’s tone made it crystal clear that she was, in actual fact, singularly unimpressed by whatever academic success I had recently earned. ...