A Shadowlander's Dream: Book Two - Policy of Love
By Kathryn K Williams
Chapter Sixty-one
Jessica twitched in her sleep and hit her head against one of the bench’s legs. She painfully stretched; it felt as if she had fell sleep on several nails. Her right side had fallen asleep and she could feel pins and needles through her body. She glanced up to see that the sun had finally risen in the sky and forced her body to stand, hobbling around the shed in an attempt to get some of the blood circulating through her legs.
With the aid of the newly raised sun she finally got a good look at her surroundings and the many tools that lay skewed about the shed. There were old rusty hedge clippers that she figured had not been used in a decade or two. Dozens of small gardening shovels for when Ma’am felt like planting flowers and other plants around the outskirts of the house. The woman was a slave when it came to the look of the house. It was as if she did not want the neighbours to know that she was keeping a farm for children in the place. Jessica then came across a pair of baseball bats that were covered in cobwebs, one aluminium and the other wood painted black, she pondered if either ever had the chance to be used by a child. She figured they were probably brought here by some of the other kids over the years and confiscated the moment they entered the house. The rest of the room was filled with more rusty tools that probably had not seen the light of day since before she was born.
Suddenly she heard the faint sound of the back door to the house opening and rushed to the back of the shed, where she hid in the corner. She could heard the sound of dry leaves crunching under foot as someone crossed the lawn and preyed that it was not the old witch. The shed door slowly opened and a young girl entered the room, “Jessie?” The girl called out softly as she let the door close behind her.
“Yes?” Jessica replied, cautiously stepping out of her hiding place. Before her stood a small girl with orange curly hair and a warm smile upon her freckled covered face, “A... Amber?” She inquired nervously. She felt as if it had been decades since she had last seen the girl, but she could never forget that smile.
Amber rushed across the shed, curls bouncing around her shoulders and skirt fluttering around her knees as she ran, “Oh Jessie,” She exclaimed as she threw her arms around Jessica’s neck, “I’ve missed you so much.” She said through tears of happiness.
Jessica squeezed the girl tightly, allowing herself to breath in the girl’s scent, how could she have forgotten this smell and the softness of Amber’s cheek brushing against her own, “I...” She found it hard to speak and her heart was pounding wildly in her chest. She pulled back to look upon the girl’s face. It had been so long since she gazed into those loving green eyes. So long since she held the girl that she thought only existed in her dreams. She tried to tell her heart to calm down but it would not listen, all it cared about was being able to hold Amber once again. Jessica struggled with the need to touch the girl for fear that this world would shatter into a million pieces and she would find herself back in her bed all alone again. However she found it impossible to take her eyes off Amber and she hugged the girl again in an attempt to stop the hammering of her heart.
“Jessie, are you alright?” Amber inquired curiously, “You are acting strangely.”
“I... I just... need to... hold you.” Jessica explained simply as she set her head upon the girl’s shoulder. The scent of Amber’s hair drifted to Jessica’s nose and she licked her lips, struggling with a deep longing to once again taste the girl. Unable to hold back the urge any longer she lightly kissed Amber upon the neck.
“Ummm... Jessie...?” Amber weakly protested, after watching Kim and Penny all day she was feeling the need for a kiss herself and right now Jessica was not helping, “J... jessie... we... we... shouldn’t...” She stammered as Jessica slowly placed kisses along her neck and up to her jaw line. A shiver over came her body and she bit lightly at Jessica’s shoulder. Quickly she pulled back and placed a kiss upon the girl’s lips.
For a moment Jessica was startled by Amber’s suddenness, but did not protest. She wrapped her arms around the girl and pulled her in close. The feeling of that kiss suddenly opened up a door in the back of Jessica’s mind, a door that she had long locked and nailed shut. She suddenly understood what it was that she had been searching for in all those other girls over the years and Amber was that missing piece to the puzzle piece in her life. She could always remember that smell like a fleeting memory that was just out of her grasp and now as she held the girl in her arms she felt that she finally was where she belonged. With this newfound awareness she came to accept that the thing she wanted more than anything else was to taste the sweetness of her first love once again, to savour that feeling before she lost it yet again. Her entire body shivered with the feeling of the girl’s fingers playing with the back of her hair.
They intensified their kiss, Amber slipping her tongue into Jessie’s mouth and dancing around her tongue. Soon Jessica found herself shoved up against the bench as Amber’s body pressed up against her own. Jessica felt herself being drawn into the sensation of Amber’s lips as a heat rose up over her body. She had forgotten how good Amber tasted and felt as if she would melt in the girl’s arms. Amber’s hands move through the side of her overalls, down the back of her spine and caress her butt. Jessica pulled back from the kiss and stared at the girl before her, was this the Amber she had left all those years ago? She had a hard time remembering, she had blocked everything about this place from her mind, the good and the bad, and now wished that she could savour this experience forever.
Amber grinned back at her then moved in for another kiss. Jessica could feel her control slipping even more. She needed to stop this before something bad happens, but she couldn’t force herself to step away. All she needed to do was to walk away and the nightmare would be over, but she thirsted for more. Amber was the only person she wanted to touch her and now she was getting that wish. A tear welled up in her eyes and she felt an urge to let her hand wander over her body. She wanted to feel Amber’s smooth skin under her fingers. Wanted to run her fingers along the girl’s thigh and between her legs. As she thought of these desires Amber’s hand moved along her thigh and up the leg of her boxers. She let out a quivered moan as the sensation of Amber’s fingers lightly petting her damp crotch ran through her body. Jessica knew she should stop, knew that nothing good would come from this but she finally gave into the desire. She unbuttoned one of the straps of her overalls and moved Amber’s hand down the front of her boxers. Amber’s fingers were lightly tracing Jessica’s outer lips when the door abruptly opened and Ma’am stormed into the shed.
“Why you sluts!!” The woman screamed at the girls. For an old woman she moved quickly and was upon the girls in seconds, her hand coming down hard upon Jessica’s surprised face with a slap that sent Jessica to the floor.
“Owww.” Jessica shrunk away from the woman’s blows.
“Ma’am, No!!” Amber cried out as the woman hit her lover, “It’s not her fault.”
The woman turned to glare at Amber, “I’ve seen the way she looks at you. She is sinful. I should have known she would try to corrupt you the moment I laid eyes on her.”
“But Ma’am!” Jessica tried to explain her actions only to be hit across the head again.
“Don’t you talk back to me,” Ma’am shouted hatefully, “I’ve seen the way you curl up with her at night. I’ve suspected that something was up for months now but I trusted Amber to not be pulled into your spell. I guess I was wrong.”
“She didn’t put a spell on me.” Amber desperately protested, “I love her.” She cried out.
Ma’am was appalled by what she was hearing, “You are too young to understand love.” She remarked then grabbed Amber by the arm, “I’ll make sure that little slut learns her lesson, but good.” She dragged Amber out of the shed and glared back at Jessica, “You will learn to keep your hands to yourself and to be a good little girl.” She stated firmly.
Fear and hatred filled Jessica’s mind, fear of losing Amber and being locked away in this shed again, anger for the woman who ruined her life entirely and gave her so many sleepless nights. Without hesitation Jessica stormed across the shed, her hand came across the discarded aluminium baseball bat and she swung it at the quickly closing shed door with enough force to knock the woman off her feet, in turn causing her to let go of Amber. Jessica leapt through the door and upon the woman with the bat held high over her head and brought it down with all of her strength. It struck the woman’s head with a muddy thud and sunk deep into the woman’s skull like it was made of warm wax. Jessica pulled the bat free of Ma’am head and stared down at the mess. Her skull was smashed in and there was a strange green slime oozing out of the wound.
“S... she was not human... She really was a witch.” Jessica breathed as she watched in disgust as the woman’s head began to boil over and her body melt away. Jessica began to laugh hysterically, “Who would have thought that Sarah would be right?”
Amber cautiously approached Jessica’s side and stared down at the women as she sizzled and dissolved into the grass, “Y... you killed her.” She stammered, horrified that Jessica could kill someone. She suddenly covered her mouth against the foul smell that began to drift in the air.
Jessica smiled at the girl, “I can save you after all.” She remarked gleefully. She turned to the house and was about to enter it when it started to shift and transform. The walls began to decay and crumble as if years were passing by in mere seconds and the sun quickly dropped from the sky. Fear filled Jessica’s eyes as the house took on the form from her nightmares, “N... no... anything but this...” She pleaded worriedly, “Why does it have to be this?”
Amber watched the house in horror as it took on a new life before her eyes, “Jessica... what is happening?” She asked nervously, unsure if she wanted to know the answer.
“It’s becoming like in my nightmares.” Jessica explained with a deep breath and clenching onto the bat, “I hope Penny is ready to leave this time. With or without that belt of hers.”
“Oh, Kim found Penny’s belt.” Sarah explained happily.
“What?” Jessica glanced at her lover, “How did she do that?”
Amber only shrugged, “She fought with some kind of creature in the tub and had it in her hand when she returned.”
Jessica shook her head in disbelief, “To think that girl has only been here one day when I could not find that thing for years. Maybe she is the key to getting out of this nightmare.”
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To be Continued . . .
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