@LavenderSnapped “You’re welcome, Vicki.”
Mellie cooed softly, out of habit, before starting to flick through paperwork. No matter how few and far between these visits were, they never got old.
Part of her still wished they did it every night, but that part of their relationship was long —
@LavenderSnapped — the next time she got into bed.
“Hurry up, darlin’. I’ve got some work to do.” It was one of the reasons that Mellie got the left side of the bed. So she could still work and use her dominant hand, while Vicki cuddle into her side.
@LavenderSnapped “Mm,” she pursed her lips in thought, before opening one arm so her wife could cuddle up to her like they used to every night.
Truly, she knew this wouldn’t last, and it’s why she was so standoffish about allowing it. Victoria would be fine, and she’d be crying and lonely —
@LavenderSnapped — just did not find her attractive. In this moment? She didn’t care. She crawled into bed, fully nude.
“Do you want to cuddle while I read, or are we just doing our own things? Seeing as we are dressed for bed at three in the afternoon.”
@LavenderSnapped — Victoria decided she wanted to cuddle.
Once she stepped out of the bathroom and back into the bedroom, she discarded her towel and hung it on the back of her door. “Sorry, Vicki. I’m not putting on clothes just for your benefit.”
Mellie was still convinced that her wife —
@LavenderSnapped Mellie was in the middle of washing her hair when Victoria knocked, squinting past the steam to make out the woman’s face when she spoke.
“Mm, you’re always welcome in my bed, Vicki. You know that. I’m not the reason we don’t sleep together.”
@LavenderSnapped “Nothing, Vicki. Have a nice shower,” she sighed softly as she stepped out of her dress, bending to pick it up before making her way into the other bathroom to shower on her own.
Mellie knew something was up, and she had a feeling she knew what it was, too. But it wasn’t her —
@LavenderSnapped — but the First Lady couldn’t get her zip down on her own, so she undressed in that bathroom, and went into the second bathroom to shower.
“You know if you ever want to talk to me, about anything.. you can. Right? Even if we aren’t the most conventional in the realm of happy, —