Tingles started at the tips of her fingers and quickly spread throughout her body. She let out an almost inaudible gasp at the feeling. She couldn’t help herself. Blair hadn’t been shy throughout college. She came out her junior year of high school, and throughout college, she had many women in her bed. But no one had ever elicited the response she had when Erin’s fingers touched her. Her body often ached for relief when she was having sex and on the edge of an orgasm, but her body had never physically ached for a person the way she was aching for Erin right now, which was crazy because they had barely even touched. The contact was so slight, Erin probably didn’t even notice it. At least that’s what Blair assumed until her eyes met Erin’s, and they also looked like she had been shocked to life for the first time. Was it possible that Erin was feeling this too? Did the brush of Blair’s fingers make her want to forget the world and get lost in Blair’s body? Because, if Blair was being honest with herself, that’s exactly what she  wanted. She wanted to lead Erin upstairs to the bedroom where she looked unfairly cute doing her work on Fridays, and she wanted to trace her body with her fingers and her tongue until Erin screamed out her name. When Erin was still trying to catch her breath, she wanted to…

“Airplane!”

Every fantasy flew from her brain as a small, but mighty, human slammed into her back. The unexpected impact caused Blair to lose her balance, which in turn caused her drink to fumble from her hands right onto the front of Erin’s blouse. Luckily, Erin had catlike reflexes which kept the whole drink from dousing her, but at least a third of the cold drink was now dripping down the front of her blouse.

“Oh shit.” Blair quickly turned around to grab paper towels and bring them to Erin. Except, instead of handing the paper towels to Erin, like she should have, she did just about the dumbest thing ever—began wiping the drink from her blouse, from spots that really shouldn’t  be wiped by someone like, say, the babysitter .

She let the towels drop and slowly backed away, like someone about to be placed under arrest. “I’m so sorry.”

Much to her surprise, Erin just laughed. “It’s definitely not your fault.” She looked at Nolan. “Honey, you can’t just attack people without warning.”

Nolan shook his head. “I didn’t. I came to the airport. Bear is the airplane.”