Chapter 4: Only child
Iliki slept over and stayed in the bed of Paige's roommate. They made love again in the morning, took a shower together, and went for pancakes for breakfast at Pancake House. During breakfast they talked about their plans for Christmas break. Paige would go home to Dallas and hang out with some friends. Paige had to admit that her high school friends were not good friends. She really had no good friends, outside the sorority and the dance team. Her connection to the sorority was not what she wanted it to be when she arrived on campus.
After she was kicked out of the house most of the other girls shunned her. They were afraid of her. She was a lesbian. Would she attack me? Would I become a lesbian? A few girls still welcomed her with kisses (on the cheek) and hugs at Monday night dinners. A few girls secretly hoped that she would approach them. Those girls had had less than satisfying sexual experiences and wanted more, but just could not ask their boyfriends or their hook-ups. Lick here. Use your fingers like that. Can you just make it all last longer?
Iliki said that she was planning on going to Orlando for a couple of weeks with all of her younger siblings, but that really did not appeal to her. "Paige, it will be dreadful. My dad thinks that it will be great. Truthfully, this is for him and the babies. Bekka and Sara really don't want to go ether."
"Hey, can you come to Dallas? I can't think of anyone else I would rather spend Christmas with. My parents will love you. They have often suggested that I bring friends over. We have a working ranch with 150 acres and lots of animals. I know the perfect horse for you to ride. Oh, please!"
Iliki told her dad she did not want to go to Orlando for Christmas and wanted to go to Dallas instead, to be with a good friend from school. David was very disappointed but glad she had formed a good friendship at ASU. Noelani, Carlos and little Jacque had moved into the corner house next to David. She was not going to Orlando anyway and just wanted Iliki to be in LA for a long weekend during break. Agreed. Iliki spent the first weekend of Christmas break in LA and flew to Dallas on Wednesday, December 18
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Paige picked up Iliki in her father's brand new Volvo XC90, the one with the heads-up display. Her father was a captain for American airlines. At forty-nine, he was one of the youngest captains on the 777s. He had a good salary. Her mother inherited part of a real estate fortune that included a Four Seasons Hotel which she managed. She also inherited one of her family's ranches outside Dallas.
Paige was an only child. Her parents were happy with one child. Paige was lonely. Her parents had their jobs and business but she was often left to her own devices. Her parents gave her everything. What she valued the most was the eleven years of dance lessons, beginning at age six. For her, dance was freedom. And riding her mare which she named Ginger, after Ginger Rogers. Riding was freedom as well. Her parents found it odd that Paige, who often complaining of being lonely, would enjoy riding alone or practicing her dance moves in her upstairs studio alone.
Dinner the first night of her stay with Paige was a simple affair. Her parents had a full-time cook/housekeeper named Alain. Her parents liked that he was gay because he would have no interest in their very desirable teenage, cheerleader daughter. Alain had been living on the ranch for the past six years, ever since his long-term relationship boyfriend died. Alain made a soufflรฉ and served it with grilled vegetables. Paige's father was probably somewhere over the Pacific on his way to Tokyo.