To get started, I am 24 and I just now graduated from a nice little college in western North Carolina. I grew up in the East and had a nice little life in a good little home and went to a nice private school. When I graduated from high school my parents sent me and another girl, we were classmates and friends, on an expedition to try out our wings. It wasn't so free as you think, it was all arranged but we went alone, she and I. It was our trip to Europe.
We chose to go to Italy. We joined this student tour led by an Englishman professor of the Ancient World. We went all over the place, a whole lot of pretty normal tourist places but he also took us to places that were not so touristy. We had reservations everywhere we went and my friend and I shared a room, all the rooms had two single beds. We have known each other since we were in grade school so nothing funny there. But then, we got to Pompeii and the hotel we stayed in had a small double bed. Well we didn't say anything we just put our things down and went out to join the group.
That night we had this talk, after walking all over creation and having dinner at this local place. That night as we got ready for bed we had this talk. Here we were thousand miles away and we had to face our fears, we were going to sleep together in this small bed and we had to decide whether we were going to sleep or 'sleep'. We stood in the little room with the window open for air and we stood with our arms folded facing each other. Was this it then? It didn't help that the night was warm but not hot and that the moon was out, it didn't help that I didn't see her the same that night. It didn't help that I wasn't myself that night. So I said it out loud, 'Do you love me?'
I wasn't going to go to bed with her and 'sleep' if she didn't love me. She didn't answer, she answered by asking me "Do you love me?'. Well, I did so I said so. Well so she did so she said so. Really neither one of us knew what we were saying, how do you tell your best friend in your life that you don't love her? So she said 'Well then come over and kiss me'. Kissing her that night wasn't as easy as you think. I had hugged her a thousand times, we had slept before at camp and at the beach, when we were younger and not young adults. And the kiss she was asking about was 'a kiss'. So I walked over to her, took her arms away from her chest and put my arms around her waist and hugged her boob to boob and kissed her straight on, on the lips. It was a failure.
We got ready for bed, changed into our sleeping Ts and the bed was so small that I got behind her and put my arms around her and told her I loved her no matter what. She turned on her back and took off her T and said she wanted me to make love to her and don't stop. I took off my T and I started kissing her face, and she put my hand on her boob and that is how we started, step by step, cheek, face, lips, boob, until I had to face reality. Kiss her panties or take her panties off? I decided to take her panties off and she let me and she said she was waiting. Well I dug in so to speak and went straight for it and kissed her bush and everything in between. I went back up to her face and kissed and she asked me if I loved her and I said I did so we got into a spoon and she told me to take of my panties and we slept naked.
The next morning we took a bath in the small tub and I kissed her bush while she stood to use the shower wand and she kissed my bush while I stood to use the shower wand. That was our lesbian thing. We spent the rest of our trip in Italy closer than before and we slept again together and when we got back home we went to college in the fall and we declared ourselves taken and all that.
It is two years now since our trip abroad and I kiss her bush and she kisses my bush, and we sleep together and we are pretty easy with saying I Love You, and even if our college is small we are not the only 'girlfriends' on campus. But are we lesbians or are we very good friends? For sure we are very good friends. We went on a weekend trip to New York to go see the Book of Mormon with some other friends. After the show in that big bed in that hotel we did make love. We slept naked which we usually don't do and we made love. Sometimes the feelings are just there.
Since we are exclusive and we do make love and live together and share a room and a bed we are living like lesbians, in a dorky sort of way we like the word but as to our real life we aren't so sure.


