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Title - High School Discoveries
Author name - Willow Friendly
Rating - NC-17
Disclaimer - The characters of Willow Rosenberg and Tara Maclay and all other Buffy cast members that I employ during this story are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy productions.
Distribution: Please ask me
Chapter: 7
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willowfriendly13@yahoo.com Pairing - Willow and Tara
Spoilers - None
Warning - This fic does contain smut from chapter 4 onwards, if you are not comfortable with this please turn away
Summary- Basically Willow and Tara are in high school and are both 16. Willow meets Tara in an unexpected place and they help each other discover more about each other whilst dealing with the normal angst and learning that comes with high school.
Chapter 7
The next morning Willow searched all over for Tara at school with no luck. As she heard the bell go for lunch she nervously stood up slowly from her desk and made her way out the door, heading towards her impending doom. She couldn’t help but think back to yesterday and how good it had felt to have Tara in her arms, dancing so close to her that she could feel every breath that she made. But when she thought back to it, she had been very selfish, pulling Tara closer to her just so that her body was touching her own and not even considering how uncomfortable she must have made Tara feel. What kind of a friend does that? she asked herself.
As she rounded the corner she saw that everyone was already sitting at the lunch table except for Tara. Sighing to herself she walked over and sat next to Buffy.
“Hey Buff,” Willow said depressingly.
“Jeez and the Ball of Sunshine award definitely does not go to Willow Rosenburg this year. What’s up Will?” Buffy asked.
“Nothing, I just think that I might have made Tara feel uncomfortable in PE class yesterday,” Willow said.
“How come? I thought you two were all with making of the eyes at each other yesterday?” Buffy questioned.
“Oh yeah well did you see the part where I practically molested her and she ran away screaming?” Willow asked.
“Okay Will, I know you and I know that didn’t happen. I have never met anyone who over exaggerates like you do, it’s quite amusing” Buffy said.
“Well I’m glad my downfalls are an amusement to you Buffy,” Willow said snapping at Buffy.
“Hey, hey lets back it up here a minute. I didn’t mean anything by it, you know that,” Buffy exclaimed.
“Yeah I know I just get sick of always being the one left out you know. I want someone I can do that with” Willow said pointing at Xander and Cordelia who were making out like there was no tomorrow and hadn’t acknowledged her arrival yet, “I want to be able to be someone else’s special someone. I’m sick of being the good friend, you know, the one that everyone sees like a sister and nothing more. I want someone to look at me and think that I’m sexy instead of oh hey that’s Willow she’s that reliable old giser person right? I know it may sound selfish but I just want to experience what it is like for someone to become your whole world and I started to think that Tara was that person recently but as soon as we started to get close she ran away,”
“Okay one Willow, you are not an old giser reliable type, well yes you are reliable but that is a good trait to have, it’s not something to put against yourself, two, you are a very attractive person Will with an amazing personality and if they can’t see it then they are blind and very stupid, three, as much as I love you that was not a come on and four you are not the only one alone I mean I am not exactly beating them down with a stick at the moment either,” Buffy said.
“Thanks Buff, but I mean even though you aren’t dating anyone at the moment you still have dated before. I don’t even know what that is like. I don’t even know what I would do on a date,” Willow said
“Willow don’t worry about it, it all just comes naturally and if you feel uncomfortable on a date then you shouldn’t be on it, OK. And don’t rule out Tara just yet she might be feeling exactly the same way that you do at the moment and doesn’t know what to do,” Buffy said.
“Yeah I guess” Willow said sighing once again.
As she glanced around the courtyard a wisp of blond hair caught her eye. When she turned back to face it more fully she saw Tara walking slightly nervously over to their table. Willow felt her heart flutter in her chest at the sight and before she knew what she was doing she ran over to girl before she reached the table.
Stopping just short in front of her, taking a deep breath she looked into two curious blue eyes in front of her.
“Hey” Willow said
“Hhey” Tara said shyly looking down.
“Um Tara, I was just wondering if I could talk to you in private first before you go over and see the others?” Willow asked unsurely.
“Uh ssure, wwhere do you wwant to go?” Tara asked nervously.
“Just over to the bench over there if you wouldn’t mind?” Willow asked, thinking what are you doing?? What are you going to say to her?? Sorry for being all with the touches yesterday I couldn’t control myself?? Great plan Willow.
“Sure that will be fine” Tara said.
“OK cool” Willow said giving her a little thumbs up.
The walk over to the bench was dead silent neither girl quite knowing what to say to each.
When they had sat down Willow drew in a nervous breath and said “Look Tara I don’t quite know what happened yesterday, just that obviously something I did freaked you out and I’m sorry for that,”
“Oh no, no you didn’t do anything wrong yesterday it was all me trust me. It’s jjust that …. jjust that ..” Willow saw Tara hesitate before continuing “ I…I jjust rremembered that the tteacher wwas hhanding out aassignment ttopics ffor my next llesson and I rreally wwanted to get there ffirst bbefore all the ggood ttopics wwere ggone, that’s all” Tara stammered.
“Oh so it wasn’t me?” Willow said in a small voice.
“Definitely not, you could never upset me Willow,” Tara said staring her straight in the eye.
“Oh well that’s good” Willow said before slowly reaching out and taking Tara’s pinky between her fingers “Cause I know that I have only known you for a month and a bit but you already mean so much to me and the last thing that I would want to do is hurt you”. Looking down she stroked the little pinky a couple of times before releasing it and looking up to see Tara looking at her with an expression of wonderment and surprise.
“Thank you Willow, no one has ever said anything like that to me before,” Tara said still looking at Willow with the same expression.
“Well it’s true that’s the last thing I want to do, well except for maybe play leapfrog with a unicorn, cause you know major ouch,” Willow said trying to lighten up the mood a bit.
Tara burst into laughter, exclaiming, “Where do you get these things from?”
“Oh that one is off the Murphy’s Law poster that I have in my room, you should come up and have a read one day. You know you never did take me up on that study date,” Willow said.
“I know, but I will. It’s just that I am going OK at the moment and I don’t want to inconvenience you” Tara said.
“Tara, how many times do I have to tell you that you are definitely not an inconvenience to me. In fact you’re the complete opposite, you’re a very welcome distraction,” Willow said before turning red thinking about how that must of sounded.
Both fell into silence again, fidgeting on the bench and looking at everything that passed by, avoiding eye contact with one another until Willow broke the silence.
“Hey Tara, I was just wondering if you would like to go to the park with me on Saturday, I guarantee lots of fun and nibblies?” Willow asked.
“Oh sure are the others going?” Tara questioned
“Um well I kinda haven’t asked Xander and Cordelia cause as much as I love Xander the last thing that I want to see is them getting with each other the whole time we’re there. And Buffy said she was busy, so I just thought we could make it a day just for us, you know get to know each other a bit better without being in the confines of the school. So what do you think?” Willow asked, looking at Tara full of hope.
“Sure that still sounds really cool, but what do two teenage girls do in a park all day?” Tara asked amusedly, raising an eyebrow.
“Oh well there’s lots to do, there’s the swings and the monkey bars. Oh! Oh! And those cute little things that you sit in and rock back and forward on. And of course there is the promise of lots of nibblies and we could even play some running around games. What do you say, doesn’t it sound exciting?” Willow exclaimed excitedly.
Tara just smiled at Willow and said “It sounds perfect and I must say that I believe that the company will be the best,”
“Thanks Tara, but I don’t think that your company will be anywhere near as good as my company. Oh I’m so excited, why can’t the weekend be now,” Willow said.
“I know I can’t wait either now, you make it all sound so exciting. I only hope that there are no kids there with their parents and stuff cause that could be a little embarrassing,” Tara said.
“Oh, no worries there aren’t usually too many kids around these days, I guess they’re all at home playing videos games or something. So just to make sure that I heard right you’re definitely in?” Willow asked.
Tara just nodded excitedly in reply.
“Excellent, so how bout we meet at my place at 10 and we go from there, the park is just around the corner?” Willow asked.
“Sure sounds great except I haven’t got your address yet,” Tara said
“Oh yeah right wait a tick” Willow quickly scribbled her address down on a piece of paper and handed her the piece of paper, their finger tips lightly grazing as they did so.
“If you get lost just buzz me OK?” Willow asked
“Ok thanks,”
Willow then glanced up into Tara’s blue eyes constantly drawn to how beautiful and expressive they were. She smiled lightly at Tara starting to feel giddy inside and just when she thought her smile couldn’t get any wider, it did as Tara shyly smiled back at her.
“Well we should probably get back to the others before they think that we have disserted them or something” Willow said sighing as she broke the contact.
“Sure, ok”
Half way over to the table Willow quickly skipped over to Buffy and gave her a big hug from behind and quickly whispered discreetly into her ear “You are VERY busy on Saturday OK?”.
Buffy looked questionably at Willow before nodding and shrugging her shoulders, getting back to her lunch.
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The two days leading up to Saturday passed by at an excruciatingly slow pace, with both girls thinking about nothing else but how good it would be to spend some alone time with each other. It was now 9:59 and Willow was anxiously looking out the curtain waiting to see Tara arrive. When she looked down at her watch and saw it click over to 10:00 she started to worry. Oh my god she is a second late, man I knew she wasn’t going to come but she would have rang if she wasn’t coming, wouldn’t she? Just as she thought this she saw a car pull up outside and a familiar blonde step out of the car. Jumping up and down slightly Willow raced over to the door and pulled it wide open greeting Tara with a wide grin. Tara jumped back a little before realising it was Willow and smiled back.
“Hey” Tara said
“Hey” Willow replied in a high pitched tone.
“We all set?” Tara asked.
“Yep all ready and raring to go, let me just lock the door” Willow said while turning back around to close the door. When she looked back at Tara she was so overcome with the realisation that the girl was actually here that she bounded over her and hooked her arm in with her own guiding them down the driveway whilst slightly leaning into her to say “I’ve been looking forward to this all week,”
“Me too” Tara said giggling while hugging Willow’s arm closer to her.
“Oh we are going to have so much fun” Willow said releasing Tara and clapping her hands together in excitement.
“I bet we will but where are these promised nibblies that you have been talking about all week?” Tara said with a slight frown and puppy dog eyes.
“Never you mind about them missy they will be coming later, firstly I want to race you to the swings,” Willow said laughing and sprinted towards the swings as the park came into view.
When she finally reached the swings she turned to see that Tara had been only two seconds behind her. “Wow that was pretty good Xander usually has lots of trouble keeping up with me” Willow said surprised.
“Well maybe you have finally met your match,” Tara said trying to catch her breath.
“Maybe,” Willow said softly.
“So” Willow said walking over and sitting in one of the swings “Wanna give me a push to get me started?”, raising an eyebrow at Tara.
“Sure” Tara squeaked.
Willow heard Tara go behind her and gasped when she felt Tara grab the side of her hips and pull her back towards her. She then felt Tara apply pressure to the same spots and push her forward. When she swung back she felt Tara place her hands on her lower back and push again. Thinking now that this wasn’t the best idea that she had ever had, she almost moaned out loud when she felt Tara
accidentally put both hands on her butt and push forward again. The swing combined with Tara’s hands and pushes were definitely making her feel like she was soaring through the sky. Deciding to do something to impress Tara and also stop her hormones from reaching unbearable points, she waited until the next time she was high up in the air and proceeded to jump off, landing straight onto her feet in a crouched position. Hearing Tara gasp and assuming she was impressed Willow turned around and said “Ta Da” with her hands up in the end and big cheesy grin on her face, which faded immediately when she saw the shocked and worried expression on Tara’s face.
“Wwhat ddid you just do? Do you know how dangerous that was? You could of hurt yourself!” Tara exclaimed running over to Willow and checking her for injuries.
“Hey, hey look at me Tara, I’m fine really I’m fine,” Willow said taking Tara’s hands into her own.
“I’m sorry you just scared me that’s all” Tara said.
“No, I’m the sorry one sometimes I can be so stupid and not think about how other people will react in real life and not just about how they react in my head,” Willow said.
“How did I react in your head?” Tara asked.
“I don’t know, well I kinda thought that you would be impressed or something which sounds really stupid now,” Willow said looking towards the ground sheepishly.
“It’s not stupid, well maybe a little cause you nearly got hurt but Willow why would you want to impress me?” Tara asked.
“Cause…cause well you’re a new friend and I wanted you to think that I was cool or something and that I wasn’t just a nerd,” Willow answered
“Willow firstly you are not a nerd, you are intelligent and insightful and in no way a nerd OK and secondly you don’t need to try and impress me cause I am already impressed and I also think that you are already pretty cool,” Tara said
“Really, you think I’m cool. Wait do you think that I am bad ass cool or smooth cool?” Willow asked.
“A bit of both” Tara answered in a hushed tone, looking Willow straight in the eye.
“Cool” Willow said once again getting lost in Tara’s eyes.
“Hey you want to go play on the monkey bars?” Willow asked
“Sure” Tara said
Two hours later after much fun on the playground equipment both girls were feeling very peckish so Willow led Tara over to stand under a tree, telling her to close her eyes and wait there for a couple of minutes. Willow then quickly ran back to the house and collected all the stuff she needed for the picnic. When she came back she took a second to take in Tara standing there so trustingly with her eyes still shut. She took in the girl’s attire plain grey pants and a white t-shirt. A plain look on anyone else but on Tara incredibly sexy. She quickly went over a laid the picnic blanket out and placed all the food and drinks on it. Surveying her display she decided that everything was right and in place and turned and walked over to Tara. She walked behind Tara and place her hands over her eyes and said “Just walk forward a bit, don’t worry I’ve got you,”.
When they had reached the blanket Willow guided Tara to sit down, while Willow sat behind her still with her hands over her eyes. “Ok open up” Willow said removing her hands from Tara’s eyes and moving to her right hand side.
“Oh Willow this is amazing and so incredibly sweet no one has ever made me a picnic before,” Tara said with tears in her eyes.
“Well I figured that you were one of those types that did everything for everyone else and never got anything in return. So I just thought that I would wait on you for a change,” Willow said, hoping that she hadn’t overstepped her boundaries.
“Thank you Willow, jeez I feel like that is all I am saying these days,” Tara said
“Hey, I’m not complaining” Willow said with a smile “Now cmon dig in I can hear your stomach growling from a mile away”
A half an hour later both girls extremely full were lying on their backs holding their stomachs.
“So, what do you want to do now?” Willow asked.
“Oh I have got a very good idea of what we could do next,” Tara answered her voice having dropped a couple of octaves.
“Really” Willow squeaked “And what would that be?”
Willow got even more butterflies in her stomach when she saw Tara slowly move her hand towards her. She then felt a sharp jab in the ribs and heard Tara say “You’re it”
Before looking up to see Tara running away giggling. She leapt up immediately and gave chase. Tara weaved her way through all the trees in the park trying to escape Willow but Willow was quickly gaining on her as she was laughing too much.
Eventually Willow caught her from behind pulling Tara into her body so that she couldn’t escape.
“Gotcha” Willow stated giggling.
“Yeah you got me” Tara said normally having come down from her laughter.
They both stood there for a moment with Willow holding Tara from behind. Willow for some reason just couldn’t find it in herself to let Tara go. It felt so right to have Tara in her arms, having Tara’s back pressed against her front. She couldn’t think straight and then the unthinkable happened, Tara turned around in Willow’s arms and was standing so close that her nose was touching Willow’s. She felt Tara’s arms come up to slowly wrap around her neck, her own breathing hitching in the process. Closing her eyes she moved forward slightly and felt Tara’s lips lightly press against her own. Breathing sharply in through her nose she pushed forward again pressing their lips together for longer. Willow never having kissed anyone before, awkwardly tried to take Tara’s bottom lip in between her own, enticing Tara to do the same with her top lip. She felt Tara hesitantly open her mouth and take her top lip in between her lips and lightly suck on it. They kept moving their lips against one another until Willow felt herself heat up and started to glide her tongue over Tara’s lips seeking entry. Unfortunately Tara pulled back at this with a stunned expression on her face and brought her hand up to touch her lips.
Willow just looked on in shock and amazement. At shock that Tara had just pulled back from the kiss and that she had no idea what the kiss actually meant and at amazement that she had just experienced her first kiss with what was turning out to be a major crush.
Tara went to say something a few times but couldn’t seem to find the words. She then looked down at her watch and back at Willow and said “Mmy mum will bbe here ssoon, do you mmind if wwe ggo back tto the house and wwait?”
“Sure” Willow said finding her voice “let me just get packed up and we’ll head back,”
“Ok” Tara said quietly.
Willow quickly collected her stuff from the picnic and they headed back to the house in complete silence. Once inside the house Willow quickly put the stuff down and turned the TV on, in order to avoid any awkward silences. They kept their eyes pinned to the TV until they heard a car pull up outside at which Tara jumped up immediately and said whilst blushing “That’s mum, I’d better go, thank you for taking me to the park”
“That’s OK, see you on Monday?” Willow said half heartedly
“Yeah, sure bye,” Tara said before heading out the door.
Willow flopped back onto the couch completely confused. What did I do?, she asked herself, I mean we both seemed to be enjoying it and then wham she’s moving away from me again. Maybe I pushed to hard, with the whole tongue thing. Maybe she didn’t even want to do it, but I feel like there is something between us. Maybe she still thinks that I am completely straight and that she came onto me. Maybe my head will explode and I won’t have to deal with any of this, Willow thought before grabbing a pillow and slamming her face into it.
Edited by: Willow Friendly at: 7/3/04 1:58 am
by AmbeRocks » Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:17 pm 
Pax! -Bev 
. Thank you for the continued compliments they make it all woth it 
and then tell you that I am happy that you really like the story. And as for dreams being conclusive well we'll see, I will say this the girls won't be rushing into anything. Unfortunately 
. But I promise they will get there eventually. More to come extremely soon. 
. They will be getting together .... sometime in the near future, unfortunately for everyone I just havn't quite decided when yet. Continuation is occuring um right now. 
, which is definately not something that I would do so I have to be satisfied with them just being in my head. Thanks for the feedback 
.
. Probably not. Oh well glad you're enjoying it so far more to come in just a little bit.
. Only joking. 
BWR 
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