Chapter 54.5

As Amara walked back inside her apartment, she happily manifested her tail and used it to close the front door. Vee was already back from classes, and jumped up from the couch with a smile on her face. She ran over, threw her arms around Amara’s shoulders, and gently kissed her.“Welcome back, love. How was the gym?” Vee asked.

“It went really well!” Amara said, happily picking up Vee and spinning her around briefly. “It was a bit awkward trying to hold back enough to make my workouts seem believable, but I think it worked.”

Vee glanced down at Amara’s clothes. “You picked a sweet outfit, too. It seems a little skimpy, but I have a feeling that was the point?”

A devious grin crossed Amara’s face. “I was feeling a little snacky, and the gym was the perfect place to show off. Plus, I need to practice blending in, so it was a great way to kill two birds with one stone.”

The two of them had already agreed on dinner plans earlier in the day, and Vee walked over to the kitchen to start pulling out all the ingredients. “Are you able to get that much just by wearing skimpy clothes?”

“Well, I had to get a bit creative.” Amara turned around, her sweatpants disappearing in a flash of hellfire. “My shorts are a bit see-through, so any guys staring hard enough were treated to a view of my thong. Ultimately, I wanted a bit more, so I had to convince a few of the guys to ‘help’ me with my form as I lifted weights.”

Vee chuckled. “I bet they loved that. How handsy did they get?”

“Surprisingly, it wasn’t that bad. I kept asking them to hold my thighs, and not once did any of them try to sneak higher to cop a feel. I was honestly a little disappointed.”

“Aww poor little succubus,” Vee said, feigning a tone of pity. “Your classmates respect you too much to grope you in public.”

“Truly, no one has a life more miserable than I!” Amara said in an equally sarcastic tone. After a moment of silence, the girls both looked at each other and broke out into laughter. With one last flurry of hellfire, Amara fully changed out of her gym clothes and into a more relaxed outfit. She then joined Vee in the kitchen, playfully wrapping her tail around her girlfriend’s waist as they worked together to prepare tonight’s dinner.

At first they were both relatively quiet, content to simply enjoy each other’s company, but after the first few minutes a strange thought wormed its way into Amara’s head. She played back the conversation they’d just had, then thought back to their first big talk about how they wanted the relationship to work after they’d started dating.

Her tail, sharpened into a knife to cut vegetables, slowed down bit by bit until she stopped altogether.

“Hey, Vee?” Amara asked nervously.

“What’s up love? Everything okay?” Vee asked, turning to face Amara.

“All that stuff we just talked about… me going to the gym, showing off, letting guys touch and perv on me… are you sure that’s okay? I know we talked about a lot of this when we started dating, but I guess there’s still a part of me that’s a bit nervous I’m forcing your hand just because I’m a succubus.”

Reaching over, Vee grabbed Amara’s hand before looking deep into her eyes. “Hey, I know things are weird, but that was inevitable. You’re a demon, I’m an angel, and neither of us has ever had a relationship of this magnitude before. Is it strange that you’re openly admitting to letting guys grope you at the gym? I mean, yeah, a little, but for me the context makes a big difference. I know you need to feed, and I know there are going to be times where our sex drives don’t always match up perfectly. Plus, let’s be honest, I know you love the attention,” Vee added with a quiet chuckle.

As much as Amara appreciated the joke, she didn’t quite have the heart to return the laugh. She brought Vee’s hand to her face and gently pressed it to her cheek. “You’d tell me, right? If it got to a point where I was being too much?”

“Absolutely,” Vee whispered, leaning in to kiss Amara. “And again, we’re both adults. I’m the one that asked for us to be monogamous, and I understand that’s a big change for you. You only lost your virginity, what, four months ago? And since then you’ve slept with more people than I have in my entire life. I fully expect there might be problems, but… for me? It’s not the problem that’s the problem, it’s how we react to it. I trust you, and I trust that you’re not going to, like, manufacture fake emergencies just to try and sleep with other people.”

Amara stuck her tongue out and gagged at the thought. “Ugh, that sounds terrible. I’d rather jump into a lake of holy water.”

Vee laughed again, and this time the sweet sounds of her laughter proved infectious. Amara squeezed her girlfriend’s hand, then kissed it briefly before leaning forward into Vee’s arms.

“I’m not expecting this to be perfect, Amara. Am I expecting Heaven and Hell to have strong feelings about us dating? Absolutely, and we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Even apart from that, though, we’re still pretty young in the grand scheme of things. We’re bound to slip up from time to time.”

“You say that like we’re children, Vee,” Amara said playfully. “I’m twenty! It’s not like I’m a teenager fighting against newly discovered raging hormones!”

Pulling away briefly, Vee gave Amara a quizzical look. “Amara, love, you’re nineteen.”

Amara furrowed her brows. “Wait, shit, hold on…” She quickly ran the numbers, comparing her date of birth to the current year, then sighed in frustration. “Okay, fine, I’m nineteen. Same difference!”

“How do you not know how old you are?!” Vee asked.

“What does it matter? I’m not twenty-one yet, and that’s the only age that really matters,” Amara said dismissively. She cast a quick glare at Vee, who was holding back her laughter at Amara’s mistake, before huffing indignantly and returning to her vegetable cutting.

“I love you, Amara,” Vee added, leaning against her succubus girlfriend with a pleading look on her face. “Even if you don’t know how old you are.”

“You’re never going to let me live this down, are you?” Amara groaned.

“Who, me? Whyever would you say that?”

“You’re going to text Tessa the instant I turn my back, admit it!”

“I would never!” Vee protested before pursing her lips slightly. “I would tell Nick, he would enjoy it way more.”

Amara’s eyes flared, and she quickly located Vee’s phone on the opposite side of the living room. It lay balanced on the side of the couch, and after she found it, she caught Vee noticing her gaze.

“You wouldn’t dare,” Vee whispered.

Without saying anything, Amara pushed away from the counter and started running towards the living room, hoping to prevent Vee from giving their friends more ammunition. Behind her, Vee broke into a sprint as well, and the two reached the couch at roughly the same time. Vee tackled Amara to the cushions, and they started wrestling for supremacy.

It wasn’t long before Amara grabbed Vee’s phone, and Vee responded by grabbing the base of her tail and sliding her fingers around to the bottom. Amara jumped in surprise, but her attempts to shake Vee loose were valiantly repelled. Vee started tickling Amara, who completely lost control of her body, flailing and kicking as she laughed uncontrollably.

“No! Stop! That’s not fair!” Amara shouted between bursts of laughter.

“Give me my phone, Hellspawn!”

Retaliation proved impossible, as Vee didn’t have a ticklish bone in her body. It wasn’t long before Vee had claimed total victory, with an exhausted succubus pinned beneath her on the couch.

“Okay… fine… you win…” Amara huffed, handing over Vee’s phone.

“Ah ha! Victory is mine!” Vee declared. Taking the phone from Amara meant she no longer held onto the succubus’s tail, and Amara sighed with relief as the torture ended. Vee slipped her phone into her back pocket, then smiled with immense satisfaction as she wrapped her arms around Amara’s shoulders once more.

Looking up into Vee’s brilliant blue eyes, Amara couldn’t help but smile. “You’re such a jerk.”

Vee smiled back, though her grin was much more sinister. “And you love me anyways, Hellspawn.”

They kissed again, then Amara added “I’d say ‘One day I’ll have my Vengeance’ but… I kinda already have you.”

Another kiss, this one followed by a quiet laugh as Vee pretended not to enjoy Amara’s terrible pun. After a few minutes of holding each other tight, Vee sighed and looked back to the kitchen. “We should probably get back to dinner, love.”

“But I’m having so much fun with you on top of me!” Amara protested.

They looked at each other one last time, sharing another laugh, before finally helping each other off the couch and returning to the kitchen.