Sasha laughed as April tried to take another sample, the flamingos honking as their natural peace was disrupted by the women.
“Shh, I’m trying to take a look” Complained April but her eyes were filled with the same mirth that Sasha felt, both of them trying not to breathe too strong in order to prevent their nostrils of the stench that the flamingos produced.
“I bet you want to be at your lab now” Replied Sasha ducking her head as she kept a safety distance from the flamingos, the animals now calmer than moments before as April had stopped trying to caught samples from them
“You bet” Muttered the brunette as they finally moved, the rowboat moving slowly as they tried not to disrupt the birds.
Still laughing a little, Sasha moved the boat as April tried not to gag at the foul stench that now impregnated their clothes.
“I don’t understand how you manage to love birds so much” Commented once they both were approaching the footbridge in which they were going to leave the little boat.
“I just find them interesting, plus they can fly to wherever they want, I’m a little jealous of them if I need to be sincere” Admitted the blonde good naturedly.
Today they had go to the Biguglia Lake or, how Sasha had said to April that morning: The “Étang de Biguglia”, the place in which Sasha normally worked. The lake was incredible, much bigger than April had first thought and the almost 150 species that lived there were an excellent material for her research, despite the foul odors that most of them emitted.
“Well, who knows, maybe one day you are going to be able to go to wherever you want” Said the brunette as she finally put her feet on the planks that formed the bridge.
Sasha smiled and blinked, her eyes still a little unfocused as she watched the flight of two flamingos just above the water.
“Uh, maybe” Answered as she also left the boat. “But for now, Have you got everything that you needed for today?”
April nodded, her eyes shining with the bright sun that bathed the lake that early morning. At her feet Sasha secured the boat and started to walk, noticing how the brunette’s glasses hanged from April’s cleavage, the valley of her breasts visible thanks to the tight tank top that the brunette wore that morning.
“Don’t look, Swan” Thought the blonde before smiling at April, the oblivious brunette writing something in her notebook as another pair of flamingos flew at the other side of the lake.
“I’m almost done” Answered the older woman to the blonde. “I need to take some water samples but it’s going to be quick so don’t worry, you are not going to end up as wet as yesterday”
Sasha laughed as she tried to suppress her blush as she recalled yesterday’s events.
“I was only trying to get that fish for you, it was your fault that the boat moved” Answered back and April winked at her before sticking her tongue, her good mood infecting Sasha who blushed fiercely losing her battle against her own body.
“Damn woman” Muttered to herself as April kneeled, putting her vials in order as she tried to take the water sample that she needed.
“At least you had a bath” Continued April, her glasses now on her nose as she read the labels that she had wrote on the vials. “After yesterday’s hike I almost thought about bathing with you when you fell in that lagoon”
“Believe me; it was better that you didn’t, the water was totally stagnant”
The brunette laughed at that as she nodded, the sun capturing her short brown locks as she threw her head backwards, a full smile on her lips.
“I thought as much given your face and how the water looked”
Grinning, Sasha decided to kneel at the other woman’s side as she eyed April’s hand while the brunette took the final sample.
It had been three weeks since the brunette’s first day on Corsica and the blonde was amazed of how quickly the time had passed; Sasha was a very private person and whenever she had had to share her place with strangers or friends she had quickly found out bored and with a feeling of being trapped crawling her spine, something that had made most of her relationships impractical and impossible. However, April was someone that didn’t trigger her, even if they were next to each other almost all the time. The brunette was a social woman who loved to talk and even if that clashed with Sasha warm but distant attitude they had ended up talking until late hours of the night after their daily trips.
Sasha smiled dreamily again, feeling calmer than she had felt in ages as April ended taking notes.
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“Sasha?” Asked the brunette as she snapped her fingers in front ft Sasha’s green eyes that today looked more emerald than forest thanks to the intense sun that was bathing them “You there?”
The blonde’s gaze focused on April’s hand and when the brunette called her name again Sasha nodded slowly before rising, April following her now with a curious look on her own chocolate eyes.
“Sorry” Apologized the blonde “I was thinking about something”
“Your secret mission?” April teased even if her words were laced with curiosity.
The brunette had learnt that Sasha was very private with her own life and that so called mission was one of those things that the blonde didn’t want to talk about, something that, for the ever-curious mind of April was a puzzle to solve.
“Something like that” Answered Sasha as she started to walk, her truck was at the entrance of the park and they needed to return back to Bastia if April wanted to start analyzing the samples that she had got in the little lab that Mr.Briand had provided after the brunette’s pleads a week ago.
April sighed and grabbed Sasha’s hand as the taller woman brushed their arms together, her eyes locking with Sasha’s who furrowed her brows, trying not to look at April’s hand or body while the woman was so close to her.
“I’m sorry; I know that you don’t want to talk about it”
Sasha gulped as she looked at April’s eyes, the warm cocoa color making her smile even if she felt guilty for letting the woman believe that she was thinking about that instead of the real reason behind her mood; the brunette herself.
“You don’t need to be sorry; it’s only a bunch of memories.” Said finally, the hand that April was holding sweat profusely as she tried not to look to the brunette’s glistening cleavage, the woman was stunning and even if she didn’t act like she knew it Sasha definitely noticed.
“But you are not some stupid guy gawking at her so behave” Thought the blonde as she eyed at two tufted ducks that swam swiftly across the lake, very near of the bridge in which both of them were standing.
The brunette eyed Sasha and nodded, letting Sasha’s hand free and turned around, trying to appear calm instead of the awkward nervousness that she was feeling.
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The first time that she had felt the nervousness instead of the simply pull of attraction that she had felt since she had landed her eyes on Sasha had been in one of their first hikes; the warmness of the island noticeable as they tried to take a look at a few bird that the brunette had been adamant of see the night before.
The birds, however, had been elusive and by noon they had tried almost all their tricks to see one in their usual habitat so April had seated in a big rock, ready to give up on their search.
On the other hand Sasha had kept walking around the clearing in which they had both entered and had started trying to imitate the bird’s calls as she tried to move as quietly as possible in order not to bother the local fauna.
It had worked and when the first bird had landed next to Sasha April had smiled brightly, feeling for the first time that nervousness that was now growing in the pit of her stomach.
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Sasha bit her lips as she eyed the brunette who had kept walking next to her after dropping her hand, her usual chit chat now gone as April seemed to be deeply thinking about something. Worried that she had actually managed to hurt the brunette’s feelings Sasha nodded to herself before addressing the woman.
“April?” Asked, the entrance of the lake visible from where they were.
“Mhm?” The woman asked still looking at the ground with a pensive look, her glasses sliding off her nose with each step.
Sasha sighed, since their first meeting April had showed her that she was actually a very trustworthy woman and even if Sasha herself had trust issues the blonde wanted to become clean with the brunette, at least with the things that she could come clean with her because Sasha was still trying to fight back the feelings that the brunette provoked her.
“I’m an orphan” She started and smiled sadly when April looked at her, smiling softly as she approached her, ready to listen to the blonde woman. “You could say that I had a pretty bad luck and when I was seventeen I decided to escape from the system. A few months after starting living in the streets I met a guy that told me that he knew how I could know who my parents were, I decided to take the bait so I went to the guy that the first one told me about; his name was Neal”
April listened as Sasha kept talking, her voice soft and even as if she had told that story many times. Or as if she had become accustomed to it.
“He told me that he could track down my parents and I decided to try to see them, I was almost eighteen and even if didn’t like the system I wanted to have a home. I thought that maybe if I showed them that I was useful they would… I don’t know, adopt me. But after weeks of dead ends I decided to follow Neal’s ideas only one more time.”
“And you ended up here” Muttered April while Sasha nodded.
“I waited to hit eighteen and then I bought the flight with the last money that I had earned working on a bar, I hoped that I would find my parents here but it was another deed end. And I didn’t have any more money”
“What did you do?” Asked the brunette completely transfixed by Sasha’s green eyes, now darker than earlier because of the memories.
Sasha blinked and shook her head, trying to recall what had really happen instead of how she had felt once she had found that she couldn’t go back to America.
“I asked for help and I met Briand, he offered me a job as her secretary but with the condition that I needed to study something while I was in Corsica, that’s how I became an ornithologist. After a few months I had the money to travel again but I decided to stay here.”
“Why?” Asked the brunette as both of them started walking away, the wind carrying the sounds of the lake as well as the birds that lived in it.
“I fell in love with the place” Answered Sasha as simply as possible “And I’ve been here ever since”
April nodded, sensing that Sasha didn’t want to keep talking anymore.
“You are an incredible woman” Muttered softly as her right hand grabbed Sasha’s left one.
The blonde smiled and squeezed the brunette’s hand, feeling the warmness of April’s skin on her own, the sun warming her body from behind as the finally arrived at her truck.
“So are you” Muttered Sasha as she started the engine of the car, April smiling softly as they finally let go each other’s hands.
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