Chapter 2
Tara sat back against the cool wall of the bathtub and inhaled deeply from the joint in her hand. It had been a while, but she had managed to roll a few quite successfully, and now was in process of teaching the other women the finer points of expanding their minds. She hit it deeply one more time before handing the joint to Buffy, who was perched cross legged on the closed toilet seat. The blonde slayer looked at the small cigarette shaped thing in her hand with a tepidacious expression on her face, then back at Tara, who nodded in encouragement.
"Just put it to your lips and breathe in slow and deep Buffy. After you inhale, just hold it down for as long as you can. It's really not that hard."
The slayer put it to her lips and slowly began inhaling. As her lungs filled with the smoke she closed her eyes, trying to relax herself. She opened them again to see Anya looking at her expectantly.
"Do I get a turn any time soon, or are you going to sit there with the Marijuana cigarette in your hand and waste it? Which, might I add is also wasting money. Money was spent on this and I am in no way having any part of any wasting of money, be it mine or someone else's."
That said, the ex-demon reached over and grabbed it from Buffy and hit hard on it. Her eyes slightly widened as she fought to keep the smoke down. Exhaling a cloud of thick white smoke she handed the joint to Willow, who was sitting next to Tara with a fearful expression on her face.
With huge green eyes she looked at the blonde, as if asking her what to do. In answer Tara smiled softly at her girlfriend and took the joint from her hand. Inhaling deeply she leaned in closer to Willow, as if moving to kiss her. She stopped a few inches from Willows face and placed the joint between them, cherry facing herself. She motioned Willow to move in closer and as their lips grazed, began exhaling as Willow inhaled.
The bathroom was quiet for a long while as the four women all sat and enjoyed as the creeping tendrils of marijuana smoke invaded their brains. Suddenly, for no particular reason Buffy started laughing. The others soon joined in, although no one really knew why, but it served to break the zone they had all been in.
"Mannnn...WOW. I didn't know this bathroom floor was so
clean!" Buffy said as she moved to hands and knees to examine the floor more closely. "You could almost eat off of it!"
With that her hazel eyes grew wide.
"OOOH...wow...food sounds amazing right now. Tara, does this stuff always make you hungry, because right now, I so could eat about four horses!"
Tara just sat back with a look of complete amusement on her pretty face. She was enjoying this.
"Mann you guys, I'll be right back..I hafta get somethin to munch on," Buffy slurred as she walked out of the bathroom.
She returned momentarily, with an armload of various foodstuffs that should have broken down even one with slayer strength.
"Ok you guys, I have chocolate pudding, brownies, cheetos, mike n ikes, skittles, BBQ lays, and Flintsone pushups. If you want some, you can share the pushups, cause they're gonna melt fast. Otherwise go get your own."
With that, she began to work her way through the enormous amount of food.
Tara now sat against the bathroom wall with Willow leaning back against her between her legs. She scanned the room as she absently played with the redhead's silken locks.
"Uh, You guys? Just out of curiosity, where is Anya?" The blonde spoke for the first time since her buzz had set in.
Everyone looked around the room, until their gazes settled on the closed shower curtain around the bathtub. Buffy pulled it open slowly to find the former vengeance demon sitting with her knees drawn against her chest and clutching her push up as if it were protecting her against all evil.
"Ahn...are you ok?" Tara asked gently, noting the slightly wild look in the other woman's eye.
"N-no, I'm really not, because what if Xander comes home from work and finds us like this and he gets angry with me and refuses to allow me my penis privileges anymore and then what will I do? Then I won't have any orgasms and that would be bad. And I don't like bad things to happen. So none of you had better tell him anything about this..I was a vengeance demon once, you know. I could have you all disemboweled with a simple phone call you know. And leave my push up alone! It's mine and you may not have it. The blonde woman finished her rant and pulled the shower curtain back around the tub.
"Well...Ok then, Tara muttered.
She looked around the room once again, noting Anya in her own world in the tub and Buffy oblivious to everything except the food in front of her, already half gone. Her gaze finally stopped on her girlfriend, who's eyes were fixed on her face with a serene smile on her lips. Smiling back at the redhead, Tara sat upright, forcing Willow to do the same. She looked at Willow, and then at the door adjoining the bathroom to their bedroom, her intent clear in her eyes. Willow, being uncharacteristically quiet, nodded eagerly as they both slipped unnoticed out of the bathroom.
The only sound in the quiet house was the loud click of their bedroom door locking.