The Prefect, Part Ten
Part Ten
The kiss ended as quickly as it had begun.
Elise met Annie’s lips with her own, gave the lightest of nips to the girl’s lower lip, then pulled back. After a brief moment of silence following the separation, both girls opened their eyes at about the same time. Elise kept her hands on Annie’s sides, and let the short brunette keep her hands where they were on her hips.
The blonde prefect desperately wanted to let go, but presumed that going too quickly would make her seem stuck-up all over again. Annie just seemed a little unsure of what to do. She glanced up at Elise, looking for guidance from the girl normally in charge of first-years like herself.
However, it was Kaitlyn who broke the spell. “Well, Elise? Aren’t you going to thank Annie? Remember, be proper.”
The word ‘proper’ only got more amusing to the redhead, considering all the improper things the prefect was doing in her room. Dressing in such a revealing way. Kissing a younger girl. Letting herself be bossed around.
“Umm . . .” Elise hesitated. Right. Proper responses. For a moment, the kiss had distracted her from everything. Nothing had changed about her feelings about Annie, or girls for that matter, but the reluctant intimacy affected her nonetheless. “Thank you for kissing me, Annie . . .”
“You’re very welcome, Elise!” The short brunette exclaimed. Kaitlyn’s patronizing words clearly brought Annie back to reality. Before Elise could realize what was happening, Annie flung her arms around her and pulled her into a tight hug. Then Annie pulled back, stood on her tiptoes, and kissed Elise right on the cheek. “I can’t believe a prefect wanted to kiss me,” she giggled, meeting Elise’s eyes with a flirty and amused smile. Then the brunette detached completely herself from the blonde prefect and joined Caroline back on the bed.
Elise stood alone in the center of the room, again. Unable to keep herself from lightly blushing at Annie’s last words. Completely oblivious to the fact that Kaitlyn fed the phrase to both brunettes, correctly assuming the prefect would choose one of them over her.
“She did, didn’t she?” Kaitlyn smirked. Giving Annie a wink and then turning her attention back to the reluctantly obedient prefect. “Isn’t that what you wanted, Elise?”
Elise was going to kill her. When all of this was over, she planned on getting all three of these girls in serious trouble. Especially Kaitlyn. Unfortunately, that still seemed a long way off. Two tasks of seven done. And she was in no position to call things off. If she didn’t continue ‘playing along,’ she suspected a girl like Kaitlyn wouldn’t hesitate to keep not only her backpack, but also the clothes Elise now fully regretted removing and handing over.
“Yes, Miss Kaitlyn. I wanted to kiss Annie,” Elise muttered the ‘proper’ response, her blush darkening as the two brunettes burst into another fit of giggles.
“I knew it,” Kaitlyn smiled, “All those little stolen glances during dorm inspections and curfew rounds? You think you’re so subtle, but it’s painfully obvious, Elise. We all know you’ve been crushing on Annie for weeks!” Kaitlyn said.
Elise glared daggers at the wicked redhead as Kaitlyn lied through her teeth. The shortest of kisses was suddenly twisted into a long term ‘crush’ that was wrong for so many reasons. But before she could open her mouth to argue, Kaitlyn was clever enough to immediately change the subject. “You can flirt with Annie later, Elise! For now, it’s Caroline’s turn. Are you ready for your third task, my little prefect?”
‘Keep your cool,’ Elise told herself. Kaitlyn’s words echoed in her head. ‘My little prefect.’ It wasn’t the first time the redhead said the patronizing phrase, but it bothered Elise more this time around. Everything Kaitlyn said seemed designed to get a rise out of her, and she wouldn’t allow the disrespectful first-year to achieve her goal.
“Yes, Miss Kaitlyn.” Elise said. Back to her flat, unamused tone. “I’m ready for my third task.”
“Good girl,” Kaitlyn smiled. Another awful patronizing phrase that was becoming more and more common. She nodded to Caroline, “Your turn! Got one picked out?”
“I do,” the quiet brunette said. She turned from Kaitlyn to Elise, her lips hinting at a smile. Elise genuinely couldn’t tell if this task would be better or worse than the other two. Quiet girls could be so nice, but sometimes so vicious.
“Come on, Caroline!” Annie exclaimed. She gave Caroline a teasing shove, “You’re leaving all of us in suspense!”
“Okay, okay,” Caroline gave a slightly wider smile. “Elise.” Another suspenseful pause. And then the quiet girl said something the blonde prefect wasn't prepared for at all. “Your third task is to go commando.”