It didn’t take much urging. Parting her lips, her tongue flicked out, first to tease and taste though soon it became as part of an intimate dance as the kiss deepened. Though she had known how she felt about Rolf, knowing that that wouldn’t change no matter how long or even if he never felt the same way, she had never dreamed of kissing him. Like she had told Susan, she had never felt lust and friendship for the same person, but holy Helga she was making up for that now.
Forgetting herself for a moment, Rose cupped Rolf’s cheek, smiling into the kiss, though was almost immediately reminded of their less than stable location, when her lack of treading water threatened to make them sink. “Roff,” she murmured, the kiss easing off into small, heated kisses to his lips. “Closer to land,” she tried, trying to urge him closer to shore. “Just so,” her voice tapered off into a soft moan when the kiss deepened again. “Bottom.”