At the center of the large rambling village, both geographically and spiritually, is St Agatha’s Church where teenagers Tara Moss and Holly Barnes were choristers, and it was at Choir practice where they first met.
Even though
they were both pupils at Barnabus Boarding School, and they lived in the same
street, because there was two years between them.
Holly was only
15 when she first saw Tara and she was instantly smitten, and she was pretty
sure Tara felt the same but although she was 17 and doing her A levels, she was
much less confident than Holly who was bursting with confidence, compared to
the older girl’s acute shyness.
It was during
rehearsals for the Christmas Concert, and had it been left to Tara they would never have got
together, as it was, nothing happened until Easter.
Being two years
younger and a foot shorter didn’t hold Holly back, the diminutive, little
brunette had set her cap at her skinny ginger angel, and she was determined to
have her, the only drawback was that up to that point she hadn’t had a
girlfriend, but she wasn’t going to let that stop her.
It was after the Easter service when she made her move, she waited
until the clergy, verger, altar boys and other choir members had all made their way, at some point, to the vestry to change
into their street clothes, Holly
knew that Tara was always one of the last to go in because of her shyness so she
made sure she
stayed close enough to kept her in view at all times to observe when Tara went in, then she went
into the vestry herself, and
as she
went inside, Tara
was just hanging her surplice in the cupboard.
“Hi Tara” Holly
said
“Hello” she replied
nervously as she slipped off
her shoes and replaced them with her Vans.
Then Holly
began to panic as she
couldn’t think of anything else to say, because as she watched Tara change her footwear her mind went completely blank, until she remembered her birthday.
“Are you staying after, they’ve got me birthday cake”
“I was” Tara replied
“Why aren’t you now?”
“Because I can’t” she replied,
and Holly
sat down heavily on the bench and her
heart sank and Tara
smiled when she saw her
reaction then she said
“We’re
going to my grandparents and have to leave straight away”
“That’s
a shame” Holly
said as Tara was putting her
coat on, then she had an idea.
“We could
always go out for cake, on another day, together” she suggested
“Yes,
yes, I’d like that” she said, and Holly responded by jumping up on the bench, so they
were nearly eye to eye and said
“You know that
you don’t just have cake on your birthday”
“What else do
you have?” Tara asked
“Kisses” Holly
replied and leant forward and kissed her, but not just a birthday kiss, it was a proper kiss, her first proper kiss, and it
was everything she’d
hoped it would be and more.
“Wow that’s better than cake” Tara said
“Definitely” she agreed and then added
“But
I still think we need to go for cake as well”
“Absolutely” Holly said and giggled
“The
only thing is” Tara
mused “We haven’t really done a birthday kiss, because you kissed me, I need to
kiss you”
“That’s
a good point” she
agreed, and Tara kissed her
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