He checked his phone once again, cupping his hand round the glowing screen to get a better view. A tiny map was showing. He took two shaking fingers and zoomed in on the image. It took a few seconds for the Internet to catch up, but eventually the map stopped being blurred and icons popped into place.
Yes, yes, this was the right building on the right campus at the right... (he checked his watch). At the right time. Cardiff, on campus, at University, outside the block of flats. He looked casually over his shoulder at where the security cabin was. One lady was sat, watching something on a black and white television (did they even exist anymore?!) and paying almost no attention to her surroundings whatsoever.
He adjusted his glasses and smiled. Now he was here, sneaking into the flat shouldn't be too difficult.
He walked along the slightly damp grass, keeping an eye on the security guard, but the lady had stirred only once, and that was to lift a cup of tea to her mouth and slurp from it noisily. He walked to the door to the flats and made a show of rattling it, pretending to try and get in. He slipped his phone into his pocket and pretended to look for his swipe card.
"Shit!" he cursed (convincingly, he hoped). "Shit, I must have..."
The guard didn't even look up. She hit a button beside her and the door clicked, then returned to her television as she absently waved him inside with a digestive biscuit.
"Oh." He paused. "Thanks." He slipped into the flat and heard the door and its locks click shut behind him. Well, that was easier than expected.
He checked his phone and got up an e-mail: Floor 4, Room G. He started to make his way upstairs, smiling as he let a cluster of foreign students pass and mentally counting the steps as he climbed. (Seven up, then a flat walkway across, then seven up, then a flat walkway... and so on.)
Eventually, Floor 4 was there. He felt his hands shake a little, but he tried to throw these feelings away. He wanted to feel prepared. He shot out a handful of quick breaths and opened the door. It was meant to be locked, too, but she had already told him it was faulty after a house party and a fire extinguisher and a bet and... and things had been hazy after that.
He walked down the corridor, smelling pasta and lager as he wandered past the kitchen, and nearly tripping over a pile of crumpled sheets left outside one of the bedrooms (Room D. He noticed someone had graffitied it so it now read 'Room Dickhead'.) And then he was there: Room G. He held up his hand, bunched into a fist, to knock, then stopped. He was shaking. He squeezed his palms shut, feeling little C's of nails imprint upon his palms. He went to knock again, still nervous, hovering his fist in front of the door, then, with one final exhale of breath, knocked four times.
"Come in."
Her voice! How could he have forgotten her voice?
They had met in an entirely different country and drunkenly, fumblingly, kissed, but no more. He had regretted it, misreading her signals that she wasn't into it, and made some poor excuse and walked away, but they had stayed in touch and talked online, but only ever with words.
Ah, but
what
words. Words that were hesitant at first, then more bold. Words regretting not kissing, and then not taking it further, and then what would have happened if they
had
.... And then an invite to her halls of residence in Cardiff, a few remarks about parties and broken doors and how easy it would be to sneak in, a date and time and here he now was and there she now was. Come in. Two words. A promise. Come in. Come in.
Come in? Of course.
He pushed back the door, and caught a brief glimpse of her sat on the edge of her bed, slightly drumming a hand on her leg and looking a bit nervous: not as much as him, but still. It was oddly comforting. She looked up, switching the nerves off, and smiled up at him, her green eyes staring straight into his and her smile stretching across her face, the shine of gloss catching in the light on the bedroom ceiling.
"Hi," she smiled.
"Hey you." He walked over, then stopped, noticing her bare feet, red nails looking newly applied. He took off his own, tatty Converse and shuffled them to one side along with his bag and coat. He walked over to her bed and sat next to her, his hoody feeling heavy as well as his jeans, the room feeling warm.
"Hi," he smiled.
"Hello," she smiled back.
There was a long silence, the two of them just staring at one another, then he slowly, cautiously, slid his hand onto hers. It felt a bit awkward, a bit clutzy, but she turned her hand around and squeezed his tight, rubbing her thumb across his palm. They both looked at their hands for a bit, her fingernails red like her toes, both waiting for the other to look up.
She did first, but he was quick after. He leaned in, no more words, and kissed her, softly, on the lips. A slightly wet kiss, her top lip grazing his, bottom lips clumsy and sliding. It was lingering, but the second was briefer, drier, just lips together now, and then a third, like the first but quick, and then again, but this time he pressed his tongue onto her lips and, pulling away first before returning quickly, greedily, she returned, her tongue flitting over the tip of his to begin with, pausing their lips to flick, frantic, heavy, and then she pulled him into her, wider mouth now, tongue heavier, massaging his, rhythmically lapping onto his as their mouths circled, lips firm together, her hands tracing up and down his leg as his hands grasped the top she was wearing, fingers clumsily tracing skin around her stomach, both of them with eyes closed.
She pulled away first, but he pushed back, a soft kiss, teeth grabbing a hold of her bottom lip and tugging it towards him before kissing her again, lips closed, firm but holding, holding, holding. Five seconds, ten, more. She let out a moan, a sigh, and he felt his breath grow hotter. She pushed him back and, without saying a word, pulled up his hoody and t-shirt and kissed his belly.
He took the hint and took his tops off, slowly, though not intentionally so: just that awkward clumsiness that comes when trying to do something quickly. He threw them to one side, atop his bag, and fiddled with his watch, removing that as well and throwing it away, not reacting when it clunked heavily against the metal leg of her bed. His glasses were on the duvet and he went to throw them, too, but she stopped him. He put them on and kissed her again, his hands now inching up her top and kneading her skin.
"Yes..." she muttered and, with much more ease than he had, took off her top and put it down on the floor, grabbing him now and kissing him harder and faster, tongue exploring his mouth, teasing the tip of his tongue before tracing his lips and kissing him again. He felt her dark blue bra and breasts push into him and slid his hand up her back, her kisses growing more gentle now as he slowly pulled his fingers down, lines downwards as his hands went from just above her bra strap to just over the tip of her jeans and then back up, pushing under her bra and then down again.
"Is this okay?" he muttered. She looked amused and a bit confused, as if to say 'well, obviously' and kissed him again to shut him up, his glasses jolting as her face pushed harder onto his. He took them off now and she didn't protest.
He bit her top lip again, lip gloss now sticking to his skin but he didn't care; he sort of liked that feeling of her moving onto him like that. He kissed, pecks, away from her lips, across a cheek and down to her neck, slowly moving across, big kisses, his tongue licking up the skin as he kissed each part, sucking a little hard as he reached the other side and then moving up, kissing just beneath her left ear and breathing hot air onto it, kissing her ear lobe and then moving across again, finding her mouth which eagerly tasted her lip gloss and his spit.
She casually unhooked her bra, eyes closed, until the straps felt looser and the material less taut. She wrapped her arms around him, their closeness pressing her bra up and keeping it from falling down yet. She kissed softly, gently. Enjoying it before things grew hotter, both of them holding the moment before they did what they desired, had dreamed about and talked about and masturbated to for a long time now.