The Morning After
Having brought their sexual appetites into line with reality, Tom and Alice had decided that one cataclysmic sex act was quite fulfilling enough for the both of them and simply fallen into twin comas until Sunday morning. At 5:30 AM Tom awoke. On a weekday, 5:30 AM just gave Tom time to get himself over to the service station and open up. His brain had never quite grasped the fact that Sunday was an exception. He sat in Alice's desk chair for a while, just looking at her as she slept peacefully. Perhaps he dozed off. Perhaps he just sat there for two hours gazing at Alice with a full heart.
About 7:30 Alice began to stir. She felt around in the bed for him. Then she sat up and saw him in her desk chair, looking at her.
"You were watching me sleep?" she asked.
"Yes, watching you sleep and loving you."
"If it were anyone else that would creep me out but it makes me happy to see you doing it. I have to pee. Be right back"
Alice stood up - she was still nude and the trim beauty of her body thrilled Tom - and she put on her bathrobe. She went out into the hall, closing the door behind herself. In a couple of minutes she returned and sat down on the bed. Tom got up from the chair, went to the bed and sat down next to her.
"I am still getting used to the idea that this is all real. It is so wonderful just to be in the same room with you."
"It's all like a dream to me too", said Alice. "You know, I was thinking..."
"Really" said Tom "When? We passed out together last night."
"Oh, I appear to think in my sleep."
"You too?" Tom exclaimed. "I get up in the morning with entire projects organized and ready to get started."
"I guess that's another way we are alike" said Alice. "Anyway, what's in my brain this morning is that we managed to sell Angela's story without the gory details, but it won't wash."