"You did what? With who? Where?" Jessica jokingly asked over the phone. Ann had just told her a PG -13 version of what happened with Brad just an hour ago.
"I'm not repeating myself! So you need to remember what I just said five seconds ago dumb ass!" There was a long pause before Jessica laughed loudly.
"It's not that funny!!!!,"Ann said over Jessica's laughter.
"I didn't know your major was running."
"Whatever! You are such a bad friend for laughing at me in my time of need," Ann whined in a fake sad voice, adding some fake sobs to bring the point home.
"Shut up! You know if that had happened to me you would have laughed your ass off!"
Jessica proceeded to laugh some more before asking, " So what's the problem?"
"It's going too damn fast! When we were in the lobby and um, I was flat on my back. Oh my god, we were getting into it with our clothes on and he asked me... he asked me..."
"Spit it out! What did he ask you?!" Jessica asked eagerly.
"Did I want to fuck him. Right there on the couch in the lounge." Ann's voice was barely a whisper.
"Wow!"
"And I said yes."
"Damn! Slut!"
"So I am scared of what's going to happen on this date tomorrow. All this doing sexual things in public stuff is not going to fly. Imagine my mother having to drive seven hours to bail me out of jail for indecent exposure."
"I'll jump in the car with her and miss work and school just to see that," Jessica replied excitedly.
"Shut up. I don't think our agreement is going to last very long."
"What agreement?"
"I told him all he wanted was sex so he said that he would not touch me unless I asked him to."
"And?! It shouldn't be a problem as long as you don't ask, right?" Jessica reasoned.
"I don't know," Ann replied, clearly worried. "I think he may have something up his sleeve. He agreed too quickly. I can't let him fuck me, but I just can't that not how it suppose to happen."
"What? How is it supposed to happen?"
"You have to be with someone at least six month before having sex," Ann replied primly.
"Who said that?" Jessica responded incredulously.
"I did. It's one of my rules," Ann said stiffly.
"Not your fucking rules again! You have four stupid rules and that was not one of them."
"Whatever! They are not stupid. They keep me from getting hurt by men like so many women and I just added the last one."
"Oh god." The exasperation in Jessica's voice was clear.
"I am going to tell you the rules again:
1 Always be in control, never let a man control you
2 Never depend on any man
3 Never take any shit from a man
4 Have your own shit so that you never need a man to give you shit
5 Don't have sex for a least six months "
"You need help when you find the right person, rules are not going to matter because you love each other"
"Well, I am not in love so until then I am going follow my rules."
"Okay, so what are you going to do about Brad"