Annie woke, naked, and a little confused. Who was this man lying next to her? Why was there light pouring in her window—-hadn’t she only fallen asleep for a quick nap?
Suddenly, it all came back to her, and she remembered the lustful events of the night before. Next to her, Chad slept easily. She smiled to herself and woke him up with a hard kiss on the mouth.
"Wha…?" Chad said, his eyes fluttering open, squinting against the morning light. "Annie?" He seemed as confused as she had been upon awaking.
"Yeah," Annie replied softly. "Morning."
Chad rubbed his face, then rolled over to look at her. "Oh, god," he said, a look of realization coming over his face. "Oh god, I finally caved, didn’t I?"
Annie was confused, but understood what Chad was getting at. "Yeah, I guess so," she finally replied. She sat up on the bed, a four-poster that she had gotten when she was five. She looked over at him, brushing a long blond strand of hair from her face. His eyes were troubled, his face downcast.
"I’m going to take a shower," she said after a moment of awkward silence. She stood and entered the adjoining bathroom, shutting the door behind her.
In the bathroom light, as she brushed out her hair in preparation for the shower, she thought over what might happen now. Chad had taken her virginity. She didn’t regret it, she knew that much, but she wondered what was running through Chad’s head right now. He looked like a man with heavy thoughts on his mind. She figured he probably had a few options—he could leave her mother and their lives, they could pretend as though nothing had ever happened, or the trysts could continue, in secret.
Annie bent over the bathtub to turn on the shower water. She secretly wished for the latter, but knew that, ultimately, the decision was up to him. She didn’t love him, that much was true in her heart, but the sex was cosmic. There were no legalities to any of it either, thankfully, as she was of legal age. As Annie stepped into the hot stream of water, she thanked the stars for that.
She had just finished rinsing the conditioner from her hair when she heard the bathroom door open and Chad entered the steamed-up room. The shower curtain was pulled aside and Annie noted that Chad had not yet redressed. He had also woken up happy, Annie also noticed. She smiled.
"Care for company?" Chad asked, a look in his eyes that Annie enjoyed. She craved the way he looked at her, as though she were a delicious dessert.
"Absolutely," she replied, and stepped under the stream of water to finish washing out the remnants of the conditioner.
