Adrienne zipped up her suitcase and grabbed her backpack, then headed downstairs to wait for Noah. He was a bit less organized than her and was crawling on his floor looking for one more pair of socks for their trip to the cabin.
They went every year except for the last two, when Noah was at college. Their parents were going to meet them up there in a day or two after tying up a few loose ends at the family business.
"Come on, Noah."
"What's the rush? It's not like the lake's going anywhere."
She rolled her eyes. No parents means no one to stop you from inviting boys over. That's what the rush is.
Adrienne had just turned 20, and for the last few years that town had been her 'good girl vacation.' No one to spread gossip about her if she was seen out with a new boy every few nights. Last year she slept with two guys in the week she was there, but had to do it at their houses. She figured she could at least find one boy to invite over in the two days she had to herself.
Thinking about what she'd do while waiting for her big brother to finish packing had her so distracted she didn't notice Noah coming down the stairs.
"Some heavy thinking I see." She jumped, then blushed.
"You were thinking about boys. Bahaha" he teased, which only made her turn more red.
"Shut up, no I wasn't. Are you driving?"
"The first few hours, sure. We should make it there by 7 if you don't drive is into a ditch thinking about boyyys."
This was going to be awful. He loved teasing her, and he was good at it.
"Ugh, just get in." She sat down in the passenger seat and put on her headphones.
They made it two hours without really saying much.
"So you got a boyfriend in Sautervile?"
"Um, no."
"At home?"
"No," she laughed, "I would've mentioned that. I'm just thinking about going to a club and dancing or whatever."
"Uh huh." He looked at her, but she couldn't figure out the expression on his face.
Noah had thinned out quite a bit at college. Maybe the diet of ichiban noodles and all nighters plus intramurals seemed to treat him well.
She realized she'd been staying at his arms for a little too long. She had thought about him a few times during the last summer he was home from school. At first it grossed her out but after a while she liked the thrill of thinking about something so wrong. After a few dreams, though, she decided it was better to direct her naughty side somewhere else.
"So what about Brian?"
"Byron? He and I went out like twice. I don't know, I didn't think he was that great. What about you?"
"I almost went out with a couple girls but between school work and practice I didn't have much time for... the ladies."
The thought that he hasn't been with a girl since he started school made Adrienne feel... excited. She'd gotten pretty creative with her fantasies about him before she made herself stop. One of them was about playing with a vibrator in front of him and not letting him do anything about it. She felt a small rush thinking about it in the car next to him.
Her mind immediately prompted her with information that she had packed her vibrator in the front of the main compartment of her backpack under her extra underwear.
Yes thank you brain, she thought, that's not information I need exactly now.
But the idea was planted firmly in her mind.
"So you haven't been with a girl for two years?"
"Been with? Is this like an after school special? No, I haven't slept with anyone in a while."
Mmh, it's not OK to get wet thinking about how pent up he is. She told herself, but the fact it wasn't OK was half the reason she felt such a rush.
"What?" he asked, thinking her pause was disbelief, "it's not like on TV. I see my friends trying to get laid every night. They might get lucky twice in a semester. It's not worth the hours."
"Maybe for you," she teased.
