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Brinley’s smile grew as she sent her reply. It’s okay. I owe you sex. I’m sorry the wine made THAT impossible :-p
Sex and study party?
Brinley laughed at the text from Annalise. Who was this woman? She was so different from the one who was tragically messing up a sex date just a few months ago.
“What’s so funny?” Maddie asked from behind her, maneuvering her head to clearly try to read Brinley’s phone.
Shit. Brinley was so distracted by her texts to Annalise, she hadn’t even noticed Maddie was standing there. She put her hand on her chest to emphasize that she was surprised. “Dude, you can’t just sneak up on me like that.”
“I wasn’t sneaking. You just weren’t paying attention.” Maddie took a step back and studied Brinley. “What’s with the backpack? Are you doing the walk of shame into work?” A sly grin spread onto Maddie’s face. “You stayed somewhere last night, didn’t you? Who is she? Do I know her? Is it one of our regulars? Shit, it’s so unlike you to go to them. I thought you always let your one-night stands come to you.”
“It wasn’t a one-night stand. I didn’t even have sex.”
“Then what did you do?”
Was it really that hard to believe that Brinley didn’t hook up with someone last night? Okay, yeah, probably. In Maddie’s defense, it was a fair assumption. “I stayed at a friend’s house. We had wine and I was too tired to drive back.”
“A friend?” Maddie scrunched up her nose. “Like a friend friend? Someone you haven’t had sex with?”
“Not… exactly.” Brinley looked toward the dirty bar floor, because this interrogation was getting hard to handle.
“Then what—?” When Maddie suddenly cut herself off, Brinley moved her eyes to focus on her once again and found her with her mouth hanging wide open. “You were with your not-so-straight straight girl, weren’t you?”
Since Brinley obviously hadn’t mentioned anything to Maddie about her private conversation with Annalise about her sexuality, she had made that assumption all on her own. She refused to say anything to confirm these assumptions might be true. “I was with Annalise.”
“Okay. Let me make sure I have this right. Last night, you were with the woman you are teaching how to have sex with other women, but you didn’t have sex with her. Now you’re staring at your phone like a lovestruck idiot while I assume you’re texting her.”
“I wouldn’t say I look like an idiot right now, but yes, I did stay at Annalise’s apartment and yes, I am texting her.” Brinley refused to even acknowledge the lovestruck part because it was so ridiculous.
“You really got it bad.” Maddie laughed way too hard, even throwing her head back, which had to be for extra effect, because the situation wasn’t that funny. “You’ve got it so bad.”
“Do not.”
Brinley threw her backpack underneath the bar then waited for Maddie to walk away so she could take her phone out of her pocket and respond to Annalise. Much to her surprise, she had another text from Annalise waiting for her.
I promised my parents I’d spend time with them on Sunday, but maybe the following Sunday…?
That would be the one Sunday Brinley actually had to work. Damnit . Gin and Jesus. Sorry. I do have off next Friday and work an early/short shift on Saturday because of that event.
She was tempted to tell Annalise she didn’t go in until later this upcoming Saturday and could do their sex and study party in the afternoon, but she didn’t want to suggest something so soon, especially since Annalise had asked her about a day over a week away.
Shit. I have plans both of those nights.
An ache settled in Brinley’s stomach when she read the text from Annalise. She had completely forgotten about the plans Annalise had next Friday, even though she told her about them a long time ago. She didn’t know anything about the day after though. Maybe she had plans with Nathalie or another friend.
Quite the overachiever ;) Brinley typed, secretly hoping Annalise would tell her she didn’t have plans to have sex on Saturday too. It wasn’t that she was jealous. She just worried about Annalise jumping into things too fast, especially when she had so many questions about herself.
Brinley laughed at herself. Why was she being so ridiculous? Annalise was a grown-ass adult who deserved to have a lot of sexy fun while she figured things out.
I’ve had the Friday plans for a while, but just made the Saturday plans once I changed my profile. Need to pass my lesson 7 test so we can move on (even if the sex toy lesson terrifies me TBH).
You changed your profile? The ache in Brinley’s stomach became worse. But why? It shouldn’t bother her that Annalise was going to touch another woman. Correction… it didn’t bother her. Of course it didn’t.
Yeah! I didn’t tell you? I’m so sorry! I should have.
No worries!! I’m excited for you!!
So excited.
