Chapter 26
I don’t knowwhat to do with myself when I get back to my apartment. I’ve never had so little stress over trying to orgasm, and Santo made me feel sexy and didn’t ask for anything in return. All things that should probably make me feel sad about my previous sex life, but the post-orgasmic hormones feel too good. What does one do after they have the best sex of their life?
Apparently, I have no choice, because once I pour myself a glass of wine I sit on my couch and replay the whole thing over and over again. I could pick up a book or take a shower or even pull the damp underwear out of my dress pocket, but no, instead I’m just going to smile into my wine glass.
Well, eventually, I pull out my phone and find a bunch of messages from my friends.
Jade
Tonight’s the night!
Tessa
I think you are more excited about this than Emma is.
Jade
She deserves it!
Tessa
Of course she does. I’m just saying, someone needs to get some.
Jade
Shut it. You couldn’t stay single if you tried. I know Luc is obsessed with that ass, but some of us don’t have a reliable fix.
Sara
A fix??
Jade
There’s nothing wrong with having a healthy sex drive.
Maybe the pussy eating skills were so good she passed out.
Tessa
A guy this confident is probably very good in bed.
Jade
As I always say…
Sara
Sex is 99% enthusiasm!
Tessa
It’s 99% about enthusiasm.
Sara
Jinx.
I roll my eyes at my friends. They aren’t wrong, but still.
Emma
I’m here.
Jade
I need details.
Emma
It was good.
It was really good.
Jade
Yes!! Go Santo.
Tessa
How do you feel?
Emma
Surprisingly horny for someone who just had a good time.
Jade
Did y’all do anything else?
Emma
No. But, he was definitely turned on. I offered.
It was staring me in the face, literally.
But he said no.
And it didn’t feel like a brush off.
It was kinda sweet.
Jade
Cunnilingus doesn’t have to be foreplay. It can be the main event.
Emma
I know. And I don’t think if I’d returned the favor I would be as floaty as I am right now.
Jade
Damn.
Tessa
Sigh. I don’t see Luc until this weekend…
Emma
Thank you for encouraging me. I think it was really good to be with him. I don’t know if my expectations were so low, or Santo had such a casual and healthy attitude about it, but it was easy.
Tessa
I hope you still feel that way tomorrow when you’re in his class again.
Emma
He thinks it’ll be fine.
I type this with more confidence than I feel. But Santo was pretty sure, right? He does this kind of thing more often. Well, maybe not giving his student-slash-neighbor the best orgasm of her life, but he has experience picking women up in bars and taking them home.
Our chat moves on to other things. We’d been messaging while I was in the airport earlier today, catching up on everyone’s holidays. Tessa had spent it in Paris with Luc and Anouk. Sara and Chris had flown to Munich to have the holidays there with Zoe before packing her up and helping her move back to Austin now that her semester abroad is over. Jade flew out to Amsterdam for New Year’s Eve.
Jade
Did we lose Sara?
Emma
Maybe?
I think they are back in London now? Didn’t they get an invitation to a New Year’s party with some famous person?
Jade
‘Some famous person’. Babe, you live in Europe now, you can’t call Hugh Fetcher that. He had his own BBC show! He was on Doctor Who!
Emma
Sorry I failed my crash course on British pop culture.
I’ve been listening to Verduistering.
Jade
I’m sure Chris appreciates being the entirety of your Eurovision knowledge.
Excuse me, I’m sure Chris enjoys his FORMER band being the entirely of your knowledge.
Sara
Chris says if you have to know one thing, Verduistering is still the best option, even if he’s not in it.
Jade
Finally! Where did you go? It’s okay if you had to sneak off and ride Chris’s face.
Sara
I didn’t ride his face, but otherwise you aren’t far off, as little as I like to encourage your general assumptions.
Jade
Nailed it.
Sara
But now I have a private client.
Love y’all!
We all filter out of the chat, and I lean back on the couch, reflective.
Two years ago, I was in a sexless marriage, getting my third kid through school, and meeting my friends for drinks or yoga when I could. I never would have imagined any part of this life I have now.
I’m getting an MBA in Europe, and I had a mind-blowing orgasm from an extremely hot man, and then I told my friends about it.
This is me living my best life.
And it allcomes crashing down the next morning. This is why I shouldn’t have hooked up with my professor because, when his class is the first of the day, several things happen.
My face goes completely red when I see him.
My legs clench together while I have very vivid flashbacks in class, which leaves my panties a mess and me unable to focus on anything else.
He treats me exactly like every other student, but I obsess about how he might not be looking at me as much or purposefully not looking at me at all.
I feel paranoid and needy all at the same time.
I remember his erection tenting his pants, and even though I told my friends I was glad it ended when it did, I realize I actually, desperately want to go down on him.