Chapter 21

“Okay.”

“Are you hungry now?” Casey asked after a moment.

“A little. But, uh, we could stay in bed longer and do other things.”

“We’ll definitely do other things,” he promised. “But I think first we should have something to eat. Need to keep up our energy level after all.”

I felt so good, probably better than, well, ever, I would have agreed to almost anything, really. Besides, I was actually more than a little hungry suddenly. And the sooner we ate the sooner we could get back to doing those other things. 7

Almost two weeks after our first time, my mother called. She’d actually called a few times before that, but I had conveniently avoided talking to her. Returning her calls when I knew she’d be away from the house.

Casey and I had seen each other almost every day since the weekend I’d spent at his house losing my virginity, and we planned on spending the upcoming weekend together as well. And then that next Monday I would be starting my job at the new medical office.