India quietly kept reasoning with herself the car ride home. There was no invitation for intimacy immediately, but she knew it would have to follow. But since there'd be no intimacy until they touched one another. 'Why is it so difficult for me to do this and feel good about it? It wasn't this way with Stony, well, maybe a little, but it was still very different. Of course, he was my first; naturally, I would be nervous. But this feels like I'm being disloyal or unfaithful.' Jason glanced in her direction. The slight crease in his forehead revealed that he was sensing her nervousness and was right to feel it. At that moment, her palms were clammy, and her heart was pounding so hard it drowned out the music playing on the radio, and all she could hear was her heartbeat. It wasn't a matter

