It was very late at night, and Jake was awake, lying on his back, listening to the Hopkinses having s*x on the other side of one of the flimsy partitions in their quarters. Debbie, a med tech colleague of Lauren’s, was making tiny gasping sounds, and finally whispering, “Oh, oh, oh…,” while Darren, a security guy, was just breathing loudly. All this accompanied by skin-on-skin sticky slapping sounds.
Lauren was shy about this aspect of communal life, and would have been embarrassed, perhaps annoyed, by the public sounds of her friends’ lovemaking. But Jake didn’t find it annoying at all; instead, he was semi-aroused. He turned to see if Lauren was awake, but she was breathing evenly, fast asleep.
When they weren’t both exhausted, they usually waited for heavy-set Jay McCarron to start sn
