I was about to find out I hadn’t.
We got some dinner, went back to my place, and crawled into bed together as per our standard operating procedure. I don’t know what made that night different from any other when we’d taken the same actions. Either I had become very bold or she had become less guarded, or maybe a combination of the two. Or the stars lined up with Venus or some other astrological phenomenon or miracle shift in the universe.
Whatever it was, after a good hour and a half of intimate conversation and gentle caressing, I had the nerve to actually kiss her.
She kissed me back.
A lengthy, heated, marathon followed. No speaking, only kissing. After a while and a bit of repositioning, I sensed just the slightest bit of tension and hesitation. Any human being in my position, part
