4. The Window

"I'm cool? Yeah right. Anyway, you've seen me naked so we're pretty close already." Silence loomed after as she drove off to the quiz fair. I wanted to ask her all sorts of questions and it flooded through my mind.

"So," Lauren says, finally breaking the ice, "how come you're a virgin?"

A pretty solid icebreaker. I scoffed before replying, "There isn't really a reason. I mean, I don't have a girlfriend, so sex is out of the question."

"You don't need a girlfriend for sex, you know." She says all so coolly. I had to bite my tongue to not defy her opinion.

"What about you? What's keeping you on the leash, except for last night?"

I see her shrug. I can't believe I'm talking to Lauren Daniels about sex! "I'm keeping myself on the leash. Achieving what I have is pretty hard work."

"Well, you must have time for a break, right? Like right now?" As I speak, she gives me a look. "Not for sex, geez, I mean a break. A time to breathe, etcetera."

"Not really. I'm in a pretty tight schedule. I just finished all my homework, which takes about three to four hours. After that, I read one chapter ahead of the syllabus for my every subject, which takes four to five hours.

Then, I practice Spanish, oboe and clarinet." I had a surprised expression on my face. She glances at me and chuckles at my reaction. "And that's only on the weekend."

"Jesus christ. And you have time to prance around for quiz bees where you only get what you already have? Shouldn't you be resting or something? Shouldn't you be in a hospital?"

She gave me another glance and a hard laugh as if I had just made a joke. I was dead on serious, it was concerning. "Hey, a girl has to play. Besides, I have to maintain a social life - if I don't I'm just a weird shacked up genius."

I nodded my head back and forth, she had a point. "But still. Seeing what you do, I mean you're Lauren Daniels, you're pretty fucking special already if you ask me."

Lauren cleared her throat. "If I stay where I am I don't know what else I can and could be." She's mental. But she's pretty hard core.

"Okay, well, it's just that I haven't met anyone who's as hard working and overachieving as you."

The brunette looks at me, a smile so sweet on her face. "Thank you."

I had to scoff. My mind is still blown away. "How the heck do you take care of yourself? I mean, you're so beautiful... And your body. I mean, I don't remember seeing it or anything, but I can easily imagine." I pointed my hand on to her torso.

She then laughed, seemingly amused by my fascination over her. Then, she proceeded to explain her workout routine which only takes thirty minutes off her plate. Her diet was fucking brutal... I have no idea why she'd choose to eat the things she enumerated for me.

To say the least, since I'm taking so much of your time already, I'll just cut to the chase. We arrived just in time for the quiz bee. To be honest, it was such a piece of cake. The questions were easily answered by cult classics, etc.

It was easy. The trick was to be faster than the opponent. There was a buzzer for every pair and Lauren was the hand. By the time the clock strikes one A.M. The MC announces us as the winner for the week.

Of course, no one was surprised about the win. It was Lauren Daniels for crying out loud. The freebies include, one-hundred dollar gift card to Bed Bath and Beyond, a Game of Thrones themed tumbler (Jon Snow was on mine, the other tumbler had Sansa).

"You were good, great, I mean! It was so intense how you managed to back me up over that Donnie Darko one!" Lauren says, laughing as we stumbled to her cruiser.

"Me? You were on fire! Your hand was lightning fast, the Fitzgeralds were pissed at you for dominating over them." Both of us paused as we gazed each other's eyes. "This was hella fun."

Lauren nodded. I was a few inches taller than her and she certainly looked adorable from my perspective. She started messing her hair up just like the previous night. "I had fun too. Seriously, I haven't enjoyed my free time like this for a long time."

I nodded too, smiling as I was happy to be the person to be with this girl tonight. "I'm happy to be your partner." I say, giving a failed-sexy wink.

Lauren's hand were back on her hair again, messing it up a little for the second time. Without word, she gestured to the car and we both got in. Compared to the loud mingling as we made our way to tenth, she was quiet now as she drove me back home.

Feeling the intimidating presence of Lauren, I had shut myself up. I didn't want to ruin her aura of relaxation, or whatever. When we finally reached my house, she got out of the car with me to walk me over below my bedroom window.

"Hey, thanks for bringing me along tonight." I say with a big grin. "I seriously had fun."

Lauren nodded and directed her gaze downward, "Me too." After she mouths this, she finally looks at me, her smile genuine that I finally felt the proper honor of being with her.

"Well, I better climb on up. You take care of yourself, Lauren Daniels." I waved a hand and neared the pedestal I needed to climb on.

"Hey, wait." Lauren says all of the sudden. It seems like she had be holding back something. Right now, she looked like she fought to say what she was about to say next. "Can I come up for a while?"

From her words, I nearly peed myself. "Sure."

Before I readied myself to climb, I catch Lauren ruffle her hair again. When we reached my room, I felt the warmth of it and instantly collapsed on my bed. I put my head up again and I see Lauren fix the books on my desk, she was filing it according to height, then set it on a neat corner.

When she catches me watching her, she chuckles and says, "It was seriously bothering me."

I sat back up, "What, are you O.C.D or something?" She chuckles at my choice of words as she sit beside me on my bed.

"Nothing like that. I'm just very neat, I guess." Lauren smiles at me and there it was again - the silence that nearly overwhelmed us every time we conversed. And, when I thought she had nothing else to do, Lauren then slowly and unsurely leans in to kiss me.

I was surprised by the gesture, nevertheless I wanted to meet her halfway. Our lips collided and the sensation was breathtaking. The silence of the night was all around us, making it easily to only focus on each other.

After a few seconds, I then put my hand on the side of her face which makes Lauren spazz out. She quickly retaliates, stands up, leaving my pursed lips and my eyebrows eventually meeting.

"Ohh." Lauren wailed silently as if she was in agony, I had to think I had done something wrong for her to suddenly take off like that.

"I'm sorry, was I doing it wrong?" I fought myself to cover my face in shame, but I wanted to see Lauren's face.

"No, no," she says, slightly pacing around, "it's just that - I have no time for relationships. I only have time for an hour or so for sex. I don't want to kiss you if it could mean more to you."

She faced me now and I wanted to slightly protest. Lauren was a dream come true. For her to be my girlfriend would be a check on my wish list... but I guess I can live for another one night stand with her, right? I mean, it can be the closest anyone has been with her.

"Sure..." I say unsurely.

With my reply, Lauren elaborated further. "I work hard. I even went to the extremes of not having sex for a year just to pull my grades higher - and it worked! So, you have to understand, I have no time for other things. You have to understand, also, that I've been keeping myself leashed for a damn year. I - I don't want to hurt you, in anyway, you seem to be a pretty decent girl."

I nodded, "Okay, sure... I can do that." Lauren didn't seem to be convinced so I took her hand and she instantly stopped pacing. "Hey, I can do that. It's alright with me. I admire you, to be honest. And to be honest, I don't think I'm worth your time since I have no idea what I'm doing, right?"

Lauren lightened up with a laugh. It made me smile that she finally loosened. "It's okay. I'll tell you where to go and what to do." Her hands stroked my shoulders, "Think of this as sex education, hands on mode."

I stopped myself from stuttering and managed to say, "Okay." We started kissing again, a few seconds later she led me onwards to the farther side of the bed. We slowly took our clothes off and I had to peek at her body before I could forget again, "Woah..." I whispered to myself.

Thankfully, Lauren didn't find it creepy for me to be all over her physique. "I know." She says with a flirty smile, then kissing me again.

When we grew deeper into it... I had to stop myself for a second, "W-wait. My mom might hear."

Lauren chuckled, "Why don't you put some music on."

I had to shake my head, "I think that would make her hear better."

"At least she'll hear that over the sound of your moan." Lauren says daringly. When I didn't seem convinced, she pushed the stakes higher. "Tell you what, put in a song that makes you feel hot. Aaand - I'll make you come before it ends." That fast? I thought. She must be hella good.

I had to put on Hayley Kiyoko's Cliff's Edge, no time to explain. Sure enough, like Lauren said earlier, I was loud. She had to cover my mouth with her hand.