Pamela wasn't sure what woke her. She just slowly came to the realisation that she was awake and it was the middle of the night. Groggily she turned her head to glance at the clock softly glowing next to the bed. One a.m. Gods. She rolled over, seeking the safety of sleep.
Snuggled under her doona she could feel the faint breeze through the window gently ruffling her hair. She snuggled deeper under the doona, not wanting to close the window again.
Again? She sat up with a gasp. She'd already closed the window. Why was it open?
"Hullo, love," a laughing voice said. "Happy birthday."
"Danny?" Pamela was, not surprisingly, somewhat startled. "What are you doing here at this ungodly hour? For that matter, what are you doing in my bedroom at any hour?"
"It's your birthday. You turned eighteen today. I wanted to be the first to say happy birthday and to give you a birthday present."
Pamela smiled. How sweet. She said so.
"That's really sweet of you, Danny. But seriously, you should have waited until the morning. My father would kill you if he found you in here like this."
"Then we'll just have to make sure he doesn't," Danny told her. "And this present is one I thought best to give you privately."
Pamela could see him settling down to sit on the bed next to her. Her eyesight was slowly adjusting to the slight light thrown out by the little clock-radio, and Danny was slowly coming into focus.
Pamela suddenly blinked and looked harder. She gave a little squeak and dived back under the doona.
"Danny, what are you wearing?" she asked, her voice a little squeaky as trepidation surged through her.
"Nothing, sweetheart," came the happy reply. "I'm dressed as nature intended."
"Why?" came the gulped query.
"You're eighteen, now. You're finally legal and I decided I couldn't wait a moment longer to show you how much I love you."
"I've been eighteen for one hour. You've only been my boyfriend for a few weeks. Do you seriously expect me to let you into my bed?" Pamela's voice was carrying a tinge of wrath. Of all the presumptuous idiots, Danny won hands down.
The answer was short and to the point.
"Yes."
"Not going to happen. Close the window on the way out."
In reply, Pamela felt Danny grabbing the doona, trying to pull it away from her. She clutched it tightly.
"Stop it, Danny. This isn't funny. If you keep this up I'll scream and my father will come. Then you'll be in real strife."
Danny laughed, still tugging on the doona, trying to prise it out of Pamela's clutching hands.
"You've said your father could sleep through the end of the world. He probably wouldn't wake up even if you do scream. If he does happen to wake up, I'll just explain that you invited me in and have suddenly changed your mind."
"You rotten swine. Let go my doona and just go away. I said I'm not sleeping with you. I've never said that I wanted to sleep with you, and I don't think I ever will. Just go."
"Now Pamela, you were telling me just yesterday how much you love me. I'm just letting you show me how much in a physical manner."
The argument and the silent struggle for control of the doona went on for several moments. The harder Danny tried to pull the doona down, the harder Pamela held onto it, pulling it firmly around her. This proved to be an error.
Seeing the doona bunching around Pamela's chest, Danny looked towards the end of the bed. There he beheld two small feet extending beyond the bottom of the doona. With a small laugh he relinquished his grip. Pamela's tugging promptly bunched even more of the doona under her arms, and Danny promptly reached to the foot of the doona and dragged it up, dumping it all across Pamela's chest.
A quick twist and Danny was positioned between Pamela's legs, pushing her nightie up and exposing her clear to the navel. Cursing her lack of panties for nightwear, Pamela decided enough was enough. With a choice of screaming or getting raped, she knew which one she was going for.