I wasn't much of a drinker. Usually when I stayed up until 4am, I was watching pirated horror movies, reading history books or drawing sigils with goat blood. On the rare occasion I had a late night out drinking, I'd awaken reluctantly, with a pounding headache and a sincere desire to go back to sleep.
I woke up this morning and gave the ceiling a lazy smile.
The bed beside me was empty, but the whole room stank of sweat and sex. It was a heavy, earthy scent in my nostrils; I couldn't have marked my territory more clearly if I'd peed on the girl.
The pentacle amulet warmed against my bare chest. {That's more of a third-date thing, stud.}
It had actually been hours since I'd thought about my succubus. Hell, was this the first morning this week I'd woken up without her touch? "Rosie," I said quietly. "You know, I actually forgot you'd be spying on me."
{Spying? No, I was
perving
, it's totally different. So, why do you think you forgot about me?}
I folded my arms behind my head and gave a self-satisfied grin. "I, uh, I was kind of busy. In case you didn't notice."
{Exactly! And I didn't speak up to correct you once!}
"And that means..."
A telepathic sigh bounced around my skull. {I'm complimenting you, dummy. You did well, and you did it (mostly) on your own. How are you feeling?}
My naked chest was directly in the path of the morning sunlight. Was my gut a little tighter? Sex didn't burn
that
many carbs, surely... "Actually... good." I searched for a more specific word. "Strong."
{Like a man?}
I flipped open my phone, seeing a text from a new contact.
[[}Sorry Eric, got to work. Help urself to food etc. I've never done anything like that b4! Amazing tho. Call me or I'll call u! :*]]
I smiled. "Yeah, I think so. And at least I know she's not outside the door listening to me talking to myself."
{Reads as if she
likes
you! Eric and Ana, sitting in a tree, F-U-C-K-I-N-G,} Rosie teased. {Or lying in a bed, whatever. Are you gonna get out of said bed any time soon?}
"You're in a hurry."
{Mortals waste a lot of their limited time; it's ironic, or something. Get some food into you and get home, I want to give you a kiss!}
"Just a kiss?"
{I didn't say where I'd be - }
"Alright, alright," I said, swinging myself out of bed. Ana had picked up my clothes from where they'd been strewn last night and laid them out for me neatly, but I smelled worse than her bed. "Shower, food, home. I need to talk to you about Caitlin, too."
{Just a talk?}
"I didn't say where I'd - no, doesn't work that way."
{Can't wait to see you!}
"No, you hang up first," I muttered.
{Kiss kiss,} she sent, and then the amulet was inert once more.
Ana must come from a wealthy family; she had a big dorm with individual bedrooms, a common kitchen/lounge area, and its own private (if Spartan) bathroom. Showering in someone else's bathroom (overflowing with strangers' shampoos and feminine products, no less) felt a little uncomfortable, but the alternative was doing the walk of shame to the train station while stinking of perfume, sweat and cum, so a shower it was. The dorm was silent but for the hissing of hot water, and I felt even better after cleaning myself. My clothes were still crumpled, but I was hardly going to find anything my size in Ana's wardrobe, so I slid my briefs on and started wrestling with my jeans as I made my way out to the common room.
That was the moment Ana's roommate chose to unlock the dorm's front door and step inside.
She shrieked in surprise. My jeans were still only halfway up my legs, giving her a clear view of my dick's sizeable outline within my briefs. I tried to hop back into the bathroom and finish pulling my jeans up at the same time. A good compromise leaves everyone unhappy, so my multitasking sent me crashing to the lounge room carpet with a crash. "Ow," I said philosophically.
"Everything okay, Tess?" someone asked from outside. A blonde girl popped her head around the side of the door, saw me lying half-dressed in front of the couch, and grinned. "Oh, so this is Ana's gentleman caller. You assholes woke me up, you know."
"Charmed," I managed.
"I'm all good, Jeanne," the roommate said, coming inside and dropping her purse on the counter. She was wearing sinfully tight black jeans and a leather jacket over a tank top. "I know this asshole."
"Scare him off for me, will you?" Jeanne said, retreating back down the hallway. "I couldn't get back to sleep for ages."
I staggered upright, got denim over my package, and looked at the purple-haired girl from the bookstore. She looked back at me, an expectant eyebrow raised.
"Well," I said after the silence got too awkward even for me. "I guess you really did steal that 'Amanda' nametag."
Her lip twitched and she forced it back down into a frown. "It pains me that I remember your name."
Some part of me wanted to shrink into the floor, but riding high from last night it was hard to get too embarrassed. And I wasn't even sure if my dick
could