‘I thought he was, you know, the one… Damn him and his stupid…’ and Carol followed with some choice swear words. Ben still held her in his arm... as her sobs were reduced to muffled spasms of breathing, and although he knew how wrong it was, he was already thinking about how this could be the perfect catalyst for getting the two of them together. But when Carol lifted her face from his sweater, all such thoughts evaporated from his mind because she looked so vulnerable and sweet. ‘Don’t worry. Jonah could wait. After all, it wasn’t a good look for a girl to reply straight away. I mean, I wasn’t banking on letting him wait for a week, like he’d done to me, but I figured waiting the rest of the day wouldn’t kill him.Was I planning on being free tonight? Hell, of course I was!After getting the text, I couldn’t really concentrate on anything Cassandra said for the rest of our lunch. I let her rabbit on about how much she felt love was always going to elude her while I considered what to. “I think we’re past the point of needing to apologize every time we enjoy a bit of harmless fun with our friends, don’t you?” He laughed, nodding. I decided to have a little fun with his obvious discomfort. “Of course, whatever you just did with Tracy, I get to do with Connor. To keep things even.” “Sounds fair.” “Just how far did it go?” I teased, tracing a finger up the outline of his penis. Shane grabbed me by the hair and pulled me in for a good firm kiss on the lips. My fingers reflexively. I had, at last, removed my mental barrier and I felt good, really good and it was all thanks to Andrew. Things moved rather quickly for us. Andrew was very much in charge you could say. One afternoon, on arrival, he put something in my hand and asked me to guess what it was. I had no idea, then he switched it on. I was a little bemused as to why he had brought with him an electric shaver, I was soon to find out. There were things that I had never bothered with, trimming up my pubes was one of.