Puck Off!

Chapter 13

I'd never slept with a girl before. I mean, actually lay in bed and sleep in the same bed. With Tilly it had been sex and leave, with no intimacy whatsoever. So laying in bed, potentially holding Iryna was a level of closeness that would be completely new to me. Pretty much everything with her was new though, so that wasn't entirely unexpected.

I lay in bed with my boxers, my heart pounding and my breathing rapid as I heard the shower shut off. I'd let her borrow a tee shirt and a pair of boxers, but she was bigger than me so I wasn't sure how well that would work. When she came out, I could see it had partially worked, since she looked right at home wearing my Aerosmith tee shirt, though it stopped right around her waist, showing that she was wearing her own panties, since the boxers must have been too small. That wouldn't be too big a deal, except that she had worn a thong tonight, and I had to get out of bed to try and catch my eyes that had popped out of my skull and were bouncing around the bedroom.

"Your shower is insane," she sighed happily. "I didn't want to get out."

The bathroom, along with everything else, had been renovated a few years ago when I expanded the loft, and I was happy with it. I'm glad it met with her approval too. "Any time you want to borrow it, go right ahead."

"Don't say that, or I might have to move in!"

I had to bite my tongue to agree to that, but that would have been on the far end of the insanity spectrum. "If we keep up the dating, and Elske and Ella start hanging out then you might be over here often enough anyway."

She sat on the edge of the bed, looking shyly down at me. "Do you want to keep dating me?"

I broke into a smile at the thought of her being nervous, when I was the one feeling like my heart was learning some exotic two step dance in my chest. "Iryna, I do. I mean, I'd prefer not to run into Fisher anymore, but he should have no say in us being together. When I first left the party, I thought maybe we were in two different places in our lives, and it might be hard to make it work, but when I'm near you that is all I want to do. To make it work."

She was nodding happily as I finished, a smile on her face. "Yes! Me too! Maybe we need some real alone dates. No more crowds?"

"We do seem to do better that way. I like the sound of that," I agreed.

"Good! Then move over!" She quickly lifted the sheets and slid in next to me, then moved over to pull me close. "Is this okay?"

I chuckled lightly, unsure of how to answer that. "I have no idea. This is my first time snuggling like this."

She pulled away, looking me in the eyes. "Really? You're not a snuggler?"

"I've never had the chance to. Hell, that is why I suck at the dating thing too, I never did dates. The only girl I was ever with was only there to bribe me for tutoring her. It was all in secret so there were never any dates or snuggles or anything. That ended very poorly, and I never really wanted to revisit that," I explained.

"So how did we end up here now?" Iryna wondered.

"I guess Ella. I trusted her when she told me about you, and you must have too," I admitted. "I think she was right for me, since I do like you a lot, and I have to say that you're definitely my type."

"Hmm. Tell me about this type of yours," she said as she pulled me in closer again. I felt like I was her stuffed animal at this point, and it was a nice feeling.

"Well, I guess I've always been attracted to the more athletic women. You obviously fit that bill. Maybe that whole 'opposites attract' thing holds true for me, because I know I'm not the most physically imposing guy around."