Never Too Late

Chapter 3.1: Neighbors

                It's been another week, and I still couldn't get Alex off my system. Every time he came out the shower, my ovaries explode. Laura has also suggested a few things for me, but apparently, I already figured it out. I just called out Ken and had sex with him.

It was seven o'clock on a Saturday when Ken and I had just finished making love in my room.

"Oh shit!" Ken panted as he bounced on the bed, butt naked with me. We were both panting and out of our breaths. We covered our undies with my sheath.

"Oh dear." I panted with him and laughed. "That was amazing!"

"Oh yeah! I think we overdid it." He laughed. "We went past our curfew."

"Yeah, I think I scratched your thigh." I continued to pant. "Sorry."

"Oh." He peeked into the sheath to see his thigh. "Yeah, you did, you dirty cat."

"Yeah." I laughed. Then, I realized I wanted to do more than that to get Alex off my head. I turned and faced Ken. "Hey, since we're doing this taking serious thing, maybe we should do something else than just, you know, sex."

"Oh." He nodded. "That's nice. I'm not actually the best at dates, but-"

"I don't care." I interrupted him and laughed. "Just take me out. I don't know, maybe to an amusement park or to a restaurant... skating."

"Amusement park, really?" he laughed. "You like amusement parks?"

"Not really." I shook my head. "Anywhere. No pressure. Just think of anything you want to do with me other than sex because otherwise, you'd look like my booty call."

"Okay." He laughed. "Wanna have coffee somewhere maybe when this whole newspaper work is done?"

"Yes!" I exclaimed. "Yes! That sounds nice."

Ken and I went outside to the kitchen to grab some breakfast, of course, with our clothes on. We went and saw everyone having breakfast. They were all smiling and blinking at me. It was a little annoying, but I was most interested in seeing Alex's reaction, though he didn't seem to care that much. He greeted Ken with a smile.

"Morning, Ken!" he said. "You finally dropped by! I was starting to think you were avoiding me!"

"Hey, Alexander." Ken went and grabbed a banana from the table. "I dropped by a lot before. It's just since you moved it, I've been busy."

"Yeah! That's what she said." Alex laughed and pointed at me, and I raised a brow.

"Hey, have some breakfast." Laura invited.

"Oh, sorry. Unfortunately, I gotta run to the department." He pointed the banana towards the door. "Photoshoot day."

"Hey." I talked to Ken. I could sense Alex's stare. "So, you're gonna text when you want to go?"

"Yeah." He kissed me and walked to front door. "See 'ya!"

"Bye." I waved.

"See 'ya, Ken!" Harvey yelled while reading the newspaper.

"Oooh, Liyah. I heard you last night." Laura teased while I sat. "Fun night. You must be exhausted."

"Yeah." I laughed and grabbed a water to drink. "It was fun. We didn't forget the condom, so..."

"Funny." Laura said and walked to the front door since there was someone knocking when Ken left. Laura opened the door, and there was a couple in the door. After drinking water, I followed her to the door.

"Hi, I'm Trish!" the girl introduced herself. "And this is Lance. We just moved to apartment 2A, so just a little heads up."

"Hi." Lance greeted with a wave. They looked like mid-20's Asians... you know, the working type.

"Hi, I'm Laura. This is Liyah." Laura pulled the door open so they could see the other two. "That's Harvey and Alex."

"Sup!" Harvey greeted. "Morning!"

"Hey!" Alex waved.

"Hey, since we just moved in, I thought it'd be neighborly to drop by and say hi." Trish said. "And if you need anything, you can come to us."

"Aw, thanks!" I said.

"Sure! Nice meeting you!" Trish waved as they went back.

"Okay! Nice meeting you too!" Laura closed the door.