Send Me In Orbit

Mornings

Leah was a virgin and she intended to be a virgin until after marriage, a real marriage in a church with her family present and her Tatang's knowledge and consent. But just because she was a virgin didn't mean that Leah was completely innocent about sex. She's read books and she's seen some movies. When Jigs had started courting her, Manang Tiffany sat Leah down and had a frank conversation with her about sex. Her older sister talked to her about the pain and pleasure of it and had told Leah that while she could never ever regret having Gabby and he's the best thing in her life, a part of her wishes she had waited for the right man. Then Manang Tiffany gave her a pack of condoms and said to always keep it with her just in case.

Leah and Jigs never made it past first base.

Clark is the first boy that Leah has ever slept in the same bed with. Mentally, she knows she should have been prepared for this. Leah knows enough about biology that sometimes guys can't help this kind of thing. But she's still not prepared the first time she wakes up and sees Clark still asleep beside her but his...Little Clark very much awake.

Leah's eyes widen and she nearly falls off the bed in her scramble to move away.

Her heart is racing, she knows that she should move. She should go to the bathroom, go to the kitchen and make breakfast. She should NOT just sit here and stare at it.

But she can't make herself look away.

She and Clark have been bedmates now for almost three months. They had set up an appointment for their first immigration interview and were just waiting to be called in. In the meantime, they went on with their lives as normal. They both worked two jobs and took any quick racket that came up, so they barely see each other except at night and in the mornings. They barely talk to each other, Clark kept true to his "Walang pakielamanan" rule. But even still, Leah couldn't help but learn small things about Clark.

She knows he doesn't like sugar in his coffee and prefers to pour fresh milk in it but when they don't have milk, he'll put in three creams. She knows that even though the apartment is messy and Clark puts on an 'I don't care' attitude, he takes care with his appearance and doesn't leave the house in a shirt that hasn't been ironed, even when it's just his usual white shirt and hoodie combo. If Leah was his real wife, she would iron his clothes for him. But she's not so she just watches him from the couch while she pretends to read. He's almost as good at ironing as her Tatang, Leah has to grudgingly admit to herself.

She knows that Clark has a high body temperature and he often gets hot in the night. That's why he likes to sleep without a shirt and he always kicks the covers off in the night. Despite the pillow that's always lying on the bed between them, Leah can sometimes feel the heat that Clark's body radiates. Sometimes she's tempted to burrow into that warmth. And then she has to remind herself that she hates him and that feeling is definitely mutual. They just need to put up with this living arrangement until she gets her green card then they'll go their seperate ways and they'll never have to see each other again.

But right at this moment, Leah was seeing a lot of Clark.

She should move. Why couldn't she move? Her eyes darted up to his face to make sure he was still asleep and then they were drawn down again. She blushed. Why couldn't she stop staring?

Clark had gone to bed in just his boxers last night. Leah was already asleep when he came home from work so he probably thought that he could get away with it without her seeing because she has an earlier shift than him today. But Clark kicked off the comforter in the night, leaving him completely uncovered except for his lower legs and nothing but his boxers covering his...Junior.

Leah couldn't help it, she was a little fascinated. She's never seen a man's...thing...before, not outside of pictures and one video. As much as she couldn't stand Clark's personality, she could admit that he had the most attractive body she has ever seen. From what Leah's seen, men's things tended to be ugly but she was betting that Clark's was as attractive as the rest of him. It certainly looked...big.