Chapter 12: Side effect

I couldn't sleep after I go back home; I keep turning myself on my bed. What the fuck just happened? It was not a fuck for sure, I am still feeling all the sexual tension as before. I didn't get a release that I so much desire.

What tf is wrong with her??!, she makes me aroused and then stops? Is it normal? Is it how people do these days?

I keep cherishing her, her incredible body, her mouth-watering kisses, how she made me completely insane, craving her. I doubt I will be able to relax after that. Each time I close my eyes all I can sense is her and her hands all over me.

Should I do something to help me obtain my release? I don't even acknowledge how I should start touching myself. Perhaps, I could pretend it is her hand? It's worth the try. She still has my vibrator, and I cannot sleep anyway.

I close my eyes as I begin sliding my hand in direction of my belly button, imagining her hand. When I approach my entrance, I touch a small cotton thread and feel something obstructing my way inside me. What the fuck?

Oh, God!

It is a tampon! I am using a tampon!

I got flushed and completely embarrassed. I can't believe it!

After all, I got lucky for not having sex tonight. I completely forgot I'm on my period! I'm picturing how embarrassing would it be sleeping with someone for the first time in my period!

I never considered I would be happy Maxine stopped us from going further. I placed my hands on my face wanting to hide.

I'm completely alone inside my room in Mila's flat, but I'm feeling so self-conscious! I can't believe I kissed her, I even told her to fuck me, worst I tried to convince her when she refuses to do it and adding the cherry on the top of the cake, I'm on my period. I could have done a bloody mess. Literally!

It took me hours to fall asleep, my head keeps twisting. It could be alcohol's outcome but also, I couldn't stop thinking. I'm in such a mess. I feel nervous, aroused, ashamed, desperate, stupid, confused, disgusted, rejected, and frustrated. Altogether.

The amazing heavenly emotion I felt when Maxine's hands were on my body and her lips on my own are now gone and replaced by this mash, this tangle of feelings.

I woke up the next day with the noise of a door closing. Presumably, Mila has arrived from her one-nightstand.

Sure na bang si cols naka ons niya? kadiri naman gague

I lingered in bed, avoiding moving any muscle, everything hurts, mainly my head.

Anong oras na ba?

I check my phone, it is displaying 1 pm.

It is a blessing not to have soccer training today. The coach would eliminate me from the team if I had played in this condition.

I get up the bed and walk like my body weight tons; the gravity is a bitch. My head is exploding. I need to get something to eat before taking a painkiller.

I remember I have read once an article about a hangover, explaining exactly what we should and what we shouldn't consume. What did it say? I recall it has mentioned coffee, but I couldn't remember if it is supposed to make it better or worst. Since my mind is already established for a coffee anyway, I don't bother searching for it. I also prepared some eggs, realizing I am starving. I devoured it in less than a minute.

I take some painkillers among water just recollecting one of the instructions about aftereffects is to drink a lot of water. I simply fill and drink three more glasses like they are tequila's shots, as it would miraculously heal my hangover. I'm desperate.

Dani appears in the kitchen also taking a glass of water.

"Hey, hon" she says shifting to me and stopping. "Oh Quinn, what happened? It seems like a truck smashes you over and over."

"Hangover?" I replied leaning against the kitchen counter, it seems my body doesn't have the straight to even stay upon her weight.

"Really? That bad?"

I stare at her astonished, "yeah, we drank a lot last night, I'm not used to it anymore."

"It was not that much", she says swallowing the rest of her water, resembling completely normal as she has just slept during the entire night. Urf! I hated it.

Is this a sex outcome? Maybe it softens the side effect of alcohol."How was last night? Did you have fun with the girl?"

"Oh yeah, sorry to have left you, but it totally worth it." She said smiling, refilling her glass with tap water.

"Uhm that good? Tell me about it!" I asked smirking.

"Well, summarizing I must have slept for one hour." She replies covering her smile with her glass, taking a sip of her drink.

"She didn't let you sleep there?" I asked confused.

"Oh Quinn, no, we did it over and over again." She explains biting her lower lip, suppressing a smile, and rolling her eyes.

Wtf bro?

I just opened my mouth to reply, but it stays like that, open, emitting no sound.I just realize she looks happy, really happy. She even glows.

I have seen her already going out, meeting different guys and girls. However, I have never seen her like that. No, never smiling like this. Kung si cols man ’to or whoever this girl is, and whatever she has done, it was special.

"And you? Have you found someone interesting?" She asks me while she starts washing her glass and some dishes that were on the sink.

"Uhm, kind of, I think?" I said chewing my lips.

"Can you elaborate?"

"Well, long story short, I sort of kissed Max last night."

"ANO!? Nasa party siya kagabi??" She squeals and almost breaks a glass that was in her hands. "No, that is the embarrassing part, I came back to my original room last night, you know, the one she is sleeping in?"

I don't understand why I'm feeling nervous again, I even start to bite my nails. I deemed I have overcome this habit. It must be an after kissing Maxine's effect. Even when she is not around, she destabilizes me.

She starts laughing compulsively, I have to admit, it must be entertaining when aren't you being that stupid.

"I can't believe you Quinn, you decide to attack her while she was sleeping?"

"God no Dani! It was a mistake! I'm used to going there; it is my room at the end of the day!" I state pouting. I can't believe she thinks I did it on purpose.

"Ok so tell me, did you guys kiss?"She immediately has googly eyes, "oh no wait!", she continued, not

even allowing me to respond. "Have you done it??" She is now grinning wilder.

"Uhm, Yes and no", I answer pausing, showing my frustration, "the worst part is, we haven't done it because 'she' didn't want to."

"What? Pinaglololoko mo ba ko ha??"

"No, I'm not!" I answer crossing my arms over my chest to attest how astonished I am.

"Tell me the full story Quinn, I really doubt she would reject you. I saw her checking you out a few times now."

"I don't know. We kissed, it was really good Mila, amazing to be completely honest, she made me lose my mind. I just wanted to jump on her bones."

"So why didn't you?"

"She told me I was drunk," I said blushing, trying to hide my face from her. She is watching me attentively.

"What exactly has she said Quinn?"

"Hum, it is a bit embarrassing, but the fact is she did reject me."

"I'm your best friend quinn, I won't judge you, just tell me."

She is inspecting me, she knows me better than anyone else, and she always perceives when I'm not reporting the full story. The thing is, she will start to analyze me. In the end, it is even worse than just tell her the whole freaking story. From the very beginning to the very end.

"Or I can just explain explicitly to you everything me and redacted did last night, you know every position, every-"

"Ok, ok! I'll tell you na" I take a deep breath.

"She told me I was drunk, and she didn't want to take advantage of me. I said I wanted it and I was not that drunk." I paused to look at her, she knew there was more.

"So she says she wants me to be well aware when she fvcks me, to be able to feel everything she will do to me, and that she will do a lot of things," I complete speaking as fast as I could and tilting my head to watch her reaction.

She grins, looking at me with sparkling eyes.

"Well, this is very interesting, and far from being a rejection."

I look at her astonished, she turns to me, thinking.

"I'm sorry if I'm pushing you too much to have a fling quinn, I have my reasons. Just hope you know I will always respect whatever you do or decide."

The truth is she is pushing me, I can't deny it, but I know her, I know it is not the way she works, and if she is doing it, she has a reason. Do I want to know though? Maybe I'm just being her little experiment. No, I know her better than that.

"It is ok Mils." I decided to reply.

She smiles.

"Just for your information, I never forgot about the vibrator. Have you used it?"

Piskit man oy, I forgot to tell her, is she going to snitch me to Cols, because I didn't use it?

"Well," I pause everything and turn to look at her.

"I can't really use it right now."

"You can't?"

"It's not my fault, Maxine has it, he has stolen from me."

She starts laughing hysterically in my face. I'm red, and each time she looks at me it seems she starts laughing all over again. I gawk at her.

"Isn't karma on my side?" she continues laughing, "If I know one thing about that girl is, she will for sure make you use it, that will be even funnier than I thought it would be." Oh no, not if I can avoid it, and I'll do everything in my power to avoid seeing her any time soon.

After talking to Mila, I called my parents. They requested me to have lunch with them and Cols tomorrow.

I'm avoiding going to Cols's flat at all costs. Thus, I resolved to ask her for a hide by phone. It's simpler and less risky. I still don't know how to face Max, and I prefer not seeing her until I figure that out.

Mila says she didn't reject me, but why does it feel like it? I never wanted to have sx that much in my life, and she declined it. It hurts me, it makes me feel like I'm not sexy enough, or pretty enough for her. She is probably used to going out with gorgeous girls well experienced in this domain. I'm not a virgin, but let's face it, if I should establish my sex level experience in my curriculum, as I do for the languages I speak, I would have to insert a basic level. I'm not even in an intermediary.

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I lingered at home the entire Saturday; I was worthless, I couldn't even study. My assignments are accumulating. I sense a hard week welcoming me.

On Sunday we decide to leave around 9:30 am, it takes one hour to go to my parents'house. However, my parents deem arriving almost at the time of eating it's extremely rude.

Cols told me to meet her in her apartment, but I foresaw an unforeseen meeting with Maxine, hence, I wait for her directly in the car parking.

Arriving at my parents' place we were greeted with their usual welcome.

They couldn't wait for us to even leave the car. No, they were like impatient kids waiting for the ice cream truck. Already outside of the car opening the doors, rushing and pushing us to come inside the house.

Considering they are parents; they are in pretty good shape. They could push us at the same time they were declaring how much they miss us and asking so many questions about our week by second that I assume they don't need to breathe to stay alive.

How can they talk so much in such a short time? People usually say I speak too fast, well, meet my family, that is just how genetics work.

Family lunch is good as always, it was my father who cooks today. Like Cols, he fancies testing new dishes. However, he has no problem following a recipe.

He has cooked chicken using beer to make the sauce accompanied by something he called special rice. Resuming, it is rice with a lot of stuff inside, such as vegetables, nuts, and herbs. I don't see why he is called rice, to be honest, rice is what I view the least inside of it.

We discussed our usual topics, of course not forgetting about me and Remy, I still have to tell my parents the news.

They took surprisedly well, a lot better than Cols.

"You know, he is a good guy Quinn. I appreciated him and honestly, I think you couldn't find a better first boyfriend. However, I think you both did the right thing, I was worried how you two started dating so young and how things were going lately," my father said.

good guy? ulol

"What do you mean dad?" I asked myself to serve myself another round, the rice thing is in fact really good.

"Well, you were just being together, there was no sparkle anymore. I could see you were not happy Quinn, I'm your father, I know you."

"You look like mila, dad," I tell him giving a shy smile."She is good, I'm living with her now." I complement smiling.

"What?" It is my mom reacting now. She simply stops eating and is now staring at me.

"Yeah, mom, dad," Col said a bit uncomfortable, looking at both of our parents.

Maybe I shouldn't have told them?

"I forgot to mention, do you remember my friend Max? The one who helped me when I launched my start-up and it wasn't working well?"

"Sure, I remember you mentioning her," my dad said chewing. His reaction is always different from my mom's. She is astonished, it seems we have dropped a bomb on her. My father, on the other hand, is cool, as we are discussing the food.

So, Max has helped Col develop her startup. That's brand-new information for me. I understand now why Char told me he couldn't say no to Maxine.

Col and the other two of her ex-college colleagues have created a startup to model buildings using tools, such as Autocad. They are also creating an original tool based on their needs, adapting it specifically for building construction.

"Oh col, you have to invite her next time you come. She is a good friend He has helped you a lot in your career." My mom spoke now calming down.

"Sure thing mom," Cols answered.

Sunday flew by quite fast, at the moment we should leave my parents' house we also received our typical goodbyes. They keep asking when we will come back again. My father even used his usual bargain, attesting that if we want anything to eat, he could prepare for us if we come. He always tries to arrange with us using food, it was always our Achilles tendon. But now, unfortunately,  Since col started to cook and is not working as before.

The next week was awful, I had too much caught up to do for my classes, it didn't help that I missed a day last week. The soccer coach was also not satisfied, coercing me to train one day more than I should.

The only positive point about it was it made it easier to avert Max; I didn't cross her once. Yet I couldn't forget about her, if I would be honest to myself I kind of miss her. I was hoping during the entire week I would have at least a glance of her e, of course, without her seeing me.It never happened. Maybe she is avoiding me too? It would make sense, maybe the whole 'I'm willing to do a lot of things with you' was just an excuse after all.

By Saturday, I have finished all my essays, caught up on all classes, and also attended my soccer practice. I was exhausted by the end of it, I have performed four soccer practices this week.

After it all, arriving home I put on some comfortable clothes, lycra shorts, and a tank top. I laid on the couch looking at my social networks lazily. I hear Mila opening the door talking to someone, I'm too tired to turn myself, so I just greet her by raising my hand and saying 'hey'.

"Hey quinn, someone is here looking for you."

I adjust myself, sitting on the couch to see who is looking for me.

"Hey quinn" Maxine greets me grinning. Yeah, using that usual grin of her.

"Oh, hey Maxine, Numeron?"

What's up? You couldn't find anything else to say?

Just hide, Quinn, that's why you couldn't meet the guy.

"Col is needing something from you daw e, come with me now to her apartment." She practically orders me, signing with her hand directing to their apartment.

Can she get any bossier?

I get up and head to their place not glancing at Maxine once. I'm not ready to face her, I'm still feeling awkward as if our last encounter happened yesterday.

After entering it, I look around for col, I just want to get over it as fast as possible and leave.

"Col??" I call for him.

"Miel asan ka ba?"

I turn around to ask Maxine about it.

"Asan si col??" She had closed and locked the entrance door, and now she is leaning against it with her famous grin. Her piercing eyes are glittering, I feel pure evil in it, proving it when she says

"Wala naman talaga dito si Miel, Quinn"

HA?!!?!

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