“Goddammit, Garfunkel.” I yanked my jeans back up and quickly scooped him into my arms, tossing him unceremoniously into the living room. “Where is Simon,” I muttered to myself, looking around until I saw him staring at me from the top of the fridge. Obviously.

“You monsters behave yourselves,” I said before slamming the bedroom door shut.

I turned back to Lily, desperately hoping my cats had not ruined the moment, because if they had, I swear to fucking—

“Strip,” Lily said, arms crossed over her chest. There was an amused look on her face, but that raspy voice was serious.

Alrighty then.

I yanked my pants off, and my underwear, and then my shirt, and hopped around for a second getting my socks off, because there was nothing more humiliating than being naked except for socks, and I was sure it was all very undignified but Lily seemed satisfied by it. Because when I stood back up, fully naked, she said, “Finally,” and pointed to the bed. “Go.”

And holy shit, I liked being bossed around by Lily. It was like every fantasy I’d ever mildly contemplated while watching her sing “Before He Cheats,” but a million times better. Because I also knew how soft she was now. How patches of pink bloomed on her neck and her chest when she thought she had said too much. How fragile she looked when she sang that last song in an almost empty Moonie’s, how I had wanted to sink to the floor with her, wrap her in my arms and never let her go.

I scrambled under the sheets and she came with, and I jumped on top of her with a level of glee I knew my body would pay for later. I had gotten the picture by this point that she was impatient, so I tried to be quick with exploring her body with my mouth, making my way down to her thighs, but damn, I wanted to be more thorough. Maybe she’d let me be more thorough later.

I had only ever been with a couple of women before, and both had been a long ass time ago—and one had turned out to be a lesbian—so I felt a little nervous as I settled in between Lily’s thighs, hands tracing up the tender skin there. I wanted to be good at this for Lily. Because I didn’t actually want to have mediocre sex with Lily. I wanted to blow her mind.