They’d played a few hands of poker, drunkenly made two batches of brownies and are all lounging in the living room by midnight. Caroline’s drunk – the good side of drunk, where everything is light and fun – but she still has enough control over herself to not sink onto the couch next to Hannah, even though it’s her first instinct.

Instead, Kris is sitting with Hannah and Caroline is sprawled on a blanket nest on the ground with Jess. She can feel the world buzzing around her, and for all of this self-control she is possessing right now, she can’t stop herself from just looking at Hannah.

Admiring her, really. Her hair is sexy and rumpled and her shirt is tugged far more to the left than it is centered, revealing her collarbone and a fair amount of soft skin. She’d slept there, her inebriated mind has regularly reminded her for the last hour. That’s how she knows she’s beyond tipsy.

She’s so in her own head that she doesn’t even realize she’s been addressed until everyone’s eyes are on her. Caroline shakes her head. “What’s going on?”

Miranda laughs. “We asked, as the perpetually single woman with the best hookup stories, where are your salacious tales?”

“Come on, Caroline, hit us with the details. You always keep us so well-fed.” Lacey adds, wiggling her eyebrows before breaking into her own set of giggles.

She deliberately rips her gaze off of Hannah as she groans and falls back into Jess, who jostles her with her shoulder. “I haven’t had sex like, all year. You guys know that.”

“Boring,” Miranda declares, sticking out her tongue. “Kevin is so….” She wrinkles her nose at the reference to her husband, before she chuckles again. “I mean, I love him and he gets the job done. But it’s not exciting. You know who was amazing in bed? Patrick, that guy from my Master’s program. Remember him?”

Lacey sighs dreamily. “Oh, I remember.”

Jess pipes in, mentioning her last long-term girlfriend. “Meredith was really imaginative.” Her tone turns mischievous as she bumps against Caroline’s shoulder again. “Caroline may have been my best, though. Definitely up there in my top three.”

The only thing Caroline hears over the cheering of her friends is Hannah choking on her drink.

She can feel the blush work up her neck and into her cheeks, hot and fast, even as she shoves Jess back and she can’t help but send a helpless look towards Hannah. “Be quiet.”

She can’t help that feeling that settles in her stomach at the way Hannah’s staring at her, eyes imploring.

Jess’s voice is still full of mirth, but with an underlying note of sincerity as she gives Caroline big, drunk eyes. “I’m being serious! Very in-tune with my body. It was a great Hangout Weekend for sure.”