Once again the light shown through my window and it was gorgeous. I laid on my back, my bed sheet at my pelvic bone. I pulled my arms under my head and just stared at the ceiling with a small smirk. Abby laid beside me on her stomach, a slight sweat still on her back, now glistening from the sun that crept into my room confirming once again my choices weren’t a dream to start this thing up again. We had been asleep for only 30minutes, well her anyway. She had came over last night to have a study session and ended up on the floor fucking until this point. Life was good.

We had been at this for a few weeks now and it was a wonderful surprise everyday. We didn’t go one day without seeing each other and ended up this same position every morning. Still, there was a dark cloud to my sunny day when week after week I kept finding myself by the window looking for the limo Ross was sending me and it never showed. Relief was the one thing I would feel at first, I thought that maybe he would think different with campaign and just leave me alone. Yet, my phone would buzz and it would be that asshole PR Brent on the other line.

“Ms. Grant, hi” Brent chirped on the other line.

“Where’s the Limo?” I gritted though my teeth to only be greeted with a laugh from the other end.

“These things take time, we have to form the story” He would say. “Next week we are a ‘go’.”

“That’s what you said 4 weeks ago” I wanted to meet this guy so I could open up an old fashion can of ‘fuck you, I’m kicking your ass’ but it would pointless.

“These things take time Corrine” he would say “But when you get here, you will see how much easier I made it for you”

“What are you talking about” I inquired

“I have taken the liberty of writing the story you will be giving to the press conference, so you don’t have to” I could see him smiling in his expensive suit and tie. “Isn’t that great?” Paper shuffled in the background. “Oh sorry Corrine, I have to go. We will meet each other soon, though” a soft click would be all I heard after that.

I turned to my side and peered at Abby, she was my escape from those thoughts and the actions I would have to take. A smile crept on my face as I looked at this beautiful woman again, not sure if I was really beside her. Every since I was a kid I wanted to be no place else but where I was and that was with her.

“You are watching me sleep again, aren’t you?” I grinned.

“We never get to sleep lately, so I take what I can” Abby opened her eyes and smiled at me. She propped herself up on her elbow, her hair was damp and hung at her shoulders.

“That’s your fault” she taunted.

“Hey, not all my fault my love” I answered then leaned in for a soft kiss. Abby looked at me deeply, she ran a warm palm against my face before taking a deep breath and continued to stare in my eyes.

“Who did you have to become when you left that day?” I furrowed my eyebrows to what Abby was referring to. But I had an idea. I took a deep breath my eyes pulling back to the ceiling above my head.

“Someone I never thought I would be” I began. “I full of anger, and in that anger, confusion that seemed to leave me with a throbbing head ache when I tried to replay what had led me to this point.”

“What happened to you?” Abby moved closer to me lying partially on my body. She grabbed my chin moving my gaze back to her. I bit my lip wondering if I should make a subject change because the truth was no longer the truth anymore. But I decided I was going to tell her, the real truth needed to be heard one last time.

“Ross handed me five hundred dollars and dropped me off at a bus stop and told me to leave and never come back. And after that happened it was an escape that I needed before I lost my mind there.” I licked my lips my eyes tempting to go back to the ceiling but Abby kept a firm grasp on my chin so my eyes wouldn’t waver.

“I went to the only place I knew and that was with Ivy, her and her mother let me move in and I finished high school there, Pepper would visit every weekend and when we graduated moved in. Ivy’s mother had gotten remarried and left us the trailer so we built a life there and it was good. Little by little I could let go of the anger and I found solace in my confusion and let live and me just going with it.”

“Did you ever think about me?” Abby asked, I could see the pain still in her eyes from those days. I nodded my head slowly.

“An easier question is when didn’t I think about you?” I shook my head to the left and right as the pain that time drench me all in one. “What kept me going was the thought that I was doing you a world of good not being in you life. In my head I pictured you and Autumn back together, getting married and going away together.” Abby laughed.

“That’s what she thought too” she said amused. “After that day I knew who I wanted and who I cared about, that’s why it became my sole purpose to find you and make things right.”

“Abby?” Abby raised her eye brows as she peered into my eyes.

“Who did you become?” Abby let go of my chin and rolled off of me and laid on her back and stared at the ceiling.

“Corrine” she whispered. “Before Janey, where there others?”

“Yes, many” I answered honestly. “I thought I could stop loving you in the arms of another.”

“So did I” she answered, she turned her head and looked at me with sad eyes. “There are some things that you don’t know about me, some things that I haven’t told you and shouldn’t ever tell you. But, I want to be honest; we have to be honest if we are going to do this.” I sat up on my elbows and leaned over to her. I pressed my lips to her forehead giving her a small kiss. I could see some of the tension leaving her shoulders. She lifted her head up capturing my lips.

“Whenever you are ready” I started, taking Abby’s hand into mine. “Tell me your story”

“Corrine” I raised my eyebrows turning over to my side and resting my eyes on Abby. “I want you to do something for me. Will you do it?”

“I’ll do anything for you, you know that?” Abby bit her lip and turned her eyes back to the ceiling.

“Take my virginity” I laughed

“I’ve done that already?”

“Yea you have but, I’m still a virgin in other’s eyes, even though I’m not” My smile faded as I realized what Abby was talking about.

“You mean you want me to penetrate you deep enough to break your hymen?” Abby nodded, turning her gaze back to me.

“There has been so many between us, they are on in the bed when we are together and I just want it to be us. I want to be yours again, I want you to be my first, last and only” I could see the pleading stare in her eyes and really without thinking I nodded my head in agreement.

“Okay” I answered.

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Once Abby had left to go to class I rummaged through my drawers pulling out a pair of sweat and a white t-shirt. I was panicking and couldn’t figure out why, so many thoughts were running through my head. Once I had managed to put my clothes on I rushed through my door and ran to Pepper and Ivy’s room bargaining in. Pepper and Ivy were sprawled out on Pepper’s bed playing a card game. They both looked up at me.

“Well that was a total of 18hours since the grunting and moaning began” Ivy stated looking at her watch. “That’s two hour more than your guess Pepper so that means..”

“Yea, yea I owe you two dollars, trust me I’m good for it.” Pepper taunted throwing her hand down.