At Anna's

I raise my arm to knock on Anna’s front door, but before my hand can reach the hard, wooden surface, it swings open, revealing the cute blonde, wide grin and all.

“Finally! It took you long enou- woah! Are you okay?!”

I look behind me, oblivious to what she’s referring to. She picks up my arm and shows me the cuts I garnered from the epic sidewalk “fight” earlier. Yeah, they were maybe a little worse than I thought they were. She drags me inside, and sits me down on the worn armchair in the living room, before heading off down the hall to retrieve the first aid kit. As she left, I took a moment to appreciate the way her jeans curved around her cute butt, accompanied by her striped shirt accentuating her chest. Nice.

I glance around the room, full of life and love–a home–a place everyone should have the luxury of living in one day. There were various toys scattered around the floor, no doubt due to her younger siblings living their childhoods, as they should.

Eventually, she comes back with the kit, ready to dress my wounds (it really wasn’t that bad). She prepares to kneel on the ground in front of me, a sight that might look more suspicious under different circumstances, but before she can get settled, her knee lands right on a plastic building brick, causing her to quickly stand back up.

“Ow! Those kids…” she shakes her head. “Here, I’m just going to sit right there then.”

She sat herself on the armrest of the chair, swinging her legs over mine so they fell perpendicular to me. Unfortunately, due to the position she teased, the feeling of her weight on my lap, as well as whatever all the Sindex stuff was right before, my dick was already rapidly hardening. I just hoped she didn’t notice. She briefly adjusted, shifting her weight back and forth, grinding on me in the process, her chest right at my eye level. Did she know what she was doing?

After what felt like far too long, I snapped back to reality, where she had taken the bandages out and began disinfecting my forearms. It stung quite a lot and I held my composure well, but I winced when she got to the largest cut. Of course she took this opportunity to look down at me and crinkle her nose in that “oh don’t be such a baby” kind of look, and I definitely felt my heart flutter.

All bandaged up, I thanked her and we headed to her room and sat ourselves on the bed.

“So how’d you even get all those anyways? Did you pick a fight with like… knife-bees or something?”

“Ha Ha. No, it was much better: I saved a kitten from a tree. That was on fire, actually. There were sharks involved too.”

“You tripped, didn’t you.”

“...maybe.”

We both looked at each other for a moment, her blue eyes locked with mine, and we burst into laughter. She fell backwards towards the top of the bed, and I followed her with my eyes, watching her breasts jiggle in a circular motion as she landed. After a moment, she hit me with a statement from out of the blue:

“It’s crazy you’ve never had a girlfriend.”

…

Hey. What’s that supposed to mean? Regardless, she had me curious.

“What makes you say that?”

“You’re just so funny and sweet and I think any girl would be lucky to have you.”

I notice a slight color coming to her cheeks as she sits up to face me.

“I think maybe you just need to like… put yourself out there more, or like, again, ya know?”

I stare at her face for a second, taking in what she said.

“Hm.” I ponder for a moment, “I mean, maybe, but I think you’re totally overestimating me. I’m just… a guy.”

“Maybe…” she seemed to trail off. “Anyways! Sorry that was random, we should get to like, studying.”

Before we could really get into it, I had just opened my laptop when I realized I hadn’t closed the Sindex tab in my haste to get over here, and I quickly exited out of it, but not before Anna asked what I had open. I bs’d some excuse about a piracy site and left it at that, and with a suspicious look she shrugged and got her things out as well.

And so we studied, a usual routine for us including reciting, flash cards, highlighting, editing, etc. After about an hour and a half’s worth of intense work, we finish up and walk out of her room to the smell of a delicious meal coming from the kitchen. We look at each other, mouths open: lasagna. Yeah, I know, maybe not your favorite, but Anna’s mom makes the best lasagna, hands down. I texted my parents I’ll be here for dinner, not uncommon by any means, and we have dinner.

After a delicious and otherwise uneventful dinner (although I could’ve sworn I caught Anna stealing some glances towards me), I headed back home. It was later now, the dusk had settled in, and after a day like today, I decided to take a quick walk around the neighborhood to help burn off some of those lasagna calories.

After the walk it was dark, and I was ready to pass out. As I summited the stairs, I was just about to turn into my room when I hear a low humming sound from Eden’s room across the hall. Curious, I stepped quietly over towards her door, and upon a better listen, I confirmed it was some sort of vibrating buzzing. Not something I wanted to investigate further, mostly for fear I would be caught, so I went to my room and laid down.

Just before falling asleep, I began thinking about the encounter with Anna on the chair earlier and what possibilities Sindex might hold for the future, if it’s even real? How does it even know all this stuff? I’ll have to mess around with it some more tomorrow. Skeptical and feeling strange, I eventually fell asleep.

EDIT 5/17/25 - clarity, detail