The talk

Gemma: 'Hey Alex, look, we need to talk.'

I could feel the colour drain from my face. Meeting everyone else hand and hanging around with Josh had almost made me forget about the inevitability of this conversation. My mind started racing back to all the emotions and thoughts about what I should say, what I shouldn't say, anything to make this right.

Gemma: 'Helllooo earth to Alex'

Me: 'Sorry, sorry, erm yeah, I guess we do.'

Gemma: 'Yeah, but I want to say from the top… I'm not angry with you.'

Me: 'Wait… you're not?'

Gemma: 'well, I was, at the moment after last night, but I'm not now.'

Me: 'Well, that's a relief.'

Gemma: 'you're not angry with me, are you?'

Me: 'Why would I be angry with you.'

Gemma: 'I kinda stole your virginity

Me: 'I mean, you didn't steal it, really.'

Gemma: 'Still, it wasn't how it should have happened, and I let it happen.'

Me: 'Hey Gemma, relax, last night was, like, amazing, I mean, I didn't mean for it to happen like that, and I'm sorry I.. erm… you know…'

Gemma: 'jizzed all up in me without permission?'

Me: 'Erm yeah, that.'

Gemma: 'Well, luckily for you, I am on the pill, so you don't need to worry about child support payments anytime soon. Secondly, which is good for me, you being a virgin means you are likely to have zero chance of having an STI.'

Crap, both hadn't even crossed my mind. I defiantly need to be more careful in the future.

Me: 'erm, should I, you know, get checked out.'

On reflection, maybe not be the best thing to ask, luckily didn't seem to impact Gemma's mood.

Gemma: 'Well, I'm clean; despite what you may think, I don't tend to make a habit out of this

Me: 'I didn't think you did.'

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if she did base on last night, not that I was going to tell her that.'

Gemma: 'Also, don't go expecting anything more to happen between us. We're flatmates, not boyfriend, girlfriend, not fuck buddies'

Me: 'Understood'

At that moment, Lucca walked into the room. He looked at me, then at Gemma. He was uncomfortable as he just stood there. Gemma and I shared a look, I shrugged my shoulder, and we were both perplexed. He had left before anything really interesting happened last night, and we didn't hear his door open once, so it couldn't have been that.

Gemma: 'You okay, Lucca? You seem unsure about something?

Lucca: 'oh, sorry, um, I didn't know if you two were alright?'

Me: 'er, why wouldn't we be?'

He really couldn't have known what happened after he left last night, and if he did, why wasn't he this awkward earlier when it was just him and me in the room.

Lucca: 'I thought you two didn't like each other.'

Gemma: 'No, me and Alex are fine.'

It was reliving to hear her say that and seem like she meant it.

Lucca: 'oh good, that's fine then.'

He turned to leave, but before he did, Gemma asked

Gemma: 'Why did you think we didn't like each other?'

Lucca: 'Oh, it was nothing. I just woke up last night to someone shouting and screaming. It must have been another flat.

With that, he disappeared out the door and back into his room. I turned my attention back to Gemma; she had a smirk that made me feel like prey.

Gemma: 'sound like we may have been a bit loud.'

My cock twitched, and I wanted to ask her a question, but not sure if she was okay with it.

Me: 'well, um... we are good, yeah?'

Gemma: 'yeah, we are good, and I know what you want to ask.'

Me: 'you do?'

Gemma: 'it's the same thing everyone wants to know after their first time. Were you any good?'

Me: 'well yeah, kinda, was I?'

Gemma: 'Yes, it felt good; I enjoyed it…'

Me: 'well, that's a reli…'

Gemma: '…While lasted'

She laughed at her own joke.

Me: 'I suppose I deserved that one.'

Gemma: 'oh, you did, but trust me, I'm going to get you back for last night, Quickfire.'

Me: 'Quickfire?'

Gemma: 'well, until you prove otherwise.'

Me: 'Oh, I get it. In my defence, it wasn't really fair.'

Gemma: 'maybe, I'll catch you later anyway… Quickfire'

She got up and left the room before I could think of an appropriate retort.