Preparing for the second date.

You give Alex a fierce kiss before the two of you part ways for the day. You wish call in sick for work but she still has classes to attend to so you suffer through work with occasional reprieves with text messages from her.

Alex: Don't forget to buy more condoms!

You: I'll go to Costco to buy them a 60-pack!

Alex: Is that enough? ;)

You: You're right I'll buy more!

Alex: I'll buy more birth control and morning after pills!

You: Want me to pick you up after work?

Alex: No it's ok! My last class is over at 4 and I want to surprise you!

You: Oh? It's not of a surprise if you tell me there's a surprise!

Alex: Do you want to be surprised or not? :P

You: I already forgotten about the surprise!

Alex: Good!

You: Do you want go out for dinner or take-out?

Alex: Take-out.

You: My place or yours.

Alex: My place at 6 ok?

You: Great!

Alex: ♥

You don't know how you manage to stay productive at work with your thoughts constantly drifting back to the memories of having sex with Alex but you somehow you make it to five o'clock without getting reprimanded by your supervisor. You make a quick stop at Costco before anxiously driving home, dealing with the usual after work traffic jams, and rush back to your place to have a quick shower and change of clothes before you drive to Alex's place.

Just as you are about to leave your apartment your phone buzzes with an incoming text.

Alex: Don't bother buzzing my door will be unlocked...

You: Ok! :D Be there in 20 mins!

You take a faster alternative route to her house and manage to arrive there in fifteen minutes. You nervously look around as you walk up to the porch with a bag full of boxes of condoms to the three storey old house and are about to press the button on the intercom but remember what she told you. You open the door to foyer and climb up the stairs to the second floor. Like she said the door to her apartment is unlocked and you walk in, locking the door behind you.

"Alex?" you call out, noticing the place is much cleaner than it was this morning.

"I'm in the bedroom, Craig!" she calls back.

You are tempted to run to the bedroom but you decide to play it cool instead. You push open the bedroom door and your jaws drop at what you see in front of you.