興趣愛好"Me too, and I just woke up," Sonia said, trying to keep things light. She leaned over, resting her head and some of her weight on Chris's bony right shoulder. She reached over and rubbed Chris's bare right thigh seductively. "How bout we help wake each other up?"
Chris shrugged her shoulder, forcing Sonia's head off of her. She scooted over on the couch as she asked, "Can you just stop, please? I said I'm not in the mood."
Sonia was honestly shocked. She had an insatiable desire for sex at all times, one that couldn't even be matched by Chris. But normally when Chris was too worn out for sex or even something as innocent as cuddling or massaging, she was very polite and demure in her refusal. Even though she wasn't being outright rude right now, her behavior seemed completely cold and unfamiliar to Sonia, who was lost for words.
Removing her hand from Chris's leg, all Sonia could think to say was, "Sorry. I've got to go to work." She waited a split second for a response from Chris, but when there was none, she got up from the couch and headed out the front door.
As Sonia walked down the street to the sex shop, a million thoughts and emotions swirled through her head. She had always been very confident and simply wasn't used to being so flatly rejected, especially by someone who he she had gotten to know very intimately the past few weeks. She felt embarrassment, shame, anger, disappointment, and sadness, all at once and all throughout her walk to the sex shop. She recognized that she was getting worried over what was really a very minor incident, but something in her gut had made her feel very uneasy about their encounter.
She was so preoccupied it hardly seemed like any time had passed before she reached the sex shop. She walked in the front door, greeted as always by the familiar rows of sex toys, porn movies, and other miscellaneous items lining the walls.
"Catch!" she heard someone say, and before she could blink she felt something hit her, bouncing off of her stomach.
"What the fuck!" she spit out, caught completely off guard. She quickly realized that Emma, who stood behind the front desk, had thrown an absurdly large double-ended dildo at her. It lay in front of her feet, limp on the floor. She stepped over it as she walked up to the front desk, not bothering to pick it up.
Women in Valantsa were under the impression that dildos were created not from the shape of a male's penis, but from the shape of the inside of their vagina. This, of course, was only partially true, but was believed nonetheless, since women and men were kept completely segregated and ignorant of one another's existence.
Just as Sonia had sensed something was off with Chris, Emma seemed to sense the same with Sonia as she approached the front desk where she was sitting. Emma quickly dropped her playful smile and asked, "You all right, Sonia?"
Sonia made her way around the desk before answering, taking a seat in the clerk's chair behind it. Emma leaned against the counter next to where Sonia sat, her expression both curious and concerned. Sonia went on to relate to Emma what had transpired at her house before she'd left. Emma, who could be very kind and thoughtful, listened patiently without interrupting. Sonia was very upset, but tried not to let it show, playing things off as no big deal really, although the occasional wavering in her voice may have betrayed her true emotions.
Once Sonia was done talking, Emma placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Honestly, I don't think you have anything to worry about. You said she'd just come from an appointment at the hospital, right?"
Sonia nodded.
"Well, those appointments can be pretty exhausting sometimes. Mine certainly was." Emma had only had to be inseminated once, since she'd conceived the first time.
"Yeah, but it was more like the way she was talking to me. Like I wasn't even there."
Emma sighed and shrugged. "I don't know what to tell you. Look, I can see you're upset but I really don't think you need to be worrying or anything. I've seen how you two act together and you seem pretty attached. Like, very attached. Like, a little too much. It's kind of creepy."
Realizing she was just teasing her at this point, Sonia gave Emma a playful shove and laughed. "You always know just what to say, don't you?" she asked sarcastically.
"That's why I'm single," Emma raised her eyebrows and cocked her head to the side.
"Yeah, why are you single anyway? Sexy little thing like you, working at a sex shop. You should have at least ten different partners by now," Sonia joked.
"I'm holding out hope for you, babe," Emma said. "You know I can't resist boobs like that." She reached out quickly, giving the softest possible squeeze she could to Sonia's breasts before she could react.
"Hey!" Sonia snapped, feigning shock. She swung her arm around behind Emma and slapped her roughly on one of her buttocks, making a loud smacking sound. "You gotta wait your turn."
Sonia was honestly shocked. She had an insatiable desire for sex at all times, one that couldn't even be matched by Chris. But normally when Chris was too worn out for sex or even something as innocent as cuddling or massaging, she was very polite and demure in her refusal. Even though she wasn't being outright rude right now, her behavior seemed completely cold and unfamiliar to Sonia, who was lost for words.
