“She is,” I nodded. “And, I had noticed her in class, but when I met her in Oasis… She looked different. I didn’t immediately know who she was. It wasn’t till that Monday during my lecture that I figured it out.”
“Either you’re really slow, or she made quite the transformation.”
“She made quite the transformation,” I said.
“So, when you met her in Oasis, the fact that she was a student in your class never came up?”
“No, I think she was waiting for me to recognize her.”
“Well, obviously, it didn’t ruin your chances with her,” Lindsey smiled. “Welcome to the club. I told you it was nice to have frivolous sex with students.”
I wanted to tell her that there was nothing that seemed frivolous about the sex Natalie and I were having, but then I thought better of it. She might read too much into it, and I wasn’t exactly certain how to explain our relationship.
“Just a friendly word of advice…”
“Yes?”
“Be careful,” she said. “These children get attached fast. They buy into the marriage fantasy, and they build relationships out of thin air. You might want to tell her exactly where you stand so that she doesn’t get the wrong idea.”
I raised my eyebrows. “Speaking from experience?”
“I am,” Lindsey nodded. “I actually had to turn down a marriage proposal in one case.”
“Wow.”
“Yup,” she nodded. “Just remember that this relationship might mean more to her than it does to you. For you, it’s just about sex, so when you get bored and decide to let her go, go easy on the girl.”
I listened politely, but I was wondering if Lindsey had got it wrong in this case. What if Natalie was the one having fun, and what if I was the one getting too attached too fast?
Natalie and I had seen each other a couple of times in the last week. We had had sex three times more since that first night at my apartment. Each time, the sex got better and more inventive. Natalie grew more confident in her skin and seemed to have an almost insatiable appetite for sex – and she wasn’t apologetic about it.
It was true what they said about quiet girls. Natalie was quiet, even shy at times, but when we fucked, she transformed. The quiet, shy girl disappeared beneath a wild and willing seductress who was always ready to go. I thought about her a lot more than was probably healthy, and it was starting to scare me a little. No woman had ever left that kind of impression on me before.
“Chance?” Lindsey’s voice cut through my thoughts.
“Hmm… Sorry, what were you saying?”
“You’ll go easy on the girl, won’t you?”
“Sure.” I nodded, with a smile. But the whole time, I just kept thinking that Natalie was the one who needed to go easy on me.
Chapter Nineteen
Natalie
“Where is he talking you?” Missy asked as she rifled through racks of clothes.
“I don’t know,” I replied distractedly.
We had been shopping for almost an hour, and I had hit my limit forty minutes ago. I was looking at all the different choices, but I wasn’t really seeing anything. I was dragging my feet, waiting for Missy to get bored so that we could just get home. Unfortunately, she was a devoted and avid shopper and could keep momentum up for hours.
“Is it a surprise?” she pressed.
“I don’t t
hink so,” I said, with a shrug. “I just didn’t ask. I do know we’re driving quite far from campus, though. So that no one will recognize—”
“But it is a dinner date.”