Page 15 of Clueless
I shook my head.“Your story isn’t my sister’s to tell.It’s yours.”
“I appreciate that.”He sighed.“Seems most women these days check a guy out online and pump everyone they know for information before agreeing to go out with him.”
“I’m not most women.”
He frowned.“But you can’t be too careful, Grace.Picking up random guys and inviting them home?—”
“Oh my God!”I withdrew my hand and scooted back on the bed, gaping at him.“You think I do this all the time?Are you crazy?I value my life!I would never just invite some random stranger back to my apartment… and into my bed.”
He raised a hand.“Fair enough.I didn’t mean to imply?—”
“That I’m a slut?Well, I’m not!”
“Grace—”
“I think you’d better go.”I was mortified and humiliated.With a few words, he’d turned the best sex of my life into a night I wanted to forget.
“Please, just listen to me.”
“I’m going to have a shower.”I jumped up, grabbing a short terry robe off a nearby chair.“Please be gone when I get out.”
I was driving to work the next morning, when my sister’s name flashed across the screen.Knowing I would have to deal with her questions eventually, I heaved a sigh before connecting the call.
“Hey, you.How’d it go with Taz last night?”
I groaned.“Don’t even ask.”
“Why?”I could tell my overprotective sister was already on high alert.“What happened?”
I pulled up to a red light and took a sip of coffee from my travel mug.I’d tossed and turned all night, after he left, so I knew I’d need a little liquid reinforcement to get through the day.
“We agreed it would be a one and done deal,” I said, shaking my head in disgust.“He was hot, and I was into him.He felt the same way.We’re both single, consenting adults, and I’m sick to death of over-analyzing things.”
“Okay, but obviously things didn’t go according to plan.”
“Things were going great.We talked a bit at the bar.Had a drink, and I invited him to come home with me.”
Codie giggled.“I’m sorry, I still can’t believe you did that.That is so out of character for you!”
“I know, right?I didn’t even do that in college, when everyone was doing it.”I knew I was venting, but couldn’t help myself.I needed to get this out before I exploded.“But sometimes I just get so sick of being the safe, predictable, responsible one.I’m tired of being in therapist-mode all the time.It’s exhausting.”
“I can imagine.”
“So, I saw a hot guy, one who was the opposite of the type I usually go for, and thought, why the hell not, right?Why not do something completely out of character for once, and proposition him?”
“I think it was very brave, sis.”
“I thought so too, until he made the assumption that he was one of many.”
“What do you mean?”
“He thinks I’m a slut, Codie.That I have one-night stands with random guys all the time.”
She gasped.“He actually said that?After you guys did the deed?”
I winced.“Yeah, we were lying in bed after… the best sex of my life, by the way, and he warned me against inviting guys home without knowing their story.”
“Ouch.”
