Page 119 of Semantics

“It’s a thing,” Stella said. “Let it go.”

“I put in a request,” Violet explained. “She’s wearing it for me.”

“Is this a sex thing?” Jen asked Stella as their waiter approached.

“You know what? We’ve already eaten, and we just have dessert coming, so I think you two should follow that hostess over there, who is waiting for you over at your very own table, and I will text you later, Jen.”

Jen laughed and said, “Fine. We’ll double date another time. You ready, babe?”

“Yeah. It was nice meeting both of you,” Haley said.

“You too,” they both said at the same time.

Jen and Haley walked off, but the waiter stood there expectantly.

“What can I get for you tonight?” he asked.

“Stella, we haven’t even ordered, but you just told them that we were on dessert.”

“Can we have a dessert menu?” Stella asked the waiter.

“You want drinks and dessert?” he asked.

“Yes. Thanks,” Stella said and looked at Violet as the waiter walked off to get them menus. “We can grab something else back at my place if you want. Maybe… after?”

“You don’t want dinner now?”

“I just… Violet, I know we’re supposed to go on dates because we’re dating and that we shouldn’t just have sex, but we don’t have to go to restaurants or just have sex at my place. We can actually have a date there, like we did last night, and we can get naked whenever we want there.”

“That is an advantage,” Violet agreed as the waiter returned with their menus. “Can you bring us the tiramisu and the cheesecake to-go?” she asked without even looking at hers.

Stella laughed.

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When they pulled up to Stella’s house, Stella’s hand was already under Violet’s dress, sliding higher and higher up her thigh by the second.

“Eager?”

“Yes. It’s been too long.”

Stella moved her hand all the way up to cup her.

“Babe!” Violet laughed and put her car in park in the driveway. “Inside.”

“Yeah?” Stella asked, shifting her hand.

“What? No! Inside the house.” Violet laughed again.

“So, no car sex?”

“Not tonight anyway,” Violet said.

“Does that mean it can happen another time?”

“Stella, you have a whole house that we can have sex in. You really want to keep talking about this?”

“Nope. Let’s go.”