Page 93 of Deja Who
FORTY-EIGHT
“We’ve done it!”
“Eh?” Leah was struggling back into her bra. “Have you seen my balisong—ah! There it is.” She had explained to Archer that although Tom was moldering in his grave, and good riddance, she felt naked unless she had at least one knife concealed on her person. Far from being put off, he’d nearly tackled her on the spot and they spent a delightful hour experimenting with cowgirl and reverse-cowgirl. “Yes, we have definitely done it; it seems obvious.”
Archer was back in the driver’s seat, shirtless. “We are the first couple in the history of backseat banging to have terrific sex in the back of a car! You have no idea how unprecedented this is.”
“The word ‘first’ tipped me off.” She couldn’t help the grin, an expression she suspected would eventually become more or less permanent with Archer in her life. “It’s good that it’sunprecedented, though. That makes me glad. Until you pointed that out, I was sad about missing high school sex.”
“Yeah, that? About that. Typical high school sex: picture what we just did, but suck ninety-five percent of the pleasure out of it and factor in muscle cramps and a paralyzing fear that you may have knocked up the girl in question, and also that your folks will find out what you’ve been up to, calculate all that, and it’s actually much, much worse.”
She sniffed. “Then why indulge?”
“Um... sex? Even bad sex is still pretty great. Because: sex.”
She tossed his shirt at his head. “Spoken by every man ever, and no woman ever,” she muttered, but it was impossible to maintain her pique. “So I should not actually miss this, because backseat sex tends to be unsatisfying?”
“Not the way we do it,” he replied with deep, masculine satisfaction. She rolled her eyes, but nothing would bring him down. “You know that feeling you get when you’re positive you haven’t done this before? Déjà new? That’s what Leah and Archer backseat sex is. Déjà new.”
For some reason, that made her laugh so hard she dropped her knife. And then there was nothing for it but to slip into the back again and go for Round Two.
