Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

Author:Holly Smale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2023-02-21T14:00:41+00:00

22

So we went.

And I have to be honest: it was a lot like going nowhere at all.

* * *

“Well.”

“Well,” I agree as we both stare at the ceiling. “That was...”

“Great!” Will nods. “It was great. Really, really great.”

I am almost completely certain that if you say great three times in a row, it immediately cancels itself out. Zeus once had sex with Danae in the form of golden rain pouring through a subterranean chamber, and I’m pretty sure it was still more impactful than what just happened between me and Will.

“Mmm.” I nod too. “Really great.”

It was not great. It wasn’t even fine. It was like we were playing totally different sports on the same field at the same time. Foreheads banged; arms tangled; noses crunched. At one point, I smashed my elbow against the wall and squealed with pain; Will got stuck in his jumper and when I amorously tugged at it I nearly popped his head right off. Neither of us knew where to look and focused on the headboard. Will eventually climaxed in a flat, relieved kind of way—as if he’d just done a week’s laundry and now didn’t need to think about it again for a while—while I was so far away from it I might as well have been standing by the washing machine with him, separating out my whites.

And the whole way through, we could hear Dandelion: whining and pawing outside the bedroom door, as if she wanted to save her beloved from whatever horror was clearly going on in here.

To be frank, I’m not entirely sure I blame her: I kind of wish she had.

“We can do better,” I say into the silence. “I know we can.”

I know this for certain because we already have.

“It was good!” Will rolls toward me and taps me with a tired, floppy hand, as if I’m a light he’s trying to turn on in the middle of the night. “And the first time is always a bit awkward, right?”

Except our real first time wasn’t awkward at all.

It wasn’t perfect, but at least we were playing the same flaming game. I can’t help wondering if somewhere out there, another version of Will and Cassandra are having cosmos-shattering sex, right at this very moment. There is no excuse for what just happened, and I obviously can’t just leave it like that. Extremely awkward and makes things uncomfortable might be written on all my Work Assessments, but I’m not having it written on my sexual performance too.

“Let’s go again,” I say, closing my eyes.

Undo.

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