Robin, Boy Virgin: Original Series

On Thursday morning, I came to school, feeling tired. After the LOVE club clash of opinions, I had had a lot to think about on Wednesday night. Mostly, I don't know if you noticed, but... Cora and I have, like, the exact same opinion on sex. And I'm not, I'm not entirely sure what that means, really, or if it means anything at all. I don't know, though. I'm a virgin. I don't know what makes people compatible in the sack. But I would imagine that being on the same page about what sex means and when to have it is, like, a good place to start at least.

Take it easy, Robin. Just... be cool. Don't get carried away.

Don't forget you're dating Minnie right now, kind of, so you should care about her opinion on sex. Ew, whoa, that's alien: thinking about having sex with Minnie. Whoa. K, no, let's just not. Again, don't get carried away.

I entered the practice room, and Cora was already there, sipping something from a coffee mug and playing these bored chords on the piano.

"Morning," I said. Cora looked over her shoulder.

"Mornin'" She replied. Judging from the lack of coffee smell, I guessed Cora was drinking peppermint tea again. I sat down in the other chair and rubbed my eyes. I looked around for a guitar, but someone had taken it from the room. I sighed.

"No guitar," I noted. Cora took her hand off piano and sucked back more tea.

"I'm freaking tired as balls today," Cora said. Ha! She just said balls.

"Me too," I agreed. Cora sighed and tucked her curly wavy hair behind her ears.

"What's the deal? Why doesn't the tea wake you up?" I asked. "Tea has more caffeine in it than coffee," I said, showing off some extraneous, dumb knowledge. Cora chuckled.

"It usually does. But, you know, tea is gentler than coffee so..." Cora said. She likes gentle. That's... that's nice. Ahem.

"Hm," Was all I said. My brain was thinking about being gentle and, um, I didn't want it to be doing that.

"You wanna listen to music?" Cora asked.

"Sure," I said. Of course, always. I turned to pull out my iPod and hook it up to the computer, when Cora came over to the computer and took charge. I felt like my role was being taken away, which is just stupid.

Cora put on this beautiful instrumental music and smiled when the song started. It made me smile too. Suddenly, Cora reached over to the light switch and turned off the lights. Whoa. But Cora moved away from me and then... lay down on the floor. She did it kind of stiffly, since she was tired, and exhaled happily when she was lying flat. But she was lying down on the floor. Her head was in the middle of the room and her legs stretched to the wall opposite from the computer.

"Come on, BW. This is nice," She encouraged, propping her coffee mug on her stomach. I paused and then decided not to think about it and just do it. So I lay down too, my head next to Cora's, but my legs stretching out the other way, under the computer desk. Together, our tall bodies pretty much covered the length of the room. Yeah it's a tiny room.

And now I was lying next to Cora's face in the dark, listening to amazing music. I looked over at Cora. Holy... she is pretty. Even though it was dark, I was close enough to her that I could see the curl of her eyelashes, I could see the profile of her face.

"Look, you can sort of see the reflection of the screen saver," Cora said, blinking. I just kind of... kept looking at her. Cora turned her head a little and looked at me. We were looking at each other and her eyes... like, even in the dark, man. Especially in the dark, the crisp deep blue sucked me in and made me crazy. Cora smiled a little and then looked back at the ceiling peacefully. I looked up at the ceiling.

1.) The planet scenes on the screen saver did in fact kind of glow on the ceiling.

2.) Yes, Cora was drinking peppermint tea. I could smell the mint on her breath.

3.) I am crazy into Cora.

Eventually the class ended. Cora and I lay there, meditating and listening to music (and in my case, battling impulses to just kiss her already) for the entire class. When the bell rang, Cora groaned quietly.

"Man. I just want to hang out here with you all day," She wished.

"Same," I agreed.

But she sat up and so did I. And we collected our stuff and left the practice room.

We split up and I went to my locker. I was standing there, trying to remember what class I had next, and thinking about Cora. I felt funny, some kinda weird off-putting emotion that I didn't recognize. It made me feel like I was in, like, an isolated bubble, or on a different planet, and everyone around me was just walking by without a care in the world. It was so freaking weird, not particularly enjoyable, but not really bad either.

I picked out the binder I needed and closed my locker. I walked down to Cora's hallway, since we walk together once and awhile between classes. It's, like, a normal thing.

But Brandon was occupying Cora's attention at her locker. What the frick?? I thought, like, the popular people collectively didn't like Cora (probably because she was a threat and refused to be their friend). But apparently Brandon is just such a rebel and can buck their system. Fuck.

I stopped and watched, the weird feeling both intensifying and kind of going away. I can't explain it! It was just weird. After a moment, I turned around and just walked to my next class on my own. What else could I do?