“I’ll get you more hot chocolate later.”

Elmira smiled, feeling so completely happy, just basking a few moments in the closeness of his body.

Then she sighed and pulled away, rolling out of bed.

“Where are you going?” Sven asked her, confused.

“It’s getting a little late to laze around in bed. I’m going to go take another shower and then I’m going to update my blog and finish registering for class.”

Elmira dug around the discarded clothes on the floor and found her panties and sweats. She put them on, closely observed by Sven, then she threw on her t-shirt. She made her way back to the bed and sat down next to him. She leaned down and kissed him sweetly on the lips, being much more gentle now in the afterglow than either of them had been in the throes of passion.

“I’ll see you in a bit,” she told him stroking his stubbly cheek. He took her hand in his and looked her in the eye,

“I told you I was going to make you scream my name, didn’t I?” he winked at her. Elmira smiled wide.

“Well, you do happen to have a very scream-able name, sir,”

Elmira kissed him again and stood up heading for the door. She looked back once, her hand on the handle to see Sven lying spread out on the bed, hands interlocked behind his head and looking right at her, grinning. Elmira shook her head and left the room, closing the door behind her.