Madison closed the door with a soft click that reverberated through my entire nervous system. She turned toward me with a smile that was pure predatory confidenceâthe kind that made my mouth go dry and my hands shake.
"So," she said, moving toward her bed and sitting on the edge in a way that made every curve of her body impossible to ignore, "should we start with our chemistry homework?"
She said it while patting the space beside her made it clear weâd crossed into territory Iâd only imagined in my most desperate, late-night fantasies.
This is actually happening. Madison Torres is about to fuck me. And Iâm either going to become a godâor completely humiliate myself so badly they write cautionary Reddit threads about it. Rational thought begins its rapid evacuation.
I sat down next to her, my hands trembling slightly as I tried to appear calm. But I wasnât calm. I wasnât fucking calm. I was a virginâa painfully inexperienced, hopelessly nerdy virginâand Iâd never been this close to a girl who looked like her. Hell, Iâd never been this close to
any
girl in this context.
Every inch of my skin buzzed like it had no idea how to behave under this much attention.
The bed too, was impossibly soft. Not just comfortableâluxurious. It whispered I didnât belong here. Like even the mattress knew I was an intruder in a world built for people who had
done this before
.
"You know," Madison said, and suddenly she was closer, close enough that I could see the careful artistry around her eyesâflawless makeup, impossibly smooth skin, lashes curled to some dangerous degree. She smelled like sugar, heat, and something expensive that made me dizzy. "Iâve been thinking about what happened today. With Lea."
Waitâ
what?
Why the fuck is she bringing up my public destruction right now? I wondered, but my brain short-circuited the second her fingertips brushed against my arm.
"That was... intense," I managed.
Even that came out strainedâlike my voice was on the verge of rebooting.
"It was," she agreed, and now her hand was flat against my chest.
My chest.
Her fingers spread across my shirt like she owned the space.
My pulse slammed in my ears. I couldnât believe this was real. Her touch felt too deliberate, too practiced, too... adult. I wasnât ready for this. I wanted itâdesperatelyâbut I had no idea how to handle it. There was no tutorial, no YouTube video, no "First Time for Dummies" manual to tell me what to do with my hands or my breath or my sanity.
"Youâre not just some quiet nerd hiding in the background, Peter, no youâre not and donât ever doubt yourselfâ" she said, her voice dropping into something lower, richer, impossibly more intimate and... caring? "Youâve got balls. Real ones."
Her hand slid up to my collar, her fingers grazing my skin. I
shivered
âactually shivered. Like some poorly coded NPC reacting to a temperature change.
She thinks I have balls? The only balls I have are the ones currently trying to crawl into my body to escape the combination of terror and arousal short-circuiting my brain. But I didnât say that. Couldnât say that. She was touching me like she
wanted
me, like I was desirable.
Like I belonged here.
"Plus," she continued, now with both hands on my chest, pressing against me through my shirt, "thereâs something incredibly sexy about a guy who speaks his mind. Even when itâs dangerous."
She was treating my unhinged rant like it was some kind of alpha power move. Like I was mysterious and rebellious. I wasnât. I was just scared shitless and running on fight-or-flight instinct. But the way she looked at meâlike I was more than Iâd ever dared to believeâit
did
something. Something that made my body lean in when my brain screamed
run
.
Her hands found the buttons of my shirt. My breathing hitched, and this time, I didnât try to hide it.
She started unbuttoning me slowlyâmethodicallyâher fingers brushing my skin each time she revealed more. Iâd never felt so vulnerable in my life. Iâd never had someone undress me. Not like this. Not with intent. Not with heat in their eyes like they
wanted
to see me.
"Is this what you want?" she asked, her eyes locked on mine.
I couldnât find my voice. I nodded like an idiot, then finally whispered, "Y-yes."
She pushed the shirt off my shoulders, and suddenly,
for the first time ever
, I felt good about my body... or at least my new body. Madison Torres was
looking at me
âmeâand not with judgment or pity. Her gaze roamed over my chest, slow and hungry.
Holy fuck. Sheâs looking at me like she wants to devour me.
A surge of confidenceâforeign, raw, flickering like a newborn flameârose in my chest.
"Much better than I imagined," she murmured, her hands exploring me with a reverence I didnât know I could earn. "Youâve been hiding this under those baggy shirts?"
Her touch was too much. My entire body felt overstimulated. Every brush of her palm was like fire licking my nerves.
This was real.
This wasnât a fantasy Iâd rewind in the shower. This was a girlâ
this
girlâtouching me,
wanting
me, breathing me in like I was something rare.
Madison leaned closer, her lips nearly at my ear. "I want to find out if everything theyâre saying about you is true."
She wants to see me. All of me. This is happening!
My breath caught as her fingers slid to my belt, undoing it with smooth, practiced motion. I didnât know what I was doing. Iâd never
done
anything. I was scared. But I didnât stop her. I couldnât.
"Madison," I started, my voice cracking like a breaking branch.
"Shh," she whispered, placing a finger over my lips. "Just let me handle everything."
Thank fuck
, because I was seconds from panicking. I didnât know where my hands belonged or what I was supposed to say or how to control the trembling wreck of a body I was living in.
She pushed me back gently onto the bed. The world tilted. My brain went static.
Madison straddled me.
And in that momentâstaring up at her, her hair cascading down, her eyes dark with wantâI felt like Iâd crossed into another universe. One where this version of me existed. One where I wasnât just Peter, the awkward kid from the back of the room, but
someone worth touching
.
"You know what I really like about you, Peter?" she asked, her hands braced on either side of my head.
"My charming personality?" I choked out.
She smiled. "Among other things."
And then she kissed me.
Holy. Fucking. Christ.
Madison Torres was kissing me.
And not just kissing. This wasnât some chaste movie scene. Her lips were warm and soft and
alive
, moving against mine with skill and hunger. Her tongue teased my mouth open, and I moanedâactually
moaned
âbecause this was
too much
and
not enough
and
everything Iâd ever wanted
all at once.
This was my first kiss.
And it felt like my
first breath
.
She tasted like mint and heat and something that wrecked me from the inside out. My hands fumbled at her waist, unsure, tentative,
so
inexperienced, but she didnât laugh or pull away. She
pressed closer
. Like she wanted more.
Like
I
was enough.
She deepened the kiss, grinding slightly against me, and I could
feel
how badly my body was reacting. She could tooâthere was no hiding that.
When she finally pulled back, I gasped like Iâd surfaced from drowning. My chest heaved. My heart was a jackhammer.
She smirked like sheâd just confirmed every rumor sheâd heard.
"Definitely more interesting than I expected," she murmured, her hand sliding down between us, reaching for the proof.
And I thought:
Game fucking time.
Except this time, the stakes werenât digital. There were no respawns. No practice rounds. Just one messy, terrifying, euphoric shot at being seenâ
really
seenâfor the first time.
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A/N: MY INTENTIONS ARE SIMPLE. Iâm
going to give you a very
extraordinary
first experience!