Chapter 21 - "She Blushes."-01

"Oompf!" I cry out, just as my back hits the gym mat with a thud. Physical Strength is very important, I'd been told. And that was going to be the first step to make me stronger, I'd decided. With that in mind, I'd gone to bed early the previous night and had been set on going to sleep alone, because, come on, expecting Seneca to come again is just wishful thinking. And I don't have enough guts to go to her room when she'd clearly ordered me not to, on the eve of my arrival. I'd tossed and turned till eleven when my door opened and she'd come in and slid next to me. When I'd looked at her; whether in surprise or smugness I don't know, she'd turned up her defensiveness a notch and said, "What? I said you're not allowed to come to my room. I can come here. Just go to sleep." I'd wanted to point out that if she wants to sleep with me—only sleep—all she had to do was ask, and I won't say a thing, but I'd kept my thoughts to myself and dri