"Wow," Tom whispered. "That was... amazing."
Sybil only nodded, lying on her back, still gasping for air and staring at the ceiling in wonder.
"Yes," she finally sighed. "It was actually."
Tom turned, leaned his head on his elbow and looked down on her with a half smile.
"So what do we do now?"
"I don't know. What is the usual thing for a one-night stand? Do we just sleep or do you have to leave or what?"
Tom chuckled. "I wouldn't know. I haven't done that before."
"What?" Sybil sat up in astonishment. "You haven't?!"
"No", he answered and shrugged his shoulders. "I'm actually more the serious kind of guy."
Sybil plopped back on the bed. "I can't believe it."
That made him chuckle again. "Why? What is so unbelievable about it?"
"Well", she blushed a little. "You seemed so sure. I had no idea you were as new to this as I am."
"Not having one-night stands doesn't mean I haven't had sex before, you know that, don't you? And what do you mean with "new to this"?", he sounded slightly alarmed now. "Seriously you're not saying... You're not really new to this, aren't you? I mean... you seemed to know pretty well what to do..."
Sybil snorted. "I'm not a virgin, no. But about the "You knew pretty well" part..., well you must have been more drunk than you realized. I'm not very good at this, but it was easy with you."
"Not very good at this? You must be kidding!" Tom exclaimed. "In case you didn't notice, Sybil, this was amazing."
"Maybe you're just easy to please?"
"I can't believe you don't know how good you are," Tom said in an astonished voice he shook his head and looked down on her. "Let me tell you then. I think you're gorgeous and incredibly sexy."
Sybil smiled. "Okay... I'll try to believe you."
He nodded. "You should!"
He let his head fall back on the pillow and they just laid there for a while in companionable silence.
"Tom?"
"Hm?"
"Let's just sleep, okay? Since we both don't know how to behave at a one-night stand, and I don't want you to go down to your cold apartment."
He turned on his side reached out with his arm and put her close to him.
"I'd like that", he murmured into her hair.
Sybil snuggled into the cocoon of his arms. It was nice to be held so close. She felt warm and content.
"You smell so nice", he whispered after a minute or so.
"And you feel good", Sybil chuckled and wiggled her bottom against him.
"Stop it, love", he murmured, his voice sleepy. "Or you'll wake him up again..."
Sybil opened her eyes. Did he just call me "Love"? And did he just say "he" referring to his...?
She grinned when his soft but steady breathing in her ear told her that Tom had fallen asleep. This experience of her first one-night stand really was interesting. She had supposed it would feel very awkward once the passion was sated, but actually it was nice.
And with this thought she drifted to sleep.