It was afternoon when the events of the last chapter took place. Asuna woke up the next day, at midday, when I was back from my morning courses. 'Gosh, how long did I sleep?' she asked, slowly sitting up, still dazed.

'19 hours,' I answered.

'WHAT?' she exclaimed. 'I can't believe this. I wanted you to spend your day off with me. How could I sleep when you were so eager to see your girlfriend again after such a long time? I'm horrible, I'm...'

'Asuna, relax,' I held her by the shoulders. 'It seems you were too tired from the journey. It was not your fault.'

'Oh, Kirito, you are so sweet and...' Asuna's words were interrupted by an intense migraine. She placed her hand above her eye. 'Gosh, it hurts,' she moaned and dropped her upper body back on the bed. I guess 19 hours of sleep can do that.

'I'll fetch you a painkiller,' I said immediatelly and ran to the kitchen area, feeling remorse. I took a pill out of a drawer, after triple checking the box to make sure it was a box of painkillers indeed and I wouldn't accidentally give her another sleeping pill. I dissolved it into a glass of water. 'Here you are,' I gave it to her.

'Thank you,' she said weakly and drank it.

'So,' I tried to cheer her up. 'My courses are over for today. We can spend some time together now if you want.'

And so, I devoted the rest of my day to Asuna. We strolled around, me giving her a tour of the premises, we grabbed a snack in the cafeteria and, by evening, we were lying on grass, gazing at the stars. All in all, we spent pretty romantic moments.

When we returned to my room in the night, I surprised her by lifting her and carrying her to my bed, bridal style. Asuna squealed in a pleasant shock. 'When did you get so confident?' she giggled as I gently dropped her on the bed.

I looked at her meaningfully. 'This time won't be like our first time,' I said.

'Don't remind me of that disaster,' she sighed. Next, she looked at me seriously and added: 'But still, let's not get our hopes too high. I mean, it's only the second time, for both of us, so we're still pretty inexperienced, so...'

I hushed her with a sudden kiss. Asuna reciprocated after her new pleasant shock and we made out on the bed for a while, her caressing my nape and me holding her by the shoulders.

I descended and took off her lovely, white slippers while kissing her foot bridges, eliciting giggling moans from her. I turned her over and started removing her white dress. Thanks to my experiences with Leafa, I was by now pretty familiar with undoing any kind of female garment, so I did it fast and easily, without needing any help from my red head partner. Once more, Asuna was surprised.

I enjoyed kissing and caressing her back for while, with her just lying face down and revelling in my touches, moaning in pleasure. Later, I removed her blue bra as well, fast and easily, turned her over again and looked at her boobs. Not as large as Leafa's, but still a spectacle to behold. Whoah, why did I think about Leafa at such a moment? Focus, Kirito, right now, your true love needs all your attention. I leaned and started playing with my girlfriend's breasts, eliciting more moans.

Soon, we both were left only with our respective underpants on. We were exploring each other's bodies as if that was our first time. And, in a sense, it was. Years later, Asuna and I would both decide, after a casual chat in a romantic moment, that this was our true first time indeed, so we would title it as our true first time. And then we would laugh about it together. But let's get back to the present. As I was saying, Asuna and I were exploring each other's bodies. We were now constantly changing positions, depending on who was trying to kiss or touch whom and where at that time. (Wait, is that sentence even grammatically correct? Darn, if only I paid more attention to language class lectures instead of thinking about ladies all the time.)

At some point, when I was on top, I decided that was enough foreplay. I sat up and started removing Asuna's blue underpants. She lifted her legs to help me and, finally, when her underpants had reached her feet, she finished the task herself by dropping one foot back on the bed, now holding the underpants between the other foot's toes, and sensually flipping the other foot, thus tossing her last garment away while giving me a seductive look.

I hastily removed my underpants too and began inserting my manhood into her womanhood. The sensation of her vagina around my penis was incredible. Asuna intuitively wrapped her legs around me as I started thrusting. This time, I wasn't afraid of premature ejaculation. I knew it wouldn't happen again. I just knew it! Asuna was enjoying my thrusts, sometimes with her eyes closed, sometimes with her eyes raised to the ceiling and sometimes looking at me with her kind smile.

We climaxed simultaneously. As I emptied my load inside her, it occurred to me: I was giving my girlfriend an orgasm for the first time! As opposed to Leafa's orgasm screams, which would resonate across the entire premises were the dorm rooms not soundproof, Asuna was considerably quieter. She just whispered 'I'm cumming' with a smile of felicity and her moans became kinda more intense for a while, that's all.

'Wow, Kirito, you have come a long way since our first time,' she said to me a few minutes later, when we were cuddling in bed. 'If I didn't know you, I'd say that you have been trained by a slut who knows every sexual position under the sun.'

'What?' I snapped, anxious.

'Relax, I'm kidding,' she winked, even though what she had said a moment before was exactly the case!

Next day, in the campus park, I introduced Leafa to my girlfriend: 'Asuna, this is Leafa, a good friend of mine.'

'Nice to meet you,' the red head smiled and offered a handshake.

'Hello, girl whom I have never seen before in my life,' Leafa said as she reciprocated the handshake, making Asuna raise an eyebrow and me blush. This blondie plays with fire sometimes!

'So, Asuna,' Leafa continued casually. 'Do you like sports?'

'Oh, yeah! Especially tennis,' the red head cried.

'Really? Are you good?' Leafa enquired, caressing her chin.

'Nobody beats me!' Asuna boasted.

'Oh ho ho, I'd like to see that,' Leafa gave her a provocative look.

'We're on,' Asuna playfully pointed a finger at Leafa. 'Go put on your tennis clothes and meet me at the campus court in 20 minutes.'

Wait a minute, did my official girlfriend and the girl I'm cheating on her with just become besties? As Leafa had predicted? How am I supposed to react to that?