Hey guys, I'm back! Please enjoy, and please read the authors note at the end, it's important.

Charlaine Harris owns most stuff in this story.

I woke up the next morning and felt my face flush as I thought of the previous day. I groaned aloud. Suddenly Amelia swung the door open and handed me a cup of coffee.

"Good, you're up."

I rolled my eyes.

"Not quite. Leave and come back in five minutes. You know I hate it when people talk to me as soon as I wake up."

She laughed and mocked me.

"No. We need to talk about what happened yesterday at the lake."

"Nothing hap—"

"Don't you fucking lie to me."

My eyes widened.

"Amelia, I don't want to talk about it."

"Too bad, so sad."

"Really? 'Too bad, so sad.' Grow up."

She sat her cup of coffee down on my bedside table, then hopped up onto my bed, laying down beside me.

"Sookie, you know you wanna get it off your chest. So, just tell me. No judgment. Promise."

"It was so slutty of me and something I can't believe I did."

"You fucked him?"

"NO! ... Well, practically."

"Wait, I'm confused." She sat up and grabbed her coffee back. "What exactly did you do?"

My face started turning red again. "I'm not exactly sure of how to explain it."

She took a sip. "Well, just try."

"We kinda just… rubbed against each other a lot? I know it doesn't sound like much... but it kinda was."

She nodded knowingly. "So you dry humped him."

"Apparently."

"OH MY GOD, WAS IT AWESOME?"

"Calm down!" I shushed her. "It was... very good, but also very bad. I can't believe this. This is ruining my plan."

Amelia rolled her eyes. "Can you forget about the plan for five minutes? God, ever thought that maybe the plan isn't important? That maybe you guys could fall in love? That maybe this is the real deal?"

I stood up from the bed and stretched. "Oh come on Amelia, you and I both know that Eric Northman could never fall in love with me. I will always be Jason's fat kid sister to him."

"Do you think dry humping is something he does with all of his friend's sisters?"

"Well, no.. But still."

"All I'm saying is, give him a chance. What's more important, finding love or getting even?"

I rolled my eyes, "Love clearly, but that isn't what this is. He wants to have sex with me. I'm not stupid, I know men."

"Do you really though? You've never had a real boyfriend and you've slept with one guy. You're 22 years old, you need to experiment."

I stood up from the bed and pulled my robe on. "I don't wanna talk about it anymore. Let's go downstairs. I'll make you some pancakes."

I slipped out of my room and headed downstairs. I walked into the kitchen and there sat Eric, drinking some orange juice with Jason. Dear lord he looks beautiful today.

I looked at him and my face immediately flushed as I thought about the day before, yet again.

"Hi Sookie." Eric spoke gently in a soft voice. He seemed to understand how awkward I felt and was trying to make things less hard on me.

"Hi Eric." I cleared my throat and went to the cupboard, grabbing the ingredients I needed for pancakes.

"How are you this morning?"

I turned around, "I'm doing very well, and you?"

"Quite well, thank you."

I looked over at Jason and he was making a strange face.

"Why are y'all acting so weird?"

"Weird? What do you mean weird?"

I cursed myself as my voice cracked.

"Just like that, you're acting like you barely know each other."

"I have no idea what you're talking about Jason. Who wants pancakes?"

I smiled at Eric and he smiled back and bit his lip. I turned around. I can't even deal with this right now. I thought to myself.

Suddenly Jason stood up. "None for me, I gotta be off. I'll be back in a few hours."

"Okay, see you later." Eric said swiftly.

As soon as Jason was gone, Eric looked over to me.

"So do you want to talk about this?"

"About what? There's nothing to talk about Eric."

"Sookie, don't even play games with me. I wasn't just hooking up, I hope you know that."

I cleared my throat. "Well what if I was? Just hooking, up that is? Would that be so wrong?"

Eric smiled a knowing smile. "No, but I know you too well to think that that's something you would want to do."

"Well to be honest Eric, I don't know if I can talk about it. I'm still feeling kind of awkward about it. I don't do things like that and I don't plan on doing it again. I hope you can understand that."

"But Sookie, we were so great together, right? I mean has it ever been that good for you? It hasn't for me, and we didn't even have sex."

"Eric!" I shushed him. "I'm not gonna talk like that."

"Well since you're saying you won't ever do it again, can't you just tell me if it was as amazing for you as it was for me?"

"…."I shuffled in my slippers.

"Sookie please." He was smiling mischievously.

"Will it make you shut up if I tell you?"

He nodded his head up and down.

"Then yes, it was the greatest sexual experience of my life. So congrats Eric. What, do you want- a prize? Because it's not actually that hard to do. I haven't had many experiences in the first place. I don't know what else you want me to tell you… I mean it's clear we have chemistry, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm not that kind of girl, Eric."

"No Sookie, I don't want a prize. I just wanted you to acknowledge the fact that we're great together. And not just sexually, in other ways too. And I want to get to know you in a different way than how I know you now."

"Well, that would be okay then I guess. How do you mean though? Just to clarify?"

He smiled a big toothy grin. "To possibly take you on a few dates?"

I pretended to think about it for a while but I already knew my answer.

"Sure Eric. But don't get your hopes up. We'll see how this goes. I don't want things to be weird."

"No, no, no, not weird at all."

"Okay, so now that that's cleared up, want some pancakes?"

I bent over to get a frying pan out of the bottom cabinet when I heard Eric sigh and make a groaning noise. I turned around and rolled my eyes, "Seriously?"

He licked his lip and spoke, "Seriously." He stood up from his chair and backed me up against the counter, kissing me full on the lips.

I pushed him away.

"Slow, Eric, we're taking things slowly."

He laughed and retreated back to his seat. "Whatever you say Sookie."

Hey guys, so I realize this isn't the longest chapter ever, but I really wanted to return with a spov, but didn't really have much for her to say. The next chapter will be epov and will be a bit longer. I hope you all don't think this is the beginning of the end. There will still be a bit of angst and cat and mouse stuff going on and there won't be any more lemons for a while. Thanks to everyone who stayed with me over my long hiatus and thanks to all the new readers too, I love you all. I'm planning on this story being around 25 chapters in total, but we'll see. Thanks again.