Prompt: 57. Quits

Character(s): Allison

Word Count: 219

Rating: T

Warning(s): None


Photography, watercolors, poetry, and archery had failed to capture her interest. After a lengthy discussion about sex and protection following the condom debacle she regretted most the fact that she hadn't told Scott of all the hobbies she hadn't quit.

Namely yoga, sewing and belly dancing. She hadn't mentioned the belly dancing to anyone, the idea of another discussion of safe sex and the importance of not having it until she was thirty if her father ever found the costume in her bottom drawer under her dress patterns and fabric bolts was not a soothing one.

She wondered if the purple gauze skirt and jingling coin bra would have the intended reaction if she told Scott about them, maybe she'd just show him instead, whenever her dad decided to let her have the house to herself again, in a few weeks, or months if he was suspicious enough to think she'd have the 'brown eyed cutie,' over the moment she knew he'd be gone for the night.

Maybe she'd beg aunt Kate for the favor of a distraction.

On second thought she decided it was worth the wait. Half the fun was anticipation. She found her old book of the dance routines and reread it while practicing in her mirror so she'd be ready when the time came along.