April 2085: lie to you, part 1

April 2085: Charlie and Natty are 20 years old, Josh is 18.

Sountrack: "Would I Lie to You?" by Eurythmics

She remembered the first time they did it -- "did it", because at fifteen, you're not really mature enough to "make love" yet, even if you might really grow to love each other some day. It was her idea, after school before her parents got home for work. They had approximately sixty-five minutes and two condoms, and so it happened.

At twenty now, in their second year of college together, Natty had loved Charlie as long as she could remember knowing how to love. She loved him even though he was annoying sometimes, and a little bit anti-social, and had planets and stars on his boxers. She loved him because she'd grown up with him and watched him become a man. She loved him because she couldn't imagine loving anyone else.