Through the Window

Chapter 7 - First Date

Despite her usual ineptitude around Jho, Bea managed to keep her cool for the majority of their date. There were a few times she caught herself staring unabashedly at Jho's cleavage. She started to feel a little guilty about it and tried to be a perfect gentleman, but then she realized there was a good possibility Jho wore that top on purpose. And even saw Jho smirking at her the fourth time she caught her looking.

Jho brought Bea to her favorite restaurant in the area. They spent the evening getting to know each other a little more. The more Bea learned about her, the more she found herself really liking Jho. It kind of scared her to be falling so quickly for a girl under these circumstances. Maybe because she had never been in this situation before. On a first date with a girl she had already had phone sex with.

There was rarely a moment of silence between them throughout the entire dinner. They exchanged stories of their adolescence and found that they each had a pretty fair amount of embarrassing stories between them.

"So you were kind of a stud in high school?"

Bea shrugged. "I guess. Towards the end, yeah. Once I filled out. I was pretty scrawny freshman and sophomore year."

"So medyo marami ka ng....experience."

Bea shifted uncomfortably in her seat. It was an inevitable question. One that would normally come up around the third or fourth date. But they had done things so backwards already, she wasn't really surprised it came up now.

"Um...you could say that." Bea couldn't bring herself to look at Jho. "Eh ikaw?"

Jho started to blush. "I didn't really start having sex until college at sa tatlong tao lang. I did it once with this random guy right after my dad died the summer before I started college. Ang gaga noh? But it was sort of a grieving thing, you know? Then I did it with a guy I dated for about a month my freshman year in college. And then a guy I woke up next to after a drunken night at a party. We ended up dating for a few weeks."

Bea wasn't quite sure what to do with this information. She was a bit surprised for a few reasons. The first being that she thought Jho was gay. The second being that she found it hard to believe someone so insanely gorgeous could only have been with three people.

"Oh." It was all Bea could manage to blurt out.

Jho looked a bit uncomfortable.

"Masama ba 'yon?"

"No! Hindi. Not at all. I just...I thought...you haven't...been with...any girls?"

Jho bit her lip. "Not in a fully...sexual capacity. I've made out with a few girls. Complete with groping and all that, but it never really went any further."

Bea nodded. "Oh." She wanted to say more. She wanted to ask more, but didn't want to make Jho uncomfortable.

"I wanted it to go further," assured Jho. "I liked it. I really liked it. They just didn't seem to want to take it any further."

Bea scoffed. "Parang ang hirap naman paniwalaan n'yan. Nakikita mo ba sarili mo? You could turn any straight girl gay."

"Apparently no."

"So...you're into girls, then?"

Jho gave her a rather confused look. "Hindi pa ba klaro yun sa'yo the past few weeks?"

Bea could tell she was turning red. "Just making sure. You never know."

Jho reached her hand out and placed it on top of Bea's. "I am most definitely into girls. And you in particular. Just in case you weren't aware."