[ Claire nods, looking back up at the moon for a moment. She gets what he’s saying, and she knows it’s the way for most. But here’s also an amount of men and women that like to do things because they feel like they have to, not because they want to. Claire smiles, more to herself than to Derek. ]
I’m glad I’m not one of your obligations, then.
[ in some ways, that is what she needed to hear. And when he tells her she can touch, Claire reaches out, her hand dripping with water when she pulls it up to press the back of her knuckles to his cheek, just for a second, just to test it out. As she said, if she wants sex, she can find it somewhere else. She isn’t sure she can give Derek the connection he wants - it’s not exactly what she’s looking for, here, and she doesn’t want to be yet another woman that hurts him, but she also feels like he deserves it, and she doesn’t know how to stop.
She has to chuckle a bit when he mentions preferring to be naked. ]
Yeah, I can assure you most people don’t prefer being naked.
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I’m glad I’m not one of your obligations, then.
[ in some ways, that is what she needed to hear. And when he tells her she can touch, Claire reaches out, her hand dripping with water when she pulls it up to press the back of her knuckles to his cheek, just for a second, just to test it out. As she said, if she wants sex, she can find it somewhere else. She isn’t sure she can give Derek the connection he wants - it’s not exactly what she’s looking for, here, and she doesn’t want to be yet another woman that hurts him, but she also feels like he deserves it, and she doesn’t know how to stop.
She has to chuckle a bit when he mentions preferring to be naked. ]
Yeah, I can assure you most people don’t prefer being naked.