"Teddy!" Sweetheart scolded from the other side of the bed.
"Oh god, it's the "watch your mouth!" look..." Teddy just smiled right back, "Sorry!" The young couple's reactions toward each other had been purely habitual up to this point. It was at this moment each realized just what they had done the night before.
"...and we can't tell anyone, no one can know, ok? Promise me!" Sweetheart slowed her rushed gait down the street to wait for Teddy to catch up and promise her. She would just die if any of this got out, her reputation would be ruined, her life would be over!
Teddy smiled to himself, "I love it when she gets all flustered." "Ok, ok, it's our little secret." Sweetheart stopped, smiled, kissed him good-bye, and galloped off on her usual route to Meadow Brooke High School. She figured if they showed up for school together everyone would know something was up. They had never walked to school together before because they lived in opposite directions from it. So they decided to split up and walk their traditional paths, meeting up as usual when they got there.
Sweetheart was getting paranoid, she'd go to any length to keep this little incident under wraps. Everyone knew of her strong stance against pre-marital sex, but last night she strayed from it. Sweetheart finally realized it had been her parents' decision all along. She was ready, and tired of waiting.
Sweetheart was the first to arrive, as she always was. She waited rather impatiently under "their" big oak tree, pacing back and forth uncontrollably. She was so nervous, "What if someone notices, what if they can tell the difference in me from yesterday? Do I look different? I feel different..." Sweetheart pulled out her compact to check. "Oh, that's just silly, I look exactly the same as I did before. I'm just over-reacting, no one will know. I just have to act as if nothing happened, I'm no different than I was yesterday. Except for the simple fact that I'm no longer a..." She spotted Teddy coming around the corner, all her anxieties disappeared. She'd never been so happy to see him before, she missed him.
As they slowly walked toward each other, Teddy noted how beautiful Sweetheart looked that day. Though he had just seen her 15 minutes earlier, it seemed like an eternity. It was the first time he could remember ever being truly happy, everything fit and life was perfect.
They walked up the steps to the school in a dense fog, niether acknowledged or even noticed the greetings they received from a few of their friends passing by. Teddy walked Sweetheart to her Literature class and then continued on to the Gym for his first class of the day. He had wanted to kiss her again before they parted, but knew Sweetheart wouldn't have it. Not at school, not in front of the prying eyes of their peers.
Ace had been standing by his locker socializing with some of the guys when Teddy and Sweetheart first entered the building. Something was different about them, he couldn't quite place it. Teddy actually looked happy! And Sweetheart was just glowing, even more than usual. They even seemed to be walking closer together than normal. Then it all became crystal clear, "No way! They didn't..."
"They who? Did what?"
"What are you, fuckin' blind?" Ace motioned toward the passing couple. Mack looked, but didn't see a thing.
Ace rolled his eyes, "Teddy and Sweetheart had sex last night!"
Mack's mouth dropped, "No way!"
