Chapter 70

"Still don't feel sleepy?" Xavier asked after a long while, surprising Charlotte who assumed he had gone to sleep because of his silence.

"No," she whispered as he began stroking her hair again.

"Neither do I," he said. Charlotte wondered if he had simply lied to make her feel better about keeping him awake. "What do we do now?"

A blush colored her cheeks when a certain thought occured to her. She had several ideas of what they could do that night and none of them was innocent.

"How about we see a movie," she suggested.

"Alright then," he said, getting up slowly from the bed so as not to disturb her. He switched the Tv on and began to peruse through the various cable channels available, trying to select the one that was the most bearable. When he finally settled on an 80's sitcom, he asked Charlotte if that was what she wanted and returned to his position behind her.

By then, she was sitting up, so when he returned to his side of the bed, she rested her back on him and he wrappe