Chapter 201: What Kids Remember
Emily had often heard friends advising one another to be wary of a friends with benefits situations.
"There is no such thing, as no strings attached. That is how you catch feelings,"
"The two of you fall into bed after telling each other that it is a no feelings type of situation. But three years later, somehow you are married. You’ve got kids and you are living in a house somewhere in a gated community that you always hated, because when you passed by. It looked like the people there had no fun and excitement in their lives..." Back then Emily had not really paid attention. Unable to think of herself in such a predicament.
But now, Emily was realizing that people who gave such warnings. Even if they were well intentioned, were very wrong.
In the one night stand or no strings attached type of situations. It was not the physical act of trying to have sex without there being any emotions involved that got people caught up. What got people into trouble was actually something else.
It was the sleeping together part.
Emily, who had entered into a sleep only arrangement with one Derek Haven, could now call herself a certified expert on that front.
Sleep, just from the origins of it, was something special. To share your sleep with somebody was an intimate thing.
During sleep, was when the majority of human beings were at their most vulnerable. All of the walls that you put up during the day when you were awake were suddenly torn down.