Pen Pal

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual violence and harassment, mental illness, graphic violence, sexual content, illness and death, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.

Aidan and Kayla have sex, and Kayla enjoys it. Kayla notes that Aidan is larger and weighs more than Michael. She is happy to see that Aidan enjoys it as well. After sex, Kayla wonders if she should go home, and she reassures Aidan that she does not normally sleep with men she just met. Aidan says he is lucky, and he tells Kayla she will not leave tonight, adding that she can decide in the morning if this encounter was a mistake or not. They have sex again, and Kayla notes that rough sex is not the “making love” that Aidan offered her in the bar. Aidan laughs, and Kayla wonders what she got herself into.

Kayla wakes up on top of Aidan, and she thinks about what Michael would think if he could see her now. Michael would probably judge Aidan for not having a college degree, just as he judged her for not getting an MFA after her art degree. Aidan asks if Kayla is awake and says he wants to have sex again.