After a thorough washing of each other, parts of which got a more thorough scrubbing than some other parts, we didn't bother getting dressed. The sofa had a cover on it that had seen more than its share of wet behinds.

Since we really hadn't been separated, there wasn't much to catch up on. Ash told us, or at least it was new to me, that prior to meeting me she had slept with exactly two guys. One after the prom and the other in a drunken college freshman party. Neither inspired her to want more. Leah, of course, was a virgin when she started dating me. She had a...