Sunny smiled at that, though it was a bit uncertain around the edges. She'd never talked about sex with anyone in a serious way, outside of very clinical (and thorough and unembarrassed, she had to give credit) conversations with her mother.

"Right now I think we're just trying to get past the hurdles of little experience and less confidence in body image." She had worded it deliberately so that it wasn't entirely clear who she was referring to. Context would make it sound like she meant only herself, but she meant Faizel, too. Only she couldn't come out and say it. It felt too like humiliating him.