The following month was a good one for me and Katie. We hung out all the time, and while we did not have sex, Katie was becoming more and more open about physical intimacy. She spent nearly every night with me in my apartment: pushing her sexual limitations, staying up too late, making each other laugh, and inevitably falling asleep in each other’s’ arms only to wake up the next day and do it all again. Now despite all of the time we were spending together, we were still apart for a large portion of the day due to classes, work, homework, etc. We would text each other occasionally, but Katie was not a clingy girl, telling me “I don’t need to hear from you every second of the day. Everyone needs their space, and I’m not glued to your hip.”
This freedom that I had was something that I had never had with a girlfriend. She trusted me, and was happy to know that I would be there for her at the end of the day. In addition to my being crazy about Katie, all of my friends seemed to like her as well. My two closest friends, Leah and Brianna, both had known her before we had started dating although they had never hung out with her before. I suggested that they do a girls night out so they could get to know her better. They promptly agreed, and I texted Katie to ask her when she would be free for this outing.