My girlfriend (I will call her H) and I were staying at her parents’ beach house during the first few days of the new year. It was our 4th anniversary the day before, but although we had planned on having sex, it didn’t work out that night. The next day, things continued as normal, spending the morning making breakfast and just enjoying the beach view. Eventually, we started bickering, honestly I don’t even know what about. We would figure out later that we were both pretty sexually frustrated and that might have been why we were fighting anyways.
H says something to me that kind of stopped the conversation, and since it was just us in a little beach condo, I decided I needed to step out. I drove down the beach a little bit, talking on the phone to my friend, when I got a call from her. I ignored it, but she called back a second time, so I told my friend I’ll call him back and pick up.
“Can you please come back now” H asks me.
“What if I still need a little time to cool off?” I replied.