I am looking forward to a mix of activities with an LI, from handholding, hugging and kissing all the way to rough, hairpulling sex where the MC and his LI are so into the experience of being with each other that - in those moments, nothing else exists, and they cannot tell where one of them ends and the other begins.
Bella's relationship with the MC has much more meaning for me because they did not go immediately into HJ/oral/etc.
The MC's condition made them both focus on trying to build their 'we' - something many 18-year-olds do Not do in the rush for sex and the aftermath where one or both of them are wondering - now what...
When the MC and Bella (or Zara, another LI who I am really enjoying) become sexually intimate, I like that it will mean something more than 'we were drinking and it just slipped in...'
I enjoy a wide variety of AVNs and I am fine with getting sexy time much more quickly in stories that are intended to be told over periods of 2-3 years from start to epilogue.
SG is my slow burn choice and I like the mysteries, the drama, the slow building of relationships and the tie ins with WIAB.
The hardest part right now is waiting for more of the story, but given what Ocean is aiming for (5,000 - 8,000 renders and a multi-day first S2 release) - it will be worth it when we get our hands on it.
Until then, we have previews like this:
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We get to speculate on what Ayua is thinking and more.
I have to imagine that Miss Marla - a friend of Amber's - will be letting her know what she saw in her classroom, with a trusting Bella asleep using the MC's shoulder for a pillow.
She might not even try to get the MC to wake her up and, instead, recognize that this is progress and learning even if it is not related to the subject that she is teaching that day.
In a deep story like Summers Gone, the side characters are so much more than just AVN trope cut outs who serve the simple purpose of adding a body for a throw away 3 sum or being the authority figure who says 'No'!
Cheers!!