And John bikes home.
He thinks at least a little bit about how to love her (or say that he loves her, perhaps) on the bike ride home, though it's not very long. Does he love her? Should he? Rosy's love for him has built over, well, over an entire year of um, stalking (concerning still by the way) but even so everyone knows that when a girl tells you she loves you you need to tell her you love her back. But also everyone knows that you're not supposed to say you're love them if you don't. And John... well John doesn't know if he loves her yet? He's not sure what it means to love someone, really. He certainly wants to have sex with her, but movies and tv shows and books and things have also made it very clear that wanting to have sex with someone doesn't necessarily mean you love them. It's more about... a more non-specific sort of caring. And it's supposed to be the kind that builds over a long period of time? Longer than... two? Three? Some small number of dates. Possibly Rosy feels that way because she has been seeing and falling in love with John for over a year (and also probably because Rosy is Just Like That, she's very Like That, which is something he does love about her... is that what love is?) but John hasn't had anywhere near that long. And he's pretty sure he isn't sure enough yet the way Rosy might be that... he doesn't know. He is making a long-term commitment. Like, if he owns her forever, is he going to marry her? That does seem like the right thing to do, but is that what he wants? He hadn't thought about that before, actually. He's not sure he wants to now. (In theory he can back out of this at any time but that's not really true and so this is a lot bigger commitment than he thought it was and he's not sure what to do about that and also he doesn't really want to think about this right now and should think about something else.)
And then he gets home, still lost in thought, and greets his parents, and has a quick snack, and gets started on math to take his mind off things. His concentration is... well, it's a bit shot, to be honest, but he does at least get through all the things he needs to before study hall tomorrow morning. (Study hall might be a biiit cramped, though, but he doesn't need to do a good job on his French essay, probably, he's already doing mediocre in that class anyways.)
And then he lies away in bed, going through the events of the past few days. He's had... sex? (at least orgasmed, as she put it, like a serial killer... or wait, they've done it in serial he... it doesn't matter. It was funny at the time) three times with her, which is a lot more sex than he expected to be having with a girl he just started dating (isn't he supposed to wait for the third date at least? Oh well, yet another thing he's messing up. At least they didn't have sex on the first date. Even if his dad made a point of going upstairs to shower). He's had sex with her a bunch in a short time and he's planning on having more but even more to the point, she's planning to give herself to him like something out of his fantasies? Out of the porn he reads? (Usually in both the giving is um, non-consensual (but not always!) but it still feels pretty much out of porn.) And he's potentially committing to own a person (a very cute and delightful person) and whatever that might entail. Is he ready for that? How will this interact with his college plans (actually wait hold on that's a good point, what are they going to do about that? He's not going to have to go to her Magic College is he? He's already planning to go to Carnegie Mellon, he can't go there. Does she have teleporter spells? Or portal ones? Or will they just have a long-distance relationship for a while)? There's a lot of unanswered questions and he's been diving in headfirst but maybe he should... try to figure out what this is going to look like? He does not want to give up Rosy (the thought of the fantasy they had together is enough to get him turned on all over again) but he... there's actually a lot of questions here he hasn't been asking, now that he's thought to ask them. Possibly he should ask them. Or think more on them.
And it's with all these unsettled thoughts bouncing around in his mind that John finally manages to fall asleep.