Pete "Maverick" Mitchell: Would it have made a difference? Charlie: Not in the ladies' room, no. Sometimes characters just need to get laid, no strings attached. Sometimes the strings get tangled up in their feet when they're not paying attention. This trope covers instances of a one-night stand followed by awkwardness when one participant encounters the other in an unrelated context the next morning.
Of course, intercourse need not be involved, it's just that it usually is. This may or may not be the start of a Romance Arc , and by extension may occur in romantic comedies. Subtrope of Pre-Meeting. She gets off the station before he does and he thinks he'll never see her again. She is, in fact, his new sister-in-law who is moving into the same apartment building.
In Domestic Girlfriend Natsuo loses his virginity to Rui, a girl he meets at a mixer party in a one night stand, only to discover that Rui and her sister Hina his crush and teacher are his new step sisters later that week.
Happens in the beginning of Guilty Love , where Nina sleeps with a random woman she meets in the barβonly to discover the next morning that the woman, Mayu, is her daughter's preschool teacher. Virgin Love , the protagonists meet each other at work a few weeks after their one night stand, leading to an ongoing relationship.
Comic Books In the first issue of Sex Criminals , Suzie and Jon meet at a party she's throwing to raise funds to save her local library. One thing leads to another, and they find out they have the same ability. The next morning she walks into her ready room to meet her new ops officer and it out to be the same guy, full name and title Lieutenant Commander Reshek Gaarra. She tries to keep a lid on it but her first officer figures it out right away anyway.
