diff --git a/adafruit_requests.py b/adafruit_requests.py
index d6730c9..9f38502 100644
--- a/adafruit_requests.py
+++ b/adafruit_requests.py
@@ -86,14 +86,11 @@ class Response:
 
     encoding = None
 
-    def __init__(
-        self, sock: SocketType, session: "Session", fast_close: bool = False
-    ) -> None:
+    def __init__(self, sock: SocketType, session: "Session") -> None:
         self.socket = sock
         self.encoding = "utf-8"
         self._cached = None
         self._headers = {}
-        self._fast_close = fast_close
 
         # _start_index and _receive_buffer are used when parsing headers.
         # _receive_buffer will grow by 32 bytes everytime it is too small.
@@ -230,27 +227,16 @@ def _throw_away(self, nbytes: int) -> None:
             to_read -= self._recv_into(buf, to_read)
 
     def close(self) -> None:
-        """Drain the remaining ESP socket buffers. We assume we already got what we wanted."""
+        """Close out the socket. If we have a session free it instead."""
         if not self.socket:
             return
-        # Make sure we've read all of our response.
-        if self._cached is None and not self._fast_close:
-            if self._remaining and self._remaining > 0:
-                self._throw_away(self._remaining)
-            elif self._chunked:
-                while True:
-                    chunk_header = bytes(self._readto(b"\r\n")).split(b";", 1)[0]
-                    if not chunk_header:
-                        break
-                    chunk_size = int(bytes(chunk_header), 16)
-                    if chunk_size == 0:
-                        break
-                    self._throw_away(chunk_size + 2)
+
         if self._session:
             # pylint: disable=protected-access
             self._session._connection_manager.free_socket(self.socket)
         else:
             self.socket.close()
+
         self.socket = None
 
     def _parse_headers(self) -> None:
@@ -365,13 +351,11 @@ def __init__(
         socket_pool: SocketpoolModuleType,
         ssl_context: Optional[SSLContextType] = None,
         session_id: Optional[str] = None,
-        fast_close: Optional[bool] = False,
     ) -> None:
         self._connection_manager = get_connection_manager(socket_pool)
         self._ssl_context = ssl_context
         self._session_id = session_id
         self._last_response = None
-        self._fast_close = fast_close
 
     @staticmethod
     def _check_headers(headers: Dict[str, str]):
@@ -389,7 +373,6 @@ def _check_headers(headers: Dict[str, str]):
     def _send(socket: SocketType, data: bytes):
         total_sent = 0
         while total_sent < len(data):
-            # ESP32SPI sockets raise a RuntimeError when unable to send.
             try:
                 sent = socket.send(data[total_sent:])
             except OSError as exc:
@@ -399,6 +382,7 @@ def _send(socket: SocketType, data: bytes):
                 # Some worse error.
                 raise
             except RuntimeError as exc:
+                # ESP32SPI sockets raise a RuntimeError when unable to send.
                 raise OSError(errno.EIO) from exc
             if sent is None:
                 sent = len(data)
@@ -566,7 +550,7 @@ def request(
         if not socket:
             raise OutOfRetries("Repeated socket failures") from last_exc
 
-        resp = Response(socket, self, fast_close=self._fast_close)  # our response
+        resp = Response(socket, self)  # our response
         if allow_redirects:
             if "location" in resp.headers and 300 <= resp.status_code <= 399:
                 # a naive handler for redirects
@@ -594,6 +578,10 @@ def request(
         self._last_response = resp
         return resp
 
+    def options(self, url: str, **kw) -> Response:
+        """Send HTTP OPTIONS request"""
+        return self.request("OPTIONS", url, **kw)
+
     def head(self, url: str, **kw) -> Response:
         """Send HTTP HEAD request"""
         return self.request("HEAD", url, **kw)
diff --git a/tests/method_test.py b/tests/method_test.py
index dac6d07..d75e754 100644
--- a/tests/method_test.py
+++ b/tests/method_test.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
         "DELETE",
         "GET",
         "HEAD",
+        "OPTIONS",
         "PATCH",
         "POST",
         "PUT",
diff --git a/tests/reuse_test.py b/tests/reuse_test.py
index 8ef5f5d..0c0e9a5 100644
--- a/tests/reuse_test.py
+++ b/tests/reuse_test.py
@@ -57,7 +57,14 @@ def test_get_twice(pool, requests_ssl):
 
 
 def test_get_twice_after_second(pool, requests_ssl):
-    sock = mocket.Mocket(mocket.MOCK_RESPONSE + mocket.MOCK_RESPONSE)
+    sock = mocket.Mocket(
+        b"H"
+        b"TTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: "
+        b"70\r\n\r\nHTTP/1.0 2"
+        b"H"
+        b"TTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: "
+        b"70\r\n\r\nHTTP/1.0 2"
+    )
     pool.socket.return_value = sock
 
     response = requests_ssl.get("https://" + mocket.MOCK_ENDPOINT_1)