He laid on top of me, his skin somehow
warm on top of mine. It was my first in New
York and I wasn’t used to the cold,
but my boyfriend had lived there
forever and even he had a special kind
of trepidation when checking the forecast that was usually reserved for
setting an appointment for a root canal. Xxx It
made it hard to think straight, to finish
the game, but he’d force it out of me. People
took taxis they couldn’t afford from
the subway stop to their apartments and abused seamless instead of
venturing out for groceries or a meal at
a restaurant. There was this
kid-on-Christmas-morning quality to him as the guesses slipped out of his
mouth. One night the wind was so loud it filled
the apartment with a low-grade whine. Eventually it became more formal. Eventually it became more formal. With one
finger teasing me, making me wonder
if he intended to inside me or just
