“Now what?” she sighed. Xxnx Not yet anyways. For a few moments, they simply held one another, letting the fire that had consumed extinguish in the ebbing peace that inundated them. She tried rotating and twisting the jack, but she couldn’t get it to secure itself anywhere. “Got this thing airborne yet,” she asked, “or have you been to busy staring at my boobs?” She flashed a sultry smile that feigned innocence. By the time she had loosened the last lug nut, the scissor jack started lifting the wheel off the ground. “You haven’t loosened the lug nuts, and you can’t do that with the wheel spinning in the air. There was so much to forget: the way our conversations weighed inside my memory, the excitement of seeing you for the first time each day followed by the ache of the smile left on my face
