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“Dear boy!” he’d scoffed. “You sound like a sweet summer child, only twenty years older. The best part of sex is the conversation and the dirty talk! Like, how does it even work without that?”
Cutting to the chase, he’d lectured me so hard I’d decided that joining up would be easier than listening to him ramble about sexy talk all day.
The fact that he'd almost started trying to seduce me with his words made me make the decision quicker.
But Naughty Lessons wasn’t like any other chatroom where you could just sign up and get wanking.
Oh, no, I had to go through the works—including a whole round of interviews in a posh office, with young ladies in professional skirts and shirts, each one looking me up and down like I was a mannequin with three nipples instead of two.
I answered the call.
“Hello, is this Mr. Elijah Taylor?”
“The very same.”
“We are pleased to inform you that your membership with Naughty Lessons is now approved. You may join your first chatroom tonight.”
Heck, why did that excite me so much? It was like I suddenly had a whole new world to explore, something wild and free.
“Thank you.”
The second I hung up, though, I felt a slight twinge of guilt run through me.
June was long gone, but her memory was so real that at times it felt physical.
My mind went back to our last conversation, the one we’d had in our final days. I’d been filled with anticipatory grief back then.
It was as if my soul already knew she was on another plane, and I wasn’t willing to let her go there.
So I sat by her bed as she labored through her breathing, her eyes already distant.
The accident had crushed everything but her courage.
“Promise me, El.”
“Anything, my love.”
“That when you remember me, it will be with mostly joy, and maybe sometimes, a little bit of sadness.”
I’d resisted her words at first. “Don’t talk that way. You know you’re gonna make it. We have the best doctors working round the clock for you. You have to—”
“Sally is going to do just fine. You’ll see. She’s a strong girl. But I need you to remember to live too.”
“I can’t do it without you, June. I can’t.”
“You’ll never be without me. You won’t see me, not in the sense you’re used to, but the love—that can’t ever go. It’ll be there in your heart, reminding you of every good thing in this world.”
That alone had cost her a bout of coughing.
“Hush. Rest now.”
“Let everything happen to you. Feel all your feelings. And remember, life... life is the most beautiful gift of all.Here, at the very end, I see that now.”
My throat felt like someone had punched it. Raw, harsh, cold, all at the same time.
I almost hit a tree, but swerved at the very last second.
June had asked me to live in honor of her memory.
