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I gesture for her to go in front of me to the stairs of the second floor, placing my hand on her back—the warmth sears me, I ball my palm into a fist on the side to calm the tornado swirling in my body.
I let the streams spray my head as I lean my palms against the white marble tiles of the bathroom. The freezing waters rinse the exhaustion away and increase my blood circulation.
I spent almost an hour switching degrees like this and the hard-on I’m sprouting isn’t helping either, so I stroke my cock to ease some of the tension, but every word she ever wrote to me runs through my head.
Fuck!
What was I thinking? Offering a refuge.
Why couldn’t I stay away like a responsible human being?
I couldn’t stand the thought she’d be out there all alone like I was when I was younger and my parents were on another drunken spree, getting high together. I didn’t want to burden others with my unfortunate circumstances so I stayed in the streets. That was until my best friends started to invite me to their houses.
“Dean?” Danny’s voice pulls me out of my sleep. “What are you doing here?”
I rub my eyelids with my knuckles. Looking around me, it’s completely dark, and I forgot I sat down on a bench near my best friend’s house—he lives in a better neighborhood than mine.
“I figured we could go to school together in the morning,” I respond.
He nods, jaw clenched so tight it looks like it’s about to snap. “Want to sleep at my house? It’s right there.” The sarcasm washes all over his face while he points like an ass, a lovable one, but still an ass.
I shake my head sideways and roll my eyes. “Yeah, that be great,” I reply as I stand up, grabbing my school backpack.
“Beth is here too, she came in earlier, she’d love to see you.” He pulls my head by the crook of his hand into a side hug. His shoulder-length brown hair tickles my cheeks.
I shove him to the side. “Cool.”
“We can catch some waves after school.”
And I immediately grin at him.
Every now and then I think about it but it goes away eventually. I can’t erase my past, the only thing I can do is to keep going and never let it control my present. Deal with it when needed but don’t drag it too long. Don’t let it ruin a beautiful moment that I deserve.
This is my life now.
That’s what I’m telling myself, and then, I sabotage it by doing the opposite.
Lenny is young, she’s determined, opinionated, and has an exuberant essence. Her sexy attitude and her mesmerizing personality draw me in like a moth to a flame. And don’t even get me started on the sexy tattoos she flashes on her lush skin.
I’ve had occasional hookups a few years ago. Nothing serious for over a decade of my life, mainly due to my traveling abroad.
The way she never ceases to surprise me with her charming self is new to me. I crossed the map back and forth. I’ve seen all kinds of people in different cultures and time zones. This one takes the wind by a storm—if that even makes sense.
My eyes hover over the ink covering every inch of my body.
I zoom in on Lenny’s work, and everything else blurs.
One of her endowed strengths is to understand the person before her enough to get their inner dialogs. She gathers enough information to come up with a design that matches their spirit.
She sees right through me regardless. It terrifies me and intrigues me, nonetheless.
I shut down the water and exit the steamy bathroom. Grabbing black sweats and a white tank top from my closet, I shove my limbs inside the clothes and head downstairs.
I left the pizza box that is still sitting on the kitchen island for Lenny. Checking inside the box, I count three missing triangles and grin to myself like an idiot.
She ate. It matters to me.
Averting my gaze next to it, a twenty-dollar bill is folded in half under my phone.
