“You felt that, too?”
“Yes. Fuck.”
Listen, I don’t believe in karma or fate, astrology or christianity, alternate universes or spirits. I believe in serendipity and fortune. And in making your own decisions.
So after I’d picked her up in the valley (I remember the song playin – Get Me by Dinsoaur Jr), and walked around the park (I remember her yoga pants, the way the sun morphed her eye color), and cooked dinner (Tuscan chicken, where she chided me for using a paring knife to chop garlic), and kissed her and felt the universe smile, I knew I was in trouble. About as tall as me with bee stings but an ass that was honest to god unfair, full lips, thighs from heaven, and a smile and laugh that melted my icy heart.
She didn’t want to do anything sexual, but she was trembling and damn close to cumming just from kisses. Like I said, I knew I was in trouble.
The next day, after I ordered us a sushi platter, she lay there, perfect butterfly wings moist, one yoga pant leg off, looking at me with a beautiful vulnerability I’ll never shed.