I woke up in a hot sweat. I was a mess.
Still in Toronto. The dead of summer. I was hard. I’d been dreaming of the same thing I’d been dreaming of all summer: the woman I met on my run.
It was a few months ago. We were outside the city, in the kind of unshaded park only Toronto seems to produce.
I was running, alone. It was 7am. I had a few nights’ 5 o clock shadow on me, and sweat glistened everywhere else. The muscles on my neck, forearms, and calfs seemed eagerly exposed, and were made all the more impressive by the definition sun and shade provide by contrasting each other.
I’d ridden the subway up to the park, and the woman had ridden it, too. The subway was the perfect mix of breezy and balmy, and we were above ground for the final leg.
I watched the woman drink the scenery in: the passing fields, the houses. I noticed she seemed overdressed, and sure enough a few minutes later she was peeling off her long pants to reveal booty shorts, and her cardigan to reveal what she was really wearing: a kind of sports romper made of cotton. One that clung to her breasts and grew taut over her ass, just over where the crease of her butt cheeks began. It was criminal.