It was the El Nino season and I was riding my bike in blazing after mid-day sun, heading for my friend’s house a few miles away from where I lived. I was going to collect a book he’d promised to lend me. We were both out of high school a year now, and still job
She woke on the floor in front of the now cold fireplace, her body was sore. The evening before, after her dark, taboo coupling with Jack, she was exhausted. She did little more then crawl onto the warm place in front of the fire and sleep, Jack snuggling in beside her, and stayed that way