“It’s pretty good,” I said, rubbing my eyes. I could feel the tingling in my eyelids already.
“What do you mean?” she said, frowning.
“You said it was good,” I said, rubbing my eyes harder.
“You know what I mean,” she said, smiling and leaning in to me. “It was good.”
“It was pretty good,” I said, looking up at her. The sun was starting to rise now.
“Look, don’t do this to me,” she said, smiling at me. “Don’t fucking do this to me. Stop being an obnoxious fucking child. I’m the one you slept with.”
There was a long pause as the sun started to rise, and the room started to fill with white, swirling light.
“Are you crying?” she asked. Her voice was becoming less distinct as the light filled my vision. I couldn’t tell what she was looking at. It might have been a lake, or it might have been a dark, stormy sea. I couldn’t tell.
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