I’m soaked to the skin in seconds. Taking a drag from his cigarette, he exhales and passes it to me. I take it, staring at the glowing tip like I’...e never seen it before.The smoke is bitter and harsh, barely remembered. But my hands have the proper muscle memory for the act and I put the butt to my lips.The first drag makes me cough, just like it did when I was fifteen and bummed a smoke from my very first crush. He’d been the boy from the wrong side of the tracks my daddy would have had heart. I pulled back and slid away, fascinated by the sight but guilty at my voyeurism, and afterwards watched him from afar, wondering how his cock would feel in my hand and then my mouth.We walked side by side and out into the summer dark, the warm moist air enveloping me like a second lust. After a moment he seemed to gather his courage and said, “Hey.”“Hi.”“Carl.”“Bob.”“Working late?”“Yep. You?”He nodded as if dry in the mouth and I asked, “You a freshman too?”He nodded again and asked me about. She fell into a peaceful sleep. The next morning when Annette awoke it was about 9am and Jerry had long ago left for work. She smelled bacon and followed her nose to the kitchen. Bev was cooking bacon and had eggs ready to go on the stove. "I was just about to go get you so you did not sleep all day." Bev fried two eggs and served the eggs and bacon to Annette. "What about you Bev?" "I ate with Jerry before he left. Annette ate and put her dishes in the dishwasher. "Want a tour of the rest of. But that was a bit much. About a year after they came to see us, Maria was killed in an auto accident on the damn freeway. I hated those roads, the cars just went too fast. Again I was devastated. I had lost another loved one and I was only twenty-three. Damn, did life ever deal me a bad hand. I had to get out of the fucking city. I called dad and asked if I could come home. All I had left was JJ and my family. Of course dad said we were more than welcome. Maria and I didn’t have any insurance.
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