“I think you’ve got me.”I rose up and turned and lay partially on top of him.“I don’t want you to leave, but I know you have to. But I want ...ou to come back. Soon. As soon as you can. I want you here, with me.”He raised his head and looked at me and then dropped his head back onto the mattress.“Okay,” he said.“Really?” I wasn’t sure I believed him.“You said you want me. I said I think you’ve got me.”“You promise you’ll come back?”“I said okay.”“When?”“I can’t say. You’ll have to get used to. I rolled my eyes at his use of my full name. ‘I’ve been waiting for you for almost an hour! Of course I’m ready!’ ‘Good, let’s go.’ We made our way out to Evan’s jeep. When we climbed in, he hooked up his iPod and started blaring some new rap song that he swore was going to be the biggest hit of the year. ‘Evan,’ I said, ‘what about this says ‘music’ to you?’ ‘What are you talking about? This is the only music there is! Listen to that back beat. It takes some fucking talent to talk that fast,. I won’t attempt to chart the interplay of relationships that came and went with each drawn and closed curtain. Actors are lovers. Despite any rules designed to contain the furious eroticisms, they loved. No one can say how Isabella fell under Angelo’s spell. I think we all assumed that Isabella would join up with Claudio. They seemed to be cut from the same cloth, visually appealing, socially talented, licentious and libidinous. Angelo had a seriousness that seemed separate from the characters. I sauntered to the bed, feeling like such a naughty vixen, a seductress on the prowl. It was so wonderful to embrace my desires. When I was nineteen, first dealing with these desires, I tried to suppress them.My parents raised me to believe homosexuality was wrong. If I didn’t have Steve, I would have kept myself in the closet. I would have been miserable. I’d never have enjoyed all my female lovers over the years.I never would have pulled the blanket from Evaline Gilbert’s body.She was the.