“I draw and paint, actually. I still need to work on human figures, though.” I showed him the study of Kevin I was working on.“Think you could d...aw a picture of me?”“I can draw it today if you have time. It’d be good practice.”“Ok, right after the other thing.”When we got to Benjie’s house, his sister wasn’t home, but Benjie led me to his bedroom anyway. He asked me to bend over on the bed, facing away from him.“I want to pretend I’m fucking a girl,” he explained.“Sure thing.” I was actually a. Since they had plenty of food supplies and ammo, it seemed a better idea to just bypass them and head further north. It really looked like the further they got away from the urban centers, the better prepared the ordinary citizens had been and they seemed a have a fairly good sense of the right things to do in order to survive. In fact, it began to look like the strongest enemy was the military units coming into the rural areas to establish some sort of governmental control. It was nothing less. Just working hard and wanting it. So badly." They were sitting on the sofa and Brandon had taken Lorenzo's hand. As he had done those years ago in San Francisco. "I'm so glad you liked it. You know that... because I've always loved you, Loren. I wanted you to see me the way I knew I could be."Lorenzo paused, but not long. He didn't have to. "Brandon, I love you too. Yeah, I do. I know what that means. And I have to be clear. I'll never love you the way people wanting to be together their whole. En kai ennai meeri aunty mulai meethu sendrathu, naan kitathata auntyai kati pidithu kondu paduthen.Kaamam enbathu namai ariyamale nadakum enbathai andru thaan katrukonden. Ennal moodai thanga kudiyaamal auntyai irukamaaga kati pidithu mulaiyai kasaka aarambithen, auntyum ennai kati pidika aarambithaal. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sema moodaga irunthathu, aunty kaiyai en sunniyil vaithu pidithu thadava aarambithaal.Oooooooooooooooooooooo sema modaga irunthathu, aunty nightyai kayatinaal naan lungiyai.