It’s pouring rain outside right now. The clouds opening up and letting a torrent of water fall around this place.
I can still smell him on my sheets and on my skin. The unique scent that does not come from a bottle, but is just him: Soapy, warm, sweaty, wonderful Boy-scent.
I can still taste him too. The distinct flavor of his kisses, the taste of his skin salty with sweat. The sweet-bitter slide of friendship and affection over my palette.
I can still feel his warmth against my back, and the flutter of his long eyelashes against my neck and my cheek. The ghosting of his lips over my face, the soft moist brush of his tongue along my pulse.
I can still see him too. His sleepy blue eyes rimmed in thick lashes fluttering open and his pink lips curving into a smile as he wakes up from a nap and sees me curled against his side.
I can still hear him whispering in my ear in the heat of the moment, his voice low and gruff, telling me what he wants. I can hear him sobbing as he clings to me, telling me how sorry he is.
And part of me wants to shower. To let scalding hot water poor over me, scrubbing until I’m raw and pink and clean. I want to scrub myself like I can wash this all away, like I can let these problems slide away down the drain with the soap and the water. Like I can just wash all evidence of him out of my life.
And the other part wants to wrap myself in my sheets and breath in his scent, letting it all overwhelm me. I want to let it all linger around me like a terrible wonderful storm of memories and desires. I want to lay inert in that place between awake and sleep where everything can be right again, where I don’t have to feel how much it hurts deep down in places I didn’t know could even feel.
The rain has stopped outside and a bit of sun is peaking through the clouds.
I think I shall go take that shower.