Being Light 2011 by Helen Smith

Author:Helen Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tyger Books
Published: 2010-04-10T20:00:00+00:00

It is 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The bright light outside reaches into the corners of Jane Memory’s bedroom and intensifies the vivid green and blue of the large checks on the expensive cotton covers and pillow cases on the bed, where Jeremy is lying without any clothes on. Jeremy’s tan line stops two inches below his navel, approximately where a pair of hipster trousers would begin, if he ever wore them.

Jane used to bite her nails when she was a teenager and her manicurist uses extensions in natural pink to disguise the damage that remains. Jane uses the acrylic tip of one these nails to tap Jeremy gently on the ribs, signalling that he should roll over. She rests her silver-ringed hand in a fan shape on one white buttock and inspects the rest of Jeremy’s body. It is very lean. She pinches a little bit of skin between her thumb and first finger. He probably has no more than fourteen percent or fifteen percent fat on him.

‘Ow’, says Jeremy. Jane puts her mouth to his shoulder and smells the skin before she bites him, sweeping her hand between his thighs. He turns over so that she can sit on top of him, the soles of her feet tucked under the backs of his legs and her hands at either side of him on the blue and green checked pillows under his head.

A shower of shiny, golden pound coins has fallen from the hip pockets of Jeremy’s summer dress into the bed, as if riches have flowed directly from his loins. Every so often Jane or Jeremy rolls on to one of the coins, gasps, and throws it on to the floor where it bounces against the skirting board with a ‘ting’.

There is no part of Jane’s body that she dislikes. She exfoliates her knees and her elbows regularly. Her nipples point up, her buttocks point up, her hips are narrow, her stomach is flat. There is a clear, straight line of vision from her breast bone to her pubic bone, with nothing wobbly in the way. She might get her belly button pierced, but she’s not convinced it won’t hurt. If she got sick of it and removed it, she’d hate for it to leave a scar.

‘Oh,’ says Jeremy. ‘God, Jane.’ Jane leans forward with one hand against the wall behind his head and dips her head so she can kiss him. If they shower together it will save time and she can drop Jeremy back at his flat before the rush hour traffic begins, unless he insists on travelling back there by bicycle in which case she can probably have sex with him again and still have enough time to pop into Marks & Spencer to pick up something for her dinner.

Jane’s boyfriend Philippe Noir has square feet with a high instep. His fingers are rectangular. His hands, like his feet, are slightly moist, even in the cold weather. He has full lips, which is supposed to be an indication of sensuality, although he displays none of this when in bed with Jane.

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