If You're Not Yet Like Me by Edan Lepucki

Author:Edan Lepucki [Lepucki, Edan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Literary, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Women, Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 9780983658504
Amazon: B005C6EI0A
Publisher: Nouvella
Published: 2013-12-17T08:00:00+00:00

This time, things went differently. This time, I undressed him. All the lights were on, and we didn’t speak. I began with his shirt, pulling it over his head.

It wasn’t that he’d become beautiful. No. He was still Zachary and I was still Joellyn, but the energy of the room had shifted. It was like that army of 400, leaning forward.

His skin was so pale, I could have been a doctor, cracking him out of a body cast he’d worn for a decade. That chest, that belly, had missed the sunlight, and now I was giving it back. I was returning opportunity to the body. As Zachary took off my clothes and kissed me, and moved me deftly to the nearby bed, I couldn’t shake that image of the cast from my mind: I had broken something open and out came this man.

Zachary took one of my breasts into his mouth, and then the other. My own lust surprised me. I thought about the piñatas. I felt like I’d gotten one open, you see, and I was scrambling for its contents.

When we woke the next morning, Zachary asked me how I took my coffee, and I said, “No particular way,” which was, suddenly, true. I would drink it dark or with cream, sugared or bitter.

I told myself I was done with requirements. Was I?

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