J's Closet by O'Leary Ryan

Author:O'Leary, Ryan [O'Leary, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beau Coup Publishing
Published: 2014-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Not half as much as I was when I finally got to see her eyes up close.

“He was so big and gorgeous, smiling at me with those perfect teeth of his. I didn’t know what to say. I just smiled.”

Actually, she smoothed her hair back behind her ear with her free hand and looked down at her feet for a second. Luckily for both of us, I knew what to say.

“He took the beer out of my hand. ‘Thanks’, he said.”

I unscrewed the cap and took a sip.

“He took a sip and said, ‘This beer is terrible.’”

It was. It was warm and skunky.

“I reached for it, but he pulled his hand back. ‘Then give it back,’ I said.”

There’s no way she was getting it back.

“He said no when I asked for it back.”

“Why?” Eleanor asked.

“Because it was the first thing we’d both touched and he planned on keeping it forever.”

I know. Corny, but it’s true. In case I never saw her again, I wanted to take something she’d touched with me and since I was pretty confident they weren’t going to let me out of the apartment with the couch, that beer bottle was the second best thing.

“We started to talk and he convinced me to leave with him.”

She wanted to go tell her date goodbye.

“‘Don’t bother,’ he told me when I said I wanted to go say goodbye to my date. ‘You’ll never go on another date with him if it’s up to me.’”

She’s not lying. I never planned on letting her out of my sight after that moment. I was hooked and it’s why I suggested we exit via the fire escape. I knew if we went back through the living room, there was a chance her date would have seen us leaving and tried to stop us, and that wasn’t a chance I was willing to take. I would have had to hurt him and who knows what would have happened next.

“He said, ‘Let’s just get out of here. I don’t know many of these people and the ones I do know will understand when I tell them why I left without saying goodbye. We’ll go out the window. Climb down the fire escape and never come back here again.’”

“What did you say?” Eleanor asked.

“What could I say? I looked into his eyes and said yes.”

That’s not entirely true. She looked at my lips first. I probably should have kissed her right there on that spot, but I froze under her gaze. She didn’t say yes at first. She let me agonize on the inside for what felt like hours, although it was probably only seconds, while she decided whether or not to climb out a window with a guy whose name she still didn’t know. Good thing for me, she’s a risk taker and we were on the street outside a minute later.

“And you’ve been together ever since?” Eleanor asked.

“We were married less than a year later.”

I moved in behind her at the station and wrapped my arms around her.

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