The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan

Author:David Levithan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FIC000000, FIC027000
ISBN: 9781921799860
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2011-01-31T10:00:00+00:00

gingerly, adj.

Your grandmother dies a few weeks after we start seeing each other, and there is no question that you’ll go to the funeral without me. Your father calls to tell you while we’re having breakfast, and keeps the conversation short. I take you home, help you pack, help you book your ticket. You won’t cry, and that makes me want to. I take the subway with you to the airport, even though you tell me I don’t have to. Then I stay home and wait for you to call. I cancel my plans, keep the ringer on high. The minute you’re alone, you call me, and I talk to you for five long hours, tethering you to your life back here so you won’t be pulled back into theirs. I don’t comment on your lack of tears, but then you bring it up, say, “I guess I’m so used to a dying family that this doesn’t seem out of the ordinary.”

You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.

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