watch. Oops. Ten fifteen.
 
 Better get the girls to bed.
 
 You two make yourselves at home.
 
 Trey walks with him to the door,
 
 pokes his head into the hall behind
 
 him, says something I can’t quite
 
 make out, except for the words
 
 “alone time.” He closes the door,
 
 dims the overhead light,
 
 walks to me slowly. Oh, God,
 
 he’s so impossibly fine I can’t
 
 believe I’m here with him.
 
 His hands cover mine, pull.
 
 I believe you said something
 
 about our second date?
 
 I should say no, know I should
 
 say no. But I don’t. “Okay.”
 
 And then we’re on the bed,
 
 and our clothes are off and his
 
 body is hard and smooth
 
 and brown. He kisses me—
 
 full on the mouth, hard
 
 on the mouth, and when he moves
 
 lower, I begin to tremble. Shiver.
 
 Suddenly I start to cry.
 
 He stops, rests his chin on my
 
 belly, looks into my eyes. You okay?
 
 I nod. “It’s just…it’s been a really
 
 long time. I don’t know if…”
 
 He grins. It’s like riding a bike.