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He listens attentively, the cigarette forgotten in his hand as he looks at me with the merest hint of a s You only live once, and you never kno long you’ll have to do anything, really"

"I’rees

"Me too Or, I suppose I was all for going all in until a few failures made me a little less enthusiastic about it," I admit "Like my first crush! So, my first crush was at camp, on a counselor Mike Harris He was older and of course so o for it and I kissed hi all the reasons e shouldn’t when all I wanted to knoas if he wanted h "We’re still friends"

"Are you?"

"Why do you ask as if the concept is alien to you?" I burst out laughing "Yes! We’re friends Guys and girls can be friends I did camp every year, and he was there for several I’m even friends with his wife, it was just a crush"

"Have you hadenough to go after hioes soft, as if theintimate

He takes a drag fro to decipher the answer to my question "I suppose I never letWhen one starts, I nip it in the bud" He uses his free hand to make a scissor-like ht or two"

"Just enough to get it out of your system? That’s really dickish of you"

"Dick is the best word you have for h is low and deep and so very pleasant itone on you--"

"I don’t h--"

We both speak at the same time and stop e realize what I said

My cheeks start to burn

I can’t stop thinking of his package now under his pants

"Are you thinking about it now? It’s liking the attention"

"Shut up!" I laugh and shakeirl and one of my mom’s friends came to visit, I asked her flat out why she had the voice of a turkey It wobbled!"

He reaches out as he si to brush my hair back so he can look at

"My h," I add