Tagged: Love (951)

He’s aware he might smother her but he will take his chances. She’s too lovely, too perfect. He buys her flowers. I can’t breathe, she says.

His personal ad lists bird watching and pulled pork. And 14 months later she calls him and says she’s into leather and he says close enough.

Then he turned and kissed her suddenly, hard, and when he was through she studied his face and said, You don’t call that passive aggressive?

She called the flowers “egregious” and he feigned an especially insincere kind of hurt and they laughed because they knew they were fabulous

Then, after two years, he took her to her favorite restaurant and proposed. She said yes, and was grateful she would never have to wax again

They met in a closed room. I’m lonely, he said. I’m alone, she said. The researcher behind the one way mirror said, This is going to be good