Sweet Dreams
His touch still lingers though, like it doesn’t fully leave even when contact is broken.
I don’t look at him while I turn toward the counter.
I set the book down on the worn wooden surface and slide open the drawer beneath it. The register hums faintly when I wake it up, the soft mechanical sound feeling too loud in the quiet space. I pull out a thin sheet of brown paper and a strip of tape as I work.
Thankfully regardless of how shaken I am, a familiar routine helps, it keeps my hands steady.
I wrap the book without thinking too much about it folding the paper cleanly around the edges, smoothing it down with my palm, pressing the corners in the way I always do. It’s muscle memory now, Somet