The Way He Looked at Me
I laugh, sharp and breathless, and my vision blurs before I can stop it.
The bandage is ridiculously oversized no accident. The skin beneath is flushed, healing cleanly. And the placement God. Just above his jeans, to the left, where muscle dips into that dangerous V. Exactly where my eyes always go.
And there it is.
I know that image.
I drew that image.
A crooked little heart. A badly scrawled Luca. The same stupid, intimate sketch I traced into the steam on his mirror months ago, never thinking it would last longer than the fog on glass.