The Biker's Rules
The kind of look that strips your soul naked and files a complaint.
“Well,” she announces, clapping her hands, “you’re getting out of this bed, taking a shower, and getting ready. We’re leaving in thirty.”
She gets up and steps carefully between the minefield of pizza boxes, empty ice cream tubs, and scattered clothes on the floor. Some of which can be alive.
“I’m still sick,” I protest weakly, flopping back onto the pillows.
I am sick.
I have the flu. Influenza.
At least I’m pretty sure that’s what I have. Or at the very least a cold. Respiratory infection. A nuclear bug. Emotional plague. Dead-heart syndrome. Something. Definitely something.