The Way He Looked at Me
She drags his name out, rolling it over her tongue, spitting it back like it’s something delicious she doesn’t want to swallow.
She presents a plush, cream U-shaped sofa with padded headrests. He sits, adjusts a couple of throw pillows, and crinkles his nose. Alessia doesn’t hesitate she moves him along like a conductor guiding a reluctant orchestra.
Next is a semi-circular smoky-gray leather beast, the kind that belongs in a retro conversation pit under dim lights and surrounded by neon hookah pipes. We test it together. I do it politely, with all the grace I can muster. He throws himself onto it like it owes him something, feet kicked up, energy unapologetic. Alessia doubles over, laughing
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