Touch Me, Daddy
"I can pull that down if you like, but there's nothing out there but the desert. Don't think anyone will see."
Even if some late-night hiker did look up at this window, what would they glimpse? Me and my older neighbor, my smaller body perched on the edge of the bath as he looms over, twisting the faucets. As he tests the temperature of the water and hands me bottles of bubble bath to sniff.
"Pick your favorite."
I twist the cap off a bottle that says tea tree and mint. Yeah, that's perfect. Cooling and tingly and fresh.
Will Greg stay in here while I wash? I wait, breath hitched up and toes scrunched against the tiles, but once the bath is full, he twists the faucets off and straightens up.