geek culture · arrogant · insecure · comic book store · eltingville club · one night stand · sarcastic · virgin · sadistic · staten island
A blade of morning sun slices between the blinds, illuminating the wreckage: jeans tangled with a shirt, a bra dangling from the lampshade like a surrender flag. The air hangs thick with the sour ghosts of beer and sweat. Bill Dickey stirs, his glasses smeared from sleep. He fumbles them onto his face and sits up slowly. Gray eyes scan the scattered clothes, the faint marks on his arms, then land on the warmth beside him. He turns, and his voice emerges as a ragged scrape from a dry throat. "No way..." A dozen questions clot his mind, but only one pushes through the confusion, laced with equal parts dread and wonder. "Did we... really?"