“Good,” Roz said and put her empty glass down. “I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, but I really need to be touched right now.” She reached for the glass in my hand, drained it, and set it next to hers on the coffee table. “I realise I don’t exactly look my best and [...]
Roz knocked on the door at five past nine, sank down on the couch next to me, sighed with all the power in her lungs and put her hand on my thigh. “I need a stiff drink,” she said. “What about you?” “I’ll wait until the parents have returned, but please, be my guest. I’ll [...]
“Thanks a bunch, Lee.” Millie slammed her gym bag on my desk with surprising force. I had not expected her to be able to lift her arms up that high after her first session with Joan. “Who did you shag to get out of that torturous assignment?” “Trade secrets, Millie. They can’t be shared.” “Is [...]
“She wants you to sleep with her? For real?” Roz asked. She couldn’t keep her glasses on, her eyes were too sensitive from, by the look of them, days of crying. It didn’t feel right to lay my own problems out for her when I knew what she was going through, but she had insisted [...]
“You walked away? Just like that?” Roz asked. She looked a bit frazzled, her hair kept covering her face and underneath the thick black rim of her glasses, just before she pushed them back up her nose, I made out dark shadows under her eyes. “Yeah. Looks like this therapy’s working.” I was aiming for [...]