this morning #175.

this morning, she was travelling through time with the man who she loved, waking to hangovers & fluffy pancakes & a life of leisure. walking down boardwalks & along hiking trails & through airport terminals together. hanging around broken-down bars & parties too long & fires in the pit in their yard. when they first met, her affinity for defensiveness actually charmed him. it was a cheerful change of pace. usually she scared men away by assuming that their end goal was to either fuck her or fight her. in this case, she’d caught a fly with her vinegar. it shouldn’t have worked that way but she brought his energy into her & with that, her mind drifted away. he would’ve been forty today.