Because You're Home

"Three years later, a new girl sits cross-legged on your bed. She tastes like a different flavor of bubblegum than you are used to. She opens up a book that you had to read in high school, and a folded picture of us falls out of chapter three. Now there are two unfinished stories resting in her lap. Inevitably, she asks, and you tell her.

You say: I dated her a while back.
You don't say: Sometimes, when I'm holding you, I imagine the smell of her vanilla perfume.

You say: She was younger than me.
You don't say: The twenty summers in her bones warmed the twenty-one winters my skin had weathered.

You say: It's nothing now.
You don't say: But it was everything then."

1. Apartment

2. Billet

3. BoardingHouse

4. Bungalow

5. Cabin

6. Castle

7. Cottage

8. Estate

9. Flat

10. Grange