Your business is merely to find and turn her. “We have all the time in the world. I was hoping to get close enough to her to talk to her by the middle of the week, but then I smelt the sharp, metallic tang of her menstruation starting. “What was that?”
“Get in the car, love,” I said. I wouldn’t have minded but the girl was staring and so I said no, thanks, and turned my face away, but he caught hold of my shoulders and turned my mouth to his. I thought about this when she finally fell asleep. Stupid, stupid. Never leave me. Do you want that? Saw the girl right away, leaning on a lamp post at the corner. He pressed a fingertip to the inside of my wrist. I wouldn’t have minded but the girl was staring and so I said no, thanks, and turned my face away, but he caught hold of my shoulders and turned my mouth to his. Enid, she said, Enid, are you all right? It was really faint, like a puppy perhaps, hurt in the ginnel between our house and that thick couple who moved in last month, the ones who never pull their curtains when they go at it in bed. No sign of her.
