doubles. It triples. It multiples exponentially. âNo. But I think youâd look nice with pink hair someday.â
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T he smells .
The other thing about living with a woman is that everything smells good. The bathroom is like an opium den of feminine delights. Most days, Josie wakes up before me and leaves right when I rise. When I enter the bathroom, itâs like wandering into a lair of womanhood.
I stand and inhale.
Cherry scents and swirling aromas of vanilla sugar lotion and honeysuckle body wash linger in the air, like a fucking delicious dirty dream. Every morning, Iâm enrobed in the scent of woman. Itâs sweet and seductive and intoxicating, and it smells like her.
In short, itâs the fucking perfect environment for a shower jerk.
What? Do you blame me? I wake up with wood, and Iâm alone under a hot stream. Of course I do some morning handiwork.
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S ix
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T hatâs the other thing about living with a woman that a man just has to battle. Something he canât avoid.
Morning wood.
Waking up with a hard-on is a fact of having a Y chromosome. Most of the time Josieâs gone before I even leave for work, so who cares? But, every now and then sheâs not. Like on Saturday morning. Clad only in black boxer briefs, I pad out of my room, rubbing my eyes and yawning. There she is in the hallway wearing the most adorable little pair of pink boy shorts that do nothing to reduce the tent in my pants. In fact, the view of her soft thighs and the swell of her tits under that flimsy T-shirt material enhances the outline in my shorts to completely fucking obvious levels.
Because . . .
Sheâs. Not. Wearing. A. Bra.
Iâm not a religious man, but Iâm seriously considering taking up praying. To her chest. I think this is what heaven looks like. Those globes. God help me, Iâm seeing an angel in front of me.
âMorning, Chase.â
âMorning, Josie,â I say, my voice gravelly from the hour and the view.
Her eyes drift down, and she blinks. My gaze follows hers, and my dick is pointing at her, like a happy billboard.
She doesnât seem fazed.
I shrug. âI meant, itâs a very good morning indeed.â
Josie smirks, and I canât help but notice she stares a little longer than one would expect. Canât say that bothers me.
But that night isnât so good at all when I learn the thing that sucks most about having a female roommate like Josie.
Sheâs going on a date.
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I try to leave before she does.
I donât want to know what sheâs wearing. I donât want to know how she does her hair. I donât even want to know where sheâs going.
Until she tells me. My hand is on the doorknob, ready to hightail it out of the apartment, since I canât be the pathetic ass whoâs home when his fuck-hot roommate heads out on a date.
Josie calls out to me from the hallway. âHey!â
âYeah?â
She walks into the living room. âIâm going to Bar Boisterous in the Fifties.â
I narrow my eyes. âOkay. Why are you telling me?â
âSo youâll know where my last-known location is.â
Annoyance threads through me. âPlease donât tell me youâre going out with someone you think is going to dismember you.â
She shudders and wags spooky fingers. âYes. Iâll have him send my head to you in a box.â
âNot funny.â
âWhat if he puts a bow on top? Like a gift?â She steps closer and adopts a Vincent Price narrator style. âHeâs going to cut me up in tiny pieces and feed me to the wolverines.â
âSeriously. Not funny. Are you really worried about this guy?â I ask, not giving in to her attempt at humor. Though, in all other circumstances, Josie wins major points for being not just a humor consumer, but a humor producer. And thatâs rare. Humor producers are diamonds.
Just not this second.
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