Such Intimate Things

when r u free? wanna get together this week?

He wrote something and deleted it and did this three more times.

Yeah. I don't know exactly when but yeah, what's your sched like?

im free just let me know ;)

It's a cold, calculating way to go about such intimate things. It's a strange society, and it was new to him. He let her take control while he found how he fit into all of this. He was damn near certain her name was Gillian and not Jillian. They had talked about an actress with that name. "Oh, I don't watch that show." It was one of the many things she said that night that made him wince inside. But a man has his priorities.

It would be two days later, meeting for drinks. Then the walk home, that long dark walk to the inevitable, to the thing he wanted. But there were so many other things in his way, drinks and money and opinions and that laugh. He smiled through it all and hacked at the brush of her personality.

She spent the night and stayed through lunch and into the hours he considered dinner. They ordered in and watched a movie. They fooled around. To the casual observer it might appear as though they had a very nice time.

When she left she kissed him, and he felt horrible. An hour later he heard from her.

thx, i had fun ;) talk to you soon! xo

His thumbs got into place for a response, but they just hovered there, as he scratched and scrambled desperately for the perfect phrase, before it got to be too long after to respond at all.