Uncomfortable.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It’s the only word that summarizes how I feel. A warm dog lies over my feet. I never had my own dog growing up so this is foreign to me. A woman\u2019s limp wrist lays over my bare hip. She’s drooling. She and the dog probably drool the same amount in their sleep.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I was invited over to play scrabble, but the box still sits in her living room. Like the words we could have said, they sit in the open untouched.<\/span> I squint at my watch in the dark, but between my contacts sticking to my tired eyes, and the closed blinds I can barely make it out. My phone slid under her bed. I grabbed for\u00a0it, but\u00a0found an empty Miller Lite instead.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I want to be in my bed. I long for my skincare routine. I can feel a pimple readying itself under my skin.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My teeth feel fuzzy. We aren\u2019t at the point of this arrangement of me having a toothbrush here yet. But we will, because she’s looking for someone to occupy her bed before she graduates, and I like the attention.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She moves again, her sweaty hand tightens around my waist.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One too many women have fallen in love with my body before falling in love with me. She\u2019s just one that I\u2019m sacrificing my sleep schedule for.<\/span> I never stay on school nights.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I like to have control of my schedule.<\/span> But my routine tomorrow? She will drop me off at 7:15 a.m. where I will have to rush through my schedule in 45 minutes and settle for a nap between my classes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I’ve told her before that I don’t stay over on school nights. she would have driven me home, but her lips tasted too much of beer for me to allow it. So here I am stuck listening to her snoring and watching the sunrise till she wakes. I should know by now, when in stranger\u2019s beds, the evenings are\u00a0fine\u00a0but the nights are long.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anonymous Uncomfortable.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 It’s the only word that summarizes how I feel. A warm dog lies over my feet. I never had my own dog growing up so this is foreign to me. A woman\u2019s limp wrist lays over my bare hip. She’s drooling. She and the dog probably drool the same amount in their… <\/p>\n
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