Timely Rain

Summary

To make me lose interest in him, Derek had me deliver a box of Durex to his apartment on a night with a raging blizzard.

The box was wrapped in a brown paper drugstore bag, making me assume he was sick. I was in such a frantic rush to get to him that I slipped and took a hard fall on the icy road.

But when the door opened and I saw the warm, intimate glow of the apartment behind him, everything became painfully clear.

From that night on, I began to slip out of his life.

When he injured his knee during a major basketball game, his roommate tracked me down in the hallway.