Jessica and I both nodded in response. I watched them as they walked away, and waved to Jessica when she reached the door to the outside and looked back at me. She returned my wave with a nervous smile. I went back to eating my lunch and my mind reeled as I tried to process that conversation again and again.
They really thought I was attractive? I had to imagine they had dated nothing but terribly hideous-looking men if that was the case. Somehow, that didn't ring true. They were both very attractive women. But, as soon as the phrase "attractive women" went through my head, Melissa was there in my mind. Her face was smiling at me as we spoke in our front yard after school.
That led as it invariably did to Melissa naked in front of her mirror, brushing out her gleaming red curls with her
