Another blink and there is blinding light. It paints my eyelids white and prickles like static electricity across my skin. I keep my eyes closed. Opening them is too difficult, anyway. They’re heavy and I’m heavy. My limbs are weighted down, but I also feel like I’m floating. Is this still from the orgasm I had in the closet? I shouldn’t have let Timofey touch me—not when he was so angry and I was so confused—but we are magnetic. We fit together like we were made for each other. Then he pulled out and I turned around. I saw the way his fists were clenched so tight, his knuckles were white. Then I saw…nothing. I wish you were dead. My heart thumps in my chest. I invited him to do it. Then get it over with. Kill me. Did he try? Is that what’s happening? I’m in some bright white waitin

