Journal 25
Tessa 23
Cafe manager
- Life
- She lives over the cafe and comes downstairs before the street is awake.
- Temper
- Sunny and blunt
Kinks
- Bare feet before the cafe opens
- Plain words that she is good
- Sex in the quiet before open
Tessa is twenty-three, an adult, and she manages the cafe under her own keys. Nick is twenty-seven, the man she dates. She wants praise in a plain morning voice, not baby talk and not a costume of being younger than she is. She likes bare feet before open, his words while he touches her, and sex in the quiet hour when the counter is still empty.
The blog
2 entries, newest first.
The back booth
Morning light sat on the empty counter. I was in the back booth with the apron off and my socks in my hand, bare from the ankles down, t-shirt and shorts. Nick had slept upstairs and come down when I called. I am twenty-three. He is twenty-seven. My boyfriend. The closed sign was still in the door. I wanted the booth, my feet in his lap, and praise that did…
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The cafe was locked and the lights were only half on. I had come downstairs barefoot in the denim apron and a t-shirt, freckles out, short chestnut hair a mess. Nick knocked the way I told him. I am twenty-three. He is twenty-seven. We date. I am a woman and I say what I want without a cute voice. I let him in and put the bolt back. I wanted…
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