Nick lies in bed after a quiet evening of homework and TV. Usually the first decision is whether something should happen or wait. It’s an odds game really, depending on how things might line up with DJ. If she has a game coming up he’ll go watch it but things are hectic and by the time she gets showered she needs study time. If they can hang out for a while and they have a good time and they get to be alone then it’s very possible. Not that the relationship is all about that, but for this kind of strategy one has to study the landscape, and make sure there’s at least two days’ worth in the chamber.
Usually he thinks about her, sometimes he hast to try, but then sometimes another girl kinda hijacks it at the last second, and more often than not that’s a bewildering experience. He rarely thinks about celebrities or actresses, pretty much girls or women he’s met. Personally. And generally not the ones you would suspect.
Back in Jr. high there was this gal who would come to church, ten years his senior and already divorced. She was very, very easy to talk to and always wore a denim skirt over that long, slender figure.
Denim skirt: ye shroud of a thousand mysteries.
The system worked pretty much like an assembly line. Most nights he would grab a snack around 9 consisting of a toasted bagel/cheese sandwich and hot coco (or decaf instant coffee if available). The bagel required a quarter-folded paper towel from the kitchen to get it to his room. Once de-crumbed the paper towel was filed on the wall side of the bed to serve a different purpose once the lamp went out and a certain green light came on.
Then Saturday mornings would tend to show up with an itch, guess cartoons aren’t what they used to be, and then Sundays after lunch needed release after a morning of assorted tensions.
It’s funny, the only people who preach against it are ones who either have no reason to or can’t come to terms with it (pun not intended). As George Carlin put it on one of his old records, to paraphrase, if God hadn’t meant us to do it we would have been born with much shorter arms.