I stepped off the train and spotted him standing on the other side of the tracks, waiting for me. As I walked up the stairs to the overpass I thought about how long it had been since we had seen each other. It had been over a year already. He'd been in steady relationships ever since, while I had dated a few random people here and there, but nothing really serious. Now we were both single and had started talking again on the phone every once in awhile. We were about to hang out for the first time since that last awful fight that had separated us, seemingly forever.
As I caught up to Bobby, we didn't really say much, just a muted hi and then we walked to the car. We had a few mundane errands to run before driving the hour back to hang at my place for the afternoon, since I also had to baby-sit for my little sister at the same time. So we stopped to get something for lunch and then headed to the bank to take care of business, and headed back to the city. During the drive, we loosened up with each other again, talking about everything under the sun and renewing the friendship that we had always had, even before we had more than that. I noticed that he had matured a lot in the past year, but we still got along as great as ever, and I couldn't help but feel the familiar pull of attraction I had always had for him. I wondered if he felt it too.
Back at my house, Bobby instantly sprawled out on my bed and started poking around on my computer, looking for the original copies of some dirty pictures of myself he had seen. I wasn't sure where to go with that, since I already wanted him, but had been determined not to start anything he'd feel guilty about afterward. I was going to be an angel and not do anything to fuel the latent fire. Really.
But when he did a search and started to find the pictures anyway without my help, what was I supposed to do? So he took a good look at all the pictures and then asked me if I still had some lingerie that he loved in the photo. He said I didn't have to put it on, but he wanted to see if it felt the way he imagined it did. So I took it out and let him see it, and at his look of bliss at the softness of it, I decided to change and let him see it on me β but not yet.