BELLO. My mate was goddamn BEAUTIFUL! I knew that from the moment I set my eyes on her. However, there was just something different about her tonight. Something ethereal. We had returned from Aunt Neisha’s an hour or so ago. And while we do sleep in the same room, I made it a point not to shower and get dressed in the room since the towel incident. So I left her to get ready for bed while I did mine in the bedroom next to hers. One that was slowly transitioning to mine now. She was standing in front of the mirror when I walked in with both her arms raised, trying to wrestle her hair into some kind of order but it wasn’t working. A chunk kept slipping loose every time she thought she had it, and she’d make this small sound under her breath that wasn’t quite frustration as she started ag

