"Shhhh", she said. "I'm sleeping".
Just like that. From an hundred miles an hour to sleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on my bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a huricane...