Careful, Desmond. You don't want to seem too eager.
Or too attached.
Don't let men like me think you enjoy our company. You have no idea how disruptive I can be; in fact, you might consider me more poltergeist than haunting. A nuisance, interrupting wholesome business for the sake of giving my boyfriend a thorough devastation [...]
[...]
Christ, I typed that word and felt the room spin.
You talk of what I do to you in memory, in lingering aftershock of kisses and deft touches; do you have any idea what you do to me with a single word?
'Be careful', I say. 'Wait a week', and 'don't get carried away' and 'you're being incautious'. 'You don't know me well'.
Do you listen? Not at all. You tell me 'boyfriend' and 'always' and 'mine' as though it's only natural to say those things, no matter how little time we've had.
[...]
I've waited so long for someone like you.
Of course - in my not-inconsiderable experience - there's no one like you.
What I mean is I've waited so long for you. You've been haunting me for years. That's all a ghost is: absence like dying.
I won't haunt you too much longer. Less than four hours now, and we'll be back where we [...] belong.
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Or too attached.Don't let men like me think you enjoy our company. You have no idea how disruptive I can be; in fact, you might consider me more poltergeist than haunting. A nuisance, interrupting wholesome business for the sake of giving my boyfriend a thorough devastation [...]
[...]
Christ, I typed that word and felt the room spin.
You talk of what I do to you in memory, in lingering aftershock of kisses and deft touches; do you have any idea what you do to me with a single word?
'Be careful', I say. 'Wait a week', and 'don't get carried away' and 'you're being incautious'. 'You don't know me well'.
Do you listen? Not at all. You tell me 'boyfriend' and 'always' and 'mine' as though it's only natural to say those things, no matter how little time we've had.
[...]
I've waited so long for someone like you.
Of course - in my not-inconsiderable experience - there's no one like you.
What I mean is I've waited so long for you. You've been haunting me for years. That's all a ghost is: absence like dying.
I won't haunt you too much longer. Less than four hours now, and we'll be back where we [...] belong.
That's right, isn't it? Back where we belong.