Chapter 31 Physicist

• "Brandon... What are you doing here?" I ask, trying to get a response from this human being. He approaches me as if enchanted, until he is very close, saying nothing, simply raising his hand and running his fingertips along my bare arm, tracing it from my elbow to my shoulder, and his hands cradle my cheeks, leaving gentle sparks of electricity in their wake.
• "I... I wanted to talk to you... I just didn't know how," he says, and he seems sincere. His voice is a whisper, he doesn't stop touching me, and his warmth, the warmth of his entire body, envelops me and... it's delicious.
• Almost instinctively, I take a step back and he lowers his hands, looking at me with doubt. I've had my heart broken once by him. Many years of pain, wondering what I had done to deserve this. And here I was again, in the hands of my number one torturer.