Naked (29 page)
Authors: Megan Hart
He was sleeping when I crept from the bed and grabbed my camera from its loyal place on my dresser. He didn’t move when I took the first photo, or the second. He shifted, though, when I crawled back on the bed and held the camera at the end of my arm, pointing down, clicking to capture whatever moment this was.
There were shadows, so we were half in dark and half in light. And there was a blur to the corner that might have been a woman’s shape, if you looked closely enough. There were layers in this picture and many things to see.
He opened his eyes and kissed me, and I put the camera down to let him.
I didn’t have to decide if I was one thing or another. If I was both and neither. Everything and nothing. It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.
Naked.
NAKED
ISBN: 978-1-4268-6413-1
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