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Example of a First Morning After Scene
The morning after is where the night gets tested. Everything that felt inevitable in the dark has to survive fluorescent bathroom light and bed hair and the question of whether to stay for coffee. This excerpt captures the tender uncertainty of a first waking.
She woke up first. This was important, because it gave her approximately ninety seconds to panic quietly. His apartment looked different in daylight. Less atmospheric. More real. There were books stacked on the nightstand — actual paper books, underlined and dog-eared. A coffee mug from a museum she'd been meaning to visit. A framed photo of a woman who was clearly his mother because they had the same jawline. He was sleeping with one arm thrown over his head, the sheet at his waist. He looked peaceful in a way he never looked when he was awake. She should leave. She should find her dress — it was somewhere between the hallway and the foot of the bed — and slip out and text him something casual later, something that preserved the escape route. She didn't move. He stirred. Opened one eye. Saw her. And smiled — not a morning-person smile, not a polite smile, but a slow, surprised, completely defenseless smile, like he'd forgotten she was there and then remembered and the remembering was the best part of waking up. "Hi," he said. Voice like gravel. "Hi." "You're still here." "I'm still here." "I thought you might—" He stopped. "Never mind." "You thought I'd leave." "The thought crossed my mind. Around the time I noticed your shoes were still by the door." She lay back down. Turned on her side to face him. Morning light caught the edge of the sheets, turned everything gold. His hand found her hip under the blanket. Casual and warm and new. "I make terrible coffee," he said. "But I make it willingly." "That might be the most romantic thing anyone's ever said to me." "Stay for terrible coffee?" "Stay for terrible coffee."
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