He twitched, involuntarily. She was making him lose his cool. Her piles of chips mocked the single plastic sliver that he held in his hand. Her hair rippled down past her shoulders and her ear peeked out. He had been staring at that ear all evening. It had lost him a straight when he folded on accident.
It was all or nothing. Win or . . . embarrass himself forever. He threw down his single chip. It bounced, rotating slowly, vaguely rolling through the air. It plinked to a rest on the pile of chips sitting in the middle of the table.
"All in," he whispered.
Her piles of chips cascaded down, slender arms shoving roughly. "I call your bluff and raise you for the win. All in."
He hyperventilated. She wouldn't have gone all in if she wasn't confident of victory. What could she possibly have? A straight? No. Two pair? Three of a kind? He shook, adrenaline coursing through his body. Her ear was perfect. He didn't care if he won or lost anymore, just make the ear go away or make it his.
At a certain point, he forgot to care about winning.
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That was interesting. Well done, and good job tormenting me with questions that you won't ever answer. Did he win?
ReplyDeleteOh. At a certain point, I didn't care about that conflict anymore.
ReplyDeleteI was talking to Chism and . . . Justin Spady's roommate. And JS'roomate and I were talking about the effect of women on the male psyche. Ashlee was totally out of her depth and she just kept looking at us weirdly.
So this story is illustrating a part of what we were talking about. It's freaky once you know how true this is.
There's this one girl and her ear always pokes out of her hair. I fixate on it like . . . immediately. It's such a weird feeling, like I'm stripping off her dignity in order to peek underneath. UGh. I feel disgusting.
New comment time.
I fixate on a single aspect of a woman and then just kinda boil her down to that and use it to refer to her. I have known some women who do this, so it's not primarily a guy thing. But the women do it with much more complexity. For example: I was "California." I guess because I was at camp and I act like a surfer. Cody was "Kentucky" because he's . . . well, it fits.
ReplyDeleteI do it much more simply. There are two "Eyebrows" at this school. Two women with eyebrows like camilla belle: http://www.daemonsmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/camilla_belle-1.jpg
There is only one "The nose" which sounds weird. But it totally suits her face and is probably the only thing that makes her attractive to me.
There is "the girl with the porcelain hands" and seriously she has weird delicate hands. You could probably hold a flashlight up on the other side of her hands and see the bones through them.
So... in a weird coincidence, AC and I were just talking about that before I read this, and for the record, she wasn't so much out of her depth as she was... surprised that you'd talk about it while she was there. She learned a lot.
ReplyDeleteAnywho... I know some girls here who have eyebrows like that... I haven't met "flashlight hands", though-- I don't think.
Oh, and no, I'm not going to ask. So there.
Girls do fixate on things, but not those things. Ours have depth.
"fulansiv"
The ear thing, though, that's weird.