Power Play

by Stein, Charlotte

  It’s not impersonal at all. It makes me turn away and face the window, so he can’t see how full of feeling I am.

  ‘I’d like you to take a letter, Benjamin,’ I say, because if he can do it, I can too. He’s given me a little out, a little way of doing this without coming apart and floating away on the breeze, and I grab it. I do. ‘Do you think you could do that for me?’

  ‘Yes, sir,’ he says, and I hear rather than see him sit down, with his notepad in his hand. ‘Whenever you’re ready.’

  Yes, I think. Whenever I am.

  And then I just tell him, in a voice that wavers high and low:

  ‘Dear Benjamin,

  ‘You should know that I’m not sorry either. I’m not sorry that I want to do these things with you. I’m not sorry that I want you so much I can’t think of anything but you. But most of all, I’m not sorry that I love you. I love you. I love you.’

  I pause and listen to the low scratch of a pencil on paper as it carries all of my feelings to him, my one.

  Before I finish, to the heavenly sound of him sighing with pleasure.

  ‘Yours always, Eleanor.’

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