First Time Caller

My chest feels uncomfortably tight, my breath too short. It’s not a new feeling, just one I haven’t felt in a while.

And it somehow makes me like her even more.

“He’s . . .”
Hot, my brain supplies. Also, kind of a disaster. I’m not entirely confident he knows how to talk to people when he’s outside the booth. He hosts a radio show about love, but he doesn’t believe in it himself and he wants me to help him remember how. I think. I keep sharing