He took Seda’s phone number and began to visit her twice a week. He’d call and they would agree on a day, time, and price. Seda taught him how to make love with her frail body; she taught him not to hurry, to kiss deeply, trusting the swaying rhythms of the tongue and body. In the beginning they only had s*x in the dark, which concealed his insecurity. Every quick movement, every redundancy was smoothed out by the sharp sensitivity of Seda’s experienced body. But the girl got him used to daylight nudity and making love with open eyes, without sheets or covers. When he touched Seda’s body in the dark, he only felt his touch and imagined the body, but in the daylight he saw his touch and watched her body. His imagination of the girl’s body was more accessible in the dark than in the daylight
