Tuesday, May 6  

Sensitive

Vic and Jon, the aptly named (considering where their first encounter took place) owner of Vic's dedicated obsession, are in post-coital entanglement when he announces jokingly that he thinks Vic should start going to the gym again. As he says this, he lustily grabs her ass and weighs it in his hand. Vic hasn't gone to the gym since they started their "great affair", electing instead to focus her exercise elsewhere. Namely, in her keigels.

Vic sits up and pulls a sweaty sheet around her admittedly slackened tummy and says "what's that supposed to mean?" in a rather shrill, even to herself, voice.

"It's not supposed to mean anything," Jon says as he reaches for the sheet but Vic clutches it around herself tighter and says "You think I'm fat." This is a regrettable thing to say for any woman since it's the exact thing women are known for saying and nobody wants to be known for what women are known for.

Jon says she's too sensitive.

When he leaves, Vic tells him she'll call him and then doesn't. She's angry. More so than is really called for.

sensitive: adjective 1. capable of being stimulated or excited by external agents (as light, gravity, or contact) 2. highly responsive or susceptible 3. delicately aware of the attitudes and feelings of others 4. excessively or abnormally susceptible.

Vic is perversely sensitive. She hates more than anything else to be criticized. Not because she believes she shouldn't be, but rather because she believes every word of it.

She wants to call Jon but can't seem to find her way around the mental moat that now surrounds her and her tummy. She won't call him again until she feels resolved, lightened, above his reproach.

She's also stubborn.