1. I was young and precocious and he was older, talented, and maybe a little dumb.
2. His basement apartment was cluttered with mismatched furniture and smelled like the pork dumplings he and his roommate made for dinner most nights.
3. I lay naked on his bed - his bed… a mattress on boxes - over his sheets.
4. He examined me beforehand, out of curiosity and concern.
5. The best part was the tickle of his delicate gold cross necklace brushing up against my labia.
6. He was gentle and small, thankfully.
7. He examined me again afterwards and said in his broken English how different it looked.
8. It was our only time.
9. I’d done what I set out to do.
10. Afterwards, my friends picked me up and briefed me on the movie we were to have seen.

Edited to add: 11. That night my mother had a dream I fell into a hole and she couldn’t get me out.