"Just don't disappoint me this time, Charlie. You'd better not."
Her body moved slowly, reaching for me, and I knew that this time nothing would interfere.
I knew what to do and how to do it. She gasped and sighed and called my name.
For one moment I had the cold feeling he was watching.
Over the arm of the couch, I caught a glimpse of his face staring back at me through the dark beyond the window—
where just a few minutes earlier I had been crouching.
A switch in perception, and I was out on the fire escape again, watching a man and a woman inside, making love on the couch.
Then, with a violent effort of the will, I was back on the couch with her, aware of her body and my own urgency and potency,
and I saw the face against the window, hungrily watching.
And I thought to myself, go ahead, you poor bastard—watch.
I don't give a damn any more. And his eyes went wide as he watched.
June 29 — Before I go back to the lab I'm going to finish the projects I've started since I left the convention.
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