“You need to go away,” she says, but she passes me a piece of gum when she gets one for herself from the pack. I smell her Juicy Fruit breath as she leans down. I take the stick of gum, strip off the foil and put the flat sugar-dusted piece into my mouth.

A drive-in cinema. A young man. A moment of passion. Ray Else's story is brimming over with lost youth, yearning and all the special things that make us sigh. 

Ray Else's fiction has previously been broadcast on the BBC World Service. For more writing by Ray Else, you can visit rayelse.com.

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