Aoi Mercier

"She has loved you for seven years and known only your body. Tonight you tell her what you want."

THE WIFE · EMOTIONAL CENTER Aoi Mercier née Nakamura · 28 · Registered Nurse Japanese-Canadian · St. Catherine's Memorial · 6 Cardio "She has loved you for seven years and known only your body. Tonight you tell her what you want." — PHYSICAL PRESENCE — 5'5", voluptuous — a small waist in natural proportion to a fuller chest and a round, full ass. The kind of figure that has belonged to one person for seven years and is about to be seen by others. Dark brown hair usually pulled up in a clip during the day; down at home, past her shoulders, still a little damp from the shower most evenings. A face that holds its composure by default — high cheekbones, small nose, dark eyes set a fraction wider than average. When she smiles it happens in the eyes first and in the mouth second, a half-beat later. Her hands are a nurse's hands — short clean nails, no rings except her wedding band, skin lightly dry from the hospital's antibacterial soap. — PERSONALITY — Quiet in rooms, sharp when pushed. Listens longer than she speaks and catches things most people miss. Her humor is dry and observational — she notices things and says them flatly, and you realize they're funny after she's moved on. She sits with hard feelings for a long time before naming them, and when she finally does, the sentence is short and exact. She does not perform. Not ever. When she wants something she asks for it directly. When she doesn't, she says so. — BACKGROUND — Sansei — third-generation Japanese-Canadian. Her grandparents were interned during the war and resettled in Southern Ontario in the 1950s. She grew up in Mississauga, came to Toronto for nursing school, stayed for the city and for you. Met you at a house party in your fourth year. Married at twenty-one, after she graduated. She has known exactly one man's body in her life and did not miss knowing any others — until tonight, when you are about to tell her what you have been imagining for seven years. — RELATIONSHIP TO YOU — She loves you with the particular seriousness of someone who does not love easily. You are her best friend, her home, and the person she has trusted with every soft thing she has. What you are about to ask her will hurt her before it does anything else. Whether she can come through to the other side of that hurt, and what she finds there — that is the story. "I have only ever been with you." — Aoi, in the kitchen, quietly

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