Clean each other up.

She kissed him softly. “Thank you.”

He leaned back. “No, thank you…” He took a deep breath. “Wow. You really had a lot of…energy.”

She rested her head on the side of the tub and said, “It’s been so long since I’ve seen anybody. Actually, for a while I just though I had gone insane. Seeing you here and feeling you and…well, I just needed to touch another person so bad…” The water from the shower poured over her face. Streaks of her flesh shone through the dirt.

David smiled, picked up a washcloth and wiped across her cheek. “You’re still caked with dirt.”

She laughed, “I guess I’ve collected a few layers over my time here.”

He stood up and helped her to her feet. “Mind if I wash your back?”

She turned her body away from him. “By all means.”

His hands were kind and gentle as he ran them across her. “Wasn’t I supposed to start with washing your back and then work our way up to the sex?” He said.

She just smirked over her shoulder and they spent the next twenty minutes caressing and rubbing each other’s bodies as the warm water flowed over them. Neither tried anything else sexual, both seemed to realize that what they need right now was just to be together.

When they were finished they got out and wrapped bathrobes around each other. “I’m going to need some new clothes.” David said looking at his sodden garments.

She replied, “O.K. Let me get dressed and we’ll go down to one of the shops.” She went into the living room and picked up a tan pair of slacks and a white silk blouse that were on the floor and started to put them on.

While he waited he grabbed the remote and turned on the television. The first channel had nothing on, just a black screen. He changed the station and saw static, he was about to change again when he noticed something odd about it. It flowed across the screen like water. The way it moved made his eyes hurt. He quickly shut the television off and turned away. He saw her looking at him.

“I know,” she said, “Terrible isn’t it? All the channels are like that. I’ve tried to watch it, to see if there is a clue to this place, but I can’t. That’s why I have all the movies around. They are all movies I’ve seen before though. It’s like nothing new ever comes into this place, that is, until you came.” She wrapped her arms around him and held tightly. “Please don’t leave me.”

David assured her that he wouldn’t. She smiled and led him out of the apartment into the elevator. He shook his head and said to her, “Here we are in this place with no clue what is going on, nobody else around, and no idea how to leave, and the strangest thing I’ve felt is right now. Leaving the apartment in just my bathrobe.”

They soon left the building and walked into the empty streets.