The Neck: Part 2

He wrote a story about falling in love with her neck. He was very clear in the story about how it was only a part of him that loved a part of her. And though they had never talked before, he shared the story with her and told her the story was inspired by her neck. She loved the story, and she wanted more. She didn't mind that it was only her neck or mostly her neck that he wanted. She used her neck to make him want more. She wanted more parts of him to be in love with more parts of her. She liked how in love with her neck he was, how obsessive he seemed to be over her neck. It made her feel attractive, even special, since he was someone she wouldn't have expected to notice her. He had surprised her with the story, and she had surprised herself by liking someone who freely admitted only liking a part of her. She would have considered this to be superficial behavior before if she had seen it from someone else, and she never saw herself as that. She had a good opinion of herself, and rightly too as others would testify. But it is often the case that we don't know what we're capable of until we are put in a situation. This unpredictability in both of them excited her. She had discovered more about herself and people in general through reading the story and through her reaction to the story. She understood now that she was also made of parts and it was part of her that liked this part of him that was attracted to her neck, she also understood that the part of her that would have judged others for this behavior was part of her still; contradictory parts that coexisted within her, and the contradiction gave birth to more forgiving parts; for as she forgave herself she also forgave others (including him) for being made of different parts and not functioning always as coherent wholes; and as she forgave others this made her feel less burdened and thus allowed her to abandon the judgmental part of her while she enjoyed for a while this newly discovered part, which she came to know through reading the story about her neck.

[Part 2 of The Neck, still needs some editing.]