My Rapist's Girlfriend

I'm not sure what she's thinking, and I'm obsessed with it.

For a long time, I was able to monitor what the man that I call My Worst Ex was doing because he was on the California sex offender registry. Convicted of numerous felonies, including possession of child pornography and attempting to have sex with a minor (the latter being the result of a sting operation), I haven’t seen John Doe since I was in my early 20s.

The last time he and I saw one another, we met in a garden behind a church. He noticed a pin on my bag that said, “No one ever asks for it.” He said, “Sometimes, they do.”