You were a heavy smoker and used to abuse the habit, but you liked it." You couldn't tell if it was the smoking process itself, the smoke, or the Smell that introduced you to the habit. You smoked together, sometimes drunk, sometimes sober, in the park or on the path at home. Smoking has become your daily routine. Your joint evenings at work with the same lighter have taken on a different hue. You found each other funny and started staying at his house more often. A year of such parties has brought you closer together. Or were they the cigars Hank had suggested? It was late autumn — the first snowfall. You woke up in his bed, and outside the window was a city strewn with snow.