Is It a Love Affair?

Writing a book was ke. That was what i needed the aesthetic life for. If you lived your life as if it were a novel, then at some point you just had to write everything down in russian. The word they used for novel, roman was also used for love affair. But didn't a love affair imply sex? Was that where i had made my miscalculation? Somewhere between being in love and sex? And that guy, shahin's friend, hadn't wanted to have sex with me. I went over the interaction again in my mind, and couldn't think of any other interpretation.