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Wysłany: Sob 14:45, 12 Lut 2011 Temat postu: 'Why don't we go outside and sit |
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'Why don't we go outside and sit? That way anyone passing can see that we're still dressed and that
we don't have anything on inside-out.'
I looked at herstartled She looked back with a kind of cynical good humor. It wasn't an
expression that looked particularly at home on her face.
'I may only be twenty-onebut I'm not stupid' she said. 'He's watching me. I know itand you
probably dotoo. On another night I might be tempted to say fuck him if he can't take a jokebut
it's cooler out there and the smoke from the hibachi will keep the worst of the bugs away. Have I
shocked you? If soI'm sorry.'
'You haven't.' She hada little. 'No need to apologize.'
We carried our drinks down the not-quite-steady cinderblock steps and sat side-by-side in a
couple of lawn-chairs. To the left of us the coals in the hibachi glowed soft rose in the growing
gloom. Mattie leaned backplaced the cold curve of her glass briefly against her foreheadthen
drank most of what was leftthe ice cubes sliding against her teeth with a click and a rattle.
Crickets hummed in the woods behind the trailer and across the road. Farther up Highway 68I
could see the bright white fluorescents over the gas island at the Lakeview General. The sea [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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