The juxtaposition between them made her feel even more slovenly than she had done five seconds earlier.
But she’d been feeling lonely. And though she’d studied enough existential philosophy
to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.
“Ash,” she said, smiling. “It’s Ash, isn’t it?” “Yes. It is.” “What are you doing here? It’s good to see you.”
A few weeks ago she’d been sat playing her electric piano and he’d run down Bancroft Avenue
and had seen her in the window here at 33A and given her a little wave.
He had once – years ago – asked her out for a coffee. Maybe he was about to do that again.
“It’s good to see you too,” he said, but his tense forehead didn’t show it.
When she’d spoken to him in the shop, he’d always sounded breezy, but now his voice contained something heavy.
He scratched his brow. Made another sound but didn’t quite manage a full word.
“You running?” A pointless question. He was clearly out for a run.
But he seemed relieved, momentarily, to have something trivial to say.
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