‘We’re trying for a baby? I want a baby?’ ‘Nora, what’s with you? Why are you strange today?’
She took off her shoes. ‘I’m not.’ A memory came to her, related to the Jaws T-shirt. A tune, actually.
‘Beautiful Sky’. The day she had bought Dan the Jaws T-shirt had been the day she had played him a song she had written for The Labyrinths.
‘Beautiful Sky’. It was, she was convinced, the best song she had ever written.
And – more than that – it was a happy song to reflect her optimism at that point in her life.
It was a song inspired by her new life with Dan. And he had listened to it with a shruggish indifference
that had hurt at the time and which she would have addressed if it hadn’t been his birthday.
‘Yeah,’ he’d said. ‘It’s okay.’ She wondered why that memory had stayed buried,
only to rise up now, like the great white shark on his fading T-shirt.
There were other things coming back to her now too.
His over-the-top reaction when she’d once told him about a customer – Ash, the surgeon and amateur guitar player
who came into String Theory for the occasional songbook – casually asking Nora if she wanted to go for a coffee some time.
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