and I think you only appreciate me when you don’t have me, which is not a great trait to have. What about my dreams?
He was hardly listening. Or trying to look like he wasn’t.
Big fires in California,he said, almost to himself. ‘Well, at least we’re not there.’
He put the phone down. Folded his laptop. ‘You coming to bed or what?’
She had shrunk for him, but he still hadn’t found the space he needed. No more.
‘Icosagon,’ she told him. ‘What?’ ‘The quiz. Earlier. The twenty-sided polygon.’
‘Well, a twenty-sided polygon is called an icosagon. I knew the answer but didn’t tell you because I didn’t want you to mock me.’
‘And now I don’t really care because I don’t think me knowing some things that you don’t should bother you.’
‘And also, I am going to go to the bathroom.’ And she left Dan, with his mouth open, and trod gently on the wide floorboards, out of the room.
She reached the bathroom. Switched a light on. There were tingles in her arms and legs and torso.
Like electric static in search of a station. She was fading out, she was sure.
There wasn’t long left here. The disappointment was complete.
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