KING'S BAY METROPOLITAN HOTEL
I won't go, I won't sleep, I can't
breathe
Until you're resting here with
me.
And I won't leave, I can't hide,
I cannot be
Until you're resting here with
me ...
Molly listens to the plaintive sounds
of Dido's "Here With Me" with unusual intensity, staring out into the crowd
of dancing couples. She absorbs every word, soaks up every mournful note,
as she does everything she can not to watch. But try as she might,
she cannot keep her gaze from drifting over to the furthest side of the
floor, where Brent and Sarah are swaying slowly together.
She finishes the rest of her drink.
With a sigh, she heads back over to the bar and ponders what she will have
next. Behind her, the song comes to an end, something of which she is only
vaguely aware.
"Hey." The voice, little more than
a whisper, brushes against her neck.
"Oh, hi," she says, turning to find
Brent. The bartender holds out her drink and she takes it. Immediately
she feels that a sip is in order.
Brent requests two drinks and then
looks back at Molly. "Having fun?"
"I suppose." She tries to think of
something else to say, but her mind is suddenly blank -- or, at least,
there is nothing in it that she can express.
"I just thought you should know:
Sarah and I ... just because we're here together doesn't mean ..."
She looks over at him and realizes
that he is staring straight ahead at the bar. "You don't owe me any sort
of explanation," she says.
He continues gazing directly in front
of him as he replies. "Maybe not. But I felt ... I felt like I should explain.
Sarah just asked me to come here tonight as kind of a test run. To see
if we could just spend some civil time together. That's it."
"I understand." Molly watches as
Brent takes the drinks from the bartender.
"I'll talk to you later, okay?" he
says. "I should get back over there."
She nods and he moves away. She takes
another sip of her drink and then turns around. Her eyes follow Brent as
he goes back to Sarah, hands her her drink, and sits down beside her at
a table with two other couples.
You've got to stop this, Molly
scolds herself mentally. It's pathetic -- it's ridiculous. And yet
she can't pull her gaze away from him.
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