said Adam.
“Yes, I’m starving and I think the sun has scorched me a little.”
“The usual, Panda City...is that OK? There won’t be the typical line in the afternoon.”
Panda City has become a haunt for them. She had never particularly cared for Chinese before meeting Adam but had learned to crave it now. It was a tiny restaurant near downtown St. Pete.; it had survived the changing inner city swell. They held hands across the table while the tea was being poured.
He spoke first, “I haven’t had a moment’s rest thinking about our complicated situation. For the first time in like forever, I don’t feel lonely anymore. It feels right to be with you and that means a lot to me. When it’s right, you know it. It just settles over you but Patty Jo keeps calling me and leaving messages because she wants to try again. She told her boyfriend she wanted to give her marriage another shot first before they went any further. My Mum keeps telling me I have to, that it’s my obligation.”
Those words, not what she wanted to hear, and yet still having truth in them.
“I do understand, but what will happen to us then? I don’t want to think about never seeing you again or you not being in my life. I know I should try again with my marriage but I did already try and it didn’t work. We are like brother and sister, the only connection we have is the boys and that can’t be all when you might have 60 years left to live. I can’t live knowing that’s all that’s left for me at this age. I’m so unhappy and I know you are too.”
“You’re right. It’s hard to fix stuff that you’re not even sure what part of it is broken, when you don’t even know each other well enough to know what happened. Living out a mistake is not living at all. My Mum and Patty Joe make me feel like meat scraps for a dog, like I shouldn’t even look at them if I don’t try and can’t back together with her. I think the right thing for me is to be with you. I lay awake at night thinking about it and no matter what I still think the right thing for me is to be with you.”
“Oh, my love, my darling, what are we going to do? Why can’t anything in life go the way you plan it. I waited all my life to feel this way and to have someone feel that way back is just a miracle. I know you love me; I feel it every time you put your arms around me. I can’t live without that now that I know what it feels like. I just can’t. Let’s get out of here and take a walk on the beach. I’m so stressed right now just thinking that we might not make it.”
Upton beach was just a short distance from Adam’s place. In the sublime darkness of Florida’s midnight oasis, they made love on the beach. For now, Arianna would not think about tomorrow, tomorrow might bring the end to everything.
They went on, day after wonderful day, pretending. Tom’s was the billiard hall where they competed with each other and as a couple. She had been playing pool since she was 13, learning to play in clubhouse in Humboldt Park in Chicago. At first, she did it because she liked being the only girl with the boys but then learned to love playing. The crowd at the pool hall knew them well and had declared them, “most in love couple ever”. If they weren’t playing 9 ball, they enjoyed canoeing down the Hillsborough River. At first she was frightened of the gators, but with Adam by her side, she tolerated the fear and learned to enjoy the wild life and her wild love.
She was kicking pebbles with her feet, laughing, and holding his hand. He was talking to her about racing on Sunday. That was his solitary day that she was never
“Yes, I’m starving and I think the sun has scorched me a little.”
“The usual, Panda City...is that OK? There won’t be the typical line in the afternoon.”
Panda City has become a haunt for them. She had never particularly cared for Chinese before meeting Adam but had learned to crave it now. It was a tiny restaurant near downtown St. Pete.; it had survived the changing inner city swell. They held hands across the table while the tea was being poured.
He spoke first, “I haven’t had a moment’s rest thinking about our complicated situation. For the first time in like forever, I don’t feel lonely anymore. It feels right to be with you and that means a lot to me. When it’s right, you know it. It just settles over you but Patty Jo keeps calling me and leaving messages because she wants to try again. She told her boyfriend she wanted to give her marriage another shot first before they went any further. My Mum keeps telling me I have to, that it’s my obligation.”
Those words, not what she wanted to hear, and yet still having truth in them.
“I do understand, but what will happen to us then? I don’t want to think about never seeing you again or you not being in my life. I know I should try again with my marriage but I did already try and it didn’t work. We are like brother and sister, the only connection we have is the boys and that can’t be all when you might have 60 years left to live. I can’t live knowing that’s all that’s left for me at this age. I’m so unhappy and I know you are too.”
“You’re right. It’s hard to fix stuff that you’re not even sure what part of it is broken, when you don’t even know each other well enough to know what happened. Living out a mistake is not living at all. My Mum and Patty Joe make me feel like meat scraps for a dog, like I shouldn’t even look at them if I don’t try and can’t back together with her. I think the right thing for me is to be with you. I lay awake at night thinking about it and no matter what I still think the right thing for me is to be with you.”
“Oh, my love, my darling, what are we going to do? Why can’t anything in life go the way you plan it. I waited all my life to feel this way and to have someone feel that way back is just a miracle. I know you love me; I feel it every time you put your arms around me. I can’t live without that now that I know what it feels like. I just can’t. Let’s get out of here and take a walk on the beach. I’m so stressed right now just thinking that we might not make it.”
Upton beach was just a short distance from Adam’s place. In the sublime darkness of Florida’s midnight oasis, they made love on the beach. For now, Arianna would not think about tomorrow, tomorrow might bring the end to everything.
They went on, day after wonderful day, pretending. Tom’s was the billiard hall where they competed with each other and as a couple. She had been playing pool since she was 13, learning to play in clubhouse in Humboldt Park in Chicago. At first, she did it because she liked being the only girl with the boys but then learned to love playing. The crowd at the pool hall knew them well and had declared them, “most in love couple ever”. If they weren’t playing 9 ball, they enjoyed canoeing down the Hillsborough River. At first she was frightened of the gators, but with Adam by her side, she tolerated the fear and learned to enjoy the wild life and her wild love.
She was kicking pebbles with her feet, laughing, and holding his hand. He was talking to her about racing on Sunday. That was his solitary day that she was never
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