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behind
her, muting the roar of the downpour.
    She sets the dryer on low, and turns to go.
    The door won’t open.
    Carmen jiggles the knob and pulls, but the door
seems to be jammed shut. The humidity must have swollen the wood,
yet it still seems unreal that she can’t even budge it.
    ‘I don’t believe this!’
    The light flickers above her.
    She pulls on the door again, and stumbles
backwards as the rusty knob comes off in her hands.
    The dryer’s mellow hum is cut short,
surrendering to the storm’s wet fury as the light goes out, and
plunges her into a roaring darkness.
    She drops the cold metal sphere, unconsciously
crossing her arms over her chest as she leans back against the cool
washing machine, and sinks slowly to her knees.
    Jay doesn’t know where the laundry room is, but
he is a smart man. She’s sure he will come for her and get her out
of here. There isn’t anything for her to be worried about. The
absolute darkness is just merely sapping her reason, as if her
brain cells need light to function properly. There aren’t any
windows, but the room can’t possibly be airtight, she has plenty of
air…
    …Lying deep in the cave, she can still hear the
pounding roar of the ocean at high tide…
    ‘Carmen, are you in there?’
    Her voice emerges
as a dry whisper, ‘Yes…’ She clears her throat. ‘ Yes, get me out of here!’
    ‘Move away from the door.’
    Sage decides she likes this human male after all
and expresses her approval by jumping onto his lap and sprawling
across it in that boneless way of felines.
    ‘Jay, you shouldn’t let her lie on top of you
like that if you’re allergic.’
    ‘It won’t make any difference, and at least she
keeps me warm.’
    ‘Oh, I’m sorry, are you cold? I’ll put the air
conditioner on energy saver.’
    ‘That’s all right. I had no idea a simple lunch
date could prove to be such an adventure. Let’s see… first, I
nearly drown trying to find the place. Then, after I finally make
it here, I have to struggle to breathe.’ He caresses Sage, who
responds with a thunderous purr. ‘After that, flames start
billowing out of the kitchen and I have to put out a fire before
rescuing you from the laundry room dungeon. Now, I’m freezing to
death. I could have had a less eventful lunch in the heart of the
rain forest. It was delicious though, and well worth it for the
company, thank you.’
    ‘I know it’s cooled off outside, but I hate it
when my furniture gets all damp from the humidity.’ She feels
compelled to defend her environmentally sinful love of
air-conditioning.
    He stares fixedly over her shoulder as if seeing
a ghost, and sneezes.
    Sage jumps disdainfully off his lap.
    Carmen also gets up, to get him a tissue.
    The power surged back the second he kicked the
laundry room door open and found her crouched against the washer.
She is still embarrassed about that; she had never realized how
claustrophobic she was.
    During lunch neither one of them had mentioned
the incident. Instead, they made typical first-date conversation
even though she had sensed he was just as bored as she was by the
usual questions and answers.
    ‘Here.’ She hands him a tissue. ‘Your clothes
should be dry by now.’
    He blows his nose. ‘Are you so anxious to get
rid of me?’
    ‘Not at all, I just thought that since you’re
getting so congested…’
    ‘I’ll be all right.’ He gets up and stares
seriously down into her eyes. ‘But I suppose I should get
dressed.’
    She doesn’t say anything.
    ‘I’ll go get my clothes this time.’
    She clears the table while he’s gone, and is
beginning to wonder what’s keeping him when he finally returns.
    ‘I hope your suit isn’t ruined, Jay.’
    ‘No, I was just inspecting the door.’ He steps
cautiously around kittens, pausing beside her on his way to the
bedroom. ‘I don’t see how it could have jammed like that.’
    ‘Well, it did,’ she insists.
    ‘Carmen, did you realize you