Double Helix (2011)
Double Helix
“How could I forget? I had done all kinds of planning. I had gotten a reservation at The Top of the Hub, one of the most elegant restaurants in Boston. I had bought a nice linen jacket that actually fit, and had carefully tucked two hundred dollars in cash into my wallet. And Viv had told me four times about her new short black silk tank dress. “I’ve never worn anything like this before,” she’d warned. “You’ll die!”
There was no way I could have forgotten. I just . . . stood her up. Viv waited a...lone at the restaurant, all dressed up and perfumed, for two hours, from seven o’clock to nine o’clock that evening, and I never came.
I don’t have an excuse, or an explanation that makes sense. I know my behavior was—unbelievable. Cruel. Or Viv’s word: unforgivable. But it was just . . . it was that . . .
It was that, as afternoon faded into evening and I sat talking with Dr. Wyatt and Kayla Matheson on the sunporch, I was somehow unable to leave. I couldn’t get enough of watching—surreptitiously—how the light from the sunset created a reddish shimmer around Kayla’s hair.MoreLess
There was no way I could have forgotten. I just . . . stood her up. Viv waited a...lone at the restaurant, all dressed up and perfumed, for two hours, from seven o’clock to nine o’clock that evening, and I never came.
I don’t have an excuse, or an explanation that makes sense. I know my behavior was—unbelievable. Cruel. Or Viv’s word: unforgivable. But it was just . . . it was that . . .
It was that, as afternoon faded into evening and I sat talking with Dr. Wyatt and Kayla Matheson on the sunporch, I was somehow unable to leave. I couldn’t get enough of watching—surreptitiously—how the light from the sunset created a reddish shimmer around Kayla’s hair.MoreLess
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