Mind the Gap (2008)
“The facade of the building looked more like an old theater marquee than a Tube station, but the red circle and blue band that marked the Underground gave it away.
On a pleasantly warm day—a workday, though she’d lost track of which one—Jazz stood near the magazine stand across the street from the station and pretended to talk into a disposable mobile. The phone had been fetched from the garbage in Tottenham Court Road station after having been discarded there and made a useful prop. Jazz had never seriously entertained thoughts of becoming an actress, but her few excursions onto the stage had come effortlessly. She’d been born to pretend.
“Can you believe it, Sally?” she asked into the inert mobile. “And he sent flowers the next day. He’s got no shame. I’ve half a mind to—”
She felt a tug behind her, on the hem of her skirt. Then Cadge whipped the back of her skirt up high, revealing her lavender thong and far more of her than she would have liked. A breeze fluttered the skirt, and th...en she forced it down, covering herself again and dropping the phone in the process.MoreLess
On a pleasantly warm day—a workday, though she’d lost track of which one—Jazz stood near the magazine stand across the street from the station and pretended to talk into a disposable mobile. The phone had been fetched from the garbage in Tottenham Court Road station after having been discarded there and made a useful prop. Jazz had never seriously entertained thoughts of becoming an actress, but her few excursions onto the stage had come effortlessly. She’d been born to pretend.
“Can you believe it, Sally?” she asked into the inert mobile. “And he sent flowers the next day. He’s got no shame. I’ve half a mind to—”
She felt a tug behind her, on the hem of her skirt. Then Cadge whipped the back of her skirt up high, revealing her lavender thong and far more of her than she would have liked. A breeze fluttered the skirt, and th...en she forced it down, covering herself again and dropping the phone in the process.MoreLess
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