The Scent of Rain (2012)
“He may as well have taken her to McDonald’s. The red-and-white checkered tablecloths stained with former patrons’ meals, the Chianti bottles dripping with wax and dust, the sticky menus, all fused together in a perfect storm of degradation. It made it look like he’d railroaded her into agreeing to stay and he wasn’t going to put in any kind of effort whatsoever. As if he took no pride in his position. If Dave observed them in this run-down pizza shack, he’d think Jesse’s main objective was to rid Gibraltar of Daphne’s presence as soon as possible.
He searched for conversation to fill the awkward silence. “We should go somewhere else.”
“This is fine,” she said as they were led to their table.
The waitress, who smacked her gum and wore too much makeup, including drawn-on eyebrows in the shape of an exaggerated rainbow, set down two scratched jelly jars full of iced water. “You ready to order?” she asked as she pulled a standard number two pencil from behind her ear.
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