The Window
“Someone grabs my arm and I flinch. Who would grab so hard?
Close by my face a voice demands, "What are you doing here?" A voice so angry, so harsh, I almost don't recognize it as Hannah's. "Why did you come?" "To get you, Hannah," I say. "Ted and I want to take you home." "I don't have a home." Hannah's words hit hot against my cheek, a tiny fleck of spittle wets my neck. "I don't need your help. Why don't you mind your own business and leave me alone?" "Why didn't you?" I'm suddenly as furious... as she is. "You didn't have to come over, help the blind girl, just because I shouted." "What, I should have just left you?" she says. "I couldn't.".
"Well, I couldn't either." Then the ridiculousness of it reaches us both, how we're mad at each other for doing the same thing. It doesn't make things right, but it's enough that we can talk.
When Ted finds us we're sitting together on a bench, and I'm telling Hannah how afraid I was she'd caught that bus to Albuquerque.
"It was full," she says. "But I'm going to take the next one, to there or anyplace else where I won't ever have to see Texas or my so-called family again." "How are you going to live?" Ted asks, like he's really curious.MoreLess
Close by my face a voice demands, "What are you doing here?" A voice so angry, so harsh, I almost don't recognize it as Hannah's. "Why did you come?" "To get you, Hannah," I say. "Ted and I want to take you home." "I don't have a home." Hannah's words hit hot against my cheek, a tiny fleck of spittle wets my neck. "I don't need your help. Why don't you mind your own business and leave me alone?" "Why didn't you?" I'm suddenly as furious... as she is. "You didn't have to come over, help the blind girl, just because I shouted." "What, I should have just left you?" she says. "I couldn't.".
"Well, I couldn't either." Then the ridiculousness of it reaches us both, how we're mad at each other for doing the same thing. It doesn't make things right, but it's enough that we can talk.
When Ted finds us we're sitting together on a bench, and I'm telling Hannah how afraid I was she'd caught that bus to Albuquerque.
"It was full," she says. "But I'm going to take the next one, to there or anyplace else where I won't ever have to see Texas or my so-called family again." "How are you going to live?" Ted asks, like he's really curious.MoreLess
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