This is Shyness (2010)
This is Shyness
“I use this look a lot: when I’m handing in forged permission slips at school, when I come home three hours late, when I’m fooling around on the internet at work instead of calling clients, and when I’m pretending to be older than I really am. I had this same mask on at school today, pretending that I didn’t care, while the whole time I felt as if my insides had been vacuumed out.
I lean on the counter, a big mistake because the beer mats in this club are so sodden you could grow grass on them. ...The counter is a long concrete slab, raised so the barman towers over me. ‘I’ll have a vodka raspberry and a pot, please.’ I rustle in my wallet.
Of course I know exactly how I’m going to pay— with the card that’s in my pocket—so there’s no need to rummage in my wallet, but it’s best to keep busy when you don’t know if you’re going to get served or not.
The barman sighs and places both hands on the bar. His spiky black hair wouldn’t look out of place on a cockatiel.MoreLess
I lean on the counter, a big mistake because the beer mats in this club are so sodden you could grow grass on them. ...The counter is a long concrete slab, raised so the barman towers over me. ‘I’ll have a vodka raspberry and a pot, please.’ I rustle in my wallet.
Of course I know exactly how I’m going to pay— with the card that’s in my pocket—so there’s no need to rummage in my wallet, but it’s best to keep busy when you don’t know if you’re going to get served or not.
The barman sighs and places both hands on the bar. His spiky black hair wouldn’t look out of place on a cockatiel.MoreLess
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