英语读书笔记-Book Lovers Day 11
Part 1
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And anyone who’d miss that book’s obvious potentional is arguably incompetent.
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I tip my head back, groaning at the(alarmingly starry, is this the first time I’ve looked up?) sky as I try to figure out how-or whether to backtrack.
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A prick draws my gaze to my thigh, and I slap away a mosquito, only to catch two more landing on my arm.
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I’ve been known to be blunt.
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So I hated him, and so on and so forth.
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But it seems worth mentioning those were extenuating circumstances.
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I could burn off some of this energy.
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Got distracted by two gin martinies and a platinum blond from your face.
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A zing goes down my spine and right back up it, like my vertebrae just touched a live wire.
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I deflect with “Just trying to watch out for your eyebrows”.
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It would change your entire stormy scowl, and you’d need a new nickname.
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I shake my head, tying to clear the image of growly Charlie scowling at his e-reader in a hotel somewhere nearby, his frown deepening wherever he reachs something salacious.
Part 2
- But that image, it seems, is all my brain wants to dwell on.
- Tonight when I’m lying in bed, wide awake and trying to convince myself the world won’t end if I drift off, this is what I’ll come back to, my own mental happy place.
- I wake, heart racing, skin cold and damp.
- The whirring of my heart starts its signature post-nightmare coldown.
- I piece together my surroundings.
- Smiling good-naturedly while we fill up every gap with frantic chatter.
- They fritter off like petals on a breeze.
- What remains is the deep ache, the yawning canyon.
- Mom looks up from the table in the kitchenette, legs curled under her , nightgown pulled over them.
- And I bend to sweep a kiss across her cheek on my way to the fridge.
- But I never notice this incongruity.
- Like springtime incarnate, the kind of warmth your skin gulps down after a long winter.
- Her lemon-lavender scent settling over me like a blanket
- Like she’s been carved out of me.
- Even with my sister’s snores shirvering through the bed. the house was too quiet.