Emergence 3.0
A Novel – One Page Per Day
Day 009, Tuesday
January 9th, 2018
Chapter Two: Morning
“Small coffee,
please;” Jim orders.
“Soy chai,
thank you;” says Kathy.
They sit together
at a table by the window of the storefront. They sit with the sun to their
backs.
It is clear to
Kathy that there is something urgent taking place with Jim, but nevertheless
they carryout the mechanics of their routine as if it were a normal day, and a
normal visit between the two of them.
They read
the newspaper, and surveil the crowd
In that at
least, this is a morning like any other morning.
The café is
busy.
They are
together, and they are not together, at the same time. They are both, in the
crowd of people, and completely isolated at one and the same time. It is not
unusual, this distance has always characterized the way they interact with each
other.
It was both
intimate and strange.
It was the
way Jim related to her, and it was something Kathy never questioned.
Time passes
in silence, more than usual.
They are
quiet, then Jim begins to weep.
It takes
some time before Kathy even notices.
If Jim were
any other person in the world she would have known he was crying before the
tears even fell.
She was
quietly alarmed. She had never seen such a display of emotion from Jim before.
“What is
wrong with you?” Kathy asks, sounding scared and judgmental at the time.
Jim says,
nothing at all.
He just
looks at her, and looks through her for a long moment.
He will not
say why.
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