“Maybe this was Leo’s way of elevating the anticipation further, not allowing any release with words.” Fiction by Ayşegül Savaş.
Lea changed the sheets when she got up. She’d bought flowers the previous day, tulips that she’d put on the dresser. There were carnations on the kitchen table, in a squat glass vase. She thought they looked cheerful, and not too fussy.
This was different from their time in California, where Lea had been doing research for a semester. Leo worked as an engineer in a neighboring town; they hadn’t met until the last month of Lea’s stay. Then, there had been something embarrassing about their late-night returns to her apartment after dinners at the home of mutual friends: a secret, though not a thrill. On Lea’s last weekend, they’d gone to a restaurant together, to dignify the situation with a formal parting.
Lea shouted some phrases to the driver—thank you, good day, thank you again—maybe too loud, too eager to show off her Italian.Upstairs, they put the suitcase in the bedroom, then sat in the kitchen. Leo wasn’t very hungry. He picked at the cut-up fruits she’d put in a bowl.“No,” Leo said. “Then I’d sleep all day. We’d better go out before the fatigue kicks in.”She put on a jacket over the dress she was wearing, long and sleeveless. She’d bought it last week for this very day.
“Let’s go home,” Lea said. She waved for the waiter. They walked back to the Ponte Sublicio. It was only later that she thought they should’ve taken a taxi instead. “If that’s what you prefer.” She got up and went to the bedroom, aware that she was shutting down any opportunity to make up. She changed out of her clothes, put on a T-shirt and shorts.
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