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I left the rental just as the sun poked its head above the nearby mountains,
and golden light filled the broad stretch of river that ran alongside the little
town. Nisa was still curled up in bed, breathing deeply, her dark curls stuck
to her cheek. I brushed them aside but she never stirred. Nisa slept like a
child. Unlike me, she was never troubled by nightmares or insomnia. It
would be another hour or two before she woke. Longer, maybe. Probably.
I kissed her cheek, breathing in her scent—lilac-and-freesia perfume
mingled with my own imported Jasmin et Tabac, one of my few luxuries—
and ran my hand along her bare shoulder. I was tempted to crawl back into
bed beside her, but I also felt an odd restlessness, a nagging sense that there
was somewhere I needed to be. There wasn’t—we knew no one around here
except for Theresa and Giorgio, and both would be at work in their home
offices overlooking the river.
I kissed Nisa again: if she woke, I’d take it as a sign, and remain here.
But she didn’t wake.
I scrawled a note on a piece of paper—Nisa often forgot to turn her
notifications off, she’d be grumpy all morning if a text woke her. Going for
a drive, back with provisions. Love you.
I dressed quickly, propelled by an anticipation I couldn’t explain. Being
in a new place, perhaps, and out of New York City after such a long time.
The night before, we’d polished off a bottle of champagne in our rental,
and that was after beers and celebratory shots of twelve-year-old Jura at the
bar that Theresa had recommended as the best in this part of upstate. The
rental had been Theresa’s idea, too. She and her husband, Giorgio, had
bought a second home here years ago, but during the pandemic, they’d
forsaken their Queens apartment and moved permanently. Ever since,
they’d been on me and Nisa and their other friends still in the city to do the
same.
“Seriously, Hols, you will love it,” Theresa had urged me the night
before. “You should have done it years ago, you know that, right?”
“Right,” Nisa retorted. She thought Theresa and Giorgio were going
insane with boredom, which was likely true. They came down to the city at
least once or twice a month, couch-surfing because even for them shortterm rentals had become too expensive, and they’d sublet their own
beautiful two-bedroom in Sunnyside. “And I should have had a father who
left me a million dollars when his ultralight crashed last time he was out at
Torrey Pines. Why didn’t I think of that?”
Nisa smacked herself in the forehead. Theresa smiled ruefully, made a
touché gesture, and ordered another round for all of us. She and her father
had long been estranged. The inheritance was a surprise, and she liked to
share her largesse.
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