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- Authors: Diksha Basu
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- Genre: Women’s Friendship Fiction
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SUNDAY NIGHT, 11 P.M.
JFK Airport: Their Flight Is Delayed Due to
Technical Reasons and Everyone Is Secretly
Wishing Airlines Didn’t Announce That and
Make All the Passengers Nervous
“I CANNOT BELIEVE MY MOTHER is here with her boyfriend and I’m
here alone,” Tina Das said to her best friend, Marianne Laing, in the
British Airways business-class lounge at JFK. Tina, in the hope that
she would be able to sleep through the first leg of the flight to
Heathrow, had rimless glasses on instead of her usual contacts. She
never needed much makeup thanks to her thick eyebrows, which had
been a liability when she was younger but were very fashionable now
and gave her face all the drama it needed. She was wearing black
North Face sweatpants that cinched at the ankle, a gray, long-sleeved
T-shirt, and black-and-white Adidas sneakers. It was hot in the
lounge so her Guess fur vest was hanging off the chair behind her.
A bowl full of nuts was on the table in between them. Tina picked
up a handful while staring out of the window and tossed them all into
her mouth and started chewing before she realized she had eaten
several whole pistachios, with shells. The hard, cracked pieces
pierced her mouth and she spat them out. A grumpy old man
appeared out of nowhere with a broom and shook his head at her as
he swept up the pistachio shells.
“I didn’t know they had shells,” Tina said apologetically.
The man said nothing but kept looking at her as he swept, his
broom knocking her foot aside.
“It isn’t my fault,” Tina said to him again but he didn’t respond.
The man walked away and Tina turned to Marianne and said, “At
the price of these tickets, the nuts really shouldn’t have shells.”
Marianne was applying lip balm and laughing. She was so good at
putting on makeup that it was hard to say whether or not she had
any on, but the smattering of brown freckles across her nose was
visible and, despite the fact that it was November, still had a velvety
brownness they usually acquired over the summer because she had
recently been to San Francisco for Tom’s college roommate’s
wedding. Marianne was wearing similar sweatpants and a plain black
long-sleeved T-shirt, and a red shawl was draped over the back of her
chair.
“We’re like world-weary businesswomen who travel
internationally twice a month and are just so over it,” Marianne said.
“I feel like I should be impatiently clacking away on a laptop but I
have no work to do this week and I bet Tom’s fast asleep.”
Marianne looked down at her phone and the itinerary that had
been sent by the wedding planner.
“It feels like we’re going to have a lot of free time,” Marianne said.
“There aren’t that many events listed here. I thought Indian
weddings had days and days of events.”
“I think these days most people just pick and choose what parts
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