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watch them be couply with each other; she at least needed a drink。
She cocked her head and gestured to the waiter。 “A round of mimosas? We’re celebrating!” she announced。 All she had to do was pretend she was in a movie; and she’d be able to make it through the rest of breakfast。
And would that movie be called The Flat Tire on the Perpetual Third Wheel?
who says you can’t go home?
“Daniel…san!” Can you get more rocks for the fire pit?” Rufus asked; poking his head out of a lopsided canvas…and…log structure that served as a sweat lodge。 Dan had spent the last few days in an upstate New York campsite with Rufus and his motley group of friends: Mika; Herbert; and Ron。 Ron preferred to be called Running Rainbow; and when he wasn’t serving as a barista at Starbucks; he taught tai chi for free in Central Park。 Mika and Herbert were tall; skinny; bald members of a folk…rock band that played open…mic nights around the city。 Rufus had met all three of them at a seminar at the Ninety…second Street Y called Bringing the Age of Aquarius into the Age of the Internet。
Rufus emerged from the sweat lodge wearing a blue…and…yellow striped towel around his waist and white Crocs。 He didn’t seem the least bit cold; despite the fact that the temperature hovered near freezing。 Dan was shivering in a Patagonia parka he’d inadvertently stolen from his Evergreen roommate。
“Okay;” Dan mumbled。 They’d only been in the woods for two nights; but it felt like a lifetime; especially since he didn’t even get cell service。 He’d wanted to call Vanessa at midnight on New Year’s Eve; but no matter how far away he walked from the campsite; he couldn’t get reception。
Dan sighed and grabbed a large moss…covered rock; groaning as he picked it up。
“Here。”
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