Come Again by Poppy Dunne

Author:Poppy Dunne [Dunne, Poppy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

14

Fraser

I park my car right around the corner from Emma’s office, get out, and walk over to the front. I’m not wild about being here—it’s always possible to have an elusive Gavin Walker sighting. However, this particular corner of CAA is a great place to sight the young, beautiful, and hungry. I stand by the glass doors waiting for Emma, and watch the highlighted and glossed women, all wobbling in high heels, as they clack in and out through the revolving doors. This is the part of Los Angeles that’s always depressed me; young people, particularly women, trying desperately to sell themselves to America, to the world. Hungry for love.

And a sandwich, as well. Most of these women are alarmingly thin.

Emma would tell me that I’m commodifying women’s bodies. Then she’d laugh, and run and grab a donut. She certainly does love sugar. It’s one of the most appetizing things about her.

That, and how quickly she’s willing to get naked. I like that, too. For instance, I was thinking of preparing dinner at home tonight. Something simple, delicious, and possible to interrupt with athletic bouts of—

“Jesus,” someone says.

No, no, that one’s off the menu tonight. Sorry.

Oh. It’s Emma’s younger sister…Lillian? Lori? Lysandra? Whatever, some L name. She’s wobbling before me in high stilettos, her blonde hair blowing about her face. I’ve heard Delia refer to—Lily, that’s it—as the prettier of the two sisters. My own personal biases aside, perhaps Lily’s taken it too much to heart. She seems to be always prepared for a model cattle call, or catwalk, or whatever animal-based thing they call those activities.

“It’s you.” Lily smiles, like she’s proud of herself for recognizing me. “So, like, what are you here for?”

“I’m picking up Emma.” There’s no reason to lie. We’ve only been seeing each other for a few days, but I’m fully prepared to walk into her parents’ house and declare that we are together. Then I would sweep Emma into a passionate embrace in front of all of them, and that harpy of a mother of hers could—

No. No. I was going to start thinking more charitably of people. That was a mantra that Emma wanted me to try. I’m not sure it’ll stick, but I’ll give it a shot. I also keep calling it a ‘mantra ray’ which I should attempt to stop.

“So cool.” Lily doesn’t seem to connect the dots on this one. I’m not sure whether I’m relieved or disappointed. “Could you give me a ride too? I don’t want to Uber it.”

“Is your car in the shop?” Do Americans say garage instead of shop? Why don’t I remember anything about living here, apart from the appalling traffic and the spectacular hot dogs at Pink’s?

“Ugh, it got repossessed or something.” Lily rolls her eyes. “Daddy said I had to be responsible about payments.” She makes a face that suggests responsibility is something for the perennially unattractive.

“Well.” I admit I’d rather get Emma into the car all alone. Not in the ‘I’m going

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