Imperial Bedrooms (2010) by Ellis Bret Easton

Author:Ellis, Bret Easton [Easton, Ellis, Bret]
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-01-14T19:17:34.140000+00:00

We’re walking across the grass toward the black limo and the driver waiting there and Rip glances at the Astronomers Monument as we pass it and I’m staring straight ahead, unable to focus on anything but the heat and the surreal blue sky and the hawks sailing over the soundless landscape, their shadows crossing the lawn, and I wonder if I’m going to be able to make it back to Doheny without getting into an accident and then Rip asks me something that should have been just a formality but because of our conversation now isn’t. “What are you doing the rest of the afternoon?”

“I don’t know,” I say, and then remember. “Are you going to Kelly’s memorial?”

“That’s today?”

“Yeah.”

“No,” Rip says. “Didn’t really know him. We did some business, but that was a long time ago.” The driver opens the door. “I’ve got to deal with this dickhead about the club. You know, the usual.” He says this as if I should be hip enough to understand what exactly he means, and before getting into the limo Rip asks me, “When are you seeing her next?”

“I think maybe tonight.” Then I can’t help it and ask, “How do you feel about that?”

“Hey, I hope she gets the part. I’m rooting for her.” He pauses, and grins. “Aren’t you?”

I don’t say anything. I just barely shake my head.

“Yeah,” Rip says, convinced of something. “I thought so.” And then, as he slides into the back of the limo and before the driver shuts the door, Rip looks up at me and says, “You have a history of this, don’t you?”

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