In Some Other World, Maybe: A Novel by Shari Goldhagen

Author:Shari Goldhagen [Goldhagen, Shari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Coming of Age, Fiction, Retail
ISBN: 9781466848290
Google: IfwCBAAAQBAJ
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

Had to go to work, Shar, but I love you very much. –C

Below that in the same barely legible handwriting as in the books in the living room:

I love you, too. I’m sorry.

And then Phoebe can’t breathe, hands trembling. She needs air, the central heat oppressive and stale.

On the terrace she fills her lungs again and again until they calm, then eases into one of the two patio chairs—the seat webbing cold even through her jeans. From out here the skyline is different. The towers shooting up beyond the thirty-five stories and all the roofs and water towers of the buildings below. Maybe her brother stood here admiring the forest of harnessed steel and concrete? Maybe he sat in these chairs with Sharon?

The girl with the large blue eyes and the grown-up clothes, who said “adore” every other sentence. That girl, that Sharon Gallaher, whom Phoebe met only once, had loved her brother and he’d loved her. And isn’t that what Phoebe really came here to find? The things that had mattered to her brother when she’d lost track of them? Phoebe likes the idea of Sharon and Chase sharing this view.

A minute or an hour passes, and the phone Adam gave her rings in her pants pocket.

“How’s my best girl?” he asks. For once it’s quiet in the background. He’s not on set or out with his cast members.

“Good, you?” Her voice cracks a little since she hasn’t spoken in so long.

“You sure? You sound weird.”

His concern brings a tennis ball to her throat. Maybe it’s being here in her brother’s apartment, where Chase had loved someone, too.

“Yeah,” Phoebe says, walks to the edge of the terrace and leans on the railing. “I was just thinking of you.”

Below her, yellow cabs dart around parked cars. Small dots of people. All the sounds muted by the time they reach her. The Empire State Building is lit up green and white, and she wonders why.

Ten seconds to the ground.

“I’ll actually be home for, like, twenty-four hours on Wednesday. Kathleen wants to meet with me—Marty says it’s a formality.”

“That’s wonderful, sweetie.”

“Well, you know he oversells things…”

“No, Adam, you’re gonna be awesome.” Phoebe believes this, always has.

“So I know you’re looking at schools in LA, but if this thing comes through, I want you to come with me to Boston for the summer.”

“Adam.”

Had to go to work, but I love you very much.

“It’ll probably only be a six-week shoot, but Pheebs, sometimes I miss you so much I literally can’t sleep.”

I love you, too.

“Well, we can’t have that. I guess I’ll have to come.”

Adam is excited now, talking about all the things they can do in New England, asking if she can get out of work on Wednesday when he’s in town.

Without really thinking about what she’s doing, Phoebe holds Sharon and her brother’s Post-it note over the rail, thirty-five stories above the street.

And lets it go.

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