Learning Keely by KT Morrison

Author:KT Morrison [Morrison, KT]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

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Rockwell Court

Saturday, May 8

None of them made it through the whole movie. They’d tried to watch Jaws 2 because Max said everyone needed to have a healthy fear of sharks. She’d never seen any of the Jaws movies. It was a little frightful but Maggie said they should have watched the first one instead. Max said you didn’t need context in a shark movie, you just needed sharks, and Maggie said the first one was better, Steven Spielberg directed it. Room service brought them cocktails and nachos, none of which got finished. They all fell asleep on the couch, Maggie stretched out on the floor with pillows and a blanket and her dog-eared copy of the coincidentally titled: Swimming Lessons For Baby Sharks. Sometime around three they all retired to proper beds.

After they’d woken, Max went down to the concourse and returned with continental breakfast for the three of them and coffees from the Starbucks in the lobby. He was their hero, and they told him. They would’ve ordered room service, but they wanted to be hungry for the brunch.

Max served the coffee and pastries at the common room dining table looking out over the city of Grand Rapids. She’d never been to the middle of America, and looking out over top of the small city reminded her of an American sitcom she would watch the year she was in France. For a few months she’d become obsessed with ‘8 Simple Rules’ which reran like crazy when she was there. It was a good sort of feeling looking out now over the sunny morning-time city, it was a cheery kind of place. The show took place in Detroit, which was in Michigan, but Max said Grand Rapids was nothing like Detroit and you wouldn’t want to go to Detroit now anyway, it wasn’t like it was on the show twenty years ago.

After she’d showered she checked with Maggie about a dozen times over what she wore. In the days before they came up here, she went over it with Maggie, and Cole showed her the L.L. Bean website and said dress like that. She trusted their advice, put on a collared shirt and wool sweater, skirt and leggings, all in black except for the shirt which was plaid.

There was tension in the concourse heading to get their car when Max was texting his brother Mike who was staying in the hotel as well. She got anxious that she would meet him out of the blue and ill-prepared, but Max said he’d already left and was at the family house now.

They headed northeast out of the city to the suburb where Max grew up. It was a peaceful, family kind of place and so different from how she knew her dark Manhattan boyfriend. And yet it made sense, too. The quiet streets, the swaths of mown lawns, basketball nets and nice houses; estates that were cared for with towering trees taking their leaves, some of them yellowy and still furled. Kids

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