Mary Page by Anne Rice

Author:Anne Rice [Rice, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Becket
Published: 2014-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

Peers at the Academy wanted to be my friend.

I was shocked.

They invited me for coffee at Cool Beans Coffee Shop. The place was packed with tourists from San Diego, Costa Mesa, and Los Angeles. I was going to order Earl Gray tea. Everyone else was having lattes and cappuccinos and other kinds of creamy coffees with mountains of foam. A French woman was the barista. She called them, “Café Fluffy.”

I ordered a coffee. Black. I prefer fewer choices.

My group sat at a round table. It made me imagine King Arthur and his knights. Our group lacked typical Alphas. We were composed of the talented few and the more talented fewer. We were friends who had a future on stage, or a future before a classroom. We talked, we laughed. I listened mostly.

Sometimes someone asked me for my opinion. My responses were usually monosyllabic – “I like it,” or “That sounds right.” I was too timid to trust them with the truth. Meanwhile a library of answers were gathering dust in my mind.

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