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“When the Speaker starts calling, Kate refuses to believe it.”
“And then: “You know what it’s going to say.” “I know, but,” Kate says, and she doesn’t finish the thought.”
““Was that—” Tom asks, clicking the light on his bedside table, and his voice is shaky with adrenaline.”
“It doesn’t help that he usually sleeps right through it.”
“The neighbor shouts like this every few days or so.”
“She thought it would feel like the start of something.”
“But, she finds herself wondering: Is there a version of her life in which she ends up happier?”
“Kate pulls the hotel room door closed softly behind her, and heads for the elevator.”
“It’s all pretty fucking ridiculous.”
““We were at her party last weekend.” Tom feigns uncertainty.”
““Holy fucking shit!” he shouts.”
““I’m looking on the CDC website,” he announces, and Kate can see his breath.”
“” Kate remembers Naomi putting her phone down and looking out at her with those big blue eyes, dazed.”
“Instead, Kate steels herself for bad news, fumbling her arm over the bed for her phone.”
“His voice is pained, desperate in a way she can’t name.”
“If only I had done the opposite, could things have turned out differently?”
“Or, perhaps even more disturbingly: Is this how happiness feels?”
“Even after the subject’s been exhausted, though, Kate can’t help returning to it.”
“As though it knew more about their relationship than she did.”
“Shivering, Tom looks up at her now and grimaces.”
“If Kate’s getting them, then surely their neighbor must be, too.”
“From still under the covers, she squints at the words UNKNOWN CALLER displayed across the cracked screen.”
“That an earthquake is not a metaphor for division?”
“She has just moved in with her boyfriend and thinks she must be happy.”
“It’s not the Speaker, she tells herself.”