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CHAPTER 136- Damien With The Baby
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Staying with him CHAPTER 168- Five Years
The fifth anniversary of the relationship arrived on a Sunday in the summer.She had not been counting the years. She did not keep anniversary dates with theprecision of some people she knew, the specific marking of exact dates and the planningof occasions around them. She had the awareness of the year, the understanding thatthey were in the fifth year and then at the fifth year, the same way she was aware of thebaby’s months without always knowing the exact number.He knew the date.She had known he would know the date. He was a person who retained the importantdates without effort, the May date and the baby’s birth date and the date they hadmoved into the flat and the date of the wedding and presumably this date, the date ofthe Thursday in year one when she had come to complain about the music and hadstood in his hallway and had made a decision that turned out to be wrong and had beenrevised in the subsequent months into the right decision.He made the reservation himself.
Staying with him CHAPTER 167- Leon
Leon came on a Saturday in May when he was nineteen.Not to the academy — he had been coming to the academy since he was sixteen and theacademy visits were what they were, the professional relationship between the playerand the coach, the sessions and the conversations and the curriculum. This wasdifferent. He came to the house.He had called on the Wednesday and asked Damien if he could come on Saturday, whichwas itself different from all the previous ways Leon had communicated, the text in themornings before sessions and the brief conversations after, all of which had been in theprofessional register of the player-coach relationship. He had called on a Wednesdayand asked if he could come on Saturday, which was the register of a person who neededa conversation outside the professional context.She made tea.This was the right thing to do. She had made tea for many people in many kitchens atmany different stages of things requiring tea, and Leon arriving on a Saturday with a
Staying with him CHAPTER 166-What The New House Is
In April it became theirs.Not on a specific day, not as a decision or an event. The way things that were yoursbecame yours, which was through the accumulation of the ordinary, the daily-ness ofthe space absorbing the daily-ness of the people in it until the space and the peoplewere no longer separate things, the space simply the space of their lives and their livessimply the lives they lived in this space.She noticed it on a Tuesday in April when she came home from the practice and put herkey in the bowl on the hall table — the bowl was on the hall table in the new hallway, thesame bowl, in the position she had given it in the first week, and her key went in the bowlthe way her key had gone in the bowl for six years and the going-in was simply thegoing-in, natural and automatic and thoughtless in the best possible way — and shestood in the new hallway and she understood that she was home.Not home in the aspirational sense. Not home as in I am working toward being at homeh
Staying with him CHAPTER 165-The Baby Walking
She walked on a Tuesday in February.Not the first steps — the first steps had been in January, in the flat’s second bedroom,before the move, the specific event that had arrived before they expected it in the waythat the baby’s events tended to arrive, on the baby’s schedule rather than anyoneelse’s. She had taken three steps toward him in the second bedroom before the move,three steps across the rug, and then sat down with the expression of a person who hadjust discovered something significant and was not yet sure what to do with thediscovery.She had not walked consistently until February.February was when the walking became the way she moved, not the occasional threesteps as experiment but the deliberate walking as method, the preferred mode of transitthrough the new house. She walked across the kitchen toward the bowl she hadidentified as interesting. She walked down the hallway toward the front door, which shealso found interesting. She walked into the living room and
Staying with him CHAPTER 164- The Garden In Spring
bench arrived on a Saturday in March.Not from a shop. From Remi, which meant it had not come through any ordinary channelof acquisition — it had come through Remi’s network, which was the network of awoman who had been in the building and design world for a decade and who knew theperson who knew the person who had the right bench in a reclamation yard inBermondsey and who would sell it to them for a specific price that Remi had negotiatedon their behalf without being asked to, which was simply how Remi operated.The bench was the right bench.She knew it was the right bench because when the two men from the reclamation yardbrought it through the house and set it down in the corner of the garden, she looked at itin the corner and she knew.The same quality of knowing she had felt on the Wednesday pavement, the Novembergarden, the five-minute call from the corner.The bench was right.It was old — not antique in the performance sense, simply old, the specific age of awooden b
Staying with him CHAPTER 163- The Curtain Rail
She put it up on the fifth day.She had been stepping around it for four days, the curtain rail on the hallway floor of thenew house, the specific object she had taken from the flat’s hallway wall on the day ofthe move, which she had decided in the autumn and executed with the screwdriver shehad left in her bag specifically for this purpose. Four days of stepping around it whileeverything else in the hallway was arranged and put in place.The hall table was in place. The bowl was on the hall table. The hooks for the coats wereon the wall. The hallway had the quality of a hallway that was becoming their hallway,the arriving-at of the arrangement that was going to be the arrangement.She had left the curtain rail for the fifth day.On the fifth day she got the screwdriver.She had the screwdriver she had used at the flat. The same screwdriver. She had put itin the bag when she took the rail down and she had kept it in the bag across the movingand the first four days and on the f
Staying with him CHAPTER 7: The Morning After
She woke up and knew exactly where she was. No foggy confusion, no blinking at strange walls. Just the solid weight of Damien’s arm across her waist, the unfamiliar slant of light through his curtains, and that smell—his smell—that she’d stopped pretending she didn’t like days ago.She stayed still
Staying with him Chapter 3: Flooded
started with a sound.A low, persistent dripping that worked its way into Olivia’s sleep sometime around 3am and sat there until she couldn’t ignore it anymore. She opened her eyes to the dark ceiling, listened, and felt the specific dread of someone who already knows something is wrong before the
Staying with him Chapter 2: The View
Three weeks.That’s how long Olivia lasted before she stopped filing noise complaints and accepted that Damien Cole was simply a fact of her life now — like traffic, or difficult clients, or the radiator that clicked every night at 2am. Unavoidable. Irritating. Something to be managed.She managed
Staying with him Chapter 1: The Neighbor from Hell
Olivia had a system.Not in an obsessive way — or at least that’s what she told herself. It was just that life ran smoother when things were predictable. Coffee at seven, two cups, no sugar. Breakfast with something quiet playing in the background — Sade, maybe, or just the sound of the city waking
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