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I let go of her wrist. The witch teetered once on those nasty stilettos before dropping her head and scuttling away. The door banged open, then whooshed closed. A big rough-looking guy at a tiny corner table raised his foam cup of espresso toward me in appreciation, and the rest of the patrons dropped their forks for a round of applause. Mom stepped up beside me bearing the pink cake box, now tied shut with red-and-white baker’s twine. ” 2 It was Sue who’d found our apartment originally, back when she was still a film student at NYU.
She narrowed her eyes at me, hands on her hips. No one can shame me like Pagan. Especially when she’s right. “No,” I said. ” “Go tell the Granta Bitches I need to make copies. ” I checked my watch. “Can’t. ” I asked. ” She rolled her eyes. ” “Them’s the breaks. ” 5 I’d never thought of Jamaica as an actual place. It had always been more transition than geography. Three stops out of Penn Station and you alighted briefly at this celestial concrete expanse carpeted all Jackson Pollock with discarded Kool butts and soda-can tabs and matte-black ovals of chewing gum—a stretch of nowhere to be raced across when exchanging your sleek city train for the big-shouldered cars of the Oyster Bay Line.
I’d just made the circuit back from the bathroom and was now stationed next to the front door, cold beer in hand. Not like I had to drive home, but six Jell-O shots was nearing the limit, even for me. Sue’s friend Mike buzzed up from the lobby, and I held the door open for him, sticking my head out into the cooler, quieter air of our second-story hallway. His blond head soon bobbed up behind the staircase’s horizon, and I watched the rest of his skinny frame bounce into view, a foot at a time, until he’d stepped onto the landing’s chipped and gritty tiny-hexagonal-tile floor.