Track 22 Two is Better than One
CARTER
Subject: Landed
In France. Talk to you soon.
Arizona.
PS—I have my international minutes but no adapter to charge my phone. Sigh. I’ll call you after I figure out where to buy one …
Subject: Re: Landed
Glad you had a safe flight.
Sincerely,
Carter
PS—Looking forward to talking.
She never called.
Never emailed, either.
It’d been three weeks since our last email exchange, three weeks since I last kissed her lips, and life without her at home was taking a lot more time to get used to than I’d originally anticipated.
Our usual weekends together at the beach became moments alone for me to study.
Our emails about the little things became nothing at all.
And instead of buying her breakfast at Gayle’s all the time, I was buying it for our own waitress who, ironically, had never eaten the diner’s food.
I was waking up every morning—reaching for her, rolling over in bed at night to pull her closer, but she was never there. That ache in my chest from the day at the airport intensified each day she didn’t call, and a part of me was starting to wonder if I’d said the right thing after all …
I checked my email and physical mailbox incessantly, hoping to hear something—anything, and after not being able to take it anymore, I decided to pen my letter first …