Tallulah Falls, 5/?
anonymous
October 22 2010, 03:08:52 UTC
It takes Leonard 15 minutes to tidy up the mid-week mess and put some chicken in the oven. He manages to resist his cell phone for fifteen more before caving. Are you sure you want to connect to the Internet? it asks, and Leonard mentally answers No before typing Yes. He doesn’t use it often and isn’t sure where to look, but Jim Kirk is extremely easy to find.
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Kirk’s on the red carpet in some of the photos, wearing a tux that fits like a glove and with his arm around the waist of a beautiful, expensively thin woman. In others, he’s in jeans and a T-shirt--the same T-shirt he’s asleep in upstairs, maybe even the same jeans--crossing streets or eating on the patio at trendy restaurants. He looks consistently and blazingly happy in all of them, except for the occasional one where he shows his middle finger to the photographer. Leonard wonders if he’s ever punched a paparazzo.
He switches the phone off and stands at the foot of the stairwell long enough to hear Kirk’s even, slightly congested near-snoring, then wanders out onto the porch. The double front porch was one of the features that sold Leonard on the house, though it had taken months to repair and months more to get over his terror that a five-year-old Jo would somehow squeeze through the slats and fling herself off it. In fine weather, he spends his evenings out here, surrounded himself with citronella candles like a virgin with garlic in a vampire movie. Now in early spring it’s too chilly for his Georgia blood, but he loves the damp, loamy smell, the rot of last year’s leaves and fresh, tender things stirring beneath them.
Leonard loves nature, but it tends to be too full of metaphors for his overthoughtful mind. Leonard’s own spring is past, and he’ll spend his summer seeing Jo into adulthood. He can’t regret anything, because that would mean regretting Jo, but there are times when it doesn’t feel like a choice at all.
Guiltily, he switches the phone on again.
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Leonard has been to California once, to visit a college friend in San Francisco. He supposes it was beautiful, but mostly remembers homeless teenagers and seedy bars and his buddy going all out to get them into some dance party in a warehouse where Leonard drank something blue and ended up in the emergency room. He’s never been to L.A., and it doesn’t even seem real, not because of Hollywood fakery, but because he’s forgetting that there’s anywhere real outside of his Georgia bubble.
He switches the phone off, goes inside, and slips into the inside pocket of his jacket, buttoning it in so he won’t be tempted again.
Jim Kirk a a Retro Charmer on Set of Tallulah Falls
You can stay at Jim Kirk’s favorite Bali getaway...for just $5,000 a night!
Jen’s Tears as Jim Dumps Her...on Valentine’s Eve!!
Kirk’s on the red carpet in some of the photos, wearing a tux that fits like a glove and with his arm around the waist of a beautiful, expensively thin woman. In others, he’s in jeans and a T-shirt--the same T-shirt he’s asleep in upstairs, maybe even the same jeans--crossing streets or eating on the patio at trendy restaurants. He looks consistently and blazingly happy in all of them, except for the occasional one where he shows his middle finger to the photographer. Leonard wonders if he’s ever punched a paparazzo.
He switches the phone off and stands at the foot of the stairwell long enough to hear Kirk’s even, slightly congested near-snoring, then wanders out onto the porch. The double front porch was one of the features that sold Leonard on the house, though it had taken months to repair and months more to get over his terror that a five-year-old Jo would somehow squeeze through the slats and fling herself off it. In fine weather, he spends his evenings out here, surrounded himself with citronella candles like a virgin with garlic in a vampire movie. Now in early spring it’s too chilly for his Georgia blood, but he loves the damp, loamy smell, the rot of last year’s leaves and fresh, tender things stirring beneath them.
Leonard loves nature, but it tends to be too full of metaphors for his overthoughtful mind. Leonard’s own spring is past, and he’ll spend his summer seeing Jo into adulthood. He can’t regret anything, because that would mean regretting Jo, but there are times when it doesn’t feel like a choice at all.
Guiltily, he switches the phone on again.
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Leonard has been to California once, to visit a college friend in San Francisco. He supposes it was beautiful, but mostly remembers homeless teenagers and seedy bars and his buddy going all out to get them into some dance party in a warehouse where Leonard drank something blue and ended up in the emergency room. He’s never been to L.A., and it doesn’t even seem real, not because of Hollywood fakery, but because he’s forgetting that there’s anywhere real outside of his Georgia bubble.
He switches the phone off, goes inside, and slips into the inside pocket of his jacket, buttoning it in so he won’t be tempted again.
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