Thinking about it now, he was almost surprised that Liz had called Anja and not Danny. She could have. The number was on the list. But she had probably realized that, if she called Danny, she would undoubtedly get cut off by Danny hanging up on her, long before she could get the delightful news out.
Around her, the conversation carried on. Sun was talking about a new next-door neighbor that had just moved in and seemed to be Mr. Grouch himself. This prompted Jack and Rick to dig out their best neighbor stories, some of which D had heard before. Already familiar with the stories, she couldn’t k
Joe was blasted awake at two in the morning by an ambulance racing by outside his open window with the sirens howling. It took him a moment to recall that he was in his bed in Innsbruck. He sleepily opened his eyes and stared into the dark. He felt weird. Usually, when he woke up, he didn’t have
And what could he even say? Any good ideas in that department yet? He rubbed his eyes and stared into the dark. There was another problem too: even if he caught her by herself, and even if he came up with the perfect thing to say, and even if she decided to hear him out, her pride would get in the
Rewinding her brain to a point before the grill party hadn’t worked at all. The scenes from her two evenings with Joe were flaring up now, one after the other, having a choking effect. The fury she had felt last night had given way to something much more complex. There was still burning anger, but i
During their trip up the mountain D had overcome the dazed state she had been in during breakfast. The walk on the mountain had felt good. And with everyone around her laughing and joking, her mind had cleared and she had sometimes even found herself laughing along. All in all, she had managed rela
They had been like this for three tense minutes now, D sitting on her bed, flipping through the magazine and Sarah stretched out on the other bed, her eyes closed. No one had said a word. Sarah was caught in a fierce internal struggle. On one side there was Joe’s orders for her not to talk to D ab
“Yeah, what was I thinking, right?” she finally said, and there was a real bitterness in her voice. “I must have totally lost my mind there! The stupidest thing I’ve ever done. I agree….” “That’s not what I meant,” Sarah said with some exasperation. “I was just surprised, because I really thought y