Jules (iheartwine) wrote in genome_project, @ 2012-09-26 21:20:00 |
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Entry tags: | david bacchus, september 2012 |
Who: David and Cate
What: Free period!
When: Sept. 27, around 1pm
Where: P.S. 118 (is that for real the school?) in the alley where the cool teachers go!
A whole summer had passed by, and now a whole month of school. Was it Christmas yet? No? Damn. Not even close. Perhaps it was best. Were you supposed to buy a gift for a daughter who was not really in your life? Probably not. But now there was time to think on it and crisp fall air to taint with cigarette smoke during free period. The sun was sort of low for the time of day, but pleasantly warm in contrast with the cool air around him. You'd probably never see him in a pumpkin patch or on a hayride, but that didn't mean fall wasn't his favorite. The air was cool, which meant no more sweating his ass off just walking down the block to the subway stop, but not so cold that his nose froze off during that same short walk. And the colors were nice. Plus it meant going back to a full time job and distraction.
The only real problem was that he was bound to run into Cate sooner or later, at which point he'd feel obligated to tell her about Cori, which, while a blessing, was also sort of embarrassing for two reasons. One, being the obvious: Lexie. The second, having to do with the fact that he'd sort of razzed her about having a kid somewhere when he didn't. Haha, the irony, and here it had turned out to be untrue. Oh well. If he couldn't laugh at himself then there was a problem. The only other thing was... Well. They'd had a nice evening and then had hardly spoken since. It hadn't been awkward when they did, but, he hadn't called her. Honestly, he'd been busy. He had meant to, but with Shakespeare in the park, and ASL lessons, he'd actually been pretty booked. And hey, she hadn't called him either.
Maybe it was all the high schoolers around making him feel stupid about it, but maybe it was just him. Either way, it had turned his occasional cigarette into a second, and he was about to light up a third when he realized he had company.