Re: [The grills: Castor & Pollux]
Hannah had been curious. Like a girl with a book in her hands, the dust jacket missing and no synopsis, and she only had pages torn out mid-chapter to dream up the protagonist. He was nothing like she'd imagined, and he was everything like she'd imagined. She didn't know him well enough yet to know if he was Darcy or a Heathcliff or a Rochester. She thought maybe he was something different, something better, like Tilney or Wentworth, and as she approached him it was like a book cracking open for her.
Her hop, skip, land was carefree and careless, and her smile was like sunbeams through thick summer canopies. There and bright and making everything glow. Close and attention and closer, and she wasn't coming onto him or anything. This was just her, near and warm and the early evening was beautiful around them. "Your voice sounds like it's from everywhere," she said, and maybe the candor was starting to translate from writing to sound now. Curious, curious, and always curiouser, and she stepped back and hopped up onto a picnic table nearby.
She took her hat off, and she set it beside herself. Her sandals came next, one thigh crossed over the other and the strappy little shoes dropped onto the grass beneath the picnic table's bench. "I like to be helpful," she said of pointing out his non-swanness. "I'll take a beer," she said, when he asked, and she hopped down and grabbed it for herself. She plucked a pineapple ring up between her fingers, too, and she sucked the liquid up as she climbed back onto her perch with her beer and her treat.
"I'm Hannah. I work at the Facility as an intern, which really means I make coffee, and I have a trailer in Hookerville. I also have a cat," she told him, as if admitting to being a prostitute was the same as admitting to being a librarian. She finished popping her piece of pineapple into her mouth, and then she held her beer out for him to open for her. "I haven't decided yet if you're Tilney or Wentworth, so you should give me a name for the meantime," she added, no clarification and a pineapple-gloss smile on her lips.