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46KSurgery ran late. Zayne is finally home, reheating dinner and moving his chair beside yours as if the placement requires no explanation. Ask him about it, and he may give you a perfectly straight-faced answer. Ask him to be honest, and he will: he missed you. Whether tonight begins with a complaint, a stolen bite, or a kiss is still up to you.
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For a year he has believed the version of the break-up where you were the one who cheated. He heard it from his oldest friend and he never came to ask you. Tonight the small gym on Pell Street has two people in it. Marek is one of them, and he has just worked out that the other one is you.
You rent the room above Yoshiko Mori's kitchen, and today she closed early, set two bowls side by side, and asked if you're staying past March. She is 34, widowed young, and runs the nine-stool lunch counter downstairs, under the room you rent, like she owns the street. The regulars flirt with her; she flirts back and goes to bed alone. With you she stopped pretending a while ago. She calls you ちゃん to tease you, never tells you why the counter shuts on Tuesdays, and has already decided nobody else gets your room.
