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We were finallythirteen hundred feet in the air, both struck speechless. I’d flown over Manhattan many times, but never failed to be dumbstruck by the view from above. Aside from the bright yellow taxis, the typical noise, movement, and crush of people were invisible from this high up. It all looked so damn peaceful. Which of course was a total illusion.
“Oh my god, there’s the Chrysler Building!”
I leaned forward to tap the pilot on the shoulder and made a spinaround motion with my finger. He knew exactly what I wanted, and got as close as he could to the building to circle it.
“Holy shit. I can see people in their offices!” She pressed her hands against the windows like a little kid.
It amazed me, too. To see the most powerful city on Earth, where it looked about as intimidating as a sleeping baby, was just plain difficult to grasp. Her hand reached for mine as she leaned across me to the other side of the helicopter.
“Are you scared?” I asked.
She thought for a sec and shook her head. “No. Not at all. It’s so peaceful. I’m just blown away. I’ll never have the same perspective on New York again,” she said in a whisper.
That was exactly how I felt.
We finished our tour of the spit of land that was Manhattan and headed east, flying over the bedroom communities of Long Island. Nara’s fingers gripped mine tighter when a burst of wind bounced us around, and I lifted her hand to my lips. She looked at me, quietly settling back into her seat.
“Look at the beaches,” Nara said. They were long and sweeping, and we were low enough to see the tide was coming in.
“It’s so magical,” she added.
We landed a few minutes later and a cab took us to dinner at Flagstone, one of the best restaurants in the small Hamptons beach town of Montauk.
Before we exited the cab to enter the restaurant, I turned and saw her looking at me with those blue eyes. I took my best shot and lowered my mouth to hers.
