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“We finally got tickets to see Hamilton,” Kim said. “We were just catching a bite to eat before we get on thetrain.”
“Nice,” Nina said. “How wasit?”
“It was so wonderful,” Stephanie said. She shook her head. “I’m sorry. I just can’t get over it. The city really agrees with you: you lookgorgeous.”
“Thanks,” Nina said. “I should let you catch your train. It was nice seeingyou.”
“You too…” Kim’s voice trailed off as Nina turnedaway.
She hurried down the street, flashing to a conversation they’d once had while waiting for kickboxing to start. It had centered around children, as most conversations in Larchmont did. Kim and Stephanie had been talking about the bitchy women who ran the PTA when they’d asked Nina where her kids went to school. Nina, feeling unusually defiant about her childless status, had told them she didn’t have children only to see the familiar veil of pity fall over theireyes.
It hadn’t bothered her as much as it once might have, but later when she was in the bathroom she heard them talking about her in the lockerroom.
“Can you imagine?” Kim had said. “It’s sosad.”
“Totally.” Stephanie’s voice had carried a note of triumph. Nina might not have noticed it if she’d been looking her in the face, but with only her voice, Stephanie’s feeling of superiority was obvious. “I think I’d die without mykids.”
“Oh my god, same,” Kim hadsaid.
Nina had waited until she was sure they were gone to leave the restroom and gather her things. She’d never gone back to kickboxing, getting her cardio in on the elliptical machines or the treadmillinstead.
But she’dremembered.
I think I’d die without mykids…
I didn’t die, she thoughttriumphantly.
And now she heard something else in hermind.
I just can’t get over it… you lookgorgeous.
And although her next thought wasn’t very nice, she thought itanyway.
Take that,bitches.
