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Price
The reflectionin the mirror is orange.I’morange. Cheap spray tan orange.
Have I over-juiced on carrots? Is that possible?
I feel pretty good today, so I ignore the orange guy in the mirror, grab a juice, and sit down with my journal. Today’s a little harder for me. I don’t have the emotional capacity to write about her this morning, so I draw a picture instead. When I’m done, I stare at it.
Of course, I drew her.
Moving on …
Yoga. (I’m still flexible as a board.)
More juice.
Sauna.
Shower.
After I’m dressed, there’s a knock at my door.
“Koen,” I say with a hint of shock. “Don’t you have to work?”
“You need a phone. How are we supposed to work out together if you don’t have a phone? And yes, I have to work today, and we should be having this conversation via phone, but you don’t have one, so here I am. What time are we meeting at the gym? And really, why don’t you have a phone?”
“Do you want to come in and have a juice?”
His face sours. “No. I just need a time.”
“You tell me. I’m open. My job is flexible.”
“You said you didn’t have a job besides helping at the store.”
I take a big breath and hold it, cheeks puffed out before releasing it. “True. But I still have work.”
“What work?”
“Where to begin? I make Lego constructions, juice, yoga, sauna, walk, nap, listen to music, journal … I haven’t mastered meditation, but I’m working on it.”
Koen blinks slowly. “You’re a weird guy, Price.”
“And I take it you’vebeddedScottie.”
His jaw tenses for a second.
Anger? Confusion? A bit of both?
“Why do you say that?”
I shrug. “Because you’re here, which means you feel secure enough in your relationship with her to befriendthe other guy.”
“My relationship with her is none of your business.”
I slide my hands into my pockets. “I wasn’t asking for details or clarification, for that matter. It was an observation. That’s all. So what time can you be at the gym?”
Koen eyes me with suspicion, as he should. Not only am I using a medieval term for sex, I’m orange.
“I can be there by seven,” he says.
