Last time in Wallbanger...lots of
weirdly formatted narration, Caroline went on a date with her ex,
Simon broke up with another lady friend and he formally asked
Caroline to go to Spain with him.
Chapter 15
Again, Clayton has a bunch
of unattributed dialogue about food. I guess it was important enough
for her to mention what everyone is eating but not important enough
to tell us who is eating what.
Caroline and friends are
eating breakfast and is pleased to find that her friends didn't mind
being yelled at until they had sex with the person Caroline wanted
them to have sex with. They exchange gossip and the friends do messy
spit takes when she tells them about Spain. She then gives them all
the details from chapter 14.
“Text between Simon and
Caroline”
It's a flirty exchange
involving the word “spiffy” which is a word I occasionally use
and now never want to use ever again. Thanks for that.
She talks to her boss about
time off for Spain. They chat about Simon with her boss showing a
little non-motherly concern.
Caroline notes someone
outside Simon's door, when she goes to spy the woman knocks on
Caroline's door.
“We appraised each
other instantly, in the way that women do.”
I don't really appraise
other women, but then I guess I've just never cared enough to. Or
maybe it's because I'm not competitive, so the relative hotness of
another lady doesn't register outside of “wow, she's pretty.”
Either way, I don't much care for the generalization.
It turns out to be a British
woman (my guess is Lizzie, the last lady friend we have yet to meet)
and there is some hostility as she leaves a package for Simon in
Caroline's care. The woman calls Caroline lovely and giggles on her
way down the hall. This makes Caroline realize that I was right and
it was Lizzie at her door. She asks herself a bunch of unanswerable
questions about Simon and ends with an out of place reference to
South Park, because cool?
“Text between Simon and
Caroline”
Actual food porn flirting.
I'm not sure I will be able to look at my blender the same ever
again.
Caroline is waiting up for
Simon to return from a shoot in LA. She calls him while getting
dressed for bed. They chat about Lizzie's visit and Simon says
“'...for the first time
in a very long time, I am...well...I am... you see...”
If he
says he's pregnant I will lose it.
“'Without...female
companionship.'”
I don't know if I'm
disappointed or just not surprised. Why not both?
Now that Simon is without
companionship, when he knocks on Caroline's door, she invites him in.
“An hour later, we sat
together at the kitchen table, a decimated loaf in front of us.”
My mental image of Simon
eating the bread is Abu from the beginning of Aladdin loudly smacking
his lips together to show that he won't share.
They talk about his break up
with the girls. Caroline asking Simon if he wants her real opinion
“'I mean truth
truth, back-and-forth truth. No witty comebacks, no snappy
banter...'”
Caroline says she is glad
that he is single. Simon says he wants to try monogamy.
A serviceable sexy scene in
the kitchen ensues and fades to black before we find out how far it
goes.
And because we could leave
off the chapter on a sweet and steamy note like that we have one more
joke for the cheap seats in the back. In the airplane to Spain no
less.
“'That kid keeps
banging my seat,' he grumbled through clenched teeth.”
I wish I knew more
onomatopoeia because that deserves a sitcom sound effect.
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