Quicksilver nd-11
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Eggs.
That was all that was in there-eggs.
I’d had eggs for breakfast, I’d had an omelette for lunch, I was sick of them. I was also sick of carrots and cucumbers and celery and lettuce and grapefruit and oranges and yogurt and cottage cheese and RyKrisp and tuna fish and hamburger patties, but mostly I was sick of eggs. I never wanted to eat another egg again. I never wanted to see another egg again.
I slammed the refrigerator door. And stood there for a time, hungry and frustrated. And went and got my coat and headed back out into the rain.
Kerry arrived a few minutes after eight. She rang the bell, but I didn’t go and buzz her in; I knew she’d come up anyway and use her key. Besides, I was lying on the couch and I had no inclination to get up, not even for her.
Pretty soon I heard the key scrape in the lock and she came in. She called, “Hello? Anybody home?” and then she saw me and she said, “Oh, there you are. Why didn’t you-?” Then she stopped talking, and stopped moving too, and stood with her mouth open a little, staring.
Not at me. What she was staring at was the stuff on the coffee table: the six empty Schlitz beer cans and the empty carton that had contained a jumbo deluxe Guido’s House Special pizza with everything on it including anchovies, shrimps, and garlic olives.
I got the stare transferred to me soon enough, at which point it became an accusing glare. “Pizza and beer!” she said. “You broke your diet!”
I gave her a sheepish grin across the distended, the eggless, the satisfyingly full mound of my belly.
“Well?” she demanded. “Don’t just lie there looking fat and complacent. Haven’t you got anything to say?”
“Burp,” I said.
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