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Coda 03 -The Letter Z

Coda 03 -The Letter Z

Titel: Coda 03 -The Letter Z
Autoren: Marie Sexton
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apologize.”
“It was my fault we went out. It was my fault you ended up with that
    hickey on your neck. It was my fault that I didn’t just say it was me—”
    “Stop,” I say and put my fingers on his lips to make sure. “I don’t want either of us to be sorry ’bout last night, Zach. I got no problems with what happened, and I feel good ’bout us. I don’t want to let him ruin it.”
    He takes my hand then and kisses my palm, like he always does. “I love you so much, Ang.”
“I know.”
    “We really are great together, aren’t we?”
    “We’re absolutely perfect.” He kisses me then. Really, truly kisses me, right there in that gallery. And the lady workin’ there turns away in disgust, and I don’t care a bit.
    After a minute he gets up and starts walkin’ ’round, lookin’ at the other paintings. I can tell he doesn’t dig ’em like I do, but that’s okay. Not long after that, Jared comes in. He heads straight for me, and I can tell just by lookin’ at him he’s come to apologize. The truth is I’m not even mad at him anymore. I just want to go back to all of us bein’ friends again. Still, Zach heads him off. They have a quiet but pretty fuckin’ intense conversation for a minute, and then Zach nods, and walks out of the gallery.
    Jared comes over and sits down next to me. He doesn’t say anything at first. We sit there for a long time, just starin’ at the painting on the wall in front of us. I wait and wait, and still he doesn’t talk. I start thinkin’ maybe he’s waitin’ for me to apologize. I finally look over at him, and he’s just sittin’ there, with a ridiculously goofy grin on his face.
    “What’s so funny?” I ask, and he actually jumps a little, like he was lost in thought.
    “I was thinking about Cole.”
“Why?” I ask, although I’m not sure I wanna know.
“I’ve known him for more than ten years now. Did you know that?” “No,” I say, and I’m wonderin’ where the hell he’s goin’ with this.
    “It’s funny, you know? After we graduated from college, he moved back to Phoenix. I’d see him maybe three times a year, never more than one night at a time. I’ve only seen him twice since I met Matt, and that was almost two years ago.”
    “Yeah?” I’m still not seein’ where this is goin’.

    “Have you ever noticed that I can’t even say his name without Matt practically turning green with jealousy and steam coming out of his ears?”
    I have to smile at that. “I noticed.”
“And he spent, what? Twenty? Maybe thirty minutes with you?” “Wasn’t exactly watchin’ the clock.”
“And it caused all of this trouble between us.”
“Seems like it.”
    “It’s like somehow, without even trying, he became this major player in our lives.” He turns and looks at me then, with a funny smile. “Do you have any idea how happy that would make him? He’d say something like, ‘I always make an impression, darling.’” And I have to laugh. I don’t know him like Jared does, but I can picture him sayin’ exactly that.
    We sit there again for a minute, and then finally he says, “I’m sorry, Angelo. I wish I had a better way to say it, but—”
    “I’m sorry too.”
He looks at me in surprise. “Why?”
    “Not sure,” I say, ’cause it’s the truth. “Guess I’m sorry I fucked things up.”
    “You didn’t fuck anything up. I was just being an asshole.” “Only person I had sex with last night was Zach.”
    I can tell that surprises him, too, but then he says, “It’s none of my business.”

    “You’re right,” I say, “but I guess I want you to know anyway.”
    He’s quiet again for a minute, and I know he’s tryin’ to decide if he should say more, or just leave things alone. But in the end, he takes a deep breath and says, “I don’t understand how you can do it.” He glances at me warily. “I don’t mean you . I mean both of you. I guess that was what did it. I kept thinking, under what circumstances would I allow Matt to fuck somebody other than me? And the only things I could come up with was, if I had no other choice.”
    “We’re not like you,” I say, and he gets a funny smile on his face. “Yeah, that seems to be the lesson of the day.”
“Brought to you by the letter Z.”
He laughs. “Z for Zach?”
    “No,” I say. “Z for Ziggy.” He looks confused at that, and I don’t mind a bit. I find myself smilin’ at him. “I’m starvin’,” I say. “Let’s go get some
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