"That it was all just
coincidence?"
Julia stood listening to the silence for a moment, and then hung up the
phone. Justin stepped out of the bathroom.
"I thought you were waiting outside!"
"It got cold. I didn't have my jacket!"
"I suppose you heard all of that," she said.
"Most of it. Where's Seltsam?"
"Seltsam Way, behind the theater."
"Oh yeah. I forgot about that road. Well, we better get going."
Julia picked up her keys. "Wait. You didn't see Cecil in there, did
you?"
"Not unless he got inside the cabinets."
Julia went into the bedroom and looked around. She lifted the skirt of
the bed and peered underneath. No cat. She looked in the closet. No
cat (as far as she could tell, with all of her junk in the way).
"We have to get going," Justin commented.
"Cecil!" Julia called.
"He's just hiding! We have to go, now!"
Julia shrugged and sighed.
"So how's it done?"
"You won't need your keys, but take them if you want," he said. "Hold
my hands."
For a moment, Julia began to feel the room spin. And then, she
wondered how it was that she had reached the exact center of the
universe.
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