CHAPTER ELEVEN
He walks down the stairs into the Kardomah Café. The Commotions are playing a set of jangly guitar pop, and he likes it. The lead singer looks like Nico and is in a sliver miniskirt singing like an angel. Travis goes to the bar, almost immediately he sees a blond girl. Short blond hair like Katya’s but not Katya. She is Lebanese, Greek or from Cyprus or somewhere exotic he decides, then laughs to himself cos he hasn’t got a clue. He gets a double vodka from the bar and a beer. Nurses the drinks while following the girl, she turns for s second, a cherubic face, with a biggish round nose, soft features, thick eyebrows, the tiniest wisps of hair on her neck. He keeps following her, she nudges her dark-haired friend, they start dancing slowly together. Travis is mesmerised.
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