I drink my coffee and count. There"s a flight to Hawaii at 8:00 p.m., so I hope we won"t be here any longer. I want to be alone with her. Just the two of us.
"Rumina, when are we visiting Mom?" Jessie"s got a lively voice. I turn around.
"In half an hour?" Rumina asks with a smile, and I look at her again enchanted. Her freshly washed hair is shiny and her collarbone is showing through her V-neck, white long-sleeved T-shirt. She looks great with tight jeans. And... She"s not wearing the collar. I smile as she turns to her coffee.
"The hot sandwich went cold"" I say. She doesn"t even look at me.
"That"s okay. I don"t really eat breakfast.""
"You don"t eat, which is not good for you!" I sip my coffee again. For some reason, I feel like she"s avoiding me. "How have you slept?"" I ask whe
