“Go on hurry”, she chided, “See you later”.
The taxi waiting outside beeped at five forty-five, Will and Tom rushed out to it, while the girls watched from behind the net curtains then it took them to the bridge where it joined the queue to cross over.
They arrived at the Leningradskaya Hotel at almost six thirty.
“You like this one, don’t you, Natasha?” asked Aki
“Why? What makes you say that?”
“Oh I don’t know… the way you couldn’t take your eyes off him all evening, the way you only really wanted to talk to him, the way you forgot about the bridges, the way you told him my name was Aki… Why did you go and do that?”
“I don’t know… I’d already made up my mind to tell him that I was Japanese, and I didn’t want to be over here in the Soviet Union all on my own, so I chose you to be Ja
