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But after sitting quietly for a while, Norah began to hear the music her flat was playing to her. She looked about her in the cold, empty flat. What had she expected? Norah pushed the phone away again, took a deep breath and waited for the surge of adrenaline to subside. She stared at her phone for seconds-minutes, even-waiting for a reply.
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Even before she could put the phone down, the icon under the message switched from Sent to Read and her heart leapt to her throat. It was only as she wrote the words that she knew how much she meant them. ‘Fuck it,’ she muttered, reaching for her phone again. She pushed the phone away from her and buried her face in her hands, suddenly realising that she had just said goodbye to Alex. She stopped and would have liked to say something else, but couldn’t find the right words and hung up. ‘Norah,’ she added, realising that a little more was needed, now that they’d split up.
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‘I can’t take your call right now, but I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.’ Then she realised: it was only his voicemail. She jumped when she heard his voice-closed her eyes for a second. Suddenly she had the phone in her hand and was calling Alex’s number. How could it all be over from one day to the next? How was it possible that what was happening to her was happening-that she was planning what she was planning-and hadn’t told Alex? Alex would have listened to her Alex would have believed her, right from the start. For three years, she had talked to Alex about everything. Lying in front of her on the table, her phone suddenly seemed no less dangerous than the loaded revolver beside it. She felt a sudden surge of longing for Alex, a fierce ache between her throat and her breastbone, as if something had been torn from its ligaments and flung against the inside of her ribs.