Starter for @prxcticallypxrfect
The soft din of the cafe is a welcome noise.
Cat’s never been particularly fond of public places and she had swiped down the table nearly three times--every single inch--with a sanitary wipe before allowing her fingers to rest on the edge of it. Bhutan had settled her nerves more than her therapist ever had, but there’s something about the noise that tightens her shoulders and makes her nails itch and scratch along the metal of a table.
Carter’s with his father for the next two months and Cat...finds herself here, in a small little mid-western state she could hardly care about, far away from the hustle and bustle of any city--far away from the mediocrity of excellence (the truest contradiction she’s ever learned)--because she needs the anonymity of Bhutan.
Kansas seems to be the most likely place to get it.
So she’s at a cafe with a book, one she’s been meaning to read for years, coffee idly sipped every few moments when suddenly a frown crosses features, eyes slitting behind sunglasses as someone has the nerve to step into her light.
Papparazzi? Press? A happy midwife who’d spent hours watching old re-runs of her talk show?
“If you want to talk,” Cat rumbles--intentionally professional, eyes not moving from the novel. It’s rare, of course, that she gets the opportunity, and the tall figure is suddenly dampening the lines of words with a fade of shadows. If it’s a hint dismissive, well...
People would learn, one day, not to gawk at celebrities. She’s bitter enough that she’d made a career of it, starting out in journalism.
A hand raises up, waving, because certainly no one she knows would find her here.
“Make an appointment through my assistant. Shoo.”