After lunch, he went back to his bed and breakfast for a nap. The girls said they had to study, but they would all meet up later and go to an art show.
He lay down on the bed that had been made while he was gone, and looked up at the cracked ceiling, imagining Charlotte’s parents in his same bed, fat and American, sleeping far away from each other on opposite sides. He wondered if Charlotte’s parents had taken Tab to the same restaurant, if they had watched as she barely ate.
He picked up his phone and called Sabine. When she answered there was music in the background, smoke in her voice.
“Hello, my love,” he said, rubbing his socked feet together the way his father used to do.
“Bonjour,” she said. He heard laughter that was not hers. “How are the girls?”
He told her they were fine, that they just finished eating, and asked if she got the video.
“The video! A-ha! Your daughter is very beautiful.”
“She looks like her mother,” he said, then quickly regretted it.
He turned to face the window and listened to her exhale. He imagined her at one of her friend’s houses, but didn’t ask where she was.
“Oh, and the friend,” she said. “They are cute! In love!” She laughed, but behind her voice, he could also hear the laughter of other people.
“What do you mean?” he asked. He felt a bit annoyed.
“You are such a blind father. You can see it in the video. They are in love.”
He looked at himself in the mirror, his hair thinning in the front, but longish still. The light made his white hair look blond.
“I think you are projecting, dear,” he said.
On the other end, the music suddenly got louder. He heard a click.
“Sabine?” he asked.
“Oh, sorry,” she said. “I dropped the phone.”
“I have to get going,” he said.
After he hung up, he took out his computer and put it on the desk. He sat in the desk chair, crossed his legs, and pressed play. He watched as his daughter and Charlotte appeared on the screen in their bright room.
“OK, girls,” he heard himself say. His voice sounded strange, not the way he imagined. “Tell me about your photographs.”
He watched as the girls, both wearing tank tops with cardigans buttoned over them — Tab’s in green, Charlotte’s in black – gazed at each other. He saw his daughter’s fingers pinch her friend’s side while Charlotte squealed.
“OK, OK, be serious,” Charlotte said, trying not to smile.
She cleared her throat and looked over at Tab. She made her hand into a fist and brought it to her mouth, pretending it was a microphone. “What do we take pictures of?”
His daughter, small on the screen, blushed, Charlotte’s pretend microphone now close to her lips. Like an ice cream cone, he thought.
He watched as Tabitha looked at the camera, at him, then back at her friend. She looked down and answered his question.
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