[ In the end, it's up for Julian to decide just how and when they celebrate the New Year. Whether that means another holiday holed up in the apartment, the door shut and double-bolted behind them to keep her away from slurred come-ons and drunken leers, then so be it. (He was only trying to protect her, wasn't he? She's a gentle woman with bones that break far too easily and too much revelry meant fights and—)
She busies herself with making the apartment festive, just in case it is meant to be only the two of them. There is a bottle of wine on the counter and paper hats hung on the backs of their chairs in the dining room and even little cardboard noisemakers - the kind that make a kazoo-like noise at the end of an inflated paper tongue. It's all very quaint, really, and Klara thinks that good because quaint means quiet and quiet means that, hopefully, Julian will be happy with her. (Oh, please, not angry, not today, I've tried—)
At about nine o'clock she disconnects the phone, pulling the cable out of the wall so that it doesn't ring and make him demand who is that, who's calling you. Not as though there's anyone left to call. Klara left that all behind when she came looking for Circle (had meant to leave Julian behind too, but that hadn't worked out right).
Ten o'clock and she's doing her make-up. She tries to make herself look pretty, but in a way only he would like.
Julian wouldn't appreciate it, otherwise. Oh no, Julian would be mad. ]
KLARA or NEWT | apartments
She busies herself with making the apartment festive, just in case it is meant to be only the two of them. There is a bottle of wine on the counter and paper hats hung on the backs of their chairs in the dining room and even little cardboard noisemakers - the kind that make a kazoo-like noise at the end of an inflated paper tongue. It's all very quaint, really, and Klara thinks that good because quaint means quiet and quiet means that, hopefully, Julian will be happy with her. (Oh, please, not angry, not today, I've tried—)
At about nine o'clock she disconnects the phone, pulling the cable out of the wall so that it doesn't ring and make him demand who is that, who's calling you. Not as though there's anyone left to call. Klara left that all behind when she came looking for Circle (had meant to leave Julian behind too, but that hadn't worked out right).
Ten o'clock and she's doing her make-up. She tries to make herself look pretty, but in a way only he would like.
Julian wouldn't appreciate it, otherwise. Oh no, Julian would be mad. ]