This Is The Way. Gavin Corbett

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      There I was now. In a room, a tidy room, tidier than any room I been in before. The bed was hard. The walls they gave no sound. A heavy window thumped itself shut. Good I says. Peace I says. First time I been in a hotel room though I was in an apartment once in the Canary. That smelt of bleach, this smelt of paint. I took in the room, I enjoyed it I did. I felt settled after what had been. I thought of the very nice girl in the hall at the desk. I thought of her the whole time I been in the room. I might ask her I says. I went in the toilet I seen they had not built the sink well but I came out in the room again I says I like this. I could live in this room I says.

      When I got the call from my cousin Jimmy I went down to meet him in the hall. My cousin Jimmy was thirteen year older than me and he was my mother’s eldest brother Thom’s eldest boy. He was a bald man with gold teeth and tattoos on his hands and neck. We sat in chairs around a glass table.

      He says are you liking the room.

      I says it’s grand. It’s better than grand I says.

      The business is appreciated he says.

      No problem I says.

      You know you’re the only guest he says.

      That true I says.

      Did you see the picture of Raekwon in the bathroom he says.

      No I did not I says.

      You’re in the Raekwon room he says. Every room’s named after a rap star.

      That so I says.

      It is he says. But listen.

      What I says.

      Sorry he says.

      What you saying sorry for I says.

      He turned to look at the girl at the desk. The girl was watching television.

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