GENERATION END

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Love, Dean

DEER IN BRISBANE CITY

It was the weekend and it was the evening and Candy and I were in a restaurant in Eagle Street Pier called Jellyfish. It was a seafood restaurant by the Brisbane River and it was one of those restaurants that people like me never really deserve to be in: I didn’t look as old as most of the patrons and I certainly couldn’t afford it. It was a miracle for me to be there, but it was all worth it – Candy dressed up for the evening and she looked good. Mesmerising, even; I don’t think I’d ever been as attracted to anyone as I had been with her. What did I do? Why was she in my life? Jude told me to never compliment a good looking girl on her looks, so I didn’t. I kept quiet and let the world continue without giving it a hint of what I was thinking.

“I like it when you wear button up clothes,” she said. “I don’t like it when you wear your shirts.”

“And why the hell is that?”

“They make you look young. I don’t want you to look young.” She pulled out her camera. “Here. I’ll take a photo of you. You can use it for your writer photos. Turn to your side. You have a great side profile.”

We then talked about other things in life. She told me about a friend of hers that was wealthy, and about another friend of hers that was wealthy, and about another friend of hers that was wealthy. She seemed to have a lot of wealthy friends.

We left the restaurant and walked along the Brisbane River before heading back to my car and driving off.

Candy asked: “What’s on your mind, Dean? You seem distracted.”

Well, I wanted to say, there’s this girl who I met in Melbourne who says I’m the father of her child. But I said nothing.

By the road we saw a deer. I slowed my car down and we both looked at it. Candy giggled, leant out of her window and took a photo. The deer was big and it took its time crossing the road. We then drove further in silence, only to find two more of them. I stopped the car completely this time, and Candy and I stepped out and watched them – they didn’t watch us back. Another car on the other side of the road also stopped, and the passengers leant out of their windows and stared at the creatures as intently as Candy and I did. We sat back in my car and I put my hand on Candy’s cheek and kissed her for the first time.

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