Noises

She sat patiently flipping through her magazine.

There were so many noises. In the relative quiet of the evening, she could hear the ticking of the kitchen clock. She could hear the noisy whine of her old fridge. She heard the rain being driven against her window. She overheard people chatting, as they walk along the hall, beyond her front door. There was the buzz of the elevator in the building. She could hear a toilet flushing somewhere, music coming from below, a TV show playing in the next apartment, a doorbell being rung in the building, doors closing, water moving through pipes, and the occasional tweeting of birds. She heard a dog barking way off in the night and she could make out the faraway drone of traffic.

Then, she heard the happy jingle of her mobile phone.

Picking it up, she saw his name, and heard the pounding of her elevated pulse…

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