Obscure Back Roads

[Fiction - Draft] Part 4, originally written May 2006
What happened was that for a few months after Tina came back from four years of Manhattan, she couldn't date. She remembers stifling her shivers whenever she met men who spoke with such strong Singlish accents. And one of them was promising enough, until he confessed he would rather be watching Mr and Mrs Smith than "slow" Annie Hall. Then somehow Damien came into her life. She was idling at Clarke Quay's tcc, pondering over a random tourist's comment that "everything is too new here" when he intruded, not giving her time to compose herself:

'And I don't suppose you're the ST journalist?"

He'd said it in such a casual manner that his accent had failed to register.

Related posts:
Part 1 of story - Dinner Music for People who aren't Very Hungry
Part 2 of story - The Sound of Silence
Part 3 of story - New Amsterdam