Junko was watching television when the phone rang a few minutes before midnight. Keisuke sat in the corner of the room wearing headphones, eyes half-closed, head swinging back and forth as his long fingers flew over the strings of his electric guitar. He was practicing a fast passage and obviously had no idea the phone was ringing. Junko picked up the receiver.
“Did I wake you?” Miyake asked in his familiar muffled Osaka accent.
“Nah,” Junko said. “We’re still up.”
“I’m at the beach. You should see all this driftwood! We can make a big one this time. Can you come down?”
“Sure,” Junko said. “Let me change clothes. I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
She slipped on a pair of tights and then her jeans. On top she wore a turtleneck sweater, and she stuffed a pack of cigarettes into the pocket of her woolen coat. Purse, matches, key ring. She nudged Keisuke in the back with her foot. He tore off his headphones.
“I’m going for a bonfire on the beach,” she said.
“Miyake again?” Keisuke asked with a scowl. “You’ve got to be kidding. It’s February, you know. Twelve o’clock at night! You’re going to go make a bonfire now?”
“That’s okay, you don’t have to come. I’ll go by myself.”
Keisuke sighed. “Nah, I’ll come. Give me a minute to change.”
He turned off his amp, and over his pajamas he put on pants, a sweater, and a down jacket, which he zipped up to his chin. Junko wrapped a scarf around her neck and put on a knitted hat.
“You guys are crazy,” Keisuke said as they took the path down to the beach. “What’s so great about bonfires?”
The night was cold, but there was no wind at all. Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.
“What’s so great about Pearl Jam?” Junko said. “Just a lot of noise.”
“Pearl Jam has ten million fans all over the world,” Keisuke said.
“Well, bonfires have had fans all over the world for fifty thousand years,” Junko said.
“You’ve got something there,” Keisuke said.
“People will be lighting fires long after Pearl Jam is gone.”
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