Black Dog Summer by Miranda Sherry

Author:Miranda Sherry [Sherry, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781781859568
Publisher: Head of Zeus

I stopped wearing mascara the year that Liam kissed me in the parking lot.

A decade later, working on the farm up to my armpits in dust and animal mess and hair and blood, mascara would’ve been ridiculous, but long before that, in that sticky Johannesburg summer, stopping wearing it had felt like an act of courage.

I didn’t stop wearing it the very next day after the drunken kiss; at first I waited, breathless, to see what would happen. Would he tell her? Leave her? Kiss me in secret again? And then, when nothing at all changed and it became clearer and clearer that his decision had been made, and I was not it, I threw that little tube of black tar in the bin. The bin in my bedroom was the same one I’d had since I was about six, and still sported a silly girlish motif of flowers and kittens on one side; the mascara tube clattered very loudly against its metal sides when I dropped it in.

Unlike my sister, who would rather be caught dead than be seen without her make-up on, I was now the brave one who dared to show my true face to the world. When I arrived at varsity the next day, a number of people asked me if I was ill, but I shrugged it off and wore my pale lashes and indistinct eyebrows like some strange war mask in the silent battle that Liam had sparked off between my sister and me.

Of course, Adele had no idea that there was a battle at all. In her opinion, I was still good old Monkey, great for late-night chats and going shopping and helping her study.

It was only years later, in her and Liam’s glossy kitchen, that she both woke up to the war and vanquished me in one terrible instant.

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