Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine

Author:Jenny Valentine
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins

Even before he moved out Dad and I didn’t do a lot of talking.

Once, we had this conversation about something I’d done in history class. My teacher said that in Nazi Germany (or Cambodia or Rwanda or Bosnia), if the people who were safe had stood up for others instead of being glad they were safe and trying to blend in with the wallpaper, history would have been different. She said that doing nothing while others suffered was a crime in itself. It stuck in my head and I wanted to talk about it. But Dad just laughed and said that apathy was underrated and I had no idea how hard it was doing nothing. He said I’d learn to be more cynical when I grew up. He said that more than a million people marched against the war in Iraq and it happened anyway because ten people had already decided it would.

I said, “Who decided Jack would die and we would never get over it?”

He didn’t say anything to that. He just left the room, which was Dad’s answer to everything.

It’s both of our faults. I should have asked him for help, and he should have known without me telling him. He should have opened his eyes instead of pretending a couple of fun afternoons a week was enough parenting for anyone.

When we got home, Stroma watched TV in the sitting room and tried to get Mum to notice her hand. I went upstairs and ransacked my drawer for Jack’s postcard. I pulled the whole thing out and dumped all it held on my bed, shoved half of it onto the floor while I was searching. I knew it was in there. And I knew before I found it that I was right. It was exactly the same as Bee’s. I turned it over and my heart stalled a little at the sight of Jack’s handwriting, black and erratic, like something crawling across the page.

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