Click by Nick Hornby

Author:Nick Hornby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

“Did you ever meet George again, Da?”

“No,” said Vincent. “No, I didn’t.”

He’d often thought about George. Every time he saw a picture of Ali, every time he saw a man with a ponytail, he thought about George. And he always wondered if he’d ever had a grandson called Jason or a granddaughter called Margaret.

Then, the year before the Special Olympics, in 2002, Vincent and Valerie, his wife, were watching the news. They watched Roy Keane, Ireland’s greatest footballer, leaving Saipan, where the Irish team had gone to prepare for the World Cup. Keane was going home. He’d been thrown off the team; he was refusing to play. No one was sure what had happened.

Vincent started crying.

“Ah, for God’s sake, Vincent,” said Valerie. “It’s only football.”

“It’s not,” said Vincent. “It’s my granny.”

He wondered if George Keane was still alive and if he was in Saipan, taking pictures of Roy Keane. He’d have been very old by then, well into his eighties. He looked for George on the television. For days he looked, as the story got bigger and madder, but he didn’t see George. But, as he looked at the news about Roy Keane and Saipan, he knew that, yes, his granny had been right. George had had his grandchildren. They were out there somewhere. And he wondered if he’d ever meet them.

And now, in 2003, as they all watched Nelson Mandela opening the Games in Croke Park, Vincent’s daughter, Ciara, touched the scar on his forehead again.

“And you got that mark when George’s camera hit you,” she said.

“That’s right,” said Vincent.

“It’s nice,” she said. “It’s not ugly.”

“Like the rest of him,” said Gavin.

And Vincent laughed.

“Don’t listen to that scut,” he said.

And he hugged his children.

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