First Cycle - Spring by Sarah Kassem

Author:Sarah Kassem [Kassem, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Coming of Age, mystery, fantasy, magic, young adult, series, magical realism
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Haploid

The next day Viktor was very confused.

He’d slept very badly, and could not eat any breakfast. His mother, upon seeing the half eaten bread and jam – the jam even being blackberry and therefore Viktor’s current favorite – had reacted with alarm, putting her hand on his forehead and looking at his throat for any sign of illness.

His troubles didn’t stop there though as, in school, he miscalculated a math task that he had to solve in front of everyone on the board. He had to divide ‘345’ by ‘5’, which, any other day, he would have found easy. This day however he just couldn’t think of how many times ‘5’ went into ‘45’. He stood there, chalk in hand, and tried his best to think, but his brain did not seem to want to work. Eventually he simply took the first numerical combination that came into his head and, thinking that ‘5’ went into ‘45’ 34 times, he decided on the number ‘90034’. The teacher looked at him in surprise and asked him why he thought the answer was ‘90034’. Viktor thought about it for a minute and, not knowing why but thinking that ‘900’ was in fact too high, he rubbed it out and replaced it with ‘70’ thus giving the figure, ‘7034’ which, apparently, was also the wrong answer. The teacher as such sent him back to his place.

During the break, he sat on a bench and tried to eat, but nothing really had any flavor and so he ended up dumping the contents of his lunch box into the trash. Shortly after, Gem and some others asked him if he wanted to play volleyball, but he simply waved them away and went back to starting at the floor. Gem came over and asked what was wrong before then inquiring if he had to throw up again. Viktor got upset by this and ran off to seek solitude in the bathroom. He locked himself in a cubicle and tried to control his mind, but it was too crampt and the floor was too dirty for him to get in the right position, so instead he ended up leaning his head against the wall. When the bell rang after half an hour he was more thankful than he thought he could be.

When he got home, everything was just as out of sync. There was no lunch ready for him, his mother was yelling into the phone and Oded was discussing something in frantic tones with the others. He heard such words as ‘union’ and ‘value added tax’ and other indefinable things. This was too much for him.

His mother covered the phone up briefly and whispered, “Go to Rocco’s, honey. We’ve got too much to do here but you can get something to eat there”. She then promptly went back to screaming away on the phone.

As Oded and the others didn’t notice him and he was in fact hungry, he grumpily took his backpack and walked out of the chaotic studio.

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