Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal

Author:Ann Dávila Cardinal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

July 8, 4:31 P.M.

Lupe

JAVIER DIDN’T SEEM to be paying attention. Lupe watched him step away from the academic’s chaotic office, lean on the waist-high wall, and stare through the arch-shaped opening toward the courtyard.

“You okay, Javier?” Lupe touched his arm and the contact made him jump.

“Yeah. It’s just … I keep thinking about what the professor said about parents and kids being bad.” He turned to Izzy. “Do you remember anything about our last birthday party?”

Izzy was staring out, too. “Yeah. The last cangrejo birthday.”

“Right. Remember my mother found us in the backyard?”

“Under the flamboyán tree.”

Lupe watched them go back and forth, their eyes faraway, traveling back five years.

“And we got a lecture from our mothers. What did they say to us that night?”

Izzy’s voice grew edgy with impatience. “Man, I don’t know. In those days our parents might as well have been speaking Chinese for all I understood them. I wasn’t listening.”

As Lupe watched Izzy stare blankly, she knew that he wasn’t telling the truth.

Javier touched Izzy’s shoulder. “Maybe we should talk to our mothers. See if we can’t get to the bottom of this.”

Izzy’s voice was quiet, like he was talking to the courtyard, not to them. “They can’t help. No one can.”

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