Girl by Camille Laurens

Author:Camille Laurens [Laurens, Camille]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2022-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

When I want to have fun

Sure, I laugh and play.

I love whoever loves me.

But is it my fault, say,

if it’s not the same guy

that I love every day?

I am what I am

I’m made that way.

What more do you want?

What do you want from me, hey?”

Hervé looks away, the knowing-by-heart must have impressed him. I make the most of this to stand up, there’s nothing to add. Franck is furious, he catches me by the ankle. “But that’s a whore in your poem! Did you hear that, Hervé, she’s reciting a story about a whore! And she’s pleased with herself! So we’re all agreed here, if you’re just a whore, then we can treat you like one. The bar is officially open at Bar-raqué! Help yourselves!” “Stop it,” says Hervé, “let her go.” “You’re chickening out?” Franck snaps. “Don’t you want to teach her a lesson, so she learns about life?” My heart starts pounding, it’s walking such a thin line, fear is a tightrope walker. Life? But Franck’s grip relaxes, I break free and head off with all the dignity that the shaking in my legs will allow. Daniel is sitting in the hollow behind the dune. I walk past him without a word, a princess in her dungeon. He catches up with me: he would never have let them hurt me, he promises, he was waiting for me. “And why did you bring me to them?” (or should I say “summon me”?) I ask, not looking at him but at the sea, the free, wide-open sea. “They just wanted an explanation. I couldn’t refuse them that. But they promised me…well, everything’s okay, isn’t it? I’m here.” “You’re not my father, you know.” (What an idiot: would my father have any more right?) “I’m not your father but I’m your boyfriend. We’re together, right?” I run down the dune. Learn about life…In the photos that I took along the beach at Coutainville that week, the sand dunes and the small tufts of grass that you walk over in their hollows look a little like women’s bodies.

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