Heliopolis by James Scudamore

Author:James Scudamore
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Europa
Published: 2010-10-19T23:00:00+00:00

CAFÉZINHO

Where did it start? Was there some point of no return, before which I might have graduated to adulthood without becoming messily, morbidly bound to Melissa; one step forward into pain that I needn’t have taken, without which I might have stayed safe? In fact, one moment does present itself; a scene which, as I replay it now, makes me want to scream and run into the past, waving my arms to avert disaster.

Before I followed Melissa to the city, our roles were well defined and discrete. I lived on the farm and she was its weekend visitor. That meant that I could laugh at her when she got squeamish about caterpillars or sentimental over calves, and she could allow that to happen, safe in the knowledge that her ‘real’ world was somewhere that might easily wrong-foot me. Now that she was my only ally in that world, and my link with the old one, the balance of power shifted, and I began to cling to her.

Zé and my mother had both made it clear that if for any reason I decided the move had been a bad idea, the process was reversible. And so after only three weeks in Angel Park I announced to Melissa that I wasn’t staying.

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