If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura

Author:Genki Kawamura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

The two-hour screening ends.

I step outside the theater and the quiet and the darkness envelops me.

“Do you feel sad?” she said, as we left the theater.

“I don’t know.”

“I guess it must be rough on you.”

“I don’t know. Sorry, I really don’t know how I feel right now.”

And I really didn’t know. I wasn’t sure if I was sad because I was going to die or if I was sad because something really important and meaningful was about to disappear from the world.

“You can come back and see me any time, you know, if you ever feel bad, if you’re in so much pain you can’t stand it.”

Her words reached me just as I was about to turn away.

“Thanks,” I said, and headed back up the hill.

“Wait!”

She shouted from behind me.

“One more quiz!”

“Not again . . .”

“This is the last question. Just one more.”

As she shouted after me I could see she’d begun to cry.

Then seeing her cry made me feel like crying.

“OK. I’ll give it one last go.”

“Whenever I watch a movie with a sad ending I always watch it one more time. Do you know why?”

This time I knew the answer. It’s the one thing I remembered well.

It’s something I was hoping for during the whole plane ride back from Buenos Aires, and even for a while after we broke up.

“Yeah, I know.”

“OK, so what’s the answer?”

“Because you’re hoping that maybe it’ll have a happy ending the next time.”

“Right! That’s it!”

She wiped her eyes roughly with her sleeve, and giving me a big wave, shouted manically, “May the Force be with you!”

To which I responded, holding back the tears, “I’ll be back!”

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