Remake by Ilima Todd

Author:Ilima Todd [Todd, Ilima]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

No one wakes me early, and I’m glad. My body is so tired, the extra sleep feels absolutely blissful. When I finally do roll out of bed and head for the kitchen, I realize why no one woke me. It’s pouring rain, which means we’ll spend the day inside.

Hemi runs to squeeze me around the waist. “I don’t have to go to school today, Nine.” His smile, as always, is contagious, and I play with the curls on his head. “Kai’s gonna paint me something in our room.”

“Neat,” I say. I glance at Kai at the kitchen table, stirring whatever it is he’s having for breakfast. He used to complain about having to share a room with Hemi because of me, but I can’t remember the last time he’s mentioned it.

“What’s he going to paint?” I ask Hemi.

“I don’t know yet,” he says. “It’s a surprise. What are you going to do?”

“Um . . . maybe I’ll do some reading.” The family has a few books on a small shelf that seem very old. Miri told me I’m welcome to them any time, and maybe it will keep my mind off things. Like Theron. And a certain someone’s irrational behavior around me.

I join Kai at the kitchen table and peel a banana. “Did you catch anything in the reef yesterday?” I ask him, tentative.

He shakes his head. At least he’s not ignoring me.

I eat in silence, and Kai disappears into his bedroom with Hemi. I volunteer to hold the baby while Miri takes a shower, and when she takes Tama back later, I put away the dry dishes and clean the bathroom. I offer to help Pua knead dough for rolls, but she shoos me away. Sighing, I scan the small bookshelf, picking up an old book with thin pages and the word Bible on the cover.

Sitting at the table across from Pua, I open it to the first pages. The language is ancient, foreign. But after a few lines, the words become familiar. Sort of.

So God created man in his own image,

In the image of God created he him;

Male and female created he them.

“Pua?” I ask after getting her attention. “Is God another name for the first Maker?”

She smiles. “Yes.”

I read on to more familiar words.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground

And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;

And man became a living soul.

Then I read things unfamiliar. Adam. Eve. The names of the first male and female. I reread the passages over and over, trying to understand their meaning.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man,

And Adam said,

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