Rooms Need Doors by Sisi Meir

Author:Sisi Meir [Meir, Sisi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

And indeed, about two months later, Nagat asked me to watch the babies while she ran errands.

The babies, Rafael and Daniel, were lying quietly on a regular bed, not in a crib. They wore clothes that had belonged to their older brothers. They didn’t cry or make a peep the entire time I was there. I enjoyed looking at their faces and marveled at their beauty and their tiny size. Nagat nursed them, and they had become plumper and grown since their birth, but they were still smaller than usual. Rafael smiled sweetly as I spoke to him and made cooing sounds. I shook a rattle for him that I had bought as a gift for Nagat. Daniel didn’t smile, but he looked at me serenely and didn’t cry. It seemed like nothing bothered the twins, not even the noise that the other children made in the next room. I knew that Nagat’s children would also take care of them later on. That’s how things were in their house. The older kids took care of their younger siblings.

Nagat came back about an hour later, her arms weighed down with plastic bags, and I pointed at Rafael: “I think he made…” I said. The odor left no room for doubt. Nagat changed his diaper with skillful hands and afterward, she hugged and kissed him. Then she turned to Daniel and lifted him up in her arms too. Both of the babies looked comfortable and happy and gazed at their mother trustingly.

I couldn’t help but ask myself, how is it that babies give their trust to adults? How do they trust that adults won’t harm them? Is it possible to give complete trust?

And I remembered an incident that happened when I was a little girl, about five years old. Our neighbor, Berta, had asked me to watch over two babies who were lying in a bed outside. The babies were about two months old, the same age as Rafael and Daniel. One baby, a boy, belonged to Berta and the other baby, a girl, belonged to her sister. Berta was taking care of both of them as her sister worked cleaning houses.

The two babies lay on their backs, naked as the day they were born, absorbing the rays of the warm sun.

I stood to the side and looked at them, not knowing what I was supposed to do if they cried. Berta had said: “Keep an eye on them. I’ll be right back.”

But since they silently lay there and didn’t move or chirp, I had nothing to do other than to look at them.

My attention turned to the little organ between the baby boy’s legs and the tiny crack between the baby girl’s legs. I looked for some time at the baby boy and the baby girl, and for some reason, I had a strong urge to take the baby boy and put him on top of the baby girl and to thrust his little organ into the baby girl’s crack. It

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