When the Waves Break the Silence by M Lanen-de Vries

Author:M Lanen-de Vries
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: pumbo

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‘Are you gay?’ his sister Agatha, going by Aggie, asked him. She held a folded newspaper in front of her mighty big bosom. He had made it to the frontpage.

‘What? No!’ Hamish didn’t even look at the newspaper. He was barely awake as it was. Milk and cornflakes were still dangling about in his beard. Very charming. Ever since Rachel left him, he didn’t find he had any reason for looking his best.

Aggie pushed the newspaper in his face, her hairs tied up in a tight knot on the back of her head with pins, her nails recently done and dressed in a cleaning tenue.

‘According to this paper, you are’, she said, whilst going inside without asking. Hamish tried to keep up with her, which had always been tricky. She was a woman and so far more of a shark than he could ever be. Despite the fact that he was a fisherman, he didn’t know how to handle her.

It was only then that he finally looked at the newspaper and was confronted with the header, aswell as a picture of himself as a young delinquent.

‘Wha-a-a-a-at is this??’ he looked at what newspaper it was, to see which bastards needed to be kicked in the arse, learned a lesson, but it wasn’t one that he knew of.

‘What are you doing here, exactly?’ he suddenly asked, annoyed, ‘does my misfortune amuse you?’ he was wearing pants, but only a vest covered his chest side. Not the type of clothes he wanted to be wearing when getting punches like these. He felt horribly vulnerable. Not a side of him he liked being witnessed by Aggie, especially as she had always laughed at him. Not this time around. For a change she turned out to be supportive.

‘I wanna help. I thought you might need someone who can talk on your behalf, and also clean your house, so at least it looks like a woman is living here’, she said.

‘What would you say, if they knock the door?’ he knew that was bound to happen.

‘That we don’t comment on anything. For the moment, that’s the best approach’, she said, as she took the hoover out of the closet under the stairs and looked around for an electrical socket.

‘You go and dress yourself properly, I will clean your house’, she ordered him.

While Hamish did, he read the piece in the paper. They had looked into his criminal records, but someone spoke, too. That he was gay and in that sense linked to the fightings in the harbor.

‘I think it’s time to ring our cousin, too’, Aggie suddenly turned her head around the corner of his bedroom door.

‘What can he possibly do for this?’ Hamish wondered.

‘Defamation. This is defamation, honey. We can let Rachel be a character witness. She probably will. Your breakup was a friendly one, was it not? Let’s get Ma a bit of a rest in her olden days, for God’s sake’.

‘Thanks’, he said, stunned. He meant it. He knew now that she knew.

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