Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanda Michalopoulou

Author:Amanda Michalopoulou [Michalopoulou, Amanda; Emmerich, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781934824948
Publisher: Open Letter

“Look out!” Kayo shouts in the darkness. He’s lying on the sofa and I almost sit down on him. I don’t turn on the light. I take off my shoes the way Anna did, trying to toss them onto the rug with a similar flair. I light a cigarette.

“What’s wrong with you? You’re smoking now?”

“I saw Anna and her husband today.”

Kayo, me, and the glowing tip of my cigarette. A silent agreement: he doesn’t ask any questions, just waits for me to start.

“They have a nice house.”

“I had no doubt.”

“And they’ve planned a bourgeois revolution.”

“I wouldn’t put anything past Anna. What’s he like?”

“Strange, smart. Sort of paranoid.”

I tell him the whole story, more or less.

“Just don’t get sucked in again,” Kayo says.

“I don’t have time for any of that. I’ve wasted too many years of my life that way.”

“So what exactly are you doing?”

“I’m curious, that’s all.”

“Curiosity killed the cat,” he says in English. Usually Kayo and I speak French to one another. Like all French people, he sounds funny when he speaks in English.

“Where is the cat, anyhow?”

“She had another freak-out. She scratched me on the arm.”

I turn on the light. There’s a long line of dried blood on his arm. I bring cotton balls and hydrogen peroxide from the bathroom.

“I don’t understand. We’ve had our heads bashed in by the police more times than I can count and you still can’t take care of a wound?”

“I was waiting for you to come home,” he says.

All things considered, it seems sort of unlikely that he’ll actually move out. I lean my head on his shoulder, rest my palm on the scratch on his arm, and the loneliness fades.

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