You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

Author:Akwaeke Emezi [Emezi, Akwaeke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2022-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“This is the worst fucking idea I’ve ever heard,” Joy said, her voice crackling over the phone connection, her frown pixelated. It was early the next morning and Feyi was still in bed, chatting to Joy through her earphones. Nasir had rolled out of bed an hour before, yawning as he padded out of the room, and Feyi had pretended to still be asleep then.

“It’s not my idea,” she replied. “Nasir’s the one traveling, and he has to because it’s for work. Besides, it’s only for a week.”

“So go with him! Definitely don’t stay in the same house alone with his sexy-ass father whose fingers you licked mango foam off of! I swear to God.” Joy pinched her nose and shook her head. “This is exactly how incest porn starts.”

“He didn’t invite me! He asked if I’d be okay hanging out at the house alone for a week, and I said sure. I can start thinking about that commission, maybe even get some work done.”

“Okay, boo, you’re killing me here. One”—Joy counted off on her clear sparkly nails—“you’re not alone in the house, Mr. Sexy Genius Daddy Chef is right fucking there, and two, you’re not gonna be catching up on ‘work,’ you’re going to be hooking up with his fa-ther!”

She punctuated the syllables of the last word with two claps, and waited for Feyi to argue back and claim innocence, but when Feyi just sighed and looked down, Joy’s voice turned worried.

“Babe,” she said, “talk to me.”

“Look, I’m going to leave for the Hilton as soon as I can, but real talk, I don’t wanna go with Nasir.” Feyi’s voice splintered by a fraction. She felt fragile and hungover. “What I really wanna do is stay here and make my work even though I know that means being around Alim, and I know this crush I have is stupid and wrong and five kinds of fucked-up, plus the man’s literally old enough to be my father, but I—I like what it feels like being around him, and we’re kind of friends, and yeah, I get that it can’t ever be anything more than that. I get that he and Rebecca are a better fit, I get that none of this is real, it doesn’t count as the real world, this is just some mountain paradise he’s built for himself, but it’s been nice to be in it, you know? Apart from all the crush bullshit, it feels better than I’ve felt in a while, now I have another friend I can talk to about Jonah—”

“Whoa, hold up. You talked to his dad about Jonah?”

Feyi shrugged. “He lost someone, too, he knows what it’s like.” She wiped her eyes roughly. “Look, I know you don’t approve, and maybe you don’t get what it’s like to be alone in a particular way, when the person you thought you’d spend the rest of your life with is gone, like gone forever. But I always feel alone, Joy, and I know Alim

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