Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames by Stefan Kiesbye

Author:Stefan Kiesbye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Panhandler Books
Published: 2016-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

He didn’t know what bothered him more—that Carolin was ready to stand in front of a clinic and protest against abortion, or that she hadn’t told him and asked the boy to keep quiet about it. But when she came back home from choir practice, and stood before him with dark circles around her eyes, Benno just warmed up some soup, without saying a single word about the flyer. On the one hand, he couldn’t betray Tim’s confidence, and on the other he had his own secrets. How could he complain about Carolin and at the same time tell her lies about the scratches on the car?

Silently they sat at the kitchen table, spooning the soup, and only when Tim got up to lie down on the sofa with Rasmus, did Carolin notice the decorated tree.

“Had a bad rehearsal?” asked Benno.

“No. Why?”

“For good luck,” Benno tried to joke. “Bad rehearsal, good performance.”

“We’re not ‘performing’ anything. You still don’t understand.”

“Explain it to me!”

She dropped the spoon, and a splash of pea soup started running down her blouse. Carolin stared at Benno, her eyes large and wide behind the thick glasses. “So you can make fun of it?”

“I’m just trying . . .”

“The hell you are trying.” She got up and left the kitchen. He could hear her steps first on the stairs and then above his head in the bathroom.

Benno turned around to look at Tim, but the boy seemed to have fallen asleep on the sofa. Only the dog looked at him attentively, but he seemed only interested in the crust of bread in his hand.

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