POLK, HARPER & WHO by Panayotis Cacoyannis

Author:Panayotis Cacoyannis [Cacoyannis, Panayotis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2017-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

‘That went well,’ Adam said.

‘Rub it in, why don’t you,’ said Eva.

‘I wasn’t,’ said Adam.

‘I don’t know why I invited either Karen or mother, and certainly I shouldn’t have invited them both.’

‘It wouldn’t have been much of a party without them,’ said Adam.

‘But your dad, he’s a poet,’ Eva said. ‘I loved the way he talked about the view from our window.’

‘It’s all that melancholy music he likes,’ Adam said. ‘It’s made him very romantic. But his eyesight must be going, you definitely can’t see any bridges from any of our windows.’

‘Oh, so what? Don’t be so pedantic,’ Eva said.

‘And my mum,’ Adam said, ‘don’t you think she’s beautiful?’

‘She’s beautiful and she’s a gem,’ Eva said.

‘A bit too tearful tonight,’ Adam said. ‘Mind you, so was dad.’

The clearing up had been left for tomorrow, and Eva was lying on her back, her head propped up in Adam’s lap and her legs stretching out over the edge of the sofa. Looking up at him, Eva moved her arm up and was wiggling her fingers. ‘Your hand,’ she said. And when Adam took hers by the wrist and laid it down on the side of his face, pressing it against the heat of too much wine, ‘Tell me about Mark,’ she went on, but really what she wanted to know was why today had been the first time she had heard of this boy who had looked out for Adam and been like a brother to him, and whom Adam had lost when they both should have been taking immortality for granted. And at the same time it weighed heavily on her mind that she had been so completely enthralled by Adam’s sheer unlikelihood that she had never thought to ask him who his friends were. Could Adam have mistaken her emotional daze for indifference? Eva shuddered at the thought that it was Lynn who had brought to the surface these gaping omissions, by carping idly about who should or should not be the best man at their wedding.

‘What would you like to know?’ Adam asked, and Eva felt him loosen the pressure of his hand automatically, and this almost intangible physical reflex gave the lie to the calm in his voice.

‘Why didn’t I know?’

‘You mean why hadn’t I told you.’

‘Yes.’

‘I haven’t really thought about it,’ Adam said.

‘Could you think about it now?’ Eva asked him softly.

‘It was wrong of me,’ said Adam.

‘And wrong of me that I never even asked you if you had friends,’ Eva said.

‘I never asked you either,’ Adam said.

‘But you knew about Karen.’

‘Only when you said you were inviting her,’ said Adam. ‘And I’m not saying you and Karen aren’t close, you obviously are. But Mark’s gone, and he was such a big part of my life, and it’s such a big part of my life that he’s gone, that I should’ve said something. It was the right thing to do and I didn’t.’

‘But it’s not about that, right and wrong, or who might be to blame more.

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