Seize the Night by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

Later I’m with Todd and Bernard walking back to the cutoff.

I say to Todd: “Your mom said the people who lived in our house moved.”

He says: “They did. They moved to the cemetery.”

Bernard is laughing very hard at this. He says it’s a good one. “That’s a good one,” he says.

V.

When I walk back home up the hill, I think about how I could confront Mother. How dare you! I think about saying.

It is the sort of thing that Bernard makes fun of, like I’m trying to sound like some kind of professor or from England, he says, but I like the dignity of it. How dare you! I think, and I like the way the words feel, like the Statue of Liberty holding a torch aloft over the ocean. How dare you, Mother! How dare you tell lies to my friends!

But when I come in, she is asleep on the couch in that position, her knees pulled up and her shoulders hunched and her hands loosely covering her eyes. In my encyclopedia, there are pictures of the ancient Romans who died in Pompeii, cowering in such a position, turned to statues as the ashes covered them.

I go into the kitchen and make myself a peanut butter sandwich for dinner. Peanut butter on one piece of bread. Margarine on the other piece of bread. Slices of apple in the middle. I am making this sandwich and pretending that I am building something.

But I can still hear her in the next room. Breathing, breathing.

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