The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy (1999) by Margaret Jull Costa;Annella McDermott (eds)

Author:Margaret Jull Costa;Annella McDermott (eds) [McDermott, Margaret Jull Costa;Annella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

She smiled at him from one end of the sofa. She was wearing a very short black skirt and a tight grey sweater. It was dark in the sitting room and out in the street the evening was beginning its leisurely decline.

`Are you sure your parents aren't going to turn up any minute?' he asked.

`If you're going to be like that, we'll go out,' she replied.

`I just feel really uptight,' he said.

`Why?' she asked.

He passed her the joint and did not respond at once. Finally, his gaze lost in the geometry of a piece of porcelain, he said:

`I get like this sometimes, I get a sort of knot in my chest, just here. And it doesn't go away until something happens.'

`What sort of something?' she asked, stubbing out the joint in a copper ashtray.

`Something bad,' he said.

It was a very spacious living room, full of over-large furniture and objects that harked back to a solid but inglorious past. The boy, who was sitting at the other end of the sofa, smiled at the girl and tried in vain to evoke some exciting fantasy. The minutes passed noisily on a pendulum clock. For the second time, she asked him if she should put some music on and he again said no.

`If they tried to open the door or if they rang the bell, we wouldn't hear them,' he argued.

`So you spend the whole day just waiting for something to happen,' she said.

`Yes,' he said shyly.

At that moment, the phone rang and he almost jumped off the sofa, causing her to collapse in laughter.

`Aren't you going to pick it up?' he asked.

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