The First True Lie by Marina Mander

Author:Marina Mander
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780770436858
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Published: 2014-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

To be honest, she’d seemed happy for a while before then, strangely enough, and a bit absentminded. She bustled around in high heels, tick tack tick tack, and acted like someone who’s just gotten away with something. That was a couple of years ago. The night before the roses she’d left me at home with the babysitter with the big boobs, Juana, and had stayed out late. I’d fallen asleep on the sofa between Juana’s boobs, soft as a mattress, and Juana fell asleep too because it was past midnight.

When Juana heard the key turn in the lock, she was really embarrassed.

“Desculpe, senhora, but I’ve been up since six in the morning, so sorry.”

Juana’s boobs shook like Jell-O with a cherry on top, but Mama didn’t even notice.

“It’s nothing, dear, nothing to worry about. I’m the one who’s late. It’s my fault.”

Mama seemed more concerned with looking at herself in the mirror above the chest of drawers than with us, as if some detail might have revealed why she was late. And in fact when Mama returned to the apartment she had a run in her tights on the right ankle; earlier, before leaving, she’d had one on her left. I’d tried to warn her.

“One should never arrive at an appointment with torn tights. If you have an accident and have to take your clothes off, who knows what they’ll think of you.”

But she’d been too busy getting ready to go out.

She apologized again, even gave the babysitter a tip, and came to kiss me good night. Her perfume was different than usual, sharper. It smelled like the little green trees people hang in their cars.

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