You Can't Tell by Looking by Russell J. Sanders

Author:Russell J. Sanders [Sanders, Russell J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-64080-388-6
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Timur

I DO a Google search for mahr. I feel like Amca has gotten a fair price. I hope to find examples of what other brides have gotten. But my search is in vain. I suppose it is a personal thing that is not broadcast all over the internet. But what’s not broadcast these days?

I like Hasan’s family. They appear to be wonderful Muslims. Very devout.

I know Amca and Aunt are good people, that they are devout followers. I only wish their practices matched more closely those of my father and mother. Before everything happened, our family was so happy. I miss that.

But I have a new family. It felt so good for Aunt to say what she said, to call me her son. More and more, I feel that. For so many years, I think I didn’t let them in, Aunt and Amca. I shut them out of my life, somehow thinking that would bring my own Baba and Mama back. I was a kid. A kid when Zeheb passed, when Mama died, when Baba did what he did to Delal. And for all the years since, I’ve stayed that kid.

But now I am a man, and I must act like one. I saved Amca’s practice with my computer skills. And he rewarded me far more than he has rewarded his blood children.

And now Aunt Maria has proclaimed me her son, equal to Kerem.

Kerem, the magnificent. The golden child.

I must get to bed. But first, I must brush my teeth. I go to the hall bath.

I hear him. There is another voice. Gabriel. What are they talking about? The mahr.

I position myself hidden outside Kerem’s door. I want to hear if my cousin credits me for the magnificent sum we negotiated. He does not mention my name at all.

But what is this he’s saying?

To Kerem, the magnificent; Kerem, the golden child; I can add another thing:

Kerem, the sinner.

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