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pes edeyim deme—
yolun daha var
Şu anda okuduğu kitaplar
ne bazlamaymis arkadas
‘Why are you driving Kasun’s car?’ I asked, once I had located the radio scanner. ‘To use up his petrol.’ I managed to tune us onto some frantic country music. ‘Why?’
‘So many questions. Change the channel, would you?’ I did so, running us through a few bursts of static before I found something classical and string-heavy.
‘He’s eating my sister’s bazlama,’ Jake said.
‘He’s eating your sister’s bazlama?’
‘Yeah. He always eats my family’s bazlama.’ Jake merged onto the main road near the station.
Reklam
The bus jolted to a stop, sending everyone in the aisle knocking into each other like an unruly line of dominoes.
Despite finding myself even more tightly sandwiched than before, I was glad of the disruption. It saved me from having to keep lying through my teeth.
gercekten su universite isleri biktirdi
‘What’s up?’ Mae asked.
‘It’s my cousin Elizabeta,’ I said. ‘Tetka Mojca wants to know my university preferences. So I have to think of something believable before book club next week, which also won’t lead to an entire afternoon of questions.’
‘You’re not thinking bio anymore?’
‘I don’t know,’ I groaned. ‘I don’t know what I’m thinking. This whole … being done with high school thing doesn’t feel real yet. But if I seem at all uncertain it’s going to lead to—’
‘An entire afternoon of questions,’ Mae finished, nodding.
‘Gotta say, I feel like you’re not appreciating what I’m going through right now.’
Mae leaned her chin against her palm. ‘So sorry, Amalia. You’re going through… making yourself read a book?’
I shrugged, pulling a face, like obviously.
‘Aren’t you still super close to the start?’ she asked.
Leaning back in my chair, I began flicking my pen between my fingers. ‘Objection: reading is about the journey. The journey has begun. I feel like that’s what we should be focusing on.’
Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother’s lyre. He had brought it with him.
“I wish I had known,” I said the first day, when he had showed it to me. “I almost did not come, because I did not want to leave it.”
He smiled. “Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere.”
Reklam