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Then Mama says Srečko is here, too. I don’t know if it is
him, I don’t know if this is Srečko, my cousin, like Mama
says, because his mama was Lucija, the sister of Franc, who
is my
Tata
.
In the evening, as we are standing by the window before it
is night, Mama says that she hasn’t seen him for a long
time, Srečko, only Karlo sometimes meets up with him and
then comes home drunk, Mama says. She’s looking at the
field, at the cherry tree and she says: He must have aged,
Srečko …
Mama says that when a person gets old like she has, they
soon go to heaven.
I hope he doesn’t get lost, says Mama then and puts me to
bed.
Now Srečko is in the kitchen. Mama steps closer to him. I
see her. She goes to him, puts her arms around him and
then strokes his thin hair. He smiles. I see he has very few
teeth.
Allora
, our Australian’s coming, he says, nodding.
Mama smiles. I see she’s happy. When Mama is happy, I’m
not scared. Everyone is happy because Albert is coming,