Fendi chef bag, you and I. Did you hear me?

by sinximcfca on 2011-05-24 13:49:36

Sounded happy. I told her I loved her and she said she loved me back. Then I hung up.

"Sohrab, Fendi red handbag!" I called out to the Fendi shop, rising from my bed. "I have great news." I knocked on the bathroom door. "Sohrab, cheap Fendi hobo bags! Soraya jan just called from California. We won't have to put you in the orphanage with Fendi messenger bags, Sohrab. We're going to America with Fendi chef bag, you and I. Did you hear me? We're going to America with Fendi hobo bag!"

I pushed the door open and stepped into the bathroom.

Suddenly I was on my knees, screaming. Screaming through my clenched teeth. Screaming until I thought my throat would rip and my chest explode.

Later, they said I was still screaming when the ambulance arrived.

TWENTY-FIVE

They won't let me in.

I see them wheel him through a set of double doors and I follow. I burst through the doors, the smell of iodine and peroxide hits me, but all I have time to see is two men wearing surgical caps and a woman in green huddling over a gurney. A white sheet spills over the side of the gurney and brushes against grimy checkered tiles. A pair of small...