Alone Page #8

I want to say something and then I'll

go.

You're in snow, about to freeze to

death.

Sleep seems so sweet but you

don't realise you've died.

enol!

Happy birthday to you... Happy birthday

to you... Happy Birthday dear boss...

Happy Birthday to you...

- Alper Bey...

- Come here, enol.

If it's OK with you, I'd like to have a

glass of wine with you this evening.

Wow! Nice surprise. What's the

occasion? At last!

Tonight is different. Because it's a

special evening for me.

So fill them up then! What's with the

thimbleful? Look how stingy you are!

You've made me a rich man like that...

Shame on you, Abi! That's not the

reason. You know I don't drink a lot.

Sorry, I called you Abi,

there all of a sudden.

Of course you did. Anyway, I have my

suspicions.

You have some blue English

blood in you, right?

The truth will out soon enough...

So what are we celebrating?

Gamze is pregnant. We're

going to have a baby.

Wow! My little father! My man! I'm

really happy for you, enol.

Thanks. Thanks, Abi.

Hey, hang on a second.

I'm being an idiot here.

What does that make me

then? An Amca?

Yes... Alper Amca.

God, it feels like only yesterday. I'd

just opened this place.

You walked in and said you'd come

about the job ad...

...and could you speak

to the boss please.

When I said I was the boss,

you didn't believe me and...

...looked at me in that

English way of yours.

Umm, Alper Abi... I want to thank you

very much for everything.

On behalf of

everyone here...

You've been very good

to us, very generous...

We owe you a

lot. I want you to know that.

Oh God! Come on! Don't be ridiculous.

Of all wines, you had to open this one

tonight, huh?

Look at the news, look at the wine.

You'd expect a Bordeaux or

something.

Stingy...

What's this here? What's this?

Vrrrmmm... It's coming... We're flying!

We're flying!

Alper Amca, we're going to the cinema,

aren't we?

Are you kidding, handsome young man?

Ice Age, right?

Ice Age... How many

Ice Ages is this now?

Hmm... A year younger than you.

Hello! My name's Bobo. After breakfast

I'll be yours.

What's your name?

Mithatcan!

Come on, Mithatcan.

- Ice Age.

- Yes, Ice Age.

Look, we got the tickets earlier on.

You'll give them to collector.

- OK?

- Fine.

Good. Smart thing.

We'll be inside.

Dad! Dad! Isn't Alper Amca coming?

Alper Amca... Alper Amca!

He'll be along, son. In a bit.

Hi there, Alper. How are you?

Hello... Ada... It's kind of a

surprise, this...

Oh God.

I called you

a few times.

Your numbers have changed

of course...

I moved to England... Got married.

Really?

I'm very happy for you...

Your husband?

Hakan... He works for a company there.

I've kept on my business...

We opened another store there...

That's how things look now.

That was enol's son presumably.

Right?

He's cute... Mashallah...

Look. This is my daughter... Elif...

She's three.

What a sweetie! She's lovely.

- Bless her!

- Thanks...

I grabbed the chance to come

over while I could.

Both to go see my parents in Bursa,

and catch up with Sinem.

I go back tomorrow

morning.

I left Elif there with her father

and au pair...

We might come back at New Year,

all of us together.

I'd say come and have a coffee with us

but I guess you're going to the cinema.

How are you? How's everything going?

Have you still got the restaurant

and stuff?

I'm fine... Very good.

Everything's on track.

I'm not fine at all, Ada. I've never

forgotten you...

I never thought this

would happen. I'm nothing.

Everything's a pile of sh*t.

Are you really over it

or are you getting revenge?

You're smiling... Is it real?

I never thought it would be like this.

Right after we

split up I felt light as a bird...

I thought I'd done both you and me a

favour...

Until the smallest thing

messed me up completely...

That day, a miniscule hairclip of yours

laughed at me.

It was that morning that

I realised I'd lost you...

...and so many other things. You'd never

be there again...

I'd never have this with

anyone else...

Life kept laughing at me.

I saw similar faces to yours...

...felt similar smells...

...heard similar voices.

Or I felt so.

I don't know.

You know what? That tiny

hairclip you lost one day...

...but never knew where...

It's still in my pocket.

I'm fine. Really good.

They turned your store

into an estate agent's.

Right. Sinem said.

I walked past there the other day...

I had things to do over that way.

No, Ada. That was a lie... I sometimes

go to have a look at that street.

And I imagine everything is like it once

was. I just stand there.

I imagine you're sitting inside and

still creating little heroes...

I delude myself... I try to console

myself, Ada.

How's your mother? Is she OK?

She's fine... The same as ever...

Raising the grandkids. She comes to

visit now and again. I go down there

sometimes. That kind of thing...

I miss Mzeyyen Abla. Really... I was

supposed to go and visit her.

But it was never meant to happen,

I guess.

It was right after you I went to see

her. To the house you were born in.

To the town you spent your childhood in,

my love.

I took a short trip with your

mother, into your past...

I made her vow never to tell you...

Good for her.

She's kept her word.

I saw the house you grew up in...

The bed you slept in, my love. I

imagined you and your childhood...

You were there and you didn't yet know

you'd meet me one day.

You lay across my lap. I told you a

story... You grew up...

A story in my head...

You know how I loved that...

Then I wrote us a happy ending...

I sat with you in that

house... We said nothing.

You sat beside me in silence. That

was the end. It was another life.

It was just you and me.

You looked at me...

Blue and unfrenzied. We said

nothing.

Another happy ending in another life...

We deserved that... Our story is there

somewhere.

It'll stay with me forever. Because that

was the only way I could go on.

So a person's smell always stays the

same... I was surprised.

I took something of yours away with me.

A 45 single. Arda Karde's Fairytales.

If you go back home one day, you'll

never know how that record went

missing.

And Mzeyyen Abla won't tell you.

We won't let you have that

satisfaction.

I still got your record.

But you don't know it...

And when I close my eyes,

it's you I have in my arms...

...not anyone else...

And you don't know it.

Oh God. It's seven.

Yes. The 7 o'clock showing's started.

Hurry or you'll be late.

No, I'm not going in.

It's a kids film.

I'd get bored. I have other plans

anyway.

They're more tempting, I guess.

Hmmm. So there's someone waiting, huh?

There is actually. Yes.

Great. I'm glad about that.

No... There's no one out there. I was

lying.

I know, my love. There's no one.

There never will be.

You'll just borrow other people's

kids, lives and bodies.

To be returned later...

And you'll always be alone.

Well, if you'll excuse me then...

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