Daniel stood up to the bottom of his bones.
For a few.s. seconds he didn’t answer.
Then he put his hands over his face.
Please, leave things like that until morning.
– No. You brought a stranger into our home and now you’re asking me to pretend I don’t notice anything?
He is not an unknown.
His words made me crumble.
Then who is it?
Daniel lowered his eyes.
Someone I thought I would never see again.
I felt a cold shiver.
– Michael?
My husband slowly went out of the head.
I knew him when I was a kid.
– From where?
Daniel had just opened his mouth when the floor in the hallway squeaked.
We both kept quiet.
A few seconds later, the silence lay again.
“We’ll talk in the morning,” Daniel whispered.
I’ve never slept at all.
By six-and-a-half, I got up to drink water.
When I got close to the kitchen, I heard their voices.
I stopped.
Michael was talking first.
You shouldn’t have brought me here.
Where did you want me to take you? Answered Daniel. After twenty-five years you appear in front of me and you tell me that everything I was told was a lie.
I held my breath.
Your mother.s. had her reasons.
“Don’t defend her.
I’m not defending her.
A break followed.
Then Daniel said something that made me goosebumps:
All my life I thought you were dead.
I unwittingly took a step.
The floor squeaked.
The voices have stopped.
Daniel appeared in the kitchen door.
When he saw me, he understood immediately.
– You heard it.
Who was supposed to be dead?
Michael slowly gets up from the table.
Daniel looks at him, then at me.
– My father’s brother.
I blinked puzzled.
– Your uncle?
Michael was smiling sadly.
That’s how you were taught to believe.
Daniel was tightening his jaw.
– Tell Her.
Michael took out of his pocket an old wallet and, from him, a bent photo.
He’s stretching it out.
In the photo were two young men.
One was Daniel’s father.
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