surprise visit (two month old story)
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2013.01.23
At the beginning of December, I had some fun taking The Girl to visit her mum. Mari was in the bathroom with the door open, so I crawled to the top of the short flight of stairs there and set The Girl so that she would be visible from within the bathroom while I couldn't be seen. It worked too well, in the end.
The Girl played it perfectly, gravely staring up at her mum, and giving her little leg a kick as if she were stepping out into view. She even put a hand up on the doorway as an adult might. Without smiling, she stared up at Mari.
And Mari made a worried sound. "Soooo creepy!" she told me.