I meet Clara watching the television when I return. By the time I'm back from the kitchen, she's on the phone with God knows who. She has her back to me and she's standing in front of the window. I don't plan to eavesdrop but when I hear Leonard's name, I stand still and listen to what she's saying.
“I can't,” she says.
I need this to work” she adds again.
“He'll understand, I love him” she says after some seconds.
It wasn't my intention to be noticed but as I decide to drop my plate of pancakes on the dining table, I mistakenly kick the leg of one of the dinning chairs sitting in front of me. This makes her turn around with eyes flashed open. She quickly end call.
“You startled me” she says, her voice a bit shaky as she wipes her hands on her sides.
“Why are you acting scared?”
