Edi ruffled my hair and pulled me away from the console. “Make sure you pass entrance exams and move here,” he said, a mock-growl in his voice. “If you do, I’m definitely buying us a PlayStation.”
I looked at him, eyes wide and jaw slack. “Really, you would?”
He shrugged and smiled. “We’d both have a blast, so why not? I assume I can’t come up with any better graduation present for you.”
“Oh, man! No, that’s perfect. I’ll be a Polytechnics student in no time, you’ll see.”
I rode the high of the day, the excitement of the future, all through the long queue to get our snacks and a gazillion commercials before the movie. No matter how amazing the buzz was, it wasn’t close to enough to distract me from everything Edi was doing. Soon after we’d taken our seats, he’d gone quiet.
Now he look
