“SO, DID you visit and talk to Kurt?” Barbie asked Enrico when they had finished their rehearsals that night.
Enrico was silent for a moment. He was looking at Barbie intently but not speaking at all.
“Hey! What’s wrong?” Barbie furrowed her brows. She could feel her heart beating erratically.
“I don’t know how to explain this. But it seems that Kurt is not coming back to school anymore,” he mumbled.
Barbie could feel her heart stopped beating for a few seconds. She stood unmoving in front of Enrico. All her coherent thoughts flew away. She could not think of anything except for the words she heard. Kurt is not coming back. Those words keep playing on her mind as if it is a mantra.
She had a hundred questions running in her head yet not a single word came out of her mouth. She just st
