INGER KIER
THEY MET AGAIN
INGER KIER
THEY MET AGAIN
Previous books: Love across the Atlantic in 2016 Match made in Heaven 2016 Caught in a Childhood 2017 Caught in a Childhood 2017 The dream came true, but... 2020 The Dream came true but.. 2020
© 2022 Inger Kier
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand, Stockholm, Sweden print: BoD – Books on Demand, Norderstedt, Germany ISBN: 978-91-8007-788-0
Ida sits on the porch of the red, old 18thcentury house, she has rented for a week. It's hot in the sun and she's pulled herself into the shade on the porch, where she sits on an old chair. She follows the gaze of a large wasp, trying to get into the old wood to build nests. "I wonder if it's the Queen," she thinks. Yesterday was a day of destiny. She had been notified on the phone by her son that his father had passed away, Ida's former husband. He had been found dead in his apartment in Söder. A shocking news, even if Rolf had left her for a younger woman and she
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was then inconsolable for a year, when she processed the sadness that he had left her she believed. But the grief is there again. She cries over the loss of a wonderful father to her son. Why is life so hard? She listens to her son on the phone, that he's shocked, eventually weeping. They cry together on the phone. She now wants to be there for her son in the grief of his father. She asks him to come to the house, she rents and be there for a few days.
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"Yes, just two days, then I want to say goodbye to dad in the hospital." "I understand," she says quietly. Ida's son will be here the following day. They hug each other tightly and cry a little. "How can a person's life end like this," his son wonders. The question hangs in the air, there is no answer - just an unbearable sadness. Ida makes a good dinner for her and her son. They grill a piece of meat and vegetables on
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the grill on the patio, which runs around the house on two sides. The air is lukewarm, it feels more like a Mediterranean evening. They sit out for a long time talking about his father. Every now and then, they cry a little over memories of his father. In the morning, they go down to the water, to take a refreshing swim. After the swim, they drink a cup of coffee on the porch. Ida waves goodbye to her son, throws kisses at the car.
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She goes into the house and picks up sheets and duvets. She sits on the porch and looks out over the neighborhood. Suddenly, a well-known sound of birds, cranes, forming a plow in the blue sky and flying towards the pond in the forest, is heard, to take a break in flying, drink water and "socialize". She was dozing off in the chair, she had been sleeping badly, thinking a lot about what had happened to Rolf. He'd been found dead in
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his apartment. She's thinking about how fast life is over. Poff, you're gone. She feels melancholy. There is no answer to this. Suddenly, she's woken up by a ringtone on her phone. Unknown number. No, she's not answering. She never answers 070 numbers. It's just salesmen calling. "Pling" from the cell phone. Someone's been talking in a message. She listens to:
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After some years of sorrow over her husbands death she met her highschool love again. They were together in 5 years. Now the love and feelings are back again.
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