Literature
The Jester's Guide to Redemption: Chapter 39
Dear Janek,
It was a surprise to hear from you. I suppose it is a good thing that you have finally figured out the true nature of the sort of people who bullied me relentlessly at Skarpfjord. It’s great that you have figured out that this behaviour is wrong. But your apology is coming fifteen years late, and I think it is only a way for you to soothe your own guilty conscience. No one ever stuck up for me at Skarpfjord, and I had to drop out. Yes, I did make it to the city – as the manager of a supermarket. I’m afraid I must decline your request for a meeting.
Pavel G.
Kjell sat dejectedly at the kitchen table, Pavel’s response in front of him. The resentment that Pavel obviously felt towards him cut like a blade. In his mind, the scenes of him abandoning his first real friend fifteen years ago played again and again.
“Why can’t people see that I have changed?” he cried when Trine asked him what was wrong. “I know that I have made terrible decisions that hurt people. But when