Sul Campo Del Mare - Vilenica

V2-2010.PM52676/13/100, 12:14 PMGoran Vojnovićsons and Ranka was daying of guilt. So she escaped back to Visoko andRadovan followed her and again took an extended leave and then they livedin Visoko for a while until Radovan got a phone call telling him that heshould return in three days or he could kiss his job gudbay. Radovan wentback and Ranka then followed him. They moved to Vič, to some gadforseikenplace, Ranka got her old job back and then she got pregnant all of a sudden.Radovan almost had a heart attack. He got shit-feysd and ended up at theemergency room and Ranka was told it doesn’t look all too good, theremight be some consequences and all so poor Ranka almost suffered anotherabortion. And when I was born Ranka was so afraid Radovan wasgoing to go crazy that Dragiša came from Bosnia just to look after Radovan.He did a good job for a while but then they got so brandied they ended upin the jund. Ranka took me from the hospital alone, took a bus and wenthome. Radovan called her from the jund and they argued over the phoneabout my name cause Radovan wanted me to be Jovan and Ranka was forPredrag. Cause they couldn’t come to an agreement and cause the copsdidn’t allow Radovan another phone call, Dragiša called and agreed withRanka I was going to be Marko and tricked Radovan into thinking therewas once a Marko Šarko from Doboj, who was some dope king and foughtthe Turks and like killed twelve thousand of’em, so Radovan was happy inthe end. And when he came home he took me in his arms and said: »Youtwo gave him a name and me finna make him a svjetskog soccer player.«Those words probably made Ranka decide back then she was going tolet Radovan push his son to the max and stay out of it. Until today. Untiltoday, when she called in sick and made me a heavenly breakfast and Iknew something was fumtu. It didn’t hunch good. Ranka would neverstay at home even when real sick. The transition scared the shit out of herso she always thought that if she had a smoke or used up all her leavebefore the end of the year or took more than a day of sick leave she wouldget fired. Ranka didn’t stay at home to make me breakfast as I wake up,that’s a hundred percent.»Did you go to practice juče?Yep yep. There’s the rub n’dub.»Nisam.«»Nego?«What nego? I didn’t go to practice, what more you want. I know she’sasking me cause of Radovan, who’s been mute for a hundred years, andshe can’t stand it anymore either. Ranka’s taking the matter into her ownhands. Mašala, Rankice. It’s all we needed.»Šta je s tobom?«»Ništa.«What should be? I’m fucked. Cause of the silence outside my head andthe brolling inside my head. But there’s noone to explain it to. I’ve put thesentences together already and keep repeating them over and over againto myself but no way I say them out loud. Especially not to you Ranka.Wouldn’t work. The first word out would hrush me. I’d lose out and startwaining. But Ranka keeps looking at me and waiting. She’s a patient one.She’s been tolerating Radovan all her life.267