the last book I ever read (Eternal Summer: A Novel by Franziska Gänsler, excerpt six)

from Eternal Summer: A Novel by Franziska Gänsler (Imogen Taylor, Translator):

Billy Idol was playing on the radio. “White Wedding.” Dori sang along. Then she turned to me and said, “Everything’s so easy with you!” She laughed as she spoke, her short tooth glinting in the light. “We’ll get married, and Ilya and I will stay on with you.”

“We’ll buy the lakeside B and B,” I said. “And you can act at the local theater.”

For a moment it seemed possible.