Day 8
The first day, I expected nothing. Obedient, I stayed by Jin's side as he dictated: he is my husband and I abide by his word. But now...
Oh, Jin, why do you have such a temper? You didn't always. I am sure Michael didn't mean anything by taking the watch. He couldn't have known, and now secrets will be so much harder to maintain. Instead of art history, I should have studied acting. Then I would be better at this.
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On the second day, I thought someone still might come to find us or that we would at least have seen an airplane fly by. The silence overhead in this place is as disturbing as the unexplained noises at night. For Jin's sake I have been pretending not to know what people say, to be baffled by what they do. The cultural divide is too great; there are things I cannot know... but I do, and pretending is getting harder. Jin and I weren't supposed to be together. I was supposed to leave.
Jin can never know this.
I do not know anybody else here. With my husband chained to the wreckage, there is no one else to turn to. I believe that Michael will keep my secret but only because I believe that Michael has secrets of his own. I believe that everybody here has secrets of their own. Perhaps Jin and I are not so very different from the others after all? It's only a question of language. In this, I have more power than my husband. He was never meant to find out.
And still, I must do what I can for him. I will not let him become the outcast over a watch.
Oh, Jin, why do you have such a temper? You didn't always. I am sure Michael didn't mean anything by taking the watch. He couldn't have known, and now secrets will be so much harder to maintain. Instead of art history, I should have studied acting. Then I would be better at this.
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On the second day, I thought someone still might come to find us or that we would at least have seen an airplane fly by. The silence overhead in this place is as disturbing as the unexplained noises at night. For Jin's sake I have been pretending not to know what people say, to be baffled by what they do. The cultural divide is too great; there are things I cannot know... but I do, and pretending is getting harder. Jin and I weren't supposed to be together. I was supposed to leave.
Jin can never know this.
I do not know anybody else here. With my husband chained to the wreckage, there is no one else to turn to. I believe that Michael will keep my secret but only because I believe that Michael has secrets of his own. I believe that everybody here has secrets of their own. Perhaps Jin and I are not so very different from the others after all? It's only a question of language. In this, I have more power than my husband. He was never meant to find out.
And still, I must do what I can for him. I will not let him become the outcast over a watch.