Balkan boy

We had dinner on saturday.


"What is this in celebration of" Asked Peter on entering the house last.
"Notthing" I replied, " its in celebration of us having fun"
Dinner parties are not recognised as a from of entertainement by the young croats only by our parents generations.


Peter is M's coligue from work. A shiney bold head. Beady blue eyes. Well dressed. Also a new barrister of law. He sat at the furthest end of the table and imideatley broke my house law, and the ban on smoking in the living room, M usualy constricted to doing so in the kitchen, enthusiasticley joined in starting a chain reation around the table.

At the tables opposite ends sitting where Nina and Laura. We have all been firends since the age of 14 , yet in the last year a ferocious war was written in our horoscopes, as knowing somone a life time sometimes means taking one aonther for granted, resulting in an explosion, this was the first dinner at which we met all together after few years.

I was worried Laura would not come. She was one of my very closest firends, and my worst enemy it seemed last year and when the storm flattnened out, I realised I missed her. She arrived first. Remembering the chocholate I love. The moment she shook snow from her boots I opened the walnut brandy, and we drunk in shots.

Nina arrived with a taxy full of chairs. Our aparament has only two poper antique chairs. Three ikea bicicle seat stools and her adition of film director chairs set the sceene. We blanaced out the uncomfortable chairs with the proper cutlery and the comfortable stools with desert forks .

Next seated where Emma and John, a mixed English croatian married couple . Keeping stability in the room.

The sperate enteties did not know one another.


So did you arrive with the deecent rims on the wheels" I teased the car obsessed Peter.
"I just sold them before I came here"
What did you sell" peeped nina,
The wheel rims, had some really nice ones, but stuck for cash, made a few hundred on the sale"
are you selling this car" M continuing the boy talk.
"dont know, perhaps if i get a good deal on it"
Yoiu sell cars asked "nina
Yes sometimes when i see a good deal.
I saw a nice two seater adds M..

M and I made about a thousant gnocchi by hand. I started cooking them.. Girls as they do one by one colaboratviley and politley came to help.

Peter girlfirends kept calling him trough out dinner and was obliged to give updates hourley on who was there, wheere he was, what they where doing.

"she told me I can stay here, but am not alowed to go out. She calls me up to see where i have been . And of course it was saturday. And if i say i have been home of course she doesent belive me. She aske the name of the club. Than she names a few girls she hats and asks if i have run into them. If i deny it she does't belive me. So I say yes i saw them and said Hi, you know.. Than she doesnt belive me.. I usualy do the wrong thing.

Nina asks " so how long have you two been together"

2Three years. But she is studying in another town. We broke up a few times. A few weeks ago i met the family. The worst situation. You remember how there was boom in propertie prices. Well I was selling properties than. Made a sweet deal only the first time i tried, connecting firends ,one who was selling and one who wanted to buy and so .. any way I opened and registered a propper company ,and there was this piece of land where they where planing to build the Avenue mall. And here father owns one of the largest construction companies. So he came out one day and i was showing him the land. Of course he did not buy it, I raised the price some hundred thousand euros.. Than i met her a few weeks later.
Any way i hadent met the family for the few years until one day her parents go away and we are at their house, and of course they retun earley from holliday. Her father looks at me and says i look kind of familliar.. but can't remember.. Im sweating hoping he doeasnt remember.. When my girl all smiles says " daddy its the creep who tried to mug you for that piece of land a while ago".

So does her father like you?
No.

So what else do you do ? Pursues Emma fascinated by this new creature eyes sparkeling.
He sells everytihng says m, tell her aobut the viagra.

You sell viagra. Peeps facinated emma.
A few years back..I used to fill up the car with viagra anf go to Zrče, the croatian, ibetha, everyone laughs at the cornnyess of his role in that place.

But where did you get the viagra?
Well you know, people are usualy to embaressed to ask for it from the doctor, it stays on the reccord.. And have this firend who goes to Syria, there everythings cheep. Hed get me a few hundred boxes at the price of 60, and i would sell them for 250, still less than toher guys. I wasnt the only one. I had friends who worked at the bar or as bouncers in clubs in Zrče, told them and it went.. Mainley Slovenians where buying ti.

Where did you keep the stuff?nina agian.
Well made a false floor in the car, in the bumper, in the doors.
Amasing. Contined nina. What else do you sell.? I can glet clothes from canada for cheap would you sell clothes.
Lets do it, Il sell your clothes.. Peter teased.

Laura drunk from the brandy ,and tiped up with vine ,kept gigleling and repeating to me, He is a living film. He is amovie charachter. Look at him.

but you are a lawyer? contined nina. It was obovious she was intrigued. She was in need of a man and here was a busines , dealing, cat, always doing something and she liked it.

Yes im a lawyer, i work with M, but that doesnt pay enoguh. Im always out of money and have too invent things..

What law do you do?

Criminal law, i dela with the real stuff which pays.

You go to prison. Yep went this morning.

John muttered agianst him under the breath to Emma," who is this guy, what a frek" who kept posing question to Peter all them more hypntised.

Laura drunk kept repeating he is a film, look, Emma asking the questions and him are a fim they are perfect.

But i dont have so much time, i have a band..

So you are the reason why S and M id not come to our dinner party wensday, it was your fault?Accused john

The band released a single..

You have a Band. Peped Emma. Wow. What kind of band?
Well kind of rock, pop, punk a mix of everyting.

Other stories fhinished, peter got up, he must go to sleep he siad looking very dressed and ready to go out clubbing.. I have an hour before the girlfirend calls and ask where i am ..

M looks at Emma as Peter gets up.. "So emma ,what was that..."

Notthing" She blushes..

I the kitchens she admits" Doesnt he look like he would be good in"
Bed? I fhinish?
Yes,, Closes Nina... He is wild and is manley and capable and he always finds away. I like him.