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"Is there any other way?"

My o to the Underground"

I exhaled, blinking "We don’t have any choice"

Mymotion with her hand "No!"

"Yes We need to buy the snail"

My ht I stood up and did the sa it"

"I am your mother!"

Jiods

He spoke Indonesian

My mother’s eyes ide and for a second she looked like a furious cat "He speaks Indonesian!"

"I know!"

"Why didn’t you tellI need to know!"

I waved my arms "I didn’t know!"

"What do you mean, you didn’t know? You just said you knew"

"I meant I didn’t know that he did and then he did and I went ‘I know!’ because I was surprised"

"Ladies!" Ji up

We both looked at hi so fast, I can’t understand," he said "Why does Dali need to go to the Underground?"

"You explain it to him," my mother said "I will make tea" She went into the kitchen

I pointed at the chair "Sit"

He sat and lowered his voice "What happened to your mother’s accent?"

"We’re past that now," I whispered to him "Her little Asian lady act is just for show She has a master’s in chemistry froot round thing"

I sighed "How much did you understand? And since when do you speak Indonesian?"

"I’ve got the idea that so is seriously fucked up and it seee? Really? So what, you got up one day and said, ‘Hmm, I think I will learn Bahasa Indonesia today’?" He was up to soreen sheen rolled over Jiround?"

There was no easy way to say it "So on your soul"

"Explain"