Sonja thought he should talk to Rune about it because they were “in the same situation.”
Ove couldn’t quite understand what she meant by that.
Rune was not in fact going to be the father of Ove’s child, but of an altogether different one.
At least Rune agreed with Ove about the point of not having much to discuss, and that was something.
So when Anita came over in the evenings and sat in the kitchen with Sonja, talking about the aches and pains and all those things,
Ove and Rune made the excuse of having “things” to talk about
and went out to Ove’s shed and just stood there in silence, picking at various bits on Ove’s workbench.
Standing there next to each other behind a closed door for the third night running without knowing what they were supposed to do with themselves,
they agreed that they needed to get busy with something before, as Rune put it,
“the new neighbors start thinking there’s some sort of monkey business going on in here.”
Ove agreed that it might be best to do as he said. And so it was.
They didn’t talk much while they were doing it, but they helped each other with the drawings and measuring the angles
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