Edser OS and Short Stories

One Day (AU) Chapter 1

"How was your day at the university, sweetheart?" Burcu Yildiz greeted Eda, who just entered the kitchen, tossed her purse on the floor, climbed on the high stool by the kitchen island, and put her phone on the counter.

"Day like every day." She shrugged. "What is for dinner? I'm starving."

"Your favorite pasta." Eda's mother smiled, placing the dish under her daughter's nose. "Didn't you have any troubles or unpleasant situations?"

"No, why?" Eda cocked her brows, looking at her mom and taking the fork from the drawer.

"Emir visited earlier today and said..."

"Emir should stop imagining things." Eda cut her mother sharply. "Seriously, he is getting more and more paranoid with every day. Can't we be a normal family?"

Burcu put her gaze down and said quietly. "We are not a normal family, you know that."

"But we could be. Just cut this all crap, stop the dirty business, and start over."

"It's not that easy." Eda's mother opposed it. "It's decades of tradition, generations of living the same lifestyle. It's about our family honor and hearitage."

"It's not about anybody's honor but his stupid cold war with Bolats. And every man in our family just can't stop or, God forbid, Bolats would win." Eda snorted, digging into her meal.

"So Bolats' boy wasn't bothering you today?" Burcu returned to the previous topic, watching her daughter intently.

"No more than I was him."

Eda's phone buzzed with a notification. She glanced at the screen and turned it face down.

"Won't you answer?"

"Later." Eda shrugged, taking the phone and deleting the message under the counter. "It's my friend from university. She forgot what we should read for tomorrow, as always."

Burcu nodded, taking the empty plate from her daughter and putting it into the sink. "You're not going out tonight?"

"No." Eda frowned. "During the week? I have so many assignments I won't go anywhere for a month."

"I'm just asking because your father is taking Emir today." She said, trying to sound casual.

"Why he's taking him?"

"He is preparing him to slowly take some of his responsibilities. Demir can't run the organization on his own after his brother's death. He's planning to make Emir his heir. It always was supposed to be like that."

"Because I'm a girl?" Eda snorted, getting agaitted. "Or maybe because if I would take over, I would shut down this place and even burn it down to the ground just to be sure?"

"You won't take over because your grandmother enforced this on your father before you were born, no matter if you would be a boy or girl." Burcu answered, looking at her sternly.

"At least one normal person in this family." Eda smiled bitterly, took her phone and purse, and went toward her room, which was located in the further wing of the mansion, far from anybody else's bedrooms.

She locked the door with a key, switched on the lamp, which was standing next to the window, and turned on the music. She sat on the carpet, took out the book of Metamorphoses from her purse, and flipped through the pages until she found a folded small piece of paper. She opened it and saw a quote written in elegant handwriting.

It has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any other place.

Eda smirked to herself, reading the sentence. She knew it was the quote for Herodotus about Egypt. She folded the paper back, and hid it in the inside pocket of her purse, where she kept other piceses of paper, written in with other senctences.