Portuguese–English parallel text
O Segredo de Jess
Jess’s Secret
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Ninguém respondeu. Priya olhou para Ana. Ana olhou para o quadrado de papel na mesa. Rápido, ela colocou ele de volta no bolso.
Nobody answered. Priya looked at Ana. Ana looked at the paper square on the table. Fast, she put it back in her pocket.
“Jess, minha querida,” Priya disse. “Nós só estávamos conversando sobre os velhos tempos. Sobre a padaria.”
“Jess, my dear,” Priya said. “We were only talking about the old days. About the bakery.”
“Sobre ele,” Jess disse. “Eu ouvi vocês. Você falou o nome dele.” Ela olhou para Ana. “O vovô pediu para você descobrir sobre ele? É isso?”
“About him,” Jess said. “I heard you. You said his name.” She looked at Ana. “Did Grandad ask you to find out about him? Is that it?”
“Não! Walter não sabe de nada,” Ana disse. “Eu perguntei para a Priya. Eu queria entender. Sobre o incêndio.”
“No! Walter doesn’t know anything,” Ana said. “I asked Priya. I wanted to understand. About the fire.”
“Então pergunta para mim,” Jess disse. A voz dela era dura. “Eu posso contar para você. É uma história bem curta. Meu pai queimou a padaria, e no dia seguinte ele fugiu. Ele deixou o pai dele. Ele me deixou. Eu tinha dois anos. Fim.”
“Then ask me,” Jess said. Her voice was hard. “I can tell you. It’s a very short story. My father burned down the bakery, and the next day he ran away. He left his father. He left me. I was two. The end.”
“Jess…” Priya começou.
“Jess…” Priya started.
“Eu entrei para buscar uma caneta, Priya. Só uma caneta. Para a minha prova de amanhã.” Jess pegou uma caneta azul da caixa no balcão e colocou uma libra do lado. Depois ela saiu. O sino em cima da porta tocou atrás dela.
“I came in for a pen, Priya. Just a pen. For my exam tomorrow.” Jess took a blue pen from the box on the counter and put a pound next to it. Then she walked out. The bell over the door rang behind her.
“Vai atrás dela,” Priya disse baixinho. “E Ana, não fala nada sobre o homem. Nada. Não para a Jess.”
“Go after her,” Priya said quietly. “And Ana, say nothing about the man. Nothing. Not to Jess.”
Ana correu para fora. Jess não ia para casa. Ela estava andando rápido pela Bridge Street, para o rio. Ana alcançou ela na velha ponte de pedra.
Ana ran out. Jess wasn’t going home. She was walking fast down Bridge Street, to the river. Ana caught her on the old stone bridge.
“Jess, espera. Desculpa. De verdade. Não era da minha conta.”
“Jess, wait. I’m sorry. Really. It was not my business.”
Jess parou. Ela olhou para a água por muito tempo. Quando ela falou de novo, a voz dela era diferente. Cansada, não brava.
Jess stopped. She looked down at the water for a long time. When she spoke again, her voice was different. Tired, not angry.
“Todo mundo nesta cidade sabe a história,” ela disse. “Na escola, quando eu era pequena, um menino disse para mim: seu pai queimou a padaria. Eu não sabia o que falar. Eu fui para casa e perguntei para o vovô. Ele não respondeu. Ele foi para a padaria e fez pão a noite toda.”
“Everybody in this town knows the story,” she said. “At school, when I was little, a boy said to me: your dad burned down the bakery. I didn’t know what to say. I went home and asked Grandad. He didn’t answer. He went into the bakery and made bread all night.”
“Sinto muito, Jess.”
“I’m sorry, Jess.”
“Tudo bem. Eu não preciso de um pai. Eu tenho o vovô.” Ela tirou a mochila das costas. “Você pode guardar um segredo, Ana? De verdade?”
“It’s fine. I don’t need a father. I have Grandad.” She took her school bag off her back. “Can you keep a secret, Ana? A real one?”
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