A Small September Affair (Bi Küçük Eylül Meselesi)

Fuck!

Eylül! (September)

Finally! I was so worried!

You're not answering your calls. l tried to reach you all night.

Hello? Who am l taIking to? Eylül, are you back in our worId?

l am!

CouIdn't taIk yesterday. Didn't want to bother you with business.

I managed up until yesterday. But you haνe to tell them something.

Do l, miss? What do you think l should say?

It's all ready. They've been waiting for an answer for a month.

VoIkan had the network approve it. By the way he is quite taken by you.

You haνe to say something. What will you say, Eylül?

Gee! That's what you came up with in a month. Look, we will have so much fun!

From one end of the world to another. It is a dream job, girl!

-A Small September Affair. -Come again?

Name of the show.

-So, you accept? -Already did. Called as soon as I came.

You serious, girl?

Neνer.

Let's have the first show at Peru. Get to know handsome Aztec boys.

Then we go to Roma for...

Too much talk!

l'll come to the channel with Atıl Κurt. Meet you there?

Okay, fine!

Anyway daddy is calling. Κiss you!

Daddy?

You came, honey?

I did.

Your mom wants to see you. Maybe a dinner at the club...

Only mom wants to see me, you don't?

Of course not! I want to see you more.

Alright then. Order the pastrami pies. Kiss you!

Today, l feeI like playing the Iead in my own movie.

Credits are running and I am starting my new life.

Don't bother putting me In your heart

Don't wrap your arms around me, I can't stay there

Have fun and Iaugh Don't talk so bitter

What is life anyway But a brief meeting

This how I am

This is how I have aIways been

I don't look back, l refuse tears l am stronger for my failures

Ma'am! We missed you. lt's on me today.

Don't caII me on your path My path is different

Different are my destinations Different are my chaIIenges

This how I am

This is how I have aIways been

l can burn in darkness I can stand in emptiness

l don't fall I have wings in my soul

l can go as I come I can give up love

l have no chains on my neck

Don't bother putting me In your heart

Don't wrap your arms around me I can't stay there

Have fun and Iaugh Don't talk so bitter

A SMALL SEPTEMΒER AFFAlR

Mom, look who's here!

Excuse me, excuse me! May l have a photograph?

Sure.

Sorry man, can we have a photograph, too?

Sure, go ahead.

-You want something? -Yes, you.

Have I done something wrong? -Yes, νery much so.

What is it? What did I do wrong now, Eylül?

You fell in love with me.

And you did not with me?

l am much too joyful to fall in love.

Even if l lose each and every time l wouldn't feel sorry at all

I wasn't so fragiIe once

l was beaten By the enemies I created

-Are you alright? -I am.

lt is a perfect day.

That's more like it. Welcome back, Eylül.

Today l have everything. Today everybody Ioves me.

Today is the first day of my beautifuI, perfect, fabulous life.

Yes, dad?

Where are we?

When they brought me to the hospitaI, my heart stopped beating.

Then...

I was unconscious for a week. They put me in a private clinic.

-Did she wake up? -No.

Then one day, as my mother came out of the bathroom...

Look at this paper they put here...

Mom, I am so hungry. Will you order something?

Engin! Engin, she's awake! Engin, she'll fall! Engin, hurry!

FoIIowing two days, fuIIy awake, l did interesting stuff.

You rascal!

Honey, you had an accident, but don't worry, it is over now. OK?

You are alright.

So they say. And I beIieve.

-Hey, don't look. -Miss Eylül!

-Are those mine? -Huh-huh.

Is that your professional opinion?

Everything is fine.

I am fine, right? l'm not crazy.

l don't think so. May I ask you a few questions?

Sure, go ahead.

-How old are you? -24.

-I see. -You see what? My age? 27.

-Marital status? -Single. But I haνe plenty of options.

-Your occupation? -I work at a production company.

But now she will haνe her own show. Called, "A Small September Affair".

Wait, I didn't say yes yet. Crazy girl, you already found a name!

Do you remember the accident?

Do you remember what you were wearing?

A coral colored top.

And jean shorts. No, white. White shorts.

Do you remember where you are?

Someplace like a coastal town.

You know, like in the villages... A coffeehouse shadowed by trees.

You are there too. We are together. -Where is that place?

You know the place we went. Atıl's commercial.

You know... Bozcaada! We have just arrived.

We...

We sat down at a coffeehouse to have a smoke.

Is that where we had the accident?

Say something, Berrak?

Τhat was a month before the accident. You remember one month ago.

What?

No way, we just, you know...

l don't remember after that.

l don't remember after that! I don't remember my last month!

-Alright, calm down. -Calm down how?!

How many times did you die? How do you know?

Τhen what? When did we come back? -We only went for the weekend.

-l had a commercial shooting. -Easy, we just went...

...for the weekend. And stayed that long. Τhen came back.

Τhe rest is same old story. Everything was normal. Really.

So there is nothing You're not telling me?

lf there were, how can we keep it from you? You'd find out.

Yes, l would. And beat the crap out of you. Starting with you.

Okay.

Don't worry, your memory will come back real soon.

-It will, right? -It will.

It will. So... So I'm okay.

Everything is fine.

Get well soon.

I stayed in the hospital for another week.

Picked up two doctors, scorned a nurse, stoIe a purse.

Then I signed some papers and took over my life where l left.

Everyone toId me l am fine so much, eventually l believed them.

Eylül, since you are up, why don't you grab me a beer.

l'll get it.

What's up with you? Guys, Eylül is bringing me a beer.

Βraνo! Grab me a beer, boy!

Since you are there, fetch some wine, too.

-What else? Shall I open it? -Open, open.

Eylül?

Eylül!

-Let me go! -Eylül, easy!

Let me go, l have to figure it out!

Easy! Okay!

l have to go!

-Eylül, okay! Eylül, it's alright! -Eylül! Easy!

-Easy! Eylül, calm down! -Get back. It's alright, get back!

-Eylül! Eylül! -Easy!

Alright. -lt's okay... We are here.

Look at me, look at me! lt's okay, honey.

-Poor girl... -She just couldn't recover.

-Berrak, what's happening to me? -lt's alright, honey. lt's oνer.

-What's happening? -You got a little confused.

-I haνe to go somewhere. -Where, honey?

l don't know. I don't know...

-Here's your coffee. -Come...

Eylül, it will be alright. Τhis is all so normal, you almost died.

We are all here for you. l am here. Everything is alright now.

-lt is, right? -lt is.

Everything is alright, Eylül. Everyone is fine.

But if everyone is fine, why do you feeI so incomplete?

Incomplete... It lacks sugar.

No, really, it lacks sugar.

Welcome back, Eylül! Move!

-And a biscuit. -As you order, my lady.

Βerrak...

Τhe other day, l noticed something weird.

What?

I haνe no texts on my phone from the last month.

So?

A whole month... No one texted me?

Βecause you lost your phone.

Your battery died and they got deleted, or someone deleted them.

You know it was lost.

Τhat is my phone. -August 4, "Eylül, are you OΚ?"

Eylül, will you giνe me that?

August 7, "Eylül, come back, this has gone too far."

Eylül, don't read, please!

August 30, "Don't be afraid, we are coming. Get out of that house ASAP."

-Eylül! Stop... -What house?

A day before the accident. What house?

What house? -It's all over, we are all fine!

No, we are not! We are not fine! What happened to me?

What house, tell me! Where was l? Tell me the truth, Βerrak. Τhe truth.

You were at Bozcaada.

-Why? -How would l know! You wanted to stay.

-With whom? -No one.

You got drunk at a bar, called me to come and get you.

So I texted that we are coming. Τhen we came and got you, that's all.

-So l didn't meet anyone there? -No! No one!

I stayed here for a month? Doesn't look like much from up above.

-Airport is gone! lt's sea all oνer! -Τhis is a seaplane.

Fuck you Eylül. Fuck my friendship.

Fuck my life!