The following week, a driver delivered me an invitation:
Please come to a party to say good-bye to Pablo
Saturday, 22 June, 7 pm
Light buffet will be served.
Please bring your drink of choice.
Katherine's Place
Tel. 444 444
I was shaken. Now Pablo was really leaving for good. He was my closest friend in Sarajevo. And it was through Pablo that I had gotten to know Katherine - "I shall always remember him for it!"
She looked gracious and elegant at Pablo's farewell party. She wore a dark blue dress (her favourite colour) with a bare back! She fetched me to dance with her. She talked with me, was kind to me. I felt very, very happy. What marred this happiness, however, was Pablo's imminent farewell, and the dancing couple of "Katherine and Ralf".
All the guests that evening witnessed a rare natural spectacle: a double rainbow embraced Sarajevo. "What does that mean again," I asked myself. "Happiness and sadness?"
Katherine radiated friendliness and warmth when we parted. The rainbows carried me to the moon that evening. To the sky, where I spent the night!