The Ninth circle

25th October

Do you know how hard it is to find banana cake in Budapest? They don’t sell it in supermarkets or anything like that. They just have it in cake shops, but even then you can only buy it in slices and I wanted a whole cake. A huge, frosted, light and delicious, to-die-for banana cake. Hopefully with dried banana chips or something like that on the top.

I phoned all the cake shops in the city until I at last found one that could make me what I was looking for. A luxury (very expensive) banana cake with all the trimmings, delivered in a stiff white cake box to the address of your choice. I asked for the cake to be delivered today because I knew Casey would be home. I think she must have been listening out for me this evening, for I’d only been home a few minutes before she was knocking on my door. I have to say I was completely taken aback by her reaction as it was only a cake, but she was almost crying when she thanked me. In fact, she actually hugged me before she left, and asked me over to share some of it with her, so I’m going over there in a minute… I, er… ha… I almost feel happy right now. At last I know what it feels like.