Amra washed the car before the buyer arrived, cleaned crumbs from beneath the seats, and found an earring she had been searching for since the previous summer. They were selling it to afford a longer trip after their wedding. Nermin's company car was enough for everyday needs. While adjusting the seatbacks, she imagined the sea and their first week without either having to rise for work.
The buyer arrived with his sister. He was younger than she expected, a quiet man who examined every detail carefully. He said this was his first car bought with his own money. Nermin showed the interior, described regular maintenance, and explained their decision to sell. When the young man asked whether the vehicle had ever been hit, Nermin answered no without hesitation.
Amra remained beside the open trunk. Two years earlier she herself had stood in the rain beside that car after Nermin drove into a fence. Nobody was injured, but the front had been repaired and repainted. She did not know what that meant for its current value. She only knew the question had not been ambiguous, nor had the answer she heard.
Nermin looked at her across the roof. His look contained no plea, only the expectation that she understood their shared interest. The buyer's sister was already taking deposit money from her bag. Amra lowered the trunk lid and said the car had been in an accident. Nermin immediately added that it had been insignificant. Amra did not debate the extent of the damage. She described what she had witnessed and left the buyers to decide.
They departed without an agreement. Nermin reproached her for failing to wait until they could discuss it privately. Amra said that in private the buyer they owed an answer would no longer be present. He insisted everyone embellished advertisements and that she had cost them their trip. She kept seeing the young man carefully pressing the window button, as though examining a large part of his future.
They later sold the car to someone else, openly discussing the repair and receiving less money than planned. They did not take the trip. The wedding took place, less joyfully than Amra had imagined before that afternoon. She did not consider one ugly action the entire truth about Nermin. Nevertheless, when they began planning a shared business the following spring, she asked first to discuss what each understood by the word ours.