The days passed, like everyone else, but it was quieter after what happened between me and the water. She just left me alone, but she didn't leave him, I lived surrounding him, walking behind and he all smiled. I put it aside and went my way and my job, that's what mattered. My mom was doing her treatment and soon I'm leaving this wedding, I was sure, soon it would all be over.
I woke up in the morning, I saw that he had already left, and I changed and spent first in the hospital to visit my mother. There were days when I wasn't going to visit her. After Enzo's family left, I had so much to work out, including having some picture frames put in the house and moving some of my clothes to his room, so we wouldn't be surprised anymore. That was the deal. And when I got to the hospital, my mom wasn't doing too well. She was having a fever and a little fall. Even though I got in her arms and stayed for a while.
Until she woke up. And she smiled at me and said,
― You are here and just today. I looked at her, and I smiled.
― She is very lucid knowing what day it is today.
― Today is dinner day with her boyfriend, where's her boyfriend.
"I don't even know if he's my boyfriend, Mom. If we're more tangled up than anything, I don't know what to say about him.
"Is it in your face how you feel about him?
―Mother, feelings are very confusing. I don't know what else to say or what to say. Me, Enzo, we have a kind of troubled relationship, it's kind of weird. I'm going to tell you the truth. We have a deal, we have a convenience contract, that's the truth. I did it because he needed help and I also needed to pay for his treatment. That's the truth. That's our relationship, but over time, everything that happened between us in the comings and goings, our moments together, travel, fights.
I ended up feeling something for him. That's the truth.
―— but I already knew that you felt it from the first time you were here together. I saw his eyes, Valentina, his eyes sparkled when he spoke and when he gave a sweet smile to you. Get to him, just say once you have feelings for him and you want the contract to be real not to hide it. You deserve my daughter to be happy. If you want this man, fight for him.
"I am afraid, mother, that he will say no, he wants to.
"Of course, he will. I saw the way he looked at you here, the same thing you feel about him. You can be sure he feels for you. I saw it in his eyes. He's involved too, and he's seeing something that got it wrong, it has to be fixed to make it work. Think about it, Valentina, for you to be happy.
― Yes, yes, I’ll talk to him. I'm going to try, I promise, you, and when you get out, we're going to have dinner at our house. So, you'll meet and see how wonderful he is.
―He is perfect, he is wonderful. Valentina, he does so good to you. If you knew, joy from his eyes when you’re around him.
―Mother, please, do not confuse me more than I am already confused, but I come back tomorrow, I promise.
I said goodbye to my mom and went to work, a little discouraged. Today was a sad day for me. I haven't always had the best, Valentine's Day. For me, it's a day like any other, other than remembering the past of the things we've lived.
My mother always said that after the storm comes the bonanza, doesn't it? That comes the good stuff, but I've never seen these good things after this storm in my life. First, I was betrayed and second, I got involved in a marriage that I don't know how to get out of it, and now I'm stuck in this marriage. And third, I'm in a job that I love, but I'm unfortunately persecuted by everyone, and now his family hates me. And besides, she still has the so-called little girlfriend. The woman in his life, if she's the woman of his life, is it because he doesn't marry her anymore? And get it over with. And we start all over again, everyone in your life, because that's my question.
I look at him in the room and he all smiled, happiness overflowing. It was about time, it was only a year, just like he said one year. There was still a long way to go before one year. I don't know if I could bear to be on his side like that. I couldn't take it anymore, I was in an emotional deficiency. I, looking at it so perfect, it was hard to bear. But we keep our way, we set our rules, and that was better for me and him. And we go on like this.
There was a dauning uproar, everyone was running on one side, not running on the other, everybody complaining, talking, buying gifts. And I sat in my huge chair, looking out the window. The rain was beating and I remembered my past of him, where he was, what happened to him. My ex, the one who shouldn't even be thinking about him. But unfortunately I still feel very strange sensations. I've never heard from him again, but I'd love to know if he's still on the line with the woman he cheated on me with.
I bet you do. That shameless bastard shook my head out laughing and Carol came in.
― Boy, you're still here. What happened?
― Do you want to scare me to death?
―Today is Valentine's Day, crazy, everyone's leaving and you're here killing each other.
―I'd love to go but look at my desk.
― What is this?
― And by the way, it's going to be left for me and I have to finish it here because it went wrong in the project. I still look to see if Enzo had left and see the big room all empty. "Everybody's already leaving, I'm going to do what, Carol, I'm going to have to stay.
― I put the p is in that crap. He know she wants to pick on you.
― Relax, friend, enjoy your evening and kiss a lot.
―You are also a good cat.
Everyone was already going out and I was standing there, trying to organize it, organize that project, those colors and nothing worked. I put my hand on my hair and my boss still came to the door.
― Do you see what happens to have something to do with the boss and be the other? Because now you're his lover and you can be sure that he's there with his little girlfriend and you're out there doing a job for him. I couldn't believe what he was saying and I wanted to throw in Enzo’s face. But I thought it was just a contract. ― He went to relate to the boss to be promoted. Now hold on.
I didn't even react to send him off if I hate to feel all that, but I approached him. ― Make good enjoy, have a lot of fun in your project. Valentina.
He was leaving and I get angry, and I scream:
―Cursed bastard. I scream and he comes back. ― You're going to get screwed.
And I stayed there in anger, and I started crying because people were too ambitious. Everything had to be like this, because with me it was all like this, people were mean, they mistreated me like that why. Because I'm a muggle, I'm an idiot, I have to get screwed, today is a day I get depressed.
It's A Valentine's Day, I always got screwed on Valentine's Day, when I had my first boyfriend, he just left me. And she went to play football with her friends after my third boyfriend, the second and third was no different. They'd go out to the club, and I'd stay, and my last boyfriend would cheat on me. Always. At the time of n's day, he traveled. Naughty, shameless. And now I'm here at a contract wedding and I still have to do everybody's job because it's all wrong. I get fucked, it's always like that truth.
I screamed and kicked the chair with anger, and I can't help myself the emotion and the tear went down on my face.
And to top it off I still scream:
― I am not his lover.
And I hear the hoarse, thick voice of the person I least wanted to see right now.
― What is going on here?
I put my hand on my face wiping away the tears and I don't look at it. ― I asked Valentina a question.
― Nothing leaves me alone. I'm tired of everyone pointing me out as your mistress outside my office.
I thought he was gone, but his smell exhaling in my living room, and he approaches and continues.
― Look at me now. He screams. ― Who said that?
― In this whole story, with this contract, I won only the contempt of my colleagues, they hate me for it, because everyone in the company thinks I'm his mistress. They tell the four corner that I'm your mistress and that I only got promotion because I got involved with you.
"Who said that? He holds me in my arm and squeezes me and I try to find an answer, I didn't mean she’s, my boss. ― And why are you here until this hour? And they're all gone. I want you to give me names now,
I knew he had to know everything I was tired of taking names.
― My boss said I got this gift for sleeping with you and winning the promotion. I kept talking and i breathe relieved after counting. ― We have nothing but an agreement.
And when I turn around, he was no longer there, and he left and I was looking silly looking in the empty room.