VALENTINA TOMMASO
After what happened, I got out of there with Noah. And I didn't even look back, but it was the worst night of my life. I couldn't sleep, thinking about everything that happened. And damn kiss because it had to happen. The kiss took me off the ground, pulled me out of the bubble I built to live, to survive. And now this one of him being romantic taking away all my defenses.
The bubble exploded; it was like everything came back. I couldn't stand that pain. I couldn't stand it. I felt his mouth again.
All I could think about was that touch. How I was going to face him the other day. And when I approached the company, it was like I was going back to the past. It was like all that revisited all the love I felt for Enzo. I couldn't stand it. That damn dinner. It came right there in front of me. I heard him say, "I love you." I heard him say I was the woman of his life. That killed me. I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't bear to live without him. That anguish. And I cried and promised Noah that he was going to be the first to know. When everything went back to the way it was. And when the phone rang, and I heard his voice and had to tell the truth.
"I won't be able to take it all again, Noah. It was an explosion in my chest. The urge to say and scream everything I'm feeling. "I still have feelings for him, that's the truth. I still love him, and I wanted to hate him, not have that feeling for him.
"And why did you come back then? Why did you decide to throw it all away? He decided to take a chance, knowing he still had feelings for him.
"For my career, for my work. But I need to forget everything that happened between us. I need to forget him. But I can't. I'm going to forget about him. I swear I'll forget it.
Between promises, I said I'd forget about him. I told you I'd forget everything we've lived through. After a bath, a glass of wine looking out the window, watching the whole city lit up for parties. I knew it was going to be hard, but I was going to try. I went to my room and lay down my bed by myself, holding what else I kept from his memories. The pendant, the smiling one asleep in the midst of my thoughts and wills. Eyes closed, body burning. The rain hit the window and there he was. And there he was.
Running in half the rain of late summer and he in front laughing and screaming.
"And sugar, Valentina?"
He laughed at the house, and he shakes his hair as the dogs shake his hair in throwing water and I ran to hit him. And he pulls me by the arms and my body beats his laughing.
Our eyes crossed and I there feeling moist skin and him smiling biting my skin and whispering.
"You're beautiful, I love your smell."
"We can't do that, Enzo."
I pushed him and even saying no I wanted him, I got up running out of bed with sweaty skin and his head exploding wanting to feel the touch of it.
I open my box where I keep mine, the ones that accompany me where I go.
The pendant I put on the necklace is my baby's slipper.
They were the memories of my past. I take deep breath and in the midst of nostalgia I get lost.
"What am I going to do?
ENZO MORETTI
I spent the whole night thinking about how to get close to her, what I could do.
And I've had a thousand ideas, but none so cool.
But when I arrived at the company, that I looked and I saw Pablo, he looked at me, scared, because I stood there looking at him. And we stared at each other, it seemed like the first time.
"Is everything all right, Mr. Enzo?
"Um, of course, wonderfully well. You could come to my office and talk, what do you think?
"Of course, I'm just going to leave these papers to Valentina and I'm going to be in your office. He said scared.
"All right, I'll wait for you.
I had a plan, when I saw him there in that hallway, I knew I had something that could be done. And I was going to get some help, no matter what. When the door opened, I had it all planned out and he came in.
"Are you all right, Sir? Scared.
"But tell me, now I know you're going to work with Valentina?
Yes, I’m sorry. After all the time we worked together here, now I've been chosen to go work with her. But what can I help you, Mr. Enzo?
I look at him and I went straight to the point and I wasn't going to leave it for later, I was in a hurry to win her back and I smiled with one hand in my pocket.
"I'll pay you an extra salary if you let me know everything that happens. Where she goes, who she goes with, what her commitments are. I'll pay you a salary, which you tell me.
"But Mr. Enzo, I don't understand what you're up to?
"I want to know where she's going, and I promise she won't know of a harmless plan.
"Mr. Enzo, if she finds out, she can send me away.
"Don't forget That I own the company. So, you won't be sent away, on the contrary. You will be very well rewarded. He got scared and I saw that he came to look back and I pushed him even harder. "And what do you think?
"Oh, come to think of it, I even need the money to help my mother. He looks at me well. "Promise she won't send me away?
"Of course, I don't give my word.
"I accept and just have to tell you where she goes, where she eats lunch, who she goes with.
"You don't need to tell who you're going with. Let me at least know where she's going, where she's going. I thought it through, and I look at him laughing. "And if you can find out who the person who is with her is, I appreciate it.
" I accept. It's a secret between us and it's going to be a pleasure to help you, sir.
"And you will be very well rewarded.
He left and I was screaming, laughing, and now I was going to know where she's going and with whom.
Yes... Huauauauaua! I did it, and now she can't escape me.
I was so happy and radiant, I was already leaving the office to go home when he surrounded me in the garage and looking everywhere.
"What scare do you want to kill me?
"Sir, I found out where she's living.
"Really? I almost kissed him right there in front of me, and now I know where she lives. "Wow, but was it so easy that you've come up with this information, the most precious?
"Well, she's living on Forestry Street. Who knows where there is that huge square, that mother church?
I laughed shaking my head and he kept saying and I laughing at the happiness stamped on my face.
She lives in that blue apartment on the ground floor on 002.
"Lie, how did you figure that out?
"I heard her order frozen food and because she's going to have her days full because of the jewelry championship she's going to have.
"Lie? Oh, so I go there in person.
I ran as fast as I could and when I got home, I called a great friend of mine. He went to college with me, but he went to another area, and I had to run out of time.
"What's up, Frederico?
"How long! Enzo, what are you doing here? He's been scared a long time since we talked. "What happened to you calling me? You only come looking for me when you want a favor.
"Man, I need you. I need an apartment.
" An apartment? So, it's me, but it's not just any apartment.
"I'll send you the address and you'll get me something that's right across the street. I need to be in this place, but it has to be for yesterday.
"It will be a pleasure, Enzo, to work with you.
The other day I already got a new place to live and so fast and there I was, in my new apartment.
"Here will be great for you, Enzo, will face the number you said, that you wanted so much. Look what you're going to do, you know it can be harassment, huh?
"Relax, I just want to be facing someone who's in a lot of need, but she's proud, you know?
"So good luck to you, thank you again.
The apartment wasn't big, but it was cozy. The older furniture, but most importantly, my chair would face her apartment and I'd watch her from here.
She asked for a few days to stay home, she was going to work from home, she was going to attend the jewelry festival and I was going to stay here, looking at her from afar and watching every step that goes down and that's what I did. It was already eleven at night when I saw her sitting at the table working and getting up and getting snacks and soda I don't believe. I fixed my binoculars and saw that he came back and sat eating the crap.
She walked back and side with the soda in her hand. She screamed and sat down. But I realized that she barely fed, that she was so glazed over in that job that she stopped eating. You spent almost all night at that job. When I woke up in the morning, I saw she was on the couch.
She didn't even have coffee, just went to the bathroom, and came back and sat down again at the table and didn't seem to be able to get out of place.
And I already left, I had to take the food, since it didn't eat properly. And when I was close, I took the food, I had it in my hand, I went back to go to him. And when I was going to leave it outside her house. And I left, knocked on the door and hid so she could get the food. She got scared, but she got it.
And I bet she thinks the other one's in charge, but screw it.
The other day I did it the same way. At the café and at lunch, at dinner, with wine and everything. And when I went to the restaurant, I ordered the food. And as I approached the door of her house, there was a man, looking to the side, I saw two men, looking and talking on his cell phone. When I approached, I put the food there at the door, I came back, and they were disguising.
"What do you want here? I'd better go.
"It's no use to you and see if it comes out.
"You'd better get out of here and Call the police. Or we're going to get beat up here. I've been on top of him, and one has run when I heard the sound of the police siren that I didn't call and the other I insurance it. "If you chase her again, I'll have you arrested, I know who sent you.