ENZO MORETTI
There, desperate, watching the fire rise, the fire was spreading, I looked at Valentina, shook my desperate hand, looked at her side and she cried.
"Valentina, see if there's anything, I looked one way, I looked the other and nothing. When I looked, there was a little hatchet. "I don't believe, it's God, our salvation.
"But how do you go there, Enzo, it's a little far away.
"Calm down, let's fix it, I've only got one hand stuck, the other one's not, stay calm, it's going to be all right. She left and left us here, but calm down, it's going to be all right.
I closed my eyes, concentrated and took a deep breath, while the fire, the smoke rose, I turned my wrist and made it move, I held it with the other hand, the bench I squeezed, I squeezed her so she wouldn't see what I was doing and she desperately cried and that cry was beating inside my soul, I held it again and I pulled it out of place, I felt the pain, the only thing I did was sigh, I got it.
"What are you doing, Enzo? Please, what are you doing?
I closed my hand tightly and took my hand out of the cuff, stirring, I felt the pain, I shook my thumb, i moved my thumb from the place so that it would come out of the cuff, and I managed to get my hand out of that handcuff with all the pain, I couldn't even move my hand, she looked at me scared.
"You're crazy, what are you doing?
"Calm down, I'm going to get us out of here, because until they get here, we're going to die.
" Enzo, please...
"Easy, Valentina, I'm here, it's going to be all right, trust me.
I saw that there was really no way, that I was going to have to do all that, because until they got here, they were going to be afraid to come in because of the smoke. I ran to the axe, my wrist wouldn't move, I couldn't take pain and with one hand I broke that chain that was on Valentina's body, on one side and the other. I had to knock several times and even with the pain, I was feeling it, I took off my jacket and put it over Valentina's head, hugged and I looked for a way out. The smoke wouldn't let me.
A piece of wood fell, we turned back, and we left again over that wood on fire. I pushed with my foot and went out into a huge hallway, looking for the exit door and the smoke was too much, wouldn't let us see. I pulled them in my arms, and she cried.
"Now we just go out and we're going out, we're together. I have you; you have me. I didn't leave a minute without talking to her to calm her down, to reassure her and I looked everywhere, and she locked the door and from what I see locked the doors.
When I looked at my back, the fire came with everything and she tries to run away and screams.
"We're going to die, Enzo.
"No, calm down and we have to go out the window, it's not going to work, because it's still high there. And I don't have legs to jump. "But calm down, we're going out. I pulled it to the other side, and we went to the other side and there was a door. When I put my hand on the hot doorknob, it's going to have to be here. I kicked the door with everything, even without strength, almost falling. And the door fell, and I saw a light at the end of the tunnel, the huge tree. I looked at her and she was crying.
We went out together and hugged inside that place, the fire, the smoke, the house falling apart. And I only hear the noises when another piece of the mansion falls. We were helped by many firefighters, paramedics, and I saw that the street was full of firefighters, police, onlookers, and they trying to put out the fire. They put us in the ambulance, and we just sat there getting first aid.
Valentina just cried, she was in shock, and I kept looking and they tried to put out the fire, but it was too big, it was already ballast and I hear the voices, they said.
"There's no way, we've tried everything, we can't put it out, it's too much fire, yes, let's do what we can do, the house will fall. I held Valentina's hand and i stood by her, when I hear him the fire chief say, "that's just going to go out in the morning, it's going to be the night and the rest of the night working on it, who's the madman who did it?
We got out of there and were taken to the hospital for some tests. She was calmer and I held her hand and we were released from the hospital and we thought it best to be together, even with everything that was going on. It was better for the two of us together, we were still beaten and she barely slept at night, had nightmares and I kept thinking about everything that happened. It's hard for you to erase from the mind that one hour you're tied up in a chain, you're about to die and in the next the person who wanted it for you she's dead. Now she's not a person anymore, she's ashes. It's very strange, it's a mixture of crazy feeling. I looked at her there asleep, I had to do something to get her out of this pain. I saw that she was a little depressed, that she was shaken by everything. Parties, dinners, none of this was going to work out and I went to the kitchen, prepared something for her to eat and went back to the room.
"Hello! Sleeper, don't you think you'll be over sleeping?
"Wow, I'm so tired I'd sleep for years.
"I see you'd do it, but I had an idea.
"What's going on?"
"We could go visit your mother's grave, what do you think?
"Really, Enzo?
"I have never been, and I must apologize to your mother.
"I think I owe the same. I'm going to love it if you go with me and I need to talk to my mom so much, it's been so long since I feel like I'm with her and I'm going to feel guilty about her death.
Don't blame yourself. The guilty people have already paid for it. You're not to blame for anything.
She got up, she was more excited, and I helped her with the clothes and she and I was admiring how beautiful she is.
"What are you looking at?
"I see you're very beautiful, perfect.
"And you're very.
"It's not long, Valentina, to throw me in this bed and make you, my wife.
"I can't wait for that.
She was wearing a black dress above the knee, her hair loose, put on a dark eyeglass and I even took the bag on top of the couch and put it in her hand.
"Come on, Mrs. Moretti.
"I'm still Moretti.
"But soon it will be, Moretti.
We went to the city cemetery, drove for a few minutes and there we were both at the cemetery door and she even smiled.
"It's so hard to come back here.
We walked around those graves and I was annoyed, a horrible feeling, but it's also a sense of peace.
It was a black grave, all in marble she had it made with her mother's picture. She took the flowers and put it on, cleaned and knelt down.
I stood by and she cried and talked to her mother.
" Hi! Mom, I'm sorry I didn't come here in those years for leaving you one more time. But my life has been so hard, so many things have happened, but I don't want to talk about bad things, I want to talk about good things. I brought a visitor, and he wants to tell you something. Isn't that right, Enzo?
Yes, I’m sorry. She reached out and I knelt next to her and took a deep breath. "I want to ask your forgiveness for everything I've done and for making your daughter suffer, to cry. And I promise you and you, Valentina, that I will be the best man in the world, that I will protect you, love you, give you children. And that from today, you will never shed a tear of sadness, but of happiness. I held her hand, she was crying, I wiped her tear and with the other hand I took the box out of my pocket, and I opened it. And before her and her mother, showing the ring drawn by herself, studded with glitter, written her name and mine, she looked scared.
"Enzo, you're crazy.
Valentina Tommaso, will you like to marry me? She smiled and looked at her mother's grave. Of course, with your mother's blessing. She jumped on my neck and kissed my lips smiling.
" Of course, yes...