Adelina watched everything from the terrace using binoculars, because René had already told her of his intention to ask Pamela to be his girlfriend before leaving, to which she demanded that he be as tender and gentlemanly as possible with her, because she was a girl of good manners, threatening him with the worst of punishments if he only pretended to play with her feelings, and that if Pamela accepted it, he also had to talk to her parents before going to Houston, to believe her that he was really in love with her, the engaged couple sealed their engagement with a kiss and an embrace, in the middle of that beach sunset, until a strange noise that seemed to come from the stone where they were sitting, called their attention.
It was like a distant roar, extended and guttural; René pushed Pamela away, when he saw that a pair of huge crocodiles were coming out of the stone, flanking his path, forcing him to separate from her.
- Run Pamela! Go to the house, I'll take care of them.
Said René, taking a stick to push away the lizards that kept stalking him, forcing him to get closer to the seashore, by the time he realized he had no way out and his only way out was the sea, where something even stranger was stalking him.
- No my love, don't go into the sea!
Pamela told him when she saw the Countess's horse-drawn carriage approaching over the waves, which seemed to be rolling on the water as if it were a boat, approaching rapidly, the people on the boardwalk and on the beach began to shout for help when they realized the situation and heard the girl's screams; Adelina watched furious and anguished from the distant terrace, as her son was surrounded by 4 enormous crocodiles, which seemed to want to keep him immobilized while the carriage approached, which she had already seen with the binoculars running over the waves.
Pamela was horrified at the prospect of her new boyfriend being eaten by crocodiles, or worse, that he would be kidnapped by the Countess in that sinister sea carriage, which was getting closer and closer, but she remembered the only person who could save René from that situation, the mulatto woman from Córdoba, and turning everywhere to look for a place to draw a door, big enough for her to pass, she ran to the railing of the boardwalk railing, but desperately looking for a chalk among her clothes or lying around, The carriage was already about 20 meters away from her boyfriend when she drew the first line, she quickly made the other 3 lines to complete the rectangle that would form her door, and making a circle in what should be the door knob, she finished it, to start hitting the sand with the fist of her hand.
At the same time, but in another port, in Tuxpam Veracruz; Soledad was with Érika, chatting and helping her to pack her suitcase, since the next day her parents would take her to the boarding house in Veracruz, because classes would resume on Monday, when they heard the insistent knocking on the door drawn on the wall of her room.
- I don't know who it is, but one of the girls is in danger!
Soledad said to Érika, and without saying goodbye she tried to enter the magic door, but without succeeding because she bumped into the wall.
Pamela insistently knocked on her door drawn in the sand and when she did not receive an answer, in her desperation she thought that the door did not work because she had not written her letter or her room number, but until that moment she realized that she had neither letter nor room number, because she did not live in the mansion, so she chose to write: "PAME" in the sand, but without leaving the drawing of the door.
In Erika's room; Soledad could finally know who was in danger and had drawn a magic door asking for her help, but she still could not get in.
- It's Pamelita! -she says to Érika. -Apparently she drew a door in the sand, but she stayed on top of it inside the drawing, that's why I can't get through.
- GET OFF, Pamela, GET OFF!
She shouts to her friend in anguish, but Pamela could never hear her, because neither her voice nor that of the mulatto could get through the door.
- GET AWAY PAMELA, GET AWAY FROM THE DOOR!
They both shouted again in one voice, but this time those who heard them were Erika's older brothers; Roberto and Rolando Cienfuegos, 20 year old twins, who immediately ran up the stairs to see what was happening to their little sister, and why she was shouting.
- She has to get out of the door so I can get through! She must have drawn it on the beach and is standing on top of it.
Soledad says as she sees drips and lumps of sand jumping off the wall, by this time Erika's siblings were already banging on the door of the room.
- Are you okay Érika, why are you screaming?
Said Roberto starting to kick the door, when he heard his sister shouting again to someone to get out of the door, and suddenly, when Soledad was still in Erika's room without being able to enter the magic door, the door of her room opened abruptly because of one of her brothers' kicks; Soledad only extended the palm of her hand towards the door of the room and time stopped, well, not completely, it just slowed down, so that 1 second of Soledad was 10 seconds of them.
At the same time and in real time, in Veracruz, the carriage had already parked a couple of meters away from René, who strangely was no longer fighting, nor were the crocodiles trying to bite him.
Pamela watched in desperation as the door of the carriage opened, to show the elegant glove of the Countess who, extending it to him, with a gesture invited the boy to get in, and already desperate she stopped hitting with her fists the door that she had drawn in the sand, getting off her and leaving the drawing, to run towards her boyfriend who was already walking towards the sinister carriage, She jumped over the crocodiles that tried to bite her without reaching her, and when she finally reached him pulling him by the waist, René already had one leg on the stirrup, while the Countess was holding his hand, at that moment Soledad emerged from the door drawn in the sand and making a gesture with her hands and arms, lifted the boys from far away, making them pass over her head to let them fall abruptly on the sand.
- THIS TIME YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH IT EITHER, BLANCA BEATRIZ DEL REAL, GET LOST AND DON'T EVER COME BACK!
Said the mulatto woman, making another movement with her arms, with which she lifted the four lizards to throw them at the carriage, which hit with force, but were diluted as if they were made of sand.
- I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO REST IN PEACE WITHOUT YOUR FORGIVENESS, AND ALL OF YOURS WILL PAY FOR WAKING ME UP!
The Countess shouted at her and closing the carriage door, the driver whipped the horses to get away, just as he arrived, by the side of the sea, going up the waves as if it were a ship, but he did not get lost in the distance, he disappeared a few seconds after getting away.
In Tuxpam, time returned to its normal speed as soon as Soledad crossed the magic door; Roberto and Rolando looked at Érika who also looked at them, amazed more than surprised.
- What happened, who was that woman?
Roberto asked, still searching with his eyes for what he had seen or thought he had seen.
- What woman? -asked Érika. -Here the only woman is me, and I was screaming because I was sleeping and had a nightmare.
- And this sand?
Rolando asks, surprised, while looking for the woman he had also seen all over the room, when he sees a considerable amount of sand on the edge of the wall, which shows the drawing of a door and the name PAME, as if written in sand.
-It is sand that I brought in my shorts from the day before yesterday when we went to the beach, and Pame is a friend from Veracruz.
The brothers looked at each other in amazement, because they were sure they had seen a woman with long curly hair, but in a second she disappeared from their eyes.
At the same time in Veracruz; Adelina was already running to the beach with a double barrel shotgun and a double canana belt across her chest, full of cartridges, like an indomitable and beautiful soldier who went to her war, where Pamela embraced excited and happy René, who still did not get out of the lethargy he had, caused by the bad magic arts of the countess of Malibrán; Soledad helped her lift him up to carry him on her shoulders to the mansion, while Adelina escorted them, brandishing her shotgun, in case a crocodile appeared.
-He will be fine, my girl, we are going to put him to sleep and in a couple of hours he will wake up being the same happy boy as always.