- Wake it up Soledad, I have a theory about it! –says Romaia.
- What theory, girl? ¯Adelina asks.
"Wake it up and I'll tell you. –says Romaia. "Or rather, in what he wakes up, I tell you.
- We can't play like this with my son's mental state!
-Quiet Adelina, I know we can trust her, I will wake you up because I am sure that this girl with an ancient soul on board, has discovered something that we have not yet.
Soledad says and René opened his eyes, for a few seconds He did not move, nor did say anything while everyone looked at him in expectation, suddenly he sat down without looking at anyone, his movements were automatic, he turned to the window and began to show strangeness in his gestures.
-Pamela.
He said and began to slowly turn his head until his gaze met hers.
-Pamela!
He said again showing an expression and a smile began to draw on his face, the girl looked at him between happy and worried.
- If I am my love, your girlfriend! Feeling well?
- Let's go out and leave them alone! –says Romaia, breaking the silence of others.
- Nothing that alone! –says Adelina. - If I already realized that he has nothing of idiot!
- Let's go Adelina! The guys will be fine, don't worry, we're all going to go down there and leave the door open.
Soledad tells her; René and Pamela did not participate in the dialogue because all their attention was between them, the boy seemed to regain consciousness quickly, And they decided to leave them alone for a few minutes, while they all went down to the dining room.
- She is the cure! –says Romaia. -I realized when we went to Plaza Mocambo that there were gentlemen with their wives and their children doing the shopping, and they did not act like robots or undead, I also observed in Ana Lee's boyfriend, when they took him out of school, that he just wanted to be close to her, and since his parents came here the other night for him, who had stood in the street without wanting to go, in addition to the morning he arrived at school, because they have not let him see her, or be close to her, his sister told me that they already had him even with serums because he does not even try to eat, he only pronounces the name of Ana Lee, I assure you that that's why that boy is dying now, because they have not been allowed to be together, that's why the gentlemen I saw shopping in Plaza Mocambo behave normally, because they are next to their wives, or girlfriends or what I know.
- I have to go see Manuel! –says Ana Lee when listening to her. - Please Mrs. Adelina! Get me a leave of absence with his parents, because if of me he is like this and I am the cure, then I have to be with him.
At that René and Pamela went down the stairs, they looked happy and calm, and although the boy had not yet recovered the joviality that characterized him, lucidity seemed to return to his gaze and his movements.
- Hello mom, hello girl's! —René says as he passes them.
-Let's go to the garden, mrs Adelina, among other things we talked about, he remembered the Queco and wants to see it. — Pamela says, speaking quietly.
This is much more serious than it seems. –says Soledad.
- It's not that bad! –says Érika. — If the cure for the undead syndrome is to be close to their women, I don't see the bad.
- That is my theory, mrs Adelina, that's why the gentlemen we saw with their ladies, doing their shopping in the mall, They didn't have the syndrome of the undead, precisely because they were with their partner! –says Romaia.
-If the guys we see wandering around, it's because they're not with their girlfriends; So those who are not affected by the syndrome is because they do not have a girlfriend? —Belinda Castillo asks.
-They do not have a girlfriend, they are single or simply his wife had just sent them to buy cigarettes at the store, the serious thing is that, if René needs to be close to Pamela In order not to act like the walking dead, he will no longer be able to go to study in another city. -says Soledad.
-We can assume that if a boy does not have a girlfriend and is single, he can do it. –says mrs Adelina.
Romaia was thoughtful for a few seconds and said:
-My parents already spoke to me last night and they are fine, which reinforces my theory that married couples are not affected by the syndrome, I asked them about my brother and they told me that he did not have symptoms either, maybe it is because he does not have girl friend, So, like us if we have a boyfriend; We need to talk to Nathan and Gregory, Érika! It is likely that since we have not been close to them, and they do not know us, they do not have the syndrome, hopefully so; Mrs Adelina! You will have to allow us to make a long distance call, to know how our boyfriends are doing by correspondence.
Adelina snorted discouraged upon hearing the girls' request.
-I am afraid that they also have the symptoms, and their mother, Mrs. Emma Verch spoke with me and talked to me about it and says 3 of his children have the symptoms.
Romaia and Érika looked at each other in anguish.
-Quiet girls, I know that you are all worried about the same thing, but now we need to develop a new plan, now that we know the problem and part of the solution, then we will agree to fix it as best we can, we have the theory that closeness with the girlfriend or wife inhibits the symptoms of the syndrome, then Adelina, you will have to talk right now with the parents of Anita's boyfriend to check if being close to her, recovers as your son recovered with Pamela, it is already nine o'clock at night and for now we can not do anything for their boyfriends by correspondence, but I promise you that tomorrow first thing, even if it is Saturday, I will charge a favor to a friend who works at Teléfonos de México, so that she frees the telephone line of this house and we can make all the long distance calls we want, we will also need Leticia, because if we have a temporary solution for the syndrome of the living dead; So who better than her to spread the news? We have to go out with Anita, you have to watch Pamela and René so that you do not want to drink the whole complete cure, and since you do not have homework from school, then the task you have to do is: make a list of all the possible causes that prevent a man from being affected by the syndrome of the undead.
Soledad says, and a few minutes later they were leaving in the Combi heading to the house of Manuel, Ana Lee's boyfriend, the girls were left deliberating anguished, but developing a new plan, hoping that everything was going to be fixed.
And indeed, in the house of Manuel del Villar, the boyfriend of Ana Lee Erensweight, the boy only needed a little more than half an hour to be with the girl who had him holding hands to recover lucidity, Just enough for him to also regain his appetite and dine well, his parents were amazed at the results of the experiment they had proposed, who accepted all the advice given to them by Soledad and Adelina, to find a way to get their son back to normal, shortly before 11 pm, they left agreeing that the next day they would take their son to the mansion, to spend a few hours in the garden with Ana Lee and her companions, as an improvised procedure of the plan that they had not yet prepared, to eradicate the curse that had left them the revenge of the Countess of Malibrán.
When they arrived at the Román mansion; Pamela had already left with her parents, and Adelina found René in the kitchen making herself a multi sandwich, to counteract the delayed hunger he brought.
- How do you feel, son? —Adelina asks.
- Me very well mom! And don't worry, Pamelita explained to me very well what happens to me.
René answers her and without saying more, he took his sandwich and went up to his room, but not before giving a small hair pull to Belinda, who protested without getting angry.