It was already Monday, May 24 and although the girls were ready to go to school, a phone call confirmed that classes were suspended.
In Puerto Arturo the situation with the Verch brothers was critical, the syndrome of the living dead was affecting the 3 brothers seriously, to the extent that like Manuel del Villar, Ana Lee's boyfriend, they only thought about their girlfriends.
-Your son Timothy, the one who does not have symptoms; He doesn't have a girlfriend, does he?
Soledad asks Emma Verch in a long-distance phone call.
-I don't think so, in fact, only Mickey had a girlfriend, until Nathan and Gregory met the Mexicans.
"I assumed. Soledad says thoughtfully. -We had a couple of cases of boys who did not even want to eat, and it was solved until we let them be a couple of hours near their girlfriend, now we control them by letting them see a few hours a day, what you have to do now is talk to the parents of Mickey's girlfriend, and for that I hope you have a very good relationship to let you be together for a couple of hours, I assure you that your son will recover.
-In fact, yes, his mom is my friend for many years. -says Mrs. Emma. "The girl constantly talks on the phone to ask about his health and is furious with her parents because they have not let her see him, But as several boys like this are already seen here, and not only boys affected by that syndrome they talk about in the news, parents fear that their daughters will be infected and do not let them out, schools have already begun to suspend classes because they fear that the disease, syndrome or whatever, spread.
Social Services is sending doctors to homes to check on families, where they have found only affected boys, without finding an explanation for what happens to them.
"I imagine you are married; Truth? — Soledad asks.
-Yes, of course, with the father of my 4 children.
- Have you noticed any changes in your husband?
-Well, thinking about it if, although he has always been an excellent husband, I have realized that now he tries to spend more time with me, and he is more attentive.
-Well, then you should talk to the parents of your son's girlfriend and arrange a date, with letting them be together a couple of hours a day, little Mickey will recover, I assure you, and with respect to her other children we will see how to meet the girls around here. –says Soledad, ending the call.
Romaia; Érika and the other girls who had correspondence boyfriends, although they had already tried to make a phone call to them, The boys did not have the mental capacity to answer the phone, and did not react even when they heard the girl's voice, although most had spoken to them on the phone before.
-We will wait for her mother-in-law to call us back, and if the results are positive there too, then we will have to take a plane so that they finally know them and recover. –says Soledad.
-Then what? —Érika asks. - Will we have to stay and live there? I would have to leave without permission of my parents, that when they know where I am it is sure that they will come for me.
-No way! –says Adelina. - None of you will go live anywhere to live with any boy, if you do not go as God commands!
-Maybe if we go for them to recover, and convince their parents to continue studying here in Veracruz, they could live with us here in the mansion; There is enough space! –says Romaia.
-No way! This is a pension for young ladies and as it is full of drunketter's, if I let them live here with their boyfriends very soon it will become a motherhood.