We were on the floor, wanting him to fill me and not only with kisses, I was willing, I wanted to be his, I wanted him to enter my being, and he came in, but inopportunely my friend Liz, who trying not to interrupt stood at the door thinking she was invisible, giving flight to her voyeuristic passions and Angelo did not seem to care, but I did, of course I was not able to be with a man alone, even less now with a third one watching us, I pushed him aside, although he resisted, he looked like a baby desperate to have his breast taken away, I looked at my friend badly, she made a gesture of biting her tongue, she raised her shoulders saying,
"Please excuse me, I went upstairs to get them, as dinner is getting cold, what a pity, I didn't want to interrupt them,"
I hated her at that moment, she felt bad and disappeared, I only heard her heels coming down the stairs, she was ready to continue until the last consequences and I could see the fire in her eyes, Angelo was exploding, suddenly what I least expected happened, I felt a liquid coming down in my intimate part of my body, and a pain, ¡it could not be!, my period had come early, suddenly it was due to the stress I had under the sea, like the little mermaid, now instead of scales I had something else below my waist, now I could not be with Angelo, I would be ashamed if he noticed it, so I stopped quickly and at the same time I pushed him out saying to him,
"Go away, how embarrassing with my friend, who knows what she will think, go, I'm going to change," and I close the door in his face to enter to check that, indeed, it who comes every month, has played a trick on me and decided to go ahead; I was not prepared for this, I did not bring towels or anything like that, and I had to resort to the old trick of wrapping toilet paper, removing me the option to continue exhibiting myself in a swimsuit.
We ate on the way to the hotel, where I fell asleep in my room. I felt someone come to my room trying to open it, it could have been Liz or him; I held the urge to remove the lock, but since I could not do anything, I would have to dodge it while it lasted, I want everything to be perfect; I want our first time to be unforgettable. Likewise, I tried to relax so that it would go away quickly, and with difficulty; I fell asleep.
The next thing I remember is that I saw two rows of square lights passing by; I was on a stretcher; I see some men with caps and masks; they must be doctors; I tried to get up to look for Angelo, and again the light goes out. I come to, looking around me, I am alone in a hospital room, I feel very weak, and I have a bag of serum, the doctor enters and greets me happily,
"Hello, sleeping beauty, I see that you have recovered; you must calm down; we are doing some tests."
"Doctor, what happened to me?" I asked him, still feeling like I was in a dream; it must be because of the medicine.
"Miss, we believe that some animal could have stung you or something could have hurt you, you had a vaginal hemorrhage, and your friend, Mrs. Liz, told us that she had a bad diving experience where you almost lost your life, it could be that, added to the fact that you are from another climate and seafood, there are many of us who are allergic, here on an island that situation is difficult, I swear that if it wasn't because I love the waves, I would move to a city like Bogotá where I only eat A.C.P.M."
"Doctor, what a pity that in Bogotá they cook with natural gas, it's been a long time since they stopped cooking with gasoline."
"No, A.C.P.M. means asparagus, chili, potato, and meat; it's a little joke that a Colombian friend taught me, I better call your friend Liz."
She came in excited and worried, I was glad to see her, but I only had one question that hung on the tip of my tongue and did not let me think of anything else,
"And where is Angelo?"
"He helped bring you here; he stayed with you day and night, even though his phone was ringing off the hook. He had a series of problems that forced him to leave in the middle of his concerns. Despite those calls, Angelo only left the moment the doctor said you were out of danger. I swear my friend it was horrible, at first we thought you did not get up because you were tired, After you were lazy and not answering the knocks on the door, Angelo decided to force the door, and when we opened it we panicked when we saw you pale with the sheets washed in the blood, he picked you up without a hint of disgust and took you in a car at full speed, even a policeman stopped us for speeding, we explained the situation and at the same time Angelo gave him a wad of bills, the policeman thanked us and escorted us to this clinic; they didn't let us stay with you in the intensive care; poor Angelo was walking around grabbing his hair until the doctors came out to tell us that you were out of danger and that we could see you; however, we had to wait for you to regain consciousness plus on top of that phone kept ringing with problems of his business, I only heard something about a thing with a Max, and I swear that nothing about a wife or children."
"Liz, I just dreamt about him; suddenly I'm obsessing."
"Ximena, what happens is that he is as he wants; besides, he is attentive, gentlemanly, and has a lot of money."
"Liz, dear, I don't care about money since he is honest; I grew up in an orphanage where I learned to put up with shortages, and now that I have riches, I don't see them as a whole."
"It is better that both of you have money so that gossip cannot say that you are marrying for interest, as happened with your ex-husband."
"That's Liz; you hit a nail in my soul; I congratulate you, you have a good gift, although I remember that I dreamt of something like that."
"Ximena, tell me, I also have a gift to interpret dreams; I inherited it from my gypsy grandmother."
"I dreamt that I married Angelo, and at the moment when the priest said that if someone opposes to speak now or shut up forever, my ex-husband appeared, saying that he opposed because we were still married; everyone in the church insulted me; I turned to see the priest, and it was my disgusting uncle who laughed; I went out to run, and I was stopped by some armed men who had logos on their rifles, the same ones who killed my parents, it starts to rain something like rice but when it falls on the floor it turns into a white powder that goes up my nose making me speed up the world traveling to an old castle where Don Joseph is waiting for me with tea and cookies; that remember"
"Wow, Ximena, that's complicated and worrying, my grandmother used to say that if you dream of a wedding, there will be a funeral; you should also go back to Florence to find out if you are separated and say hello to Don Joseph; you have told me a lot about that gentleman; Ximena, I can think of something; I will go with you to give you some advice."
"Wait, Liz, first of all, it's Sicily, not Florence, and I left those papers signed; that idiot should have signed them, he didn't give a damn about our marriage; as for Don Joseph, I would like to visit him, although I'm afraid it's too late; the old man was very sick; he was all love; he helped me to bear all those absurd things."
"Ximena, I don't quite understand this mess of your arranged marriage."
"Liz, I have told you many times, I needed to get married to recover my real parents' companies, I was in a clause of my father's will."
"Well, better, you would have married another guy."
"No friend, it had to be with Don Joseph's grandson; it turns out that my real parents saved his life, and in gratitude, he decided to agree to the union of the families through a sacramental union; it just didn't work out the way he wanted; he once told me that he admired my father for his courage and my mother for her intelligence, he wanted grandchildren with those qualities that would help improve his family of egomaniacs."
"So, Ximena, we are going to travel, let's go there, heading to Italy."