You never cease to amaze me Gaia. -
She looked down without saying anything to me about it.
-She must have been honest with you, Jupiter. And being honest maybe it's devastating
Are we married or not? In this sophisticated culture it would seem that what happened in Las Vegas, United States, when two people suddenly met and declared their love, but you saved me, and that is reason enough, but there is something more. Of course I don't like the idea of getting married.
- MM! I don't know why there will be a difficult answer - I thought, nodding with a certain grimace. –
- Getting married means giving the vows of husband and wife. It also means freedom. My parents think that we are a happy couple and that everything will be fine for humanity, however my heart is somewhere else. A marriage arranged between parties for dowry is worth nothing. It is a somewhat complicated agreement and very complicated to avoid certain issues.
- Hey! …!Hey! – I finally stopped myself, surprised. –
- Yes, for you it will be something unusual, but we need to keep this our marriage true in order to avoid the one that was arranged, and then we can separate, since the rules where I come from allow it. And the
arranged agreement has an expiration date. I chose you because you are the one. You saved me, and that cover letter is justification. I know we owe dates and get to know each other, but I've been understanding you for a short time. It will last for a while, which you won't have to worry about.
- Do you mean divorce?
- Indeed. And in fact it will serve as an experience for me. I do not want to hurt you. I wasn't going to tell you anything for a long time, but we already have
A month and I don't know what happens? But I must be honest so as not to hurt anyone, least of all you. -
- Experience? Hurt? I knew it was too good to be true. A beautiful woman! Wanting to marry me? Swearing eternal love? And then meeting each other with dates. It didn't make much sense.
- I promise you that I will compensate for all your effort.
- Do you want to fake a relationship?
She nods. She couldn't think much about it. Maybe she didn't tell me, because somehow she could deny me. Already married!!! Damn my luck!!!
- Now I don't understand why the person you chose is a stranger?
- That is a good question? – She nods somewhat distressed – That person was the one who saved me. I have already told you this on numerous occasions. -
- So because I'm a hero I'm condemned? – I expressed asking myself
- Condemned? Hey!! I don't like the idea either. You're not even my type.
- Hey! Hey, Mrs. Surprise, I don't know what game I'm involved in, but I don't want to be deceived – I clarified with some annoyance. –
- Anonymous Jupiter! That is your name. Do you want to stop being anonymous? You will be with a person of high class. And listen carefully, we're going to fake it until it expires, got it?
- An unrequited love, and a beast that has me charmed - I guess - What a beautiful mix of relationships - I expressed myself with resignation. -
- I'll make it up to you!! – She states with an arrogant expression.
- I hope so! Hey, what will you live with me?
- What part of marriage do you live apart, love? But soon it will end and I will be able to throw away that arranged marriage, and go towards it.
- Another person?
-Yes – She expresses with a little shame – I have known him for a long time and I was always in love. He, he doesn't know, but I'll go to confession. It's my idea.
- Ahh perfect!! Apart from being her fake husband, I have to put up with a girl in love with someone else. My goodness, my luck!!!
- Forgive my selfishness! - She keeps dreaming - Ernust Mercurio, it's a dream. Brave, dedicated, beautiful, hardworking. You have all those qualities too, but I couldn't compare the two. I can only tell you that I know you a little better.
- Don't say it too loudly - I clarified - And you don't know me, not even a little bit! If that were the case, the answer would be different, the moment would be different. I did generate a feeling towards you. You, I do like you. You, if you left a mark on my heart. – (I said that in my mind, but he surely read me). -
-Sorry! – She turns red – I said it out loud.
- I do not know what to think!
- Huh? I told you, I'll make it up to you. You have wanted to live without working until your last days.
- Of course it's a dream. But it is not to the point.
- Well, take part of the payment - And he hands me a small gold bar, which he takes out of his bag, along with other papers that were mixed up, old papers.-
- Wow! Where did you get this from? – I said amazed. It was pure, solid gold. I soon got scared – moment! – I frowned – You're not involved in anything strange, right?
- Strange? Everything is strange in this universe – He expresses, tilting his arms as a scientific explanation.
- I do not mean that!!! and don't digress! – I said righteously – Or will you be a drug dealer, yakuza, gangster? Or do you work for the government or political party? Or your family...?
- Hey!! Don't be an idiot Jupiter!! I'm royalty - He expresses, raising his nose haughtily - In fact, you should address me differently.
-Stop joking!! I assume your family is millionaires. Anyway.
- Just take it, okay? And again I apologize to you.
- And what about the dates? And that whole marriage game?
- We've already talked about it. We can have any dates you want. We can fake a marriage, we can conclude it in a while, or right now. That's for you to decide, Jupiter – She began to climb the stairs little by little, until she reached the door first. When she opened it she went in and left it half-open – Honey! Ella – she smiled – Don't take too long!
I was from below looking at her figure, and all the confection of her that went with her.
- Jupiter, yes, you won the lottery!
When I entered I closed the door. A wad of paper was in her bag. The color seemed characteristic to me, but with all the astonishment, I didn't have much desire to find out anything. –
- I'll cook your hamburgers - Gaia said humming a song that could be from a certain old musical group. -
At the end of dinner she was in perpetual silence. Gaia understood it, and she understood that I went to rest first, without even taking a shower. She had nothing on her countenance but a little concern about it.
- I hope I wasn't harsh with what I expressed – Danna! – She looked at him carefully. She looked at her face. The way she talks, her friendliness. The moment they met – Maybe I shouldn't have said anything. - IM such a fool! -She then looked at a notebook as she went to the nightstand near Jupiter's bed. A Jupiter scorer. There she wrote some words in her class, in a distraction "What was your moment of happiness? – The day Gaia came to me. She is crazy, but I love her, and I love her." – She smiled inside her, and shed a small tear – If I could try it with you, what the hell! I will do it!...it flows, over and over...time...
The next day, I woke up and Gaia. She wasn't in her bed. When I opened my eyes, I was afraid that she had left me a note saying goodbye after everything we had talked about on the way home, and a sense of guilt had invaded her, although I don't remember the fact that she had specifically explained that I didn't want to see her, or that this type of false relationship was concluded. Soap operas are not my thing. The only thing I could do was take a shower and clean up before having breakfast and going to work. The room still needed to be repaired with all the changes we had planned. Also, I considered that humanoid returning. When Gaia came, she disappeared
-Danna!, what you have is an internal fear, I have already told you – She expressed – I hope I have not been harsh with what I have told you.
You're right, it's just an internal fear. They are just legends.-
I went to do the job, but I couldn't stop running through my head what Gaia shared with me was a complete lie. I considered it something sinister, no
However, I could not weave an idea of her into my lenses. He couldn't grasp a crazy, ruthless way of proceeding. I only consulted with myself about the factual possibilities that she really should escape from the family as a tyrannical coercion towards her way of being happy. And I was at some point her safe conduit. I chewed every word, and every letter from the uppercase to the lowercase.
I gave up so much plot of ideas. Of questions and answers that would go nowhere. That affliction that was attacking my heart was a spear towards love, which was only perpetuated in an external interest.
- If there is something we can do, is it to continue? I don't believe it! Fortunately my parents and siblings do not have any news due to recent events. My work colleagues, neighbors, and schoolmates were definitely not friends, so I was not at all interested in the results of a future divorce.
We'll see what to do...as we left the house, we could see the Cosplay girl from one of the windows, dressed in one of those romantic animes, with a schoolgirl outfit. I can't help but observe her, and of course she acknowledged my presence when she greeted me. There was another person with her. A woman dressed in the same outfit. She was Gaia.
- Gaia Rays! You do not stop surprinsing me. So early. Since when is she there?
- Danna! – Open the window, good morning –
- Hey! Neighbor! – The cosplay greets me
- Huh? Why are they dressed like that?
-Carol, she asked me if she could be a model for her video. Isn't she cool?
- Hmm! Yes, fantastic – I concluded with irony –
- Naaa! Killjoy! Don't you neighbor want to come?
- Of course not! – I expressed obfuscated – I have to go to work – Goodbye!
- Oh! What a negative mantra mentality –
-Have a good morning, darling – Gaia throws her morning smile. She really looked very beautiful in the schoolgirl outfit. Again her heart soars. I stopped for a few moments. Well, she's friendly, and she interacts with the neighbors. Carol, she's the youtuber.
I'm behind on time, I must head to the museum soon and continue preparations for the Hades Room.
When we arrived, Rigel was waiting at the door. Taking the names of those who arrived. He seems like one of those sergeants who prefers to lose them on the battlefield.
He looked up when he saw me. -
- Ahh! I thought you were a stalker.
- Oh, that expression goes. It's my everyday face - I told him with an unfriendly face.
- It seems like you're coming from a party that no one invited you to. And you show up? – Expresses Riff
- Stop throwing stabs at me as if it were something subtle and normal Riff, you look like you came from a clown party that's going to entertain a wake.
- I see that you are rotten inside, that's good - Rigel explains - Quickly the boss wants to see you, and then go to the room to continue with the inventory. I see that they have done a good job. Take advantage of the fact that I'm in a good mood
- Thanks for the compliment. I was grateful - How fantastic that you noticed it - I commented to myself, she's not as obtuse as I imagined.
Upon entering I went to the Chief's office. –
- Ahh! Very good work! Hey! They made a splendid move with the grouping of all the boxes.
- Thank my Lord! In any case, we still have a long way to go.
- I don't believe it. It's almost everything ready.
- Yesterday we left parts unchecked.
- Mmm!....MMM! Everything is in condition. –He explains, moving more hands as if highlighting a sketch of the place. –
I didn't understand what he was explaining to me, but it was fine anyway. –
- There are objects that, according to the catalog, we will make anonymous. They were sent for investigation, for the moment, to find out what they correspond to.
- Yes sir. I have seen some figurines and papyri that are very advanced for analysis.
- In fact, from what you inform me, I do not remember in these twenty years that I manage such facilities. I have seen those manuscripts as data that was compiled on list papers, the tycoon likes to search for everything, and bring everything that was possible. Don't be surprised that the chalice of Christ is there. Ha! Ha! – He laughs for no reason, holding his chest with his hand. –
We conclude the talk with everything required. When I reached the top floor and climbed the stairs, I no longer felt the stench or the icy air. If so he would be scared, but he wasn't. Everything was very calm, to the point that I felt relaxed. Anyway, I couldn't stop thinking about the situation with Gaia and the fake marriage.
I walked down the hallway without many complications. And the doors to the great hall were already open with their lights on. Old Erwin was there cataloging some things.
- Jupiter! Good to see you! I just got here
- Wow! Did you order everything? - I was surprised. Yesterday we had left with Origima and Gaia, and there was still work to do. Today the room is completely empty with all the elements prepared.
- Not at all! I just came to take some notes. –
- Maybe they have come before? – I said to myself – Did you have problems?
- Yes,..Um!....U f f… . . Well…Ehh..no!
- Did you see anything?
- Hey! Well
- I attack you?
- That?
- The humanoid, or ghost?
Erwin looked at me with a frown.
- Jupiter, did you sleep well? – He comments, surprised by the matter.
- Of course. Wow! Forget what I said. -
- The only thing that surprises me is that the paper documents detailing what we have received differ from what is here.
- What do you mean?
- Missing items!
- They robbed them, stole them, borrowed them.
- I couldn't say for sure, maybe they never arrived, or maybe they took them when everything was closed.
- There are papyri that are missing, for example that of the indefinite black clay statuette, which was in that direction - Point out a specific place where I was separating objects. -
- Clay statuette? -. I thought and remembered if it was the one I had taken before receiving the phone call. If I don't remember, there were some papers. Since he wasn't sure, he couldn't say anything about it.
- Do you know something Jupiter?
- Now that I think about it…. – I left the doubt, while Erwin waited attentively for the answer -…No!
- HMM! In my opinion, he could have disappeared over time.
- Is it very urgent to find it?
- With this, we can catalog or send to the research department to which the statuette corresponds, and the other elements that came with it.
I nodded.
- Everything is very calm - I stated with some anxiety. -
- Yes, and to think that there were those ideas of ghosts and legends of people who disappear. What nonsense!
- Hey! It gave me a big scare yesterday, and so did Origima.
- Origima – He explained that there were no problems of any kind, and that they both resolved everything, without problems.
- Well, he must have said it so that Rigel doesn't find out what it was.
- Not at all, she doesn't lie. She says the two were able to do all the work.
- Both? – I asked strangely. If Gaía was with us. Maybe she didn't name her so as not to cause discomfort or scolding.
- I better come back. Continue. She only catalogs the boxes that have been left behind that counter, and then the electrical and masonry experts will come in the afternoon to touch up. Next step the painting. And they will have some carpets from what they have explained to me, although all those details of Rigel, the supervisor, occupying them.
- Perfect! – I nodded again with what Erwin said.
He retired, and I took my cell phone to see some news, like bone weather. I opened social networks, and then YouTube, the first image that came out with advertising is that of two schoolgirls explaining about a well-known Japanese anime. The presenter seemed familiar. Of course it was Carol, my neighbor, and the other one was What? It's Gaia! That she threw smiles and some funny words to the audience. It didn't take long for the romantic messages to arrive for both of them. When I read them I didn't know if I was jealous, angry, or with a layer of foreign shame.
- You're wonderful. Girl with reddish hair.
- Your beauty is a light of the soul.
- Girls!!!!!, make more videos!! – Express desperate. -
-The angels are on earth. -
- Give me your phone number to connect….!!
And so millions of messages in such a short time. I couldn't believe how many computer poets there were in the world. Of course anyone is, when it comes to flattering cheaply.
- Gaia stop surprising me! – I have said it several times, and I will continue to say it.
My head was in a location in which two antagonistic positions existed. Continue with it, or not. The dilemma could be a mountain of thoughts. And what happens? If she was with someone else, being with me? Or if she were the other way around, would she meet another lady? There would be problems. Of course not. No thread binds us. But there is a problem. Yes I feel for her. Possibly it is desire and not love, but nevertheless my heart beats morosely. Will it be understandable?
She is pleasantly surprised how she finds this position. And the dates? Could I make her fall in love? What if she has another goal?
- Stop filling your mind with material full of assumptions. Today's work does not take time by itself.
In fact, I stayed all morning until the shift changed, in which they replaced me in order to be able to make the proper report and cross-check the data with Erwin.
In short, there were too many objects to analyze which would delay the Hades room project.
Depending on my point of view, I wouldn't be in a rush for it. Yes, no one has applied for the Hades room. Applying means taking charge. Study the history of each element, and give the corresponding lectures. So I was determined to have him be the one to take care of it from the beginning. Everything required hard work.
Before I left the room, there was a large effigy. It was like a doll from an African tribe. I don't know which one, but the Dogon seemed like those worshipers of the sky, in which they assimilated an effective astronomy taught by visitors from space. Beside him and without classifying a detail to a lesser extent of a Moai of Rapa-Nui. A statue originally from Easter Island. Not giant like those are, within a plain of plains without trees and with only grasslands. It was very small. He had his eyes directed somewhere to the right. Not from the living room, let's say that if it were in its natural habitat it would be in the direction of some island in Micronesia.
Possibly it is the island Gaia names me after. And taking that into account. Gaia has a white face, not at all mixed-race. And she is royalty. Today there are principalities, empires, republics, communities. I never asked him about it. Even what does her family do? It's not strange, neither is she
I ask about mine. Fortunately, they know nothing about marriage. It's just a matter of time. It would be better to cancel this whole cumbersome matter.
The blessed turn is concluded. A yawn is the best, and the university schedule is still pending. Is there Origima? Right at the exit of the museum stairs.
- Origin? Hello!
- Jupiter! How are you?
- Well, concluding. I made some progress on the report
- It's incredible - Look ahead while - we did everything very quickly
- Yeah! – I concluded – despite the fears
- Fears? I don't understand. -
- The darkness, the silhouette. -
- Hmm! You must be talking about something else.
- Are we on the same page? Heh! Heh – I said laughing –
- If it's because of the spider scare. She was very small – She mocks with grimaces – Ha! Ha! you should have seen your face
- It's not that big of a deal. Gaia, she told me the same thing.
- Huh??? Oh! There they come for me. He is my father. Goodbye Jupiter, see you tomorrow
- Goodbye Origima! Strange woman! – I said to myself humming the strange thing. –
I left and took the first route that linked to the subway. Just one stop to the University of History, when descending the stairs it was full of people, so when the vehicle arrived I got mixed up in the crowd. It was strange, but I had the feeling that someone was watching me. I started looking around the people. I knew it was someone, but I couldn't figure it out. I noticed that same feeling when we were with Gaia and Origima in the Minor Hall of the Hades room. In a short space of time I received three finger touches and then a slap on the back. When I turned around it was there.
- Hey! Jupiter! - My nerves were corrupted - It's me!; Your neighbor, Gregory, how are you?
- Gregory! Among the number of people, it is difficult for me to recognize
I'm fine!
- I'm glad - Express pleasantly - Are you going to university?
- Yes I have, an afternoon course. Ancient History – Paleolithic Age
- Oh! I admire you. It is a pending fee to pursue a career like her. – Being a writer, it serves as a point to expand concepts. I'm going there too. I'm taking a medieval literature course - And she makes a face as if boredom were a better option. -
- Doesn't sound very interesting, right?
- Of course not. The prose is too far-fetched. The period is not accentuated, in any case they have good narrations that help to expand the ideas.
-I understand being a writer is difficult in many ways – I agree with what she expresses. –
- Look Jupiter. I cannot say whether it is difficult, or complicated, or stumbling. Sorry is the custom. I like to fill myself with synonyms...if I can tell you that only a good imagination is enough, and ideas flow within it.
- It's strange how you say it. It sounds like you're talking about a movie.
-That's exactly it - She points her finger at me - It's a movie in your mind. You create it, and your fingers are the producers. You write until you're tired, regardless of time or space.
- A writer confessed something similar
- It may have been Bukoswki, or Heminway, I couldn't tell you. But it is true that you write wherever, whatever, as long as that film that you want to make known exists in your mind. And every story and character
He is like a son. A part of us that understands us, and knows what to do. He is our hero, or heroine.
Listening to it, I couldn't stop thinking about that passion that is born from the soul. Very few possess it, and very few of those who have it exploit it.
- You speak with great encouragement.
- Ha ha! Sorry, sometimes I get fanatical. I don't want to bore anyone
- On the contrary, I find it very interesting. It's like I told you how Quintus Sertorius, the hero of the Hispanics, repelled the advances of Sulla's Rome. He was the last rebel who put Rome in check for 10 damn years, in which he and a handful of rebels resisted in an enclave. He was a trustworthy man, and embodied the good soldier, the hero, the incorruptible. Of course, after submitting to the Roman yoke, he received the glories, but also the calamities, and his subordinate carried out the campaign, which would result in death in a murder at a dinner.
I quote: ..I do not believe that a decided and reasoned virtue can degenerate by any accident into the opposite vice, although it is not impossible that the best purposes and characters under the onslaught of unjustly suffered calamities change their habits" .. According to Plutarch.
- Wow, I see that you like Roman history. That's what I mean, you know? One day we should get together for coffee, I would like to hear more stories. It will help me with my writing.
- What type of literature do you create?
- Nowadays they are only light novels. Some horror and others with stories. Some fantastic and adventure. Surrealists. Science fiction
- Wow! You do everything. The romance genre is very good!
- In fact, it is very requested. Maybe people need it - Confessed Gregory looking at the glass of the subway
- We all require it.
- The characters identify us. We want to be like them, and sometimes we even fall in love.
- We fell in love with words – I confessed -
- It's true. And we want it to be true
- Be real.
We both nodded. When we got down we both went to the university. Already at the door. Each one would continue their course.
- I was thinking Jupiter! On asking Luna out!
- The neighbor! It's not bad at all. I'm here for whatever you need
- Thank you, you are a good neighbor. And good friend – He is happy. - and you?
- It's complicated to explain. –
- Don't worry. Whatever the case, if you need my help, I'm there. Trench soldiers are like that.
- May no First World War defeat us Ha! Ha!
- That's how it is! See you Jupiter. Him – Turns around and greets with his hand extended from behind. -
- See you! - I told myself. In a way it seemed like he knew about what happened with Gaia. Maybe he heard us? It wouldn't be strange, if we were discussing the topic, a half hour of time on the way home, and before going up the stairs. I just hope it wasn't that way, and I hope that if it were (a simple redundancy is worth it), there isn't another neighbor, like Cin's couple and the other Ernesto, or Ernest, I've already forgotten about that one. I should have a memory that developed under better conditions.
Already in the classroom upon my arrival, a sign on the door.
"..We won't have class today!" signs Professor Dr. Elmer Umbriel. -
- Cosmos!
-?!!
- Sorry! Jupiter!
- Maybe you don't remember me. I am Josefina Despina. We are in the same class.
-Ahh! .. Yes! .. it's true – I really didn't know who she would be. There are so many, I only know a few of them. And then I remembered my old companion Rómulo. He was this person he was telling me about. -
- Sorry! I would need some notes from the Paleozoic age. Could I ask you for your email and your number so that you can pass them on to me?
- Clear! – There is no problem
We begin to write down each of the data on our mobile phones. –
- I'm just a little lost with the new practical work. Just deliver Sumeria, and we have it soon.
- Exam????? - Terror invaded my soul –
- You did not know? It will be the next week!
- God noooo!!! – I didn't study anything, and to make matters worse I couldn't miss work either.
-Yes, do you think we can study - he mentions to me in a cordial manner with an angelic face, approaching me in an unusual and provocative way. – We had a light dinner and studied.
- Hey!.. yes let me see-
- That's what people respond when they're going to say no. Ha! Ha! – He explains, moving his index finger as if gesturing with his gaze the negativity of my words and laughing at the same time. This woman sure knows how to take a hint. – But well, I can't say much.
- Let me see my schedule!
- Combined then to get together to study. Bring the ingredients and I'll cook. Food tastes better when it has an owner Ha! Ha! -
- –Ummm!.. I have to go. And I immediately escaped from those clutches. -
And I greeted as is my usual way of being. She said goodbye, and soon on my cell phone, I received a message like a heart with a happy face.
- What's wrong with this woman? Moment? Is she Me is she flirting with her? I'm married, I shouldn't do that. "Food tastes better when it has an owner" – I don't even want to think. –
On a large wall, there was an electronic calendar with the time and day. 6:30 p.m. - Wednesday, July 26...
When I went out onto the street, I had the bus right at my feet so I could take it and go home.
How formidable. Not having classes completed, and having the public vehicle ready for me.
Gaia, as you know, spent the morning with the cosplay Carol, and then in the afternoon she was entertained with other people who came to the house. She sent me a message.
-Danna! What time will you come? We have guests!
- Visits? – I answered her sentence with her semicolon. They were the neighbors I assumed. I do not care much. They would only be there for a few moments.
Or not? Are you staying for dinner? Gaia is very helpful, and she sure welcomed it. I hope she hasn't prepared those meals with exotic animal brains, or a salad with seaweed from the Pacific Ocean. – Will the neighbor's cat be there? They'd think we were a family of nuts.
If I could describe the location, I would refer to a dive in which the husband is a depressing specimen who analyzes the environment, including the people who develop in that ecosystem, and the wife who smiles at the life full of unhealthy satisfactions as patterns of the society; traditions
important ones that embark on the normal situation Damn! How crazy!!!
I don't even want to imagine!
-Imagining is necessary for a novel – Gregory Her words came to mind.
We are a damn light novel.
I'm already home, and the road showed me some cats purring, and a passerby going to his house. He is in the same situation I am in.
- Good evening - The stranger greets me
- Good night - He didn't pay attention.
- The nights are like flying to the stars - I continue talking. I observed him without any words that could accompany his sentence measured with metaphors.
I consented to what was mentioned, and prepared to continue on my way.
The stairs were there as always: made of rusty metal, as each one went up the lights from the neighbors' windows denoted that everyone was busy.
I took the keys out of my pocket and opened the door.
- Welcome Danna!!
- Welcome son! - My mother. -
- Son! -My father greets me with a glass of black beer in his hand.
- Little brother!! – My tedious sister. –
- Ahh..ehh.ahh – I held my head with my left hand, dropping my bag – Wow, wow! – I hesitated in a set of oscillations that were confused between words. –
- You have a lot to explain, son! – My mother said.
- And good? Do you have something to say? – My father crosses his arms
-I thought I would tell you everything about him in due time.
- Son! – My mother smiles – I didn't know you had such a beautiful and helpful girlfriend.
- Ahh! – Gaia blushes. Do not say that.
-And you have the house set up very well, little brother – the first thing the girl does is look at the musical equipment – Can it be adapted to a mobile phone?
- Of course, even the amplification is very dynamic
- Wow! Thank you sister-in-law!
- Ayy! It's strange to me that they call me that. Ha! Ha! Tell me Gaia – She laughs
- Take it for granted.
- She is fabulous!
- What thing? They are amazed by her – I told myself
Sistine, my sister has the ability like my mother to get along with the entire universe. Soon my father will expose his hobbies of archeology and astronomy.
- Dear! – I say with an ironic laugh – Do you have a moment?
- Sure – Smile as always
We went to the kitchen, and I immediately began my questionnaire but not before receiving her adulation.
- Now I understand what you are like! Ella – She mocks – You are adorable!!!
- Yes, yes, thanks for the compliment. What did you mention? – I said arrogantly and then asked with a little concern
- The truth! – Respond without impudence. -
- Ehhhhh? Did you tell him that we got married without knowing each other?
- Jupiter. You should be a little smarter –she responds as if he were a fool – Of course I didn't confess that to them. -
- You told the truth. -
- Yes, the truth about the marriage, not how it was, and why?
- And then?
- We met at university. I am an anthropology student. I work in a cultural unit. That is, a library two days a week, the other three at home. I speak forty-four languages. My hobbies, apart from electronics, are also astronomy and history. I am sociable, I love chocolate and summer. Some things are lies, and others are not. -
-???? - She's good at lying, I told myself, although forty-four languages is crazy. Wait! Wouldn't it be true? Naa!! - But hey, he's infallible at lying, I didn't know how well - Hey! My father is an amateur astronomer. Be careful with it
- We have already talked
- Now I understand! – The nerves diminished, although some ends were left loose.
- We better go back. And we brought dinner.
- Stop! What did you prepare? I hope you didn't cook the neighbor's cat?
- Heyyy!! Don't say that blasphemy. The food is rice garnish with roast meat and not cat!!!! How can you even think about eating a shit...? Forget it!
- I did not hear you! What have you said?
- Nothing!! Let's go to the living room!!
- Ayy!! – They both look beautiful. – Gaia, how is Jupiter doing? – My mother is a detective who loves to collect all possible information. My little sister was still focused on all the gadgets
electronics. She is obviously a gamer without temper. Gaia thought it was an appropriate opportunity to then play some doubles games. My Sistine is quite determined when it comes to success and outgoing. I clearly got angry with her.
- Sistine! It's not time for games. Let's have dinner…!!
- Gaia! It is an appropriate name – My father confessed – I remember that Jupiter came into the world. And we thought it was a great act. The little one was round
- Hey? No need to embarrass me – I got angry – It's just a name.
- A name? I wouldn't say that. You never noticed that stain under the left nipple
- Huh?
- It is a circle right where the heart is - My mother clarified and my father agreed -
- Just like the planet Jupiter. For astronomy that has not yet been able to investigate, it is an enigma
- Wow! That's interesting. Why do you never tell these things, Danna?
-My little brother is very closed-minded.
- thank you! I owe you one – I said resigned.
- Don't be like that little brother Heh! Heh! -He laughs - Gaia, tell him something, he must have had bad moods like when he sleeps for short hours and everything irritates him.
- Are you irritated? ha! Ha! What else? -She asks with intrigue. -
- Hey! I'm not a living joke.
- There you have it, special humor. He hates losing, he's proud, he has a dirty mouth, and he loves going to the refrigerator at midnight - She mocks, and gets close to Gaia's ear - But he's an excellent listener. And I want it. – She says, and Gaia is happy.
- I'll go make coffee - I offered before continuing to listen to Sistine.
- Jupiter is a secret today. And that stain that appears on his skin right where the constellations join the heart is a great storm. We will never know what is there. Our son, I guess that's a mystery - they both nodded, he couldn't hear them but he knew what they were referring to.
-We all are in some way - Gaia expressed - she lowered her head looking at the table, a reflection of her that was visible from the glass that covered it.
- And your name?
- My name?
- The planet earth in Greek. -
- Well, I couldn't tell you - Gaia doubted.
"I see," she said, nodding with her gaze on my mother. – Jupiter protects the earth from countless attacks. He receives every meteor that wants to hurt her. That is why thanks to its gravitational waves it attracts them. As if he sets a trap for them and then confronts them alone. No wonder our son is the one who saved you. Gaia didn't know what to say, her gaze was towards me. He was in that doubt between smiling as he always does, or regretting what turned out. Her admiration caused her to feel her heart beating for the first time. Only I could hear it. Of course I never told him about it.
- Gaia is important to Jupiter – My mother expressed – One cannot be without the other. I'm not an expert like my husband, but that doesn't mean that feelings are just a mere metaphor for two planets that love each other. But a beautiful coincidence of two who are destined to meet and become one.
Everyone was silent as she brought the coffees. When serving us, my father asked me to see the room.
It was better to have a talk of women on one side and men on the other.
- So Jupiter saved your life?
- Yes, it was an act of courage. I didn't realize. I was in the middle of the street when the light illuminated in a second. Then I felt the blow and when I woke up Jupiter was next to me – Gaia was entertaining my mother and Sistine. She was very eloquent with her words. As if admiration perfumed them as a present for them. My father and I went to the bedroom at the end of the meal. He had made coffee for everyone.
- Jupiter, how are you with work?
- The job? Some changes. I was assigned a room with artifacts and documentation that is being analyzed.
- Hmm! Do they need to analyze today?
- They do not find records pertaining to it. Even the investigations were delayed. It doesn't usually happen.
- Do you have any documents or photos? – My father asked – it makes me curious.
I immediately took my cell phone and showed him the one that corresponds to the statuette. He looked at her carefully. Then he zoomed in on the photograph. He meditated by himself.
- Son! I really don't know what this is? A broad analysis would have to be given. Carbon testing for time dating. The material.
- The material looks like clay
- It is not. The clay has a different pigmentation. Nor does it correspond to a figure that has been seen on any continent. It could be from some remote place in South Asia. Maybe the island of Borneo. Or from North Africa. It is very ambiguous. Although….
- Although?
-No, it's just my imagination - My father took his cell phone out of his pocket and then asked me to transfer the images to him.
- Gaia! – my mother said
- Yeah?
- I want to ask you? Although you have already done it, was marriage really a necessity? – She asked as she took a sip of coffee and my sister said this without expressing a single word. She felt strange and shrugged her shoulders in her normal way of giving a clear explanation.
- Marriage for me is the proof of love. It is the beginning of this path for both of us. Of course it may not be easy.
- If you are willing to do anything, I understand. It's what Jupiter needs, someone to take his hand and take him to fly. – My mother confesses
- It's part of dreaming - My sister said. Gaia used the trick of lying, although she regretted it. In her place she would have made the same device.
- Well, I hope they can have a church wedding and a party soon.
- Come in please!! – My Sistine is excited.
- Yes, we have it planned for a little later when we stabilize.
- They will do it and you can take the bouquet - My mother mocks Sistine. She doesn't say anything angry.
- I don't want men at the moment
- Ha! Ha, everything comes in its time – Gaia laughs.
The evening was interesting and we went to accompany them at night to the next street where the car was parked. An old four-door Chevrolet.
- Bye take care! – Greetings Gaia.
- Bye bye! – Everyone inside the car greets.
- Son, I will tell you later what I investigated. I nodded, while Gaia looked at me without asking.
It was inevitable. It ate my brain from work to university every day. All those days coming back and knowing it was a lie. And my parents calm as if nothing happened. At first I could handle it fine, but then I started experiencing discomfort. She was my ideal woman, and a beautiful companion, but there was no love between us. This led to many situations occurring. Roses and misunderstandings. I had to talk about it. Maybe at first it didn't bother me despite the short time. Or so I think because the basic notions of the movement of the earth were seeming strange to me. To the point of not discerning what was happening with me. However, it was time to talk to her about the matter. Although it was somewhat useless. She won. She had a lethal weapon. A virus with her name implanted in my heart. No matter how much he decided to cut the lie, he always came back to her with an affirmation: Damn, he's in love with her!!
- Gaia, I would like to talk to you for a moment now that my parents and my sister have left. It's about our marriage. It's not that I'm not clear about what we have agreed upon.
- Are you not satisfied?
- No, on the contrary. You behave splendidly and I enjoy your company. I'd like…
- It's not possible... I'm sorry Jupiter... Perhaps, it would be better to conclude all this. I dragged you here without thinking about your feelings.
- I understand. And I know your situation. I guess it's hard to be loved, right?
- It's not that. Wanting is armed with many other words that come from the heart.
Looking at it I realized that I couldn't do anything other than sit and wait for one day to end. At least I wanted my dignity to be intact and not suffer. But I couldn't finish everything. Something didn't allow me.
- If you like…..
- No. Forget about that...I can't leave you in the situation you're in.
- I also can't be selfish and think about myself.
- You have told me the rules beforehand and I didn't know how to play this game.
-Maybe we both didn't know – She said inside her.
We remained silent. Until I decided to break that iceberg.
- Let's continue until you can at least talk to your parents.
- And you?
- I? Don't worry. I have saved so many feelings that are lost forever. I choose it.
- You are a good person. Why?
- I only do what I should do. Do I need to tell you?
That night was strange. The next day I acted as if nothing had happened.
We returned to the house in silence. We entered the house and while I went to get a glass of water Gaia went to the side against the window.
She was facing the sky. She was, without realizing it, crying, she was fading away. And she started talking to herself. Better said he was talking to me. She made the confession of her. She had told me that her parents didn't really love her. And to avoid everything she left. I didn't know what to do and I went up to her and hugged her.
- How huge are the stars? And how insignificant are we? Her – She confessed, wondering between some tears. As we both looked at the sky we couldn't stop reflecting.
- It doesn't matter if we are insignificant, despite everything we have a history, and a future to follow. What if your parents don't accept you? You don't have to give up. You, you have worked hard Gaia. And you have achieved what no one else has done by facing them. No matter what happens, or happens...I am with you. We are a team despite everything. -
- Thank you Danna!! Her – She said crying and turned around placing her cheeks on my chest.
- Cry everything you have and should cry.
The stars continued their course and Gaia had to do so too.
… ..And the next day the break in her produced her change… Her first loop was procreated.