The truth is that I have played with it, and I have lived with it enough to be happy. It could not be said that it is a frivolous arrangement, but rather a contract whose clauses include all the affections that exist in the world.
It was another day and the rain had completely stopped. Gaia felt better.
While she went to the kitchen, I could hear the cat's meow, I went to take a shower and when I came out, Gaia's conversation with the feline was so normal. It would be better if the neighbors didn't see it.
-I didn't really know that it would affect both of them – She commented to the cat. They will be talking about another cat.
- Dear! It doesn't seem crazy to you. Well I've already said it.
- I see that you are well?
- Of course I feel fine! Everything is in order.
- Oh! – She said – Don't you remember...…?..MMM…. That's good. -
- What should I remember? – I asked with a stealthy look –
- Your university work – He explained
- It's true. They will soon give me the results of the Sumerian report work. The Hades room is still in progress.
- Couldn't they move forward?
- Not at all. Erwin explained that pieces and results are missing, to clarify where to locate them.
- It must be very difficult to catalog them, right? – He asks already at the table with the toast and jam. She sips some coffee
- There are many foreign cultures - I commented, spreading cheese on a piece of bread. After a sip of coffee I moved her neck to relax her muscles. She felt a faint tension, when she turned I saw the head of an effigy like a statuette – And those elements?
- Don't you think they're fantastic? If I'm wrong, it's a tiki, or part of it.
- A tiki? A statue from Polynesia? Is it from the island you belong to?
- It could be explained that yes.
- It's a God?
- Estemm... well yes...
- You don't know, right? – I asked, frowning in mockery. -
- For your information, your dear wife knows more than you think. –
- That, then, is totally true. In any case, you were the one who presented the work, and you were the one who helped us at the museum.
- To the museum?
- Of course, the day I was with Origima!
-Danna! You should check your head. I did not go anywhere.
- But, if you were. What's more, she told me not to be afraid of the legends that existed there.
- Oh Danna! It makes me sad to know that my husband is going crazy. Don't worry, this arranged marriage will work perfectly because my name is Gaia Justina.
- Woman, don't take me for a fool! She trusted your summoning power, but she doesn't give me much credibility.
- You were back to being your usual self.
- I have always been what you see
Gaía looked out the window when she heard some noises.
- What's happening Gaia?
- Someone is moving. -
-Is she leaving, or is she coming? - And I went to her. -
We saw together that a moving truck was transporting objects. They were apparently from the lady with pigtails. Yes, Rigel. My superior at work was moving. Gaia thought it was good, not crossing it here was even better for me. I had never seen her again, and that because of her character as her deputy boss gave me peace of mind. Given this. One person left, there was an impasse in my mind with a lady, and she came to me that moment. Her name was Carol. She was our neighbor too. I haven't seen her, the cosplay girl, for a long time either. So I asked my wife.
- Gaia. Do you know anything about Carol?
- Carol?
- I don't remember that name!
- Huh? She is our neighbor. You went to her house several times.
-Danna! You're crazy! – Gaia stared at me with her red eyes, and somehow her hair seemed to move only by inertia as if the wind adjusted only to her, and her extensive lines that traveled from her traveled by themselves.
- Well…! - I kept analyzing what I said until I completely forgot those words. Something is wrong with my brain. The networks must be transferring the information to us accordingly - Gaia, your hair is disheveled! – I said in a lapse of hypnosis. –
-It usually happens to me when I have emotions – she confessed seriously. -
- That?
- Forget it!
She smiled. They knocked on the door.
-Who will it be? – I asked, and I got up to go.
When Luna opened she had come to visit us.
- Moon!! – Gaia said. -
- Good morning - And I pass as if I were a ghost
- Hey! -She looked at it so they can see that someone exists. –
- Oh, sorry! Jupiter!
- No problem.
- Luna comes to see me Danna.
- Excellent! – I commented with biting reluctance, making dead fish eyes. -
- Don't be so happy Danna - Gaia tells me with a much more pointed and even reticent look. – You look like a man who just came out of the bathroom after a bad day.
- My intimacies in the bathroom are a reflection of the hard life I lead. – I explained in detail within the scientific level of intestinal biology. – After taking one last sip, I said goodbye, and headed to my work to continue the day.
- He's finally gone. –
- I didn't imagine it would be affected. –
- How will we continue?
- I cannot delay what is agreed. –
- Will you go out this Friday?
- Yes, I don't see it as something complicated. The writer is interesting
- It's strange how everything was done here.
- Are you willing to stay?
- Yes, I don't want to go back.
- And the?
-He is a great man, but I can't do anything, and I don't want to get him into trouble.
- You are hard-hearted, right?
- I'm not.
- Come on, some things you'll like about him.
- Yes a lot. Since I met him until now. He is a fool... but... ..a fool who warms my soul...
- And why do you lie to yourself?
- Well, maybe I have never met someone like him.
-Does he still hurt you in there? -Point to a point on his body in the center near the heart
- Yes, it happens to me when I'm with him.
- It's love Ha! Ha! You've even forgotten about Ernust.
-He is a fool, but every time we get to know each other I admire him more. At some point, he took me to an amusement park. Of course he doesn't remember. And I don't let him do it either. And that topic...it was just an excuse not to deal with anyone.
- You should leave that.
- The park was splendid. Then to lunch. A normal date, and then those bear machines where you deposit a coin. You had to see it. She spent even what he didn't have to achieve his goal.
-And he achieved it?
- Clear. He always succeeds. I don't know how he does it? Since we started, he mostly makes breakfast. He works hard. He helps his colleagues. He plays with me. He never asks what I do, and stop doing. He takes everything in a positive gesture. He does not seek to get along with the neighbors. Months have passed, although he does not know it, in which we were happy. And he wouldn't want to end like that. He's a drama queen, he uses everyone as a social experiment when he makes those dead fish eyes, and he's funny – Gaia says, with her hand
placed on her chin, leaning with her elbow on the table, while she looks at the happy nothing.
- You talk about him as if you really feel something. – He places his hand, arm and elbow holding his head in the same way – Love comes that way, when you talk about the person you love out of nowhere, without your mind dictating it to you. When nothing stops you from thinking about that person. It's only him in the universe and no one else. – Gaia listened to her and thought herself. -
"Of course we argue, and he always takes the lead..." Gaia said without denoting Luna's words. -
…Gaía imagined…
-Danna! You leave the bathroom full of water on the floor
- Yes, I'm sorry, and by the way you look very pretty today.
- That's not the point. The problem is the bathroom. -
- True, and I will keep it in mind. What do you think if we have breakfast?
- Do not change the subject..!
- I'm not changing the topic! What's more, we both agree that it can be resolved without major disruption.
- Don't give me low price philosophies!
- Talking about philosophy. I have read, and I recommend it to you, Plato's Crito
- Jupiter!!!
- Tell me darling?
- Nothing, let's go have breakfast.
- You will see that you will love what I will prepare
- It seems that it is as you say, Gaía. That's called psychological manipulation.
- Yes, but it doesn't stop being adorable with it. It's something I would miss. -
- You should tell him what you think.
- No! I would never tell him. Mind your own business Luna.
- Of course I'll get involved, and I'll get into yours too!
- Have they ever left you in tears?
- Yes! And it was your husband who came to give me some words that could help me. That's why I understand that you shouldn't give up something that you think can make you happy. -
- There are many things I wouldn't understand. -
- No! It's not the problem. The problem is you, and your fatal way of making decisions.
Gaia begins to imagine...what her time with Jupiter was like. She knew that Jupiter's time was not her time. And he kept hidden memories, not in her mind, but in her heart.
- Gaia, what do you think about going to the beach one day?
-Danna! That would be fantastic.
- Well, in the summer, before it ends we will go. You will love it!
- But... what about your job?
- That's not a problem, nor is the university.
..That was before I knew that our marriage was just a selfish arrangement on my part, yet he continued to take the relationship as something important. Something very typical of him.
Second time in Gaia's time they had the following date. They went to a large terrace to look at the stars. It was at the end of their first date. That terrace corresponded to the museum in which she works. It was a day when she would go to see her husband to find out what he does for a living. She had no complications passing through the entrance door, nor through the central hall, and so on. In fact, the image of her was like a ghost to the surrounding crowd. Jupiter was standing in front of a Megatherium
- Wow! Sir, I would like you to be my guide in this room.
- Gaia! Nice to see you? It's a surprise that you are here - I was happy to see her
- They let me in, so I wanted to see you, and see what your work is like?
- What you find is what you get. I am a guide in each sector. That requires you to study every room and every element.
- Not bad, for a History teacher.
- Yes, we just don't have a very efficient information release, so we are forced to investigate.
-What can you tell me about this huge bear?
- It's not specifically a bear, and it's not even its predecessor. The megatherium, or great beast, which lived in a period called Pleistocene, to give you an idea. From the creation of life, different eras were cataloged onwards. Precambrian, or Jurassic are for example. You've heard it in blockbuster movies. -
- Very true, the one about the dinosaurs. Now it is interesting, how Darwinian evolution was shaped according to the environment of the ecosystem. The megatherium could have developed on a continent like South America, since it appears to feed on different tree plants that have to develop a specific height. Requires vegetation. The same should happen with carnivorous species.
-Hey! ... - I thought for a few moments - In fact, his great stature allowed them to do this, as well as defense against predators, although, in his formation, the man began to make the first advances.
- 9000 years should be a calculation, right? The marks on those bones of that giant denote that he died from stone spear attacks.
- Wow! Oh really?
- Ha! Ha! Danna, it's a guess.
- You have given me such a broad explanation that I even doubt what I know. Perhaps it is that power of psychological convincing through the use of words.
- Saussure's linguistics with signs could be the meaning.
- Who knows? Well we can move forward, and we have the different species.
The journey through the great corridor included mostly mammals such as saber-toothed tiger, mammoth, glyptodonts, llallawavis (bird of terror). Gaia was scared when she saw the mock-up model.
- Don't be afraid, it's a doll.
- Yes Danna! They are terrifying, and dangerous. Just seeing them instills panic.
- Yes, they were very scary, but fortunately they don't exist. Evolution is wise at some point in history. If they managed to exceed the time, we would be in danger.
- Evolution is a touch of fingers, to save the origin of the main species.
- As?
- Imagine that giant reptiles existed today, or the enormous bird of terror. Or rather if the earth's oxygen were sufficient enough to
to give strength and breadth to insects like that – Points to a fossilized prehistoric spider.
- In fact, if this were the case, there would be no other race than insects, arachnids, or giant reptiles.
- The fingers of heaven manipulate as if it were a laboratory, in order to achieve the objective, don't you think?
- I didn't understand what that metaphor means?
- Forget it! - She shrugged her shoulders.
//…..//
- You always make mistakes with the words Gaia.
- I know, that's why I had to perform several operations
// //
- Gaia! What do you think if we go to other rooms?
The next room was the one made up of the man in his different phases. From the first hominids – Australopithecus, to the different hominids.
- So this is the being evolved with logical thinking – Gaia confessed.
-He is the last link of who we are. We may continue, but we won't see it.
- What do you think?
- What do I think?
- It's okay to come to this! You are a historian. You know well
- Whether it is good or bad does not depend on a product made, but on its behavior. We cannot define good and evil in each subject. They are two constant bids on a rope to have control.
- You are the wolf of man Ha! Ha! Do you want to know what I believe? This is a lie.
- Lie? Where do you want to go? –I didn't understand at all.
- It is a failed product, which still requires modifications. Psychological, social, environmental thinking. You know everything is marked like a bank
of data.
- Well, in that case evolution must clean up the damage.
- Don't pay attention to him. The shark will be a shark even after millions of years.
- At some point, you are right. But the struggle between evil and goodness is not always
travels on the side of the first. Look! ...Around you. How about?
- In a room with objects.
- No, honey. Kindness means beauty. Here you will find what man is, what the earth is. the works of people who left their mark on time. Look at that mural. – On a wall, a piece of rock with spiral drawings painted - Someone wanted to portray a wonderful moment. Look at that other one. – Another mural in which two people share a moment between what seems like a landscape. – If there is something good to benefit from in this world, it is beauty. – Someone there wanted to take a photograph as best they could, with a chisel, or charcoal paint, or whatever, to give another person a moment of peace. Some of love. So it's not so bad after all that a race like ours existed. At a certain point we will not be able to save ourselves, but we will leave something interesting so that they do not forget us.
Gaia seemed to look at the stars, listening to Jupiter's words. Maybe she's right. Maybe there is a way to save yourself.
- How about we go to the terrace, it's almost dusk, but the museum doesn't close until 9:00 p.m.
- I'd love to.
We went from the last corridor to a special elevator that takes us to the final point, on the other side is the Hades Room, but you can only get there with stairs.
As we climbed, Gaia felt the chill –
- Oh! Sorry Gaia. Nearby there is a room, which I will have to go to inspect shortly. It is a not very comfortable place.
- It doesn't matter.
- It's a very long story to ruin what I want to show you.
Upon reaching the main door, we only went up some stairs, and then another door. Upon opening it, a clear starry sky could be seen from very large galaxies. Luckily for the height of the building, light pollution did not affect that landscape. Gaia ran towards them and began to dance, spinning in circles, extending her arms and hands like an airplane propeller.
- Danna is very beautiful. Thank you!
- On the contrary! Thanks to you for coming. Let's say the next date was good.
- They always will be, she said. – Ella She smiled in present-future tense.
Then we stayed on the ground. She was squatting and I was lying down with my hands placed behind my neck supporting her so as not to touch the cold pavement of the floor. We were both looking at the stars.
- Gaia! Could we go to the stars?
- If you want it so much I will take you.
- Thank you! – I completed her words with a certain joy of thinking about utopias.
- Don't think that everything is utopia. I would love to travel through the sky of that beautiful space as if it were just a journey that never ends.
- A magical journey! – Metaphoré. -
- It's not possible.
- For obvious reasons, it is not - I confessed. Gaia did not pay attention, it even seemed strange.
- Everything could be possible. There is so much freedom here, so many feelings, that it seems that one marvels when just contemplating some stars.
- Where do you come from, don't you?
-Where I come from there are only a few excuses to live.
- And are you happy there?
- Couldn't you say what happiness is?
- Nobody knows in this world
- Nor in any other.
Listening to her, he could feel how perhaps some faint tears were trying to escape from his retinas.
- Somewhere there must be happiness - I said -
- You know?
- Not with certainty, but I do know that certain places, or occasions, or people lead us to something similar to that.
Gaía watched me carefully as she recited the words to the night sky of the starry night.
- I don't want to have to go back Danna. I want to stay here. This is my home. She – She launched between statements of resignation.
At that time Jupiter did not know what was happening. He didn't know the farce either. He also didn't know many other things that were coming.
- Gaia, this will always be your home if you want it. Or whatever you want it to be. Or wherever. I will always support you.
- Could you hug me Jupiter?
Jupiter stood up from the ground, and extended his hand to invite her to get up. His look was hopeful and she couldn't separate her gaze from his eyes. And then he took her by his
He put his arms around the one who was his wife, while she approached him, and without remedy, he shed tears on her chest.
- I do not want to get back. I want to be here. In this moment forever.
Jupiter's heart was beating more intensely than usual. He could only hug her as tightly as possible. She approached his lips and kissed him.
Then the night was drawn with comets that seemed to go like stars that died in time.
He wanted the loop to form to repeat the scene, but no. She didn't want it, she just decided to erase that moment for the good of both of them.
- So you still imagine every moment with him –
- Moments are difficult to forget. I wish I could put them in a trunk, so they don't leave, but I can't. I must discard them.
- Dont do it. You will never do it. It's impossible cognitively, they will always be there. They will be in it.
- You think?
- Yeah
- What if he discovers them?
- Will you have to decide what to do? You can't live your whole life this way.
- It's complicated, facing reality.
- It is, dear Gaia! It is…!
The morning developed. At work the following reports for the Hades room were being completed. There were no significant and important advances. Then she would have to go to university. There are some strange flashes in my mind of situations with people, and images. I would like to have an answer to that, so that I can engage in my practical reasoning in a way
What do you understand they mean? Sometimes I think that I have traveled on the bus so many times and every time Gregory identifies me, and we conclude by talking about some specific point in the story, but that is not the problem. There is always a blurry date, which I cannot easily glimpse. That's not the main reason, but because last time I dreamed about Gaia. A picnic in the park. We were both enjoying the sunset, and he was drinking plum juice, which he treated me to as if it were an indirect kiss. And she told me about the importance of getting married, but in such an emotional way that she could not determine the reality of such a dream. It was so transparent.
..Getting married is a test vow. No one lives forever – And after those words I woke up.
I didn't want to talk to her about that dream, or about everything I've been having throughout our relationship. According to her, it's been six months and for me only one. And I would like to live all those moments. Let them be reality.
Stop rambling Jupiter, Gaia has already told you that everything is a lie, and that it will only last a while until her family conflicts are resolved.
She was against the wall of a cubist painting, by which artist. A replica of Paul Klee, "Senecio". But its deformed lines of a mask reminded me of Gaia's face. There must be something hidden inside her that makes her so interesting and mysterious. Curiosity is the daughter of rigor. I don't want to test what I don't want to know.
- Stop dreaming Jupiter, I already told you - I say to myself. -
It's time to go. On the subway, in the middle of the trip, I arrive at my destination. The history university. Without carelessness, I see Gregory with Luna, a twitch in my head, I mix a dream.
- I'm going to ask Luna out...
**/** - Memory impasse.
- We are leaving.
**/** - Memory impasse.
- Of course we are not dating –
- Yes, what is known as Laplace's demon.
- Of course, two connected particles...
**/** - Memory impasse.
When I came to, they both continued on their way to what looked like a restaurant. I went directly to the study room. My classmate was not there, so a classmate named Josefina sat in front of me.
**/** - Memory impasse
- Food tastes better when it has an owner –
He looked at her carefully, at her who was in front of me.
- Students, you will have your exams soon
- God is true! The exams! I must prepare!
At the end of class, don't ask to avoid thinking about it. And the professor asked me before leaving to go with him for some questions.
As I approach. He was in front of his notebook.
- Yes sir!
- Jupiter right?
- Yes sir.
- I wanted to ask you about your Sumerian practice.
The thought of a future disaster came like a wave that seemed to sweep away the island of my mind.
- Yes, tell me professor. –
- To be specific…. How can I explain to you? It has a wealth of information, as if someone had lived there in time and space.
- Huh?! I didn't understand?
- Where did you get that information from? Even with fragments in cuneiform pictographic writing, not even the translated books seem to have such data.
- Estem..! Well..I...
- Do not tell me anything. It's just giving yourself the highest grade. It's a big trap, or you are an expert researcher who has traveled to the Middle East to the Tigris and Euphrates river regions of Iraq. -
- Coincidentally, I have relatives who are part of the Muslim branch - I said to evade the problem -
- Are there so many conflicts?
- Well! Heh! Heh! Terrorists are not a problem.
- I see! I have only sent you by email the points that I found interesting and at the same time strange. You play a lot with cosmogony, and mythology as a reality. The advances seem from the current era, but you do not leave the focus of an archaeologist.
- Well also, I should mention that my father is an archaeologist - I said again, saving the inconvenience of a job that I could not do.
- That could explain it, in any case it is strange that an expert on the subject dedicates himself so much to mythology. Well, I won't distract you one more second. Check the email I sent you.
- Thank you very much teacher. My greetings
- Greetings.
When I leave the classroom, I meet Josefina. that lady
- It was an arduous talk, wasn't it?
- Yes, more or less. –
- You stare at me as if you don't remember me. –
- Sorry, I've been a little tired with the pressures of all the activities.
–
- Ha! Ha! No problem, I wanted to invite you if you want to go have a drink?
- I'm sorry, I won't be able to go. I'm busy with some reports about my work.
- HMM! That excuse Jupiter is very far-fetched. You must learn to lie. –
- It's the truth! - Said.
- It doesn't matter, soon we must get together to study. I look forward to that day next week.
- Next week?
- Of course we meet at the beginning of August. July 5, a Friday. – She expressed, and her phone began to ring – Hello…- Answer – Yes, excuse me… Jupiter, see you. Don't forget the study date.. – she leaves saying hello, then comes back. – I forgot that we must agree on a place to meet.
- Well it could be a house. – I said carefree. -
- A house? That?? Don't you want to seduce me? Lost planet! – She said somewhat hurtfully – ..? ..!! – She placed her finger on his lips as if thinking – Ahh! I'm sure you want to flirt with me. No, I am not sorry. This is just a study, I already told you, I'm sure. I thank you. Apart from that, you are married. And I don't like love triangles. And your life seems very flat. And you can't, it would be very difficult to see each other. I don't want to be second, nor third if you have another,
and you are one of those types, and apart from that...we couldn't because we are polar opposites, that is the fate of the unrequited, I feel for you. My apologies.
-?????!!!! Hey!! Heyeeee!!!! I said a house to just express an idea!! – I clarified with shouts. – Damn lunatic! This woman is a specialist in complete rejection – I told myself.
- Oh! I'm sorry - She gave a slight giggle - Well, goodbye!
She removed from one side and I from the other.
- Study appointment? When did I accept?
I prefer to return home immediately. I can't accept it anyway, can I? The marriage is arranged, there will be no problem, if I tell Gaia, and it is only for studying.
When I reach the road, I see the building with the lights on in all the windows. Sitting there staring at the ground with a can of beer is Gregory.
When I found Gregory sitting there, he was staring at the ground. He seemed to want to observe nothing more than lines of adjacent and irregular contours and with his fingers he was manipulating abstract figures that only a writer can imagine as with words. I had no choice but to get closer. Not only for him, but for the way to enter the stairs which he blocked.
- Hello good! - I said hello
- Hey! – I look up – Hey! Jupiter, what a surprise! Sorry if I'm right on the pass.
- Don't neglect - I said. Then I gained some interest to know what was happening? - Old! Are you okay? -
- Oh! I was never better and he raised his can in a toast
- It seems like you drank too much.
- Naa!! Just a little. And you?
- It could be worse
- Ha! Ha, that spirit of yours is very appreciable.
In a certain way I could have retired, however the logic of human relationships works this way when it comes to a born disinterest fostered by a hermit, whose flag of life is loneliness. Yeah. It was, but something happened. Now that was not my mission. My thing was to lend a hand to a friend. Or who felt like a friend. It was just helping him up, and listening to him. Then, over time, these extraordinary solutions could happen.
- Come old man! That beer looks old.
- Tastes good.
- A cold one would be better.
- There is a place that sells them at a good price. And along the way I will take you to Gaia.
- It is an invitation?
- Don't be an idiot. It will be good for you to spit out the malice of the day.
- Ahh! The malice. Life is full of those fatal insults that are taken with sleeping pills. Is that how it works.
- Yes, well. It is not necessary to destroy yourself to rebuild again. For this there are other methods
- No, at the moment I'm not trying to commit suicide.
- There's no need! Just emotional release of words.
- It's what drunks call relief.
-How has it been with Luna? – When I asked him, strange events came to my mind. Gregory's grave silence was a disaster. I immediately visualized the subway and him telling me that they left a few weeks ago. After they would leave. Then moon talking to me...me...situations from the past.
- Luna is a great scientist. She uses physics to determine compatibilities.
- And it turned out that you are not what was expected?
- The laws of the universe are strange. I gave my best speeches, however words were not enough. How ironic isn't it? A writer doesn't have enough when there should be plenty of them.
- Maybe it's not that words were not enough. Maybe they never got to it. It is difficult to break a block of ice if there is one.
-Look, I tried to besiege her heart, but for her the maximum rule has nothing to do with emotions but with an energy that, according to her, unites us.
- Proposing is an art of love – we already had our beers and we toasted.
- Well said! Health!
- Health!
- And you? What does the man say about marriage?
- What can I say... it's very early and everything is strange. -
- You love her?
- Of course!!. What question is that! She couldn't explain what she does for me – A certain emotion appeared on my face.
- That must be the compatibility Luna was referring to. And her?
- She? It is a tornado that spins and attracts everything around it.
- If the metaphor were so simple. You didn't answer other than saying that she is attractive.
- I guess so?
- What do you suppose? You are married Jupiter!
I couldn't really tell him the truth. I referred to lying in a bad way.
- Yes, she feels the same.
- That's ok.
- Do you know when Gaia didn't still live with me! I found Luna the same way you did. Only she had some tears inside her that then blossomed.
-She also tried to conquer a city and failed.
- Did he tell you the facts?
- It's not something that could be that interesting. Rejected to reject.
-And she gave up!
- He did it out of mercy for her. It was better than cutting off her dignity.
- This is how love stories die - I sighed - And now what are you going to do?
- I will continue my life as a writer
- What if you write something to him?
- Like what?
- Come on! You are the expert on the subject. Will you tell me what you don't know?
-In the story Pyrrhus of Epirus, he assumed that he would conquer Italy and he did. It's okay that it was a huge war. But he put all her efforts into conquering her and achieved her goal. Marcellus the sword of Rome in the Syracuse of Archimedes and Alexander in Persia. And you can't conquer Luna's heart?
- You are strange with your examples Jupiter. It's a difficult battle.
- I am a historian and I understand battles. The heart is an impregnable fort, but not impossible. – Oratory gave me a little courage without realizing it.
- Then tell me a love story.
- Ok I will do it! Although narrating is your field. -
- Then I'll do it! – Gregory stands up from the floor and raises his can of beer – Cheers and for the words that will be said!! -
- For the words Cheers!!
We can go back, I thought, after so much talk. Sometimes some are needed to clarify other people's feelings. Route them if you can. Gregory will think that continuing to take risks is painful, but addictive. He goes after Luna after the rejection. I wonder if mine with Gaia will not be? Our marriage was created with a lie, and I have dreams of a beautiful life from the beginning, however they are her dreams, which are not part of what I live with her, but rather a clear and friendly relationship. If we appear to the public that observes us the crude satisfaction of happiness misspoken as happiness. And we even treat each other as if we were a case of years with trite dialogues full of meanings in double friendly intention.
Between her and me, a void is formed by way of distance. I reach out to her and my hands to her, but she doesn't. She doesn't, and she barely directs her gaze. It's like a stoic body that doesn't flinch.
I really said yes, I do!, the day she asked me to marry her because I felt deep inside that she was the woman I had been looking for so much. The dates were a complement that would not exactly help us get to know each other. But they were just part of married life. I felt like we were perfect for each other. And although all the twists and turns of her story, her family, her impossible love are obstacles, I am not going to give up either. I'm willing to give it my all. To fly high and crash against the rocks as many times as possible so that one day in that abyss in which we both place ourselves, my hands can reach her. And she hugged me when she received me. Is it too much to ask?
- You are perplexed, Jupiter!
- Oh! Sorry Gregory. I just got lost.
- Excuses are not necessary. I can read you in your face. Your problems are not mine, however we are in the same boat.
- You have to row as much as you can. Should I determine that you know what is happening?
- Yours and Gaia Mmm! Assumptions of a fictitious reality.
- You are very insightful.
- No. I only read situations.
- That makes you an illustrious citizen at the agora table.
- Ha! Ha! No, but very grateful! I'm not intellectual at all
- But you know how to interpret.
- Deductivism and empiricism.
- They go hand in hand.
- We are, as I told you, on a boat trying to reach our islands.
- You have to row, I told you.
- Yes, and also know how to manipulate the rudder.
- That's true.
- Well, we're here. It will be until tomorrow Jupiter. Thanks friend for listening to this fool.
- For that we are.
Gregory rejoiced, as he ascended the stairs and turned into the hallway. One more greeting and she disappeared between the door and the interior of his apartment. When opening the door of mine. Gaia was writing in a notebook. As always she smiled at me.
- Did you have a good talk? It will improve your situation. Love is not a lock that cannot be opened.
She knows everything. She must be a fortune teller.
- Only fate could know. Like ours Ah! By the way! Take! It's the brand you like - I handed him the beer bottle. A friendly grin appeared on her face.
- Did you drink enough?
- Just to hear Gregory's cries and hear about mine.
- What do you need to know about yourself Danna? What don't you know?
- Many things.
- Ahh!!! Don't behave as if you were a jack-in-the-box from which a doll is going to come out laughing.
- Your examples are adorable.
- They are also darts to the soul.
- Funny. And you?
- I will always be fine - I immediately noticed in her when she used
the bottle a magnanimous slowness in wanting to sustain time. Then her face looked like a lament.
- Something happens?
He doesn't flinch for only three seconds. Enough to perpetuate doubts.
- Huh? No. Everything is in its place.
- Good! How about doing something together? We never do anything. I dream of a life full of adventures.
Gaia held back in silence.
- You are quite a dreamer Jupiter
- In advance I recognize that ours will not last too long. By the way, what about that? Have you not communicated with your family?
- Not yet. But don't worry. Everything is in a cosmic order.
- That sounds like a paperback science fiction book.
- Heh! Heh! We are from different worlds Jupiter. Different universes, different times, different lives. -
- Yes!, I realized that. I am Jupiter your protector Ha! Ha! And your Gaia, the earth.
- That's not what I meant - Gaia had drunk the entire glass and poured herself more. It was incredible that she drank liquids except with food. She had never seen her take any. But the alcohol took immediate effect.
- What did you mean? - I asked for. Gaia continued drinking. And I was intrigued by the answer alone.
- Danna! This beer is very delicious. -
- You already got drunk!!
- Let's go see a horror movie. I have the house next door.
- Do you like horror films?
- They are my ideal. Do you want to practice with one? Hiccup! Hiccup! Besides, I had told you, Hip!
- No, thanks. In the state you are in you should go to sleep. Hey! When
she told me? Ah! She was drunk, lost in her words.
Gaia sat up as best she could. Luckily she had something to eat beforehand so she wouldn't go to sleep with an empty stomach.
I got ready and being really tired I threw myself on the bed. Gaia was snoring in hers. I soon fell asleep.
***//*** Time impasse. -
- Hey, the house next door is a great movie.
- I warn you that I hate watching gore horror.
- It's a mystery, although it could have some quite excessive tweaks.
- Do you seem to know a lot about the subject?
- Its director is an effects genius. He has other zombie films and an epic horror fantasy film. And by the way, a new one about Friday the 13th will soon be released in cinemas.
- Another Friday the 13th? Are they fifty?
- And all tastes!
- They are not to my liking. In fact, terror is not something I like.
- With me you will have to see many! Your life will be a terror, man!! She – She expresses it with a macabre smile and wild eyes. -
- Gaia – I tell her with an ironic expression – My life is already a terror!
- I already knew that since I saw you before the accident!
- Your compliments are like drops of acidic water from the shower that fall on my head. – I respond with the subtlety of someone who ignores the recipient of it.
- I love to teach you truths that you can understand without acting offended. It's like separating blame from the attack. That must be why we get along so well. Anyway! Let's leave the ironic phrases! And let's go see it.
- Well. I'll go turn on the producer. By the way, how do you turn it on?
- Jupiter let him do it. You will always forget. I hope you remember one day when he disappears.
- As?
- Nothing. – She turns on the equipment – Jupiter?
- Tell me?
- You make me happy!
- Estem!! Thank you! – I remained motionless watching her. Her brightness was distorted by the light from the living room. And a perpetual shadow, she copied her gestures and words. It was as if she wanted to hug me tightly with that powerful energy.
Gaia smiles.
The next day I woke up very early.
- What is the movie about?
- The House next door.
- Thank you. what is the movie about?
- The House next door. -
- Yes, Gaia, I already know it's a dingy mansion-style dump with four walls. That's normal in this genre. But what is it about?
- If you already know what a house is. What can happen in it?
- Killings I guess?
- Well done Jupiter! You earned a cookie!
- Hey! I'm not a parrot. Aside from the fact that it is obvious that there will be massacres, it will not be a home of joy. Who is the murderer?
- The movie will tell you that.
- Hmm! There is a beautiful woman who strips naked and is killed, right?
- Pervert
- Why the hell? There always are. Well there are naked men who kill them
- More perverted
- Well! Is it the house next door?
- Shh!!! It already started.
- Well, look, those film effects are very basic. It must be low budget.
How much did they spend on it?
- I don't know, I don't even care!!!
- I say the budget is important. There was a movie once...
- I'M NOT INTERESTED!!!
- Goes!! You miss it. It's the house next door.
- You already said the title
- There! It's all dark, you can't see anything!! be careful! Phew
-Shh!!
- Noo!! Be careful there!! What did he say? I didn't understand. What did you say when I said I didn't understand?
- I DON'T KNOW!!! SHUT UP!!! AHHHH!
- Well, I'm silent. It's not something to be scared of either. So much trouble for a murderer. Ah, the man who entered from the other side and they didn't kill him is a fool.
Gaia clings to me tightly out of fear.
- Didn't you like horror movies?
- Yes, but I didn't say I wasn't scared.
- Uh!! Careful! Another fool they killed. Look at that ax on the head, it's a cheap prop.
-Shh!! Oh my God!!
- The house next door Ahhh!!! They already told me how it ends. The monster was the son of an exterminated crazy family. They kill him in the swamp behind, but everyone dies except the blonde-haired woman.
When I said those words I believed that the monster was Gaia.
***//***
The next day I woke up early. The next day I woke up, and I had a bump on my head. I must have hit something. Well, when you sleep completely you are not aware of anything that is happening around you.
Gaia, she continued sleeping peacefully in her bed and perhaps babbling words in an unknown language in her sleep. Or so I thought? Not for reasons that seem extraordinary could one certify that even your dreams are a sea of waves that surprise you.
The day started as always and we already had the results of the elements in the Hades room. Soon we could begin preparations. I remember I had to see the university email from the ancient history class. And he had plotted to study with Josefina. Something that should not bother Gaia.
In my home, meanwhile, Gaia does housework. I hope she is not generating some earthquake with her ideas and madness.
- You played with time again –
- Yes, we had good times. Although it is irritating. And you? It didn't go well for you
- No, it's not that it didn't go well for me. But you know it's not something I can take pleasure in.
- You say the same words that I once expressed to you. We have had so many moments that I don't know which one they were. You shouldn't follow in my footsteps. And you know it well.
- I don't follow them, I just take care of you as it should be. We'll see what I'll do with it.
- But something didn't attract you?
- Now the roles are reversed. I have asked you this question once.
-And I have answered you – she said, mocking with pride.
- .....I don't think so…..Ugh!!!… if so, you wouldn't be playing with him.
- Don't say that. I would never play with him. He, he is….. –
- Take all the time in the world to find out about him. Although I already know what the result will be.
- We were talking about you. Leave my marriage alone.
- I'll see what to do with that man of words.
- You must like something, you are not one to agree to go out. In fact since you arrived you have never done it. You keep crying for someone who left you and you don't open yourself to anything that can be assimilated.
- Well, at least, I'm not escaping and living illusions.
- Nobody asked you for advice as an older sister.
- I'm not your sister. Just your protector. And as such I must watch over you. Your parents will want to meet Jupiter.
- Soon.
- And what will you do?
- What I always do.
- You will discover everything sooner or later.
-Only if I'm careless.
-!!! MMM!!
-….let's let everything flow. Is it okay for you to go shopping?
- Not bad for your highness Ha!!! Ha!!!
- Funny. You don't need to address yourself that way.
At the end of their mid-morning, both of them left the house. Gregory descended the stairs quickly, almost running, and did not notice them. Without realizing it he dropped two sheets of a writing eraser that he was carrying in a hurry.
-Gregory!! – He shouted when collecting such leaves.
- What happen? – Gaia left the house, locking the door.
- This fool dropped some papers. And he left immediately.
- Well. It shouldn't be serious. Contact him and return them to him.
- But…
- But nothing. It can be important.
- Yes Yes. – He lowered his gaze.
- Luna stops being so harsh. – He gave a distant look. – fate may have interceded with that poor man. Well, someone has to do it.
- Because I could say the same thing about you.
- Let's go or we'll be late.
- Jupiter, I have the studies. – Erwin expressed – And they are not encouraging at all. Not even conclusive. To tell the truth, we should save most of these objects.
- Erwin, don't scare me. I already realize that the results did not reach any conclusion.
- It's very simple Jupiter, all this could be a scam. You know cheap props that were acquired over time. Talk to the Boss. The main idea is to assemble a room of strange elements, which speak of hidden themes. Notice that we have strange figures, which seem to have come out of the catastrophe of the Middle Ages, so I suggested that they change the name from Hades Room to Grim Reaper Room. Ha! Ha! Although he did not want to, but we will expose elements of alchemy, occultism, the figures of the effigies
- Is there occultism and alchemy? Moment? Those books were not there, or at least I did not catalog them in my report.
- Jupiter, you are lost in space. Your parents did well to give you that name. And apart from Anonymous. They don't register you. You placed the books, as well as the containers, and alchemist paintings.
- HMM! I do not remember. He may be very tired from it, anyway. It's very surprising.
- You're crazy, Jupiter. It's nothing surprising. On the contrary. People love everything that has to do with these topics, and especially the legend that has spread for years about that ghost, or figure, and the murders. We can put on a good show.
- Thanks for the marketing class Erwin, but I remind you that it is a museum, not an amusement park, nor an advertising agency. And that? That capitalist form also irritates me. That ghost what will we do?
- It was the boss who had that crazy idea, and what ghost? Do not be an idiot
Do you believe in that? He never showed up. They are just legends. I prefer to believe that a non-alcoholic beer will come out. In other words never. -
- The time I entered......a blurry flash occurs in my....
- Yeah?
- No, nothing! Yes I suppose it is an oral literary fallacy.
- I love that about you. You are going to run the Hades Room.
- Well I already knew that.
- Yes, but also the entire ghostly orchestra.
- Huh? What's wrong with the boss? I'm not a clown
- No, but you have talent. Okay kid, I'm out of here. I have to go cover another event. Prepare everything to conclude the matter of the majestic Hades Room.
Erwin retired so I had no choice but to sign his paperwork. The room already had a predetermined order. Most of the pieces had been placed. There were some drawings hanging like paintings in which a sun illuminated a fruit tree and two people raised their hands. Then another in which there were several doors and a man in a toga prayed a few words. And so there were others, of the same species. It was the alchemical art of obscurantism. The time when they were trying to find the so-called philosopher's stone, and eternal life. Old books with drawings and writing symbols. I walked around to familiarize myself with it, since there were the heights of the
anomalous figures. It was true that at that time they carved themselves as best they could. There was no alignment. I took a full look and went down the corridor. He no longer feared that ghost; possible spectrum. It was as if the fear had completely disappeared. I walked to the entrance of the sub room. There were new statues there, and the effigy that looked at me haughtily was scary just to inspect. It was identical to the one we had in our home with Gaia.
Now that I think about it? Did she bring it? I didn't realize to ask him, we might have some information. Well, if it's from her island, we would already have reliable information. I will continue inspecting.
An hour later the girl with pigtails, my supervisor, appeared.
- Good heavens!! Good time to cross to Rigel. -
- Jupiter. You've done a good job, despite being you.
- I try to achieve my maximum performance as an employee of the institution. Everyone knows – she was an unpleasant lady, but not a bad one. But her sarcasm was intolerable.
- Heh! Heh! You must respond appropriately. I think you're an absurd guy, but I like that. It will be an antipathy that is not justified by anything, but that gives some pleasure in the study of worldly third parties.
- Thank you, my motto is to remain firm in my concepts so that people are surprised every day with my explanations and stop bothering me by asking questions.
- It's not bad at all. Next week we inaugurate the Hades Room
- But!!! ...Many arrangements remain!!
- It is not important. The room is now in a suitable shape.
- It is too early.
- It's fair. So good. There is nothing more to explain. Get ready for next week.
- Understood!
She left without saying anything. I stood my ground. Orders are orders. -
- Good! , This dress is very beautiful Luna!
- Yes, I chose it the other day in this shopping center. You should buy one. To impress your husband. It's part of married life
- Don't be funny! It's not that I want to buy something for him... I just can't, or could I?
- Come on, wouldn't you like to impress him? You haven't told him that you would go on dates.
- In fact I would like to, but I have clarified that this entire marriage is a farce. I wouldn't want to create expectations for something that won't happen.
- It attracts you in some way.
- I just do not know. I really do not know.
- You live in love with childhood dreams, without doing anything. Your parents, that distant love that doesn't even know you. You should begin to complete that entire circle that corresponds to you Gaia. To your person. I could continue scolding you, but I don't want to ruin your day – Luna said firmly with a furtive look. Gaia bowed her head, nodding, silently. Everything she had been saying was true, however, it made her strategy difficult for her with her parents. Ten months had already passed, without knowing it. The time for me was unfinished or so I think. Not just for me but for everyone. – I will tell you everything Gaia has to say. God how cold he is. The winters in this country are terrible, they do not compare to our land.
- There, it practically does not exist. The island has a pleasant climate compared to these seasons.
- Well, do what you have to do Gaia, you can still use your distinctive touch. And you know what I mean? Heh! Heh!
- It's not funny, not at all subaltern Luna
- Ha! Ha! I am your subordinate and your friend. Don't forget it, rather remember it. Ha! Ha!
- Let's keep going. Look at that shopping center. Is it new?
The ladies continued their walk, and did not realize that someone was following them. He was a being in a coat and hat. He carried a notepad in his hand with a pen.
They did not notice that subject, although Gaia had a certain intuition to be able to determine the stealth. She is so strange. I said it already. That gift, I was able to discover, one night when we were in the room and a certain silent movement made her wake up and go directly to turn on the light and hang from the ceiling. Yes, it's nonsense. That's Gaia. And all because of a tiny spider.
- What are you doing?
- I heard a strange noise! And I woke up.
-???!!!
- It's just a spider.
- Good heavens! I want to sleep! What time is it?
- Sorry Danna! "She," she said, and looked at her small watch. Seeing it, something important resonated in my mind, a kiss from her that I had dreamed of, but first an important gift. A watch - Good night - she smiled at me and went back to sleep
- Well, good night! - I said thinking about it, and closing my eyes. -
Another day in the living room to the kitchen, she ran with a broomstick. We were having a snack.
- This coffee with milk is delicious.
- Thank you Danna! – Her face changed, looking at me, with a murderous expression, and she took the knife and rushed towards where I was. I spit out the coffee from the attack.
- What are you doing woman?!!! – I screamed.
She went to the kitchen, and after her due to the impact, I also went.
- What's going on?
- Nothing! She – She tilted her head negatively. –
- Gaia Did you sleep well?
- Always. I was afraid to see something strange behind you.
- Do you watch a lot of horror movies?
- You know I like horror! This is different
- Don't tell me you see ghosts? – I expressed ironically. –
- Could be. They love you.
- Estem?!!! I repeat again, are you okay?
Soon a strange noise was heard and then another. That made me tremble. Since then I knew that Gaia, she had a certain sensor. I kept the ghosts to myself. Well, it wasn't the only episode. This is all nonsense, I said at first, and I stood by it.
Then they continue their normal path, being followed by someone who hides with his attire. The ladies continued and entered the mall. They climbed the stairs and walked through the corridors where there were other elegant sports clothing businesses. Gaia took the opportunity to buy a sweatshirt and a dress. Same thing Moon.
- You saw it?
- Ahem! It's beautiful! -
- I love you! -
After trying on several clothes, they left there and went to the fast food room to drink a soda. They ordered two with some hamburgers, knowing that it was already noon and they could have something light for lunch to continue. Gaia is not one to drink liquids, however as we lived together she began to take the pleasure of drinking. I asked why not drink liquids with food, since it was important. She responded with a scientific analysis based on the fact that liquids hinder digestion. Something quite strange. If the infusion of water is essential for existence. It was not water but other synthetic water-based liquids. I never deduced what she expressed. It was like madness. Over time he acquired the habit. Possibly on her island they didn't do it. Earth cultures are very different in so many ways. I wouldn't like to think that there are others that are more complex and absurd. That last word is oriented to ours. They are all strange.
Finally they finished their meal, and took a few moments of break to rest their stomach, or rather a gentle digestion to continue their commercial journey.
- Should we continue? - Gaia asked. – I'm a little exhausted. –
- Of course. There is still much to see.
- Phew! You don't get tired.
- I must take you everywhere, princess. Oh by the way! Have you decided that you are going to study? Will you return to anthropology? You could go into science, as I have done.
- Not at all. I love art, besides you were already studying bio--technology, and physics. What I want to study are orientations to art in all its aspects.
- Could you take them to the island and start a business?
- I'm not sure. History also attracts me.
- Ahh! That must be Jupiter!
- It's not that. He has great eloquence and oratory on these points. Sometimes when you ask him about some fact, he gets up from his chair and begins with a rhyme of mimes to explain the events. He is a wonder in a sense, to be able to hear him.
***//*** Time impasse.
Gaia...the question was this...Archimedes knew in advance that they were trapped by the Roman siege. On land the forces were rushing with catapults and by sea the ships were stalking the Adriatic. There was only one infallible weapon, and it was the mind of that man who, although he had devised some weapons with which to resist, had a beam up his sleeve. Ustorial mirrors. Clear! We don't know for sure if they were real, but according to testimonies. These mirrors concentrated the heat of the radiant sun. It is the perspective of Euclid already 300 years ago. Archimedes didn't have many options, so he placed each of them from the top of the great wall, and one day on the ancient calendar, the port began to burn. They were Marcellus' ships that were burning. Flee from the burning flames and lights were the words of several legionaries. Legendary sources narrate that a beam similar to a laser destroyed each ship... some time later Syracuse would fall, because like every small nation, it unfortunately dies over time. Archimedes was murdered, and his murder was due to the lack of respect for his own people as well. But there are still events like that day when the lights interfered from the sky to the sea...
..Gaia's face had blushed, because of Jupiter's words. The power of the oratory was emotion on her cheeks. Her reddish hair was dyed in dark shades. Whenever a situation occurred to her in which emotion subjugated her heart, her hair came to life and became disheveled as if the wind made them flutter.
- Gaia, you got lost again - Jupiter said - Sorry if I was a bit boring Ha!
Ha! - She tilted her head negatively happily. –
- Just listening to you is amazing Danna. Always tell me stories. – She said happily, as her hair rose as if fluttering in the wind.
- Here - Jupiter said, and handed him a small watch - I wanted to give you this gift. If there is something I love, it is watches. I hope you like it.
-Danna!! It's beautiful – And she kissed Jupiter on her lips. -
***//***
- Gaia, you got lost again! – Luna said. -
- Sorry!! She daydreamed. –
- You dream very often when Gaia wakes up, you even get lost too much. I shouldn't tell you this, but the Jupiter effect is affecting you too much, like that child who doesn't stop following us, and is now hiding between the mural on the other side of one of the fast food counters. No, I know what I'll do with him.
- Heh! Heh! You're so rigid, you could give him a chance, at least so he doesn't self-destruct.
- What I want the least is that. He's nice and daring, but it wouldn't be good for him to mess with someone like me, who only lives off of science.
- And the bad memories. That is your serious problem. Let the past fade away.
- Now are you going to give me advice?
- I will always give them to you, that's what friends are for. How about we go?
- Why not? Let's head to the technology sector, I want to see the new notebook elements.
They both got up from their seats, and went down a hallway until they found the escalator. The slowness of the climb was noticeable. From the extensive commercial building you could see part of the city.
- Look, over there is the museum where Jupiter works.
- It looks like an old building, typical of museums. One day I would like to go visit
- We can go together, today.
- Don't know. It would not be a bad idea.
At the end of the tour, they went through a hallway that was covered with a business. Luna was watching everything, and as they walked she turned to see Gregory hiding. His face was drawn with a certain joy that Gaia was able to determine with little intuition. Which actually made her smile brighter for her friend.
- Wait here Luna.
- Because?
- Just a few minutes. – Gaia said with a bit of grace. She turned around and left her waiting, to go to where that guy was with her notebook.
- Good afternoon Gregory!!!
- AHH!!..Eh… Estem Good afternoon Gaia, nice
day right?
- If it is not? What do you write? – She asks, and she manages to read it before he puts it away. "She likes refreshing coke, I wonder if it's just that, how beautiful her face is" – Wow! You really are a good writer
When will you tell him? She – She asks again.
- I do not understand what you're talking about?
- Ohh! Do not be silly. Jupiter told me everything. And you are not here by chance. Come with me.
- That?? No no!! Not at all!!
- Don't be an idiot Gregory! Moon you can come.
- I can not hear you? – Moon says. They both just appear.
---
- Well, my outing with you ends here, I want to return home. So I withdraw.
- But, what about the museum?
- Another day. Jupiter may possibly go to college.
- But...but...
- But nothing woman!
- I don't want to be a bother.
- You shut up detective! And keep the lady!
Gaia left the shopping center, greeting them both, as she took the escalator down.
- Well, sorry. I ruined their exit.
- It's no big deal. Why are you dressed like that? You look like a KGB spy!
- It's not that, it's that I like Soviet clothes.
- Now are you going to tell me that you are of Russian origin? "She," she said sarcastically. Gregory carelessly dropped his notebook. Lunar picked it up.
…I loved her from the first moment I saw her, and I would like to know her tastes and charms. I would like to meet her, even if she is from far away. Have her close to her.
This is how Gregory's words began
..He loves her colored dress. Like physics in her hands, and the molecules on her face that look like rainbows drawing skies. I love that freedom that she has to move when walking, to say the words, to dream.
I don't know her, but I want to know her. I want to be part of it, and destroy all the walls that divide us and build a bridge to its heart.
- You wrote this? – Luna blushed.
- Okay, yes! They are drafts, that's why it's an anus...scorer – Gregory hesitates
- Can I keep it? - She smiled. -
-Hey! .. –Yes!, of course-Gregory placed his hand on her head, laughing slightly. – Hey – Then he lowered his head – Sorry, if I interrupted you –
- On the contrary. I had never read anything by you.
- The other time I invited you, things were clear to me. I don't want to be a bother to you.
- Do you want to go have a drink? I have free time.
- Clear!
- And by the way you are never a bother. I have fun and you are a very special person. My writer.
Gregory was glad for that, as if the space of the universe were at their feet dancing until the stars stopped shining.
The laughter and anecdotes came sooner than expected. It wasn't a rejection like the first time, but rather a huge endless stream of feelings. Gregory felt at ease. He had already been rejected, and with certainty he would not give up anything to make Luna's heart soften just enough with the right words.
- Today is the day I have to study with Josefina. - I told myself. When I left work, I sent her a message letting her know that I had to meet a friend from college.
- Is that the girl who sends you messages? – I answer after a considerable lapse of time.
Gaia didn't seem to bother him. She usually has the habit of checking messages without saying a word. Without answering or anything. Or quite the opposite, she sends countless funny emojis and hearts that fill the mobile phone screen. But this time she did respond in a strange way.
- Have a good day of study with that woman.
Seeing her message somewhat lacking in grace. No accents or commas. They were opaque words with frivolous form and image. He could imagine her writing with little patience and meditating on her words and then deleting them again. He asked me if she. Will she be jealous? No, it would be foolish of me to think something so taken out of context. Even though she is a woman, she has the right to be jealous. And even because she was my wife, even if everything was a lie, she could use her spousal skills to have the luxury of telling me everything.
Another message just arrived.
- Today we were thinking of going to see you and Luna at the museum.
- Oh really? They would have come!
- He's with Gregory.
- Heh! Heh! She doesn't give up that heartless guy.
-She looks like you with me! I still remember when you saved my life.
- It was a long time ago.
-But she doesn't forget.
- I'm already arriving to meet Josefina for dinner and study for the exam.
Gaia did not answer anything else.
- I'll be back late....Goodbye….. – I said goodbye. -
She still didn't respond. Maybe she got jealous. That woman is just a companion. After a few minutes before, Gaia responds. -
-She could study alone.
When I saw her message, I realized that Gaia didn't like that woman at all. I suppose I will have to explain, although it is also unnecessary considering the situation. Well, I'm just going to study, not to spend a night of uncontrolled passion, if I understand that Gaia, like every human being,
You have the right to stand firm in this situation with a certain poorly thought-out diligence of your brain to imagine non-existent facts. I would have done the same thing if it happened to me.
Well it looks like it's right there. In front of the wall of a large restaurant. A suitable place to dine. At first he proposed his house, but I refused. That would make Gaia worse.
- Jupiter!! Her – She threw herself at me with an affectionate hug. -
- Ho….Hello – I said a bit surprised. Her jasmine perfume was very strong and her winter scarf stretched across my lips. She had a blouse outfit, with jeans, and shoes. Her shirt shone. Her hair was loose brown with a dark-colored jacket.
- What do you think of this place to dine and study?
- Huh? It's a good place.
- Here. You can have dinner, and we can have time for reading and study. It is a restaurant with private sites.
When entering that site. You could tell it was a prominent place, but not for students. It had like the Japanese system of karaokes, or cyber cafes, private rooms, in which to reserve to spend time 24 hours a day. Frankly, I never had the pleasure of being able to go to one to have fun. My neat hermit way didn't allow it. Gregory may be the only friend I have at this point in my life, and I barely know him. All the other ghosts that inhabit me are just passing characters.
- Jupiter stops being thoughtful. – Josefina commented. Without meaning to, we were already installed at the table. It was a large room with a screen, in case we wanted to watch television, or play a game, or access the Internet.
We had the table menu there. They were quite accessible minutes. Josefina ordered a Serrano ham, cheese, Parmesan style sandwich, for my part something
light so as not to hinder concentration with abusive digestion. She came forward to drink. Two mugs of beer.
- As? What did this woman say? - I asked myself. We're going to study, not hang out.
"Two mugs of ice cold beer, please," she said again. She squeezed the words out of her.
The waiter left.
- Beer?
- Jupiter. Without beer, you can't study the main points.
- The ideal would be a coffee.
- You have stayed in time. That was done twenty years ago. Update yourself!
- Hey! They were good times.
- Don't be old. Ah! You're married of course! And what is married life like?
"She," she asked, placing her hand on her cheek, holding her head with her elbow in a boring question.
- What's that about? – I asked, somewhat stunned. – It's something normal. We get along well.
- Oh really? – she asks again. – Do they go out a lot?
- Enough.
- Where do they usually go?
- Restaurants, cafes, cinemas. The normal. Um...it's an interrogation.
- Heh! Heh! Clearly - she is a special lady isn't she?
- She? One of the most special.
- Something that has captivated you?
- What has captivated me? There are many that could be said. Her reddish hair, her cheeks, her way of acting, her look. Her words. Each one is worth something special, unique.
- Hmm!! – She dreams awake. –
- What happen? – I ask with doubts -
- Nothing! But....There must be something deeper.
For a moment I meditated, as she stared at my movements. Even though what I had with Gaia was a farce, I felt like we both had something. Something very deep, and she couldn't determine it just when she was dreaming. And then she disappeared wanting it to be true.
- If something were special, how would you classify Jupiter?
- If something were special, it would be unimaginable. It could not be described with any words, or situation that exists in this world.
- Good. I'll rephrase the question if you don't mind. What is special?
My face changed completely imagining Gaia in a field of flowers dancing among them while her petals fly. And everything around you spins with it like a gentle hurricane of breezes.
-She has something beautiful inside her that cannot be explained. When I saw her I knew she was the woman of my life. I can't describe it. It's strange, it's like my heart beats incessantly every time she is near her. We don't have the same tastes or spirits. We are even very different, but there is something about her, and that is that her heart also beats faster when she has me near her. It's hard to explain, because I feel it internally and so does she. Of that I'm sure
- Ahh! That is pure love – She said – Although the term of two hearts that she feels seems very abstract to me. But…..
Dinner arrived just in time to conclude that investigation. We were eating and while she was tasting she drank a few sips of beer. The first to finish had been me, with a gluttony at high speed, I wanted to hurry to get the notes.
- Jupiter, don't hurry up, we have time to study the exam. – I conclude with some parsimony –
I nodded and soon took my cell phone to check the messages. I didn't have anything from Gaia. And clearly from no other person. Then I started to turn on another light to have a better view of the notes. Josefina had finished dinner, and she ordered another beer.
- What are you doing Jupiter?
- There is little lighting! - Said.
- Look how strange you are. Having that light is so romantic.
-???!!!
- Ha!! Ha!! She was joking. – She laughs.
- Mmm!!.... - - .....It's not funny at all – I said to myself – Well let's start – I took the notes out of my bag, and we started.
- It would be a good idea to use the screen to search for information
- I offer no opposition. – I expressed, with a stale face, without observing her, more than my notes.
- Thank you Marshal! Phew! You look like a soldier who was deposed. – Clearly I didn't listen to what he said.
- Well, the beginnings of humanity are analyzed from the so-called hominid, but before, many before the evolutions were intertwined
We agree?
- Yes, and that so-called Darwinian evolution was what was producing changes, keeping the ecosystem in mind. The first advance from Africa, which at that time had a warm climate, hence the dark skin and fur
- That's more advanced Josefina. It must be analyzed that the so-called caveman initially lost his hair, and why? The climate could be established there.
- Hmm! You are quite intelligent Jupiter.
- Thank you
After two hours of study. We take a break. Josefina looked at me with two mugs of beer on top of her, although she was sober and laughed.
- What is so funny?
- Heh! Heh! It's no big deal. She – She said. She took a note and addressed me. Sitting next to me. – I have some doubts with this point. – He marked one at random. I moved a few centimeters from her, because she was close to me, and it was a bit uneasy for me.
- Well this point.... And then.... He spoke to himself practically without looking at her... And the development of this other point... - And after a while her head began to fall on my shoulder as I was talking. I continued talking to myself, and she, almost asleep, whispered some stammered words that were not understood.
-Jupiter, you are very nice - And she got closer to me, to which I moved quickly in a reflex act, and she woke up.
- Oh!! Sorry, I fell a little asleep –
- Don't worry. I guess you didn't hear what I said, no?
She seemed to look into herself, passing her hand over one of her eyes to get rid of the sleep.
- I was half asleep, but in the meantime, I could hear you, although I gave importance to a quick dream in which they proposed to me.
- Marriage? How strange are you?
- I feel a little jealous of you two.
- Well, you'll find someone - I told him sincerely, making a face of affection.
She looked at me a little surprised.
-.... ?... Ehhh!!...Eh? Hey you!!!!... aren't you flirting with me? I'm sorry but I can't, I already told you. You are married, and your wife is wonderful, we can't. We are different. We don't have the same times. Boy, you're very closed, I'm fun. We would both be bored. I can't, nor do I want to.
I looked at her with a frown. Again rambling with words. How educational it is to reject me. I lost count
- Besides, we can't be lovers, or anything like that, we are from different worlds. I'm sorry, my apologies, but it's not possible. We are other races. And I don't want to be second, or anything, to it. I'm sorry, my love is the sea, I prefer that we be friends.
- Well! Well, I've heard you enough! – I told her, moving my hands, gesturing my tiredness – How many times does this lady plan to reject me? – I told myself I was tired of hearing that pamphlet of words. I'm not interested in her at all.
-However...-And she lowered her gaze - You are nice Jupiter. She must be very happy – I express with her eyes looking at the base of the table, and her hands held with her shoulders shrugged. – Don't let her go no matter what happens –
- Alright! It goes without saying. -Although, the reality is that one day she might tell me that the farce was over. - I will do everything I can. After all, she is my wife.
- Well said, although I don't know what saw you, you're stupid.
- Wasn't it nice?
- Of course, and stupid too. –
- Well you too.
- Am I stupid?
- Not nice.
She smiled. She seemed of the same quality as Gaia. To which I gave a slight glance.
- Mmm!!!........Again? That libidinous look. Don't want to flirt with me. I already told you we can't. You have a wife, and I am a firm and determined woman, who is not interested in people like that who seek a double life with lovers. And besides she wouldn't work. And we are from different worlds.
- Here we go again with the word chip – This woman is a specialist in rejecting men. – Wow! I've heard you enough!!! - Oh!! It's half late!!, I think it's time to go? Or do we continue studying?
- No, and besides, you are…..The time? – She paused for all your didactic sentences – Let's study a little more if you like?
We continued, although it was after the early hours of the morning. The next day she didn't work, so she could sleep, and review some notes for next week's exam.
When I finished and said goodbye to Josefina, I looked at my phone again while I was on the street waiting for the bus. Everything was fine apparently. Until we see five so-called losses from Gaia.
- What the hell happened? - said. I tried to call her, but the number was busy. I repeated the process again, and the same thing happened. So I texted – Are you okay? I have some calls, from you Gaia!!! I don't understand why the calls weren't going through? After trying again, I received an answering machine with a few words. Misplaced. They were like noises from a hoarse, ghostly voice.
- Grueeee!!!....grryyye..greee..asii.fggg....gry….uu. – soon it seemed like my ear would burst. I hung up, and tried again after a while. Could not
discern what it was, if it gave chills to the point that my spine bristled with immediate cold.
On my bus trip, I was trying to call again. Again, again, successively. Again I resumed my voice and now a sharp whistle as if it were an alarm censor, -- . I hung up, and
I returned to the same call, until she answered.
-Danna?! Yes, what do you want?
- Gaia! Are you OK? I have some calls, from you!!!
- Yes, I was resting!
- Ahh! There were some noises.
- Noises? Danna stop imagining things! Are you sure you were busy with your partner?
- That? Don't say stupid things, I REALLY WORRY!
- Huh? –Gaia blushed – For me?
- I thought something had happened to you!
- I'm fine! – She said with a happy sigh – Thank you Jupiter! Thank you darling for worrying about me! "She" She said with a fallen voice. She had somehow been glad about it. Or she felt that no one had ever shown her such concern. She sensed it with his voice. - Come back soon!
- Thank you! – And I hung up.
"What Gaia didn't like was a harsh truth that could happen. The feeling of one another. It is simple. The fact of being together. "To share moments."
When I come back. Unintentionally I was heading towards the park. That square where we first met eyes. Where I saved her that day from the accident. And
She proposed marriage, before going on a date. It was where in a pouring rain I found her in front of the statue of the crying angel. And where everything became an endless number of diffuse situations.
I wonder why Gaia was there that time? Stoically, firmly, mentioning a few words. I went stealthily before that majestic whitish marble shape. And I got ready to want to talk.
She looked at me without saying anything about it.
- Come on, do you know her? Sorry, I didn't even introduce myself. I am Gaia's husband. Well that could be said. Since we joined in marriage not long ago. Although I think it happened more than I remember. When I met her it was right here. You will surely have seen us. And an accident occurred in which I almost lost my life. Before that event I asked him for a date. Really when I saw it I was totally dazzled. It was as if the person I had been looking for so much or was going to look for appeared before my eyes.
That bust just looked at me and while I told him about my life with Gaia.
-Gaia, she proposed to me to get married and then we would have a date. It was all very strange. Some time later she appeared at my house. And we celebrated the wedding. At first everything was normal and we had our appointment. Then we live together as two beings who have each other and don't. And one day she told me that everything was a fallacy. Despite this, I understood her. Do not ask me. It will be because she wanted to win her heart. However, I would support her in any way. I have seen her crazy and out of control in all aspects. She is a good companion. She is cordial and cheerful. She sometimes gets sad like when she came to you. I feel like that devastates me. I don't know what you think? But I don't want her to leave my side, even though I know she will. Well I don't have much to
tell you. And it's better that she fire me. Gaia may be lying down.
Who is Gaia? You won't tell me. I already know that. Bye bye.
When I get home. Everything was in her order. Gaia was resting. And I got ready to lie down.
A week later the exam would come, the Hades Room was inaugurated... and Gaia disappeared...