It was stranger than it seems. The Hades room kept many secrets, but I didn't think that was it.
Gaia was dreaming, and I could share her dream that Saturday morning.
-She has a face that you forget in a couple of days
- Stop saying that
- It's because it's fun to torment you. But you actually like me tormenting you, don't you?
- Stop saying ridiculous things
- Do you prefer that we never play again? Ha! Ha! You're funny – I like that introverted expression, you know?
- What a beautiful compliment
-Thank you, I'm sure I'll forget it in a few days, but – And he passed her hand on my cheek – I will never forget this time we spent together. She had drunk a whole glass of an alcoholic drink, but it was to say things decisively.
And I gave him a kiss. -
- I feel that this talk is not very serious
- Then it wouldn't be a talk - I responded. -
- I feel like I don't look like someone normal, but for once I want to do something with you forever -
...….I will soon be leaving….keep it in mind…but you will not understand…forget about me…and all these moments...…..
When she woke up she was resting. She had only slept two hours, and I lay down again.
The usual thing would have been to continue resting, but frankly I couldn't. She had inside me like a hunch that resonated throughout my body. As if he could predict that something would happen. I clung to the idea that it was just some passing emotion. Those that come as news that want to produce some tremor. And then the figure of Gaia came to me. What will we do?
- Ohhh!! …..- A yawn from Gaia begins suddenly – I see that you are awake Danna.
- If I can not sleep.
- You have studied? She - She asked bluntly. Her mood was low and hostile.
- Yes, do I notice that you have become a little jealous?
"Not at all," she says proudly.
- Well you shouldn't do it either.
- Good!. Ugh… - Sigh – I guess I have no right to claim anything. We have already talked about our situation. But well, I hope you had a satisfactory time. She – She made an unfriendly face as she went to the bathroom to take a shower.
- If you're worried! You can stay more than calm. I didn't do anything that could be compromising. Apart from the fact that she had no desire to go.
Gaia?
- Tell me! – She was in the bathroom. -
- Wouldn't you like us to go to the movies today?
- Go to the movies? Would not be bad. Today is your day off and I'll see...Let me think...
- We never do anything together! We married. Yes I understand that it is all an arrangement. But part of it was dating. We haven't done anything in these months. I even thought it had only been two months and we've been there for longer.
- We have done many things Danna.
- We have? Stop talking nonsense.
Gaia stood firm in silence for a few seconds. Then she looked at herself in the mirror.
And she asked herself why?
- This fool! Foolish Jupiter! If only she could No!! No Gaia!!
- Well. Anyway, as you said, it's quite an arrangement. I think we could give ourselves some free time. To not be imprisoned.
- You can do whatever you want. Invite your partner if she's okay with you - Gaia said, biting her teeth as if she hated the words she had said.
- Don't know. But my feelings are clear.
- Your feelings? – Gaia said to herself – How I wish everything were different – Jupiter, I think you're right. Do what you consider appropriate.
- I don't think it's right.
- A moment ago you said you didn't know. That we should take some time.
- It's not that.
- And then? Now agree.
I immediately got angry squirming and went to the bathroom and reflexively told him from the other side. -
- WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS THAT I LOVE YOU...
The cell phone rang. A breath from her, she felt relieved. I went for the cell phone, which was making a terrible mess, and my confession was kept somewhere.
the wait I went to respond in a very bad way. After throwing my phone on the floor for something stupid, I went to the bathroom again and without realizing it because of my nerves, I opened the door.
-What Gaia wanted to tell you is that I LOVE YOU… .. – And without realizing it I saw her there in her fullness with her body stripped of clothes. She had made the mistake out of carelessness.
There, a surprised Gaia, completely naked, stared at me. Her face was red like her long hair coming out as if there were wind inside an empty bathroom. I hadn't proclaimed myself to her, because of that interruption, but she knew well what was coming. He could see her detailed figure and how that wild hair came to life at every point, and in different directions. She was stunned by such beauty. Her white skin, her robust chest, her high nipples and all the way to her pussy. She quickly covered herself as best she could.
- Ehh..eh…eh – she had no words.
- I'm...I'm...I'm sorry.- I closed the door. I had turned red like her from the shame of others. – Excuse me, I better go to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
"Yes, it's okay," she said with a wavering voice. "What was that?" No one had ever seen me naked. For God's sake!! – She She said to herself. – Get the hell out of here!!!!! She-she She blushed even more than she should. Her shame could not be covered by her small hands. She wavered again between getting angry at the fact and my words. The confusion generated a collision of planets like when they suddenly crash and many luminous particles escape. And then the resounding silence as it spread and the darkness of nothing more than a rancid and plutonic environment existing. She explained to me without perhaps being able to reflect on the surprise - I'm sorry Jupiter. I can't correspond to you. In short, I am a coward. If you knew that since the day I saw you I have feelings for you, but I can't. No I can not
Jupiter. Ella – She said to herself again when turning the shower faucet. The water fell all over her body. And it mixed with her tears. – It will soon be over. I will keep the memories of us that I took from you so as not to destroy you, darling.
Those were words that Gaia hid for herself. I left like every morning and when I left the artist was on her balcony with a piece of canvas.
- Jupiter! Good morning. Here I will portray a majestic city from the second floor of this small building.
- How crazy! – I said to myself – Good morning! I find it fantastic
He was so concentrated that he pointed his brush at some distant buildings, and soon all his art began. He was challenging the movements of the breeze so that the dye would spread with a well-made line that identifies everything that exists around. Of course I left immediately, otherwise I wanted to be part of his magical artist fetish. I had read Oscar's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and I feared for my soul trapped in a rag.
I thought when I saw everyone. That from this place it was a canvas. Each and every one of them was conformed to a unique and beautiful situation. I remembered the first time we laughed with Gaia, it was over a silly argument about brushing her teeth. We had a competition to see who took better care of him, and of course she won, and she laughed at the pasta on my lips falling like dog drool with rage. It was fun I supposed. -
Life is full of those moments that we determine as insignificant. That they are not going to be repeated, and perhaps that is the painful thing, because I have lived many like this, since my birth, and with Gaia. Maybe what I say is very painful, because in my species I am a frivolous and archaic human, but I know that I will regret not returning to them. -
The exam would take place today, and so would the inauguration of the Hades room. After all these events I will take Gaia somewhere fun. I think she deserves a few days of rest, to distract herself. I told her out loud what I felt, and she continued with her rigid ladylike attitude that she does not admit. Gregory appeared too. The only thing missing was the pair of nosy neighbors who were always giving their opinion on everything and everything.
-My friend – He said somewhat happy. He came happy with his score.
-Gregory, good morning – I had a suspicion that he was in the mood since we spoke – You have good news, don't you?
- I couldn't say if it's good news. It's news and that's it.
- Hey! How nice, the two together – I could portray them – Said the artist, while he painted. The noise made Gaia come out, and Luna look out the window to open it, and water her plants.
- This guy is crazy! He is producing a large pool. – It didn't take long for the nosy married couple to go out to see, and they went to where that artist was.
- Ha! Ha! At the rate we're going, he's going to lock us up like Dorian Gray and his portrait. – He commented. In fact he thought the same as me. Gaia came out and went over to talk to Luna. They both seemed to be looking at us.
- Hey!! And her?
- It's a story of friendship. But I will manage to conquer that city – She expressed with arduous motives of primordial struggle and then she laughed until a faint seriousness appeared in her eyes. – Jupiter! Do you have a minute?
- I'm on my way to work, and then a class exam, and then I'll leave early. –
- Good! I will wait for you at departure time.
- It's something urgent - He commented on my anxiety. –
- No, in fact it is something strange.
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Strange? – I asked, frowning. He looked at them, and looked at me immediately. – Then I will explain to you.
I nodded with certain doubts and curiosities. Everything was in a circle in this building, and the artist continued with his canvas while the couple watched and talked with him. And Gaia placed her hand on a leaf of a blossoming bud. Luna watched us from afar as if she were a sniper aiming at the enemy squad group. At least I sensed it.
We left and Gregory went to the publishing house, and I went to my work.
The Hades room was ready. Inside, in the center, a statue made of bronze. Very expensive regarding the god Hades in the center next to his beloved Persephone. Origima told me that the tycoon had it made by means of a miniature. What surprised me was that in the distance and observing the Olympic Jupiter was facing the wall. In honor of Zeus, and Roman Jupiter, they had sent one to be made, sitting on a throne and next to him a lady who, above her, hugged her neck, extending her arms. Also bronze. I approached both statues. Both one and the other emitted an imposing vigor. The one that corresponded to the Olympian Jupiter or should have a woman next to him. Perhaps in mythology it was Juno she could be, or the Greek namesake Hera of her. Anyway, I took my information tablet to read a little about the matter. The room was noticeably silent, one could even shout and the silence itself would overshadow that sonorous roar. The legend had disappeared, although they kept the story in the last room on a poster to make visitors in its charm come to it. We all like fictional horror a little bit, until it becomes reality.
I completed the day, without any problem. Some tourists. Some photos, and my adorable explanation of how it was generated. As there was no adequate catalog of objects. The room became an enclosure of objects that enter within the
imaginary of people and their cultures. Inanimate objects that were created for the fascination of human beings as if they were from cultures that never existed. In fact, it corresponds to a room in which each element has no indication, therefore it remains in people's imagination as mythology, or cryptozology. Inventions of man. That first specification is clarified upon entering, so that no one corrupts the site with fallacious arguments about a new history that we are creating within historical revisionism.
Before leaving when the last tourist left, I went to the small room from the corridor in order to turn off the lights. As I did so, I thought I saw a small red luminosity. It was like it was reflected on the entrance wall, and the shape of a silhouette was drawn. Fear made me remember the humanoid ghost as a shadow, when I turned around I found nothing but the effigy watching me. The delicate sense of uncertainty and anxiety brought down a few drops of fear. I left immediately. I had to keep my head in the exam. The red light did not appear. It was certainly an illusion of mine. I closed the doors to the living room, and then the doors to the hallway. I went down the stairs and then the elevator.
I handed in my part of the report, and hurried to the university. When we arrived, many students were already in their firm seats. It was not a difficult exam, however the adrenaline was running through the room, since it was a promotional subject.
A colleague told me that Rigel gave a good part of my work to the boss. It was the first time he had done it.
- It seems like the boss is liking you.
- Maybe it's kindness. – I expanded. -
-Kindness is just a fraud, or part of society's lies for other secrets - She confessed, and left. He was a colleague who had never
seen. I didn't give importance to it. He, on the other hand, did know about me. We both could have mentioned a situation, although we tried not to make mistakes in it, giving priorities to our personal matters.
I sat my desire, and my anxiety, at any desk. My colleagues that I knew were distant from me. The tutor entered and without saying a word he distributed the sheets to each of us. Upon receiving it. He had a hunch reading the questions. Answer each of them appropriately. A perfect development of each of them
First question.
- How would you associate society and its development in the Neolithic era.
When I thought about that question, my mind remembered the study with Josefina, and I don't know why a voice like Gaia's told me the answer.
- Let's see the development in the Neolithic stage, it was based on an understanding provided by our hominid ancestors who contained an intelligence that exceeded possible standards. In this, the development of elements and machinery gave rise to a great civilization that prospered after the ice age. Self-production of food and products was encouraged, as well as expansion towards plains, because the first humans came from the mountains, in which they created accommodation bases for their survival. Scientific knowledge was guided by developed astronomy. Now these hominids.
- Before the ice age, how developed was the ecosystem?
- The ecosystem was based on the modifications of the axis changes, produced in the earth. Civilizations before the hominids were cataloging each movement for their internal development. These coexisted from now on with the so-called primitive Australopithecus. Those civilizations were the clear evolution after the great catastrophe in the creation of reptiles and reasoning.
Called saurons, they settled in remote places, occupying the mountains, then vacated them and entered the tunnels within the core of the earth.
- Do you believe that evolution is a constant method?
- Evolution is.....the mother of life. Of the new life that is still brewing. It is not a constant method, it is a method of transformation to perfection. –
- Jupiter!! Jupiter!!! …! Ruppert student!
- Ahh!..excuse me teacher.
- No, there is a problem... you must hand in the form... we are already on time.
- Ohh I'm sorry..
I was solitary at my desk. All my companions were gone. Remo, Lucio, and Josefina. All that was left was for him to sign. Did I fall asleep? - I asked myself. The professor picked up my exam, and he greeted me.
- Be more attentive. It usually happens – He said – Regards Jupiter Anonymous Ruppert.
- Greetings professor. –
When he left the classroom, I organized my things and prepared to meet Gregory. I wanted to know beforehand what was so important. Outside Josefina was waiting.
- Ruppert! It took you a long time. Didn't you study anything? Or did you not take advantage of our private class? Ha! Ha! – She mocked. -
- Do not bother!
- Just kidding! Do you want to go talk about the exam and have a coffee?
- I can't, I have to meet someone.
- It's not a woman, right? Are you cheating on your wife? I ask laughing
- Of course not! She is a friend!
- Oh! Men's conversation. Not bad! I thought I was antisocial.
- I'm sorry to disappoint you. I would invite you... but - And I gave him a sarcastic and uninspiring look.
- Hey!! Of course I wouldn't go with a libidinous guy like you and you'll surely join others. God amazing.
- Why are you buying me a coffee if I'm like that?
-Because I am a good companion who cares about her friends.
- Well. If so, what do you think will be the next one? I invite you!
- What? Are you flirting with me? I already told you that we can't. We are friends. Are you married. Besides, if that were the case, I want to be second, and I'm sorry, we can't.
- Hey!! You do not interest me!! Stop making up rejection stories! I better go. Bye bye!
- Goodbye lascivious don!
I hate those types of people, who greet you and you can't get them out of your head. They send you a message and drive you crazy, but in the end you like them. I guess we are indecisive beings in what we want. But those people somehow catch us with their charm. Gaia had made that of me. She was so strange that I couldn't get her out of my head, and not because of love, but because of many other things that make up her personality. And Josefina was like my sister. An unbearable being, but pleasant in appearance. -
When I got to the ground floor, Gregory was waiting for me. He was smoking a cigarette. He usually does it when he gets a little nervous, he told me once. Seeing me, he took a drag and threw it on the ground to step on it, then picked it up and threw it in a trash can.
- Old man, how good to see you? First of all I'll just ask you how the exam went. –
- Well, I guess.
- You assume a lot, and that is doubtful.
- Self-doubt is a kind of insecurity.
- If you have studied there is no problem.
- Yes, I just got clouded at first.
- You got dizzy? It usually happens when one is nervous.
- No, it was as if I heard voices, and they told me the answers. Forget it, it's just stupid. What did you have to tell me?
- Let's go for a coffee and I'll tell you okay.
We both left there straight to an open place. There we ordered two coffees. While the waiter brought them, I took the opportunity to organize some notes from the museum.
-How's that business going?
- It's finally organized, and we have already opened the main room. The Hades room. It has many interesting objects, which have not been able to be catalogued, I could call them cheap props. All pieces brought from parts of the world more than a hundred years ago. Legends, books of strange languages, clay statues, pottery, paintings with drawings enchanting inexplicable situations.
Gregory thought for a moment about what he had mentioned. The waiter brought the coffees. While he poured a packet of sugar into mine, he continued thinking by placing two tablespoons of sugar into his. Then he beat it slowly.
- Don't you think all this is very strange? A large room full of uncatalogued objects. Without a specific history, as if it had never been known, but for the purchase of the museum. They would never be part of the history we know.
- In fact we don't know if they are history. It could be some prankster's nonsense.
- Nothing has jokes in our world Jupiter. Jokes are just gadgets to hide a truthfulness that cannot be without reality.
Have you noticed that many situations occur that are incomprehensible?
- Is that why you called me? – Ask, since Gregory is very cautious without being able to express himself as he should.
- Jupiter, the other time I met Gaia and Luna. Surely she must have told you – He stated. He didn't remember if she had mentioned it to me. – Anyway, we stayed with Luna later, because she invited me to have a beer. Gaia retreated past him.
- Well. Did you achieve anything good with Luna?
- Yes, how can I say it. We just went to have a drink with her. But since that time. I dream of Luna as if we were a couple. It's strange. It is so real that it seems as if dreams were true reality, and we are living a dream. – He said a little scared with his words.
- ? – I didn't say anything, because since I met Gaía, and since that time she came to my apartment to offer me marriage, the same thing was happening to me. In the end with Gregory we are two crazy people in love. Without being reciprocated, and dreaming that we are in a happy world, without robberies, or problems. In the end I told him to stay calm – Gregory, it is normal to dream, and even think about a person you love.
- Jupiter! I know that very well, but there is something I can't understand – He confessed. There the suspense invaded me. – In this notebook, as the writer that I am, I leave my lines and each of the texts that I write. – He takes out of his bag a notebook with many texts in his own handwriting.
Know? I dreamed that we went out one day, and in the middle of a storm we hid in an alley under a tin roof. The drops constantly fell on it that gave us shelter, and the noise resonated there, as in Luna's heart, and she looked at me and kissed me. And then we hugged. When the rain stopped, we returned, and I wrote a few words about that night.
I will not forget you, nor will I forget you in the taste of your lips. The next day when I woke up, I knew it was a dream. But those words were there.
- HMM!! Gregory you could have written it before and then dreamed about it.
- No Jupiter! It's not the first time it happens. I did an interesting test of it. And I recorded with a camera at night that they occur. I discovered that the blank notebook was written.
- It's crazy Gregory! - Said. Then I remembered that I had pockets of memories of moments with Gaia inside me, which were dreams, but which were reality in some way. The watch. Yes the clock. I actually gave Gaia a watch, and she kissed me. I was with her at every moment, if it could not be any other way
- Jupiter, are you okay?
- Ehh…..!!... Yes! – My vision clouded, but my mind did not. –Gregory you may be right!
- Do you believe me? – He explained, somewhat astonished, that he could barely understand his story. –
- Something similar has happened to me with Gaia. I wouldn't know how to clarify it.
- But you are married.
- True - I did not clarify what related to the fake marriage - Yes, we are, however, it does not mean dreaming situations that are real. That correspond to the real world and not a dream. All you need is something real without stopping dreaming
- I don't understand what's happening?
- Neither, but should we talk about it?
He nodded. We returned with the metro, and then the bus. On the way back to the building you had its lights off. It could be that everyone was resting.
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I said goodbye to Gregory, and was ready to go in, but my ears became inconvenient when listening from the terrace where the antenna was. From a shiny sphere, a silhouette of a woman stood clinging to the iron rod. Her wild hair spreading like everywhere in a pleasant, if a little icy, wind. And there he seemed to admire a distant star, and another, and another. Gaia was on the roof terrace, and she couldn't tell her to come to me. Starting with the screams was a minor device, and it's not like I was going to do something crazy. She was that strange, and I decided not to express anything about her just to look at her at night. She turned around and looked at me smiling as always. I didn't express anything other than seeing her and admiring her. She didn't say anything either.
Both she and I know how to say the right words to each other in an easy way. And even to others, but we believe that it is not the right thing to do. The correct thing is to look at each other to be able to read each other.
She was there without wanting to descend, and then I extended my hand for Gaia. I went to her with nothing to hide, nothing to meditate on. I got to her and Gaía sat on the floor of the terrace and hugged her legs looking at the ground. I stood next to her. He wanted to be with her. Only with her. And enjoy that small but crucial moment, telling her again that my feelings were all for her.
Upon reaching it... I recite a few words...
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-What is that language? Is he from your island? I had never heard it. -
I confessed
(Don't be afraid, we are different, but equal at the same time, I don't want you to leave me.)
- They are only words. She looked at the ground with her arms clinging to her legs.
–
-Danna! I have to go.
- How do you leave? – I was scared when I heard those words. - Because? - I asked for
- I must return to where I belong.
- That island you say? I see. Your parents?
- Royalty is not that simple.
- But you're here. Tell them!! Let them come to us! Let them see that we are a happy marriage!!
- You already know we are not!
- But I have already told you that I don't care about anything, and that I love you Gaia.
She burst into tears. Through tears she could confess some of her words. I decided to say what remained unhurried in the morning.
- I LOVE YOU GAIA!!!
- Do not do this to me. Don't tell me these things. I got here, but I didn't think you would fall in love. I didn't think I would fall in love. But we can't continue. I can't night. After night. Day after day. Playing with time. Changing things around for what she felt so that everything was a fiction.
- I do not know what you mean? But I want to be by your side. If not I will go with you. -
- Not Jupiter. You can not come. And if you could they won't accept you. -
- You don't understand me Gaia. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters. I'm going to make your life twist if I have to. Let the paradigms explode. I will compensate for everything and every part of who I am to you and them, and what space means by presenting obstacles to us.
- No! No, that's it! It's unfair! It is barbaric selfishness from me to the person you are. It's not fair that you pack your bags to enter this life that was conceived for me. It would be a lot for you.
- What is fair? This that I am is enough. Look, I don't have any.
fortune, nor an intellect. I'm a pedant, a hermit as you said, and even I don't want to be around. I only have my time, my feelings, my future and my entire life to give you. I know it's little.
- It is more than enough. –He said crying-With just one detail even though the words are abstract in all their forms. It's more than enough, but I can't. Coming to me means a terrible fate. I shouldn't have come into your life. You saved me, despite everything. And I can't let someone like you be a part of it. My life is unattractive.
- Nobody has a spectacular life and nobody expects much from the future
Who knows what will happen? But I am willing to get involved in yours, and bet what I am and will be for the good of both of us. Everything you feel I will take so that you do not carry this fatal weight of an uncertain destiny. I swear I'll give it my all, if you let me be there.
- Jupiter, I don't know what to tell you - He cries and at the same time laughs with his smile - I don't know what else to say outside of all fairness - He jokes looking down - Only a part of you. Just one was enough to make me want to be with you forever. So there is no remedy – He took a deep breath and turned towards a huge brownish sphere. He started walking and that's when I closed my eyes and surrendered to his decision. He walked a few meters. He seemed to leave forever and stopped just three meters from me. He turned around and smiled like he did the first day when he told me not to worry – Anonymous Jupiter Ruppett. Give me, give me what you are – He extends his arm and his open hand – Give me, Give me your laughter, your sadness, your achievements and the problems you want. Ask everything, be unbearable, be ironic, be desperate. That's the Jupiter that, believe it or not, I fell in love with. You don't need to change. I love you so twisted and annoying, insecure, and anxious. – It was that I opened my eyes. And she was so radiant that she invited me to fade into her arms. I don't
I could believe she then, despite everything, she loved me. I felt like the luckiest man in the universe. This is how he deserved to die if he had to. This is how wolves die in the wild. In love. -
- I love you too Gaia. But seriously, you can throw away whatever you want. And I will continue to love you.
- It's not necessary! I want everything. I want full Jupiter! Give me your life and I will mine. And let's live with what we are. – He looks me straight in the eyes. That's when I nodded at her. In all expression.
- Here, or anywhere in the universe – I responded.
She nodded, smiling once more with her wild hair spread in the wind.
That was not only the actual day we got engaged, but it was the beginning of who we are. Two beings who gave themselves over to difficulties, to love, but reality when I woke up played a trick on me. A bad trick the other day in a spring that arrived ending winter. Gaia was no longer here. She had gone. Like none of her belongings. It was a dream again.
I searched all over the house. All surroundings. Nobody knew anything. They even told me that they didn't know of anyone with that name.
- So it was all a damn dream?
- Gaia never existed Jupiter Never!! – I emphasized myself. And continue saying repeatedly. -
All was a dream. Always it was.