Chapter 12
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We got to the house around 4 A.M. We walk in and I'm a little scared, I try to turn on the light and ... s**t, the electricity is out and it's too late at night to call someone to fix it.
"What do we do?" whispers Alex.
"I don't know" I answer in the same tone. "Can I ask you something?"
"Yes ..."
"Can you sleep with me? I know that we have pieces for each one but you know that I don't like the dark and on top of that I haven't been to this house for years".
"You don't even wonder, I didn't want to sleep alone either".
"Are you scared big man?"
"Obvious gnome".
"Old".
"Than?"
"May I ask you another question?"
"Than?"
"Why do we whisper?"
We looked at each other and started laughing, I don't know why but whenever it's dark we whisper. A little moonlight comes in through the window and we locate the stairs. We also turn on the flashlights of our cell phones.
"Let's go to my parents' room".
"Let's go".
We go upstairs and walk into the room, set our bags aside and grab my pajamas.
"Don't look" I warn him. "I'm afraid to lock myself in the bathroom".
"Same here, don't look here and I don't look there".
"Deal" we laugh.
I put on long pants full of cupcakes all over the place, a superman top, and put the unicorn slippers on the side of the bed.
"You are already?" I ask him.
"Yes".
As I turned around, Alex is wearing long gray pants but he doesn't have a shirt.
"Oh my God boy, aren't you going to be cold?"
"I'm hot when I sleep, so ... no".
"By the way, how much battery do you have in your cell phone?"
"Little, you?"
"Too. Let your parents know that we are here and I will notify mine. Then I'm going to turn it off because I need to have a battery for tomorrow to call someone to fix the damn light".
"Yes ma'am, as you say".
We get into bed and she hugs me, while I use her chest as a pillow. She starts touching my hair, knowing that it relaxes me, and I end up sleeping.
When I wake up the next day I am alone, I go downstairs and apparently Alex made coffee and toast. I see him sitting with a hidden hand and I look at him strange.
"What have you got there?"
"A gift for you".
"Give me, give me, give me" I scream like a little girl while he looks at me badly. "Please".
"Here" he throws me a pot of nutella and I look at him with love ... then I look at Alex.
"I adore you, let's eat".
"Me ... do you share? Nutella? You?"
"If you don't want to, no".
"Yes, I do" he says quickly knowing that later I can come to regret it.
After eating I explain that there is no power and I ask my mother for Roberto's number so that I can call him.
"Robert?" I ask.
"Yes? Who speaks?"
"I am Eliana, the daughter of the owneed country house" I did not know how else to identify myself.
"Oh yeah, hi. Is there a problem?"
"Yesterday when we came there was no electricity".
"Oh ... I'm coming right now".
"Thank you so much".
While he was fixing things with us, this mosquito by his side told us a little about his life, apparently he is a man of about 57 or 59 years old, a widower, he told us that he has an 18-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter. And he told us that we didn't hesitate to talk to him for anything we needed, we really liked that man.
"Netflix?" Alex asks as I nod.
"Nutella?" I ask what he nods to.
And so our afternoon passed, we were going to go out for a while to enjoy the outdoors but it just started to rain very hard and unfortunately ... note the sarcasm, we had to continue watching movies.
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