Chapter 18
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We are already entering the city and Alex wakes me up slowly.
"Where we go?" asks me.
"Let's go to my house and then to yours".
"You stay?"
"It is a question? You always stay in mine, today we go to yours. Also, if I'm telling you, let's go to my house and then to yours, what am I going to do? Do I sleep on the patio?"
"Well, let's go to your house, miss gnome. Don't be mad at me because you sleep on the patio".
"Old".
"Thank you".
"Bad".
"Again, thank you" I just stick my tongue out and settle back as before but this time I don't fall asleep.
When I entered my house the first thing I did was throw myself on the couch, but someone ... threw herself on top of me and made my back blow.
"Run fat".
"Hey! I am not fat".
"But you weigh a lot, my weak back hurts".
"But you weight a lot" I say in a funny voice.
"Childish".
"Gnome".
"Old".
"Shall we greet your parents?" first I look at him with narrowed eyes and after a threat with my hand I answer him with a smile.
"Let's go".
After greeting dad, mom, Renatta and Ignacio, we went to Alex's house. When entering there was no one, sometimes the house feels lonely, and that is because it is, missing the little person that never ran out of energy, who ran and shouted for everything. The reason I wanted us to come to her house is because I feel like her parents don't see her too much. They have already lost one child and the other is at my house, that was the reason. I don't want them to feel like they don't spend enough time with them, they need it, I know they do.
He went to his room to tidy everything up and I stayed on the couch looking for something on Netflix (although I think we've seen almost everything by now). I hear footsteps on the stairs and I see my best friend coming down.
"I called mom and she told me that in about half an hour they will come" talk when you get downstairs.
"Good!"
"Are you hungry?" just at that moment my belly roars.
"Uh ... yeah" we both laughed, since he heard it too.
Indeed half an hour later, Marina and Leandro Pennisi were entering the door. I am impressed by how punctual they are always, I love that quality of them and I admire them a lot, I wish I was like that but I am not, what are you going to do?
"What do we have for dinner?" Marina asks.
"Ice cream" Leandro and Alex speak at the same time.
With Marina we look at each other and I lift my shoulders, she does too, but she makes a few signs for us to look at them seriously while they don't realize what we're doing.
"How can they think that?" she screams that she seems totally angry, this woman should be an actress, my God.
"How irresponsible" I look at them disapprovingly.
"Uh ..." they both stutter.
"It was a joke" Leandro speaks.
"Obviously" my friend agrees with his father, at that moment I can't stand laughing anymore and I laugh out loud.
"Eliana!" Mariana yells at me and affectionately hits me on the head.
"L ... sorry" I say between laughs. "I couldn't take it anymore, look at your faces".
"Eh?" father and son speak again, who have the face of not understanding anything at all.
"Ask for ice cream by phone and have it brought here".
"Seriously?" we nodded and now the four of us laugh.
We ask for 1kg. of chocolate, 1kg. lemon, 1kg. of strawberry and 1kg. of slush mint. It's supposed to be over ... as if it's going to be left over.
"Choose a movie on Netflix?" Leandro speaks, mispronouncing Netflix that causes Alex and I to snicker.
"Well" we spoke Marina, Alex and I at the same time.
After the ice creams arrived, we watched "Independence Day" at one and two, which premiered last year ... or this one, I don't know.
"Well, it's late" Alex speaks.
"Come on, good night" I greet his parents and they hug us affectionately.
After changing me we went to bed, from my house I grabbed a bag of clothes so I'll leave it here just in case.
"I'm thirsty" I stop and go to the kitchen, where I find Marina standing in front of the counter.
"Alex is in bed?" seat. "Leandro too, I wanted to thank you".
"By?"
"For always being with Alex, for supporting him, helping him and motivating him in everything. If it weren't for you, I don't know what he would have done, nor we with him. Because the truth is that one does not know how to deal with the death of a child, we parents are supposed to die first. But it is more difficult when it happens the other way around".
Tears fall and I hug her, something to which she immediately reciprocates.
"He is my best friend and I love him, and you also, I also miss the little one".
"I know, and thanks for that ... for absolutely everything. He has a good time with you, he has a great time and always comes with a smile, if she does" laughs with a wink at me, an action that causes me a lot of grace.
"Thank you" I hug her tighter and then I place myself in front of her. "I'm sorry I'm sleepy".
"There is no drama, I don't take more time from you. Thanks" he kisses me on the cheek and I start walking until I hear him speak. - I also know that you like each other, although not between you.
"Eh?" I turn around and she just winks at me, going to her room quickly. I remain static, this woman, I think my dream is gone.
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