LUCIA Convincing my mother to agree to Zara's plan has been more difficult than I thought , not because of the citizenship issue or Ben's treatment , as she , like me , would be willing to do whatever it takes to be able to give Ben the treatment he needs; However , she is strongly opposed to me having to fake a relationship with Joshua , she of course doesn’t know that we already had one that failed miserably when it was just starting out. But with her infallible maternal instinct , she can tell that something is happening between us , she knows perfectly well how I feel about him and suspects that he is interested in me , but Joshua has not done enough to win the trust of my mother , not only because of his problems at boarding school are widely known to all the staff members