Far From Home
* * * * * * * * * MERLÍ* * * * * * * * * *
"You're such a fool! You definitely don't know what you've just done."
"OH, NO? WELL, I DO. I JUST PUT A DELUSIONAL IN HER PLACE," she said very seriously, and she got furious.
"DELUSIONAL? Do you really think I'm delusional?" she laughs mockingly as she stares at me intensely. "Please. You don't know Bayá as well as I do. We've been together since we were fifteen."
"That's none of my business. What Bayá did with his life before we met is not my concern."
"Really? Haven't you noticed or what?"
"Notice what?"
"You're just a naive fool who thinks she'll stay where she is for much longer..."
"I don't understand."
"I've already told you, girl. Or are you stupid?"
"DON'T YOU INSULT ME."
"Bayá will leave you within a year; in f
