The one-eyed is angry. In the anguish she experienced as a spectator, witnessing from the shadows of the parking lot how Rosa was accompanied by the police, fearing "and not watching again." After hours of uncertainty, fear, regret for let it carry out the plan of Rosa, "we should have done it my way, fast shooting and escape." Then came the deep relief when he saw the two return to the hotel, she and another woman. At least there has been arrested, he thought. Still, did not breathe easy until he saw the officer go out again with a plastic bag (the effects of the dead, inferred), mounted on his official vehicle and leave.
Finally Rosita came out again, with her suitcase, after paying the bill at the hotel.
- Have you started? Asked the director with great interest.
"Yes, after what happened the truth is that I prefer change a little atmosphere, you understand I have no good feelings.
"I apologize, and hope to visit again under better circumstances.
"Oh, yes, I will return, the hotel has been very much to my liking.
Mercedes was up to Charlie. Goes behind the one-eyed, in his Renault Clio. Leading to the hotel Don Benito Perez Galdos Street, where they are staying in adjoining rooms. There, on the one-eyed, alone, embrace him and Rosa. The embrace seems a repeat of that have been taken shortly before she and Laura. That hug was a farewell, this reunion, but the two seem to merge into one, overlap in the mind of Rosa. Say hello because before we said goodbye to someone, or something. We say goodbye to go with another person, or to return to ourselves. How often cover up the reality with the appearance of opposite sign. The hug before the two women, who seemed to bounce, is actually an embrace that seals and sworn complicity is born between them. The embrace of now, bury the fear that kept them cohesive, and opens the door to individuality, to dissent, division, struggle for power.
After the anguish and relief comes after the anger, indignation.
"Now you're safe, and no one holds much as I do, let me tell you you've been a big rash.
- What do you mean?
"I miss is that we've relegated to the role of extras .- says the one-eyed. But not you, not being honest, he and Charlie feel diminished, almost humbled by the spotlight hog Rosa .- What I can not ignore is that you've played the you and the way put at risk the entire operation.
Just say the words, he repents. His side brain knows there is much truth in what he says, but also admires the courage of Rosa. He had not been able to do it, do you? Rosa
change is exhilarating. There is a strange beauty that radiates from her and that one eye sees. The brightness of his eyes, the firmness of her eyes, her chin rising an inch more than usual. Pride. That malignant beauty while a woman fascinating death has been administered. Follows an exchange of arguments.
I did not know you had fear.
"More than if it had been there, in action.
- But you wanted to do? The woman suddenly appeared in the pool, had fled that would have raised more than suspicions.
"Yeah, but what if you have been fingerprinted? What if after all laboratory tests these chemicals that you gave? Then'd been sentenced. Get into your head that has touched the disaster.
"These substances not will be detected.
- Why are you so sure?
"Because they do not even look. Only going to look for signs of violence, poisons, drugs and alcohol. There. Unless, of course, that other evidence and then, instead of the usual tests and markers to make a comprehensive review of each and every one of the chemicals. In addition, the drug did not mean anything by themselves are not lethal, may have taken them by prescription, or even on your own. There are people who take beta blockers like tranquilizers.
- Is that your friend told you?
- What friend? "For a moment Rosa does not know who you mean, Laura believes that it is the only friend I have in mind.
"Your friend the nurse who gave you the medicine. What other friends do you have?
"Oh, yes, that's what I said. Want to tell you the story of my friend? "At that moment Rosa, for not having to talk to Laura, to give the one-eyed man something to think about and prevent the woman asked for the pool, he prefers to tell a story of the past. A little secret is safe now, at least compared to other things.
"I'm all ears.
"My friend called Gabriela, Gaby. We were classmates at school. You know my mother would not let me have friends, or to come to the board, or let me go home. So Gabriela and I saw my mother secretly. When I was fifteen my mother caught a fever and had to be taken to the hospital, spent a week entered. Then take the opportunity to be together, Gaby asked permission from their parents to come and sleep with me in the pension. I told them I was afraid of being alone at night.
"But they're guests .- He said the mother, somewhat suspicious.
"Yes, but some are not very reliable. "I replied. Finally the father ruled in our favor, if not generous, or by removing a possible guilty conscience.
That week we slept together, well, the truth is that we sleep enough, we stood talking until dawn, our plans in life, our dreams of adolescents. We swore eternal friendship, mutual assistance with any adversity, no matter what happened. Then, when my mother returned, we had to return to the secret meetings. At seventeen years our paths diverged. I went to study teaching and nursing her, wanted to study medicine but surprisingly not hit the note, had to settle for nursing. That left resentful and bitter with the company, was an injustice. All these years we have continued to write and keep in touch. This mutual assistance pact is what I called recently, when he gave me medicine and told me what I needed.
- Does she know to what it was?
"Yes, of course. But calm, say nothing.
"I think not, mostly because she needed was cooperative, or co-author. But tell me another thing, what is the meaning to give you a passport?
- What now? Because there have been many different times. For example, while we were eating dinner I felt disgusted to see him swallow and imagine that all that food would rot along with it. Then, when I was taking the champagne with the drugs, was dissociating the act of its possible consequences, or thought, you're just taking a beta blocker that by itself is not lethal, can still step back and let him sleep it off. And finally, in the pool ... I came the image of my mother, I guess it was somehow killing my mother, he was avenging the humiliations. On the other hand, reassuringly, I said to myself, is a game, like when you're making a ahogadilla someone. And the fact that Guti will not rebel against it interpreted as a confirmation that it was just a meaningless game ... Then came the woman, the witness, then I realized that was not a game, I had a moment panic, but quickly passed me. And now, at this moment, I feel elated, victorious, wanting to celebrate. Want to sleep a little earlier?
"No, maybe later.
And celebrate it, and on that float in the air holding the images of two teenagers sleeping together, each feeling the heat of their bodies. Fleet since then the image of two young women in a pool, one of them naked, wet. And what really is a corpse floats.
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