Estrella Berrocal picks up the phone.
On the other end of the phone, the male voice was cold and gravelly, and said only faintly, “I have arrived home.”
Estrella Berrocal said, “Hello, hello, I’m Paula’s mother, may I ask who you are?”.
The other party was not alarmed, but reassured, “Her students.”
The other party didn’t explain much, as if they didn’t care much and weren’t worried that she, the mother, would misunderstand.
Next, the call was politely cut off.
Estrella Berrocal grabbed Paula Rouco’s cell phone, and the more she thought about it, the more she thought something was wrong, and put it back on the table before leaving the bedroom.
When he arrived at the studio, Adam Rouco was working on his computer, responding to emails.
When he saw Estrella Berrocal enter, he stopped what he was doing and turned his eyes to look at her, “Has Paulita settled in?”
She walked over and was pulled into Adam Rouco’s lap, “In the shower. Adam, what kind of relationship do you think it is to save the title of husband?”.
Adam Rouco put his arm around his wife’s waist and looked at her in amusement, “Who else would you like to have a husband for, other than the kind of name you have for me?”
“Which means that only when you get to the point of intimacy like us, do you take note of such nicknames.”
So how far did Paulita and “Severo” get?
“What’s going on?” Adam Rouco frowned slightly.
“Do you think Paulita might have a relationship at the university?”
Adam Rouco dismissed it immediately, “How is it possible, Angelo’s brat is with her all the time and she doesn’t even perk up. How can she be in love a month away from starting college.”
As soon as Adam Rouco reacted, he thought something was wrong: “No, who did her husband sign up?”.
“A classmate. A former student, to be exact.”
“…”
Estrella Berrocal said, “Besides, on this vacation, the two of them should have come back together, otherwise the other wouldn’t have called her to tell her he was home.”
Adam Rouco remained silent for several seconds, having difficulty digesting the news for a while.
Estrella Berrocal saw his face grow cold and hastened to say, “It could also be a misunderstanding, they are children, they like to give notes to random people.”
…
Paula Rouco came out of the bathroom and saw her cell phone, which had been tucked under the sheets, on the bedside table.
Someone had tampered with her phone, could it be Estrella?
She hurriedly grabbed her phone and glanced at her Facebook and phone records, and sure enough, it had been half an hour since Severo Laris had called her.
Estrella couldn’t have answered the phone for her, could she?
Wouldn’t Estrella have seen the note “Severo’s husband” on …?
Paula Rouco was in a panic.
Knock, knock, knock.
There was a knock at the door.
“Paulita, you’ve had your bath, I have something to ask you.”
It was the voice of Adam Rouco.
Oh no, was Adam coming to question her?
“Daddy, wait, wait, wait, let me get dressed!”
Paula Rouco is a fierce operator of her phone’s address book.
A few dozen seconds later, another insistence at the door rang, “Paulita, are you ready?”
“There, there!”
Adam Rouco pushes open the door.
Paula Rouco had obediently laid down on the bed, covered with the blankets, and was looking at him with wide, innocent eyes.
“Papa, are you looking for me … for something? I’m very tired from today’s rush.”
When she finished, she also gave a few equal yawns.
Adam Rouco, with a sullen face, asked earnestly, “Did your mother just say that she ran into a Severo who called you and that you had a relationship at school?”
“How can that be!”
Adam Rouco frowned, “And what happened to Severo’s note?”
Paula Rouco picked up her phone and showed it to Adam Rouco: “Dad, you really hurt me! I was playing a game with my classmates and I lost, so I had to change everyone’s notes in my planner to Severo’s, and look, even you and Estrella’s are Severo’s! ”
Adam Rouco scanned the address book and it really was full of Severo’s notes.
But Adam Rouco was not Estrella Berrocal, and he was not so easily fooled.
But seriously, he said, “I’m not against you wanting to fall in love, but let me be the gatekeeper of who the other person is first.”
Paula Rouco nodded extraordinarily well, “That’s a must!”.
“Besides, you’re still a student, you should be clear on what you should and shouldn’t do when it comes to relationships. Don’t do things that cross the line, you’re a girl, you should know how to protect yourself.”
“Mmm! Dad, I’m really not lying!”
Adam Rouco said nothing more, and when he left, Paula Rouco grabbed her phone and prepared to change all those notes back.
I was embarrassed to realize that I couldn’t even recognize him, but my address book was full of “Severo.
“…”
…
Next bedroom.
Lucio Rouco gives Angelo an analysis of the reasons.
“Brother Angelo, you and my sister have known each other since we were children, childhood friends, and you know each other very well.”
Angelo scratched his head, “Isn’t that to my advantage?”.
Lucio Rouco manned up and said, “Wrong, that’s your disadvantage, the hardest thing is to raise a revolutionary friendship between two people who know each other too well, and you and my sister are in an awkward relationship right now, friendship over love.”
“And what am I supposed to do?”
Lucio Rouco, observing the drama, encouraged, “Angelo, you have to break the ice with my sister now and make her believe that you are a heterosexual, a man! And not a hairdresser, iron magnet, bestiary of ambiguous gender. So confess your love to my sister! Squeeze out the third son and you’ll be first in line.”
“Okay, I’ll do as you say, but you have to put in a good word for me in front of your sister.”
“That’s a must, for both of us, brother Angelo, you’re my future brother-in-law, I’m sure I’ll help you.”
…
Paula Rouco was bored at home for three days, so much so that on the fourth day Susana arrived home from the Imperial and they both arched.
Hiding in the room and whispering.
Susanna nibbled on the chopped fruit and teased her, “Are you too so useless that you can’t even meet Severo Laris once you’re home?”
“I’m not as good as you, you were at the Imperial for three days with Rufio and no one cared, unlike my parents, especially my dad, who is like an old fogey and won’t let me out at all.”
Susana raised her eyebrows, “Uncle Adam only cares about you because he loves you, my dad is too rich to care about me because he’s always thinking about business, and as for my stepmother, she doesn’t care about me, she’d be glad I didn’t come home!”
Paula Rouco, clutching a little bear pillow, leaned disheveled on the bed and puffed out her little mouth, “But how I long to go to Severo Laris now. ”
She sends him Facebook messages, which he doesn’t return, and she doesn’t dare call him, for fear that her parents will hear her, and there’s a Lucio Rouco next door keeping an eye on her.
Paula Rouco’s eyes lit up as her head lit up with a great idea: “Susana, I have a great idea!”.
“You, what are you going to do, I tell you, don’t you dare make a joke!”
“You have to help me!”
Susana looked at her suspiciously, “What’s the solution, tell me.”
“I told them I was coming to your house for two days.”
Susana’s eyes widened as soon as she said that, “You’re not going to go see Severo Laris in town under the pretext of going to my house, are you? No, if Uncle Adam finds out, he’ll tear my skin to shreds! My God, don’t be impulsive.”
“Do you help or not!”
“No, if Uncle Adam finds out, we’ll both be dead.” Susanna stood her ground.
“A Bulgari necklace.”
Susana’s mouth twitched: “…”
It’s going to cost a fortune and it’s tempting!