Paula Rouco was already soaking wet when Rufio and Susana headed to the amusement park to pick her up.
Outside, the winter thunder rumbled and it was pouring rain.
Susana joined Paula Rouco in the back seat, wrapping her damp body with a dry towel and wiping her hair.
Susana, a straightforward and quick-tempered person, scolded with a face of circumstance, “Where is Severo Laris? What do you mean, he leaves you alone in an amusement park? Doesn’t he know that it’s hard to get a cab back to town here, other than the amusement park shuttle?”
Rufio looked in the rearview mirror and was also a little puzzled, “Yes Paulita, where is Severo?”
Paula Rouco was cold and shivering slightly from choking.
Susana put her arms around her, feeling the changes in her body, frowned slightly and asked worriedly, “Paulita? What’s wrong with you?”
Paula Rouco looked up, her eyes very red at the corners, “Susana, Severo Laris has broken up with me.”
“… what?”
Paula Rouco didn’t go into too much detail, but Susana presumably knew the original story and cursed Severo Laris.
“Who does he think he is, a precious love when he accepts you and throws you out when he gets tired of playing with you? Why didn’t I realize sooner that Severo Laris was scum?”
Rufio, who has been good friends with Severo Laris since he was a student, said, “Severo is not the type to frivolize, he is more mature than anyone his age and would not do something like that to play with his feelings. paulita, is there some kind of misunderstanding between you and Severo?”
Paula Rouco shook her head, “I don’t know.”
Susana gritted her teeth and fought for her best friend, saying, “Don’t speak well of Severo Laris, who was more aggrieved when Paulita was dating Severo Laris? It’s obvious that Paulita is more accommodating to him, who is he to say break up?”
Rufio looked in the rearview mirror; Paula Rouco was quiet, her little face pale, and you could tell she didn’t want to say anything else.
Rufio said to Susana, “Paulita is in a bad mood, so you should cut the talk.”
Susana bit her lip, which shut her mouth, but she reached out and put her arms around Paula Rouco.
Paula Rouco leaned on her shoulder, her throat full of heartburn, and tears finally came to her eyes.
Susana patted her back and soothed her gently, “Ya, ya, don’t cry, big deal, we’ll like someone else, now I think Severo Laris is like that, nothing weird.”
The rain outside the window, pounding through the panes, fell in layers and fogged very thickly inside the windows.
So cold.
…
After Severo Laris returned alone to the imperial quarter, Costillas peeled off his leg.
“Meow.”
Severo Laris knelt down and gave Ribs a swat, “Will you be lonely when you don’t see her again?”
“Meow.”
Outside, the winter thunder rumbled.
With nimble cat-like paws, Ribs ran to the window and peered out into the rainy night.
Severo Laris sat by the window and said, as to Costillas, and as to himself, “He’ll have Susana pick it up, I think.”
He shouldn’t be so stupid as to get wet.
He had just broken down and was thinking hard about it.
In the future it would rain, snow, thunder, and even hail, and what was he going to do if he worried about her getting wet with every bad weather.
Severus Laris looked at Ribs with a frown and a hint of guilt in his gaze. “I’ve said a lot of things tonight that have gone too far, so much so that they even make me want to punch myself, you shouldn’t come looking for me.”
Ribs couldn’t hear the male owner and wondered if he wanted lita to come back to him, or not.
Ribs drops his head and lies down on Severo Laris’ lap: so much for lita, so much for lita’s snacks.
…
At school, I don’t know who spread the word.
The news that Severo had left the flower of the English department went viral.
While eating in the cafeteria, Susana asked through gritted teeth, “It’s not that Buena from your hostel who’s done this again, is it?”
Paula Rouco pecked at her food with little appetite and shook her head, not bothering to delve deeper.
Susana smiled at her lethargic look and said, “It’s okay, I’ll find you another one, better than Severo Laris, and that way you’ll show those guys that you don’t give a damn. Who’s leaving who, really.”
If it had been a small fight in the old days, Paula Rouco might still have gone after someone to deliberately piss off Severo Laris.
But this time, she had a vague feeling that Severo Laris meant business.
The things he said that day at the amusement park, things he would never say, were they really from his heart?
At the next table, four girls are sitting with their plates, not seeing Paula Rouco and Susana around.
“I thought Severo was going to end up with that girl from the English department, after all, they’re still particularly cute.”
“Why, this incident also teaches us that girls should always be reserved in relationships, I heard that Paula Rouco lived with Severo not long after dating him before, and what happens when you’re not reserved is that you get played and then dumped.”
“You seem to be making some sense when you say that, I see Severo and the dean’s daughter have been getting back together lately. ”
“Engracia is, after all, the legitimate queen, and Paula Rouco was at most a third before, interfering in the relationship between Severo and Engracia. ”
“Huh? She’s so cheap. Even though I thought she was pretty and well-to-do and I hung out at her and Severo’s CP for a while. ”
The more you say, the more you overdo it.
These words fell on Susana’s ears, who almost snapped her teeth, clenching her fists and snapping them.
Susana banged her chopsticks on the dining room table and stood up startled.
The four girls next to me stared at the commotion.
Susanna picked up a case of mineral water and opened it, pouring it directly onto their plates.
The four girls shouted, “Hey, you’re crazy!”
Susana scoffed, “Since you don’t want to eat right, don’t eat!”.
On this side there was no little commotion.
Severo Laris and Engracia are also playing in the canteen and today they are doing analysis with Engracia about Professor Donato.
Severo Laris saw Paula Rouco, who seemed to have lost weight and was not looking well after a few days.
Engracia followed Severo Laris’ worried look, pursed her red lips and said, “They seem to be arguing with the other students, so go over there if you want to help them.”
Engracia is a sympathetic person, and although she likes Severo Laris, she knows him inside out.
“If you can’t let it go, why break up with her, and if you decide to, stop paying attention to her. It’s quick and easy for you, and for her.”
Severo Laris finally went cold and averted his gaze.
As Paula Rouco led Susana out of the canteen, she walked through the crowd of people in the canteen, but still saw Severo Laris and Engracia in line for their meal.
They were really back together.
All the good that Severo Laris had done for her before was like a dream, a dream that awoke and returned to its origin.
Through the bustle of the crowd, it was as if they had met for the first time at La Villa Rouco, like two parallel lines that could never meet again.
Severo Laris unconsciously glanced back, his eyes not stopping as he passed over the familiar figure.
No different from the others, no different.
Just one backward glance killed Paula Rouco forever.