Susana noticed Paula Rouco walking away and waved her hand in front of her eyes, “Paulita, what are you looking at? Go away.”
Paula Rouco looked back and withdrew her gaze, “Come on.”
But Susana followed her gaze and overlooked Severo Laris and Engracia, the “dog and the pony”.
Susana burst out again, “This guy just broke up with you and he’s with Engracia? He can’t have been on two ships before!”.
“No, I’m going to teach them a lesson!”
Paula Rouco covered Susana’s mouth and dragged her out of the canteen.
Once outside the canteen, Susana pushed Paula Rouco’s hand away and frowned, “Why don’t you let me go teach them a lesson?”
Paula Rouco lowered her eyelashes and said with a reluctant expression, “It’s all broken anyway. Besides, if you go and teach them a lesson, will you be able to beat Severo Laris?”.
“…” That’s right.
Susana patted her chest and said, “But they can break my head and spill blood, but a man can’t be humiliated!”
Paula Rouco smiled, “Let’s go back, we have class this afternoon.”
“Well, go on, but don’t take to heart the words of those people, they are simply uninformed people who eat the truth.”
“Well, I didn’t take it to heart, I just thought the electric piano Angelo gave me is still at Severo’s house, that’s at least a birthday present from Angelo, I’ll get it back.”
“Of course you’ll get it back. Angelo will be furious if he finds out you left his piano at his lover’s house. I think Angelo is nice too, why don’t you kick Severo Laris to the curb and take Angelo with you?”
Paula Rouco said, “Then he would be dissing me, and Angelo is not my supporter.”
“Just kidding, when are you going to get the piano? I’ll ask Rufio to come help.”
Paula Rouco doesn’t want to upset Rufio, now that she has broken up with Severo Laris and Rufio is a good friend of Severo Laris, she doesn’t want to make things difficult for Rufio.
“I haven’t thought about it yet, I’ll tell you when I’ve thought about it.”
Susana didn’t think anything of it and said, “Good.”
…
Severo Laris’ Facebook, which he has not deleted.
His nickname, which has not changed, is still “Work hard to earn money for Lita.”
But upon seeing the nickname, Paula Rouco felt a little annoyed.
She found the courage to send a message to Severo Laris: “At 6 p. m., I’ll go with the doorman to move my piano.”
I didn’t think Severo Laris would bother to reply, but he quickly did: “Yes, I’ll wait for you at home”.
After a moment of silence, he couldn’t resist posting, “It’s all broken, just change the nickname.”
The other party did not message him back.
Paula Rouco left the chat screen, deleted the chat, tried to delete her Facebook, but hesitated for a long time and finally turned off her phone.
…
After the afternoon session, Paula Rouco contacted the doormen.
Aunt Claudi was also called, as there was no room in the dormitory for the instrument after it was picked up, so the moving company had to move it to The Vasconcellos Family.
Paula Rouco got out of class a little early and it was only 5:30 when she headed to the Imperial neighborhood.
She didn’t enter the code herself, as she usually did, because they had broken in and this was Severo’s house and it was inappropriate for her to open the door herself, it would look like a break-in.
And, she wasn’t sure, had Severo Laris changed the code on the door, perhaps at the time of his first day meeting with Engracia?
Then she sat at the entrance to the secure hallway, waiting for Severo Laris and the contacted mover.
Severo Laris arrived at the door at 17. 45 hours.
Thinking that Paula Rouco had not yet arrived – after all, she was always late – he phoned her.
On this side of the safe passage entrance, Paula Rouco’s cell phone rings as soon as it is heard by Severo Laris.
Severo Laris turned to look and she was sitting on the stairs, leaning on her knees.
He cut the phone off, walked over, looked at the small mass and said, “Why don’t you come in and wait.”
Sitting on the stairs, he was dirty and cold.
Paula Rouco froze and stood up at the sound of his voice: “I don’t know if you’ve changed the password, let alone…”
Before the words were out of his mouth, Severo Laris said, “No change.
It won’t change.
Paula Rouco thought, probably because she had just broken up and hadn’t thought about changing.
“The moving company I have an appointment with hasn’t arrived yet, so it may take a while.”
There was little emotion on Severo Laris’s face, just a deeply pressed look at her before he turned toward the door of the house, “Come in and wait.”
“Hmm.”
When Paula Rouco followed him inside the house, Costillas, who had been lounging around the house, immediately ran to her, giving Paula Rouco two paws on her ankles.
Paula Rouco knelt down and taunted Costillas, “Did you miss me? Did you eat well? Hmm?”
Severo Laris’ eyes softened a little at the sight of her smile and he said, “Ribs are good and you eat a lot every day.”
Paula Rouco bit her lip and ignored him, but said to Costillas, “I picked you up in the first place, Costillas, do you want to come with me, I’m your little master.”
Severo Laris frowned a little and said, “Ribs you can’t take.”
“Why?” Paula Rouco thought it was unfair, “it’s obvious that Costillas was picked up by me and then you wouldn’t even adopt him, right?”.
“That was before, and now I’m attached to Costillas, so you can’t take him away from me.”
“…” What kind of bullying sophistry is this.
Paula Rouco said, “But Costillas also has me.”
Severo Laris glared at her and said in a deep voice, “You can take it, but it’s also half mine, you can cut it in half, one for each of us.”
The corner of Paula Rouco’s mouth twitched? Cut in half?
Costillas’ little body shuddered at her father’s words.
Costillas: Why are you tormenting me when you are fighting over a breakup?
Paula Rouco knew that Severo Laris was threatening to make it clear that he would not be allowed to take Costillas.
The more you think about it, the angrier you get.
She let out a curse under her breath, “Pervert!”.
Severo Laris watched his gammy back and his thin lips curved.
“You can come see Ribs later, I have no objection to your visiting rights.”
“…” He thinks Costillas is a child, and visitation rights, he is addicted to being a lawyer?
After a while, finally the moving company arrived.
Two porters carry the instrument and Paula Rouco reminds them not to drop it.
Severo Laris asked, “Where do you put the piano when you move it?”.
“I’ll put Angelo at home, but this is no longer relevant to you.”
Severo Laris was more than disgusted that the girl he had intimately spoiled…. Severo Laris was more than disgusted that the girl he had pampered so intimately was leaving with another man.
When the doorman had taken the instrument out the door, Paula Rouco was about to leave when Severo Laris snapped her wrists and pinned her against the lobby wall.
The man’s eyes were deep and cold as he looked at her and questioned, “You just broke up with me and you’re running off with your childhood friend, Paula Rouco, is that appropriate?”
She looked at him full of mockery, “You even said we broke up, and since we did, do you mind Severo Laris if I go to my bamboo horse or my hairdresser?”.
Besides, didn’t he go to Engracia too?
What sense does it make that only he is allowed to light the fire and not her to light the lamp.
Paula Rouco took her wrist out of his palm and reminded him, “Besides, you’re the one who broke up, not me, and you’re the one who’s sorry.”
Severo Laris’ eyes darkened.
Yes, he was the one who had wronged her, always had been.