Ernesto still didn’t know what had happened, but in his head he quickly went over what she had said.
She said he could fall in love, because he was going to forget.
-You must have noticed that she and I don’t get along,” said Mateo.
Ernesto said nothing, because in his opinion, the relationship between the two of them was not good at all, one could even say it was cold.
Alba never offered to come home, nor did she mention this one relative she had. And now she had just gone out with Ernesto and they were living together, as his brother, she did not prevent him from doing so, because they communicated very little.
-Because if I get together with Alba, and then she gets attached to me, she’s going to forget me too.
Ernesto was so surprised that he opened his eyes wide.
-Why?
-Alba has forgotten a lot of people, there are some she remembers, but she only knows their existence, she has forgotten their appearance and the history with them. As for the people she really likes, in the end they will be totally forgotten by her, she doesn’t even remember their existence.
Time stood still, the two handsome men stood in a quiet room, one was sad, and the other was in a daze. A while later, Mateo said,
-I am his only family, I can’t let him forget even me.
Ernesto’s heart began to pound, he no longer felt sleepy and tired.
-To this day, there is only one person she appreciates and loves, without forgetting.
For a second, Ernesto’s heart stopped,
-Is it Carlos?
-It’s Micaela.
Ernesto was relieved, but at the same time there was chaos in his mind.
-She always thinks she’s just going to forget all the men who are doing well for her, but in reality it’s not like that. She has forgotten all the relatives and close friends, except Micaela, as if she was engraved in her mind.
-Maybe she knows it subconsciously, that’s why she doesn’t hang out much with anyone, in her head, Micaela is the closest people to her, much more than me.
It was already explainable that after a year of study abroad, she never mentioned her classmates after returning, in the end those classmates were only friends by sight.
Suddenly it occurred to Ernesto that when Carlos took Micaela to wake her up from hypnotism, then Alba behaved as if she was going to lose her. Alba depended on Micaela because she was the only person who had entered her heart and still remembered.
That’s why Mateo was a little envious of Micaela.
As a brother, he was almost forgotten by Alba. When he realized that the more emotions Alba invested, the more she forgot, he began to pull away from her and show indifference, and that made her remember that she had a brother.
From then on, she couldn’t even call him Albita, she could only call him by his full name as if she were calling a stranger.
It was not because she wanted to approach her only sister, but because she could not.
What Mateo said made Ernesto think about many things.
She hadn’t forgotten about him, did this mean she didn’t love him?
But did love have to be forgetfulness?
At that time, Alba’s affection for Carlos was visible in her eyes, but she didn’t forget him either, was he also engraved in her head like Micaela?
That is, she didn’t like Carlos that much, had he not really entered her heart?
So, could Ernesto become the one who was engraved in her head?
Ernesto started to be uneasy, she remembered going to pick her up at Brillantella the other day, she passed him without seeing him, but if he was right there in front of her, she was very surprised, was it the outbreak that she was going to forget him?
If this meant that he had slowly entered her heart, and at the same time, was she forgetting him at the same pace?
Hence she said she couldn’t fall in love with someone, because she was going to forget him.
Ernesto touched his chest subconsciously, he felt a pain and oppression in his heart, it was hard to breathe.
It took him a long time to say,
-Why does she become like this?
Mateo’s face showed concern.
-When she became aware of this problem, she went to the doctor, but the cause was unknown, it could only be attributed to psychological trauma.
Since her brother could not even take her to the doctor, he had no other way but to send his people to follow her on the sly.
-Psychological trauma? -he asked.
-Alba is going through the same thing as Micaela, both have witnessed the death of their parents. Micaela was about to become repressed because of this, it was the director of the orphanage who saved her. But Alba was not as lucky, at first she did not even show any outbreak.
Mateo’s voice sounded a little strange, it sounded like he was trying to control the sadness.
-Until she forgets about the friends they grow up with together, forgets about the boy she still hasn’t proposed to, even forgets about me,” Mateo continued. In those times, I thought I was to blame for the death of her parents, she told me that, if all the loved ones were going to die, she would rather not have them, she even thinks that, if she didn’t love them, they wouldn’t have died.
Mateo had more than once regretted not having paid attention to his sister’s health, how was it possible that he did not leave a shadow for an eight year old girl seeing that her parents died before her eyes? How was it possible that she did not have the psychological trauma?
However, at that time, Ernesto and Alba were only a few years apart.
The supposed relatives, busy with their family’s inheritance, no one cared about the two orphans.
In the end, it was a friend of his father’s who was settling abroad came back to help them, hence the Gilabert Family was able to survive.
Ernesto looked up at the ceiling, blinking hard to keep tears from falling.
He always said that she was hardened, was it because she had not yet come out of that great damage?
-Ernesto, you are special, ever since we met,” said Mateo.
Ernesto looked at him incredibly.
Strictly speaking, the first time he saw Alba was at the airport, to get away from annoying pursuers, he pulled Alba out of the crowds at random and kissed her.
Mateo was stunned then, because Alba did not push him to Ernesto first time, but let kissed by him in his arms for a good while, when she realized what had happened, she slapped him.
-As far as I know about Alba, she has a black belt in Taekwondo, at that time you were behaving like a womanizer, you barely had the chance to approach her,” said Mateo.
Ernesto was stunned.
-I’ve told you too much today, digest it.
Mateo stood up, it took him a minute to say,
-I hope with all my heart that my only sister can be happy, I also hope that you will be the one engraved in her head.
Mateo drank all the tea in the cup and left her, he walked to the second floor.
Ernesto sat on the sofa for a long time thinking about it.