Micaela was dumbfounded.
“How can Alba say something like that?”
-Alba, where are you?
-In Barrio Fanslan. I’m kidding, I know you don’t want to throw me out, but why isn’t everything in my room? Did you ask Sofia to take everything to the dry cleaners? That’s a bit over the top, isn’t it?
“No, it’s you who exaggerates, Alba…”
A bad premonition filled her mind, and Micaela couldn’t help shaking a little, trying to keep her voice soft. But then she received another call from Ernesto.
Micaela tempered her tone and said to Alba:
-You sit down for a while, I’ll be right back. I think it’s Sofia’s big cleaning, so take all your things and wash them.
-Okay, hurry back, I bought your favorite tiramisu and mousse cake.
When Micaela hung up the phone, you could still hear her humming happily…..
-What’s wrong? -Carlos asked.
Micaela said nothing, with some confusion in her mind.
The phone rang again, it was Ernesto’s call.
-Micaela, has Alba contacted you? We went shopping together and she disappeared while I was paying the bill. She didn’t answer my calls and didn’t come home either.
-Ernesto, Alba seems to have forgotten you again,” Micaela said sadly.
***
Carlos drove Micaela back to Barrio Fanslan, and all the way, Micaela was anxious.
In the month of going to get medical help, Alba had forgotten Ernesto twice, but it wasn’t long before she remembered him again. Today was the third time?
-Little girl, don’t think about nonsense. Someone who loves someone so much will not forget him easily -Carlos took Micaela’s hand.
Micaela remembered yesterday in Catyblaca Nation, Alba’s determination to be together with Ernesto, she felt more uneasy. She could also vaguely see that the more Alba loved Ernesto, the easier it was to forget him.
“Why does Alba have to have such a strange disease…”
Back in Barrio Fanslan, the moment the door opened, Alba walked past the door, as if to give Micaela a surprise, but she didn’t want to see Carlos pushing the door.
She hurried to look away. Her panicked look made Carlos feel a little weird.
-Mr. Aguayo do you have time to personally send Micaela back? -Alba asked.
Micaela walked over and took her by the arm to go inside.
-Alba, where did you go?
The two sat down on the sofa and Alba took the tiramisu and handed it to her.
-I went shopping, and I didn’t know what to buy, so I just bought food?
Micaela looked at Alba who looked the same as before and asked.
-Alba, do you remember where we were yesterday? -Micaela asked cautiously.
-Micaela, what’s wrong with you? We went to Catyblaca Nation yesterday and we encountered a terrorist attack, thanks to Mr. Aguayo who saved us out? -Alba said surprised.
As she said this, she unconsciously looked at Carlos who was sitting next to Micaela, then she lowered her gaze while eating her own cake and said:
-Mr. Aguayo is now very famous, your heroic act of defusing a bomb yesterday has truly made you a hero of Catyblaca Nation.
He clearly remembered how Carlos looked yesterday when he defused the bomb.
He felt his heart beat a little faster.
“Why still can’t I get him out of my mind?”
Of course, Micaela was unaware of Alba’s complicated mental activities, she asked carefully:
-Yes, you were also at the place, do you remember why you were there?
Alba paused.
-To save…
Alba had a bit of a headache, her phone suddenly rang. She put down the cake and picked up the phone.
-Micaela, I don’t know since when there is a name called Ernesto on my phone, he has called me several times today, it’s really inexplicable!
Micaela really didn’t know what to say….
She remembered going to Catyblaca Nation, but it was a direct thought to accompany her to the show, she remembered Carlos defusing the bomb, but she didn’t remember that it was to save Ernesto, she forgot yesterday, the determination to be with him even if he died….
Carlos looked at Ernesto who was standing outside the door. He was still holding his phone, as he heard Alba’s words, the phone instantly slid to the floor.
The sound of something falling made Alba look up.
Ernesto’s heart aches even more, his girlfriend looking at him with the eyes of a stranger.
This was the woman he loved the most. The woman who said yesterday she would die to be with him. He really didn’t want her to forget himself.
Alba stood up, she didn’t know why, and walked slowly towards him, her mind now in turmoil.
Micaela also stood up, watched Alba step by step towards Ernesto.
Ernesto’s heart, which had just felt dead, slowly came back to life, watching Alba slowly approach, not daring to say a word.
Alba suddenly burst into tears and threw herself into Ernesto’s arms.
-Bastard, where have you been?
Ernesto let out a loud sigh of relief and then hugged her tightly.
-I’m sorry, honey, I’m late.
Micaela and Carlos were also very relieved. It seemed that as before, she only forgot him briefly, seeing Ernesto, she automatically remembered him again.
Alba cried for a while, her mind remembered something again.
-I’m much better, I’m sorry I made you worry again.
-Everything comes to mind? -Ernesto asked.
Alba gave him a blank look, her tone was her usual, whimsical one.
-Yes. But I’m still angry, I still don’t want to see you.
Only then did Micaela remember that they were at odds, and that Alba had been very angry when they were in Catyblaca Nation. When they boarded the plane, Ernesto went so far as to cajole her for half a day, but she ignored him.
Ernesto bent down to pick up the phone from the floor, then reached over and grabbed her hand.
-Honey, come home with me.
-No, I won’t come back until you promise me!
-You’ll affect Micaela and Carlos if you’re here. We’ll talk about it when we get back,” Ernesto looked at Carlos and then said.
-You’re talking nonsense, I’m not going to bother them, am I?
Alba looked at Carlos and Micaela who were together.
Before Micaela had time to speak, Carlos said first.
-In fact, you’re bothering us….