“Did he say his name is Ernesto?”
Micaela breathed back, her heart racing a little.
“Is Alba forgetting about Ernesto again? And what is the purpose of this man pretending to be Ernesto? Whatever the purpose, if he’s pretending to be Ernesto, he has bad intentions!”
Before Micaela could say anything, Alba added:
-And, there are two Ernesto’s.
Micaela gaped as Alba continued.
-They both said they were real Ernesto’s and they both annoyed me. It’s inexplicable, I got rid of one of them and the other kept bothering me.
“You’ve left the real Ernesto, haven’t you?”
-Alba, where are you, I’m coming to get you, don’t go anywhere, don’t go with that Ernesto, if he does anything unruly, you call the police and beat him up!
Alba said yes and hung up the phone, and immediately sent her location.
Carlos, who was getting his clothes ready for the shower, raised an eyebrow and, after hearing a few words from Micaela, made a vague guess. He put down his clothes and picked up the phone to call Ernesto.
There was no answer, so she turned to Ernesto’s assistant.
He was coming home today and would surely arrange for someone to pick him up.
Sure enough, as soon as the phone was picked up, the assistant said anxiously:
-Mr. Aguayo, my boss has disappeared, it’s been so long since he got off the plane and he can’t be reached!
Micaela approached Carlos and saw his frown, and her heart rose with trepidation.
-That the airline checks surveillance immediately.
Carlos finished his explanation and hung up the phone, Micaela hurried to speak:
-Carlos, let’s go pick up Alba, she sent me her location.
Carlos nodded and got Micaela a thicker jacket, gesturing for her to put it on, before taking her by the hand and walking out the door.
In the car, Micaela talked to Carlos about what Alba had said, and Carlos told her about Ernesto.
“Ernesto is missing?”
Micaela became nervous and hurried to call Alba back.
Carlos gave her a reassuring look and said.
-Don’t worry, he’ll be fine.
Micaela nodded and took a deep breath as the phone was picked up after a moment.
-Micaela, I hit him, don’t worry.
Still confident in Alba’s abilities, Micaela was quick to ask.
-Alba, where is the man also named Ernesto who disappeared?
Alba’s voice was cheerful.
-I don’t know, he suddenly disappeared.
“Suddenly?”
There was nothing to ask over the phone, and Micaela hung up after telling her not to move and to be safe.
It wasn’t long before she saw Alba sitting bored over her suitcase on the road outside the airport.
It was after ten o’clock at night and the airport was quite far away, so there were no other people.
-Micaela, I miss you so much, I’m not going anywhere anymore!
Micaela was distressed to see her standing on the side of the road.
-Alba, it’s so cold, why aren’t you looking for a warm place to wait, why are you standing on the road blowing in the wind?
-It’s okay, I can handle the cold! -said Alba with a smile, and she looked at Carlos, who was getting out of the cab, and hurried to look away, her heart beating faster.
“What to do, I can’t forget about him, even when I go on a trip, standing by the roadside is an embarrassing hope that he can see himself at first sight…”
Alba felt more and more disgusted with herself, but increasingly unable to control the increasingly overflowing emotions, it was strange to feel that emotions for him overlapped and grew exponentially….
Carlos saw Alba’s gaze and his brow furrowed….
It was like that again, her loving eyes were becoming more evident, nay, more passionate than at any time before….
If she goes on like this and Micaela will see him one day….
Ernesto must be found quickly!
Carlos put Alba’s suitcase in the trunk and told her to get in.
Ernesto’s assistant called.
The two women climbed into the back seat together and Carlos closed the car door behind them as he picked up the phone.
-Mr. Aguayo, thank God, my boss was picked up by Mr. Jairo Mancebo.
Carlos repeated.
-Picked up?
The man on the other end of the line paused for a moment, deliberating his words, but said sincerely.
-Well, kidnapped.
-Send me a copy of the surveillance video.
-Okay.
Carlos hung up the phone and sat in his car when he heard the girl ask in surprise.
-You said you were traveling alone to Catyblaca Nation for vacation?
Did Alba really think she was going abroad alone, and did she erase everything about Ernesto from her mind?
Alba asked with a puzzled look.
-Micaela, have you forgotten? I told you, Micaela, I know I’m very willing, you’ll run out of work, I promise you, I’ll be your assistant from now on, I’m not going anywhere, you won’t even be able to get rid of me!
Taking the opportunity to look ahead and glance at Carlos’ back, he thought:
-I can’t forget it anyway, so let’s leave it like this, in silence, it’s good to be able to see it, I’ll do my best not to cause problems to Carlos and Micaela….
Micaela was anxious, feeling so complicated. So long out of the country, without any progress, but getting worse….
-Alba, no, open your phone and see who is in your photo album, open your call log and see what you have forgotten….
Seeing how anxious Micaela was, Alba was even more puzzled, but pulled out her phone as she was told.
Opening the album, she saw many, many pictures of her with a strange man. The man was handsome, his eyes were loving, and his actions were intimate, most of them were attached to her body, or hugging her, and kissing her on the cheek, and in each one, she was smiling to herself with extra joy and happiness…..
Alba was stunned, why did she have those pictures on her phone?
-Alba, you loved him so much, but you forgot about him.
Alba looked at Micaela and looked at the photo again with a strange feeling in her heart….
Yes, of course, she didn’t love him, she wouldn’t have let him approach her like that, she knew she was blind in the face, but she shouldn’t be impressed at all!
Said Micaela in a sigh:
-Alba, didn’t we know before that there are levels of people you forget, the more you care about them, the more deeply you love them, the more completely you will forget them, to the point of not remembering such a person at all, and the ones you remember, that you just can’t remember their faces, are actually people who didn’t reach your heart, but for whom you had some good feelings….
Alba looked up in surprise, heart pounding, a little shaken, and unconsciously continued flipping through the photos, watching two videos.
Micaela looked down and there on the screen was Ernesto’s house, they were sitting together on the sofa, Ernesto had her in one arm and was holding his phone in the other, looking at Alba in the camera and saying with deep emotion
-Alba, I love you, when you forget about me, just look at our pictures and videos, and make sure you remember me, make sure you think of me, ok?
In the video, Alba burst into tears and replied.
-Yes! I will try to remember you.