The days passed quietly for a week, with everyone doing what they had to do as planned.
Today is the day Natalia is discharged from the hospital.
After waking up, she recovered well, the heavy metal intoxication dissolved quickly, the other complications were well controlled and, although she was still a little weak, she met the criteria for discharge.
Javier went to check out and returned to the ward, and Natalia had just come out of the bathroom after changing out of her hospital gown.
When she saw Javier approaching her, Natalia gave him a blank stare and was about to dodge him when suddenly her right hand was grabbed and she looked up….
A pair of white and silver handcuffs, one on her right wrist and one on Javier’s left, she tried to struggle too late, he quickly released the lock, and with a big hand, the keys flew towards the window!
-Hey!
Natalia hurried to pull the handcuffs in the direction of the key where they had been thrown, and then saw them fall through a gap in the window that was only twenty centimeters open and fall into the lake below, on the seventh floor….
Natalia turned around angrily and was about to curse when she saw Javier holding her right wrist and examining her skin where the handcuffs were….
He had just dragged him hard enough to drag him towards the window as well, the hard handcuffs were rubbing his skin to the point of instantly breaking a layer of skin….
-Does it hurt?
Javier looked at her…
Natalia rubbed his eyes and growled.
-Mr. Coronil, you know I’m not the Natalia you want, who are you looking for with that anguished look? Untie me now, who wants to be handcuffed to you!
The pain in Javier’s eyes shone and he looked at Natalia, his voice a few shades colder.
-Who’s heart is broken for you?
Then he raised his left hand so that his cuffed hands rose with it.
-I’m handcuffed to the person I love, not you, and you can leave if you get bored.
-You!
Natalia was furious, then quickly calmed down again and glared at him.
-Hm, then you might be disappointed, this is my body and that useless Natalia is dead! She will never come back!
She is dead and she will never come back…
These words struck Javier’s heart….
Was he still too late?
Seeing the loss growing in his eyes, Natalia took advantage and approached him, tilting her head slightly to look at him.
-I advise you to give her up, an old woman barely five years older than you, there is nothing to hold on to, besides, you have long since been benevolent, the kindness that should be returned has long since been returned…..
Javier looked at her suddenly, with a warm smile at the corner of his lips, and asked:
-Have you heard of ‘The Lover in the Freezer’?
What lover in the freezer?
Natalia looked puzzled.
-This is a story about a couple who were very much in love, but one day, the girl suddenly became incurably ill and died. The boy was so distraught that, instead of cremating her, he put the girl’s body in a freezer so her flesh wouldn’t decompose, and then the boy went on with his old life as usual, going to and from work, coming back and staying in front of the freezer talking to her, singing to her, and occasionally getting into the freezer and sleeping with her in his arms…..
Natalia winced and reached out to push him away.
-Stop you…!
She forgot that they were already handcuffed together, and when Javier was pushed back by her, she was pulled towards him and into his arms….
Javier stood firm, wrapped his right hand around her to prevent her from taking a step back, pulled her into his arms and lowered his head to finish the unfinished story in her ear:
-The boy really loved the girl and wanted her to stay with him even if she died, even if she was lying in a freezer, the boy was happy. I am much luckier than him, my girl is still alive, it is better than staying in the freezer…..
Natalia winced again and forcefully used her left hand to clear the distance and glare at him.
-That’s not love at all! If a guy really loves a girl, he should let her go to earth and start a new life himself, so she can rest in peace.
Javier looked at Natalia.
-So you know love too? The girl in the fridge can’t come back from the dead, but my girl can come back, will you let her come back?