While Esteban Zaragosa went into the bathroom to take a cold shower, Dulcina Calvo slipped out of the hotel wearing the hotel’s disposable slippers and clutching her purse.
As she left the hotel, she let out a long sigh and sat disheveled next to a flowerbed not far away, staring blankly.
What Esteban Zaragosa said, he did not know how to differentiate between the true and the false.
He only knew that if Esteban Zaragosa kept pestering him, he would not be able to stand firm and would obey him….
The moral ground that has held in my heart for more than twenty years does not seem to work at all when I meet Esteban Zaragosa.
The phone rang again and it was Mom.
Mother Dulcina scolded her on the phone for a long time, Dulcina Calvo never answered and only when Mother Dulcina got tired of educating her, Dulcina Calvo said in a gray voice that she would come back immediately.
She was wearing the hotel’s disposable slippers on her feet, so she couldn’t get back to the bus, so she hailed a cab, and as it was leaving the hotel, Esteban Zaragosa happened to chase after it, passing in front of the cab she was in.
Dulcina Calvo squeezed her purse between her arms and thought, funereally, that’s it.
She told herself to stop thinking about Esteban Zaragosa, that man, who never belonged to her.
The time she spent with him was happy, but also dreamlike and unreal; they were destined to be in two different worlds and it was natural for them to take different paths.
…
******
The Holy City, La Villa Rouco.
After dinner, Estrella Berrocal ran to the electronic scales and weighed herself.
Its weight has increased to 50KG.
During these days, he weighed himself every few days and came up with two or three G’s of extra weight.
Before she became pregnant, her weight was always around ninety-two G, and although it fluctuated, it was at most ninety-four G. Now, it is almost in the triple digits, and with this trend, it should continue to grow.
Adán Rouco is doing his homework with Paulita when he turns to see that the little woman who was with them a moment ago has disappeared.
“Daddy, I want some fruit, can I have some fruit before I go on with my homework?”. Paulita blinked her big eyes at him.
Adán Rouco rubbed his little head: “What kind of fruit do you eat right after dinner, do you concentrate when you’re doing your homework and not always thinking about food?”
Paulita grunted softly and pouted, her little hand holding a pencil as she continued to giggle and do her homework, muttering under her breath, “Estrella gets to eat fruit after dinner, you’re so biased, Daddy.”
“Estrella is pregnant.”
“Hmm.”
“Do it on your own for a while, and I’ll come check it out later.”
Paulita made a face: “Ah, I got it!”.
When Adán Rouco leaves Paulita’s small studio, he sees Estrella Berrocal standing on the electronic scale with an anguished face, her head leaning against the wall and her eyes fixed on the weight on it.
Adán Rouco approached and stood behind her, she didn’t seem to feel it until Adán Rouco spoke up and asked, “How many pounds?
Estrella Berrocal had a jolt and stepped off the electronic scale so fast that her foot tipped it over and she would have fallen if Adán Rouco had not been there to hold her down.
Adán Rouco frowned slightly, “Furtive, a thief?”
Estrella Berrocal’s face heated up and she glared back at him, saying without smiling, “You have nothing to do with suddenly appearing behind me and scaring me!”
“How did I scare you?”
Estrella Berrocal accuses: “You’ve looked at my weight!”
What is it that you have not seen and do you care that you know your weight?
“I hold you every day, how heavy can you be that I don’t know?”
Estrella Berrocal blushed and frowned as she complained, “It’s your fault, if it weren’t for you I wouldn’t be so fat now.”
“Why are you fat in my head?”
Nico Amengual is absolutely right, women are such strange creatures that when they are upset, any little thing can instantly ignite their emotions.
“It’s all your fault for getting me pregnant…”
Adán Rouco: …
The man sighed softly and reached out to take her hand to the electronic scale, his dark eyes roaming over her weight, which was only fifty kilos.
It doesn’t weigh as much as a small pig, so what’s the rush.
“There’s room for another ten Gs of fat. ”
Estrella Berrocal asked exaggeratedly, “Ten pounds? Are you sure?”
110G, not fat, but certainly not thin either.
“Isn’t it nice to grow some meat, why are you so repulsed by that growing meat?”
With that, Adán Rouco’s large, bony hands gave her soft waist a symbolic squeeze.
Estrella Berrocal’s face fell: “You want a fat one?
“Too skinny to look appetizing.”
“…”
At night, Estrella Berrocal goes to bed with her cell phone in her arms, surfing the Internet.
Adán Rouco got into bed after the bath and lay down next to her, his dark eyes gazing at her, who never paid any attention to him.
The man turned around, his long arm resting on her, Estrella Berrocal frowned and withdrew her hand, “Don’t move.”
“… wife, what are you looking at?”
Does the phone look as good as he does?
Adán Rouco raised a long arm and walked over, scanning the screen of his phone, where he was looking for some kind of light pregnancy food.
Adam Rouco’s long fingers pinched her brow bone; there was no end to this woman.
A large hand reached across and pushed his phone away in a domineering manner, tossing it far away on the couch.
“Hey…! What are you doing, you’re going to break your phone!”
“All in bed and you’re not hugging your husband, hugging your phone, how about a joke?”
“… What am I doing holding you back?”
I’m tired of hugging him to sleep every day.
Estrella Berrocal got up to reach for her cell phone, only to have Adán Rouco hold her in his arms, “Sleep!”.
“I am still not sleepy … hmmm …. Adam Rouco you are very bossy …!”
The quilt was lifted by their large hands, covering both their heads, and they wrestled inside the quilt.
Well … Adam Rouco is becoming more and more childish!
…
In the middle of the night, the little woman in his arms was still talking in her sleep.
Adam Rouco, a light sleeper, was awakened by her buzzing murmurs, a big arm around her and a gentle pat, “Star?”
“Cherry … Cherry …”
She spoke so indistinctly that Adán Rouco could not hear her, and only when he came closer did he hear her mutter something.
Sleeping and singing real cherries?
Adán Rouco felt a wetness on his shoulder and looked down to see that the little woman was actually drooling, which made him laugh…. was it really pregnancy?
She really seems to act like a little glutton these days.
Cherry …
Adán Rouco silently took note.
Gently moving his arm away from under her head, he cautiously got up from the bed.
…
Estrella Berrocal slept until dawn.
When she woke up, it was Paulita who had pulled a dog’s tail from somewhere and tickled her nose; Estrella Berrocal had woken up with an itch.
As soon as she woke up, she saw Paulita’s little smile and the red and purple stain on her teeth, and was violently startled.
“Paulita, what do you have in your mouth?”
Paulita held a large purple cherry in her small hand and held it up to her eyes, “I ate a lot of cherries!”.
Estrella Berrocal stunned: “Where’s the icing on the cake?”
It turns out that right now he’s craving cherries …
“Dad had a plane full of cherries sent!”
The corner of Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twitched in disbelief, “An airplane?”.
The little girl picked it up and said cheerfully, “It’s parked in the yard! Star let’s go see it.