Paulita was red-eyed as she lay on Estrella Berrocal’s lap, looking at Angelo Herran with a pout.
Angelo Herran approached with a handsome little face and stared at the soft white Paulita, still deliberately teasing her, “You little crybaby! What a crybaby!”
Paulita growled loudly and buried her face in Estrella Berrocal’s arms: “I don’t want to play with you!
Estrella Berrocal cried and laughed, reaching out to pat the little bundle’s back, “Don’t cry, don’t cry, Brother Angelo likes to tease.”
Paulita puffed out her little mouth: “He doesn’t like to make fun of me, it’s bad!”.
Claudio Belles pulled his son and lectured him, “Paulita, will Aunt Claudio help you teach this little villain a lesson?”.
Claudio Belles slapped him a couple of times on purpose and Angelo Herran cooperated by saying, “Mom, I can’t believe you’re hitting me for an outsider!”.
Claudio Belles added to the slap: “Who told you to intimidate our Paulita, bad boy!”.
Paulita heard the slap and half turned her little face away from Estrella Berrocal’s arms, her eyes round and teary, sucking in her little nose, and stopped crying.
Estrella Berrocal and Claudio Belles were sitting by the flowerbed chatting, Paulita ran to the sink to wash her hands, Angelo Herran, a heavy, ran, opened the faucet, wet his hands and spilled them on Paulita’s face, Paulita blinked in surprise and reacted by grabbing the water with her little hands and spilling it on her face! Angelo Herran’s face!
“Shit!”
“Shorty!”
Hearing the dwarf, Paulita got even angrier and said with a raised face, “I’ll grow up later!”.
“But you’re a dwarf now, then you’ll grow bigger and I’ll grow bigger than you!”
“Hmph! Shit! When my dad comes, I’m going to tell my dad that you called me a midget!”
Angelo Herran continued to tease her, “I’m going to tell my father that you called me a bore when he comes too!”.
“You’re supposed to be annoying!”
“You would have been a dwarf too!”
…
Estrella Berrocal and Claudio Belles were sitting holding their stomachs and laughing together.
Claudio Belles looked at the two children and said, “I think my son is really in love with your daughter, I think we could become in-laws!”
“What if it’s your son’s unrequited love?” asked an amused Estrella Berrocal.
“You have to catch up with me, even if you’re hopelessly in love. My son is good at everything, but he’s a bit straight, how can he be mean to the girl he likes? I’ll have to educate him well later.”
Claudio Belles worries that if he doesn’t give her some pointers now, he’ll be in trouble if he always runs away from girls with low emotional intelligence.
Estrella Berrocal was candid: “Angelo is a handsome boy at first sight, he will grow up and will have many girls chasing him, even if he doesn’t know how to express his feelings, but this is the age of faces, it doesn’t hurt to be handsome and have little emotional intelligence.”
Claudio Belles was particularly adamant: “I love your Paulita, I must have Paulita as my daughter-in-law!”
Estrella Berrocal looked at Claudio Belles with a serious look on her face and burst out laughing: “Claudio, you don’t still like being betrothed to something, do you?”.
“If you want, we’ll arrange a marriage for the baby right now!”
Estrella Berrocal said, “I would not dare to make a decision, my father loves Paulita and if he does not agree, I will not accept this marriage.”
Claudio Belles met Adán Rouco when he came to pick up Estrella Berrocal at a school reunion, and indeed the man was a bit overbearing and did not seem easy to get along with.
This too was not mentioned again by Claudio Belles.
…
When the sports day began, Estrella Berrocal and Claudio Belles, with their two children, sat first on the bleachers in the courtyard.
It is now a relay race between children and parents from other classes.
Paulita asked anxiously, “Estrella, why isn’t daddy here yet? What if daddy is late?”
Hell, he doesn’t want to lose to that nasty Angelo Herran!
Estrella Berrocal had already called Adán Rouco and stroked the little boy’s head, reassuring him: “Daddy is on his way and will be here soon”.
As we were talking, a tall, handsome man suddenly came out from under the grandstand and Angelo Herran pointed a small hand at Claudio Belles and said, “Mom, Dad is here!”.
Claudius Belles glanced over and saw Montrelle Herran slipping through the crowd under the bleachers and waved his arm, “Mountainle! This way.”
When Montrelle Herran climbed the steps and reached this side of the rostrum, Claudio Belles stood up, took Montrelle Herran’s arm and introduced Estrella Berrocal with a smile, “Montrelle Herran, my husband. ”
Estrella Berrocal smiled slightly and nodded to the other man, “Estrella Berrocal, Claudio’s classmate.”
Montrelle Herran’s eyes just scanned Estrella Berrocal’s face without pausing, nodding her chin in greeting, and then her eyes fell on Claudio Belles’ face.
“I’m not late, am I?”
Claudio Belles arched his eyebrows cheerfully, “It’s not late, Angelo’s class hasn’t left yet.”
Montrelle Herran accompanied Claudio Belles as he sat down, and Paulita’s little mouth curved even more.
Estrella Berrocal scratched her daughter’s little mouth with her finger: “What is that little mouth that could hang from an oil jug?”.
“Uncle Montrelle is here, why isn’t Dad here yet?”
Angelo Herrán purposely irritated her on the sidelines: “Paula Rouco, don’t wait until I finish running with my father before you run with yours”.
Claudio Belles clutches his forehead and thinks: “Son, stop being an asshole and if you do it again, they’ll come after you”.
At the foot of the rostrum, the teacher was already shouting from her loudspeaker: “Come down and get ready, 4th grade children and parents who are going to participate!
Estrella Berrocal was also a bit anxious, it was almost time to start and Adán Rouco had not yet arrived.
He looked down to see that Adán Rouco had come upstairs wearing a black tracksuit.
“Paulita, daddy has arrived!” said Estrella Berrocal as she cuddled the little girl at her side.
Paulita was so excited that she got up and ran to her, falling head first into Adán Rouco’s arms.
“Dad! What took you so long to get here? I was so anxious!” Paulita pouted and rubbed herself in Adam Rouco’s arms.
Adán Rouco hugged the little boy and said, “Traffic is delayed, where is Estrella? ”
Paulita gestured with her little hand, “Sitting there! Daddy, let’s run a first for Estrella!”.
“Well, then Paulita has a lot of work to do.”
Here, Montrelle Herran came down with Angelo Herran, and as they approached Adán Rouco and Paulita, Montrelle Herran and Adán Rouco exchanged glances, as if they were old acquaintances.
Estrella Berrocal asks curiously: “Claudio, does your husband seem to know my Adam? I have seen them greet each other”.
Claudio Belles dismissed it out of hand, “How is it possible, President Rouco is the president of the Rouco Group, my husband is a simple programmer, how could he know your husband, I guess they just saw that we know each other and greeted each other?”
General programmer?
Montrelle Herran doesn’t look like an ordinary programmer at all. Although Montrelle Herran wears a very ordinary tracksuit, it is difficult to hide the aura of his body.
Estrella Berrocal was a member of high society, had known many nobles and rarely misjudged people in this respect. But Claudio had a three-year-old son with Montrelle Herran, so it was logical that she was not unaware of his family background.