An hour later, Estrella Berrocal exited the rear car and slipped into the front car to sleep.
Gustava Capo was still awake, checking her phone, and after scanning Estrella Berrocal, she noticed that her hair was wet with water and that she had changed into different pajamas, looking as if she had showered again.
Gustava Capo inadvertently asked, “Why did you take another shower?”.
Estrella Berrocal faints: “I’m sweating a bit again and the caravan is a bit heavy”.
Gustava Capo didn’t mind, already lying on the sofa, and seeing Estrella Berrocal lying on that cot and pulling up the blanket, Gustava Capo couldn’t resist asking, “By the way, where is your husband sleeping tonight?”
“He’s sleeping in the back seat of the car.”
“Ah… that’s too embarrassing, why don’t I go sleep on the seat and you let him in?”
Estrella Berrocal burst out laughing: “There’s no need, he’s a man and it’s proper for a gentleman, you don’t have to feel guilty”.
Gustava Capo, lying on the sofa, sighed and said to Estrella Berrocal: “I envy you Estre Berrocal, your husband is really perfect”.
Estrella Berrocal’s cell phone, which is next to her, rings and Adán Rouco sends a WhatsApp message –
“Mrs. Estrella, good evening.”
This simple greeting made Estrella Berrocal blush for no apparent reason.
Also good night… did you think she could sleep tonight?
Is this man perfect? He’s an animal!
Estrella Berrocal, her ears slightly reddened, grabbed her phone, looked at the roof of the caravan and smiled: “Other people’s husbands are perfect whichever way you look at them”.
Gustava Capo disagreed a bit, “How come your husband is so handsome and treats you so well, isn’t he perfect?”
In addition, the fact that the couple can travel to Hawaii in an RV is an indication that the man is financially excellent, handsome, fit and wealthy, which is like a fictional character.
Estrella Berrocal smiled slightly at the thought of Adán Rouco’s hardened and ill-tempered temperament and said, “My husband has a terrible temper, so don’t be fooled by his handsome looks; no one is perfect in this world, there can be no such thing as a perfect person.”
Estrella Berrocal says this because, on the one hand, she does not want other women to miss her Adán Rouco and, on the other hand, she is telling the truth: it may not be possible for another woman to get along with Adán Rouco.
Adán Rouco was a workaholic, working more than seventy hours a week and going out for drinks at least four or five nights a month, coming back smelling of cigarettes, alcohol and sometimes perfume, after all, at his kind of capitalist dinners, there were always a few flowers to keep him company, and he didn’t really spend as much time with his family as the average worker did with his. Berrocal doesn’t know how she got along with him, and has spent so much time with him without complaining about him.
From time to time, Adán Rouco has to go abroad for work and it is not unusual for the two of them to be separated for five or ten days, while Estrella Berrocal stays at home with the two children, although there is a nanny, but not as much as with Adán Rouco. At the end of the day, we are simple human beings who have a character.
But when Adán Rouco returns from his business trip, with only a hug, she can’t help but feel sorry for him for having been away earning money, for having rushed home, for perhaps not having slept more than twenty-four hours, even though one moment she was secretly claiming to him that she was the one who was angry about bringing the children home.
Perhaps, this is love.
Thanks to love, tolerance and forgiveness seem so easy.
On the other hand, Adán Rouco was sometimes really bad-tempered and unpredictable, and Estrella Berrocal, who was a bit brusque in her life, often provoked him without knowing how, and the man could go for ten hours without speaking to her. If it were any other woman, she might not have been able to tolerate the “cold violence” of Adán Rouco.
For Estrella Berrocal, this is not a problem, because, after ten hours, Adán Rouco may not be able to contain himself and will ask her, with a cold face, why she is angry and not come to cajole him.
Estrella Berrocal, on the other hand, looked innocent – huh? Are you angry? I don’t even know, what have I done to make you angry? No wonder you haven’t spoken to me all day, I’m bored to death.
Without the need for deliberate persuasion, Adán Rouco gave in.
Another woman would not have been able to stand the character of Adán Rouco.
This honeymoon, for example, will probably be, in the words of Adán Rouco, the longest and most relaxing vacation he has ever taken in his life.
Estrella Berrocal sighed softly and snuggled under the covers somewhat sleepily.
It was the first time in her life that she had slept in a carriage in the desert, and she was especially relieved to know that Adam Rouco was sleeping in the carriage behind her, and that he would know immediately if she called out in case of danger, even if he was not sleeping with her.
…
The next morning, Adán Rouco drove Gustava Capo to the city center.
But Gustava Capo didn’t seem to be thinking of parting with them, and after seeing Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal check into a hotel, she smiled and said, “I got in touch with my partners, but they are still on the island of Hawaii, in a foreign country, and I am alone, could I stay with you for a while? ”
Seeing Adam Rouco’s slightly colder face, Gustava Capo immediately said, “I promise I won’t bother you, I’ll just stay in the same hotel as you, okay?”
Staying in the same hotel … Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal naturally do not have the right to kick people out, it is the right of the individual in which hotel to stay.
Finally, at check-in, Gustava Capo said directly to the staff in English, “Hi, I’m in a line with the couple, can you put me in the next room?”
Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal were stunned, not realizing how sticky this cocoon was.
Finally, Gustava Capo was able to stay in the suite with Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal, as expected.
Only the next morning, Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal ran off at dawn without saying hello.
Gustava Capo didn’t get up until ten o’clock in the morning and came knocking on their door to ask them to join them for breakfast, only to be told that the couple had left their room at six in the morning.
…
Estrella Berrocal, sitting on the plane back home, still finds it especially funny when she thinks about it.
“How do you think Gustava Capo will react if we just run away?”
“We don’t know her well, how she might react.”
Estrella Berrocal raised an eyebrow, “That too, but …. Adam, it’s the first time you’ve run away, isn’t it, are you so afraid of staying with her?”
“The second time, to be precise, running away on honeymoon with you was kind of like the first.”
Estrella Berrocal couldn’t help herself: “Soon we will be in La Ciudad Santa, have you thought about how you are going to face Dad and Paulita?
Adam Rouco’s dark eyes bore into her and he said calmly, “Has Mrs. Estrella forgotten that it was you who was responsible for sneaking off on your honeymoon?”
“…”
How can this man be so irresponsible?
Ah … she actually looked away before believing him.