Downstairs, Exaltación picked up the pieces of bottles on the floor and said to Perla Prats: “Miss Perla, our husband does not know if he has fallen in love with that Analena Lozada, Miss Perla you are better than Miss Lozada in everything. Miss Perla, you are better than Miss Lozada in everything, it is our husband who is not blessed. But Señorita Perla, you can come back to fight, Señorita Analena may not come back, you still have a chance.”
Perla Prats clenched her fists and swallowed saliva: “I wouldn’t have a chance in this life even if Analena Lozada didn’t come back”.
Because, she had never entered Jonathan Tasis’ heart, not even to give Jonathan Tasis a chance to hover outside her heart.
Perla Prats didn’t want to admit it, but she knew very well that once even Estrella Berrocal had tickled Jonathan Tasis, but she, Perla Prats, was the only one Jonathan Tasis hadn’t tickled with that little interest in women.
In Jonathan Tasis’ mind, perhaps she, Perla Prats, was not even a woman.
…
Outside the window, the rain falls harder and harder.
In the first-floor bedroom, Jonathan Tasis sits slumped on the carpet next to the bed, his hands covered with rolling empty bottles.
As soon as Perla Prats pushed open the door she smelled a strong, pungent odor of alcohol and as soon as she approached Jonathan Tasis stifled a grunt, clearly a little drunk by now. “Why haven’t you left yet?”.
“Who’s going to pick up your drunken corpse when I’m gone?”
Perla Prats snatched the half-drunk bottle from his hand and simply sat down next to Jonathan Tasis, taking a big, drunken swig of wine straight from the mouth of that bottle.
The spiciness of the brandy drowned her at once, and she grimaced and spat, “I don’t understand you men, you drink when you’re sad and disappointed, but you keep drinking when you’re happy and content, what good is that, anyway? It’s so hard to drink.”
Jonathan Tasis laughed softly and picked up a new bottle of wine to play with, looking at the liquor flowing in the bottle and said, “Why, it numbs the stronger senses.”
“So you plan to stay here and drink for the rest of your life as long as Analena Lozada doesn’t come back?”
Jonathan Tasis doesn’t even bother with her.
“That’s not the Jonathan Tasis I know, Jonathan Tasis, get up!”
A little angry, Perla Prats got up and pulled Jonathan Tasis hard. Jonathan Tasis was half drunk, his gait was staggering, and he was half drunk, half awake as Perla Prats pulled him toward the bathroom.
Perla Prats turned the shower on full blast and got close to Jonathan Tasis’ face.
“Get your head out of your ass!”
Jonathan Tasis stood, reaching up and wiping his wet face, the emotion in his eyes unaware of sadness and anger.
Perla Prats went downstairs to get the sober soup and, just as she got upstairs, she heard the sound of vomiting coming from the bathroom.
Perla Prats hurried to put down her bowl of soup and rushed to the bathroom, only to see Jonathan Tasis on his knees by the toilet, vomiting and vomiting blood.
Perla Prats’ heart panicked. Oh no, it seemed to be a digestive hemorrhage.
“Jonathan Tasis, we have to go to the hospital now! I’ll take you to the hospital!”
…
“The patient has significant bleeding in the stomach and needs to be admitted immediately, are you a member of his family?”
Perla Prats froze at the doctor’s question: “I … am not”.
“Then you should contact his family to get him here as soon as possible, in his case he’s probably going to be hospitalized for more than a week for infusion.”
“Good.”
When the doctor left, Perla Prats was not prepared for what was happening to her.
He ran to Jonathan Tasis’ hospital bed and picked up Jonathan Tasis’ cell phone, trying to find Qi’s family, but after searching for a long time, he could not find any contact information, and then he remembered that Jonathan Tasis had never been on good terms with Qi’s uncle.
The family could not find … Perla Prats had no contacts at the hospital and could not call her parents for help at the time, while her brother was still studying in the UK, so she had to call her brother-in-law for help.
…
Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal had barely fallen asleep when they were awakened by the sound of a phone call.
Estrella Berrocal burrowed into the arms of Adán Rouco: “Who is it, calling so late?”.
Adán Rouco reached for the phone with a long arm: “It’s Perla Prats. ”
“Perla Prats? Why is Perla Prats calling you so late?”
Hearing Perla Prats’ name, Estrella Berrocal, fearing that something might happen, also crept up, rubbing her eyes.
“What happened to Perla Prats?”
“Jonathan Tasis has been taken to the hospital and Perla Prats is now with him.”
Estrella Berrocal froze and her first thought was, “Isn’t Perla Prats dead to Jonathan Tasis?”.
“Wait until I get back, I’m going to the hospital first.”
“I’ll go with you.”
…
When Adán Rouco and Estrella Berrocal arrived at the hospital in a hurry, they saw Perla Prats sitting in a chair in the gallery outside the ward, her face thoughtful.
“Perla Prats.
Perla Prats heard a voice and looked up to see Adán Rouco with Estrella Berrocal: “Brother-in-law, Estrella. ”
Adán Rouco asks, “How is Jonathan Tasis?”
Perla Prats shook her head, “Stomach bleeding from excessive drinking, but stomach bleeding is not life-threatening while you’re in the hospital, it’s just … Jonathan Tasis is in bad shape at all times.”
Adán Rouco nodded, “It was to be expected that he would be like this when Analena Lozada had just left him; Analena Lozada was more important to him than his own life.”
Perla Prats bit her lip and spoke, “Brother-in-law, your contacts are extensive, I did not contact the staff of this hospital when I left Jonathan Tasis earlier, could you ask this hospital to take more care of Jonathan Tasis?”
Adán Rouco responded lightly, tapped Estrella Berrocal on the shoulder and said, “I’m going to run some errands, you and Perla Prats wait here until I get back.”
“Okay, go ahead.”
When Adán Rouco left, Estrella Berrocal stayed in the hallway with Perla Prats, and for a while the atmosphere was a bit uncomfortable.
Since Perla Prats broke up with Estrella Berrocal because of Jonathan Tasis, the relationship was never the same again, and since Estrella Berrocal married Adán Rouco and had a family and children of her own, her time and energy was focused on Adán Rouco and the children. Perla Prats was not even present at … when she married Adán Rouco.
Before, they were best friends and agreed to be each other’s bridesmaids when they got married, but now, things are different.
Perla Prats looked at her, smiled and gave an advance explanation, “I happened to be on a trip abroad when you and my brother-in-law got married and I couldn’t come back, I’m so sorry, but my heart…. Is with you and my brother-in-law.”
Estrella Berrocal nodded and curved her lips, “I know, I don’t blame you.”
Perla Prats pursed her lips and said, “When I was fighting with you and even breaking up with you, the fault wasn’t really yours at all, it was that I was simply afraid to admit, or rather, I didn’t want to admit, that in Jonathan Tasis’ mind there was no me. I put all the reasons why I couldn’t get Jonathan Tasis on you, so that I could feel better and selfishly feel that it was you who was stealing from me.”
“But Perla Prats, I don’t like Jonathan Tasis, and Jonathan Tasis doesn’t like me.”
“I know. Maybe people are like that, they don’t admit their incompetence when they can’t have it, and it’s better to push someone else. esrella, I’m sorry, I know our relationship can’t go back to the way it was, but can you forgive me for being willful at the time?”