When Estrella Berrocal woke up groggily in the afternoon, she reached for her phone to see that it was after two o’clock.
Her stomach rumbled.
When she got up, she saw that Adam Rouco was already cooking in the kitchen and she ran to the man and wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, poking her head out to look into the pan. “What are you making?”
“Fried rice.”
“Hermanito, is this what you’re going to make now for lunch or for our dinner?”
Adam Rouco raised an eyebrow when he heard her say “little brother,” “You’re addicted to it?”
“Calling you young and you’re not happy?”
Adam Rouco returned her gaze with a slightly threatening look, “What did you just say?”.
Estrella Berrocal’s will to live was always strong, “I said I was calling you little brother because you are young.”
“We’ll settle for lunch, then we’ll eat fried rice and then we’ll go to the old house to pick up the two kids, stop by dad’s house for dinner and then come back.”
“It’s okay, the two kids haven’t seen you for a while, especially Paulita, she must miss you.”
“The brat is a bear as hell and will miss me when I call her and she doesn’t even recognize me…”
Estrella Berrocal looked at the man with some annoyance and couldn’t help but laugh, “Who told you to stay away so long, you don’t let me go out at night, so I might as well ask you not to be gone so long on your next business trip?”
Adam Rouco thought for a few seconds and nodded, “Sounds like a good suggestion to me.”
As the two ate, Estrella Berrocal picked up her phone and scrolled through Twitter, only to see the tweet that was trending….
“Goddess Micaela scorns La Voz de Spain contestant backstage.”
Estrella Berrocal’s eyes fluttered and she was quick to poke.
I don’t know who shot the video of her and Micaela drinking at the bar last night, but even though the bar room was dimly lit, Micaela and her face were instantly recognizable.
The audio is clearer than the image, and when you click on the video, a conversation between her and Micaela comes up.
Estrella Berrocal vaguely recalls that when she was singing that night, Micaela did say, half jokingly and half seriously, that many of the contestants on La Voz de Spain, the singing talent show, actually sang badly live, and that Micaela had espied that some of the idol singers in her circle faked their singing.
This is no small matter, as when the video came to light, Micaela offended not only her peers, but also the team behind La Voz de Spain and the investors she named.
Online comments also festered, with many fans jumping to speak up for their beloved and even chastising Micaela.
“If you despise being on a show like this so much, don’t go if you can, you despise the show and want to get paid to be on it. [dog head]”
“That’s it, being a cousin and making a name for yourself, that’s the most disgusting thing! [vomit]”
“Did the goddess get carried away, I can’t believe she walked into a bar and got drunk like that!”
“Oh, saying others can’t sing in five notes, but the goddess herself sings a little? Don’t laugh at me at fifty paces! [scoff]”
“I used to think she was very pretty and her acting skills were fine, I was a fan on the road, but now I’m a fan turned black and it’s so rude to spit on people behind their backs!”
“I found out that Micaela was working as a backstage mistress for someone important. [Cheek resting]”
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Estrella Berrocal has been reading the comments for a long time, and while there are plenty of Micaela fans in the comments defending Micaela, there are too many bystanders eating up the drama, and with Micaela’s popularity and the hotness of this revelation, Micaela, who has always earned a reputation for her low-key performance, has been thrust into the spotlight all at once.
Especially since Micaela’s tirade has offended so many people, those celebrities and artists who have been fired are probably secretly mobilizing netizens to attack Micaela right now.
When Adam Rouco saw that Estrella Berrocal was looking at Twitter and not eating, he frowned a little, raised his fork and tapped Estrella Berrocal on the bowl, “No looking at your cell phone during dinner.”
“Adam, the video of Micaela and I having a drink in a bar booth last night was posted on Twitter and hit the hotspots.”
Adam Rouco’s brow furrows as Estrella Berrocal hands him the phone.
“You see, last night Micaela spat a few words with me, but she didn’t hit anyone else either, and it ended up being set up by someone with an agenda.”
Adam Rouco analyzed, “The place where they drank last night was Lancer’s Bar, and this has always been very secretive with booth patrons, so it’s unlikely there was this kind of eavesdropping.”
“Could it be a reporter? But we didn’t realize there was someone hiding in the booth before we entered it, ah, we can’t even sneak a reporter in after we’re drunk, can we?”
“Lancer’s Bar is Nico Amengual’s place. If you want to find out who bugged your conversations, you should be able to find out soon enough by asking Nico Amengual for help.”
Estrella Berrocal frowned, “But haven’t Micaela and Nico Amengual already broken up?”
Adam Rouco had the vague feeling that this was not so simple, that it could be a trap, and said, “Let Micaela go to Nico Amengual about Micaela, let’s not get involved.”
“But now Micaela is being called so much, I want to help Micaela to be disliked, those jetseteros get angry with her words”.
Adam Rouco said softly, “Being an artist and a star, many times you get scolded by cybernauts, those things, Micaela’s team will handle them, don’t worry, eat, it gets cold.”
Estrella Berrocal hung up her phone for dinner with this in mind, but the issue of Micaela was always on her mind.
When Adam Rouco and Estrella Berrocal went to pick up the two children at the former home of La familia Rouco, on the way, Estrella Berrocal was sitting in the passenger seat, running her finger across her phone, when suddenly a new piece of news came up in the hot search, even more explosive and strange….
“The goddess Micaela turned out to be made of lace”.
The image shows Micaela and Estrella Berrocal hugging and toasting together.
The corner of Estrella Berrocal’s mouth twitched, how could she imagine that she would be one of the protagonists of this video, which, of course, except Micaela was her.
Estrella Berrocal looked unconsciously at Adam Rouco, who was driving beside her, a little shyly, “Adam, I want to talk to you about something.”
“Say.”
“Me, I’m on a tightrope too.”
Adam Rouco’s brow furrowed.
Estrella Berrocal continued, swallowing hard, “I really didn’t expect them to go so far as to expose everything, but it’s hilariously ridiculous.”
“What did they break about you?”
“Me, I got drunk last night and had a drink on my arm with Micaela. … Now the media has also released that video and they’re saying that Micaela and I are gay. ”
Adam Rouco is heterosexual and rarely hears these words, “gay?”.
Estrella Berrocal explains, “Gay is … is lesbian last name romance.”
Adam Rouco’s face darkened and his thin lips pursed.
It seems that this affair is getting bigger and bigger without his intervention.
With the speed and motivation of this revelation, it is clear that the revelator’s goal is to drag Micaela down for good.
Estrella Berrocal called Micaela to reassure her.
When they arrived at the old house and met the two children, the matter was put aside for the moment.
Paulita had not seen Adam Rouco for a long time and the little boy was angry and did not show up when she arrived, carrying his toys from the playhouse and cutting play dough to the side, deliberately ignoring Adam Rouco.
Estrella Berrocal gestures to Adam Rouco: “Go cajole your amita, she must be angry.”
Adam Rouco walked over, saw Paulita cutting plasticine and said, “Paulita, why don’t you call daddy?”.
“Hmph, all daddy knows is business trips, work work work work, Paulita doesn’t matter, Paulita is having a great time with grandpa and doesn’t want to go back to daddy.”
“Is that so? Estrella and I came today just to pick you and your brother up and take you home. You’re actually staying at Grandpa’s house, aren’t you?”.