City of Ronda.
After The Calvo family had their New Year’s Eve dinner, Dulcina Calvo grabbed Esteban Zaragosa and ran downstairs with the small fireworks.
The town is full of acquaintances and there are a particularly large number of bear children. On New Year’s Eve, children of all sizes run out and wander through the streets, so the town is, by contrast, much livelier than the city.
Esteban Zaragosa helped Dulcina Calvo light the fireworks wand, which Dulcina Calvo held in front of her eyes, and behind the bright yellow fireworks was her smiling face.
In the distance, the sound of bear children throwing firecrackers, and the occasional fireworks from various houses in the sky, filled the missing piece in Esteban Zaragosa’s heart.
He knew the reason Dulcina had brought him back to Ciudad de Ronda for New Year’s Eve, it wasn’t that Dulcina wanted to come back, Dulcina had complained about the lack of heat in the house since she returned and when the air conditioning was turned off, she was immediately freezing and runny, but Esteban Zaragosa knew she wanted him to feel the smoky atmosphere of that family fun.
Dulcina Calvo suddenly leaned close to his ear and stared at him with sparkling eyes: “Esteban Zaragosa, Happy New Year’s Eve, every New Year’s Eve, every New Year’s Day, I’ll spend it with you.”
“Mrs. Dulcina, with pleasure.”
The bears had shifted position and were running toward them, aiming a rubbing cannon right at Dulcina Calvo’s feet.
Dulcina Calvo was shocked when the rubbing cannon went off and Esteban Zaragosa covered his ears.
The bears laughed and giggled to the side, showing their teeth.
With a deliberately fierce little face, Dulcina Calvo rushed up and said, “Bears, who gave you permission to throw rubbers at me?”
The bears ran away laughing.
As Esteban Zaragosa followed her, he put his arm around her and suggested, “Why don’t we also buy some rubber bands and give them a scare?”
Dulcina Calvo’s eyes lit up, “Good idea!”.
After a moment, Dulcina Calvo looked back at him with a suspicious smile, “Esteban Zaragosa, you like to play pranks too!”.
A sly glint shone under the man’s dark eyes, “I don’t like to tease, but I like to tease you.”
Dulcina Calvo smiles with two big curved crescent-shaped eyes.
Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo were about to go to the kiosk to buy some rubbers and see the bears again to get a little revenge, but Dulcina Calvo’s cell phone rang.
After answering the phone, Dulcina Calvo asked, “My friend from high school called and said he wants to meet tonight, at a restaurant in town, shall we go?”
Esteban Zaragosa immediately said, “Go, why not, we are already free anyway.”
Dulcina Calvo unconsciously looked at her over six-month belly, which was already beginning to show, and she herself had put on weight, which, coupled with the fact that it was winter and she was overdressed, made her look like an awkward fatty.
“But do I have to go with my stomach like that?”
“They can’t see it if you don’t say so, at best they think you’ve put on weight.”
The little girl’s little face immediately turned milky and fierce: “Esteban Zaragosa!”.
“Fat looks good too, and besides, you’re taking your husband to a class reunion, so don’t worry, his attention will only be on me.”
Dulcina Calvo: “…”
This guy is so self-centered too!
But it seems like he is.
Esteban Zaragosa has always attracted attention because of his temperament, his height and his looks.
With this in mind, Dulcina Calvo’s little vanity kicked in, as if it was nice to go brag about her husband!
…
Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo did not go by car, as the town was not far and it was only an 800 or 900 meter walk to the hotel.
Once in the private room, all movements of eating and drinking stopped and eyes fell on Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo who entered.
Dulcina Calvo had put on a lot of weight due to her pregnancy and was very warm. As for Esteban Zaragosa, Dulcina Calvo’s companions didn’t know him at all, and for a while they froze and didn’t recognize him.
That was until Dulcina Calvo took off her scarf and greeted everyone with a slightly awkward, “Hello, good New Year’s Eve.”
“Dulcina Calvo?”
“Why, it’s Dulcina, quite a change!”
“Come on, come and sit down.”
“Is this…?”
Dulcina Calvo smiled slightly and was about to introduce herself when Esteban Zaragosa had already taken his place and introduced himself, “Esteban Zaragosa, Dulcina’s husband.”