Go live your way Part 2

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Alvaro arrived home with mixed feelings. He had already written to Mia on the doorstep that he was there and unlocked the door. When he went into the house, his mother was standing in the kitchen and Lupe was sitting on the couch and seemed to be waiting for him. She took him briefly in her arms when he came in. Mercedes turned around.

"There you are my son." she came towards him and took him in her arms too. "The meal is already ready," she said.

"I'll just bring my bag upstairs and then I'll be there," said Alvaro.

"Was the vacation nice?" Asked Mercedes in a slightly disinterested tone. Alvaro looked from one to the other and said "yes it was very beautiful."

"And how is Isabel?" asked Lupe

"Nice" said ALvaro.

"Just nice," Lupe asked again.

"Yes she is .. what do you want to hear."

"Preferably nothing at all," said Mercedes. "Lupe, you shouldn't ask so many questions when Ramiro was out with his new daughter"

"Did you want me to be here so you can piss me off, or were you really interested in hanging out with me?" asked Alvaro.

"I don't want to upset you, I just said how it is," said Mercedes. Lupe looked at Alvaro, in her gaze a pleading not to say anything more.

Alvaro continued to eat in silence. When everyone was done, Mercedes went upstairs and Lupe and Alvaro cleaned up the kitchen. Alvaro looked questioningly at Lupe. "She's like that almost the whole time. Things were a little better on vacation, but since she found out about Isabel, things have gone downhill."

" And how are you?" asked Alvaro and put the rag to one side. "Good in itself. But it's always kind of weird here."

"have you seen gaspar" asked Alvaro.

"Yes, he was really cute, he wrote to me and invited me to dinner for Sunday. We have already met twice this week. But I said, I'll meet Agostina, I had the impression that Mom didn't like Gaspar."

"Is she upstairs all day?" asked Alvaro.

"No, she's only doing that now to make you feel bad and check on her." said Lupe.

Alvaro took a deep breath. "Was Juanma's mother here a week?"

"She was gone for a few days with Marcello."

"Ok tell me about Gaspar" said Alvaro to change the subject. He picked up the rag again and wiped the kitchen island.

"He is very nice, we went to dinner, he had chosen a small restaurant that had different things. But we didn't rush anything, we just met, that was all" said Lupe.

"Are you comfortable with him?"

"Yeah well it's kind of weird, because the atmosphere is so weird here, I can't really enjoy it."

After a while she said "How was it with you, how is it going with Mia?"

"Good. Really, very good. I'm happy."

"That's great, I'm happy for you ," said Lupe

"Really" asked Alvaro.

"yes I mean at least one of us should be happy". she said and smiled at him.

Alvaro preferred not to respond." I'll go check on mom."

He went to Mercedes in the bedroom. She had changed a bit and was sitting on the bed with her legs stretched out. "Mom? Are you okay?" He asked.

"Of course my son, come and sit with me" Alvaro sat down on the bed. "How was your vacation" he asked.

"Lupe was bored all the time and I ... well I was at the beach and the pool."

"But haven't you done anything?"

"What did you do?"

Alvaro bubbled up, he talked about diving, about the campfire, about swimming and about the beautiful evenings with Isabel and Ramiro and about the boat tour.

Mercedes went very still. She looked at him. "Isabel and ramiro were diving too?" she asked. "No, both of them disn't, just the four of us."

"He did  this before, remember? Where he dragged you to the diving course?"

"But mom that was really cool, even now, we were in a cave, our diving instructor was once a rescue diver, it was just super beautiful."

"Super nice. Can you pay  a living from diving? Can you support a family from it? Can you - God forbid - meet Mia's claims with it?"

"That was a holliday activity not a job offer. and over that you can see again that you don't know Mia. Mia has no claims"

"She's telling you that now, wait and see".

"that does not lead to anything here." said Alvaro and left the room. Lupe stood by the stairs and heard most of it. "

" What did I tell you?" she said with a slight triumph in her voice. Alvaro nodded and retired to his room. It wasn't what he feared. It was worse. He took his cell phone and called MIa. When she answered he said "Hey, I just wanted to hear your voice"

"Hey Alvaro, is everything ok?" asked Mia. Alvaro swallowed.

"It's all good," he said.

"How's it going with Lupe and Mercedes?"

"Lupe is doing better than my mother," he said.

" How do you mean?" Alvaro was silent for a while.

Then he told how the afternoon had gone. Mia was speechless.