Revolution

CHAPTER 8

Steven

- Have you got everything ready?.

- Of course, you won't know what hit her.

- Cool

-  This is necessary ? I mean, I feel that lately you are no longer interested and now we are not talking about you, nor about me, measure us, but about what we want to do to that Latina.

-  Are you regretting ? Where is the Tatiana who has everyone under her control, the dominant one with whom I fell in love?.

- Still here, tomorrow will be a very good day, we will show that nobody messes with the popular ones.

- I like it that way, now kiss me Sosa.

- With all the pleasure Butler.

Tatiana holds my jacket and takes hold of my lips with all possessiveness, something that reacts in me by taking her waist with my hands in the same way, showing each of us how much we like and love each other. No one wants to break this connection, but my cell phone interrupts us.

—What !?.

—Is that the way to talk to your father?.

—No, sorry dad.

—I want you to come as soon as possible Steven.

— Okay, I'm coming.
-Come quickly - and hang up
- - I have to go. Shall I look for you tomorrow?.

- Okay, go.

I drive for fifteen minutes, Tatiana has been my girlfriend for two years, everything was love and affection, flirtatious looks, long messages where we expressed everything, long conversations until dawn, but I never managed to tell her about my family situation.

I park the car in the garage, get out of it and go straight to the living room where Alexander Butler is waiting for me sitting on the couch with his disinterested face as always.

—I was waiting for you.

—I know.

—Sit down, I want to talk to you about something important.

It is the first time I have heard that from my father after that tragic moment for us.

" I come home from school tired, Tatiana and I had an argument and it didn't work out at all, now we are upset. I enter the house and I find my father sitting on the sofa with his legs spread elbows on his knees and his head in his hands as well as a whiskey in front of him, he seems to notice my presence as he breaks the silence.

- She is gone - says my father with a pained voice and tears falling from his eyes - Corinne has died.

—No, that's impossible, the doctors said that he could recover, that he was responding well to the treatment, I refuse to believe it.

—Believe it! She is gone, cancer killed her Steven, your mother, my wife is gone, she died ".

From that moment it was like something broke between my father and me, we were no longer the same, we still looked at each other with pain.

Now Alexander has something to tell me.

— I have secretly had a love relationship with a coworker for a year and a half and I feel that I love her, the memory of your mother will always be with me, but I have to move on with my life, that is why I have asked Jade to marry me.

That is something that leaves me hurt, frustrated, confused and happy that my father continues his life but also a feeling of betrayal emerges within me.

—How can you do this to me !, Mom would never accept it, I can't believe you despise her memory like that.

—You said it well, her memory, Corinne is gone, she would have wanted me to continue with my life, because that made me promise her, that's why Jade and I will get married whether you like it or not.

—I just want you to know that I do not accept and will not accept that marriage.

I leave the house slamming the door so hard that the glass in the door breaks from the impact, but I don't care, I get to the garage, get in the car, start and drive aimlessly. When I have been behind the wheel for a long time, I park in a park, it is always lonelier than with people, which makes it the ideal place to think, I get out of the car and walk around, the plants and flowers of this place transmit serenity to me what I need in these turbulent moments, I look up and on a bench I see that girl, Ciara, and as always I will download my pain as I know best: to make the other feel worse than I do.

When I get closer, I notice that she is crying and her tears fall down her flushed cheeks, there is so much sincerity and pain in her sadness that it makes me regret my initial purpose, besides that with the news that I just received I am not in the mood to make fun of the girl.

—Hello.

—Hi! How are you?.

— I've had better days.

— Do you also come here to suffer in silence?.

—It's the first time I've come here and tell me what makes you suffer?.

— Bad feelings, sometimes in my head all the nicknames that have been told me are released: pig, fat, flea and orphan.

—Why did you get nicknamed that?.

—Can't you see me? I am a whale, when I was developing I ate without stopping and when I began to grow and to notice everything I ingested caused in me a feeling of disgust towards myself, I began to take laxatives but they did nothing, while everyone around me was role models. It was the overweight pig.

—But now you are not fat, well not how you describe yourself, I think you are very well proportioned in every part of you from your hair to your feet, but one doubt. Why the orphan thing?.

—You would not understand, it is a very complicated subject for me.

— I think I've shown that maybe I could understand.

—But how ? You don't even know me and I don't know why I'm talking to you about such personal issues.

— But I have observed you Ciara, if I know your name, and you and I have something in common, we are happy outside, but inside we are eaten by pain.

- How can someone like you suffer?

—You would be surprised many of us use smiles as shields of our suffering.

- My mother died when I was fifteen - I confess suddenly and it feels fucking good.

—I am sorry.

—Thanks.

-— My father abandoned us when I was 11 and I never heard from him again.

— Look at us counting our sorrows and how the abandonment of one of our parents has affected us.

—That is what we need on various occasions to tell our sadness and get on with life.

And there two unhappy souls in a lonely place enjoy the sunset.

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