MR. BAD GUY (ENGLISH VERSION)

YOUR SMILE SPEAKS BOOKS TO ME

The world was a huge and pitch-black plain. And Enzo was wandering aimlessly, crashing against intangible things and feeling a deathly cold in his bones. He was shivering, could feel the convulsions all over his body. The irrational fear and his skin was crawling in the back of his neck. Then he fell again unconsciously.

Enzo didn't know who he was, what he was doing or what had happened. He just was afraid and felt like it was the total catharsis. As though he was juggling on the edge of a volcano. And the boiling lava reached out its symbolic arms to get him down there and finish one and for all.

- Sweetheart...

That word came to his ears and he walked out of the thick darkness. He saw some hands together, as though they were praying. Some hands hidden inside a pair of gloves but he guessed they had the same olive skin as his face. He had put his fingertips slightly over some plump and big lips. A strange necklace wrapped his wrist, dangling slightly.

It was the first thing he saw apart the total darkness. He had said sweetheart. And that word was for him. There's no doubt he addressed to him. With his eyes narrowed trying to get used to the light again he discovered more things. A well outlined neck. Again his huge and expectant hands over the lips, the nubian nose with fine and thin septum till it widened on his tip and suddenly such eyes, bigger than the world in its width. A smokey blue gaze, bottomless, that casted changing brightness in his eyeballs. Sometimes the colour was greyer and other times bluer.

That same amazing beauty and those huge eyes frightened him. His state of mind made him cringed so he started to shiver like a leave. He couldn't lock that gaze that he didn't know whom belonged to. Those eyes were so big... No matter how kind and sweet they looked, they had the quality to frighten him, undress him, put his walls down. And that human being's gaze sent him shivers from head to toe.

He wanted to talk but he couldn't find his voice. The complainings burnt in his throat. Not a barely audible voice. Just a little annoying cough.

Tarek, that human being so frightening that he didn't recognize, sat on his heels by the bed where he was lying. He put him a cloth soaked in water to wet slightly his lips. He understood he couldn't drink anything. He was thankful for that wetness but he felt his lips bruised. He was going to touch them but Tarek stopped him.

- No, my love. Don't touch them. They are in tatters. Hang on.

He came over his mouth to his and started to blow them. He was so dumbfounded and every minute he was more. He applied on them a white ointment and he felt a sudden relief.

- That's better -Tarek mumbled so focused on his lips's state as though it was nothing else in the whole universe.

They were alone. Just that man who seemed to him so giant and absorbed with his presence all the oxigen he had to breath. He was wearing a green robe, a cap with the same colour. Besides, he wore also latex gloves. He thought he must not be his nurse because a nurse hardly could look at his own patient the way he was looking at him. Then, who was that amazing person who seemed to suck the few strenghts he had, only with his eyes?

- Enzo, can you talk?

He heard the sound of his name as something completely new. Enzo, that's how he called. As far as speaking was concerned, he didn't know yet if he could speak. He let out unexpectedly one somewhat mumbling "Yes".

- So nice hearing your voice again. But don't talk anymore. Save your strenghts...

- Who are you?

This time he asked the question without trembling. Frowning. And then Tarek's confusion joined his. His sweet glance changed, showing an amazing fear joining his own fear. He brought a hand to his trembling lips. The tears were filling his eyes that were piercing him and got him awkward. Enzo questioned him and he too. That beautiful face frowning. He swallowed hard before answering. He smoothed his sheets somewhat restless forcing a smile. He delayed because he couldn't find his own voice now. And Enzo took pity of him.