What the mask hides.

6

Lexa had gone to a jewelry store to pick up an order her mother had and had brought it to her. The woman was in the patio sunbathing. She was having a pleasant chat with the nurse the green-eyed woman had hired, who was very worried about her mother and was not willing to let her be alone. The brunette left the boxes of repaired jewelry on the marble table and sat in front of her mother after placing a kiss on her cheek:

- How did you wake up today, mother?

- I wish I could say I'm fine, but I miss your sister.

Lexa looked away to hide her displeasure. Indra leaned down a little and reached out to grab her daughter's hand. For a mother to witness a father reject one daughter while giving everything to the other was painful, for both sisters to end up as rivals, that hurt, Lexa's ailments had always been hers too. Alicia had given birth to her too:

- Alice is dead, will I ever see forgiveness on your face?

- Let's not talk about that now.

She leaned back and crossed her legs, showing off her black loafers, matching her dark blue striped business suit. Since the incident with her father, Lexa hasn't worn a dress again. Indra signaled to the maid to bring something to drink, needless to say, since in that house they already knew perfectly well what they drank:

- I didn't cancel my birthday event- the woman explained as she looked at the jewelry her daughter had brought her- it will also be in honor of your sister- she looked at a very elegant and expensive pearl necklace and showed it to the green-eyed girl- I want Clarke to wear it

Lexa grabbed the little box and ran her hand over the expensive piece of jewelry, imagining the blonde wearing it:

- It would look great on you

Indra smiled:

- How are things with Clarke?

Lexa slammed the jewel box shut and frowned at her mother.

- What is this tone of complicity?

- I've seen how you look at her

- How do I look at her? Well, with my eyes.

The maid appeared with a jug of lemonade for Lexa and a soda for Indra. The green-eyed girl didn't drink, so it could be said that of the twins she was the only one who abstained from going to parties and drinking until she lost consciousness:

- You know what I mean - her mother insisted - she is pretty

- And my sister's widow

- So? - Lexa looked at her as if she couldn't believe what she had just heard - she's pretty, she looks smart and your children adore her.

- I'm not going to get involved with my sister's wife- He continued with the refusal- I would really like to give her back, and maybe I would have done it if she were alive- he tensed the muscles of his jaw- I'm not the most delicate person in the universe, but at least I have the honor of a sister- he lowered his head- Clarke is my friend

Indra stood up and walked around the marble table to hug the green-eyed girl, who let herself be rocked by her mother. She was perhaps the only person in the entire universe in which Lexa showed her fragility:

- My girl, you can't live in the past, give yourself the opportunity to be happy

- Mother, it's about me hurting, even when I don't want to- she hugged her mother- you only have to look at the first woman I screwed because of my hatred

Indra gave him a kiss on the head:

- You were young, stop punishing yourself already

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