A Chance For Love

Chapter 7 - Scars

Helena was there looking at him. For a moment she remembered the boy she'd met twenty years before. She felt a huge urge to caress his face, and when she was about to do so the doorbell rang. She was startled and he opened his eyes.

To meet her sitting next to her with her hands close to him was something really surprising and unexpected.

- I can explain. - She was about to get up and get out of there, but he holds her arm so she stays close to him.

- You do not have to explain anything. - He smiles and walks up to kiss her but the doorbell rings again and she sees a chance to escape.

- The bell is ringing. - She gets up quickly, leaving Johnny disappointed.

She opens the door and goes to the gate to pick up the mail that has been left in her mailbox. Her heart was pounding so hard she thought she might die right there in the grass of her house.

If Eva had been there, she would certainly have punched her for leaving that opportunity. He sat down on the sofa and watched her go back through the door. She turned her eyes to the mailings only to have an excuse not to look at him, for she was very ashamed and as she read she noticed that there was between the letters the script for Tim Burton's new animated film "Corpse Bride."

- So you got the script.- Johnny says as he recognizes the papers.

- Have you received it yet?

- Yes yesterday. I read it. - he sighs - Helena ... - says his name and gets up - You wanted to tell me something before the bell rings?

Helena's eyes are restless, her heart seemed to triple the speed of the heartbeat in her chest

- I ... I just thought you wanted the mechanic's phone to fix your car.

- The mechanic ... - he repeats what she says, not believing that this was the reason she woke him up. - well, actually I wonder if ... - Johnny wanted to say something that made her realize that he had feelings for her but how she was moving away from him maybe she was not interested, maybe the feeling was not reciprocal, so he continued. if my clothes are dry.

- Oh, yes, they probably are. - She went to the service area and took the clothes for him.

- thank you. he said as he tooke his shirt and trousers. - I'm going to call a taxi because I need to go to my apartment to pack my things, later I ask Tim to help me with the car issue, do not worry about the number of the mechanic. Excuse. He called for a taxi and headed for the bathroom.

Helena was feeling totally stupid. Reason was overcoming the desire of his heart. But she was still afraid.

A few minutes passed, and Johnny came out of the bathroom dressed in his clothes. And the shirt he'd borrowed from her was folded in his hands.

Helena was sitting on the couch and when she saw him, she got up and said,

- Did you know how to explain to the taxi driver the address of my house?

- Yes, I saw the street sign at night and said the number of your house.

- Ah yes, then okay. Helena was sitting with her arms folded, and there was something she'd been wanting to ask ever since she'd seen him. - Johnny, that little mark you got a little above your rigth eye, how did you get that scar?

He smiled and shook his head, for she certainly already knew the answer, but he keeps saying:

- Once, a madwoman threw an alarm clock out of her bedroom window and hit me right here.

She widens her eyes:

- Wow, I'm sorry that happened.

- It's all right, it's not such a big scar. - he smiled.