"And what did you expect, Dominique?" he gets up, adjusting his jacket. At that moment, Evie was returning from the bathroom, but upon hearing Alec’s voice, she stopped and heard what he was saying. "The last thing I heard from you was how much you hated me. You preferred anyone, even that horny gardener, to me. You didn’t watch any of my football games, because spending hours and hours in a beauty salon was a better use of your time." Dominique faces the ground, exasperated by hearing so much truth. "You hated a child, when the only thing he wanted... that I wanted was the happiness of my parents together.” It was the first time Evangeline felt she had anything in common with Alec. She could feel the anger and sadness in his voice as she poured all those truths on her mother. When Alec turned, eager to flee, he ran into Evangeline. "Oh, there you are." he sighs and looks sideways towards his mother. Dominique remained seated, absorbing everything he had heard. "I...” "Alec..
"Divine!” "Not so much, Evangeline. But it’s good.” "Is it really the first time you ate a taco?" he nods, taking another bite. "In how many years? How old are you?’ "Twenty-eight. "And you never ate?" Alec denies with his head. "Wow... you have a lot to learn yet.” "I look forward to learning from you.” Once again, Evangeline found herself embarrassed by a line from Alec. He realized and not to leave her more dull and end up wanting to leave, he decides to pull the subject. "So... my first question...” "Will there be more?” "You said you’d let me know all about you." He raises an eyebrow and tries the guacamole. "Yuck... this...” Alec spits out the spicy sauce and causes laughter in Evangeline. Even laughing, she gets up and asks for a bottle of water to the owner of the establishment and comes back to help Alec. "I think I should have warned you about the pepper...” "Yeah." he murmurs, before drinking a generous sip of water. That didn’t resolve the burning
The next morning, Alec felt refreshed. It wasn’t like he had a long, pleasurable night of sex. It was even better. He got up and opened the curtains, facing the large pool that was down there. Although the sun was still giving way, one of the cleaners was already there, removing the leaves that autumn began to bring. After taking a tremendously relaxing bath, Alec wore only a pair of sweatpants and went down for coffee. As he entered the dining room, all the joy that the night before with Evangeline had brought him was gone, as soon as he saw who was at the table. "What’s she doing here?” Alec wasn’t looking at Dominique. He was looking at his father. To the man who had expelled that woman years ago and at that moment was passing her honey for pancakes. "Good morning, son!" Dominique smiles, looking at Alec and pouring honey over her pancakes. "Pancake? I know it’s her favorite breakfast.” "Blake!” "Alec, sit down.” “No." he is firm. "I will not sit down and eat with y
"What?” "His parents took him out of town. No one has any idea where they went. They all switched phones.” "Wow... I..." Evangeline grabs a chair and sits down, trying to process the information she had. "I kept wondering what my problem was, so he’d disappear after our kiss, but...” "On the bright side... it had nothing to do with you.” Evangeline nods, feeling sad about Ruby’s departure. Felippa decides to change the subject. She hated to see her friend crying. "How was yesterday?" question. "I was so tired, I could not stand to wait for you to arrive.” "Oh... it was nice. Alec is kind.” "And the opera? Was that all you imagined?” "And much more." Evie smiles, remembering the only act she watched. "Do you believe that Alec also has problems with his mother? From what I understand, they hadn’t seen each other in years, and she snuck in yesterday.” "It must have been a climan.” "It was. I gave up my desire to watch the opera to get Alec away from her. I didn’t thi
"And you understand why.” Dominique hands one of the glasses to Blake and occupies the chair next to him. "Don’t you find it easier to tell your son the truth?” “No!" He looks at her." I didn’t call you here to question my choices. "Blake...” "Enough, Dom! Telling Alec I’m dying will make him weak. He still needs to mature too much in this environment, so I can...” "You can’t control that, honey.” "I can do whatever I want." Blake murmurs, grumpy. "By the way, what are you doing here? Can’t you see I’m full of things to sign? Where’s your toy?” She rolls her eyes and drinks all the whiskey in a single sip. "My husband is at the hotel, waiting for me. I didn’t want to bring him here. It could be too much for Alec.” "Look at you! Mother of the Year!” "Save your debauchery for yourself, Blake." She gets up and heads for the door. "I’ll find him. And you, you rethink this stupidity of not wanting to tell your son about your illness.” [...] The night began to be pres
"Of course she does." Felippa says, rolling her eyes. "Her mother only thinks about herself. It’s not from today.” Evie knew what Felippa was talking about, but she didn’t want to get into it. "I’m leaving. I can’t be late for class because I won the recital.” Before she could walk out the door, Evangeline remembers her mother. She then looks like a dog who fell from the change, to Felippa, who understands the message. Felippa opens the door and looks around, checking to see if Leah was inside her trailer. Once confirmed, Evie leaves and quickly walks to the bus stop. [...] "Evie, wait a minute!” Upon hearing the voice of his classmate, Davine, Evangeline for his walk in the middle of the stairs. The girl grabs Evangeline’s neck, giving her a tight hug. "Congratulations! I couldn’t believe it when I heard you won!” "Thank you! I missed you there.” "Ah." Davine walks away and sighs sadly. "In addition to not letting me participate, my father did not let me come.” E
A woman approaches with the drinks Alec had asked for. She informs that the potatoes will take a while longer. "Anyway." he mutters, after a generous sip on the cold drink. "My idea is to build houses. Real houses, with at least two rooms.” "For everyone?” "Sure! How many families are there? Twenty?” "I think almost thirty." Evangeline says, trying to count mentally. "I’m not sure.” "Then we will make almost thirty houses.” "Wow...” Evangeline didn’t know what to say. She would have thought of several things that would happen in that place, minus what Alec said. "There’s a catch." he says. "I’ll have enough money to build the houses. And since that was an open field of the city hall and your experience there was considered an invasion, I will need to collect rent.” "I get it. Fair enough.” "Yeah. The reason you’re here, I want your help in talking to the locals. I see everything I want to do as a way to improve everyone’s quality of life, but I imagine some peopl
"What’s your problem, Evangeline?" she murmurs to herself, going to Felippa’s trailer. "You’re crazy! Crazy!” "I agree." Felippa says, when Evie comes in. "But why are you crazy?” Evie drops the violin case on the floor and occupies the chair next to Felippa. She could hear the television coming from her friend’s parents' room. "Are your parents awake?" Felippa settled. "Can you call them for me?” Felippa did not understand that request. William and Adriane were still awake and asked Evangeline to go there. Without fully entering the room, so as not to be invasive, she begins to speak. "So... you know that field was bought, right?” "How to forget?" William grumbles, sitting on the bed. "That day was a despair.” "It’s... I know. I kind of know the person who bought this place.” "What?" Felippa strange and looks at her parents, who are also confused. "Who? It is the...” "Yeah. It’s Alec. Anyway...” Evangeline tells her best friend and her parents of Alec’s revital