Chapter 5 The Daredevil and the beauty ch5

When Alexander regained consciousness, he was all confused about where his father had gone. He tried to move, but the bones of his body fought hard, and he screamed fright. The sound started to come back to his ear again, there was a movement of men trying to help the ladies out of the bus, he was helpless, he thought for a moment he would leave himself to die, but he saw Armando's face and his nose smiling when they knew he was dead This made him move his legs and fight back up.

The journey to the city was Alexander's most difficult one There was a dark old house inside which no one seemed to knock when Alexander opened, saw a seven-year-old boy look at him, and before hearing a woman coming, he lost consciousness again.

Rosa's letters to her mother.

Mom I am Laroussa Do you know who I am? Mom they say the soul never leaves the person you love Are you here mom do you love me or did you leave because I am an ugly girl, as my stepmother says? Mom, a father lied to him and said that my mother is his wife, but I just discovered their lies today. Mom, I love you Mama, I got a friend today he doesn't look like John, my friend at school, who always says we'll be together forever, but that boy, the forest boy, is different from them. He laughed and gourmet, he told me before I got home. I told my father I wanted to see him again. He didn't mind, but my brother didn't like him, that he was still young and listened to my stepmother.

Mom, I've won so many prizes at school that I've become the perfect girl.

I know you're there somehow because Armando's wife, Mary, and my friend Sherry, who is also named Sherine, called me Lena, that you loved me a lot, that you left the world without your will, but here together in a different way, so I'm waiting for you to come see me until we talk.

Mom, I 'm confused because I have a new friend named Alexander I told you about, who' s so badass, he came to my school, kept waiting for me outside, and when he saw me, he called me Lena

Mom, I'm confused because I have a new friend named Alexander I told you about.

He's very feisty.

He came to my school and kept waiting for me outside. When he saw me, he shouted in the name of Lena. John was there looking at me. He saw him for the first time. You know, John's family was strange from the village. He told me he would leave in the summer to visit his grandmother there. But he never liked Alexander.

And Alexander shared discomfort with him, but I begged John to claim that I had gone home with him so that I could see the hidden jungle that Alexander had told me about and its delicious fruit He swore that the food I would eat there was never tasted in my whole life She is impressed by it, and wishes that Zidou, her lover, as she calls him, is also the son of the village, but he is very shy.

Shree says how he'll work in the big house if he doesn't say a word.

Am I bad, Mother, if I tell you that I hate my stepmother and wish her death and you would come back to life even though I love my brother Juan very much But I hate that woman that ever since my father comes home, she makes it hard to talk to him, she takes his mind off of him She can take his hands from us to his room and disappear there He also makes her birthday celebrations so wonderful

But the worst I heard after the school party, when I sang, because I sounded pretty like you, as Mary said, Mom. I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I told him to go to boarding school. I can't leave I'm going to John's house because Alexander's house is too small for John's house.

Mom, my life is shattered, I'm going away from my father to boarding school, it's a school where Pedro, the son of a woman who grieved your heart a long time ago, but I can't hate Pedro now, he's all I know.

John also cried when he heard my mother was gone He can't do this to me Please do something I can't leave until I can't see Alexander.

It's autumn I watched the leaves fall and they put little suitcases in the car with everything I needed.

My little brother was afraid to hang on to my hands while my stepmother was very relaxing, Mary and Sherine cried as the car took me to a new world I didn't know I would never forgive my father for that. One day I would punish him just for letting me go to school away from him.

After I left my father's house, Nicolas, and I came to Juan Carlos' school from the first day, I felt like I had to look strong, but I was really afraid of everything here. From the first day, Pedro appeared, true that he was two years older than me, but he managed to keep me from a bitter struggle between the gang of bullies and the whole school.

They are a gang of Siza and her brother Zeus, strange names that I thought were their real names for many years.

You do not know, Mother, that because of my father my life changed when he decided that I should go to that school and make what had happened between me and Pedro forever. I do not know. After years, I did not decide to throw away my life, although it was not a damned school, but a prison. The only thing that kept me going was my friend Sheri and the unruly Alexander I had imagined coming to school to rid me of the gang of Zeus and all its innocent victims

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