His frustration is present, seeing that the message was from the music school. The teacher was sick and classes were canceled. "Great." Evie mutters, leaving her phone on the table. "What was it?" Felippa does not expect Evangeline to offer the cell phone. She herself picks up and reads the received message. "Ah... how annoying. At least your nights are free for now. What are you doing today?” "Practice. There is nothing better to do.” Evangeline holds her cell phone and leaves the restaurant without waiting for her friend. The elevator leaves her on the roof, where she goes directly to the minibar and holds the bottle that was with less liquid. That’s the one Alec had served for him when talked. "I’m alone." she grumbles, looking at the bottle. "What bad can happen?” Once the bottle -obviously- does not answer it, Evangeline removes the lid and turns the hot liquid right into her mouth. She grimaces and contemplates not drinking again. [...] The insistent ringing of t
She walked up to the short man in a suit, smiling and laughing at him. After some hugs and conversations near the ear, Felippa turned in the direction of the limousine and motioned to the other two women. Evie left the car first and helped Audrey then. The place was big and noisy. As Felippa and Audrey walked among the people, swaying in the rhythm of the music they played, Evangeline looked around with disdain. Her influence on classical music from an early age made her hate exactly where she was. "What a burial face!" Audrey yells at Evangeline as soon as they sit down at a table. "Hey?” The blonde pulls the mango of a waiter who passed by and asks him to bring his best and most expensive drinks. And a bottle of water. "I won’t wait for drinks. I want to dance!” Felippa leaves the table, making Audrey sigh relieved. She was eager to be alone with Evangeline. "Hey!" she pushes the redhead with her shoulder. " You don’t like ballads, do you?” "Is it that obvious?” "Ot
Drawing strength from where she never imagined she would, Evangeline raises her knee and hits Eric’s intimate parts. The moment he walks away, to complain about the aggression suffered, Evie closes her hand in fist and hits a wrong punch in his face. Without shaking with that and holding her intimate parts, Eric pushes her, walks away and shouting how slutty she is. Sitting on the floor, seeking her dignity, Evangeline cries. She feels that she is in that room again, with her clothes torn. "Hey! Evangeline?" Audrey, who was also looking for the bathroom, almost stumbles on the redheaded girl sitting on the floor. "Are you crying? What happened?” Although she tries to speak, despair takes over her body and she feels that an anxiety crisis is happening. Audrey also notices, then quickly grabs her by the arm and uses all her strength to take her away from all those people. After a few minutes searching, they enter the area reserved for smokers. "Leave." Audrey says, looking at the
The test was positive, obviously. Amid the tears, I told my mother what had happened. She cursed me bitch down. He said that I deserved all the pain the world was able to cause me and that now I would know what it was like to have life destroyed by a baby out of time. I let her go and looked for the one person I should be looking for at that moment. Eric. He did even worse than my mother. He said I wanted his money and was using the pregnancy for that. That since I had the courage to have sex with three different men on the same night and act like it was no big deal, it could have happened to other people as well. Eric kicked me out and told me never to look for him again." "I lost the baby, two weeks after graduation." Evie says, drying her face again. She had not stopped crying since the mention of Eric’s name. "It was painful, since the child was almost formed, but I believe it was deliverance. I can’t imagine what my life would be like today if that pregnancy had paid off.”
Alec hadn’t been able to pay attention at work all day. While investors and directors talked and expounded their ideas for an upcoming job, Alec only thought of ways he would torture the man who nearly hurt Evangeline. And standing in front of the bar where Diego and his gang were dealing, his thoughts remained the same. Alec couldn’t take his eyes off the door, where two men talked and shared a marijuana cigarette. It had been an hour that he was there and Diego had not yet appeared. Alec’s phone beeped, informing a new message. Hopeful that it was Evangeline, he looked quickly. Upon reading his older sister’s name, Alec rolled his eyes and almost gave up on opening the message. Upon seeing the image of Evangeline, trapping her rebellious red hair in a high ponytail, Alec smiles. Before he could question his sister, what she was doing with Evangeline, Howard hits her arm. "He arrived." informs, making Alec look quickly at the door. "Let’s go?” "Wait a minute.” Alec watches D
"She’s the woman your son is in love with. Do you really want to contest her presence?” "Alec is in surgery." finally says. "He..." Blake looks again in the direction of Evangeline. "How much does she know?” "Everything.” "Wow... Alec really... well. He got into a mess with our enemies on the north side." Evie looks at the conversation, hearing the word north. "With a single shot, he killed the Colombian, but before that bastard died, he shot Alec twice.” "My God! Has he been there long?” "It must be more than two hours." Blake comments, looking at the Rolex watch on his wrist. "No one comes to tell me about his condition.” Audrey hugs her father and pulls him to sit. Evie slowly walks away and looks for the hospital cafeteria. Upon finding her, she goes to the counter and asks for coffee and tea. While waiting, Evie sits on the bench and notices a man sitting at a table behind the counter. She then abandons the bench and goes to him. "Is it my fault?" asks suddenly, causi
It was the first time she looked at Alec, without having to look away out of shame from some phrase said by him. After a week without seeing him, Evie had noticed that Alec was growing a beard and had some gaps on the side. On his neck, there were three birthmarks, which looked like the three marias stars. Alec only had tattoos on his arms and none seemed to have any meaning, as they were just random drawings. A little below the figure he had tattooed, was a band, protecting the wound that had been made by one of the bullets. Evie found herself caressing Alec’s straight hair and pulling some strands from his forehead. His fingers slipped across his face and a sideways smile sprouted from his lips. "Shit, Alec." Evie murmurs, still caressing him. "I can’t believe this is happening.” She wasn’t just talking about him getting into a mess and being hospitalized. Ever since Audrey told about Alec being shot, Evangeline’s heart was beating out of control. When the doctor informed him
As soon as she finishes packing up, Evie holds the chair and pushes Alec out of the room and consecutively out of the hospital. Howard, who was waiting in the car, quickly approaches, seeing the two leave. "Leave it to me." he says to Evangeline, occupying himself in pushing the chair to the car. He lightly hits Alec’s shoulder and squeezes him. "What a fright, brother. Don’t do that anymore.” "No one can talk about it.” After helping Alec sit in the back seat, Evie occupies the empty seat next to Howard. "How’s business?" Howard looks sideways at Evangeline, who just nods in denial. Alec frowns and faces the two interchangeably. "What was that?” "The doctor asked for at least another week away from his..." she looks sideways at Alec. "professional activities.” "What? This is absurd! I’m..." in an attempt to get closer to the front seats, Alec ends up feeling pain in the belly points. "Oh...” "Great. We can see that.” He snorts and settles down, this time more calmly.