Nine

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* You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. --- Steve jobs. *

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----- Joseph -----

I sat on my bed after breakfast, feeling confused and lost. I'd thought my decision had been set and unchangeable until the conversation I had with Nanny.

“ Am I really blinded by Vera's words, that I'm failing to see the truth? ”

“ Am I paying more attention to logic than to my heart? ”

‘ Always listen to your heart, Jose. ’ Mira's words from two years ago rang in my mind, making me wonder if I'm really doing that.

Am I really not listening to my heart? Is that why I've been way too confused?

“ What should I do, Lord? ” I stared at the painting of Mira, I had hung on the wall with mixed thoughts.

I desperately wanted to believe that Mira's innocent and Nanny's right. But how can I do that, when all odds are against her? Especially now that believing in her will mean betraying my girlfriend.

“ I'll never hurt you, Jose. You know