Five
I smile at the sarcastic explanation from the bald driver with a huge mustache, who has no idea who I am or where I came from.
“Yes… maybe.”
“Keep your head up. Love is like that—ice at first, and fire when it’s ready,” he explains thoughtfully, indifferent, as if his heart had been shaped that way at some point in his life.
The driver keeps rambling, continuing with his love metaphors until I finally arrive.
“See you. May everything work out for you,” he says goodbye warmly and slowly.
I thank him politely and almost fly toward the apartment.
“Hi Estela, come in… come in,” Mark is waiting at the door in a white pullover and black jeans. The bastard is so built that his tattoos show through