A Christmas Adventure by Mónica Benítez

Author:Mónica Benítez [Benítez, Mónica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

"It's super late," Olga says, stressed, getting dressed for the third time this morning. "Your mother will be here soon and we haven't done anything."

"Speak for yourself, I've torn off all that." Violeta points to one of the walls and the pile of paper lying on the floor.

Olga smiles, kisses her on the cheek, and goes straight to her purse to get money.

"Go on, do me a favor and go to the prepared food store to buy something to eat. It'll look really weird if I go and your mother finds you here alone. I'll tear off a little more paper, clean this up, and I'll get in the kitchen to set the table."

Violeta accepts the bill and looks at Olga, unable to hold back her laughter.

"What are you laughing at?"

"At you. Don't stress out. My mother doesn't know how far along you had the room or if it's hard to tear off this paper or not. We'll tell her it's really stuck on there and it's very time-consuming."

"Are you always such a liar?" Olga puts her hands on her hips and narrows her eyes.

"It's not a lie, we're just camouflaging the truth a bit, and we're doing it to make you feel good, don't forget that. What do you want me to buy?"

Violeta waves the bill in the air.

"Whatever you two like, I eat everything."

Violeta looks her up and down and Olga feels the current run through her body like a gust again.

"Damn, get out of my room right now," she orders authoritatively, pointing to the door.

"Okay." Violeta laughs and crosses the door, ready to leave, but Olga holds her back by grabbing her arm.

"What are you doing? Are you going with that crazy hair?" she asks, laughing, pushing Violeta toward the bathroom.

The two look at each other in the mirror: Violeta in front and Olga standing right behind her. Their tousled hair clearly betrays that it hasn't exactly been paper they've been tearing off. They both wash up and tidy themselves, then they kiss and that's when Violeta leaves.

Olga tears off a little more paper, then puts the remains in a garbage bag, sweeps the floor and when she goes outside to throw it all away, she finds that Maite is already coming. Her heart races and she feels a pang of guilt when her neighbor smiles at her from afar. Olga feels like a traitor and really doesn't know if she's acting correctly by hiding from her what's happening with her daughter, but she already has that agreement with Violeta and for now she's going to keep it.

"How'd it go?" Maite asks as soon as she reaches the door of her house.

"Good, although between one thing and another, I got held up longer than I thought. Plus, then I ran into an acquaintance I hadn't seen in a while and I stopped to have coffee with her."

Olga gets very stressed when she realizes that if Maite hadn't done all that, she would have arrived at her

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