Con paso lento y sin saber hacia dónde ir, Eduardo caminaba con la tristeza aprisionada dentro de su pecho. Sus pensamientos no coordinaban sus pasos ya que el sabía que no podía pedirle ayuda a ninguno de sus amigos. Sin embargo, su cerebro instintivamente comenzó a guiarlo hacia la casa de Susana. El camino era largo y las sombras de la noche comenzaron a aparecer por todos lados. Eduardo camino por cuatro horas hasta que sin darse cuenta estaba parado frente a la puerta de la casa de Susana. Quería tocar y pedir que le permitieran entrar, pero no se atrevió a hacerlo. Eduardo tenía miedo al rechazo por parte de Susana. También se sentía avergonzado por no tener nada que ofrecer. Sintiendo pena por si mismo, se dejó abatir por el sentimiento de impotencia que había arrastrado entre sus pies, desde que salió de la casa de sus padres como una pesada carga. Sintiendo que no tenía esperanza alguna de obtener la aprobación de sus padres para casarse con Ana, lentamente se fue deslizando sobre su espalda repesado en la puerta hasta quedarse dormido sobre el suelo abrazado a su mochila escolar.
COLORES DE OTOÑO EN PRIMAVERA (PARTE VI)
With a slow step, and without knowing where to go, Eduardo walked with sadness imprisoned inside his chest. His thoughts did not coordinate with his steps since he knew that he could not ask any of his friends for help. However, his brain instinctively began to guide him towards Susana’s house. The road was long, and the shadows of the night began to appear out of everywhere. Eduardo walked for four hours until inadvertently he was standing in front of Susana’s door. He wanted to knock and ask to be allowed in, but he didn’t dare to do so. Eduardo was afraid of rejection by Susana. He was embarrassed too because he had nothing to offer. Feeling sorry for himself, he allowed himself to be overcome by the feeling of helplessness that he had dragged alongside him between his feet since leaving his parents’ house, which felt like a heavy burden. Feeling that he had no hope of obtaining the approval of his parents to marry Ana, he slowly slid onto his back, leaned into in the doorway until he fell asleep on the floor hugging his school bag.
Pale and dismayed, Eduardo could not answer immediately. He felt his whole body vibrating, while his masculinity woke up when he felt the rose of Ana’s hands caressing his face and hair. Stunned and with his mind alienated by the accumulation of sensations awakened by the smell of roses in spring that Ana’s perfume emanated, he slowly stammers “Yesss, Yes I want to marry you Ana”. As he watched as her reddish-gold hair shone in the sunlight, wishing for that moment to become eternal and never end.
Susana watched the clock constantly. Ten minutes had already passed after school was dismissed and Ana did not come out. Ten more minutes passed, and Susana began to despair. Something was not right, Ana might be two or three minutes late, but twenty minutes late was unusual. Susana looked for a place to park the car and began to walk towards the school office. She was nervous thinking about what could have caused Ana’s delay. Just as Susana was about to talk to the secretary, she heard Ana’s voice, “Susana, I’m here. Are we going home?”
Ana grew up being the center of the universe in Susana’s life. Ana’s childhood was full of fun and love. Susana gave herself completely to the care of her granddaughter, providing Ana with everything she needed or wanted, in such a way that Ana developed a strong character, and although sometimes uncompromising, she had a sweetly cheerful spirit and a benevolent heart.
With a pale face, trembling legs and holding the baby car seat, Susana was in front of the hospital doors when her friend Irene came to pick her up, to take her back to her apartment. The tragic news of the collapse of the little train was resounding in all the media, while in Susana’s heart it echoed like an explosion of anguish and fear for what might have happened to her family.