Chapter 10

"I'm willing to say whatever you want about my tastes, Rob. You don't have to choose a subject just because you think I'm going to suffer, "said Debby with such great maturity that Rob himself felt like a five-year-old child on her side. He would never have so much self-control over his emotions after a month of such a great loss. "I've already lost more than people I loved in my life. I've already lost myself too; I got lost and I found myself. And my aunt taught me that not all the pains in the world deserve you to suffer. So I won't suffer for her, I'll enjoy it for her.

If Rob wasn't already so interested in Debby, if he wasn't so focused on making his world open up so that she would be able to enter, he would have fallen to his knees for her at that moment. He did not think he would be able, but he noticed, a few minutes of conversation later, that Debby still consisted of being like a sun on a rainy day, that he