Chapter 69

I thought all that would make me cry, but I got strong. But he couldn't say the same about his ex-girlfriend. She sobbed sharply and very loudly, and I raised my head to observe.

She was reading a fifth letter, because four others were open on her lap. She stained the letters with tears, and did not return my gaze while she was involved in every good memory, in every poetic form of farewell.

I only diverted my attention when I noticed that a shadow began to grow in the hallway, and, a moment later, my mother was there.

She was standing on the doorstep, shocked that we were in there. But when she also noticed the letters - which she always knew I dedicated most of them to our already buried relatives - and the hand that the pregnant girl put on her belly, she faltered on her knees.

My mother just didn't fall because my father was coming right behind, and so did the girl's parents.

The room seemed very full when they all came in. And I quickly closed