E poi?
"Listen," says Beth. "There's a guy who loves a girl to madness. This here is the kind of girl monstrously beautiful, clear eyes, and wavy long hair, slim hips, curves defined. "
We're walking through the streets of the old side by side, but today I do not want to talk to me at all. I just want to smoke. We stop outside a bar, protected by a porch advertises Coca Cola red. I lean against the wall and loud sigh, cold and tired.
"A crash," I say.
"A loud crash." Beth rubs her hands together, shaking his arms. "The guy is nothing but that, he worked as a waiter in a bar and a small speech impediment, so every now and then starts to stutter and lose a few words on the street in the middle of sentences."
I look at the white wet falling from the sky beyond the veranda, in the form of small flakes, cold, frozen.
's snowing.
"I do not know Beth," I say. "It's a joke?"
A truck passes along the road, leaves behind two black marks in the asphalt that covers gray. Beth fixing the air and the snow, his gaze is so intense that the windows shake. I tremble too.
"The two know each other because the girl goes every morning to breakfast in the bar where he works on the type, and he falls for her in the exact moment when seeing it for the first time."
"Falling in love? "
" Yes "
reach out beyond the porch and let some flakes I touch the palm. I look at them closely, and melt wetting the fingers, turning them into fine droplets and transparent. "I do not follow," I say. I shake your fingers to splash his face.
"The type of course does nothing but think about the monstrously beautiful girl every night coming home from the bar and waits for the next morning to see it again." Beth wiped his face and shakes his head. "I just do not find the courage to tell her how he feels, and a bit 'of months remains so, in silence, to prepare the latte without ever saying a word."
"It's a joke."
"Then One evening he decided to take the plunge and declare his love. It is prepared in front of the mirror, repeats the phrase a thousand times, trying the gradient suits, weighing every word, are months that I do not think of anything but you, you just want to say that I love you to death, just , "intones the voice giving Beth authoritarian approach, determined, unique. "The waiter knows that can not be wrong."
Snow falls increasingly dense, confined in the tiny space. I move up to the invisible wall that separates the air cleared from the ice.
"So the next morning, the kind you spray the perfume, hair system and arrives at work half an hour before," he continues. "Start every customer who enters the bar, each time lowering the gaze is not disappointed that his love. And then, finally sees her enter, monstrously beautiful, with its exceptional size. "Beth mimics the scene with his hands. "The girl orders the usual milky coffee, drink it all in one gulp, puts the bag over his shoulder and is just about to go away when the guy puts his hand on the side and stares into his eyes. She obviously does not understand and thus remains a bit 'scared, not knowing what to do. It would mean something, would like to ask if everything is fine, but did not have time to talk because he feels the waiter startled. "Beth stops at a break very theatrical. Look at the sky. "She feels like exclaiming aloud are months that I want you to die, and that's it. "
I burst out laughing. "In the face of losing a few words," I exclaim.
Beth mutes me with eyes and a finger near the nose. I'll stop now. I must not laugh. It is not a joke.
"How do you think she reacted?", I asked Beth. It is the most important question in the world.
still reach out your hand over the porch to pick up a bit 'of snow. This time I stop for long. After a while I realize that in fact the ice is much less cold than it looks. Waiting until the hand becomes completely white. Then I talk.
"She kisses him," I say.
Beth turns shooting. She looks at me, lights a smile that had not seen for a long time.
nods. "I love."
pickup arm, a foot step between the snow and the other to form a compact ball and precise. I choose that pile of snow with your hand. I have a mad desire for a cigarette.
"Be right back," I say with downcast eyes.
walk a few steps in the snow, I feel it penetrating the neck and cool the skin.
"Look, I know," he answered Beth. "It is useless to go and hide somewhere."
I stop, I look at her, I come quickly on the front porch.
"I know you again to smoke, "she says nonchalantly. "That stuff kills, killed in front of me if you really believe that it's worth it."
remain silent. I feel a trickle of ice water down along the back, I got a shiver down forever.
pull out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket, I take one. The tour of the hands, the smell. Blue Camel . Just like old times. As a sniff, I feel the smell of sweet tobacco and liquor, the slip between his lips and I remain so, with Beth's eyes on me as a blowtorch.
I take a deep breath.
Then without saying a word opened his lips and a cigarette while flies into the street throwing the snowball with all the strength I have in the middle of nowhere, I took Beth's hand and start running in the middle of all that white. I hear screaming behind me but I do not stop. Beth stops after a few steps to strength and begins to move fast, it is by my side, she also runs next to me and we are fast, and powerful, destroy every wall, fly away by the wind and scream to the world our speed. In that race senseless cross the main square, we continue on the avenue, and even manages to stop the climb, then turn surround the cathedral and we vibrate the Gothic windows, pierced the fog and leave a swirl of leaves behind us, we get straight to the front Tunnel lights and we stop in front of a window decorated with a myriad of colorful origami . I look at Beth, she looks at me. Move the eyes in the window and I fill the view.
I speak, my mouth and out of breath, spit, voice, and everything seems to make sense.
"Do not you think that this is why it really worth breathing, Beth?" Indicates the showcase, origami, and even further, I indicate our tears hanging in the wind.
Beth takes breath panting for the race, tired but still fair, and monstrously beautiful. The landscape behind her is white. But she did not. It is not white.
two of us are different.
Inside the shop lights and a light reflection of the thousand origami dazzles us both.
"And how if it's worth it," she says, and swallows saliva.
We remain there a while ', real estate, crying colors.