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Explaining to Maximilian's mother that he had decided to extend Amelia's stay in his house had been more difficult than explaining to a fish how to walk, he had had to endure the objections of the woman, who, although she insisted that she did not harbor any negative feelings towards Amelia, did not show it. "I'm doing all this for Dylan, Mom; neither of us want to see him suffer, and before you tell me that he will suffer more when she leaves, maybe we should just live in the present", that had been the answer that had ended that conversation, which Maximiliano relived in his head as he lay in bed, in the bed that soon, like every day, he would share with Amelia.
More than a week had passed since the three of them had gone to visit the woman's mother, a few days of heavy tension in which Dylan had insisted every minute of the day to return to his "grandmother's" house because he loved the smell of it.