CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 2

JUANES CASANOSSA

THE BARMAN CALLED JUANES CASANOSSA, a Puerto Rican who had entered the country illegally to escape poverty and everything he had suffered at the hands of his father, married Olivia — a blonde, obese and extraordinarily ugly — not because of her weight., Juanes loved chubby women, he rarely went out with a skinny model, but the problem for him was that Olivia didn't take care of herself at all...

A bare minimum...

She kept saying that it was a sin to try to change what God had done.

But it's also a sin to spoil even more what God has done... — thought Juanes, struggling between his thoughts to understand his wife's attitudes.

Olivia was a completely disturbed person, she lived in depression, ate all day to appease some demon that insisted on disturbing her. The church and its precepts were just a way of hiding what she actually felt inside, a kind of makeup that Juanes never made the effort to discover...

Juanes married her to be a legally recognized citizen in the most coveted country to live in and earn money. easy, but all he'd gotten up to that point had no doubt been easy money.

SAN JUAN — PUERTO RICO

JUANES RUINED FROM HOME and walked for three days. He would steal some fruit to eat and talk to old people to find out where he should go.

— You have to go to the United States of America, boy — said an old drunk who looked like his father — there is the best place in the world, the land of opportunity and equality.

Juanes began to dream, especially after the old man showed a Playboy magazine with pictures of several naked girls in the most diverse places in America.

The opportunity came in the most unusual way.

Juanes was in the backyard of a very nice house, trying to get some apples and he hadn't even noticed that someone had approached.

— I hope someone pays for it — said a plump, almost pretty woman, pointing a shotgun at him.

— I'm sorry… I swear, I'm hungry…

— Everyone is hungry.

She smiled.

— But there's a way you can pay me for all this.

— Sorry, I.

The woman took Juanes by the collar and led him into the house.

That night Juanes lost his virginity.

WHEN IT WAS TWO AM, Juanes woke up and got up carefully and saw that the woman was sleeping smiling.

Glad someone liked it...

Juanes saw some jewelry on top of a dresser and put it in his pocket and smiled.

American ladies, here I come...

TWO DAYS LATER, JUANES MANAGED TO REACH the port where some ships were moored.

— Please, do you need helpers?

— How old is the boy?

— Seventeen, I'll be eighteen in a week.

— And you can handle heavy work?

Juanes made a movement with his arms trying to show his biceps.

Everyone laughed at him.

— Of course, it's a real Hercules, obviously we'll give you a job, we need a brand new loin to tenderize... come on up.

Juanes spent two weeks vomiting because of the sway of the sea, but over time he learned to control the urge.

After two months at sea, Juanes was already a born sailor, and he changed boats four other times, until the day he met a captain who made clandestine voyages.

Juanes showed the jewelry, that was his passport.

A month later he was already seeing the Statue of Liberty in New York.

MARIA CASANOSSA RECEIVED a letter from her son and was happy to know that he was alive, but she did not show it to her husband, for him the son was dead and buried.

Enrico was growing up and when he was fifteen years old an unusual scene happened.

His father was running because some policemen were hunting him like an animal.

— Daddy, what happened?

— Shut up kid, I killed someone to save myself, only now the police are after me.

— And what shall we do?

— We need to escape, we go after your brother.

— Juanes?

— No, from Little Red Riding Hood, of course it's from Juanes, I know where he is, your mother thinks I'm an idiot, but I read all the letters he sends her.

AS EXPECTED, Juane's plan to get his mother out of Puerto Rico was very simple, and everyone they talked to was already aware of the plan and everything went exactly as planned.

***

OLIVIA IN TURN, WAS NOT ALWAYS OBESE, until she was sixteen years old she was a unique beauty in high school, until she fell in love with the school's football captain — Brad. After he devirginized her, he dumped her in the schoolyard in just her underwear, running off and taking her clothes, and everyone at school made fun of him for several years.

After that damn day for her, Olivia decided never to fall in love while she breathed, until the day she met an illegal immigrant named Juanes Casanossa.

Not that Olivia fell in love the first moment she saw him, but she felt such peace in being by Juane's side that she decided to give herself a chance to be happy again, and it wouldn't be some unfortunate bastard who would steal that from her.

Olivia felt an extraordinary pleasure in eating something different every day. Over time, eating became an addiction, a refuge for her anguish, she had never repeated a meal in her house, every day she innovated, she even wrote some books that were true failures, after all, it's not just because you cooks well who is necessarily an internationally recognized chef, and another, people wanted to eat and stay thin and beautiful, and Olivia's image didn't help much, as the world had become too artificial for people with a good heart to care. well with them.

As a result, Olivia ended up sinking even further into the kitchen and into her solitude, since her husband Juanes hardly ever came home.

JUANES CASANOSSA TASTE THE BITTER TASTE of frustration, as he couldn't get rich — quite the opposite — he worked like a madman to try his place in the sun...

Or a workhorse — as his father liked to say, feeling sorry for himself.

Day and night he worked like a madman to get as far away from his own home as possible — so he wouldn't run into his annoying wife.

Juanes remembered what his father always said:

Ugly wife's husband hates holidays and weekends...

Juanes felt it in his skin now, since, all the money he acquired, he spent without weight on his conscience with prostitutes and frivolous girls he met at the restaurant bar — he was, indisputably, a handsome and handsome young man too handsome for that ugly and handsome woman. mess I had at home.

Everyone was imagining a thousand and one completely different situations when they saw that disproportionate couple hanging around:

A handsome man with a completely ugly woman....

Many imagined that she must be extraordinarily rich, others imagined that he had met her at a time when she was beautiful, but after a few children, or hormonal problems, she was no longer able to regain the body she had before, only what was left. it was the love that the two felt for each other, but there were still many others who thought positively — which led many people to imagine themselves in that same situation — that Olivia must be extraordinarily hot in bed, and that Juanes had fallen in love with her afterwards. of one of those nights where she did — everything — and then some, and he was fascinated with that woman, after all, for those who liked chubby women, she was a full plate.

But the unvarnished truth for Juanes was this:

One: Olivia wasn't at all what they thought, since she wasn't rich; two: He didn't have any children — on the contrary, Olivia was sterile — which was good for Juanes who didn't even dream of being a father after the disaster in his relationship with his, and; lastly: Nothing exciting in bed, nor did he do anything but — conventional—, that is, when he did...

Juanes always found a lame excuse to get out of the big trouble he got into when he said yes at St. Peter, and of course Olivia herself was completely uninterested in this matter, she did it just to please her husband when he came home drunk and wouldn't let her sleep.

***

JUANES WAS WATCHING the Heringer couple sitting at the table and started to remember with joy the good times when Ivy worked with him as a waitress — which he always thought was the end of the sting, after all, she could be whatever she wanted in life, model, actress, businesswoman… — and she also remembered the incredible and unforgettable night when she had to buy coffee for David because she had lost that crazy bet — not to mention ridiculous.

Where was he with his head to do such a gross barbarity?

A lot of things had changed in the last few years, after all, David — who didn't even have the money to pay for that measly coffee became an international music star, his songs played on all the radios, he was the top spot on Billboard for the last four years in a row., MTV and on all the hit charts around the world, whether TV, radio or internet, besides the fact, also, but not least for Juanes Casanossa, that he is now a millionaire and always buys him a coffee wherever he goes. found.

Ivy J. Heringer had also changed a lot, he never believed when she said that she would be a great successful writer, the daughter of who she was, she could be whatever she wanted in life, but it was a crazier story than the other that was hard to believe in everything they told you, after all, the last thing you expect is that bankrupt people next to you are going to be better than you in the future, and that was the case...

Juanes hadn't believed her when she said she was a lawyer...

Who would believe that a successful lawyer, daughter of the greatest businessman of the century, and the most successful writer of the last twenty years, writer of several ' Best — sellers', would look for a job as a waitress?

Worst of all... — and even more comical — was that it was the purest and most incontestable truth...

Juanes didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that situation, because no one in their right mind would want that ill— fated waitress life in that fifth— rate corner bar...

Compared to the restaurants your parents could afford, or even buy...

Juanes was watching the scene that was unfolding at that moment attentively and in a way he felt happy and frustrated at the same time when he looked at the couple of friends and their happiness.

David was holding Ivy's hand gently and had placed a diamond ring on it.

Juanes wondered how long he would have to work to even dream of buying a ring like that...

Soon after, Ivy put a watch on David's left wrist, it was blatantly perceived that they were both extremely happy, which brought a double — maybe triple frustration in her single heart.

First; because Juanes tried in every way to conquer Ivy and enjoy a life of unimaginable privileges and dreams, Ivy was extraordinarily beautiful, sensual, extremely rich and very intelligent: and, second; Juanes was married to the most unhappy woman in the entire world, not because she was ugly, Juanes never cared about that, he liked women of all shapes, fat, skinny (not too skinny, chubby was perfect for him), beautiful, ugly (he used the term — the not— so— beautiful ones —, because in the dark he said that every woman compared herself to Angelina Jolie), tall, short... and oddly enough, for him, the ugly ones were the most amazing in bed — except Olivia — who looked like a statue with legs apart, anxiously waiting for him to finish what he had to do as soon as possible so he could sleep, and the next day he could go back to his routine of eating, unhappiness, stuffing. someone else's bag and thoughts of suicide.

The more Juanes Casanossa thought about the divorce, the more he put this ridiculous idea out of his head, after all, the situation of being married to Olivia, who gave him a life of stewardship, had become comfortable for him, his money was only for his night outs and frivolities that she never got satisfaction from where he spent his money.

It wasn't always possible to go out with women who paid their own bills, and when that didn't happen, the way was to go out with a prostitute and satiate his hunger for sex.

Juane's feelings were as varied as possible when he saw that unusual scene, it wasn't every day that the most famous couple in the world showed up at a romantic dinner. It wasn't necessarily envy he felt, but he realized that he was the only one in all those years who hadn't evolved at all in his life, on the contrary, he was twenty— five years old and age was starting to affect him.

I'm really getting old...

As your father would say:

I'm just rabies dust...

His conqueror look was starting to go bankrupt, life had been a kind and caring mother in adolescence, but nowadays it was the princess's stepmother who wore the glass slipper with a prince charming at her feet.

David went to the restaurant's bar, sat down and greeted Juanes.

— All fine brother?

— Of course — Juanes replied, turning his thoughts back to the real world — a thousand wonders, as always, after all, you know how it is... I also do my little shows around.

They both laughed.

— Life passes, Juanes... I hope you find yourself halfway there.

— Or lose me for good...

DAVID AND IVY LEFT the restaurant and Juanes was working until 2:00 am, and this had become a ritual lately in his life.

Juanes arrived at his house with a crazy desire to have sex, even if it was with his wife Olivia. He took a very hot and long bath — as he always did to relax a little –, ate a ham snack and went after Olivia like a cat that finds a cat in heat.

OLIVIA WOKE UP AT 4:17 am and felt unhappiness hugging her like the closest friend she had ever had in her entire unhappy and decadent life. She looked closely at her husband and felt sorry for him, deep down she knew he was a poor wretch as unhappy and decadent as she was. Olivia felt a mortal hatred of Juanes for not being like him, Juanes as unhappy as he was, still sought in other arms what she could never give him...

And she?

And how could it? After that night...

Juanes was the identical copy of Brad, the boy who had made a thousand and one promises of love to her and after he had gotten what he wanted, he left her naked to live the biggest shame of his entire life.

After that day, Olivia had never felt pleasure again in her life, not even with Juanes, no matter how hard he tried, and she knew he was desperately trying to give her even a little pleasure.

Olivia, in her infinite innocence, imagined that marrying someone identical to Brad would make up for her disillusionment with life... but as she herself discovered with time... it was all disillusionment...

A terrible and frustrating disappointment...

Olivia started to cook different things every day to see if this was what was missing in her life, after all, despite the regrets, cooking brought her a realization, she really loved cooking... but like everything she had ever tried in her vain existence, that had also been a good shot in the foot with a .12 Caliber.

His life was a real waste, his marriage so...

What wedding?

She was going from bad to worse, and her parents didn't give a damn, saying that she felt alone in this world was profit, because even she didn't give a damn...

That's when she made the decision...