FOREWORD

Standing in the rain with soaked clothes and the sad reality of what she was, beyond a replaceable girl, everything seen from the outside was perfect, what Grace wanted what she always wanted and was never allowed to have, what happens what happiness seemed to slip through his fingers? He kissed her and smiled as if she was the best thing he had ever seen as he had never seen her, for her there were only knowing looks and kisses stolen under the stairs.

But of course now she could watch the perfect family from the backyard, them doing the dishes together and her there in the rain, away from him, so they could both just have some time.

Of course he sends the lover out and the other one inside her, look at me, everything inside her screamed at him but that was the problem, he never saw her, he only sees the silhouette, the shell, the body, the beauty, the ease.

It was enough, now he couldn't just be looking at the

man who promised him, eternities with her again with someone else.

She walked out of the garden and crossed the street, the rain fell incessantly and everything was already soaked to her underwear and her feet sticky inside the slippers, at least that way the tears could not be distinguished.

The headlights of the sports car in front of her blinded her for a moment. Gabe got out of the car and walked briskly to her side. He held her arm tight.

"What are you doing here? You can't do this Grace, you're going to get sick, you can't just think about yourself now..."

"Enough! Shut up, just shut up, you don't understand, you'll never understand Gabe, get me out of here, take me away"

She screamed into his face and clung to him as tight as a life preserver.

Gabe kissed Grace's forehead tenderly, trying to make her feel safe.

"We have to talk to our parents, you can't just come home the following year"

She pulled him closer to her body and he rested her chin on her head. Grace breathed in the scent of wild pine that Gabe's clothes had, he always smelled like woods and pine trees. Gabe was freedom, strength, love, everything she had ever dreamed of.

Tears ran down her cheeks again. Instead he, he just smelled her, he looked at the house half blurred by the curtain of rain and a sob escaped him, Gabe pressed her closer to her body.

"Everything will be fine honey, we are together".

I whisper in his ear, she kissed him on the lips knowing that they were a lie, I kissed the sadness that kissing him produced when she only wanted to kiss the man by the window, I kissed him with the desire to kiss someone else.

"What is the difference between love and caprice".

she asked her about Gabe's lips.

"That the whim lasts longer".

She replied smiling at the phrase from her favorite classic, he didn't know that Grace had been going through her things.

"I want you to be my whim".

Her voice came out rough and tight, perhaps those were the most sincere words he had ever said to her. He buried his head in Gabe's neck and breathed in her scent, which told him that he was only hers but she wanted the one that belonged to someone else.

"Too bad you're not".

He said so softly that she couldn't even hear herself over the din of the rain.