chapter 3

Nothing dad, nothing

"Are you sure about that Alma? What are you two hiding from me?"

-We are not hiding anything from you my love, your daughter and I were just talking about the trip I want us to do to get to know the Coliseo university, I know that you are very busy at work just like me, but I want us to make the trip as a family, We were going to call you after lunch to tell you (my mom says it's good that I react so quickly, it saved us from a good one)

-To tell me, rather to sweeten me, what is best given to you my love

-Pope!

-What? It is the truth my girl your mother in the end I always love like a witch, never, not once have I been able to resist those eyes since the first time I immersed myself in them, believe me sweetening myself is the most appropriate word in the vocabulary for the work your mom was planning to do or not, dear? 8 says dad to mom while smirking)

-Of course I was going to sweeten you dear if I did not do it, Who? And you did not answer that question, it was rhetorical, the only one with permission to sweeten you is me, besides, what other way were we going to get him to leave that office, Sometimes I think that you love the criminals you defend more than us (so my mom puts a hand on her brake and exaggerates a pose of distress, before saying)

-There are poor me, abandoned by her husband, and poor my girl, with an absent and carefree father

At the moment my dad starts clapping and laughing before saying

-Bravo my love, bravo you should have been an actress, you are so good

-What if? It must have been, I would have obtained an Oscar, now yes, right if you are going to go with us, heart? (My mother pronounces while fluttering her eyelashes in a way that for another person would look childish, but my mother makes it look sensual, I don't know if I have commented on them but in adolescence and my mother was a model)

-Of course, when have I denied you something? Besides, they both know well that I would do anything for my little princess

-My little princess, dad really, am I 19?

-exactly, you will be my Little Princess even if you are 90

It sounds overprotective, but my dad is like that, and I love him that way, plus I'm going to have enough independence when I go to university, for the moment I'm happy to still have my overprotective potato dose

After that we spent the whole afternoon together, we ate, we shopped and we even went to the cinema to see a comic movie that was released, it was a super fun day like we had not enjoyed years ago, at the end of the afternoon dad spoke with his secretary Maria a fifty-year-old lady of the kindest who is like family, she has been the Pope's secretary for 15 years, is a widow and has two children that she has brought out in front of an extraordinary way, in fact she is one of the greatest idols since Girl, we spend almost every Christmas with her and her children: Julia and Marcos, 14 and 12 years old respectively, in reality she is the one who always sends Dad home when he stays late at night working in a house and she, as always, managed to make a hole in the agenda for dad in his agenda for three weeks

Now at this hour of the morning so long later, that day is still engraved in my memory as one of the happiest of my life