Chapter 13 (1/2)
KS Chapter 13
As it darkens, the arow thicker Bottle caps, ice packs, and straws litter the ground, thrown by people drinking soft drinks going here and there curiously The bells of ice drop sellers and shouts of popcorn and cotton candy peddlers ring loud The goods for sale overflow from the sidewalk to the street: suman, puto,
kutsinta,
ue,
ampaw,
biscuits, and big plastic bags of puto seko
Parents carrying their children can't keep their kids dohile they buers, ar the streets This is how Rogelio painted the picture to Tessa whilst on top of Sto Doht
”Hoonderful, like a fiesta,” facing the direction of the people, Tessa gently smiles
”Uay tanods—”
”Are they the ones playing that sound?” Tessa is talking about the five notes being repeated, a sound that could come from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind
”Yup, I think they're trying to contact Captain Who from outer space”
”Will he come?”
Rogelio glances at the maiden who cannot see ”Maybe when he's accepted that that's his name now”
”Who called you that anyway?”
”I don't know And to be honest, I'm scared to find out”
The two giggle Rogelio continues describing the events to her The busy teenagers placing down chairs on the stage Municipal officials withvests, part of so veils, like they're in the middle of a novena¹ And tricycles and Ford Fieras that suddenly sprouted on the street
”I hope it doesn't rain”
”It won't”
”How do you know?”
”The moon's out”
”Really?” Tessa grins, like a kid that only got out of the house now ”Is it beautiful?”
”Yes”
”Bright?”
”Yes”
”Are there stars in the sky?”
”Yes”
”Not a lot of clouds?”
”Yes”
”You're lying?”
”How'd you know?!”
”Because you're not looking at the sky”
Rogelio has brown skin, but for a aze frorows colder and he feels the chill graze the nape of his neck, the shortblack hair of the ain at Tessa, her s in the cold wind, her tall neck with her slender body, the person he can never admit is the happiness of his world A few , so he finds hi her for Captain Who's costume
”Even if it makes you look like a dumbass?”
”No ho said that?”
Tessa laughs After a few elio starts to question as well ”Do I really look like a dumbass?”
Tessa sht I can't seeI could see is who you really are”
”Then, if I was handsome under the mask, you wouldn't even be able to know!”
”I won't know, but then I will feel pity for you”
”Why?”
”Becauseyour looks instead of seeing you”
”Um, yeah, but isn't life harder if…if for example I look like Bok-bok?”
”First of all, I don't knohat Bok-bok looks like Second, isn't love sweeter when itisn't just about how you look?”
”Then what if it's about riches? Or powers?”
”That isn't love”
”So what if you have no looks, or money, and nobody loves you?”
”Do you really believe in your questions?”
”No, but—”
”Exupery said, what is essential is invisible to the eye”
”Do you really believe in your answers?”
”Do you knohat is the difference between blind people and those who could see?”
”Eyesight?”
”Those who can see do not knohen they are blind”
”Then, can you see everything that the eye cannot?”
”I could feel it,” Tessa eht the cold ”My father once said that I shouldn't be sad, because I am only blind to outer appearances, and I could know the world better because appearances do not blind me”
”Hehe”
”What's funny?”
”Nothing I just remembered the time when Bok-bok lost thirty pesos to a phone pal”
”Thirty?! Why, you could eat at Cindy's with that!”
”That's kind of what happened He spentup with his phone pal at Tropical Hut He es, but on the date they weren't able to talk Frole too, but I guess they got scared of each other Hahaha”
”Scary indeed”
”You mean Bok-bok?”