Chapter 60

ALEX

When I saw Gabriela leave with Marcos and Carlota on her trail, I didn't really have a good feeling and got worried, but I got more worried when Marcos told me I should go with her, the look on his face was worried and that meant Gabriela wasn't well.

Marcos told me she was upstairs and I didn't hesitate for a second to head towards Gabriela and see what's happening to her. When I arrived, I didn't know what room she could be in, so I decided to call for her and Carlota told me where they were.

As soon as I entered the room that Gabriela is quite anxious, her hands were shaking, and that made me think she isn't good, not after the way she got in the park. As soon as I got close to her, I hugged her and started rubbing her back to calm her down. It's at that moment I realize Carlota is still there, so I turn a little towards her so she can explain to me what happened and why my girlfriend is like this.

"I'll go out to see no one is coming, you try to get her to relax, ok?" Carlota asked, and I turned slightly in her direction. "I will, but I don't think you need to leave." I assured, "I know, but I'll do it"

And with that, she left us alone, leaving me and Gabriela alone. We were hugging and a few minutes later she started crying. "Come on beautiful, relax, I don't like seeing you like this. What is it that makes you get like this?" I asked, trying to get her to calm down. "Being stupid for not realizing what was happening sooner."

"First of all, you're not stupid, and second, if it's because of Sara and Clara, they deceived us all, you shouldn't blame yourself for anything happening right now." I answered honestly, "Alex, they're her family." She whispered against my chest, and honestly, I have no idea what she's talking about "What are you talking about?"

"They're Paula's family, and they're going to fuck me up just as much as she does." I really couldn't believe it. Sara and Clara are Paula's family? I don't know what's going through Gabriela's head at this moment, but I don't think that's real.

"Where did you get that, darling?" I asked confused "She told me… Clara… They hate me for everything she told them, Alex." My girlfriend answered, raising her eyes to mine, "Well, if they hate you, they lose it. Love, it's impossible to hate you. They will end up realizing you're not the person they think they are and they'll regret everything they're going to do, and you can be sure I won't let them do anything to you, I swear it on my life."

"Alex, I don't care what happens to me... I don't want them to do anything to my family, nor to Ana, nor to Marcos, nor to Carlota, much less to you, I wouldn't forgive myself." Gabriela whispered, leaving her face against my chest again. "Nothing is going to happen to us. You're going to teach them how to defend themselves and no one will be able to mess with them."

"Alex, the worst thing is not the physical pain, the worst thing is everything they tell you, that's what gets to your core." I know at this moment she's speaking from her own experience, or at least part of it, because as far as I remember she was beaten, but I didn't like the fact she could speak from her own experience on this topic at all, she's the person who least knew deserved it and the fact I was one of those people makes me the worst of all.

"That won't happen to them, we won't let them, and I'm sorry for everything I put you through by messing with you and being a complete idiot for it, at the end of the day you didn't deserve anything we did to you." I sincerely said, "Hey, I'm not saying this to make you feel bad." My girlfriend responded, looking at me again.

"You may not say it for me, but I'm stuck in that bag Gabriela, and mine is worse than everyone else's because I loved you and I still hurt you, there's no forgiveness for that, Gabriela." I answered, looking away from her, "Of course you have, you have my forgiveness and it doesn't matter what people say, they don't know you changed since then." She said after she put her hands on either side of my face and made me look at her, "I don't care what other people say."

"Well, don't pay attention to what your head tells you, I don't like seeing you this bad because of something that happened years ago." Gabriela said, hugging me again, "I know." I whispered, "Well, change that face and get that out of your head." She asked with a small smile on her face, "At what point do we switch roles, beautiful?" I asked laughing "What are you talking about?" she asked confused.

"I came here to make you feel better and now you're the one making me feel better." I said, giving her a kiss on the temple, "I'm not going to let you get upset over something unimportant, and let me tell you, you achieved your goal of making me feel better, but that doesn't mean I'm not afraid of what could happen to any of you."

"I promise you I won't let anything happen to us, much less to you, beautiful." I assured, "I'm the least important thing in this whole mess, the problem is with me, not with the rest." She answered, "First of all, you're the most important thing to me and I won't let anything happen to you and secondly, if they have problems with you, they will have them with me, there will be nothing in this world that will prevent me from protecting you, beautiful."

"Just know that I love you more than anything in the world, really, thank you for being so insistent sometimes even though it always puts me in a worse mood." She said with a smile on her face "I love you too beautiful, more than my own life." We kissed and when she pulled away, she headed towards the next room which I hadn't even realized was so big.

"This is your room?" I asked, looking everywhere. "Yes, why?" My girlfriend asked going towards the closet "It's big, now I understand why you didn't want to stay in mine, it must be half of yours." I said sincerely, "That's the least important thing to me, besides, it used to be like yours, but a couple of years ago we knocked down the wall in the middle and now it's that big."

"And what do you have on that wall?" I asked approaching it "Photos." I went over to see them while she went to the closet. In them I could see Gabriela with Marcos, with Carlota, with her family and in she looked happy. I kept looking at the photos until I noticed some in particular, some just like the ones I have at home, but in better condition.

"Beautiful, since when do you have these photos on the wall?" I said without looking away for a single second, "Which ones?" She asked behind me, causing me to look in her direction. By the time I really looked at her, I couldn't believe what I had in front of me. If she already looks like a goddess to me with clothes, now that she's wearing sweatpants and a sports bra, she looks more beautiful than a goddess, I don't think it has a name.

"Hey, my face is higher." And it's at that moment I realized I had been staring at her breasts. Soon I look up into her eyes and I can see she's blushing a little and with a smile that made her more beautiful.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable." I said, looking back into her beautiful eyes. "You didn't, you're the first one to see me in a bra." my girlfriend responded, laughing, "Well, I love the idea." I said, unable to contain the big smile, "I can see it, but tell me what photos you are talking about."

"The photos from eight years ago, from when we were together." I asked, focusing my gaze on them again. "Well, they've been there since the day we took them." She responded, which makes me focus my gaze on her again. "And no one took them off your wall?"

"They would have done it if they knew it were there, but I had put other photos on top." She replied, shrugging her shoulders. "But now they're uncovered." I said confused, "I know. This wall represents my life and whether I liked it or not, you belonged to it, I wasn't going to take them down. If I'm honest, sometimes I took down the photos I had on them and looked at them, it hurt me, but it hurt me more not to be able to see them."

"The same thing happens to me, but mine are worn out. I wish they were like yours." I muttered, "Then print them again." She responded, laughing, "I love those, I just hope I can add new ones to the collection."

"If you want, we can expand that collection now." Gabriela said with a big smile on her face, she approached me with her phone in hand, leaned close to me and kissed my cheek. "You now have a new one to the collection." She said, showing it to me, "Yes, but I would like it to be a real kiss."

"Everything just to kiss me, right?" My girlfriend answered, rolling her eyes, but with the smile still on her face. "Obviously, I'm not going to lose those sweet lips of yours, my dear."

"But if you want a kiss, you don't need a photo, you just have to do it." She answered, putting her hands behind my neck. "Don't I even have to ask?" I asked even though I already knew the answer. "If you didn't do it when we weren't together, and it could be said I hated you, I don't see any reason now for you to ask for it."

"True. I'll kiss you all day if it where me." I answered, running my hands over her hips. "As much as I like the idea, it's not possible." She sighed as if it were something that really made her sad. "Well, it's a shame, I can't even spend the whole day with you."

"We already spent a whole day together last weekend." She responded, rolling her eyes, "But I would always like to." I said sincerely, "You would get tired of me."

"Impossible. "I get tired of others, but it's impossible with you." I assured "You exaggerate." My girlfriend responded, making me laugh, "Mmmm, I may be exaggerating, but I love you so much I can't help it. Besides, I think it's time for you to go down, I don't think you want to worry everyone."

"I hope I haven't worried you all." She said sighing, "I'm sure you did, even though it wasn't intentional." I responded, "I hate you guys worry about me." Gabriela protested with a pout. "No matter how much you hate it, we will continue to worry about you beautiful, you can't help it."

"Someday I hope to achieve it." She said and I denied "I don't think you will, at least in my case you won't." I assured, "I hate that you worry about me, I'm serious." She replied, "I also hate you worry about me, but that's what a couple is all about, right? Caring about each other."

"That doesn't mean I like it." My girlfriend murmured, "We'll have to learn to wear that beautiful thing." Gabriela nodded and I moved away from her so she could finish dressing. "Then you should finish dressing to go downstairs."

"Yes, plus I'm starting to get cold." Gabriela said, heading to the closet again, "Well, put on your sweater and sweatshirt, I don't want you to get sick like last week." I responded, laughing even though I'm serious, "Are you telling me that now after you've been staring at me?"

"You have the body of a goddess, what am I saying! Better than that." I said, searching for an appropriate description of my girlfriend, "You don't say, my dear." She said, laughing, "Oh, of course I believe it, that's why I'm telling you."

"Well, I'm going to put on a sweater and sweatshirt so you can stop looking at me that way. I don't think in case someone in my family comes in and kills you, I wouldn't want to be single after I get you back." She said laughing, "You won't be single, love, I won't allow it."

"You better, because then the one who kills you, is me." She answered seriously and I laughed, because I knew she's serious. "Well, don't worry about that, I won't think of separating from you at all, beautiful, I love you too much to break up with you." I assured "I love you too, my dear."

We kissed and while she finished dressing, I started looking at the photos. That wall looked really good, I loved it, but I loved everything she did, you could tell she's good for fine arts, everywhere you looked you could see art, I'm more than sure she'll become famous, she stands out in what ago, I just hope to be with her to be able to appreciate everything she does, and to be able to appreciate her body, that was something I wouldn't like to lose.