Chapter 3 - Eris

• I left the club as quickly as I could and in the most discreet way possible, perhaps it was mere intuition that screamed at me that it was time to run away from this place. I didn't want anyone to follow me, much less that obsessive man.
• Unfortunately for me, I did have someone to follow me: My brother.
• I got into my car and while I was trying to start it it was Sergio who sat in the passenger seat with a great level of tension. He took my keys with some euphoria and left it trapped in his hands.
• -Nova, tell me you're joking - Segio asked.
• -What do you want me to do? - I asked annoyed and paused - That I should sleep with any guy who proposes to me? Don't come to me with stupid questions.
• -I didn't say that, Nova, but it was really paying very well - Sergio insisted - Even if you worked for a whole year you wouldn't get it.
• -Whose ass is it? - I reconsidered - If you want that money so much, go and offer him yours, he will settle for one of those.
• Sergio remained silent and really did not expect more from him. I hated in my soul that he insisted on this type of approach, he was supposed to be my brother and he was in this place to take care of me and respect my opinions. Sometimes he felt that the possibility of money blinded his reason completely.
• -Either I'm going with you or you get off, but I'm getting out of here - I said.
• I took the keys from his hands and held them in mine. Sergio looked upset as if seeing him that way was something that surprised me, my brother got out of the car, it was the best thing he could do if I looked upset like I really was. I deeply hated that they felt like they owned my body without any approval from me, much more so someone like Sergio who was my own blood.
• I went to my apartment so I could bathe and relax in peace, tomorrow would be a long day without a doubt. I put on my favorite relaxing music, put some bath salts in the tub and just enjoyed the strawberry ice cream I had in my freezer while I was immersed in that water that was the perfect temperature for me to relax.
• -Patience Nova, patience - I said.
• Sometimes I would prefer that all this were different. Being able to go back in time and make everything completely different in a certain way.
• Sergio and Eris were my brothers, since I started working on The House of Love my thirty-year-old older brother offered to take care of me while I was there and it was an action that I appreciate every day of my life, he had managed to save me from more than one unpleasant situation.
• Eris is twenty years old and has a great debt with annoying people, I'm not sure how bad they were and if only he was involved in the same thing, I strongly suspected that Sergio also had something to do with all this but I didn't have enough evidence to prove it. deny or confirm the hypothesis. In short, a large part of my money was going to pay the damn debt that seemed like it would never end. Despite all that and how bad it could be, she preferred that to having to play with the possibility of never seeing him again. It was something that was completely out of my hands.
• I did everything possible so that they couldn't tie threads with my name, I didn't want any more trouble than I already had. I liked to believe that I was getting it and that all this effort was in vain.
• It was already done the next morning so I decided to go visit my brother so I could leave him the money I had earned that week. It was a way to keep an eye on him too.
• -Hello Eris - I greeted.
• I greeted him with a kiss on the cheek and he let me into his apartment. My two brothers were gorgeous, Eris had dark dreadlocks in her hair about eight inches long, I got tired of reminding her how dirty that looked but honestly today I couldn't imagine seeing him without them, his eyes were light brown and he had a truly captivating smile. As for his character, ironically it was strange to see him upset about something unlike my other brother, his adolescence had not been easy and he made bad decisions but I was aware that all that had changed, or at least that was what my heart chose. believe.
• Sergio had jet black hair, which made his green eyes look lighter than they really were, he had a goatee-shaped beard and his muscles were totally marked. It was very easy to put him in a bad mood and it was very hateful to have to put up with him that way.
• Eris's apartment was small but had her style in every corner you saw: She had a couple of guitars in the corner of the room, some vinyl records hanging on the wall as decoration, the dark curtains avoiding all possible light. that could come in from the sun, he hated the sun. Its walls were dark purple and the floor was beige with a very particular wave pattern. It had a small kitchen since the bastard didn't cook much and a counter that separated it from the rest of the room.
• That's what they had in common with Sergio: Neither of them liked to cook, although Eris did end up doing it.
• -I brought you what I could earn - I assured.
• I gave her a wooden paper envelope containing the money inside, Eris grabbed it and started counting it in front of me. In a way that always made me uncomfortable, it made me feel like I was the one who had to pay for something when I wasn't. He understood that he had to check how much there was and if that was enough for him, but it didn't cost him anything to do it later, in any case it hadn't been a good week for my misfortune and I didn't like it that way.
• Many times I felt that this was the only interest in my visit.
• -It's not enough - Eris commented.
• -Well, I can't do more - I responded.
• -Sister, they are insisting a lot - Eris said distressed.
• I stayed analyzing his words for a moment, I needed to be able to focus on the moment I was in. I wanted answers, I wanted solutions for all of this and I didn't know if money would really bring them.
• -What the hell is the debt you have? - I asked without disgust.
• Eris was silent for a moment and turned around with the envelope still in her hands.
• -I can't tell you - Eris assured.
• -You can't tell me but I am obliged to work as if I were a prostitute to give you the money I earn. Isn't that a bit ironic? - I raised annoyed.
• -All that is in the past Nova - Eris stated.
• He had a past of addictions, I had no intention of denying it even though my heart preferred that he had never fallen into such a thing, it hurt me to have to ensure that that shit had once been consuming my brother and not the other way around, because we had reached to the point where he was the slave and still remained so regardless of whether he had been clean for so many months.
• I still remember how thin he was, his bones were visible and it was something really impressive and even chilling to see how the skin seemed dehydrated on his ribs with no chance of being able to separate it from them. I remember all the strength he lacked to even be able to walk or wash himself and the times I had to help him do it.
• Sacrifices made for love, I guess.
• I will never forget all the effort I made to get him to even eat a plate of food and I was not going to allow myself to see him again in a state as deplorable as the one he was in, nor was I going to allow him to decay in one like that again while he was alive.
• He had strong suspicions about the origin of his debts, but he did not want to think that they had the same cause as the previous ones.
• Silence reigned between us, you could even hear the drop of water falling into the broken kitchen sink in the background. From one moment to the next a loud knock was heard on the door that alerted us immediately, I could feel how my heart rate had accelerated from one moment to the next and how all my skin had frozen. My legs opened a little and my arms adjusted for a defense that they should not exercise, I needed to be as attentive as possible to my entire context.
• Eris opened her legs slightly at that noise. Without hesitation he took me by the arm, dragged me to his room as fast as he could and almost in a second he opened his closet, revealing a false background that he had in it, a place that he didn't know existed.
• -Get in there and don't come out for anything - Eris demanded.