Chapter 8 Misunderstandings

• Islanne Lima
• 2 months later
• Today I had to admit my mother to the hospital because she's getting worse every day... she can't eat and the bleeding has increased due to the severe cough. I spend my days and nights watching over her, witnessing her suffering daily, and I no longer know how to proceed.
• When I'm teaching, I can't stay calm, and since I felt sick when I arrived here, I ended up doing some tests and couldn't believe it when I heard the doctor's words:
• - Miss, you're eight weeks pregnant!
• - It must be a mistake... I can't be, doctor! I only had sex once, and I didn't even worry, I thought these things were complicated... - I said, rubbing my face.
• - Just look at the image here on the screen... I'll put the heartbeat so you can hear... - I couldn't believe it when I saw and heard that there was indeed a baby there... a life generated by me and...
• - Oh my God! I don't even know where the baby's father is! - I said, panicked, remembering that I changed my number so he wouldn't find me, and since I pay the rent correctly, the landlord still hasn't shown up, and neither has Louis.
• - Calm down, little by little you'll solve these things, focus on taking care of the pregnancy, eat well...
• The doctor kept saying beautiful things and calming me down, but the truth is, I was terrified. Now that my dance gallery started generating higher profits, how am I going to work in a few months?
• I still have my sick mother, who is hospitalized, and my father has disappeared.
• When I told my mother about the baby, she got very nervous and made me promise to look for Louis, so I left her at the hospital and went after the assistant.
• I asked for Louis' contact, but he told me he was in town and would look for me soon, he couldn't give me the number just like that, but he would write down my new number and pass on the message.
• I was out all afternoon, and when I returned to the hospital, I needed medical attention. My mother had passed away and I wasn't there.
• I was completely devastated. My dear mother was all I had, and now she was taken away from me. I even entered the room when she was still there, but her body was cold, and I needed them to take me away too.
• - Bring her back, doctor! Bring her back! - I kept repeating, and I won't be able to forget the doctor's face as he denied me every time in the same way, and it hurt inside me.
• When I woke up, I was on a stretcher receiving medication, and my father appeared and seemed nervous.
• - Why did you come? You didn't love her! - I said, turning my face away so I wouldn't see him.
• - Don't say what you don't know! I know my feelings, and I did love her! - I didn't even look at him, I just cried all I wanted to cry, and I kept my hand on my belly the whole time, my baby would give me strength to continue and would be my light in that darkness.
• - She wrote you a note, she asked me to give it to you... - I looked to see the note.
• - Did you see her? Were you with her? - he nodded, and I hastily pulled out that note:
• "Dear daughter... I am leaving. I am glad to see that you will have a being full of light to keep you company, but do not stop looking for his father, even if you don't end up together, it is right for him to know. I asked to leave because it would be too difficult for you to see me pregnant and leaving. Your father has been visiting me occasionally, don't judge him so much, we also had good moments while I was alive. I love you, my girl!"
• It was too sad, and I only got up at the time of the funeral. I wore black clothes, a hat, and sunglasses. We held the wake in a church near the beach, and I was happy that Leno came to see me, I was feeling very lonely.
• He hugged me and stayed with me, and I was grateful not to be alone in a moment like this. After she was buried, my father left and I stayed in the garden of the house with Leno.
• "I know we're not together, but if you need me, I'm here!" he hugged me and I stayed there with him for a while.
• "Thank you."
• "If you want to sell the house, I can help you... I imagine you don't want to stay here with memories of your mother..."
• "Yes, you're right... if you can look into that for me, I would appreciate it. Today, I'm going to pack my things, I don't want to look at anything anymore."
• "Alright, I'll help you!"
• Louis Davis
• I tried to contact Islanne on that number and never succeeded. Malu stayed in New York and now we are friends... I guess I will never have a real woman, they all become friends, lovers, or even sisters, like Luana did, which was great, but I feel discouraged that I am still single.
• Every day I get busier with my work, and it's hard to juggle things.
• When my assistant gave me Islanne's contact, I was arriving in Washington, and I decided to look for her the next day and see what it was about, but when I saw her hugging her lazy ex-boyfriend, I left...
• Probably it was gallery stuff, so I left it for my assistant to handle, after all, she didn't come looking for me that night, that was probably our goodbye, although he never told me anything else, I think she gave up on what she was going to ask now, too.
• "Lost in thought, Louis?" Edineide appeared out of nowhere in the kitchen.
• "Wow, you scared me, Edineide! Now I understand the things Igor used to say, you appear out of nowhere!" she was the cook, now she's just another friend of the family, since Luana sent her to keep an eye on me.
• "Oh, I didn't do anything, I'm an angel!"
• "Yeah... I haven't forgotten that you told Malu where I was!" I said with a frown.
• "I just wanted to help, you seemed sad on that call, so don't complain! Did you find any beautiful tanned girl there?"
• "Believe it or not, I did! But thanks to you, I couldn't go after her that night!"
• "Goodness, you're becoming impossible! If you keep acting up, I'll go back to my girl's house, everyone there likes me!"
• "Don't even start with blackmail, Edineide! I'll find you a nice partner, your problem is stress! Did you know there's a beginner sculptor at the gallery who was on a dating app, and he seemed interesting!"
• "Oh, why don't you just meet him already? This thing of looking on the phone doesn't work, no! If he wants, I'll meet him, is he handsome?" she laughed and grabbed my phone.
• "I'll call him and set up a meeting..." Edineide pounced on me, stealing my phone like a madwoman.
• - "YOU'RE CRAZY! IT WAS JUST A JOKE, STOP IT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO CONTROL ANYTHING!" I almost ran after her with the phone.
• - "Edineide, come back here! Give me back the phone, I need it..."
• - "I'm not giving it back, what if you call someone!" She ran and I chased after her; she went one way and I went the other, and I couldn't catch the phone.
• - "Edineide!" I stopped and stared at her.
• - "Listen... if I see any scheduled dates, you won't even be able to eat at home anymore! I'll put sugar in the beans and salt in the cake!"
• - "Alright, geez!" I reached out my hand and she slowly handed me the phone.
• - "Don't forget!" she threatened.
• - "I got it, Edineide!" I raised my hands, defeated.