A Girl in My Life

My days in the last months have been reduced to work and small walks with my sweet girl, Elisa; little by little I have managed to increase her self-esteem, her mother’s shrew never showed up again what gives me a certain relief she does not do well for my girl.

Today I’m anxious because finally I’m going to ask Elisa to marry me, I didn’t ask before because I wanted to give us more space to get to know each other better, now I feel safe to take another step and later ask her to marry me, I’m not asking right away because my girl deserves to go through all the stages of a relationship. She has loosened up a little more with me, she is still very shy but nothing that prevents us from exchanging some chaste kisses, we will only move forward after the wedding, I have that well established in my head.

Another thing that has changed, Elisa now has a friend that I notice that does a lot of good to her, the girl that I met on the day of my tenure at the company and kept Elisa company finally managed to approach my shy girl. They do a lot of girl shows sometimes and I feel that this friendship is true, I trust Melissa. Today is my girl’s birthday, she thinks I don’t know, but I got her a beautiful present.

At the appointed time I park in front of Elisa’s house, we are going to have a picnic in Central Park, Ana made a basket full of delicious goodies. She is a real mother, she takes care of me with much love and affection. I see Lisa leave her house and lock the door, I look at her beauty that is highlighted in a long, tight dress with a sunflower print that steals my breath.

– Good morning Anael – I am awakened when she sits in the car seat and greets me.

– Good morning my girl – I take her left hand and deposit a simple kiss.

I park the car and we get out of it, I take the basket in one arm and with the other hand I hold Elisa’s while we walk through the limits of Central Park looking for an ideal place.

– There, a shade, it’s going to be a hot day – she says pointing to a tree.

When we get closer I take a blue blanket from inside the basket and stretch it over the green grass, I put the basket on top of it and we sit down.

– Did I mention you look beautiful today? – I ask to see the red cheeks that delight me.

– Thank you, although I don’t believe it very much – she shifts her eyes from mine.

– Hey – I touch his chin and bring his eyes to mine – We talked about that, you’re beautiful and you charm me.

– What did you bring? – she asks, wanting to get off the subject.All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

– I brought you mango juice, I know you love it – her eyes sparkle.

– Thank you for noticing, I guess – she says, a little ungraciously.

I open the bottle of juice and pour two glasses, I offer one to her, Elisa takes a sip. We stare at the view, the sky is blue, it’s very difficult to have such a clear sky like this in New York, someone up there must be rooting for me to give us such a beautiful and clear sky on the day I’m going to order.

– I’ve been thinking about us Elisa – she looks at me at the same moment and they are beautiful eyes, full of wonder, anxiety and delicacy. The breeze shakes her hair and I touch a lock of hair behind her ear – I want more than stolen kisses, I want the right to them.

She opens her mouth in surprise, I don’t see repulsion, denial, only surprise and somehow her eyes tell me that this is the way. That she wants it, if not with her conscience, at least with her spirit. I open the basket again and take out a gift-wrapped box.

– Did you think you wouldn’t get a present? I know that today is your birthday – she is so nervous, but her eyes shine and her face is flushed – I spent nights thinking about what to give you, no jewellery because with your shine they wouldn’t fit. I came to the conclusion that the best present would be something simple but symbolic – I hold out the box in her direction, she opens it revealing a crystal angel that when you press a button behind the wings it begins to flash in various colours – For me, you are a sweet angel Elisa, made exclusively to brighten and give colour to my life.

– Thank you, it’s beautiful – thick tears run down her face – I’ve never won a more beautiful present, and for me, who’s being the angel here is you.

– You are a girl who came in and changed everything in my life, from the bottom of my heart. Will you accept to be my girlfriend, Elisa? – I ask nervously, feeling my heart beating hard inside my chest.

A beautiful smile appears on her lips amidst the tears, while she shakes her head in an eternal yes, carefully I approach her, I touch her face delicately and I take her lips and we begin a kiss full of affection and care. As we part she puts her arms around me and leans on my shoulders while we look at all the people coming and going around the park. Children run from one side to the other and I can imagine me and Elisa in a few years sitting in this same tree watching our children run.

I can’t remember ever being lighter, more whole and more confident. We spend almost the whole afternoon in the park and when I finally stop the car at her door to drop her home we kiss, a long kiss, long, already full of longing; I say goodbye to her with a last kiss of the day, when I see her crossing the door I drive home floating, nothing can erase the shine in my eyes, she said yes!

At home I take advantage of the good mood to stay a few hours at the office to advance some projects and approve the budget for the end of year party, which will happen in five months.

After finishing everything, having dinner and doing my hygiene I go to bed, sleep was never so easy, the lightness of the hours in the park fill me with sleep and I fall asleep as soon as I send and receive her good night.

I love Elisa, how did this feeling catch me so without warning? It’s as if it’s been in me for many years of affinity. I was distracted and then she appears in my dreams and ravishes my heart. I love that girl lost in herself, owner of all her fears and uncertainties. I love the beautiful girl who little by little starts to break the shell that hides her, like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, to then colour life, especially my life.

I want to tell her that everything in me, loves everything in this, but I want to keep this secret a little while longer, so as not to scare her and mainly to firm it even more in my heart to then share in words with her.

The days are only paradise, working has new colours, dating Elisa makes me stronger and livelier. I like to be hers, I like waking up thinking of her, to work and meet her at the end of the day and take her home, to enjoy the rest of the light to exchange a few kisses at her door, I like spending the rest of the time with her until the day is over and then flirt in the garden, in the car, in the restaurant at a romantic dinner, in the pack while children play around us, I like Sundays when we have lunch together and spend the whole day in each other’s company in a routine that gives us more and more intimacy.

I start my day sending a message to Elisa, she is always the first and the last person I talk to every day, since that afternoon I asked her to marry me.

I enter the company and greet all the employees that I meet on the way, I go to my office for another exhausting day of work.

– Come in – I say as soon as I hear someone knock on the door.

– Hi Anael – I raise my eyes to face the girl in front of me, I remember having seen her several times in the corridors or in the lift. Strange that my secretary didn’t warn me and that she called me in such an intimate way.

– What can I do for you, miss? – I decide to ignore this fact, her presence bothers me a little, every time we bump into each other she throws some suggestive phrases in my direction making me embarrassed but I ignore it in order not to get to the extreme of firing her.

– I’d like to know what that no-good girl has that I don’t have – she speaks and approaches my table.

– Sorry, I don’t understand – I arch an eyebrow.

– I thought that the rumors about you dating that no-good Elisa were lies, I did not like to hear that you chose her, sir – I do not like the direction of this conversation.

– First of all I would like you to respect me and my girlfriend, I am your boss and I don’t tolerate this kind of insubordination – I speak firmly.

– What does that saltless girl have that I don’t have? – she continues and I start to get angry.

– Nobody talks bad about my girl in front of me,” I get up from the chair and stand beside her, holding her arm tightly in the heat of anger.

Taking me by surprise she sticks her lips to mine forcing passage for her tongue, I try at all costs to push her away but she squeezes my neck sticking her body to mine suddenly the door opens and finally the woman releases me.

When I face the door and see Elisa crying staring at me with disappointed eyes my heart misses a few beats.

– The missing person has arrived – the woman speaks venomously and I keep staring at my girl’s crying eyes – The freak has arrived to finally know that me and Anael are together, and always have been, ridiculous limp.

– Elisa, my girl doesn’t believe her – I ask – I can explain.

Before I can say anything else she runs off without saying anything leaving me behind full of remorse.

– You are fired! – I say to that poisonous woman, she opens her eyes and so much to tare at me, but I don’t allow it and start running after my love.