A Love In Dark Times

“Where are they? -He was walking through the fog when a door opened, ushering him into a dentist's office.

“No, I don’t have an appointment, Mr. Dentist, you have the wrong patient. -Guio began to sweat, almost fainting as he wa strapped onto the gurney.

Mr. Guio, you were the one who asked for this emergency consultation, all your teeth hurt, we have to take out your wisdom teeth and do a root canal, something very easy to do, the only thing you will excuse me is that we ran out of anaesthesia, it's the old fashioned way, that's why we tied you up. -explained a dentist with an old leather apron, stained red and brown, while he put on some washing gloves, Guio started to scream because of the horrible pain in his mouth a when he heard the sound of the drill buzzing like a panel of bees, stinging his mouth like their stings...

-Guio, can I hear you screaming, where are you? -Angie was also lost in the dense fog, a sharp pain in her belly sent her t the hospital, there the doctors looked at her with a regretful face, tapping her hands, reciting to her, “You're going to be fine, it's just that you're going to be fine, it's just that you're going to be fine:

You're going to be fine, it's just bleeding down there, everything is normal.

Hold on doctors, is my baby okay? -Angie consulted with concern,

“Ma'am, I'm very sorry, but we're going to do a curettage, you're out of control, you didn't have to start beating the crap of her. -said a very young doctor who almost looked like a child, he must be a student or someone just out of medical school. The smell of anaesthesia overwhelms her, they undress her and put her in a cloth gown that opens in the wind. H arms are being squeezed, samples are taken and she is given IVs filled with medicine. Lying on her stretcher, she watches the square lights pass by as if on a motorway, and in a way it is. That corridor leads to a large auditorium full of students attentively writing in their notebooks, it looks like a boxing ring, the doctor opens her abdomen and pulls out a small foetus which he throws in the trash, while everyone stands up to applaud. Poor Angie screams until she is breathless, unt she loses consciousness, waking up in a cold metallic tray, a sign on the wall says Morgue, she turns to look next to her, where there is another tray covered with a sheet that falls gently, revealing the corpse of her mother, of Doiia Mery? “Where are you Luis, my love, please don't leave me alone? ~cried Luisa, feeling a bad feeling.

-'m here, Luisa, but don't come! -replied Luis, in a frightened voice.

“Then what's the matter, it can't be, how could you do it, if you swore to love me? -Luisa discovered Luis sleeping with Angie, who did not stop laughing, Luisa tried to hit him and was stopped by a slap from Luis, who also confessed to her: don't you dare to hit her, I love her, with you I just had fun, I wanted to know what it feels like to be with a virgin, that doesn't interest me anymore, you've already missed the interesting part, what never happens to my beloved Angie, this is real woman. -Luis kissed Angie, who added:

Yes, go away, be proud of yourself, be proud, you'd better go on insinuating yourself to the drunks in the neighbourhood maybe one of them, who are very dirty, will do you the favour of giving you a few pesos for a while alone, go away, I'm disgusted that you're looking at us.

Luisa went out crying and arrived at her family’s house, nobody would open the door, she wiped her tears and a gossipy neighbour blabbed to her: “Miss, that family sold up a long time ago, they went far away, nobody knows where, they got carried away with sadness because the older sister disappeared years ago, everybody says that she went to work in a brothel and that her family left without leaving a trace so that they wouldn't be found. It's just that she was a hooligan, all liked her like a kick in the liver, I hope that wherever she is, it goes very badly for her -Luisa stopped listening to the gossip and sat down on the platform to cry without disconsolation...

- must kill that shadow of terror, I must rescue my friends. -Estrello howled, walking through his forest, he felt the warm gathering of the pack, all transformed into humans and wolves at will, his beloved Paola had a litter, four babies, they we born human, so he had to go to the city to buy clothes, he filled them with caresses while kissing his beautiful wife, until the sweet smell of blood forced him to see what was happening, he saw Marco who was destroying the members of his pack.

Stop! -he bellowed, as he ran to attack him, the latter defended himself hitting him harder, throwing him against some rocks, he recovered shaking his head to avoid losing his senses, but he was lost from sight, the screams of his beloved made him rush to the cave:

“What is happening my beloved Paola? -The wolf entered the cave, asking questions without finding anyone but Marco, w told him:

My son, you have to be alone, that's how I want to see you. -He threw himself against him and his blows did not hurt hin because his little puppy hands did not do anything to him, he was again a baby next to his dead mother...

“Where are they, what happened here? -Luis contemplated the world with the red sky, the cracked ground, four skulls on horses threw dark rays while they laughed, from the ground came a man with a hockey mask, who stabbed him, he turne to run, but was stopped by a man with a burned face, who cut his arm with claws that he had in a glove, At the same time small doll stabbed him in the foot, with great difficulty he limped away, a clown emerged from the sewer showing sharp fangs, it was a distraction while millions of spiders of all kinds covered him completely, he was turned into a cocoon by them. Struggling he managed to break it, it seemed too late, he was in the cave of the mother of the spiders that was as & as a house, which devoured him with a single snap, he had to go through that throat all sticky, in his stomach he was melted by the stomach acids, until he woke up in an auditorium, which was full, the silent people were waiting for him to give a speech that he did not remember, it was very uncomfortable, however, not as uncomfortable as what he felt when saw that he was totally naked, the spectators mocked him making diminutive gestures, even in the front row there was Luisa accompanied by Guio who was putting his hand up her skirt, he was filled with anger coming down from the stage, trying to cover his embarrassment with his hands and got tangled with the microphone cable, rolling down the stairs hitting the floor while the flashes of the cameras did not stop illuminating him, making it seem that what was happening was a scene in slow motion...

“It can't happen for the umpteenth time, it's not fairt -cried Francisco, holding up the baby that looked like him. -It's not true, I must do something, show yourself, shadow of terror, don't be a coward, don't hide behind our fears, go out and fig like men.

“Who are you talking to, my love,” Mery hugged him gently, “we'd better go and put the baby to sleep and do little things. No, this is not true, it's already like the tenth time you've repeated it with some variations, my friends must be in similar situations, this seems to have no way out, there's only one thing left for me to do. -Francisco took the emerald out of his pocket.

“No daddy, don't do it, I promise to behave judiciously. -he said, the baby jumping out of the car with his arms outstretched to embrace him,

“This is not true, you are just illusions of that thing Francisco took the emerald and stabbed Mrs. Mery, Luisa’s mother, who cried:

My love, you shouldn't have done this, I loved you. -And he bawled, “I hate you daddy, I always love you: -I hate you dad I will always hate you,” and they vanished along with the fog, Francisco turned his head to look at his companions who were huddled together, and their cheeks were running rivers showing the cruelty of their nightmares.