Melissa ( book)

Chapter 21

Melissa

I wake up and roll over in bed, impatient.

Will his mother like me? Will she approve of our relationship? Will my mother approve? So many questions, and no answers.

I think and end up saying it out loud. I fear my mother may have heard my fears. I get up on tiptoe, go to the door and open it carefully to see if she's not wearing a butt, everything is calm. Although my mother isn't one to listen behind doors. But you know, everything has its first time.

I slept much more peacefully when I saw that he hadn't given up on us, despite the risk we were taking. I pick up my cell phone and call Gabi.

— Gabi, answer me... hurry up — I complain, looking at the cell phone screen.

- Hello. Mel, what happened?

— I spoke to Edu yesterday — I say at once.

- Oh my God! Tell me soon — she practically screams and I pull the cell phone away from my ear.

I tell her everything we talked about and omit the spicy parts, she doesn't have to know about my intimacy.

— How beautiful, Mel. He really likes you.

- Me too. I think I love him — I say with all sincerity.

— You can see that. And when are you going to tell your mother?

There's something that I still don't know how to resolve. I'm going to have to tell her, I can't keep hiding it from her. Nowadays, a relationship with a big age difference is normal. But the thing is: he's my teacher, and I'm just a teenager. Will she accept?

— I'm scared, Gabi.

— I understand you, but there will come a time when you will have to tell her.

— I know that, but not now. We are just starting our relationship and we don't even know if it will work. Today we're going to meet — I say, excited. There's a teachers' meeting today and we won't have class until later.

- Thank God. Now goodbye to you because I want to sleep some more.

— Not even coming. You can try to get up. Just because we're going in later doesn't mean you're going to stall. Get ready and we'll meet soon.

— Yes, mom — he scoffs at my face.

— Yes, obey me. Let me send a message to Edu.

- Wow, it's beautiful. — The scoundrel makes fun again.

— That's right, you're kidding me. One day you will fall in love.

— Don't curse, my friend — she says, laughing.

— Ah, I pray this wonderful curse of loving and being loved.

- No way. I'm going to take my shower, beloved lady — he teases.

— I am. — I laugh and end the call.

I type the message and send it to my hot teacher.

“Hi, love, how are you? I’ll be at school in a little while.”

Soon my cell phone rings the message sound.

“Hi, my angel, I miss you. Come carefully, my heart.”

I get that silly smile. You know the one that shows that I'm completely in love? That's what I'm giving now.

"It can leave. I’ll let you know when it arrives.”

“I'm waiting for you. I’m dying to kiss you, my angel.”

Just reading this message makes me all excited. This man is crazy, and I'm crazy about him.

“Me too, hottie, me too.”

I get up, change and get my things. As soon as I go downstairs, I find my mother in the kitchen.

— Wow, mom, you look beautiful.

- You too, love. Let's go to your meeting. Afterwards I'm going out with Gabi's mother.

— Hum.Um... I was talking to her just now.

— Was she already awake? — my mother asks, laughing. She knows very well that Gabi cannot see a bed that leans over and is already asleep.

- Yes, she was. She said she was going to take a shower and imagine the whole scene — I say, rolling my eyes and my mother laughs.

I sit down to drink the coffee she prepared. While I eat, I imagine this scene with Edu, something as simple as having coffee together. Would be wonderful.

— Mel. Mel — my mother catches my attention.

- I'm sorry mom. She was distracted.

- I noticed. Help me put things away, in case you've already finished your coffee.

— Yes, I'm done. —I get up and help her.

Since I was little, I always liked doing these things, helping to clean the house. I learned to cook at a very young age. My mother needed to go on duty and I had to fend for myself. I look at the table and see if there is anything else out of place. I grab my things and we head to Gabi's house to pick her up.

— Daughter, be careful when you return home, okay? — he asks.

— Yes, mom, you can leave it.

- Then fine.

I turn on the radio and the song 1% by Marcos and Belutti with Wesley Safadão starts playing. Gabi's mother won't be able to attend the meeting, so my mother will represent her too. We park the car in front of her house and my mother honks the horn. Gabi appears looking like a zombie, walking around feeling discouraged and sleepy.

— Hi, aunt, good morning. — Gabi gives my mother a kiss and turns to me. — Hi, witch — she says, in an angry tone.

— Hi, ugly, wake up — I tease.

— Girls, behave yourself — my mother warns.

— Mom, she can't see a bed.

- I know.

What happens in the club, by the duo Thaeme and Thiago, starts to play. Can't hold back. We looked at each other and started to sing, to the complete despair of my mother, who only looked at us from the corner of her eye and shook her head. ece, in denial.

— You can get out — he says, as soon as he parks the car outside the school.

— Mom, the delicacy is great today, huh — I tease and she laughs.

- Ever. Now disappear. I'm going to the meeting and I sincerely hope that I don't have any complaints from you.

— Well, I hope not, aunt — says Gabi, laughing.

— I'm not sure — I say, looking at my mother. I can see from the look that she is surprised.

— Why do you say that, Mel?

— Because there's a teacher there who doesn't like her, aunt.

— Did you do something to her, daughter? — he asks, looking at me as if he were evaluating me to see if my answer will be sincere.

— No. Since she started teaching us, she hasn't liked me. And me, with hers — I respond and my mother nods her head, agreeing.

— Well, let's go.