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Me too? A coward.
—I just want to take photos of you to have on my phone, that's all.
—You are lying to me, Salvatore Marino from the high Calabrian mountains located in Italy.
I laugh at the long reference she just called me with, pushing her finger into my chest I push her away.
-Only...
-Except that?
—I don't like sharks.
He stops looking at me angrily and tries to put the pieces together in his head.
—They scare you, is that what you mean?
—No, I just don't like them, they're ugly.
-You're ugly! "It scares me." Of course, a gangster who loves to murder, pass cocaine and illegal substances and also likes auctions where he fills his pockets with coins is telling me that he is afraid of sharks. Wow, I didn't expect that.
-I'm not afraid!
—Clearly you just told me that they scare you, Salvatore Marino de los Altos...
—Calabrian mountains, do not call me that, I am your husband, principessa.
She comes closer to hug me around the waist, I put my arms around her shoulders to hug her too.
—Go and have fun.
-Come along! We can fight this fear, okay?
—No Emily, you're going to keep me like a leech and I don't want you to stop having fun because of it.
—I won't do it, we can pay for fifty hours if necessary until you swim like a free little fish, do you think?
I think about it a little, the plea appears in her eyes and it reminds me of that time she begged me with those eyes cast in gold not to put her on a plane. For some reason I end up accepting, taking off my clothes and putting on the suit required to swim in that big tank full of fish and sharks with sharp teeth. When I'm ready she's the first one down the stairs, but I feel her hand pinching my butt.
—Emily!!
—I confused you, I felt like a shark for the first time.
—Shut up, I'll have less desire to go down.
I really feel the bile rising in my throat, when I get into the water the experts guide us and talk to us about how to use the oxygen pump, they give us all the preliminaries, when they finish Emily is the first to dive completely to be able to swim by the big pond. When I see her moving I look like a dog because I go behind her, I follow her at all times and the sensation is strange because I can breathe underwater.
I run my fingers against the scales of some of the fish around me, admiring their colors and Emily points out several of them so I can observe them with determination. I blow a burst of bubbles when I see one of the sharks approach and Emily tries not to laugh.
I go back when he passes by me and Emily, without owing or fearing him, runs her hand over his thick, grayish skin. I try not to look until he takes my hand so I can pet him, right now I feel like I'm going to die of a heart attack and I'll stay at the bottom of the tube where we are swimming. The divers take photos of us, in which I try to put my best face forward because there will be no photo in which I look like I pee my pants.
Emily makes me go behind her, I put my hand on her waist, following her at all times and we see countless fish and sharks that walk fearlessly around us. After seeing them, observing them and letting them dominate their pond, I allow myself to see a good side to all this. Which is it? Well, if they eat me because of my wife's blood and concern, they're going to end up eating her too, which means we'll die at the same time and that would be great instead of just being the idiot who alerted the sharks and they ate him. whole.
We continue swimming until we leave the pond, I remove my mask and go up to retrieve my clothes. They give us a towel with which we can dry our entire body.
-How was it?
—Not as bad as I expected, maybe the sharks get different behavior when they are raised here.
