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—Now you're in it, don't you still want to escape?
—No, I want to leave here being someone different.
-OK.
From his bedside table he takes the iPad that he was using in the afternoons, when he hands it to me the digital notepad is open. I take the device between my fingers.
—I want you to write everything you want for your birthday, this is not your cage, it is not a prison in which something will never be imposed on you in your life, what happened before is left behind. That's why I ask you to write everything you want.
-All?
—Everything, I don't care about the cost Emily.
—Okay, let me think about it for a bit.
—Think about it for as long as you want,principessa.
A couple of ideas hit my head, I think that on my birthday I had never dared to ask, I only received what was within the comfort of my colleagues and my best friend. Not to mention my parents, the chocolates and a couple of family photos were the only things that arrived, although in the back there was always the same request as always.
“Come visit us again, we miss you, darling.”
The worst thing is that I recognized the handwriting of both women, mom was always liberal and understood that I alone would have the time to go visit them, she didn't overwhelm me with that issue. Dad is the one who always wanted to have me there, he wanted the treatment to be equal when it was always about my sister. Those words came from the hand of my father's second wife.
I stop thinking about everything that is starting to make me sensitive and write a couple of things. When I hand it to him I notice how his eyes move over the short piece of note that I occupied.
1.A silver car.
2.A little dog.
3.A drive-in dinner.
He turns off the device and turns to look at me.
-This is all?
—Yes, I think that's fair, three of those gifts are more than enough.
—You can add more, you know? My brothers are going to want to do something big or small to you and I won't be able to tell them that you want this or that because there are only three things.
—Well, then I want a perfume, that's four gifts for four brothers.
"Fuck, Emily, I don't know what to think," he rubs his chin. Well, we'll be seeing how it goes on your birthday.
—What will we do tomorrow?
"The same as today, omitting the morning thing," he smiles with his mouth closed. You are not going to get up until Adam comes and checks you, he will discharge you.
-OK.
I get comfortable in bed, pulling the sheets up to my chest, I finally touch my neck or face and there is no longer as much pain as in the morning.
—What about your parents on that date?
—They live in Sicily, they don't want to come here because they know that there is a lot of crime as a result of the war between the Marinos and the Rinaldi —I confess, looking at the ceiling. I think they also don't do it because mom has a walker and dad has a cane, it is very difficult for them to move on their own to be able to get to Calabria.
—They can ask the other family for help, right?
—Maxim and I are not good sisters, I think we never were because we were both very territorial, me long before I was born because I refused to have a brother or sister. Renzo Fiore, that man really wanted us to get along wonderfully and although I tried because I wanted to be a mature daughter, he wouldn't allow it. He didn't want me, much less around dad.
