6
Finally the week was almost over , on Saturday evening came fast! It was nine o'clock in the evening , I had just taken a shower , and I was preparing to go to get Sofia , when I received a message to the phone .
Andrea , hello , excuse me, but I would not go out I am very tired I've had a very heavy and I'm not very well , sorry, anyway you see yourself with others, I am so sorry to the next Sofia.
That message I froze , for three days I figured this out, I was living and relived in my mind, his invitation had given me a charge. I seemed to touch the sky with a finger , but now she suddenly I removed all the strength he had given me . I threw myself on the bed , I still had wet hair , I stood staring at the roof,
" Andrea what do you wonder , every time goes like this. Did you know too that this would happen . What did you hope ? What already hoped ? " Closed my eyes , I was disappointed , the desire to go out and have fun was suddenly gone, I felt only the desire to sleep . I called friends and let him know that I was no longer going out, in my heart I did not want to do anything .
I took a book I began to leaf through it , but I could not concentrate on reading . I closed the book , I was lying motionless on the bed, when at one point Chimay went above and groped cheering began to lick her face . These dogs are providential , when everything goes wrong you will find yourself always close and just have a wag that will snatch a smile.
- Chimay , you know that we do - I said to my dog - I'll go down and take a walk . - I finished getting dressed and went down with Chimay . The dog was jubilant , he began to pull me and make me do all the sidewalk in front of my building .
" I mean, at least tell me before, that costs you have three days I do not think that at this exit , but then at least a phone call, or maybe I could write we return next week .. boh " I was disappointed , sad , I tried to distract myself , I looked at the facade of the building , I saw the floor of my apartment , the living room that was lit by Alessio . In the apartment of Sergio instead there seemed to be no one , so the shutters of the windows of the house of Serena and Dominic were all lowered , the boys still had not moved at all , they were intent to complete the move, I had not seen for that time that I reported Tweety.
My thoughts were to go back to Sofia , when I recognized the car of Sergio . He was posteggiando , it was probably on the way home .
My friend , arranged the auti , saw me right away, came over to me , leaned over to do a little ' Party in Chimay , who looked with favor on a lot. Then he stood up and looked at me he said.
- Sabri I left home, we dined on sushi. But what are you doing here with your dog , you did not have that appointment ? - " That's because I had "
- No Sergio , had a mishap .. -
- I understand you gave a bin ! Andrea , but you do not stove ? - Sergio said almost with resignation, I had told him many times, and many times I told him to let go , and I always did the opposite.
- Now that you intend to do ? Do not you want to go to bed mica , or throw you in bed and ask you what you did wrong this time? - Continued my friend - oh no my dear ! - I've never seen so much Sergio decided in my life and went - I'm not even the ten, now you know what? We go out, we go get something to drink! -
Frankly the idea of Sergio did not seem bad , I needed to distract me , so I did not think so and I said - okay Sergio ! Carry on the dog and go. How about if we call Alessio well ? -
Sergio made a half- smile and said - Sure, but you call it .. although I can imagine what will be the answer .. you give it a try anyway . -
I dialed the number of Alessio , expected long , then after a while ' time said ..
- Hello? I'm Alexis, Andrea, who do you want? - The booming voice of Alessio testified that he was fine , and it would be hard to convince him to go out, I swallowed and said .
- Hello , I know you, I have called you ! How are you? -
- Well what do you want? - Answered fast , he wanted to get down to business.
- Look, Alex, Sergio and I are here in the house and we were thinking about going to get something to drink together , one thing I stressed the quiet - quiet , to reassure him . On the other end of the phone heard a sort of grunt , as if next to Alexis there was a bear.
- Andrea but you are crazy ? - He answered - But you tell me now? But then I do not feel , I feel bad , that is not very well, but then you have to do ? Who you are, how you are, where you are going ? -
- Alexis began to become impatient , just me and Sergio , we wanted to get something to drink and stop. But then you said that you were fine ? -
Alexis began to mutter and mumble words and concluded - No guys I do not feel , I'm tired , another time we organize , Sergio hello say hello . - Said that he threw down .
- So? - Sergio churches .
- No , we're just the two of us . - I replied. Sergio laughed and said, - And you had doubts? -
Chimay left at home, we started walking towards the movida of Palermo. We went in the direction of Candelai . Via Candelai is a ' street of Via Maqueda, then intersecting with the road Corso Vittorio Emanuele, from life to the Quattro Canti, in the city center then . The particularity of this road, over its entire length, is that it is full of locals next to each other , they all have tables outside , and all its local music blasting at high volume, so walking along this street you can hear all the music genres, but everyone .. Another feature are the people who go there, it is full of young , college kids or not, foreign students who do Erasmus in Palermo , punks , hippies , rockers , good guys Palermo , immigrants , highbrow loden , prostitutes tourists who end up there by accident involved . It melts everything away Candelai genres of music and the people and comes out of a big mess ! Something unthinkable for a middle-class city , traditional and conservative as Palermo. A friend of Catania, a city marked by lava dell 'Etna , which makes it dark and blackened , said that Catania and Palermo are like two women , the first , austere but of a sweet and jovial, while the second from ' beautiful appearance but with a sad mood and introverted . So this way was something strange, in particular , a streak of madness in the heart of the city.
Me and my friend decided to go into a room , we walked all the way through the bedlam and fatigue got to the counter. Behind the counter , needed a girl that reminded one of Coyote Ugly , clear eyes pale skin blonde buxom , a pleasure to the eye, turned to us asking us what we wanted to drink.
- Two monkey brains ! - Sergio almost screamed to be heard. - Andrea takes just two brains tonight - continued my friend , I nodded , lowering his head and a hint of a smile accomplice.
She took two glasses , poured vodka then strawberry syrup that went immediately to deposit on the bottom, then took a spoon that interposed between the glass and the bottle of Bayles and made off with mastery liquid abandoning the bottle before soak in vodka met the spoon , in this way the bayles down more slowly in the liquid spreading and took the form of a cerebellum.
The girl, once preparation is complete , he said - Come on guys ! All in one gulp ! - Having said that , there winked - Ve it will soon serve another ! -
- Clever girl! - Said Sergio .
At the end of the Coyote Ugly girl there did drain the other three, and its effects began to be felt, we went to the local , took the first road leading to Mount Virgin , the confusion was so great , we saw a pub frequented by rockers we slipped inside . The place had a soft atmosphere , the lights were very low walls were covered with dark wood paneling , there were couches with low tables and a band played pieces by Sherman Robertson. A very warm and velvety blues rock , spread on local giving a great sense of hospitality. Behind the counter there was this one time a guy imposing, wearing a black sweatshirt fleece , his beard and hair, he served two beers we Quack , I took the other two. The atmosphere of the room , his blues so intoxicating , and most likely all that until now had been drinking, dragged us away from reality , we were absent, lost in our thoughts , then suddenly Sergio , brought me back to reality by asking - Why Andrea? Why waste time with that girl? I mean, the world is full of girls. Do not you see that makes you just suffer? - I directed his gaze to the group that reproduced the perfect pieces of Sherman and said dry
- Sergio , the answer is obvious , because they are in love , it is normal that I suffer, but I can forget it. -
Sergio shook his head and continued - It's about time ! -
The group finished the run I wonder why , I wonder why, and it was attacking another , when my friend said - Just go , this music is hypnotizing us , we go to Vucciria, there is a place where they sell a glass wine to a euro ! - We left the restaurant we passed the churches of Mount Virgin and found ourselves in Maqueda street , we were going down into the cathedral , I remembered that day when Tweety I had run away from his hands, we were past the alley of the Holy Saviour looked up at the window of ' apartment where he had slipped Tweety that afternoon , was lit . All of a sudden I was like a flash in the head! I stopped abruptly.
- Sergio stopped waiting ! Now I remember where I read that name! -
Sergio surprised, looked at me in a strange way - Andrea 're drunk ? But are you talking about ? -
Yes , I was sure , maybe it would have been madness , but the drink had taken me nearly mad , I had to do it, but how could I introduce myself there again ?
- Sergio what time is it ? - I asked, he looked at the phone's display and said - I am eleven ? Why ? -
- Well still not very late! - I looked around and saw a guy who was selling roses, was descending towards the Candelai , I stopped and went back to Sergio with five roses . He looked at me puzzled, and said, - Andrea want to bring these flowers to Sofia? - He said it with the fear that my answer would have been yes.
- No , believe me , I'm going to do worse ! - I exclaimed , laughing.
I walked over to the door and pushed the button without thinking about it , I felt something croak , but you could not understand anything , I knocked twice again , the intercom came always an unintelligible sound , and at the end he felt a sharp click .. had opened the door . My friend was staring at me in disbelief , he was not understanding anything , I turned to him and said - Sergio we use two minutes I'll explain later ! -
Andrea - I hope you're not drunk or crazy shot, if I see the police arrive or doctors in white coats and strait-jacket in hand , well I run ! -
- Do not worry, I'm here in two minutes . -
I took the flight of stairs leading to the apartment , on the run, without thinking about anything , excited and surprised by the firmness and recklessness with which I had made the decision to go up. I found myself in front of the bell , now here is my uncertainties and my cheek had vanished . " And now ? Ok , I'll be back " here's my Caporetto , I was going to go back, when the door opened .
- Engineer, because it has not brought the keys ? Santa misery , you know that I am old , and she keeps me up till this time of night ! -
They were the screams of the little old lady that I had met that afternoon with Tweety. The woman, however, with his great disbelief he found himself in front of the engineer, but with astonishment and concern he found me. He began to stutter and immediately closed the door . " Before you are a heart attack is better than explain everything, oh my God, what have I gotten myself story ? "
- Good evening Madam , I do not know if you remember me , I'm the guy who gave you the bother with the dog, which in short, I do not know if you remember he peed on the carpet for this , I went to apologize to her for the damage that I went , I brought flowers , please accept them. -
I knew I was looking through the peephole , so I picked up the bouquet of roses in such a way that it could see.
- Yes , I remember her, and I remember even his dog , thank you , however, you should not only apologize to me, but also with the engineer Tommasini , given that the house is his , he sees I am , say, you say? - The old broke off, could not find the words , I was afraid to intervene, worried about not making a gaffe that surely would definitely packed everything. What could it be? Lover, lover , sister , aunt, daughter , grandmother , assistant, maid .. "Dunno best, expect that describes itself as ," I thought sarcastically .
Finally , he found the word - I am the engineer's maids . Do not misunderstand , the engineer , and although messy slob , could be completely self-sufficient if it had greater self-esteem , and do not think it's a sort of servant, now there is a relationship of friendship and mutual esteem . -
The lady was proving quite talkative , I had to try to tighten , so I intervened - Lady , then I could get so do the flowers and I apologize with the engineer ? -
There was a long silence, one minute , then said - Look, I do not open that door mica the first to piss her dog at my house, and then there's the engineer , came out about an hour ago. If he tells me his name, write it and just refer back to the engineer . -
- Andrea Restivo - I said without thinking.
I regretted it immediately , I lowered my head I had nothing else to do - I understand the lady 's right , I apologize again for the inconvenience and trouble the last time that I have done tonight , I leave the flowers on the landing. Good evening , my greetings to the engineer. -
I was walking down the stairs when I heard the noise of latches and the door open . I stopped, the lady leaned toward me and said - Boy waiting , I'm sorry , go well if you want you can wait for the engineer home. -
I turned around , and I did not think twice , I went inside. The house was exactly as I remembered , cozy with fireplace , sofa , Persian rugs , the bookcase and the table full of objects. The lady was still with the clothes of the day, dressed in a blue robe more . I felt remorse for having disturbed , and for deceiving her , I was not there, I apologize for it to bring the flowers, I just wanted to appease my curiosity.
- Excuse me, if I was wary, but you know, we live in this old building only us, there is only one other apartment upstairs , but there has never inhabited by anyone after the war. Thanks for the flowers are very beautiful - had given him a look but inquisitive .
- Sa ' reminds me of my nephew , has more or less his age . Not seen him in a long time! But sit down on the couch, my name is Rose . -
- Lady Rose - I began - she was very kind , is a dear person . And I apologize again for my intrusion , has reason to be wary, with everything going on . -
Ms. Rose nodded his head and said to my words - you certainly have heard of the murder of the man , was murdered right here next to City Hall. Mamma mia, as they have reduced the poor man , and I do not say how many people are coming to this area , which is already always busy , there is a traffic and noise that has become uninhabitable. After the fact of murder, were also added to onlookers and journalists. To tell you the truth , me and the engineer are terrified . For me it is a matter of theft. -
The lady was a raging river , loved to speak clearly , I was collapsed on the couch, I followed his speech, but with the look I scanned the table, where I remembered to be what I was looking for . I reached out and look .. here she was there. As soon as I spotted my curiosity grew, as well as the desire to take it.
- Did you see something ? - Asked the old woman .
No, no - I said, averting his eyes from the table.
- I must apologize if there is confusion , I try to keep it in this house. -
The old lady was apologizing for a disorder , which actually was not there, and perhaps because she was not there and there would never have been .
- No, this house is very neat and cozy - I assured her live - just her and the engineer here ? -
Yes, me and him. He knows the engineer is a widower nine years ago, the children are grown , they have become a family, and living abroad. The daughter, who is the biggest went to live in Australia six years ago, the child moved with his family in Germany . - Unwittingly, I was entering into the lives of others, this is a bit ' embarrassed me , they were made that did not concern me , but I saw that the woman was glad to have found someone with whom to talk , so I urged him to continue.
- So you were only the two of you ? -
The lady nodded - The engineer does not see his daughter and his grandchildren as well as six years . As you can see son at Christmas and at Easter. Before, when I was still working , oddly enough the engineer was more active , as soon as the holidays had started and went to find his son, I often accompanied him as well . Now that instead would have more free time does not travel anymore. So you see , for the holidays, when the child can go down with his family . -
- It 's retired ? - I asked .
- Yes, two years ago. He worked on the railways as a manager . I work in this house for eight years, one year after the death of the poor lady. The son was already married and had a family , she instead moved to Australia seven years ago. -
The lady paused and continued asking - I can offer you something to drink? I limoncello made by me . -
" That's the limoncello I missed , after all I've been drinking, but I want to go along " - Thank you, accept it gladly . -
The woman walked away towards the kitchen, it was the perfect opportunity to get close to the table , I took what I wanted , the observed carefully, a sense of excitement for me was going through what I was going to do. Instinctively , without thinking, I pulled the photo from the photo gate and slid it in my pocket. I put the door photograph on a high shelf in the library. I looked at the time. He had already spent half an hour since I entered the house , I had to go . I find myself standing in front of the couch, the old woman came in with a shot glass full of limoncello, drank it in one gulp , thanked the lady and I resigned from her.
- Go away already ? - He said - do not expect the engineer ? -
- No ma'am , it's late , I thank you all and congratulations for the limoncello. -
I went down the stairs , I went out and found Sergio leaning against a pole, as soon as he saw me he said - Andrea , but you've done? It's almost an hour waiting for you ! -
- I found what I was looking for, I'll explain everything tomorrow . Now we continue the evening , we were not headed to the Vucciria ? - I said, cutting short .
Sergio annoyed and amazed stopped in front of me and said - Tell me what were you doing in that house and what you mean . -
- Tomorrow ! Tomorrow at the home of Alessio 'll explain everything ! -
My friend at this point was resigned to having to wait to find out , he turned and said - Well then, let's hurry up from the night is long ! -
Once home , I lay down on the couch, and pulled from his pocket the object that I had taken from the house of ' engineer Tommasini . I was holding the picture of her in which he had with other people , among them , one was indicated with an arrow that pointed to the name , ing. Leo . I took an old newspaper with a picture of 'man who had been killed , the engineer Vincenzo Leone. I had spent so much time between the two photos , there was a picture of a young man who could have a maximum of twenty-five, in the other a man who had just passed the sixties. Yet these two men had something similar , the look, the eyes. Instinct told me they were the same people.
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