Fatima: The Final Secret. Juan Moisés De La Serna

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СКАЧАТЬ even sent some to me, he says he doesn’t know what to give me, that money always comes in handy, and I say, he must have enough to spare.”

      “Mom, money is never spare, but that shows that, even though he’s far away, he still remembers his beloved sister. Well, if I’m doing badly here with work, I’m leaving like him,” I said without thinking.

      “No!” she said resoundingly.

      “Well, I’m not leaving, but please give me the crib,” I begged.

      “But you have to promise me that you’ll never emigrate,” she said, becoming very serious.

      Also seriously, standing there in front of her, staring at her sitting in her chair, I said:

      “Mom, I solemnly promise you that I’ll never emigrate to America.”

      “Alright smooth talker, take the crib, but tell them to take good care of it,” she said, smiling.

      “I’ll tell them what you’ve said. Ah Mom! Can I go to Germany at least?” I said very seriously.

      She got up from the chair, and giving me a light smack on the head, said:

      “No, not to Germany either. You stay here with me and give me grandchildren, and I won’t settle for one, that’s very boring.”

      “I already know that,” I said, “I’ve envied the neighbors since I was little because there are seven of them, always playing and me here alone and bored. I still don’t know why whenever I asked you to let me go to their house to play with them, you always gave me the same answer, ‘No son, there are enough of them, I don’t want you to bother them,’ as if they would’ve noticed one more.”

      “Well,” she said, laughing, “then the twins came along, so don’t complain, all of sudden there was two of them. You looked at them and said, ‘Which of them do I play with?’ They were toys to you. Alright, when are you taking the crib?” she asked me more calmly.

      “Well tomorrow, so you won’t change your mind,” and giving her a kiss, I was leaving when I heard her say:

      “You see what you’re like? You always get what you want.”

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      Summer was coming to an end, we were only one week away from starting classes again and returning to our routine, just enough time to get some rest and enjoy spending time with our families, but unexpected things can happen in just a few days. Tono came that morning crying:

      “Mom! Mom!” he screamed as he climbed the stairs.

      “What’s wrong?” I asked when I opened the door, because I’d been the first one to hear him, and I’d rushed to open it, to see what had happened.

      “No! Not you! I don’t want to talk to you,” he told me very angrily.

      I was surprised, but he ran into the kitchen where my mother was preparing food.

      “Mom! Mom!” the child kept calling very upset.

      “Angel, what’s wrong with you?” she asked in alarm.

      He closed the kitchen door behind him so that I wouldn’t go in after him, because I was following him down the hallway, although as he had been closing the door to the house, he was running and he reached where Mom was before I did. I went to open the kitchen door, but he told me from inside:

      “Go away! You’re to blame, I don’t want to see you ever again, it’s all your fault.”

      I stopped in my tracks. “What had I done? I don’t think I’ve done anything,” I thought, “plus, if he was out on the street playing with his friends and I was at home; surely it would have been a fight with one of them and he was taking it out on me.”

      I didn’t really hear what he was talking about, but I immediately heard my mother say:

      “Of course, I knew this was going to create problems for us.”

      Opening the door, she glared at me and angrily said:

      “You see!”

      I didn’t understand any of this and I asked:

      “Wait, what’s going on? I didn’t do anything to him.”

      “How have you not? Look at what’s happened to your brother, he hasn’t done anything and look,” my mother told me, and I still had no clue what she was talking about.

      I looked at her, then I looked at him, and I still wasn’t getting it. “What a mess!” I said to myself. I couldn’t figure any of it out, so I asked:

      “Okay, well, can either one of you please tell me what’s going on? What have I done that’s so serious? Because I don’t think I’ve done anything, and I can’t work out what’s happened to him. He was out playing on the street!”

      Barging angrily past me, Tono said:

      “I’m never talking to you ever again in my whole life,” and with that he left for his room, where I heard him locking the door with the key from the inside.

      “Mom, please, tell me what’s wrong, what has he told you?” While I asked, I looked at her and I could see her getting angrier.

      “Look, do you see what happens by being the way you are?” she said to me very seriously and then she fell silent.

      “Me? And what is the way I am? Let’s see, now what on Earth do I have to do with whatever might have happened to the kid on the street?” I was asking her slowly, because I did not want her to get any more upset.

      “Listen!” said my mother, when she had calmed down a little. “He told me that the children he was playing with told him he was going to hell.”

      “And, what about it?” I asked. “What does that have to do with me?”

      “What does it have to do with you? Well, I don’t know how they would have heard about your little thing,” she told me.

      “But what is my little thing? Please explain it to me, I still have no idea what you’re talking about, it’ll just be kid stuff,” I said a little irritated, because she insisted on focusing the blame on me for something I didn’t understand.

      “Look Manu, this has to change already, I can’t deal with this situation any longer either. Look, my Spiritual Advisor…”

      “Who?” I asked a little confused. “Your whaaat?”

      “My Spiritual Advisor,” she repeated.

      “Wait, what’s that?” I asked again.

      “Well, Don Ignacio, the priest, have you forgotten already?” she asked me. “You have to see how you’ve changed son.”

      “Yes, the priest, but what you said before, I don’t know what an advisor is. And I haven’t changed at all, I’m still your son, the same as always.”

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