C12 Chapter 12

Eliza Campos

As I leave the meeting room, I bump into Pietro again. It's probably going to get messy again.

Pietro smiles debauched.

- That means that the ex-drug addict is the daughter of the company owner, who would suspect that Mr. Manoel was that rich - Pietro says.

I look around to see if anyone had heard what he was saying.

- Pietro, what do you want from me now? It's not enough that you and your girlfriend got into this mess," I say, with almost no patience left to put up with him.

Pietro slowly approaches me until I lean against a wall that was next to us.

- I want you," he says, making me confused, until he completes what he wants to say, "now that you're rich I'd love to date you again... I just feel disgusted to be near you.

- What? I can't believe you had the nerve to come here and tell me this," I say, surprised by Pietro's boldness.

When Pietro says such a thing, I feel like flying in his face, but, I take a deep breath, and if he would just stay close to me because otherwise, I might commit something crazy.

- Why are you surprised? - He says, causing me to shed tears I didn't want to.

- You are a monster. I thought that you loved me. How stupid of me to have believed you," I say in disbelief at everything Pietro was saying to me.

Pietro laughs as if he were happy.

- Foolish indeed, you gave yourself to me when you were still young. It's a good thing that bastard died," he adds.

When Pietro calls our daughter a bastard, I can't help but slap him across the face and the sound echoes throughout the room.

- You have no right to call Sophia that, she was the best thing that ever happened in my life, God knows how much I suffered with her death.

After saying these things, Carla arrives and sees what has happened.

- Everything all right here? - she asks, casting a look of hatred in Pietro's direction. She was probably deducing that he had done something against me.

- Everything is fine now," I answer, pulling myself together, "Are you ready to go now?

- Yes," she replies.

Pietro watches us leave and snorts at being left out of the discussion. We decide to go to Lolla, a very famous restaurant here in São Paulo.

The restaurant was wonderful, well located, and the dishes were incredible. When we arrived at the place we chose a very hidden table, I wanted to have the privacy to talk to Carla without anyone listening.

After we sit down, we immediately place our orders and the attendant doesn't take long to bring us what we had ordered.

- Carla - I call her and she looks in my direction giving me the approval to continue - What do you want to know about?

- Only tell me if you feel at ease - She answers before continuing - What would this relapse of yours be about? I already suspect something, but I just wanted to confirm my suspicion.

- I'll tell you everything because I consider you a great friend - I answer and don't let Carla say anything else, if I stopped now I don't think I could go on - As I told you, I was Pietro's girlfriend a few years ago.

- Yes, - she says.

I take a deep breath before continuing.

- We were together for six long years, but several things happened and our relationship wore out over time. We even got engaged, but, I ended up getting addicted to drugs - I completely.

- Wow - is the only thing that Carla can say at this moment.

- He even tried to support me, but, everything got worse when I found out I was pregnant and when I lost the child, he broke up with me. She was born prematurely - I say.

Carla just stares at me with her mouth open and I can see that her eyes are watering.

- Girlfriend, if I had known that you had been through all of this I would not have even touched this subject, I am sorry," she says, blaming herself for making me remember everything that I have been through.

I take Carla's hands as a way to calm her down and say.

- Carla, there's no way you could have known that.

Carla gradually calms down.

- Girlfriend, has Pietro helped you with anything?

I smile sarcastically and answer, not sure what Carla could do with such information, she would probably have more resentment toward Pietro.

- Pietro didn't help me at all, after our daughter died he simply vanished from the map, I even tried to understand this, I believed it was my fault since I was on a drug addiction and that on a whim I ended up losing my baby, but today I found out that it wasn't just that.

- What do you mean? - she asks me.

- He came insinuating himself, saying that he wanted to get back together with me, even though he was dating Cassandra. As if my father was rich, now he could invest in me and even insulted me by calling me a drug addict and thanked God that our daughter had died.

Carla shakes her head from side to side, still not believing what Pietro was capable of.

- Lizz, still not believing that Pietro was capable of such a thing, looks can be deceiving.

I agree with what Carla was saying and I completely agree.

- Yes, I'll say. I was quite surprised by what Pietro said about me. In the years that we have been together and even got engaged, he has never shown himself to be this heartless person.

- Yes, you did the right thing by slapping that sham - Carla says, making me laugh.

Talking to Carla it was as if a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders.

- Carla, only you could make me laugh like that.

- Girlfriend, changing the subject, I am having a get-together at my house today and I was wondering if you wanted to go? - she asks.

After much thought, I decided to accept Carla's invitation, after all, I needed to have some fun.

- Of course, I believe it will be good for me to go out for a while to clear my head after everything that happened today, there were too many emotions for just one person.

- So, tomorrow I'll have a barbecue and it will also be a pool party - She says - If you can bring the drinks... And who knows, maybe your brother - She completes whispering the last part.

- Sure, friend. I'll see if my brother can come.

After our brief conversation, we each proceed to our own house.