Conflicted Destiny - Season 1 Episode 37

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Conflicted Destiny - Season 1 Episode 37

Now that I have a passport, there was no going back. I told John that within the next few weeks I intended to travel to the Bahamas to visit my family. He told me that it was okay with him as long as I could give him a week’s advance notice. The next morning, I used the money I had reserved for my September rent, plus everything else I had, and bought a ticket to the Bahamas. That left me completely broke. So far, I hadn’t told my flatmates that I was leaving. According to my flight itinerary, I was to depart Barcelona on September 10. I had no idea how I was going to pay my rent for September.
I had visited Maria Joana a few more times since our first encounter and she had taken a special liking to me. I had spent a few weekends at her apartment, and thought perhaps she would allow me to stay at her apartment for the next two weeks until my departure date. One day after work, I decided to talk to her about it. That night when I arrived at her place, I put on a sad face. She asked what the problem was and I acted coy, telling her there was nothing wrong. As I had hoped, she didn’t believe me and continued begging me to tell her. I hesitated, knowing I had to play it very carefully since I didn’t want to make her think that I was with her because of what I could get from her. I told her it was nothing that I couldn’t resolve on my own. As we went to bed that night, she pleaded with me to tell her what was bothering me. Eventually she started crying, telling me she loved me and whatever affected me also affected her.
As she cried, her dog, Quis, a two-year old Chinese chowchow, started barking. I had never been a dog lover—as a child, I’d had a traumatic experience with my grandmother’s dog—and was surprised that I could date Maria Joana in spite of her dog. Quis’s barking irritated me. I always wondered why she allowed her dog to sleep with us in the bedroom, but I tried not to complain since I knew how much she loved it.
To make her stop crying—which would hopefully get the dog to stop barking—I decided to tell her what the problem was. I explained that I couldn’t afford to pay my rent for September because I had used all my money to buy my ticket to the Bahamas, and also had no money left for my trip. Immediately, she stopped crying and smiled, but she said nothing. The dog stopped barking and we went to sleep soon afterward. By the time I woke the next morning, she had already left for work. She left me a beautiful note in which she begged me to move in with her until I traveled, along with an envelope containing 70,000 pesetas. I was dumbfounded. I suspected she would do something like this, but I had never anticipated it would be so soon.
I went to work that morning rejuvenated. I sang as I rode the subway, counting my blessings. When I got to work, I immediately informed John that I would be traveling to the Bahamas on September 10. He said my job would be waiting for me when I returned. After work, I went straight to Maria Joana’s house. She had prepared a lovely dinner for us. Before she could say anything, I hugged her tightly, kissed her all over, and thanked her profoundly for her kindness. The next evening, she drove me to my place, and I packed all my stuff and moved into her apartment.
Life with Maria Joana was beautiful. Apparently, the apartment belonged to her. She seemed to be living very comfortably, with a well-paying job as a cashier and her own car. She also seemed genuinely in love with me. For the next few days, my life involved going to work, returning in the evenings, and taking walks with Maria Joana and Quis. It was quite a different experience for me—I partied less and kept away from my friends, devoting all of my attention to the lady who had been so kind to me.
The only problem I had was Blanca. She acted neglected, not unrelated to the fact that since I had started seeing Maria Joana, their relationship—or l£sb!an experiment, as I liked to think of it—had ended. When I had found out about their relationship, I confronted Maria Joana. After a few minutes of my probing, she had finally blurted out that they had been having a relationship before we met. She said she had never been in a l£sb!an relationship before Blanca. Blanca was her schoolmate, and when she needed a place to stay, Maria Joana had decided to rent her a room in her apartment. They went out together often. One night, they went out partying, got drunk, and one thing led to another and they ended up having s*x. They had s*x a few more times, and Blanca automatically assumed that they had become lovers. Maria Joana never tried to discourage Blanca’s assumption. When Maria Joana and I started seeing each other, it was a blow to Blanca, an ultimate rejection. In spite of Blanca’s antagonistic and hostile behavior toward me, I was undeterred. I told Maria Joana not to worry about the past, as long as she was true to me.
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As for Blanca, there was no love lost between us. I wanted her gone as fast as possible since I saw her as a threat, my competition. It didn’t matter too much to me, though, granted that I was going to the Bahamas in the next few days anyway and might never return to Spain. My intention was to stay in the Bahamas and hustle my way into Miami, USA.