Be it of wealth or bitterness. ®.

 

Be it of wealth or bitterness. ®.

Short Story.

Multiversal magical realism. 

Jorge Ofitas. ®.

Marisa Adenaida ran headlong into Lucas Bloc in the parking lot of The Tunnel hypermarket. Lucas loved Adenaida, to the point of yearning for her as his wife, and he desired her; but she belonged to the rich, to the world of abundance, and he had nowhere to fall dead except his car and his small apartment. So she told him no, to forget her forever, and Lucas left sad and resigned, remembering his psychologist's words about the strange feeling he had for the beautiful Adenaida:

- She is unattainable for you, Lucas, you must recover and forget her. That girl is…

Damn money," he discerned with rage before returning to his car.

He started his third-hand vehicle and drove into the car wash tunnel, not without first turning on the tantric and mysterious music that helped him relax and try to forget Marisa Adenaida once and for all; while those furry cylinders cleaning the car's bodywork hid him from true reality, he cried a little for his impossible love, but then he told himself: "What if I wish so incessantly that she falls in love with me even if I'm poor?" And so it was that after a few minutes immersed in his intense desire for love, the car finished its journey through the car wash tunnel and was expelled into the parking lot. Lucas opened his eyes and looked at his clothes. What had happened? He was wearing incredibly expensive clothes. His car was a 300,000 euro racing car!

The desire to be rich so that Adenaida would love him was fulfilled, so intensely did Lucas dream it that it became reality; finally, he would have Adenaida.

Now he was very rich, and he saw her taking a shopping cart to enter the hypermarket. Undoubtedly, with his new and distinguished position, she would want him, although there was a serious detail that would change everything. Adenaida was no longer rich or beautiful, but a poor and ordinary woman. Lucas Bloc surmised what had happened; undoubtedly, the tables had turned, not in the way he expected, and he felt curiosity for the now poor Adenaida who had so scorned him, yet he still loved her despite her despotic rejections; slowly he approached and half-whispering said:

- Hello, Adenaida. Do you remember me? Now I'm very rich. Will you love me now? I have crossed oceans of time to be here this way." Adenaida replied:

- But you're so annoying! Since I've known you, you've always been rich, and I've always told you no… Ten minutes ago you appeared trying to dazzle me with your clothes and your car, how tiresome you are, rich man. Do you think that by washing your car in my presence I'll go with you? Even if you were poor like me, I wouldn't want you… Goodbye…

- But what are you saying, Adenaida? Ten minutes ago I was poor and you said if I were rich… 

Or did I dream in the car wash that I was poor and she was rich?... How strange. Who am I really? A poor man who dreams of being rich or a rich man who dreams he was poor… Or is it the car wash tunnel that holds the mystery?"

Lucas did not give up and returned to the car wash tunnel with his new racing car. When the vehicle was hidden from third-party gazes, Lucas Bloc wished not to be rich and to return to his previous world; he wished it so intensely that he promised to give away what he possessed of his immense fortune for good causes, for without Marisa Adenaida, he no longer desired anything… When the car was expelled by the rollers of the washing machine, everyone present fell silent and surprised, for Lucas Bloc had disappeared; forever… 

The fact is that Marisa Adenaida also disappeared, and no one had ever known her. What had really happened? If it ever happened…

In a bowl of gold or clay; 

The source of water is no different; 

It doesn't matter what kind of mind; 

nor how rich or bitter it may be.

THE END

Story Author: Jorge Ofitas. ®.

Europe. 2018. ®. Europe. 2025. ®.

Drawing Author: Jorge Ofitas.

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