After that party in 1978 she became friends with him, ‘the love of her life’, how she called him in her head. They spent the whole year writing letter to each other and on the phone. They couldn’t wait for the next summer to see each other again. She didn’t understand why he wouldn’t ask her to be his girlfriend, she thought he liked her, but maybe he didn’t like her the same way. She was happy with his friendship and his flirting. And another summer came and went and she was so happy, their friendship grew. His cousin told her he just talked about her and didn’t understand why he didn’t ask her to be his girlfriend. The letters and phone calls came all year round.
Than this new boy came to her school, and she thought he was cute, and she started flirting with him and on her sweet 15 birthday party ( yes in Brazil they celebrate sweet 15 and not 16) this boy from her school asked her to be his girlfriend, which she accepted as she thought that the ‘love of her life’ just wanted to be friends and she need to have a boyfriend as well, all her friends had boyfriends. She liked him but she wouldn’t understand why he wanted to tell her what to do and who she could talk to. She didn’t like that she wanted to be free, she wasn’t doing anything wrong. When finally came summer and the ‘the love of her life’ arrived back from Rio she was divided. She wanted him, but she wanted to have her boyfriend as well and he didn’t want her to speak to him. She felt furious because they were friends and she spoke to him anyway, so her boyfriend gather some other boys to beat the ‘love of her life’ in a party, which upset her very much. The next day she tried to apologise but his mum didn’t let her speak to him and she was devastated. To make it even worse her boyfriend split up with her just a few days after Christmas, but she wasn’t relived she was sad because she liked him, but he was very possessive and she felt like a bird that couldn’t fly because he put her in a bird cage….. She new she could fly, not only in her imagination.
Just before the carnaval and a few weeks after the break up the ‘love of her life’ got the courage and kind of ask her to be his girlfriend, and they sealed it with a kiss! And now she was flying…..
Later on in life, when she was was about to become 40 in 2004, she was once again starting her life. And she ask her friends help because she needed a job, she was working as a bar maid in Mayfair. Where nobody believe that she was 40, but she was in a bad place, things went wrong for her and she needed to get something better. Than one of her friends, his name was Arthur, phoned her and told that he had send her CV to all his contacts and one of his friends from the cricket club or something had responded to his email and that he wanted to contact her because he needed a PA. She worried about the fact that she never have been a PA, but if it is to do things on the computer she was up for it because she knew how to teach herself new things, and she loved new challenges. So she asked advise from Arthur what to do and he said that he wouldn’t be bother with that otherwise he wouldn’t had got in touch. Later that day he phoned her, and the sound of his voice made every hair on the surface of her skin to stand up. She froze like in 1978, she felt that she could fly again! They arrange for an interview. He knew she was a makeup artist. And that’s how she met Fred, ‘the sex on legs of her life’, now she knew what was those feelings that boiled her blood. On the day of the interview she was nervous, not because of the interview, but because she was going to meet the owner of ‘that’ voice and that she was going to listen to it again.
To say the least, that was a very intense interview, so many things going on head at that point. In the end he said he would tell her in 2 days his decision. But if he didn’t phone that she could phone to find out the answer, as he’s was swamped with things to do. The next day, she was on her break in the pub when her phone rang, and it was him asking her when she was available to start. They arrange for 4 weeks but she got the sack from the pub, and on the following week she was going to started working for him.
The attraction was bad. She kept her head down, and try not to look at him much. He was always going out. She needed distraction, so she went back to the date site where she made friends with Arthur and met Dan. They hit it off and started going out. She told Fred about it. He seemed happy for her, but by than she was doing very little hours for him, and she decided that this time she wasn’t going to fly together with her imagination and she accepted to stay with Dan and even be a bit inside a bird cage, he would never look at her the same way she saw him. Time passed and 10 years later she flew again, a short flight, but an amazing flight, and dip down she knows that he enjoyed the flight, but destiny doesn’t want them together!
