There
once, in a small country, a girl who could not be happier. April had the love of his mother. Serena lived for his young daughter. He worked as a waitress in a bar in the mornings and afternoons as a dry cleaning ironing quickly. Legs felt heavy at the end of the day. When you get home and meet his daughter's face always a smile brimming. Gone were the twelve hours of almost continuous work eating a sandwich on the bus while going from one job to another. Mother and daughter
dined together, there were things relating to school and work. Rarely laughed. Long ago they agreed, without knowing it, not to mention the death of Serena's husband, father of April. Mauricio paid
account of the dinner, he rose from the table and politely, to go out, greeted the rest of parishioners who remained in the restaurant. Before boarding his Ford Fairlane, silver-gray checked his watch. He thought it would come in less than an hour a motel for the night and would phone his wife and daughter, seen in the dashboard of the car, the diminutive photographs of his two loves on the usual lineup of "Papa Do not run, I hope ‖. He smiled. Turned on the radio. April
lived in a permanent sadness, did not understand the absence of his father. How can assume its nine years? His glum brought him problems at school. Its traveling companions, not share the point of games with it. Back-To
Princess ‖ were the last words he heard from his father. Mauricio never returned. He felt guilty, on the morning of the accident was asked to take her to school, causing it to be delayed at the start of your route.
"News Release. ‖ Events
A man died last night after being run over the car he was traveling by a train at a level crossing on the way Del Mar. The Provincial Fire Consortium has received notice at 20:55 pm and has mobilized 18 soldiers four vehicles in the parks of Medina, Sauces and Central. The car was dragged several hundred yards until the train has stopped. Firefighters had to extract the victim's body inside the tangle of twisted metal in which the vehicle was. The accident occurred at the level crossing Y577A, located about six miles from Medina towards Sauces. Police are investigating the reasons why the barriers were low.
At press time he was testifying before the judge investigating Mr. causes the gatekeeper. Mr. Carlos Gutierrez.
- Hello my love! give him a big hug and a kiss to his mother, "Serena said, kneeling down to be level with your daughter.
- Have you been crying, Mom?
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Yes - What happened?
- I left a job at the bar.
- Why?
- You know the princess, the head continues to insist that we will live with it. That is love. I agree that if left to his wife and a load of nonsense more. Constantly pushing me, do not let me work in peace, I get very nervous, but today I could not resist, I said goodbye. I do not know how we're going to fix.
- Do not worry Mom, Dad is going to help, "said April as she stroked the head of his mother staring at the sky. - Look what I have, he said pointing to two small pieces of colored paper which rested on the table.
- What is it? April.
"Today at school we were given tickets to the circus.
The following Friday, mother and daughter were sitting in a box in front row of the "Great Circus
Star ‖. April
held her breath to see evidence of the dangerous tightrope walkers, was thrilled with trained elephants are scared of lions and wild bears, the breath held out during the flight of human cannonball, enjoyed the jugglers. But above all, be recreated with the performance of Achoo-happy clown. ‖ All the lights went out, only a reflector focusing the output of artists. The repeated rattle of drums put stress on the environment, surprisingly, on the other hand, appeared Achish turning into a bubble of iridescent color. With a furious pace bubbles followed one after another, like a string of bubbles.
The clown drawing a circle with something like a wand and simultaneously establishing a new bubble of a new color and a twist, keeping within the same Achoo. Cancelling
, mother and daughter went to eat pizza, a dinner in silence, in the heart of both the memory of last year watching the circus with Mauricio sitting between the two.
In the turret blew hard on the caller, the clock said 18:00. Carlos Gutierrez, in charge of the barrier level crossing semiautomatic Y577A in a little branch railway journey South, asked who is from the upper window and brought up his three friends. The evening was calm, low wind does not move or a blade and visibility perfect. No waiting for the passage of any train until the 20:52 express. They played pocker, a game and another and another. Drank coffee. Someone took out of his coat a flask of whiskey that he loved coffee, another man also put his suitcase on the table, a pair of hands after the third did the same.
When coffee was over only drank whiskey.
at 20:52 pm sharp, the birds flew away frightened by the collision. April
In the night he woke up confused, he dreamed that a bubble of iridescent color oily texture and bounced at the foot of his bed. He had only a turn of his hand to the shape of the bubble inside to vanish leaving the figure jumping to the foot of the bed of the girl, who opened his eyes wide.
- Do you recognize me?
- Achoo?
- Salud!
- not funny.
- I know.
- What are you doing here?
- Shhhhhh-clown crossed his lips with his index finger, looking overly-come everywhere to meet a mission, he said, taking a look under the bed.
- A mission?
- Dear child, the clown existed since time immemorial ...
- What does immemorial? "Broke in April.
- ... is something like ... like ... almost always. An ancestor of my ancestors, and acted in a Pharaoh's court a little over 2500 years, other relatives acted in the Court of China. Throughout history most cultures have had clowns. When Cortez conquered land of the Aztecs, the Court found that Montezuma had buffoons like Europeans. These clowns had a important social and religious role in the life of the tribe and in some cases were considered able to cure certain diseases, especially of the soul, when it hurts inside, in the chest. And you, princess, you have these symptoms. During this function all the time later regretted the absence of a person.
- Lees thought?
- No, April, part of magic is also interpreting the girls look sad, "said Achoo, while he made a gesture of apology. Cone another swift turn of his hand drew a bubble trapping the child inside.
- Achoo How do you do?
"I've already explained, is an ancient magic, in this case helped me with a piece of the rainbow.
- Achoo I can do? Please! Please!
"Okay, we can try.
- Biennnnnnn!
"Here, Princess, take this.
"But if it's just a piece of chalk," said April, incredulous
-Ay - sighed the Clown "In the world of magic, dear friend, saved forms otherwise apparent. The essence that can only be seen by a select few. You have in your hands a piece of primordial rainbow, with whom he can get bubbles or whatever your heart desires. Just enough that you're convinced.
- Achoo How?, How? Guide
-hand with the heart, combines the desire in mind and this is very important: it shows the color.
was Sunday. April woke up late, thinking about the dream he had with the happy clown. While dressing found on his bedside table a piece of rainbow-shaped chalk, smiled, after a long time his soul was lit. He put the chalk in a box along with photos of his father, with her and her mother, also with his car and various press cuttings relating to the accident.
The girl was walking to her school with the chest held between his hands, entered through a skylight that led to the basement. Once deposited in its class on the table the hood of the breast, carefully wiped the slate up to leave as a whistle. So she spread the photos of his father, car and all the clippings on the desktop. His heart beat fast. When he was surely took the piece of the rainbow and started drawing. First a country road after the railroad tracks. Turret continued with keeper on the door of the same plate with the number Y577A. Photographs were helped to delineate the Ford Fairlane his father for color, consummated a real mental effort to see the silver gray stored in its memory.
The gated clock set at 20:41 hours. Completed the picture by drawing a train on the horizon. In front of the car, a closed barrier. Jorge V.
