Chapter VI Squealing chicken drizzled with gravy

City life

For Angeline, the city with its diversity gave the image she had of her father more liveliness, near her hotel she had a nursing home from which older people always left, the bearing of some of them always reminded her of that rude man who had loved.

The nursing home also with its inner courtyard garden, with two varieties of roses, had the novelty of emitting a delicate fragrance to the environment. This made her feel transported to the island where her garden-loving father tended daily the roses in the garden of her mother's house.

All this, allowed her to forget at times that she was in a big city, in which for her to identify with the rest of the environment was in some cases very difficult to digest.

(end of five minutes)

Resetting life

Mindy was now being presented with an outrageous situation for her like having met her half-sister, Angeline. Until then, she had felt like the only daughter that had always been of her father and mother.

This despite her impact and the bad taste that she had when she received the news, her displeasure began to dissolve since Angeline gave the impression of being a very accessible woman which began to inspire confidence in her. Despite this, she always remembered her mother's advice, which always alerted her that she should never be taken by the first impression a person gave her, that he had to wait a while to get to know her better.

Even Angeline had not completely passed the little tests that she had subtly been doing to her. However, she was confident that they would both overcome the small differences and could better determine the mysteries of the legacy that their father might have left them both.

For this reason, she realized that her understanding had shaken with force and the values to which she clung had been changed, saddened by the loneliness of having neither her father nor her mother to help her in her complicated situation. Her thoughts led her to meditate on the fact that she had to readjust her life.

Job offer

Angeline, when she woke up the next day, realized that the money she had brought with her was rapidly diminishing, so it was urgent for her to get a job that would help her maintain her stay in the city, to obtain the information regarding the last days of his father, she did not want to force situations since, being such a delicate subject, she wanted the information that her sister gave him to flow in the best way.

As that put her against the sword and the wall, she had no other choice but to propose to find a job, first she thought of talking to the manager of the hotel, but she did not finally approve of this idea, it represented a showing that she was there in a weak position since they could lose respect for her. So excited with the idea she decided to go outside to see in the surroundings if someone was requesting workers. After going through several places, the local bakery, the pharmacy, a used car sale, a hairdresser, despite the fact that everyone received her kindly and understood her need, they told her only to leave her resume and that they could soon get call. Back at the hotel at noon, she passed the nursing home, there a sign hanging on the entrance portal asking for support staff.

Determined, she entered there and asked for the head of human resources, an elderly woman attended to her, received her resume and began to question her, she with aplomb answering each of the issues that she raised. Without further ado, at the end of the interview time, the woman told her that she was going to accept her on a trial period, having to present at the following day.

Angeline was glad, it was not her first job, she had already worked in various places on the island, but never in a nursing home, despite that she was not afraid to take on this new challenge since she had the feeling that everything was fine.

Upon returning to the hotel after being busy that morning, she remembered the object of why she was there, so she called her half sister Mindy, it was already noon and she knew that she could attend to her since she would be in her hour of rest. At the first attempt of the call the tone gave her as if his sister's phone was disconnected, so when she made several unsuccessful attempts she decided to postpone the call.

So she approached the hotel reception, asked for the key to her room to rest for a while, change her clothes and then go down to lunch. In her room he turned on the television, at that moment the local newscast announced that the arrival of a tropical storm was expected, so they advised the population to protect themselves. On television they also showed the images of what had been the last storm that had hit the city. With that bad news I select a channel where they broadcast concert music. The room was filled with the soft sounds and in that an opera singer declaimed the beauty of life. Hearing those melodies, she felt her spirit renew and dispose her to better things. She finish getting ready to go to the restaurant since that day I did not want to cook anything but eat even a simple dish.

Dessert

Going down the stairs and entering the restaurant his gaze instinctively searched for the table where he had sat the first time, only this time a man was occupying it. She got a little annoyed with it, but settled down to sit at a nearby table. He placed the order, of squealing chicken drizzled with gravy, chips and soda. The waiter after five minutes brought her a full plate to nourish an elephant, she felt that she could not handle it, but she began to eat. The dish really tasted like glory, she felt the time that she had not eaten something so special, not realizing that time was passing quickly, she ate everything.

The man as a whole gentleman watched silently, he was also alone in that city dedicated to his business so he was used to traveling around the country, even so the stranger who entered the hotel restaurant that day caught his attention and with her island accent internally gave him some satisfaction. Realizing that she had finished eating, he said aloud:

"Miss, i can see that you have a good appetite, so I would like you accept my invitation for a coffee and a portion of apple pie from the house"

When she finished and got up, she approached the man's table to thank him.

"Thanks for inviting me, my name is Angeline"

He replied:

"My name is Peter, but not Peter the Apostle, I am a simple man with a big heart, seeing you with your island accent has moved my insides"

Laughing, she felt that so many compliments she did not deserve, she had already gone through the breakup of her marriage that the mere fact of thinking about a new relationship confused her a little, so she only had to say:

"His words praise me, only now I must leave, it will be another time, maybe we will meet again"

That said, they said goodbye until next time.

(the story continues)

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