Cracks

19.2 Rosa De la Cruz

Winter 1998, caravan park

While Eva poured some coffee, Rosa picked up Luca to feed him. She had some trouble to discuss with her friend.

"Really, I don't know what to do! Since he'll start touring only from late April, he actually said he would like to come this time!", Rosa said.

"That's a nice thing!", Eva replied from the kitchen. "You always wanted him to join here, too!"

But now everything changed, just because her friends didn't understand her!

"Not if that stupid Mae is there, too!", Rosa cried. "Can't you just uninvite her?"

Eva sat down with two cups in her hands. "Uh... of course not!", she said. "That's really rude. Also I actually want her to be there."

That's exactly what Rosa had feared.

"...more than your best friend?", she asked.

She felt like she had to cry. She hadn't found any excuse to tell her husband why he shouldn't come, and now it seems she couldn't avoid that stupid slut to be there either.

"Don't be ridiculous!", Rosa saw how Eva lost her patience. "You wouldn't refuse to go to your best friend's wedding because of your stupid fixation, no?"

Rosa felt a head ache coming up.

She sighed.

Why couldn't her friends understand her?

"Nothing will happen!", Eva continued. At least she seemed to have found her good mood back.

Rosa wasn't fully convinced, but maybe Eva was right.

And after all, she was there too, so she could take care that nothing would happen.