Laura sat around, first on the couch, then on the patio connected to the hotel room then she goes back inside to sat down on the bed but that only lasted for just a few minutes, she looked at the painting of herself, the one that has been said to have a "curse" on it. Then she sighs, gets up and paces around the room then she sat in a chair but she just becomes more noticeable nervous.

Just then the door opened, and in came Rob, Laura's husband. She jumped up with a nervous smile on her face then she asked,

"Where have you been?"

He closed the door behind him then he said, "I have tried to figure out the mystery of this..."

He points to the painting and made a movement in the air with his finger then said, "Painting that Sergi Carpetna painted and added his own special...touches."

Laura then said, "Oh Rob! To think that this painting causes..."

He turned to her then said, "Oh honey, you don't really think..."

She then said, "I don't know what to think but, what did you find out?"

He nervously walked around then coughed then said,

"Well...um, the person that Sergei sold it to, the man who I...'encouraged' Sergei to sell it to, um; died 6 months after he purchased it..."

She interrupted him, "Oh, Rob!"

He puts his hands gently on her shoulder and arm then said, "Honey, calm down..."

He then turned to go walking back around the room then said, "Well, the family didn't think anything of it because the man was in poor health anyway, from what I read, the family doctor advised him coming to America but he went anyway, and you know the rest. Anyway, after he died, the painting went around to various members of the family and, um, well; those members would die uh, like 6 months, a year or even two after they inherited the painting then, haha, knowing how superstitious; they put the people dying with the painting so.."

Seeing how nervous his wife seemed to be getting, he sat her down on the couch, rubbed the sides of her arms then laughed then went on then said, "They sold the painting but uh, well, one man had a heart attack the moment he stepped in his house with the painting."

Laura's face only fell more and more as he talked then he said, "Then it finally got into the hand's of Mister Silva's family and uh, as you know, like he said; his nephew died but I think , haha, the curse is over !"

Laura's arms fly out by her side then asked in a really agitated voice, " And how do you know that?"

Rob does a tap dance then throws out his arms then said, "Because I'm here!"

Frustrated, Laura said, "Then how do you explain all that?"

Rob runs his hand over his hair then said, "Laura, are you saying you believe this?"

Laura shook her head then said, "I don't know Rob but it's an awful lot of strange things, I would just be comfortable if we could so something to get rid of this ...'curse'."

Frustrated with all of this, he asked, "Like what?"

She looked around the room then said, "I don't know, like a curse doctor?"

He laughed then said, "A curse doctor? " He laughed a little then he asked, "Are you sure?"

"Oh, Rob, please! Just to ease my mind!"

Rob went and sat down in a chair at the kitchen table in the room, then turned his head to look at Laura on the right of him and asked in an unbelievable voice,

"A curse doctor?"

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As the sun dips down in Brazil, Rob and Laura's hotel room door opened and in came Rob with Laura again, having the same worried look as she had that morning. Rob looked back behind him as if to see something or somebody, Laura rushed over to him and she asked,

"Did you find somebody Rob?"

He turned his head to look at his wife then said, "Yes, honey, I did. Um, I think you need to stand back."

Laura looked at him with a confused look but she stepped back as told then a woman came dancing/ twirling into the room. She is wearing a midnight black top hat and the dress she has on, the best that Laura can tell, it's of two different black material, a strip of black tulle material then a strip of black satin material, it goes on to the her feet. She has on a pair of black shoes with...chicken feet for the heels? Laura blinked her eyes in disbelief but that is what she sees.

The woman twirls and twirls around then she finally stopped in front of Laura and Rob then he gave a fake smile then said, "Honey, this is Senora Atiena, she's going to help get rid of the curse for us."

Laura then gave one of her nervous, fake smiles then stuck her hand out for Senora Ateina to shake but Madame Ateina only shook her head firmly then said in broken English,

"No...where is curse?"

At that same time, both Rob and Laura point to the painting that's hidden underneath a brown blanket with fringes on the side. Madame Atiena pulls her arm out into the arm holes of the black dress and she had in her hands, things that looked like Mexican canasta then she walked over, stood in front, clicked the canasta then she closed her eyes then some words that she spoke in native Portuguese that Rob and Laura do no understand at all but something that shakes them to their very core.

She then pulls something out from the pocket, something that is in a clear box . Laura tries to look at it from the distance she is at and Senora Ateina took it out , it seemed to be a chicken heart then she said some words as she raised the heart to the ceiling then she bought it down to her mouth and ate it. Laura and Rob make a face then the sound, "Ugh" comes from them.

She said a few more words in her native tounge to remove the curse then finally she walked over to Rob and Laura then said, "Curse is gone."

Rob then gave a sincere smile and he reached for his wallet inside of his jacket. He gave her some money then Senora Ateina nodded her head then silently left the room, leaving an air of mystery just as she did when she came in.

Rob went over and closed the door then he walked back over to his wife then cleared his throat then asked, "Do you feel better my love?"

She smiled then reached out and touched his hands then said, "I do and thank you..."

She reached up and kissed him on the cheek then said in a most tender, loving voice,

"I know you don't think very much of all this..."

She points to the painting then said,

"Curse business but you did it just to ease me. You are the greatest husband."

This time she reached up and gave him a nice, full kiss on the lips. He put a funny, evil look on his face, moved his eye brows up and down then put his hands on her back and held her down and kissed her then when he let her go and she stood up laughing, she said after catching her breath,

"We got rid of the curse, but..."

She walked over to the painting then she said,

"We are still stuck with what to do with this painting Rob."

He stood back, put one hand on the right arm and chewed on his right thumbnail and looked at the picture perplexed.