Chapter 15 – You put it on me, you take it out
"see" Esmeralda said and showed me her hand "I am wearing the ring given to me by the man I love, I threw yours away" my wife said.
I just looked at her in shock…she threw our symbol of marriage away the ring I had given her, I remember I worked for four days at night..when she was sleeping so I could buy a ring. I was really poor back then, all I had was the furnished house King Leo has given me and my two hands that I used to work at night when she was aleep…..the rings have a lot of meaning for me. I just looked at the ring in my hand.
"give it" Esmeralda demanded.
I paused the Ipod and just looked at her and raised my eyebrow. "since you are moving on and don't care about me…give it" she said and held her hand out.
"since you put it on me, you take it out" I said and held my hand for her
"yes..makes sense" she said and touched my hand
"but I would just like you to know that the ring is stuck…I would have long taken it out but I have been wearing it for eight hundred years, so please take it out I hate it..it is stuck" I said. She just looked at me.
I smiled at her and pressed play on my Ipod. This song started…it matched this situation. I looked at it and it was called "que hisiste" by Jennifer Lopez. As the lyrics started I looked at Nathaniel and he just shook his head and smiled. Yeah he was happy…
Ayer los dos soñábamos con un mundo perfecto
Ayer a nuestros labios les sobraban las palabras
Porque en los ojos nos espiábamos el alma
Y la verdad no vacilaba en tu mirada
I just looked at my love as she tried to pull my ring, it really was stuck. This is what the first part of the song meant. "yesterday the two of us dreamed of a perfect world, yesterday our lips had many words because our eyes where the spies to our souls and the truth did not hide in your eyes" she looked at me and I smiled..she looked back at my ring finger..still trying to pull it.
Ayer nos prometimos conquistar el mundo entero
Ayer tú me juraste que este amor sería eterno
Por que una vez equivocarse es suficiente
Para aprender lo que es amar sinceramente
I looked at Nathaniel and he chuckled. "yesterday we promised each other that we would conquest the world together, yesterday you swore to me that this love will be eternal…because making a mistake is enough to learn what it is like to love sincerely"
[Chorus:]
Qué Hiciste? Hoy destruiste con tu orgullo la esperanza
Hoy empañaste con tu furia mi mirada
Borraste toda nuestra historia con tu rabia
Y confundiste tanto amor que te entregaba
Como permiso para así romperme el alma
"what have you done? Today you destroyed with your pride my hope and today you wet with your fury my eyes
You erased all our story with your hate and you mistook so much the love I gave you. With a licence to break my soul. What did you do? You made us destroy the mornings and our nights drowned in your words. My illusions ended with your arguments
You forgot that it was love what counted and with your hands you destroyed our house" that was the meaning and Esmeralda just looked at me, holding my hand…she knows Spanish perfectly.
"the ring Love..take it out" I said and glared at her, I never looked at her life this
She blinked and looked at me, her eyes soft and sad. She looked back at my hand.
Mañana que amanezca un dia nuevo en mi universo
Mañana no vere tu nombre escrito entre mis versos
No escuchare palabras de arrepentimiento
Ignorare sin pena tu remordimiento
Mañana olvidare que ayer yo fui tu fiel amante
Mañana ni siquiera habra razones para odiarte
Yo borrare todos tus sueños en mis sueños
Que el viento arrastre para siempre tus recuerdos
¿Que Hiciste? Hoy destruiste con tu orgullo la esperanza
Hoy empañaste con tu furia mi mirada
Borraste toda nuestra historia con tu rabia
Y confundiste tanto amor que te entregaba
Hoy no permito para ti romperme el alma
I just looked at her as she understood the message of ths song. The meaning of the next verses "Tomorrow a new day in my universe will come, Tomorrow I wont see your name written between my verses, I wont hear words of shame,I will ignore with joy your remorse, Tomorrow I will forget that yesterday I was your truthful lover, Tomorrow there will not even be reasons to hate you
I will erase all your dreams in my dreams, That the wind will carry forever your memories, What did you do? Today you destroyed with your pride the hope, Today you wet with your fury my eyes, You erased all our story with your hate and you mistook so much the love I gave you With a licence to break my soul"
"it does not come out…it is stuck" she finally said and looked up. A strand of her hair slipped and like always I reached to put it behind her ear but she moved back. She let go of my hand…and sat looking at the front of her chair, picked up the book from her lap.
My ring is not stuck…it can be taken out….
"I love you Nathaniel" she said, one of my ear plugs were off, handing down..the other in my ear. She knows I can hear this. "I love you like I have never loved"
¿Que Hiciste? Nos obligaste a destruir las madrugadas
Y nuestras noches las ahogaron tus palabras
Mis ilusiones acabaron con tus farzas
Se te olvido que era el amor lo que importaba
Y con tus manos derrumbaste nuestra casa
Meaning of the last part "What did you do? You made us destroy the mornings and our nights drowned in your words
My illusions ended with your arguments, You forgot that it was love what counted and with your hands you destroyed our house"
"I love you too, I have always loved you Esmeralda" I heard Nathaniel tell her, then I looked at them and they kissed.
I looked at my ring. It is not stuck…she did not take it out. I laughed…it was a sad laugh. I opened the eating table in front of Esmeralda's chair. They both looked at me. I twisted my ring, pulled it off. I read the inside of the ring "Esmeralda's forever" I said out loud and put the ring on the table in front of her.
I leaned back into my chair and whispered "no more".
I looked at my Ipod and the song "cry" by Rhianna started. I closed my eyes…blocking my tears from rolling down my face.
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