CHAPTER 13

Nathan came home floating...

He had picked up Alien, at Rose's house, the girl spent the whole way telling Nathan about her afternoon and night with Jack and the Coulter couple. Nathan fell on the couch after Alien went up to his room.

"What was it that she said?" Tomorrow I need to ask Alien, how was your afternoon with the Coulters... Nathan spoke to himself.

"Will it always be like this?" Uncle Nathan, you're weirder than you've ever been. Alien, he said at the bottom of the stairs with his hands on his hips.

Nathan, blinked not knowing what to say. He gave her his most beautiful crooked smile, making Alien's heart swell with love... It was all she ever wanted; seeing her uncle so happy was gratifying. Even though he became a fool, but he was a fool in love, Alien laughed at the thought.

Nathan opened his arms and Alien skipped down the stairs and snuggled there. Her uncle exuded happiness and she wanted to feel a little bit of that with him.

— Uncle Nathan, are you very happy or is it my impression? How was your date? She liked?

— Alien, my daughter. I am the happiest man on the face of the earth. I only experienced this happiness when I welcomed you into my life. And now with Elizabeth and little Jack, I've fulfilled myself as a man. I have a wonderful family now, my daughter. And you and little Jack is the perfect complement for me and Elizabeth. Nathan told everything about their date. Alien could hear the emotion in his uncle's voice, it was visible on his face. Alien in her fifteen years, but her uncle still spoke to her, as if she were a child. Just looking at his uncle, his silly smile and that twinkle in his eyes, you could tell from afar that he had kissed Elizabeth and that they were great kisses. His uncle was in love... Alien looking into his eyes, said well it would be:

— Uncle Nathan! Won't you tell me how the kisses went?

And laughed at his uncle's expression. He was as red as a bell pepper...

— You don't have to say anything, Uncle Nathan; your looks and your smile already told me that the kisses were good.

He lowered his head and spoke softly:

- Good! That's beyond great; she wins the golden trophy without needing any effort. And running her hands through her hair, she rolled her eyes.

Alien laughed a lot, knew his uncle very well, even though he dated a few times, he never expressed his feelings like now. Twice, she even thought, he would eventually marry that woman, but one day he discovered that fana, a daughter of mountie, who he was dating, didn't want to have someone else's children to raise. Uncle Nathan, unaware that she always scared Alien, saying that she was going abroad to study at a boarding school, but that ended one particular afternoon, when Uncle Nathan arrived early, and caught her harassing Alien. Nathan, very angry, ended that relationship and Alien never saw that woman again. Today she was very happy, at the beginning in Hope Valle, I was running from the love, which I was already feeling for Elizabeth, it ended up being unfair and hurt her, when one night she called him to dinner at her house, because she needed to talk and make decisions about Alien; At the time he accused her of being a widow chasing opportunity with a single man. Didn't he know, that when talking to Rose, about being inconvenient to talk to a father during dinner, Rose herself, said that she would have no problem, when meeting with him at dinner, after all her son Jack was sick, and Alien would be at dinner. After all, everyone needed dinner and that way they could make decisions about the new student, something they should do in a very short time, if they didn't, that girl would stay out of school until next year, her uncle left dinner without letting her even if explain. Alien remembered very well, seeing his teacher, in the following days; she had something in her eyes, her smile had also lost its color, she was disappointed and embarrassed, whenever I saw her near the police station she always deviated from her route, and as for me... She no longer looked me in the eyes, always treated me well, but she didn't look me in the eye anymore, always with her head down. She did everything for me, she fought for almost fifteen days, supporting me during the entire period, until I was accepted after the test. I remember the day Mr. Landy yelled at her inside the school in front of everyone; he had arrived in the city, and went straight to the school, he was the secretary of education and he made it clear, that he did not approve of her conduct, for letting a child start studying in the middle of the school year, that if her father had a job of the who was always traveling should send her to boarding school or change professions; but she also screamed and defended Nathan and his job as a mountie which could take him anywhere in the country he was transferred to, and she defended me, spoke of my drive and my intelligence. When I told everything to Uncle Nathan that same day, he looked for Lee and talking to him, he found out about the misunderstanding. And that's how Uncle Nathan realized how unfair he had been to her. Lee said that both he and Rose knew about the dinner and even though Lee was on the board of education, he had never seen a teacher fight as hard for her students as she did. Besides, how could she have guessed that Alien would be having a sleepover at Opal's house that very day? Alien, saw for months, her uncle trying to approach her, but she no longer looked him in the eye, and whenever there were parent meetings, she spoke to him first, handed him an envelope with all my school life, letting everyone know , that mountie was very busy and needed to take care of all the security of the city, so for that reason he always released him first and quickly; Elizabeth did not exchange more than ten words with my uncle, everything else was in the envelope. The other parents never questioned anything. But Alien saw that heartache can hurt a person a lot. She saw her uncle repentant, as she saw her teacher hurt, and they both suffered for it.

At that time, if it weren't for Robert who called Alien, and together they hatched a plan to bring the two together. That boy was a real cupid. And so the friendship with Robert grew stronger.

Today to see that your uncle and your teacher were together and happy, it was wonderful...