Chapter 1
on here anymore! Not feel the scent that had loomed for so many years in his memory. He expected to be accepted by the homeland by a profusion of smells.
Today is twenty years old when they left behind on his Lipari sailboat and moved away from the port of Marina Corta - leaving there his youth, family, friends and the pain of betrayal - the gusts of wind, unconscious, he carries the scent of orange blossoms. The flowers of bitter orange, in that season spread their scent and has since signed a pact between scent and memories. He felt the aroma whenever the mind back in time. It was the first of the disappointments that awaited him. Now only the smell of motor oil and heat it receives. It was not a welcome but a clear message of danger. "Be careful: There is no longer your Lipari" , but does not capture the information distracted by the operation of the ship. It 's always the same one always goes to Monte Rosa, then veers to starboard and go, elegant, fast, lay on the dock.
is allowed to go to the memories, pathetically romantic, landing at Lipari. One of the first time I went sailing in the same bay, crossed the steamer coming in, he had just read that sailboats have precedence over the motor, and the route went unconscious, to the collision. The ship roared his displeasure with three blasts on the siren, Lipari trembled, he stopped.
Then a sailor's Master's made a formal lecture, but forgave him.
Following the thread of memories can be found in front of the guy holding the sign VILLA HERMES is a complex of six houses in Eolian style: Artemide, Afrodite, Cressida, Demeter, Juno and Penelope. He had chosen the names given to the houses. Allows you to guide it back and to get up the formalities, the young man follows in the room with the bags and thrown them away with a tip. The view that awaits him is breathtaking: the open window overlooking the Civita, and all those places that they saw the star of a thousand adventures.
fatigue takes over. Leave your suitcases in a corner and closed the heavy tent by the blinding light of the window to defend the afternoon, stripped with urgency, even expected that the water gets warm soon. Insinuates itself into the cramped cab and under the jet begins to rub the skin cream to remove the sweat and fatigue of a long journey.
Naked and wet it throws on the bed in search of rest. Lying on the ancient bed of iron allows thoughts to analyze the situation. Forty years, successful man at the helm of a company that had created on its own, finds himself with many awards and personal satisfaction, but with no one to share them.
A movement caught his eye on the ceiling. A gecko, anchored to the ceiling inspects their hunting grounds. He remembers a lesson from Ms. Fraumeni, his old teacher: "geckos are the only reptiles with our own voice, that is an issue to which it is a hiss" .
"So you can talk?" asks "You know what am I doing here?" I know to explain why the urgency to reclaim a past that I thought I had buried forever? " The gecko does not respond, but begins on a path known only to him, because of rapid changes of direction, until it disappears over the cabinet. Follow movements with his eyes, ears accustomed to the nuances of every sound, sees the slight change of tone that has made the shuffling of the animal. The legs are little steps that send different sounds. Curiosity aroused in him the need for an explanation. Reluctantly gets up and turn the crooked wooden chair that was in a corner and estimated that it certainly will run some risk in the service, given the difference between the amount of his body and the thin bars of wood that make it up, climbs the animal to try and understand what has spurred this desire to know.
The green reptile looks at him straight in the eye, holding raised on two legs. Magnificent, proud and lofty, looking down the one side first, then the other. Looking in the eyes studied each other for a few moments, then with a quick click the gecko chooses to turn and disappear. Only at that point he realizes that there are dozens of papers on the cabinet and shuffled around, perhaps from the daily passage of Eco.
Yes, ch and decided it would be called Eco green roommate. It collects some, shake them together because the dust on the cabinet should not be a priority in the cleaning process.
The chair begins to complain about the overload suffered in creaks ominously, this does suddenly decide to terminate the inspection and get off with only part of the booty. The launch of the sheets on the bed, and goes to wash their dusty hands, makes some flapping over the bed, causing them to finish behind the pack.
"Eco do not you answered me! What am I doing here and who are these sheets?"
Continuing mentally talking to the gecko.
Back in the room. lies on the bed, she takes one. Rows and rows
penned with almost illegible handwriting and hasty cover each space.
lying on its side, to catch the blade with a sheet of light entering the tent, he began to decipher the writing.
god ladybugs. As I'm watching one now, who knows why the hate? Maybe they remind me of something.
This little ladybug, perfect, I do not remember how the story of the shot, it was a game between us kids, but I can think of. But now I remember why I hate them. HE had a shoulder shoulders. I looked at her. I see it now.
Red and black and moves in search of something, just like him. What are you looking at my body, because his hands touch me, I crawl on him. The wall is grainy, it hurts the contact with the stone, but he is pushing against the ancient stones of his house.
The ladybug swan on her shoulder, unaware of the fear that I'm trying. Perhaps when the crush that I'm trying to feel me against this wall? Crushed by the weight of this body. His body.
He is the best friend of my father. He is my neighbor. He is the father of my friend. HE is touching me everywhere and I repeat again that I do crazy, who can no longer resist, I must stop provoking him. It 's more than me. He has incredible strength. I never felt a force so the my body, he is the father of my friend, because it is pushing me against the wall and touches me, in fact I flays the skin with his rough and calloused hands?
crazy I do it? I have to think, I can not scream, in Clare's house, his wife can hear me. So? Now scream.
No. I solve alone.
"stop by, you're hurting me" "you make me crazy!" "Stop" "you're beautiful, you're beautiful" "Stop or I'll call my father" and his mouth I sealed my lips. With my hand grasps hair and use them as a hook to get me head down. It sucks his mouth, his tongue trying to open my lips. Now I do? I feel his hand squeezing her breast and then gets out and tries to open the button of his shorts.
I understand! I want to rape! HE wants to rape me! From the right ... What do I do? I can not push it away, is too strong. I hurt something in my back, maybe an iron check us and he crushes. I broke a nail, I broke a nail on his shoulders to push him away and you have not noticed anything. Reasons by reasons. Keeps telling me that I do go crazy, that I want.
Here, his hand. I open her fingers, why? Why him? Why me?
"You're hurting me Stop it" "You're just a bitch! And how many you have already taken?? My do not like? "From Franco stop, do not say to my father, but shut up" "a whore tease me every day, and now you'll see that the cease provoking" "okay now scream" do not cry but .
's so, I just realized: HE wants me and he wants my body. I like me. I like me a man, a great deal. He likes my body, even crazy about my body. God that hurt his fingers inside. I've decided. I try. "Okay Franco" "All right thing" and stops. It works! "Okay I do" "Have a bitch now you prendimelo" I slowly slips off the fingers from the inside, centimeter by centimeter, stench, and sweating. He caresses the shiny hands of my moods. I rubbed them in face, slips between your lips, I feel my taste. It 's strange, sour and sweet. Loosen the drive towards the wall, I can move from that few dare that I enter in the back. He still keeps me by the hair and with the other hand fiddles with his pants. Pulling me down, it hurts me, pulling my hair until I lean. Are bent and he was the member in his hand. "Come on bitch" pressed me on the lips. "Take it in your mouth, bitch," "How did you get in the mouth?? bitch open your mouth. " stinks, smell acid! I open my mouth, hit me with sticks it all in my throat, I have a retching, but he used my head and begins to pull and push against with your hands in your throat, I get acid in my throat.
lift up my eyes, he is looking at me. I look at him in the bottom of the eyes, the look inside, while continuing his rough dance, I look at it in the heart, is crazy, "God, I like you, you're beautiful and nasty, you're a beautiful bitch" and look at the soul .
HE is mine! He is in my power. It is I who command! I can control. I look at him and he understands! I look at him telling him, screaming with her eyes "It is I who command then bite with all the strength I have. HE screaming mad but I do not give up. Cane. Are you a dog. Men are dogs. Now you are no longer so strong. Now I am strong. Now I enjoy my dog. Screaming They pulled my hair to break away but I do not give up, I want to truncate. Then comes. A slap, me tremendous shakes his head and I let go. He draws back and I feel a strange taste in mouth. Blood. Then another slap, throw me to the ground. I take for my hair and bangs his head on the ground leaves.
Go, Dog. While I take off the end gravel bleeding from the face I see. Red and black and moves in search of something, the ladybug that was on the shoulder. The going on with the index and the miro crush, crushes. You have not done anything to help me bitch!
a man, he, I will.
labored to sleep that night, even for a moment I thought to tell someone, but I fell asleep smiling, men are just dogs, but I realized that I'm stronger than them and the dogs I know we do.
kidnaps him the story and totally not aware of having an erection. Carefully review trying to understand the essence of the author. He asks why someone should write a story so private and then walk away or hide in the room of a pension. He puts on his back, while a hand hold of the life partner trying to appease and distract him, as the demand for pampering which makes its presence felt, with the other holds the paper begins to analyze it and raised ... sentence by sentence.
must surely be young, maybe fifteen or sixteen, and he?
He was a friend of his father, therefore, certainly spent forty-five years. A my age or so. I do not ever
imporrei a girl, or maybe you?
He had never thought of or had ever been attracted to a girl. What power this girl had to lose his head for a man to the point of urging him to do too much action?
I wonder if the story was true or was part of a fantasy tale. The girl had not screamed, strange, something not quite right.
The first thing anyone would do in a situation like that, it would have been screaming, especially knowing that his wife was at home. Then, as the reason for this strange behavior. Maybe she was attracted man, or perhaps make the patient had played the game and then got out of hand, so he felt guilty for having whetted the appetites of a man older than her.
Or was it the fear and the shame of being in a situation like that!?!
could see his fingers clutching the girl's hair and forced her to bend down, and this gave him a drive. He had never been excited by violence, but the image of those rough hands through his hair and mouth fresh and innocent that he was compelled to endure the violation of a foul old man, who was not so old then, had more or less his age, brings out a strange pleasure.
He was torn between revulsion and empathy.
knocked on the door and it made him wince, like a child caught doing something forbidden.
"Dinner will be served between half an hour!" "Thank You" responds angrily to interrupt the running of his thoughts. It collects the papers, storing them in the nightstand drawer. He dresses and leaves reluctantly leaving behind the camera and the questions that the reading of the script had aroused.
blossom perfume or scent of eggplant and peppers, celery married in a triumph of the caponata, or smell of the tuna mixture to pasta with garlic, parsley, basil, capers, olives white salt, pine nuts and raisins, and still "Muddica atturrata" , with a little oil, and "cunsata" with oregano, garlic, parsley, salt and pepper and a little 'anchovy, which dusted off the layers.
A triumph of perfume pervades the hall and immediately pays the travel and tiredness.
The mysterious protagonist of the story is relegated to a room where these scents could not, for now, still to come.