There are days when life gives you a break, be it a song, a meal, a short time in the sun or new socks The case is just going to laugh. And, in fact, each day we have the same amount of reasons to mourn or laugh, the result is not the circumstances, but what we decide to choose.
Marta has a pet is a turtle and a fish taken by living in a bowl in the kitchen, has no boyfriend, you have some other illness, her best friend is getting into drug problems , has a secret stalker sms and cut his hair alone although it is growing. Now the iPod is always with you everywhere and try to take it all with more philosophy, in fact, this evening, Monday October sun has decided two things: cut nails feet and learn to ride a bicycle.
Her mother has told him over lunch that the first thing and asked him to do last month, and that the latter is impossible because of their age, Marta remembers the phrase that had been on the agenda Primero: They knew it was impossible and they did. Even then, with the yogurt in your mouth, think that a point will have his mother if he could not succeed as a child.
At the gas station, Marta has to ask for help swell the wheels of an old bicycle that has dusted off the garage, in fact, once the boy is the end of swelling and clean hands as if to put the Earth back up, Martha spends her first time to shame: it looks, thanks him, and instead to ride the bike, bring it back up the road handlebar.
is true that under the street up, Martha was very discouraged because it is not the same to think something which starts to come to terms, and cycling is not the same as cutting the nails, but she continues to push the bike up the street.
His idea is clear, wants to reach the grassy esplanade was once the football field and now with the construction of sports, has been abandoned, there will not fear falling.
However, once there, watching the gentle slope down to the field, holding the heavy bike that it does not fall, Martha thinks that, as always, has committed a folly, I should be studying for or connected to Internet or waiting for the call Paul ... At that time, it's up behind someone and asks,
- you let me help you?
No, not Paul, is his mother. But Martha was almost more happy.
- What are you doing here?
- I do not know, I thought I never do anything together, and it is also true that much of the reason I know to go is because my small sobreprotegía you know everything I never wanted to prove.
- But I remember a test Ruedin red bicycle down the street from behind.
- It was not me. Was your aunt. And always when I was not noticed.
- Why?
- Well ... so. I guess because you were all I had and did not want anything to happen to you.
- Why did not you ever told?
- What, you sobreprotegía?
- No, they never wanted to learn cycling.
- Ah, well because as long as dragged them out to the track you just forget in five minutes ...
- Not today.
- No, I see.
- Mama.
- Dime.
- I would like, before ... you know ...
- Do not talk about it, Marta, please.
- No, listen. I'd like to ask some things before.
- I know where you're going, why your father?
- No, yes, that, you, of all things ...
- Okay, look, you're right. But let's make a deal if that is OK, a deal: do a test with the bike, you got me a question. Okay?
A bicycle, a mother and her daughter, someone spied a coyote from a hill, a sunset in October and many, many, many falls stained pants and shirt rolling green grass both laughing,
- Why did Daddy?
- It was another. A younger girl had met at work and left.
- What worked Daddy?
- was a doctor. Worked at the same hospital. Then he requested the move, and I left the house and a small bug that never cried.
- I did not cry?
- No, you had everyone freaked out, you rarely wept, in fact, baby baby, you spent the moments up watching everything around you without saying anything, watching everything and thinking; if you changed or, if you nursed well, but you already seemed to be aware that you needed not mourn.
- For most I've had enough.
- now, that I could no longer avoid. Come, another try. Does it hurt the blow?
- No.
downhill again, the green grass and Martha trying to pedal and screaming with fear and laughter while her mother pursues running to keep from falling off the bike. This time the journey is much longer, Marta screams of excitement as the legs loose and feel the speed of the wind in your face. But fall back, turns, bruises, shocks, laughs and the sun is hiding.
- How did you feel when you got my test?
Marta's mother looks at her holding both the heavy old bike on the hill.
- that I changed for you. That was the first. I passed a thousand times to me but none to you. Then I thought I could be wrong. Then when I talked with more specialists and confirmed me, I thought I would devote these years to make you the happiest girl in the world. But I soon realized that for a teenager is happy her mother would not have to be watching.
- That's a lie, Mother.
- Yes, well, you say that now. But you know it's true. In fact, a while ago that I love you say something that will make you very happy.
- Ah, yes.
- Yes, I do and I go, so you see that I have reason.
- What is it?
- Look, Turn around up there, half hidden, there is a guy who a while watching us. If I understand correctly, is the poor that I had to sew the stitches to his head because he threw a vase, am I right?
Marta turns looking to be seen watching and Paul gets up and starts down the hill:
- Mama, how you knew it was ...?
But his mother has moved away from there, happy and smiling with his eyes full of tears that only a mother can understand.
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