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March 19, 2018
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Heart of Iron: Andrea - part 4 (Bad Boy Romance) (Beyond the flesh) - Chapter 1
Flap in the head
Uuuh uuuh…
With your feet
in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick
and spin it, yeah
Your head will
collapse
But there’s
nothing in it
And you’ll ask
yourself…
Where is my
mind?
Andrea
doesn’t have his feet in the air and his head cracked open on the ground, but
he wonders where is my mind while
looking out of the window of Count Dorian Agency’s black car.
It’s
past midnight, but the night hasn’t yet begun for he and Maicol.
With
The Pixies on his iPod, singing about a psycho-emotive confusion like his, he
touches his leg, brushing the, now familiar, Versace fabric; warm honey, gray
trousers brush his skin like the hands of an attentive lover.
As
Susanna had been…
At
least, so he had thought, before she dumped him on New Year’s Eve. Then he realized
that even love can be faked. It just takes one of the two to be lost in the
other and it’s done.
After
spending the whole of January cursing himself and February beating himself up,
a strange apathy has taken over in March. One reason could be that the sky has been
gray ever since Ian left at the beginning of the month.
Thanks
to Ian, family, and his new friends at the agency, Andrea hasn’t got into any
particular messes and has concentrated on study and work. But he no longer
feels like doing anything unless really necessary. He eats and sleeps, studies
and works, because he has to.
Everything
seems to have lost its appeal. But Ian has said that it’s just a phase.
It’s
like when you take down the decorations at the end of the Christmas holidays. The
house suddenly looks bare and sad. “In reality, it’s just returned to normal.
It was the lights and colors that made it festive,” Ian explained. “And your
days will come back too. You just have to give yourself time and find your
balance again.”
Andrea
is repeating it to himself again when his phone vibrates. He pulls it from the
back pocket of his tight trousers with elastic around the ankles. They look
like pajamas, but are in fashion. But he’s puzzled by the suspenders that he
was obliged to wear over his white top. More than thirty people at the agency
have already pulled them; unfortunately, the flap against his chest appears to be an offering that all those who
see him are happy to leave.
He
sees Ian’s photo flashing. In the picture, Ian’s wearing a black fleece, hood
down, and is smiling spontaneously, captured leaving a movie theatre on one of
their nights out.
Andrea
quickly takes off his headphones and answers the video call. Another world,
full of lights and sounds, appears in the palm of his hand.
“Hi
Ian!” he shouts with a sudden burst of good humor, holding the smartphone up
for the camera. “How-”
Ian
coughs and gestures him to wait as the city’s car horns and people’s voices
echo around.
Judging
by the wind blowing Ian’s hair flat, as though on a motorbike and with no
helmet, it must be freezing cold in New York. His scarf is still around his
neck, but he’s wearing it out of etiquette rather than as someone who has
caught bronchitis and should be resting.
Andrea
clenches his jaw, worried again, as Maicol slides along the car seat to get
closer and then shakes his head.
“He
doesn’t seem any better,” mutters Maicol, looking at the screen.
“No…”
says Andrea.
“How’s
it going lads?” asks Ian with a hoarse voice and hand to his throat, so pale that
he stands out more than the lights behind him. The unmistakable Times Square, the
Manhattan intersection famous all around the world for its bright billboards, dazzles
and reverberates the kaleidoscopic glares inside the cars.
“How
are you?” asks Andrea. “Are you taking the antibiotics? And the syrup?”
Walking
quickly, Ian lifts his eyes to the night sky and nods, as the enormous Disney
Store sign turns his skin yellow.
“So
why do you still have so much catarrh?”
Ian
shrugs. “You don’t get better just like that,” he replies, raising his
eyebrows.
Andrea
gets the subtle hint. “Take your medicine and
wrap up more!”
“Ok
future doctor. Anything else?” Ian smiles, as the blue Forever 21 sign goes by
and then makes way for the crystalline Swarovsky.
“The
same thing I’ve been telling you for a week: stay in bed and relax for a few days.”
Ian
shakes his head. “That’s one of the few luxuries that I can’t afford,” he jokes,
and then stops still, attacked by another coughing bout.
Christian’s
blonde head suddenly appears in the screen, his deep blue gaze piercing even
from afar.
Why do I piss him off so much? Andrea wonders every time that
Christian gives him such a bad look.
Chris
is one of Ian’s three secretaries, responsible for the United States just as
Marta is for Europe. Andrea met him for the first time when he went to sign his
contract at the agency, and is glad to be Italian every time that he sees him.
He must have offended him in another life since he just can’t understand his
barely hidden bitterness towards him.
Ian
moves his head away a little, looking down to the side, visibly uncomfortable,
as Christian adjusts his scarf. Then Christian whispers something and Ian nods.
“Have you arrived at the Ocean?” Ian struggles to ask.
“Nearly,”
answers Andrea.
“Don’t
worry. Big Maicol will look after little Blobby.”
“Hey,
stop it!” snaps Andrea, turning his head, as Ian starts up with a mix of laughing
and coughing.
After
what happened with Susanna, Marta said that Andrea had the air of someone in
need of cuddling, and gave him the nickname “blonde teddy bear”. Maicol heard
it and turned it into “blondy bear”, and from there came “Blobby”. An
unbearable nickname, and Ian bursts out laughing, as though it was the first
time, every time he hears it.
“Let
me know how it goes. It’s important,” says Ian, face now red thanks to the
Planet Hollywood sign above his head. “I’m going now. Call me if there are any problems.”
“Ok…”
Andrea nods, smiling gloomily.
“Bye.
Take care of yourself,” says Maicol, nodding goodbye, and Ian smiles. Then he
throws a quick glance just for Andrea, managing to shake him.
He
hears Ian’s voice encouraging him: “Come on Andrea!”
And
the call ends.
The
windy New York evening, with its fluorescent lights and din of the traffic,
disappears and everything is quiet and dark again.
Andrea
puts the smartphone back in his pocket. The sun had returned for a moment, ripping
apart the heavy cloak that covers him. For a moment, emotional apathy and the flap of the suspenders sounding in his
head had taken a break.
Uuugh… uuugh… Stop! The Pixies sing.
Andrea
strokes the dark leather mask on his face.
Key
is about to come into play, and Andrea goes to sit on a bench.
He
concentrates on the event that is about to start. Cheering himself up, he
thinks about how the sun is always there even when he can’t see it. Just like
his friend Ian, who calls him from wherever he is, always finding a moment for
him, so he doesn’t feel alone even when an ocean separates them.
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