Pepe. Pepe’s stories ranged from the titillating (“the house knew what we were up to, and they encouraged us to be there”) to the positively scandalous. (“The one guy you had to watch out for was Papo Batista, the president’s son. If he took a shine to you, te ponía en candela!” which roughly means, “you’d be in big trouble.”) But those and other tales of gossip were still days away when I sat on Alicia’s leopard-print bedspread. Then Fornieles was eager to talk about himself.
