Alexa
Alexa stood up from the sofa and walked with her childish steps towards the TV, pressed the red button which reminded her of those times in which everyone gave her gifts, turned it off just like her dad had shown her and thought that she wanted to see her grandfather.
When her grandfather saw her it reminded him of his son, sighed and bowed remembering the strident music his deceased son composed. He hugged Alexa and she smiled and happily said -Tataa.
They played in the hills, she ran everywhere with an obsentatious smile drawn on her face; Tata! she shouted excited, he then helped her climb the old oak tree and told her while he helped her:
-Someday I will be like this tree.
Alexa didn’t understand what her grandfather told her.
He felt the air and smiled, then her grandfather ordered her down and she complied. Her grandfather went to get something to drink while Alexa ran around the old oak tree.
She immediately got tired and lied down seeing the branches of the tree. She was profoundly sleepy, remembered her father and his guitar, she asked “Where are you?” yawned and asked again “Where does life come from?”
She fell asleep. She heard the old oak say “Climb up and you’ll find the answer to your question of where life comes from.”
Alexa started climbing and the branches became hands and helped her up to the top of the tree.
On top of the tree she asked the oak tree “What am I doing here?” Immediateley she realized that it could talk
“Wait, my old friend the cloud is coming.”
“Hello old oak” said the cloud
“How are you old friend” said the old oak. Look this is my friend Alexa.
Both greeted each other kindly.
“Show her well good friend.”
Yes old friend, I’ll take her to my twin sister. Alex go on the cloud.
“Will you show me about life and where I come from?”, asked Alexa
“Yes, my sister is there.”
“Don’t be afraid!, it’s only going to cry now.”
“But it will cry happily.”
“Is it sad?”
No.
The gray cloud got close and shouted to her sister: “Now!”
“Hello” she said crying, “I’m the gray cloud”
“I’m Alexa”, she said nervously.
“Don’t be said”
“Come in” said the gray cloud and there were millions of drops, that for her ears her murmuring were ticklish, that made her esctatic, and heard the gray cloud.
“Get into the drop.” Alexa complied and felt very happy like flying on an airplane, all of a suden the belly of the cloud opened and the millions of drops fell happily. Alex thought about the bubbles that she made in the bathroom when her mom bathed her, she felt that she was riding one of those bubbles. She smiled and the drop said
“Hold on, from here is where life starts from. They suddenly penetrated the earth, she falt that she came out from the tree and thought “hmm hmm it’s like this.”
She opened her eyes and saw her grandfather’s face that told her kinldy: “ Alexa the small one”. He smiled happily and she noticed after waking up that the TV that shes had in her head had been turned off forever, without pressing the red button, he didn’t understand that sometimes, she lloked at the sky and her eyes shined.
She started running the moment that she started to forget everything.
Ilustracion : Magdalena Torres
