- And you say that with me on the other hand ... - Lou murmured, without believing it still.
Coltrain smiled and agreed.
- Whenever I touch you it is as if fire was going off for my veins - he said to him-, you intoxicate me.
- There happens to me the same thing - him confessed Lou-, but there is a difference between us, because you only wish me, whereas I...
- Do you believe that? - he interrupted it-. Do you believe that the only thing that I feel for you is a desire? Do you believe that only with the desire it might be explained what happens to us when we are close one of other?
- I ... I only know that I love you - Lou murmured.
Coltrain her looked at the eyes with an infinite sweetness.
- And I to you - he answered quedamente.
The heart gave him one I overturn Lou and it began to beat with such force that seemed that it him was going to leave of the breast. Were not his ears cheating her? Might the sleep to turn truly into reality? Perhaps yes, it was said. They were in Christmas, an epoch of the year in which the sleep was fulfilling and occuring miracles.
Coltrain did not say anything, but it continued looking at her in the same way, reaffirming him with the look what it had expressed to him with words. Suddenly, it joined, two took paquetitos that he had placed under the tree and it delivered them to him.
- But up to tomorrow it is not a Christmas.
- For us yes - he restored-. Boy, open them.
Lou hesitated, but finally the curiosity could more, and tore the bundle of the first one. It was a box, and on having opened it, he found a golden cadenita and a pendant in the shape of half a heart. Lou contained the respiration.
- Now, it opens other - Coltrain said to him, taking the chain with the pendant, while she was breaking awkwardly the bundle of another bundle.
It was an identical box, and in his interior there was another piece of the pendant, another half of the heart.
- And now, make them together - he indicated him, delivering to him another part.
Lou it h hoisted, with the tremulous hands for the emotion and his fixed eyes in the inscription in Frenchman who had written in every half: Bonus that hier, moins that demain.
- Do you know what he says? he asked him softly.
Lou had to swallow saliva to be able to speak.
- " More that yesterday ..., but less that tomorrow " - it murmured.
- That is exactly much that I love you - Coltrain said to him. He was going to wait to tomorrow about giving it to you, but, since it is usually said, there is no better moment than the present. Marry me, Lou. I know that you scare the marriage, but you love me and I you love and we have sufficient things in common like to stay close when the passion becomes exhausted ... if the fact is that some day is a drop.
Lou had the pendant still in his hands and the sight fixes in him. It was the nicest and romantic gift that he could have imagined.
- Do you believe in the miracles, Lou? - he asked him about Coltrain quedamente-. I yes, they happen every day, when we manage to save lives, when children are born... Yesterday same one happened, when I saw this pendant in the jewelery shop in which we meet Jane ... - he added-, and right now I am hoping that other should happen: that you say to me that yes.
She lifted towards him his chestnut-colored eyes full of tears. It was unable to declare word, but it agreed with the head, was embraced to him and it it kissed, queriendo to express to him with his lips everything what he was feeling for him. It was enough to Coltrain.
The one that was going to be the holiday of Lou's farewell finally turned into a holiday of congratulation for his marriage with Coltrain the previous day, and the equal young woman almost got lost it, after happening the night doing passionately the love. To her there came almost the whole personnel of the hospital, even Nickie and It damages, that finally seemed to accept his defeat with sportsmanship.
Two months later, for the day of San Valentín, Coltrain was giving to Lou another pendant, this time a ruby heart. The gift of her was more unexpected: the positive result of a test of pregnancy. Coltrain was not fitting in yes of pleasure, and nine months later there was born in the hospital of Jacobsville his first son, whom they put for name Drew Jebediah Coltrain.
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