The Fantasies (6)

Erick was sitting calmly at his house, ice cream was already his favorite dessert, and he had ordered one from the ice cream parlor in which his life had been transformed. The story that Simone had told him had changed his perspective of him himself.

He had never lied, but he had never been really proud of who he was, that a woman like Simone, so powerful, so strong, so assertive, could remember the way he was and that transformed her life was an affirmation of who he was. He was a person of value, and from now on, he couldn't forget it.

He remembered that day, after the story that Simone had told him about the first time they saw each other he remembered the whole event, he remembered the scent of Simone when he saw her for the first time, her smile and the way the nerves in his stomach got out of control. He felt unable to converse with her openly, but his character as a child was much more assertive.

That in him had certainly changed, smiling at things as the