Chapter 2 CURRENT DAYS

Rodrigo - Yes, it can, but if we find out from the beginning she can be treated and have a normal life, it could have been like this with your sister, by the way, you also need to be tested, since your sister has it and it is hereditary.

Maria - Sorry doctor, it is customary to say that she is my sister, but she is not.

Rodrigo - How come?

Maria - Annie and I grew up in an orphanage, we didn't know our parents, when we turned 18 we had to leave the orphanage and since then we live together and take care of each other as if we were sisters.

Rodrigo - I see, so you don't need to take this test, but since you don't know where you come from, if you want I can do it just in case, your friend, sorry your sister will need a blood transfusion and if you have the same as hers and everything is in order you can donate.

Maria - I can donate yes, my blood is universal, doctor, if you think it's better to do these exams I will

Rodrigo - Let's do the following, in addition to the medicine now, I'll put a bag of blood for her, I believe she will wake up better, tomorrow you bring Daniela and I'll make the necessary tests in both.

Rodrigo and Maria go to Annie's room and explain to her what she really has. Incredibly, she received the news well, because she has always been a hopeful and faith-filled girl. Immediately both she and Poncho fall in love with each other and this with time would go from a patient and doctor relationship to a love life.

Alex - Come on Miranda, get off my foot, how many times do I have to say that we are nothing to each other outside the professional field, we just fuck sometimes, but nothing too much, you know I do this with all the models that work with me or almost do not come wanting to regulate my life

Miranda - Don't talk to me like that, you know I like you and for me it is more than sex, I do everything for you and to you.

Alex - You do it because you want to, nobody forces you to do anything. Look, Miranda, you are too hot, a great woman. You're beautiful and intelligent, you have a lot of men at your feet, and we know that you date other guys just like I date a lot of women. I can't offer you anything more than sex, not to you and not to any other woman.

Miranda - You have to move on with your life, Leticia is not coming back, you are not the only person who misses her, your daughter misses her, I miss her and many people miss her.

Alex - Don't you dare open your mouth to talk about Leticia or Bella, everyone knows that you don't like my daughter and that you were jealous of Leticia, you wanted everything she had including me. The most you can get is sex with me because love my darling will not, I will NEVER love another woman.

Miranda - Look, Alex, you're drunk and impossible to talk to today, I'm out of here. One day you will fall in love and this woman will make you suffer everything you do to me and to all the women who fall for your lies.

Alex - Go away Miranda, leave me alone, get out of here - Miranda walks out slamming the door with all her strength and Alex throws the whiskey bottle on the door - A woman is about to be born to make me suffer. This woman is a spiteful one

CURRENT DAYS

MARIA

Today it has been three years since Annie was diagnosed with Thalassemia and unfortunately it has not been easy at all, in the beginning some medicines and blood transfusions were enough, but I don't know, it seems that her organism got used to these medicines and they don't work anymore. Dr Rodrigo, Annie's doctor and currently her boyfriend, has been doing everything to help, with experimental treatments to solve the problem. He found one that seems to be helping, but it is very expensive, each injection costs 15 thousand reais and we don't have that kind of money.

Our friend Christian, who takes care of Annie's career, suggested that I should also do fashion shows and publicity campaigns, but I couldn't do that working in one of the biggest nun's schools in Brazil. I have been teaching there since I graduated in pedagogy. How did I manage? Oh, the nuns raised me, Annie and I lived in their orphanage, so when I graduated I was already employed there. I know they wouldn't mind me parading around, but the parents of my students would. But I needed to do this Annie doesn't get that many jobs anymore. She does few jobs because of fatigue and treatment. So she with all her creativity decided to create a second identity for me.

I have been leading a double life for two years now, in the day to day life I am Maria, a teacher at Santa Clara School, and in the world of runways I am the redheaded Victoria Lamas. Christian is a great friend, he always finds a job for both of us and takes very good care of Annie while he works. I have been doing a thousand Marys to take care of the school, of Dani, of these campaigns, and to have a life. What wouldn't be of us if it weren't for the nuns helping us by always staying with Dani when she needs us, Rodrigo always taking care of Annie as a doctor and boyfriend, he almost lives here with us and the best of all is that he takes care of Dani as a father, the father she never had. Christian is another one that never leaves the house always helping us and not to mention his sister Sabrina, she is a teacher at the school with me and a great friend, she also helps us as much as she can.