Marina was the daughter of a friends of my parents: The marriage Estévez. The mother, a great woman called Remedios, went out sometime with my mother, or she came to visit our house with her daughter, a girl lttle older than me. Marina was a treasure, an angelical face, a body pre – adolescent that was glimpsed slender, and an unmistakable style when she was walking and moving. she had innate elegance. Besides, she had a beautiful , longe and blonde hair, which took care obsessively and didn’t get tired of exhibiting.
She didn’t resemble in anything to their mother, big for all sides, rough and quite gross. The years had treated her bad, and luckly for Marina, she resembled more every day to her father who was very attractive. Marina and their mother were not supported. They had an open, official and constant war for everything. The true was that the girl was a spoilt of her father, and with 12 years, she was shown like a capricious, smug breeding and full with vanity. Remedios fought to educate her, to give her values, but it was useless; Mr. Estévez undid all her work, forgiving her the punishments and buying her all that Marina requested. Mother and daughter competed for the father’s attention who was very apatic . every time with more frequency, he prefered to put on the side of the girl, ignoring the protests of Remedios who every day was a little more fat, more depressed and more jealous.
The situation in that house, far from improving, was worsening. Mr. Estévez announced to his wife that left her: He was fall in love with a young girl, and besides, he was fed up with those constant fights. A good day he was released leaving alone to the girl and her mother. After, the divorce steps began.
In my house, my parents commented that it was the chronicle of an announced death and that bad luck goes for Remedios, abandoned by her husband and with that unbearable girl that refused to obey it and it constantly accused Remedios for her dear dad’s disappear.
Remedios fell in a deep depression. My mother called it regularly to know how she felt.she didn’t always answer to the telephone and the times that she made it, assured that she was trying to make all the possible to go out from that situation. she didn’t want to see anybody. when she was better, would come to visit us.
Several Months later, she called one morning to announce their visit. My mother became very happy, because it meant that her recovery was already a fact. I had not seen Marina again, because she studied at another school. When Remedios and Marina come in our house, we got a surprise
Remedios was another woman. She had lost weight 25 Kg, She had been changed the hairstyle and the clothes, seemed younger 10 years, and she seemed very happy.
But Marina…She had changed the hairstyle too. A chill traveled all my back. She was totally bald¡¡. There was not neither rake of that impressive blond mane that was her pride. I could not believe what my eyes saw . she greeted me timidly and during the rest of the afternoon I could not stop to pay attention to her head and the history that Remedios told us.
Remedios tried to go out from the depression with all the means within their reach. she knew that the most important thing, was to change her life, to change her look, to be reinvented to leave ahead, to forget her husband and to reeducate her daughter. And it achieved it, with a lot of effort. However Marina insisted in their cruelty and in putting on it all more difficult . When finally,she looked at herself at the mirror, she liked herself and was recovered, she began to see it all clearing: Had a radical look change been good to make her a new woman, to give her it does force and peace… Why don’t to make the same thing with her exasperating and silly daughter? Why not to give her a definitive lesson…?
– So ,that afternoon,-concluded Remedios – I drive her to a male barbershop, knowing that there she would not dare to rebel, and I ordered the barber that shaved her head completely. . That was the last week … you can not imagine what change…¡¡¡Marina knows that next time that she screams me that she replies me that doesn’t obey, she will go to the barber’s seat quickly. .. we Are making a beat of visits to all the friends, so they don’t get lost their look change, truth, Marina?¿ you enjoy as much as me, really…?
Marina bent over the head. she had not pronounced neither a word since they had arrived.
– Yyesss ,Mom… what you say…
Remedies smiled triumphant.
I will never forget that afternoon.
