EPILOGUE
Justin's cell phone vibrated again.
smiled at the name 'Daphne' which appeared on the screen. He was sure he would respond within a few minutes.
E 'BELLISSIMO JUSTIN. MORE ' I THINK THAT THE PICTURES FROM PHONE DOES NOT MAKE PERFECT COLORS, SO IMAGINE THAT LIVE IS EVEN MORE 'GOOD. PROMISES WELL. BRAVO!
tired sigh dialed the friend.
"Hey hello! Did you get the message? It's very beautiful Jus! "She said enthusiastically across the world.
"Yes, I received the message."
"Ah well, then you just wanted to say hello?"
"You're in your cabin?"
"Yes, here it is evening and we just finished eating."
"Ok, I'll call the PC, you connect now? & Rdquo ;
"Yes, but there is something wrong?"
"I have to show you something."
"Okay, five minutes and you can call. "
Justin snorted off communication, and ran a hand over his face again laying eyes on the painting. Certainly less than five minutes after he began communicating with Daphne, whose cheerful smile appeared on the screen of his iphone. Justin could not help but smile in return.
"Tell me all sweetness," joked her friend for the light laughter of Justin.
The boy turned the camera phone closer to the painting to show better Daphne.
"Oh yes!" she replied enthusiastically, "on the PC screen you see a lot better. It is absolutely amazing! "
" What do you see? "Asked the boy via speakerphone.
"What kind of question is that?"
"Come on, tell me what you see ... Tell me as if I were to see him and you tell me," said cryptic closing in behind.
She sighed without understanding the logical thread of that conversation. Perhaps the friend was not convinced of his work and, knowing what was fussy, she needed an outside opinion to ascertain more clearly. He decided to reassure him because what he saw Daphne was by far one of the most brilliant combinations of color he had ever seen in the works of Justin, "I see the beginning of a work of art Justin. Certainly not the Sistine Chapel but for sure I do not expect you to mystical themes!
Justin nodded with eyes blurred.
"You know what I see?" The boy asked.
"What?"
Justin glanced at the small yard in place around him and eyed what he needed. He walked to the counter gear and grabbed a hammer.
"Jus, what are you doing? You make me throw up with all that up and down! "Appealed Daphne unheard.
The boy safely and went to the murals, he grabbed the phone with her left to look forward to entering the field of view point of the room that had previously identified and vigorously waged a hammer against the painting, using the side of the double-headed hammer to make sure you get the effect he wanted:
painting and plaster off and cause an irregular hole in the wall .
"Oh my God, what are you doing? Are you crazy? "Asked Daphne sincerely upset and worried. What was happening to him? Own and had spent up to that point?!
Justin chuckled and brought the camera to frame a new seeing himself astonished that the mask was the face of your friend: "I'm not crazy, do not worry, you only see what I see I did."
"Justin you're worried to death! Tell me what the fuck you're doing and where you're going! "Peremptory order that the girlfriend had no desire to play the guessing games.
"To show you what it is, Daphne. The beginning of a work of art is nothing but a wall, "he shrugged as if he were doing more coherent and comprehensible speech of his life" is not more than a row of bricks placed one over the other, attacked with lime, and plastered on which an artist ... ... brushing is something that will define a work of art. "
He felt the sigh worried the friend saw her lean her forehead on her hand, "What's going on Jus?"
The boy smiled. "Still, nothing dramatic. I am in full posssesso of my mental faculties. "
" Really? It is when no doubt be more than that Justin really has gone mad! "
" I assure you that I have never been more lucid in my entire life! "
" Why did you ruined the murals? "
Justin shrugged," Just because it is a mural, as there are millions in the world. It's nothing, is a wall. "
" Justin's enough, "cried Daphne - "Now you sit down, switch the conversation to the phone and just talk about it calmly."
no answer he saw the portrait of his friend disappear from the screen and his name appear flashing on the caller.
"Tell me what you ..."
"I have nothing Daphne, really. I just realized one thing that I had never understood him. "
" What's that? "
" You first have spoken of the Sistine Chapel. You know what goes that fresco? "
" I did the academy of fine arts, "she said angrily," but the rest of you, on the bottom, because you have dumped in the middle! & rdquo ;
Justin smiled serene as always happened when he spoke to her friend: "I made it long enough to know that the Last Judgement was painted in 1540. Or 472 years ago. Do you realize? It is there for almost Cinquenta years. Immovable, imperishable and timeless. "
Daphne tried to figure it out but it is impossible to attempt went: "Ok, you've destroyed because next year will be covered by your new one and it will not track, and then, in a situation of great stress from too much work, you're wondering what the point of paint ... "
" No, nothing like that. "
" What then Justin? "asked the girl really irritated.
"I'm just thinking that there are things that never go out, that remain firm and immovable, even for five hundred years. But there are things that ... "he shrugged his shoulders in search of the words -" ... change even within a day, a day is one way and the next day and no longer are you lost forever to the way they were. "
the ears of anyone else's speech Justin would sound outlandish, but not that of one who shared with him the soul of seventeen years.
"I miss Brian and Scarlett," stated without any doubt - and what you discomfort in this way is the sense of guilt for having missed a promise. "
Justin raised his eyebrows without answering and swallowed a lump of saliva bitter.
"But three weeks, Justin. It's your job. Will pass faster than you think. "
" It's not my job, or rather, it is by accident. I am one of the lucky few in the world that gives free rein to a passion and can afford to call it work because of the money to live. Daphne is not working, but not a job I need, without which I could not go ahead as my family. It is a passion, and I will have forever. "
" So what? "She asked sweetly decided not to interrupt too often what was emerging from a vent that Justin again, maybe that was just blossoming at that time.
"an asshole, one day," said the boy laughed gently - "told me that one day a month, a year, do not change anything, it's just time. "
Daphne smiled catching the reference.
"True. Very true. Very true to the paintings and the walls and statues. True to the Sistine Chapel and the Last Judgement. But not for us, Daphne. "
" What can happen in three weeks, "asked the girl undecided whether to encourage it to continue because it took a brief moment of despair or give him rope because he was seeing their lives differently.
"In three weeks? Nothing sensational. Scarlett among three weeks will always be five years and Brian 43. But it's the nuances that change everything. Just like in my paintings. "
The girl was silent now decided that the best thing would continue to speak of his soul, because now he knew that was what I was talking about.
"In three weeks maybe Scarlett says Prince properly instead Prinpice. In three weeks could be arrived at when one evening he forgot to bring a teddy bear to bed with her and Gus that evening did not take anymore ... "
The girl's eyes grew moist on the other side of the world and touched by a smile across his face - "In three weeks Brian could have her first gray hair," he said laughing and sparking fresh the friend laugh mate. "My mother was a wrinkle that was not there before, my sister a new love Gus and a new passion for a TV series that I do not even know the title. And in the meantime I'm here to paint a wall. So it could happen in three weeks that I watch them and wonder, 'When my daughter has stopped being a small child and began his career to the world of children grow up? When checked the sign of the time on my mother's face and hair on my man? I do not know. Because I was not there. And I lost that moment forever. "
There was silence between two friends. Daphne did not speak not because he was short of words but because there was nothing to say objectively. No words would have made sense at the time.
Justin pinched the bridge of his nose, sighing and closing his eyes before you open them again and again to observe the wall defaced.
"It is true that 'it's just time'," resumed - "Now my daughter asks to keep his door open so I could hear, go into my room and asked to sleep with me, waiting for Saturday in a frenzy because they spend together. In a few years, I knock on the door of his locked room, complete with a sign above that says 'STOP THE STATE-WIDE-DANGER OF DEATH' and she did not open because it will be with a friend, or take , listening to music on his iPod, or will on the phone to confide secrets that will separate only her best friend and I will be forever barred, "stopped sighing and feeling the light breath of Daphne on the other side. "I want to be with my daughter now that my daughter wants to be with me. Why take the risk, when I finally be free from billions of contracts and projects, for her to not be true for me. "
Daphne sudden he wiped a tear," What do you want me Tell Justin? ... You need my permission? "
"Because you're the other part of me. And maybe, despite everything, I still need a part of me says that's the right thing. "
Daphne sighed closing his eyes. "Do it," Justin said simply and smiled.
"Does not mean anything" - Alicia Keys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2qgU2A3Ll4
"Oh Mr Taylor, hello, how are you going? But ?!?!?"
Justin, bent to pick up paints and brushes suppressed a giggle and looked horrified at the sight of the Director of the Museum of Art Chicago.
"What happened?" Asked the man without a single drop of saliva in the mouth.
Justin stood up straight and shrugged: "I think it broke ..."
"Oh, sure broke! Oh heck, it did not take this, think you can stay on schedule anyway? If a builder wants to send them immediately to ... "
" No, "Justin interrupted him with a smile to those twin of Brian -" I will not stay on schedule. You save builder. I'm leaving, "said hooking the working bag with a shoulder.
"Co co ... ... What?" Asked the man watching Justin air more terrified of what had taken in front of the gash in the wall.
"I'm sorry. I know this will create any big problems but I end up here. I can not go forward. I really can not, believe me. "
" But what happened? An accident? A ... "
" Nothing, nothing happened. Only ... "Justin gave a last look at the wall with a shrug -" I ... Only the most important things to do. I'm sorry. It was still a pleasure, "said turning and walking toward the exit.
"He has no idea of the opportunity that is knocking down the toilet, Justin?" Thundered the man without any attitude behind it.
Justin stopped, smiled and slowly turned to look at him: "I assure you that if I had not quite clear what and how much I'm throwing in the toilet, I would be here to paint and to tell me what you are good at it .
"The cost of a penalty so much money than they that is his right hand! "threatened angry man.
Justin smiled.
E Kinney-style shrugged: "I have them."
Then he turned and no longer worthy of a glance, the museum and the man quickened his step by grabbing the phone to connect to the Web via Liberty Air.
***
"The situation is falling," whispered Ted do with pragmatic to the ears of Blake smiled slightly, shaking his head.
"I do not think is plummeting because basically never got off the ground!"
"Yeah," confirmed Ted glancing at the group, once again gathered on the lawn around the tent. Who walked around aimlessly, who had gathered in small groups chatting to pass the time.
Drew was lying back in my sleeping bag and had begun to sleep, the children played without much enthusiasm, jumping in puddles. The sky did not promise no good and the temperature as well.
Ted looked at his watch: eleven.
"Oh my God, you could offer to return to Pittsburgh, eating in a nice warm and comfortable restaurant and then leave everyone to his house with all due respect to everyone?"
& ldquo ; Proponilo "makes me Blake.
Ted looked at him as if he had said to carry a bomb attack.
"What?" Chuckled the boy.
Ted shook his head. "Emmett would be there so bad! In fact I was counting on Brian for this initiative and as always, when you expect me to do something he does exactly the opposite! "
Blake nodded:" He also offered to cook the sausages for everyone ... "
"Well, then something magical about this place must really have it anyway!" Ted grinned.
****
Astonishment gave way to wonder and then to happiness. The three emotions ran fast and twins in the two pairs of blue eyes that they had met.
"Welcome back!"
"Welcome back to you too!"
****
"Scarlett does not want come to know in advance because it is pending, and I quote, something good happens, "argued Ted sat down next to Emmett.
The boy, elbows on knees, palms to support the face, raised his eyebrows: "Well, we have at least two to believe!"
"Ah! Because you obviously still believe it! "
" Teddy, I remind you that the idea was yours. Who dragged me here months ago? Who asked me to repeat this experience? "
" Ah so now would be my fault if you have not revealed the spirit of the founder and we have not seen flitting fairies, and heard the sound of bells, but only caught a cold, rain and judging will take as much from the sky? "argued Ted piqued.
"Of course it's your fault, like everyone else, except for Scarlett!"
Ted cleared his throat as if he had to do with a fool: "And how would our fault? "
" Why do not you think Teddy! That's why! You came here thinking of doing a class trip, you are skeptical, cynical, and all this power of attorney only negativity! "
The friend looked at him dumbfounded:" You talk of spirituality Emmett? "
Emmett snorted and looked at him with cold eyes," I mention all this that exists beyond the nose of everyone Teddy, I speak to believe that tingling feel that sometimes we do not know where it comes from or where it is going, I'm talking about seeing things from different points of view, I speak of reality , which is never what we think it is because each of us has a different concept of reality, I speak of the transcendent and all we have irretrievably lost. Everybody, all human beings. No wonder if indeed the world will end in a month and a half. We tripped over this world for nothing, without any awareness and desire for discovery. What's been doing, man? "
Ted stared at his friend with eyes wide open. The disappointment was worse than he thought.
"Emmett," he tried to reason - "the your always be optimistic, your belief in things that can happen beyond the logic and everything else makes you who you are and you are the friend we all love. But you can not really believe that just because last night we thought something good happen today, something really good. I mean, from a material point of view, not spiritual, perhaps from a spiritual point of view something good has happened in each of us knows, but Scarlett, and you too I'm afraid at this point, you're waiting for something to happen for real , physical, tangible, and this can not happen because ... "
"Why?" Emmett interrupted him with a strange smile on his face.
"Because ..." Ted shook his open hands in a gesture of anger at not being able to oppose rationality to irrationality, and this made him anxious - "What can happen?" He asked surrendering.
Emmett's smile became more convinced as he kept his eyes on a horizon beyond the shoulders of Ted.
"For example, hints that a ray of sunshine."
Ted rolled his eyes. With less than a cosmic disaster, there was no hope to the world at that time could appear a ray of sunshine between the barricades and menacing black clouds that covered their heads. "No," said practical - "No it can not happen."
"And if I say that has already happened?" Emmett asked without taking his eyes from the staring point .
"Where? When "asked Ted now exhausted.
"Right now," Emmett whispered before raising a finger to indicate a point - "Right there!"
Ted turned his head to direct our gaze to the location indicated by the finger of Emmett opened his mouth wide and amazed:
"Justin?"
"Justin?" echoed Debbie, who passed a few yards from friends had heard the name of the boy and had turned in turn.
"Sunshine," cried then burst out laughing.
all heads turned toward the path at the edge of the clearing where Justin was walking to reach them.
"Papyyyyyyyy" cried Scarlett, rushing to meet the father who crouched laughing ready to hold the dip of the child.
"Hello my love!" He greeted her laugh and hug the boy to breathe its unique scent.
"Papy you came, you came from! "he kept repeating the girl embracing and filling his cheeks with kisses.
"Yes, I have come, are you happy?"
The girl did not answer, only he just hold you tight.
Within moments the whole group of friends met him at the newcomer who moved smiling, happy people, who enthusiastically. Brian just was not smiling.
Justin looked without really believing that he was there.
Scarlett undid the embrace and ran to his father: "Did you see Daddy," cried jumping enthusiast - "'Did you see that something good has happened? Grandpa is here! Did you see that dad was not it? "
Brian finally smiled at the slight smile of Justin, then looked at his daughter:" I saw, you were right. "
Scarlett, unable to contain the joyful frenzy that had seized, he returned to Justin: "Last night we did the magic circle and everyone had to think of something nice and Emmett said that all would have happened if we did something good ..." Justin followed the excited monologue of her daughter with a smile, impossible to erase from his face even if it - "... and I know what I thought," asked the girl, without waiting for the answer - "I thought of you and I wanted that you were there!" Justin laughed moved without worrying to correct conjugations - "And now you're daddy. You have arrived! So true! You true! "
Emmett smiled enthusiastically and turned to Ted:" I told you to believe to see my friend! "
Ted did not answer, his face stunned in disbelief.
Emmett burst into laughter.
"Of course it's true love!" Justin replied to the small remaining always curled up to it - "But I'll bet that someone else had thought the same as yours ... "
Scarlett poses as astonished and doubtful, "Who?"
Justin shrugged: "I do not know ... maybe Michael ..." she whispered, turning to look at the friend who opened her his eyes were not expecting to be called to account.
"I do not know what I thought Uncle Michael ..." the girl pointed out.
"I think so ..." Justin replied without taking his eyes off him - "And I think that we have believed, just like you ..."
At these words the eyes of adults who had coded message between the lines launched by the boy turned to the hopeful path.
Where Ben appeared.
Debbie put her hands cupped in front of the face in a gesture similar to that of Jennifer, and both women burst into tears. Michael expectations firmly in place with the approach of fellow eyes in disbelief and amazement that the walk up to Ben, followed by the smiles of the whole group, not led him to join him.
They looked into his eyes for a moment that seemed forever and then they embraced provoking applause, sighs of joy, laughter and tears.
Brian glanced at in passing Shawn standing beside her and saw her pull the muscles of the face and swallow hard.
"Do not tell me what time you start crying too!" The challenge with a cheerful air.
She just gave him a elbow on the arm.
"Are you crying for?"
"Stop!"
"You're about to cry!" Brian said with a chuckle.
"Fuck you!" Shawn to trim the whole answer before the voice broke and tears take over.
Brian laughed, then shook his head and threw his face in his hands. But when he looked up to Michael and Ben still embraced, became serious, strong-nosed inpirò and looked away with a smile.
"What do you do, cry?" Asked a voice at his side.
Brian chuckled nodding aware: "For these pathetic scenes? Mai, Sunshine! I'm not a lesbian, not a woman and not even a fag! "He said smiling bright.
Justin finally reciprocates and they embraced.
"You have given up half the work," said Brian with his chin resting on the shoulder of the companion.
"I dropped half a job. And before you start with bizarre ideas about careers, sacrifice, time and various menate, know that I did what I had to do. And you know it. "
Brian nodded," I do not care about this, I worry that if you do not ever offer to deface other walls, you begin to do it with those of our house! "
Justin burst into laughter that caught the attention of all friends.
Brian smiled sucking her lower lip in Justin tenendogli mouth and looked at her face in her hands: "I love you Brian."
The eyes of every one of them, including children, moved instantly to Brian. Pending.
The man sighed, giggled, nodded, looking down, then put it back in the blue companion: "I love you too."
did not see his face but none of them was ready to bet that had a smile that filled his face as if he had a sadistic puppeteer combined with the edges of their cheeks.
And of course, Emmett and women were crying ...
"It's all right now," Justin whispered.
Brian squinted and lifted a shoulder tossing his head to the side: "No, not really ..."
Justin's face became a mask of disappointment: he had not returned on time.
"There's still something outstanding between us ..." told him Brian do with seriously.
The language of the boy went to moisten the lips that had grown suddenly dry.
"We've never been more in Vermont ..." Brian said with a distracted air.
Justin's face became the first question, then stretched into a smile, his smile made her way to brighten the look of pure love: "Snowboarding," he asked incredulously - "I'll still remember? "
Brian raised his eyebrows:" Snow? " he asked doubtfully before pretending to shrug - "Actually I thought of the matter in abeyance for marriage and that Vermont has remained one of the few states in which we could do it ... but if you like snowboarding, I go well, "he said with a smile complacent by the fact that Justin had misunderstood as he had hoped, spiteful, they would.
Justin's mouth opened against his will and his eyes grew moist as long as a tear trickled down the cheeks fresh.
Brian laughed, "I knew that this would have made me cry too! "
Justin laughed pure, authentic, liberating and jumped into the arms of fellow who greeted him with a laugh.
"Well, it seems that there is not the caviate so well," Ben ruled in the general commotion that had made everyone silent, the friends looked at him. "Come on! He said it was a party! Where is the music, "he asked, spreading his arms and earning cheerful looks still stunned by the events of friends. "Ok, Fortunately, you do not live so out of touch as many think, and before they are in possession of me to go home to get ... "he opened the big bag with shoulder strap and pulled out an object a bit 'old-fashioned but essential - "... the stereo!" he began laughing and raising his old unit triggering applause and laughter of all.
"Let's start this party up!" Verdict supporting the stereo in the trunk of a tree and pressing the play button.
A music that belonged to another time, other generations lingered in the woods. A timeless music, such as the frescoes of the churches, such as monuments, like the statues, but whose sound had the power to close the circle of time each of them bringing them to live an eternal moment when, together, without being able to do unless they began to dance.
'Can not Take My Eyes Off of You' Gloria Gaynor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IGivh8NwE0
JUSTIN POV
rains.
But who cares. Nobody cares.
missing is Daphne and then we all.
I can not take my eyes off them all, that have been and will be the people who made the journey of life with me.
They dance in the rain.
Debbie and Carl are trying out a tango on the notes of a song pop cult 70s.
Mom and Tucker, soup, dance like a slow. They love each other as the first day and I do not find it more incredible.
Mel and Linds are kissing as they continue to bounce in a group with Gus, Shawn and Lauren.
Ben is doing a little pirouette to Jenny laughing while her father looks on.
Ted Blake and Drew dancing, looking into his eyes and smiles as he watches Emmett dancing with her arms raised, singing, the visa on the sky to welcome the rain.
Even Brian dancing. Taking Scarlett in her arms. The whisper on the lips' can not take my eyes off of you 'and she laughs, leaning on his nose.
smile when, predictably, some in the chorus refrain, 'lala-lala-lala-lalalala-lalla-uhhhhhh', the arms of all rise to heaven, and a raucous chorus and tune covers the voice Gloria Gaynor:
'I love you baby and if it's quite alright I need you baby to warm a lonely night ... ... and let me love you baby'
A moment like this is perfect. The one where everything comes to fruition and is perfect as a circle. It's that moment in everyone's life comes before or after and even just for that moment is worth living for a lifetime.
And I'm living.
I want everything to remain as now, forever.
Although I know that forever, does not exist. (**)(**) 'Saturno Contro'
ending theme (By Betty)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPUmuTrplH4
(NOTE ^____-) author
