The Day My Life Turned Into a Bollywood Movie (5)

Episodio 5 – Fighting the Queen – Part 1

‘You look like Paradise.’ That’s what Señora Sandoval said to Alejandro the first time she met him.

She also told him he was ‘too good to be true’.  If it wasn’t love at first sight for Maria and Alejandro, it was for Victoria and Alejandro. Both impressed and appreciative of each other. Straight away she thought he would make a good husband for her daughter.

First, she invited him over to introduce him to Esteban, her son. The same evening, he also met Victoria’s younger sister who thought he would be good for Maria too.

‘He has so much light on his face,’ she told Maria, trying to persuade her to meet him. You see, her mother already introduced her to someone in the past, her ex-husband, and the marriage was a disaster. On top of that, they don’t have the same taste when it comes to men, thus Maria wasn’t too sure about trusting her mother again. But since her aunt was so eulogistic about the potential suitor, she agreed to meet him.

Fond of the young lawyer, Victoria promised him a lot: a wife, a job, a visa.

Victoria had said that she would hire him, therefore he will get a permanent visa to stay in the country.

Before she left the country, Alejandro tried to call his mother-in-law to be but she didn’t answer. Things were left unchanged until she comes back to Miami.

Tres meses después – Three months later

Up and down. That’s the best way to describe the relationship. Love, fights, gifts, arguments, restaurants and baby sitting.

The couple had a challenging winter but they were still together.

The source of most problems was Alejandro’s situation. Without being hired, he will have to leave the country in July. Maria wanted to get engaged before. But Alejandro was hesitating. Without a job or a stable situation, how can he get engaged, let alone married?

Surprisingly when Sra Sandoval came back from Mexico, things didn’t change.

Even though she reiterated her promise when she was there. ‘Tell him not to worry, I will find him a job when I’m back,’ she said once more time to her daughter.

In fact, she had several opportunities to hire him but nothing happened.

Alejandro was disappointed. There are things that he doesn’t understand, lack of honesty is one of them. Did she lie? Why didn’t she keep her word? Her attitude towards the relationship changed too. Sometimes she was for it, sometimes against.

Alejandro decided to end his internship at the firm but he still had to clear things out with her. She was no longer his boss but she was still his mother-in-law to be.

One night, while he was at Maria’s, she came. Even if she was trying to talk with him. He remained cold. Things were awkward but Alejandro didn’t want to have an explanation in front of his fiancée.

‘I have to call your mother. It has nothing to do with you but I just wanted to inform you beforehand’. Last time he had a conversation with her, she changed what he said when reporting to her daughter and it lead to a temporary split-up.

The young man was apprehensive. Victoria was the kind of woman to get easily offended. He knew that if the conversation doesn’t go well, she would ask her daughter to end the relation.

He was right, this is exactly what happened.

Continuará…