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Capítulo 1
It had been a year since Anita had broken up and left Roger to live with Cruella. At first Roger felt ungrounded, Anita was everything to him, she was his life and everything he loved most in the world, he would do anything to see her happy even if he had to let her go.
After a year, he returned to writing songs and stopped going to bars and pubs, he started composing about his feelings of love, loneliness and overcoming.
As difficult as the situation was, he had a friend who was always by his side, helping him, consoling him and he even proposed to help him promote his music when it was ready and assured him that one day he would be a success and perhaps in the future he would be the newest star London has ever seen, which only made Roger want to keep writing and songwriting.
One day he was sitting on his couch distracted when his dog, his best friend, Pongo, walked up to him with his leash in his mouth, indicating that it was time to go for a walk in the park. He got up, grabbed his coat and bent down to put the leash on Pongo, then they headed off towards the park. No matter how much time has passed, Roger couldn't help but feel a slight sadness in his chest as he walked through the park, the same park where he met his former lover Anita. While he was walking with Pongo, he tried to forget his painful memories and tried to focus on how his new song would end and with him he would spread it, until Pongo stopped next to a tree and sat down, Roger did the same and took the opportunity to smoke his pipe , while smoking he patted his dog on the head, as a way of thanking him for being by his side.
After a few minutes he heard a laugh coming a little far behind him, he got a little curious as the park was quite empty today, so he turned his head a little and felt a shiver all over his body when he saw not too far from him , Anita laughing at Cruella who was beside her apparently trying to hold Perdita's collar with one hand while the other fixed her sunglasses.
Roger quickly turned his head back to see the two women passing behind him, luckily he was wearing a dark brown coat and a hat, which made them not recognize him, he thought what the hell were they doing here, Roger never seen Anita here since they broke up and also with Cruella's money and fame they could have been in a private club only for elite people but instead they were here in a simple park, he turned his head again to see where the women were. they were going, Anita had one of her arms around Cruella's, while the other woman held Perdita's collar who was walking a little ahead of them, Roger couldn't help but feel a little anger rise inside him when he saw this, like Did Anita have the courage to hand over her Dalmatian to this woman so cruel that she even wore animal skins? And how did Perdita not run away or show disgust around her? How could Anita like someone so...
Roger watched discreetly while he was lost in thought of jealousy and anger, he was only pulled back to reality when the two women stopped in the middle of a bridge that was in the park, they stood there looking at the water and talking about something of which Roger couldn't hear because of the distance.
So he fixed his hat and got up, Pongo seemed to understand what Roger wanted to do so he got up from the grass and started walking towards the bridge, Roger went to the bridge walking and looking to the opposite side of the women so as not to be recognized, as he passed he could hear them laughing not too loudly, "oh stop it" Anita said and Roger slightly turned his gaze and saw her blushing and smiling, Roger also couldn't help but smile as he turned his face to the other side again, he then walked a bit on the left side of the bridge and stopped not far behind the women, "but it's true dear. Even this situation reminded me of our meeting in that restaurant, you turned red as a pepper when I said you looked beautiful in that dress", Cruella said with a low chuckle, Roger then looked at the opposite side of the lake from them, he stood there pretending to observe the beautiful park while listening to the conversation, "I blushed because someone had than flirting with me in front of the waiter, right?" Anita said and although Roger couldn't see it, she was certainly rolling her eyes and smiling, Roger knew Anita and knew very well her quirks and ways, "well I didn't lie" Cruella said smiling as she put an arm around Anita's neck to hug her, Roger felt his heart sink and decided to leave.
When he got home he sat down in front of his piano and tried to finish his song, there was only one last part left which Roger couldn't fill in at all, no matter what he put there it was never good or complete. But then after playing for a while he remembered Anita's smile and how that simple gesture she made revived him, even though it wasn't for him her smile made him feel so good, so he wrote the last part about it, about how a gesture as simple as a small smile can make you so happy, so well, so madly in love with someone.