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B O L Y, NITA AND THE BIG BAD WOLF

 

Nita was a child out of the ordinary. Apparently his appearance was ordinary. She had a round face, with rosy buffs and that kind and naïve expression that girls have at their age. She was taller than her years and therefore her figure was somewhat ungainly, her limbs were too long in proportion to the rest of the body.

It could be said that she was graceful, although as everything in her was in transformation it could not be said if she was going to be beautiful or not. The hair was a separate chapter, it was really beautiful, a long jet black mane that framed green eyes diluted in a little dark gray. As a counterpoint a funny nosed up.

At home it was the desperation of his parents, especially his mother.

He didn't help her at all with household chores, he didn't even have her room tidy. It was a total lion, you could hardly enter the chaos that existed.

They lived on the outskirts of town, in the countryside. He didn't milk the cows, he didn't milk the goats. Nor did he put hay on them or take them out for a walk. When he did not see her, his father even took a pebble and threw it to the cat so that he ran out of fright. Or he would squeal into the chicken coop to scare away the roosters and hens.

I only ate tomato cake and drank milk. Never fruit, he was unable to taste an apple, a pear, or even a sweet banana. Neither eat a stew or a beef stew.

She dressed in any worn rag of her older sisters and wore simple slippers.

She got along badly with her brothers, she became like a porcupine, they could not approach her.

At school it was also a very unique case. He did not obey the teachers; Disobedient, he went to his ball without paying attention in classes. According to a test they gave her, she was smart and smart but she didn't want to know more than just enough so they wouldn't kick her out of school.

Her parents had often gone to talk to the teachers, even to the school principal, who informed them of their daughter Nita's indifferent and passive attitude. She didn't identify with any classmates, had no friends, and didn't participate in common playground games. Little by little they were leaving it aside. Or maybe she was the one who went to a corner without wanting to know anything about anyone.

After the interviews with the director the parents armed the marimorena, what was going to become of her tomorrow, no boy would approach her and things like that.

Nita nodded to everything paying close attention but as if nothing. Then everything remained the same.

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Like every night after eating his piece of cake and drinking his milk, he went to the bank of the river that passed by. His parents didn't want him to go there. Sometimes a stranger would hover around and could give him a good scare. As the stranger brought her carelessly, they scared her by telling her that a hungry wolf that had eaten an entire chicken coop was prowling. And it was true But also the fierce canid worried a cumin.

So he sat on the shore and began to watch the water flow. From time to time a frog would jump and splash in the water by splashing it.

But what he liked most was to see the stars. How many times he wanted to count them, he couldn't. They were pretty. And they shone in the blackness of the sky. They looked the same but Nita discovered a different intensity in each of them. He would be stunned and end up with neck pain from staring at them for so long with his head raised.

The moon was reflected in the river. And even the stars, so quiet that the current was. That's why he saw so clearly the face of the wolf next to him. He had a large head and teeth protruded from his mouth.

Nita didn't panic.

- Hello, wolf. – he said calmly.

The animal opened its mouth to give a big yawn and it was not known if it was out of boredom or hunger.

- Sit with me, wolf. I am always alone and your company will be good for me. Look up. I present to you Orion, to Pegasus, to Ursa Major, to Ursa Minor, to all the inhabitants of Heaven. Look how beautiful the stars are, there is nothing like it.

The wolf leaned its hind legs on the grass and looked into infinity. His eyes widened at times.

They certainly formed a most unusual picture. An innocent girl and a huge and terrifying wolf, ecstatic in the contemplation of the stars. Nita stroked the wolf's head and the wolf growled pleased.

And if that was surprising, it was even more so that the radiance that appeared before their eyes and came to meet them.

It was a gigantic orange ball and it fell right next to where they were. Everything was so sudden that they didn't have time to startle.

They discovered a very deep hole from which smoke was coming out and smelled scorched.

Nita and the wolf peeked out and heard some moans.

- Help me out of here - sounded a voice down there.

Nita reached out gropingly, half her body inside the hole as the wolf held her dress with his teeth.

When he found something that looked like a hand, he pulled with all his strength upwards. The wolf also made a great effort, and at last they managed to bring that to the surface.

What they saw blew them away. It was a mixture of Caponata and Spinette hen, although it did not have a well-defined shape, it was somewhat rare and released colored sparks. It was about the size of the girl.

"Hello," said that thing, "my name is Boly and I come from a place far away.

Who are you? You don't look like them at all.

- My name is Nita and he is a wolf. How did you come here? Are you a Martian? What a scare you have given us.

- I don't know what a Martian is. I come from Perolandia, and I've left home, I don't want to live there anymore.

- What nonsense, leaving home, with how well you are, your parents always looking out for you.

- I'm gone because I'm small and nobody pays attention to me, no matter how much I talk they don't listen to me. And because I'm so ugly, I'm horrible.

Nita and the wolf looked at him carefully. He was nothing like them, of course. He had two eyes that as he moved his head in which direction they turned into four, or six, he was curious. Each of a different color. Seen one by one they were beautiful, they shone. The hands were like mittens and he had two ears, yes.

"Tell me where I am," Boly asked, "I got on the rocket and it shot out without knowing where I was going.

- You are on Earth, where the wolf and I live; well, my family and everybody," Nita explained.

- Well, it's all very dark, I don't know if you've noticed.

- You're dumb, don't you see it's night?

- I don't know what night is, and what a fool is. I don't understand anything about Earth

Nita armed herself with patience and gradually updated him on how everything was; that when it was dark it was called night and when there was light it was day. And that a fool was someone who didn't know things.

- Well, in Perolandia there is always light, it is never night. And I'm not a fool, I study the quintennium and soon the sentenium. I know the sidereal spaces, the squares of the circles and the alypios of Mars. And I've been analyzing the Andromeda quasar. And triple factor math has no secrets for me.

- What words you spend - the wolf decided to speak - you have left us checkered.

And he let out a chuckle between his jaws. But it was too late and Nita and the wolf hid Boly in the same hole covering him with branches promising to return the next night.

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The night after they found Boly outside the hole and as soon as he saw them he told them he was very hungry, to bring him something. So Nita got what she could from the fridge; One apple, two pears. a banana and remains of beans with chorizo and half a plate of macaroni that had been left over.

Little Boly got a kind of little band out of his head and deposited the food there; First the beans, then the banana and then the other.

And as the food came in, it sounded like a kind of music, it was the most curious.

- Mmmm, I've never eaten anything so delicious, in Perolandia we don't have this tasty food. I want more, bring me everything you can.

- Now it's too late, Boly, tomorrow I'll bring you more again, okay?

- And you, what do you study? You know mathematics and arithmetic, history, do you speak several languages like me?

The girl and the wolf looked at each other not knowing what to answer, but the wolf said:

- I am a wolf and wolves never went to school, as children our mother teaches us to obey the head of the pack and to hunt rabbits and hares, partridges, and all those little animals that can serve as sustenance. To look for water and above all to protect ourselves from the man who considers us his enemy and whom we only approach to visit his chicken coops and flocks when hunger squeezes us and we can no more.

Boly waited for Nita's answer. She thought the answer.

- I go to school and learn things.

- What are things?

Nita lowered her head. He didn't know how to tell her the things he knew. And Boly understood.

- You have no studies, Nita, you do not know what there is to know. The other girls will be more advanced than you, right? You don't know Mathematics, Grammar, and you don't speak languages, right?

Nita was embarrassed. In short, I had told her that she was ignorant. And that hurt him.

- Nita, I didn't mean to offend you, nobody is born taught. But we have to learn many things to fend for ourselves and move through this complicated world and be useful to others. But we could do one thing, Nita: I'll teach you the things you don't know and I'll learn to cook the tasty meals you bring me, okay?

Nita liked the idea and the next day they put it into practice. Boly proved to be such a good and patient teacher that the girl inadvertently acquired the knowledge she had not assimilated in school.

At school he armed the revolution, was the astonishment of the teachers. Suddenly Nita got very good grades and no one could explain this unique fact. When he went out to the blackboard, he left his teammates with their mouths open. And she was always so happy that she was part of the other children's rings, she was the first to sign up for the games.

At home his mother could not believe that change. He took care of the animals in the stable, milked the cows and goats and took them out to the meadow. And, most surprisingly, he suddenly wanted to learn to cook and wrote down all those recipes that his mother stewed to put them into practice; He made potato omelette, fried squid, chicken chilindrón, little by little he acquired practice.

But a surprising fact happened: for the first time in her life Nita tasted and tasted all those foods that her mother made. The cause was Boly; he liked the meals the girl brought him so much and was so comfortable that Nita was curious and then envious watching him eat. He understood how many flavors and good things he had overlooked.

But the wolf also benefited from the teachings of both. He learned algebra, syntax, English, and notions of French, even how to make a rich garlic oil and a sponge cake.

They formed a very close team and the hours they were together flew by. But Nita was thinking about it and she told Boly.

- And you, Boly, why did you leave your planet leaving your home?

- I already told you; I am very small, everyone overwhelms me and nobody pays attention to me. Besides, look at me, don't you see how ugly I am? Horrifying.

- Boly, do you have a picture of your family? I would like to meet them.

- I'll do better than show you a picture. Look......

From one of their eyes came a ray of light and appeared as a giant 3D television screen, giving the feeling that they were part of the scene. Nita and the wolf saw images of Boly with his family. They were very tall beings, phosphorescent colors and extremely beautiful and fantastic. Of course Boly was right, he was very small by his side and not at all graceful compared to his parents and siblings.

Nita immediately realized the situation that Boly was going through.

- Boly, I think I already know why you are so small and look so nasty.

-Yes? You don't say......

- It's very easy to know what you're going through. Just answer me a question, Boly: when you were born your brothers were as big as they are now?

- Yes, of course, they were that tall and well-formed, and I was a birria next to them, although now I am not as small as I was then.

- Well, that's the key to everything, don't you realize? You are like the protagonist of a story that was read to me as a child and was called "The Ugly Duckling". It was very small and black, it did not attract attention at all. And when he grew up he became what he was, a beautiful swan that caused admiration. Thus, Boly, as time goes by, you will become tall and attractive like your parents and siblings, you will wear those colors so bright and amazing, and you will have only three eyes and not five or six as now. And your legs will be longer and your hands bigger and your voice prettier.

You are not ugly, Boly, you will be handsome and cause admiration. Now you are growing, you have to go through this stage.

- You mean I'll stop being small and with six eyes? That I will have the colors of my brothers?

- Sure, Boly, you'll see.

The little perolandio's face suddenly lit up and something that looked like tears peeked through his multiple eyes.

The wolf, who had remained silent all the time, rested one of his paws on Boly and affectionately said to him:

- I want you to know, Boly, that you are the most of the most, I never met anyone as amazing as you. You are funny, loyal, witty, funny, and even being small and with six eyes you are beautiful and attractive, really.

- Thank you, wolf, your sincerity moves me. I would like you to know my world, there you would not have to chase rabbits or chickens.

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After a while had passed, it was time to separate. It had been a time of fun, of surprises, but also of learning and above all of happy and affectionate friendship.

Nita learned through Boly and the Wolf to relate to others by abandoning her individuality and participating fully in her family life.

Boly regained confidence in himself and realized that no matter the size or physique of each one, that the main thing is what we carry inside and share with others.

The wolf discovered that he was at ease with humans and had good feelings and that there were beings and worlds as extraordinary as Boly

 

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Nita is still looking at the stars every night. She is enraptured by so much immensity and beauty. And she, and no one else but her, is able to hear the howl of her unforgettable and beloved wolf coming to her from the other corner of the universe.

And a sweeter-than-honey tear slips down her rosy cheek....

 

 

 

 

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