Tadeus Days by Miyamoto Donovan (10 best books of all time .txt) 📖

her told her that it was Jaison said where it possible could be, the police didn’t interrogated him and he went free really quickly. Laidy thought that a killer always return to the crime scene to brag what he did and in some way Jaison did that, and he did it at the funeral also.

People were talking, and they didn’t made Jaison easy his last days in College, probably they were right probably they were wrong, but one theory was that Jaison found Rolando’s corpse because he indeed was his executioner, but there wasn’t any logical explanation about why left college if he was innocent; some people said it was the grief, other say because someone send him a death threat, people were suspecting that the ones who send the death threat were the guys of The Cave Gang who were really close to Rolando; but those where gossip like many other stories.

Dominic knew the sad news by Laidy, but also he knew some other details by an ex-girlfriend who called him a few moments later after he finished talking with Laidy; the news spread like a virus, in matter of hours everyone knew it, everyone known that Rolando was dead. Dominic thought at first it was a joke, because her former gal was a little psychotic and she used to imagine things from time to time, but this time it was a real and Dominic was shocked because he never imagined one of his closest acquaintance was dead.

About 6p.m. some people were reunited in the outside of Rolando home in the neighborhood know as El Bosque, they were standing outside without muttering a word, all of them dressed in black, there many people some of La Tadeo, friends and neighbors, it was a silent procession, no one was really speaking and everyone was a holding a candle.

Laidy was between them; she was sitting near the Cave Gang, but maintaining a distance because she wasn’t part of the group anymore although she felt still in. Everyone looked in shock, but for Laidy her attencion centered on Edgar, Rolando’s long time partner. Even if they fought horribly, he was sitting there with his current partner, and everyone was giving the condolence to Edgar because there wasn’t any other relative of Rolando there, as everyone else were in Cuba.

Edgar was in complete pain, he never felt really happy again after that, and he cried for a long time because he lost someone was special to him. He never was an expressive man in public, he was serious and he always was circumspect with any aspect (at least in front of his students) but that time he was a wreck, and for the very first time his students saw a more humane face of Edgar, because nobody saw him expressing an emotion beyond a mere laugh or a small gesture of appreciation; but, for that time the people who considered him an automat they saw his humanity.

Laidy was looking at everything; she never knew a gay man could cry for his boyfriend, she started to think about many things, her head was a mess in that moment and she was feeling like awakening from a slumber, she started to see the world for the very first time beyond The Heroic, she started to see how there other people beside the common status quo, she started to see the other lives that were hiding in shadows because they knew they couldn’t by accepted by the common majority. Laidy was happy, it was strange because she had an epiphany, she felt more human than ever but at the same time a strange rage started to invaded her because someone took from her a dear friend she cared very deeply, a friend who was gay and gave too much to a society that didn’t cared about him.

About 6pm Emma was returning to her house, she was tired as she spent the entire day outside in classes, but she didn’t complaint about it as she liked to spend outside because she got bored being at home doing nothing. She knew that Rolando died while she was in classes, she wasn’t feeling anything, she barely knew him but still something was missing because Rolando helped her several times during many radio assignments, she was feeling empty because no one deserved a such an awful dead like that.

After she changed, she grabbed her cell phone and called Dominic, the first thing she said “Dude, you know I got terrible news”, Dominic replied “What happened dudette?”, “Dude, do you know that Rolando was killed?”, “I knew it dudette, I knew it”.


LAIDY AND TRAMP
First Chapter

Laidy was a rebel with a cause, she wasn’t the prototypical punk girl who talked like a parrot everything from Fidel or Chavez, she was a rebel in the terms that she did what she wanted in his life, ideologically she was a free thinker and thought that communism was an utopist idea that couldn’t be taken too much serious, but still she enjoyed hanging out with the Cave Gang because she thought they were interesting even with their stupidities.

A student of Publicity she had several classes with the Communication students, in a class of Masses Theory she met Dominic Lazarus and they were instant friends because she found someone who thought similar as her and for that moment both became almost inseparables, taking several classes together and hanging out outside.

A few classes that were Laidy’s favorite were all the Radio classes, because she loved radio publicity and because she was a friend of Rolando. Technically publicity students weren’t allowed to go to radio but Laidy convinced the dean of Publicity and the end she was in Rolando’s class.

People went missing every single day on a problematic country as Colombia, and it wasn’t common to see news about missing people or people abducted by the subversion or common criminals, Cartagena wasn’t the exception, after Monteria and Bogota it was one of the most dangerous city on the entire country and at the same time it was the jewel.

Living in Cartagena was a paradox, because half of the city was living in poverty and the other part, let’s said the touristic part is an exact replica of South Beach Miami, it was a city filled with contrast and contradiction, but yet it was beautiful not because of the ancient panorama but because the warmness of the people. Cartageneros were usually friendly to almost anyone, and they were happy which was a quality that every foreigner found appealing; people smiled a lot in that city, always there was music and happiness in the air.

The red chronic of the local newspaper wasn’t filled with hope, it showed the worst view of Cartagena, but one real view that was extremely ghoulish; the psychopaths killing in motorcycle was daily gossip, the interfamily violence, the sexual tourism, the murders at music joints, the scandals and the corruption of the politics was always present. Many people were leaving the city because they were scared, others leaved the city because they committed many crimes and they wanted to escape the punishment. It was really beautiful, but also it was really dangerous.

Laidy was growing bored of Cartagena, she wanted to go to Bogota as soon she graduated, because Bogota social climate was less tense than her hometown, and also because she wanted to be somebody, except that life can take other spins and she ended well but not as she wanted. She was bored to not see any future for anyone in Cartagena, she was worried to end like everyone else, worried about what she was going to with no future at all; but those worries didn’t came early in her life, they came as soon her graduation was near in the horizon.

In her college days in La Tadeo, Laidy was really well known with her thought image, but around her friends she was known as gentle heart that cared deeply about the people she loved. One of Laidy’s best friends was Rolando, she considered him one of her most value friends because he helped her to find a job in a school that he teach beside La Tadeo and Laidy was really grateful to him.

But for Laidy everything wasn’t in pink, she had problems at home because her mom thought Laidy was a lesbian and as well many people in college because Laidy was really friendly to many people and at the same time she was really sensible about the gossip that was around her. She never liked all that talk because she felt her reputation was being shattered and many times she cried at Dominic about all those gossips.

Probably for Laidy the worst punches she received in her life were when Rolando died and when the Gang backstabbed her; she saw Rolando as a fatherly figure because in her life there wasn’t anyone and her dad was always busy with something else, and the Gang was like her family with no blood relation, she trusted them until one day, the chubby one of the group, the one who always was resentful with everything and a little bit psychotic, she decided to start a gossip about how easy was Laidy and how her betrayed her boyfriend of that time (plus a few other stories in the process), Laidy had a huge fight with her chubby galpal, but she didn’t had any luck and the damage was done, one month later she saw the chubby one with her ex-boyfriend, but time healed that wound and Laidy didn’t care, the Gang was in her past.

About six month later, Laidy had her worst nightmare came true, Rolando was missing and no traces of him were to be found; she went several times at his home but the door was closed and no one answered. She was one the first people to join the search of their teacher, but her heart was broken when they found the awful truth and one week later thanks by Jesus, who said “he suspected he was at his home all the time”. A lot of people go missing every single day and until that day Laidy didn’t care about their fates, but when her friend went missing it was personal and she couldn’t start ignoring a problem that was present every single day in Colombia, she knew she had to make something, to make a difference, she became more political and outspoken about different issues, but something Laidy was going to remember it was the she lost her friend in the middle of an April rain.


THE RAINS OF APRIL
Prologue

There isn’t a mythical city in Colombia as Cartagena de Indias; is the jewel of the country and the second most important city after Bogota not to say that probably it’s most important city than Bogota, because worldwide is known better than Bogota and tourist usually associate the fun of being in Cartagena than any other city of the country. Also, many important events take place in The Heroic, and when an important visitor arrives for the very first time in Colombia, usually the first city that is show by the president is Cartagena.

Telling the story of Cartagena is quite complex, because there were 800.000 lives and a vast history that took from pirates to the revolutionary road of a continent; that’s why it’s difficult to talk about the history of the city, as it has been key in the development of a country, and also a continent; but there is a phrase that can suite the city very well “Beautiful & contradictory”.

For Dominic Lazarus, Cartagena was a synonym of adventure, but sometimes it was a homonym for routine and boredom; at his