Surprises

By Delorita

Now I'm standing here beside Don Montero, and I'm expecting HIM! The hero of my heart, my soul and…I've to admit... the hero for whom my whole body has been longing since I saw this handsome man the first time in the trailer for "The Mask of Zorro". I'm grateful to the computer technology because now I look nearly like Elena, only I'm smaller.

OH MY! He's coming! REALLY! He's walking beside his servant Bernardo through the portal of the hacienda. I feel total weakness in my knees and a dryness in my mouth as he walks closer and closer. I'm thinking, was that really a good idea to come here to meet him? I grab my black lace fan painted with red roses, a special gift from my friend RoZita, using it to calm myself.

Alejandro makes a gallant bow to Don Rafael and I know immediately I did make the right decision! He looks so much better in reality than in pix or on the screen! His deep black hair with curls which want to spring up from the oil that slicks them down. The blue velvet jacket, the white shirt with the red cravat . . . And his deep soft voice! I don't understand one word because I'm too excited to use my English skills. I'm absolutely meeellltiingggg....

Suddenly at the words from Don Montero: "Please allow me to introduce my daughter," Don Alejandro turns and bends over my hand, which I raise to him as if in a trance. I feel his breath on my fingers and the touch of his warm hand, almost of his lips. My whole body shakes and as he looks at me with his magical deep brown eyes, I'm only noticing how the people and the walls are beginning to circle around me...murmuring...strange words...two voices...one of them very familiar, deep and sensuous...I get that lustful chill like always when I hear that husky voice. But it's not possible to hear it so close, nearly beside my ear! I don't wear headphones! THAT IS A DREAM....

More strange words...now I heard it more clearly...no, that's not English! I know the sound of this language very well although I don't understand one word...Of course! It's Spanish! Slowly I come to my senses. I'm in this AB world game.

"Delorita…" Nestor?? No, I didn't choose him! "Senorita," he says--I guess I heard it wrong the first time. I open my eyes and look in Alejandro's! Oh my GOD! I can't believe it! Alejandro is looking worried downwards to me, says something in Spanish but suddenly changes the language and asks: "Do you feel all right now, Senorita?" I'm trying to stand up. He still holds my arm until I say: "Si," The only Spanish word I know for sure. Alejandro is turning to Bernardo, begging him: " Please take care of her," and to me "I must go to the Dons."

I think, Oh well, now the movie will go on like I know it. Alejandro takes my hand to kiss it. But instead of passing me a red rosebud he's conjuring a white Romania flower for me, whispering, "I hope we'll meet somehow beside the waterfall," winking at me and disappearing through the door. I stand as though nailed on the floor. I look at Bernardo but suddenly it's totally dark. No, I didn't faint again. "Bernardo?" I ask but there is no answer. Slowly a fear grows up inside me. What if this computer game isn't sure? Maybe it's dangerous and defective and I'll stick here for the rest of my whole life....

Something cold slides across my arm. "Hilfe!" escapes from my mouth and I'm shrugging.

"Delorita?" a woman's voice asks. Since I don't know if I'm still in the movie or not I reply: "Who is it?"

"It's me, RoZita." She's holding my hand saying, "What's going on? It's dark in your movie too?"

I answer with an unsure voice, "Yes, suddenly it became totally dark and silent. Here must be something wrong!"

"WE NEED ABSOLUTELY SILENCE!" a technician's voice shouts at us.

***

Oh my eyes...SUNLIGHT!

I'm on the balcony of Don Montero's hacienda. I'm wondering, there is no scene where Elena is in this place...strange...

I hear a noise from the direction of the portal. It's a carriage with covered windows. As it stops Don Montero, another Don and Alejandro are climbing out of it. While the men are speaking together, my false father points to a place beneath the balcony. Alejandro nods and steps in this direction without noticing me. Curiously, I go downstairs. I can only see Alejandro disappearing behind a door.

Beside the door is a window and carefully I look trough it. I recognize the scene when Captain Love meets Don Alejandro in his office. The soldier places the big glass with Joaquin's head in it on the table. I shudder, it's disgusting in the movie, but much more so in reality!

Oh my God, Alejandro! He's not so calm like in the movie where only the muscle in his right cheek is twitching. He jumps up! In shock and without thinking it over I knock at the door immediately and step in.

"Buenos dias, Capitan Love..." I look at him with my sweetest false smile, feeling my heart pounding. "I'm so sorry, you've a visitor..." I raise my hand to the blonde man to distract him from Alejandro who's breathing very deeply. The soldier sets the container with the head beneath the table, probably hoping I didn't see it, then takes my hand and kisses it. Alejandro, a little bit more calmly now, nods to us saying, " Buenos Dias Senorita, I'm inconsolable but I must go now. Capitan...you may excuse me."

And he's gone. Although he was polite I could see the cold hate for Captain Love in his expressive eyes.

"Dear Capitan," I hear myself saying, "I want invite you to a little horse racing." I don't know if my voice sounds seductive but his glance tells me that he actually wants to do something else with me. Looking in his cold blue eyes I feel a terrible fear.... But I am determined to distract him from Alejandro. But I'm in trouble! I have never in my life sat on horseback and I don't even know where the stable is!

Captain Love takes my arm and leads me outside. I step downwards the stairs and suddenly I miss a step and fall…and fall…

***

Suddenly I'm in Elena's and Zorro's hot fencing scene...he's raising his sword and my heart is pounding in my throat. Not because I'm afraid he could injure me, no! It's his smile! His lovable sweet half smile that sets my heart racing. His blade slides through the thin material of my nightdress and now I realize the lack of the length of Elena's hair! Mine is only shoulder length!

Now I stand half naked in front of Zorro and can only cover my breasts with my arms. I blush totally. In a few steps he's beside me but he doesn't say the words from the movie which I expect. He whispers, "You are so small I'm afraid I could hurt you." I shake my head unable to speak, feeling his strong arms around me and drowning in the depth of his eyes. His mouth covers my dry lips with its moist warmth. Then he sighs deeply, "Oh baby..." I'm surprised to hear Zorro using those modern sexy words but it doesn't matter. His body feels so good and hard against mine. I put my arms around his neck, saying, "Don't let me go-not yet!"

We kiss again (unlike in the movie) deep and hard, ever more passionately...until we hear a noise from outside the stable. OH NO! The dreamlike moment is over, I think. He'll go now--again! But Alejandro takes my hand saying, "It's too late to run away. Come!" He pulls me to a ladder leaning against the wall. As fast as we could we climb up into the loft, then he takes the ladder away and lays it in the hay. The door of the stable flies open and we hear many soldiers come in and run around beneath us. We are hiding in the hay in a corner. I lie close beside Alejandro, watch him, smell him, FEEL the silky softness of his black shirt on my still bare skin...I'm almost in the seventh heaven...can it get better?

He doesn't look at me, he eavesdrops on what the enemies are saying while he takes his gloves off. Suddenly he's facing me whispering, "They think I'm outathere." Then caresses my check, my shoulder with his fingertips. I touch his face, something I've wanted to do ever since I saw him the first time. It feels warm and smooth and I get a sensuous chill all over my body. I pull at his mask asking shyly, "It's allowed?" "Of course," he says, his voice low and like a tender touch. I take off Zorro's mask (I wished it 1000 times in my day and night dreams) and as all his dark curls are free I'm able only to gasp. I breathe deeply and suddenly it slips out of my mouth what I've hidden in my mind for a year and a half, "Alejandro, I love you!"

"I know...Delorita," he says. I'm speechless for a few seconds then only one word comes from my lips: "Why...?" He bend over me saying: "Shhh, don't speak. Not yet." Then he takes me in his arms and kisses me again, caressing my tongue with his and I answer in the same way, forgetting all my questions, entwining my fingers in his thick hair and losing myself in the sensation of being kissed and held by the sexiest man in the whole world....

After few minutes his lips leave my mouth to draw a hot moist trembling line across my throat and behind my ear where he murmurs, "I love you too." And then faces me probably sensing my amazement. I stroke a silky curl from his forehead asking puzzled: "But you are in love with Elena!"

He strokes my hair back too, his eyes darker and warmer, saying, "Yes, and because you are able to pretend to be my Elena, you became my dearest now." To prove it he covers my whole face and neck with of tiny kisses. I can only whisper, "Oh my God, Alejandro..." and pull him much more close until I feel his silk shirt on my nude skin...

Loud voices bring us to our senses. "Get the ladder over here! He must be here!" Captain Love's voice calls.

We jump to our feet. Alejandro passes me his shirt that he removed earlier, then opens the loft window whispering: "We have to jump, they are too many. I can't fight against them with you around, they may hurt you."

He takes my hand and since we see nobody is on that side of the stable and there lies lots of hay and Tornado is waiting for us, we jump, just in that moment as the first soldier climbs up the ladder.

But I never reach the ground! It's as if the time stops or something...cuz suddenly I'm in total darkness AGAIN! I'm angry now--it's great to be Elena although it's dangerous sometimes. And every time I'm Elena it seems that's the reality, it seems somebody turns off my brain, I forget my normal personality! Every time I look at Alejandro I'm lost in his world it's like magic....

But now I hear unfamiliar voices again. I can see a room that looks like a studio. There are two women in it watching something on a big screen. One says, "Zorro should say now...wait, wait...I have to look at Delorita's story..." And the other one murmurs angrily: "Oh shit, that damn program! I hope she'll be all right when it's over--IF it's over! I believe somebody put a virus in here!"

Oh my God, that sounds very serious. Maybe I'll never come out here! Maybe I'll never see my hero again...

Of course I know now WHY Alejandro knew who I am and I'm a little bit shocked how easy they're able to change his words. He seems to be a comic-book figure. But he looks and sounds so real! What is going on????

***

The noise of the people in the cages is terrible, it's burning! My knees are weak because I'm so afraid but I must release those poor workers and children! As fast as I can I'm running through the mine, almost stumbling over my unusually long skirts. What would I give for a pair of jeans! Finally I find the pistol, taking it with shaking hands. My breath comes in gasps as I run to open the cages. Only one thought helps: I'll meet Alejandro unmasked and he'll look at me that way again and we'll walk away in the midst of all these people…

But oh my God, HE ISN'T HERE! I'm looking around in panic and then I see him in the distance still in the fight with Capt. Love...suddenly they fall...until the flames swallow them...

I don't know how long I stand here...I don't notice how much my whole body hurts, I don't know either how I came here and that once more it has become totally silent. The only thing I'm able to think of is, why did I come to this movie? I did all wrong! If I weren't here my hero would be still alive! And now he's dead! Yes, I saw him fall until his body was been swallowed from the fire! Although it was at a distance I'm sure it was he, a person in black clothes. Oh I NEVER thought the movie could change in this terrible direction! Maybe it's the reality now...like my Alejandro said...And I'm totally alone in this movie...game...life?! I stand up slowly, my heart is in indescribable pain as though it would burst into a thousand pieces....

I move forward step by step, closer to the edge of the rock until I'm able to look down...it's maybe 100 meters to the ground. I don't think of my children, my parents or my friends. I'm so much Elena now who lost her only love...I will jump. And then I will be in heaven together with my beloved man. I close my eyes only one more step...

Then I feel a touch on my shoulder and a male voice says: "DON'T!" It isn't Alejandro's voice.... "Please don't do that!"

DON DIEGO! He was supposed to be dead too...

"Girl, what are you doing? Come here." And he takes me in his arms to comforting me like a father. A deep sob escapes from my throat and I lay my head against his shoulder, tears running down my cheeks like a river. "Don't cry my child, all will be fine," he says caressing my head.

"But Alejandro is..." I'm not able to say the word.

"Come with me." He climbs on his horse, reaching down to help me up. I'm surprised; he isn't injured like in the movie, only a cut in his arm. We ride and ride. I don't care about anything; my whole mind is filled up with total sadness.... But then we leave the forest and come to a meadow--it seems familiar, yes, it's the meadow beside the waterfall, which hides Zorro's lair, which I described so often in my kiss stories--I THINK MY HEART STOPS! HE'S SITTING IN THE SHADOW OF OUR TREE! MY ALEJANDRO!

He's holding his head in his hands, seems to be sad too. Diego stops the horse and I jump down, running forward to my beloved man. Hearing my footsteps he looks up and immediately he's on his feet and I'm under the tree and we fall into each other's arms. He presses me as tightly as he can against his chest and I throw my arms around his neck. I'm only able to sob against his warm skin as I hear him murmur, "I thought you were dead! Oh my dearest, I didn't find you in that debris. I thought I'd lost you..." And he kisses my neck whispering: "Te quiero. Te quiero." I take a deep breath of relief and joy and begin to kiss his chest, moving upwards until our lips meet. His hands slide slowly down on my back pressing me against his body.

"Alejandro, I want you to make love to me," I say.

He bends my head back to gaze deep into my eyes, asking, "So soon?"

"Si, mi amor, si! I WANT IT! I wanted to feel you with my whole body and soul since I saw you the first time!" I sigh.

His answering smile melts me totally. I take his incredibly handsome face between my hands and taste his lips and tongue, a most electrical feeling. I don't care if it's a movie or a game or if some people or the whole world can watch me on the big screen. I FEEL HIM with all my senses and that is reality! And, like in my kiss stories, I hear him whisper, "I love you." and together we fly to the stars…