What is the English translation for chapter 20 in la chica de los zapatos verdes?

Answer 1

Chapter 20

From afar, Laura hears a familiar voice shouting: Leave her alone! Leave her alone! ...

The woman, startled, leaving Laura, who falls to the ground.

"No ..."shouts Julio. "Why, mama, why? How could you do this?"

The mother looks at her hands. Then, sees how her child helps Laura get off the ground.

"Mama, "says Julio, "you killed Maribel. It was you ... right? Yes. Were afraid of being alone. Thought I was going to go with it ... you never liked my friends. All were low for you. Why, mama? Why can you not be like all mothers?"

The woman tries to get closer to Julio, takes his arm, kisses him and Laura goes back to being frightened.

"I only have you, "she says. "When I saw your father die I got it: I only had you. I always wanted to see you happy. All those girls that were hurting you. They were not good for you. You really wanted, only I, Julio, just me".

"No!" the young man begins to cry. "You are sick, you are sick! When I was a kid, you left me hours and hours in that dark, dirty room. I just wanted you. Then, I started to have friends and called them by telephone to scare them. So they laughed, so they did not come near me. What have you done with my life, mama?"

Julio suddenly sits on the floor and begins to mourn in silence. His eyes and mouth open and looks strangely skyward. Has seen the truth. Too late. Now it seems to be somewhere else, lost in his past.

"Maribel, poor Maribel" child's voice says as he cries." Maribel, poor Maribel" he continues ...

His mother goes to him and sitting next to him takes her in his arms. Julio did not realize anything.

Laura then heard a noise. Someone is closing the car door. Three men get out of it.

"Carmen," shouts the sheriff while Fargas is fast approaching. "What are you doing here?"

She is silent, just looks at his brother very seriously.

The inspector Julio Ibanez takes his arm and lifts him off the ground.

"Madam," he says, "I will arrest your son for the murder of Maria Cornet ..."

"He did not kill her!" Carmen Fargas gets up and begins to speak very slowly. "He is not the murderer. I killed that girl ..."

"What did you say?" asked the officer. "You cannot help your son, Carmen. We know everything. From the first moment, I thought that he could be the murderer. But we would not believe it. And I knew it was going to hurt you so much ..."

"No, Mr. Officer," says Laura. "The truth has been told. She has also tried to murder me. She did not succeed because Julio came quick enough. Believe me, if not, now I ..."

"You all right?" Enric asks.

Laura says that she had the neck with one hand. On the left side has a strong red mark.

"No way," says the officer. "It is impossible. Maybe Julio, but my sister ... No, no...!"

Carlos Fargas brings his hands to his face. "It is not true," he says quietly. "No ... not her".

"Maribel, poor Maribel" Julio starts talking again with a child's voice. "She is my life, so happy ... I always laugh. I want to play with them, Maribel and Laura, but it's bad, if very bad ... I'm alone, I cannot get out ... but I pass through the window. Maribel! ... Laura! ... They are my life. I killed an ugly rat yesterday but today there are no rats ... Just Laura, Laura ... But she is different ...

Everyone looks sad at the young man, who has returned to his past forever.