If the person who wanted to separate them thought that she had been successful, she was terribly wrong because very soon she saw Chester and Ilona again at the Bistro.
She took place very near the table their table. She did if though she was reading but she was trying to overhear their conversation. Yes, you are right. It’s Cynthia, the woman who had been so bad to Chester when he was a young adult.
She was very envious; it’s her character. She couldn’t do anything about it. She was just not capable of keeping a man’s interest. That’s why she felt sick when she saw other people in love.
Chester only had eyes for Ilona so he didn’t notice the presence of Cynthia.
A few days after, when they were again at the Bistro, Cynthia was bad humored and when she saw Chester and Ilona hugging, she just pushed Chester. He couldn’t keep his balance and he fell.
While he fell, she shouted: “Why don’t you watch out where you stand, you idiot!”
Ilona went inside the Bistro to see if there would be somebody able to stop this unpleasant confrontation. A young man came outside and tried to stop the word fight between Chester and the woman and he did a real good job. Meanwhile Ilona sat down because she had become very nervous.
Later, when Chester brought her home, he said that it wasn’t important at all but Ilona never had seen Chester that upset… She wondered why…
Chester felt horrible when he found out that Cynthia was around and it took him a long time to be able to sleep. As disgrace never comes alone, the burglar’s alarm woke him up.
After that it cost him again a lot of work to fall asleep again. He just did not understand how Cynthia could be so mean to him; he had not even gone to the Police when she had robbed him. He still remembered the devilish way she looked at him.
He tried to get her off of his mind. He had some hard working days ahead because he had to work extra hours for an important investigation. On that depended if he would have a promotion. He had told Ilona already that he had to work more during a week and he was very sorry about it.
Ilona then, spent a few days alone. In order not to be bored, she took long walks. Most of the time she ended up on a terrace. That day a women asked her is she could take place at her table. She took a laptop out and started writing and at the same moment she chatted with Ilona.
Then the woman explained that she was writing a novel. It was based on a real story that happened to a woman who helped her a few days weekly with her household. She said that the assistant’s name was Cynthia and she had to earn her living cleaning up houses because her husband, Chester Hemmingway, had abandoned her without caring about giving her money to be able to live. Now this Chester had found somebody else to fool. Her name was Ilona Picasso. But this Ilona however deserved it because she had abandoned her twins after giving birth.
Ilona stood up and said: “If this story is inspired on reality, you’d better change the names; otherwise you could have serious problems with justice, just because you believe somebody working in your household.”
Then she went to another terrace where she sat down and ordered something to drink.
Ilona is a very smart woman and it didn’t take her a long time to combine the anonymous letter with the ordinary woman at the Bistro. She wanted to ask Chester what his relationship was with that woman because she suspected that he knew her but she didn’t think that he was married to her. She did not want to bother him while investigating for his work so she would be patient until they would see each other again.
She was a little nervous but tried to tranquilize herself thinking of the nice character of Chester.
Chester had finished his investigations one day before expected and got a real good promotion. He cleaned his house and he thought that it was too small. Besides that, there was a lot of humidity. On the other side of the street, there was an old farmer’s house that had recently been modernized. He decided to buy it.
Afterwards he called Ilona to tell her about his new acquisition but she didn’t let him speak. She asked right away: “Chester, is that woman that shouted at you at the Bistro, familiar to you?”
Chester said: “Why do you ask that?”
Then Ilona told him about the woman with the laptop and what she had told her.
Chester took a deep breath and he told everything about Cynthia and he was pleased to hear that Ilona believed him.
Chester was aware that he couldn’t leave things how they were right now. He had to take some important steps.
He made a phone call to his work asking for the next day off. They told him that there was no problem.
He looked in the telephone book if he could find the address of Cynthia del Campo but he couldn’t find it. Then he had the idea of looking in the professional pages and there he found her under “household assistants”.
Now that he knew her address, he prepared himself mentally about what he was going to say.
Next day he took his bike to her place, because this last week he had been sitting and investigating all the time, so he needed a bit of movement.
After half an hour, he arrived at a small house. He rang the bell but there was nobody home.
He crossed the street to a bar-restaurant and had a sandwich and a tonic.
Afterwards he went back but there was still nobody. He waited a moment and decided to go home when all of a sudden Cynthia came walking.
Cynthia: “What are you doing here?”
Chester: “I would like to talk to you. Let’s say that I just want to shake hands. The past is forgotten and I wouldn’t like to repeat a scene like the other day in front of my best friend.
Cynthia: “Oh, you mean that creep who abandoned her twins?”
Now Chester really got mad and he said: “So it was you… I should have known… you really are a bad woman! And I thought that I could shake hands with you.”
Chester: “Leave us alone and don’t you dare to come close to Ilona because I love her and I’ll ask her to marry me.”
Cynthia in a sarcastic way: “Oh, how romantic…”
Now Chester was not very sure but he tried to sound sure of himself when he said: “I think that I’m not the only person that you fooled. I know Mr. Koffi’s story and I bet that you did that to him.
Considering Ilona; they have seen you searching for her private information at the internet register of SimCity and the Simish Islands. That should be enough for the Police to investigate on you.
Cynthia: “Well, well; the little boy has grown up. Quite smart of you and yes; that’s all true. That Ilona of yours shouldn’t throw her correspondence into the trashcan. That’s how I came to know where she is from. She still receives letters from the Simish Islands, telling her how the twins are. Further on it was very easy to get all her information. And speaking about Koffi… yes I stole everything from him and he even had to give me a 2 month salary, because the fool felt sorry for me… That’s all true but you cannot prove anything….nothing at all.
Chester (pokerfaced): “That’s what you think. I’ve got a small recorder in my pocket and every word that you said is on that recorder. You dug you own grave. This is enough evidence to go to the Police and you will be out of the running during many years.
Cynthia said: “I’m fed up with you, go to hell!”
She went inside wondering if Chester had told the truth.
Chester went to the bar-restaurant and he saw from the window how Cynthia left with all her belongings.
He sighed with relief and was happy that his lie had worked because he had no recorder at all…
Before going home, he went to a jewelry shop. He had a shave and phoned to Ilona.
To be continued…
From Sims to Real Life 