A Birthday Banquet in Mezzojuso (a little village close to Palermo)

"Could I come with you on Sunday? I can help you". She surprised of that unexpected question but that it gave her an instant of happiness and so she answered in instinctive way and with some embarrassment "Yes, of course, you can." But she changed her mind immediately after, not because she did not want him with her or it was not a pleasure for her have his company, rather just the opposite, but she was afraid of herself.

She knew how she metamorphoses herself while is working in the kitchen, if something had not gone for the correct way she would have been able to have aggressive reactions which would be interpreted badly. They had been frequenting for two days, perhaps three, he didn't know her and she is not be liked to show him hers "dark side of the moon" he would be to do a wrong or led astray idea. But she didn't want to give up spending some time with that man was "fallen" in her life almost accidentally.

E pranzo a Mezzojuso fu!

“Domenica potrei venire con te? Ti posso aiutare?”. Si stupì di quella domanda inattesa ma che le diede un attimo di felicità e rispose in modo istintivo e con un po’ di imbarazzo “Si, certo che puoi”. Ma se ne pentì subito dopo, non perché non lo volesse con lei o non le facesse piacere avere compagnia, anzi il contrario, ma temeva lei stessa. Sapeva come si trasforma in cucina mentre lavora, se qualcosa non fosse andata per il verso giusto avrebbe potuto avere reazioni aggressive che sarebbero potute essere male interpretate. Si frequentavano da due giorni, forse tre, lui non la conosceva e non le sarebbe piaciuto mostrargli il suo “dark side of the moon” si sarebbe potuto fare un’idea sbagliata o fuorviata. Ma non voleva rinunciare a passare del tempo con quell'uomo che le era “piombato” nella vita quasi accidentalmente.