SERVICE FOR EXCLUSIVE USE BY CUSTOMERS (5)

- You've got him working flat out - commented a customer. A while later, Mauro went over to the hallway by the storeroom and the bathrooms. Miki was cleaning the sink.

- Is it dry? Can I go through?

- That whole part is already... - Miki didn't look at him.

Mauro didn't use the urinal. He went where the toilet was and closed the door. When the stream of piss began to be heard, Miki imagined himself beneath him, receiving the warm rain from his uncle's cock. A mixture of inescapable arousal and self-contempt churned his stomach. Mauro flushed and came out without saying anything.

Miki finished the bathrooms and went into the storeroom. A customer, a friend of Venancio, the fat one from the churro stand, had paid him days earlier with ten euros and half a chicken, which Miki finished in two sittings, and that kept him with a special energy all morning. At noon he returned the bucket and mop to the kitchen. He almost ran into Mauro but dodged him again, heading out to the street, where he leaned against a car to smoke.

- You must be hungry - he heard his uncle's voice behind him. - What a beating you've given yourself.

- Better today, since it's Saturday.

- I've made Russian salad and there are the croquettes your aunt left prepared. Come in and eat something.

- My aunt...

His aunt? The one who looked at him sideways and barely spoke to him?

- She's your aunt, after all. And me, your uncle. You, my nephew. We're your only family.

Mauro turned to go in. Miki's voice stopped him.

- Your nephew? After...? Don't take it as a reproach. Mauro, Florín, the Romanian from Rubén's workshop, is renting me a bed. I'll be out of your house soon. The only thing is... if you can give me work, while I look for another job...

- Come on, there's no need to get like that, nephew.

- I don't want to cause you problems, much less embarrass you with the people in the neighborhood.

Mauro huffed. He was his sister's son. How to act after...?

- Nor for you to have problems with your wife. It would be uncomfortable for you to explain to her that your nephew is a whore and you charge him for lodging... like you did last night.

- What happened last night is not going to happen again.

- I'm not going to get into your life, but what are people going to think - Mauro tried to explain.

Miki stared fixedly at his uncle.

- Now you're changing the subject. People? You're worried about people? Apparently, the danger is no longer having temptation in the room across the hall.

- No... I can't talk about... It's very difficult for me to talk about that with you. I ask you to...

- Okay, okay. Let's go back to the people. The people...

Miki squared his shoulders, puffed out his chest.

- People like Venancio, the churro guy, is that who you mean? Or Josito, from the other works...