The Inevitable Evidence

1.

PDV Melora,

Buenos Aires.

It's 10:00 p.m. and we just got on the plane, I'm sitting by the window after fighting for more than twenty minutes with Laurie to find out who deserved to be on that side and despite all his arguments, I won. We're going to take off any minute and whiles she’s looking for a movie that we can watch, I get carried away by my thoughts, taking me back to the beginning of this summer.

At the end of the senior year, when I returned home accompanied by Laurie, my parents told me that we were going to Cancun during the two months of vacation to reconnect with my paternal family but also to allow us to discover all of Latin America. I remember jumping into my father's arms, delighted with this news. My mother even told us that she and Laurie's mother Corinne had plotted to have her go with us. It's like a dream come true and my parents were fully aware of it, since the death of my uncle we no longer see my father's family and I kept repeating to them over again that I wanted to see them again and reconnect with my Latin origins. I may be Melora Wheeler since I took my mother's name, but more Vargas most of the time. And I know that deep down, my father has this lack in himself if we fill him and my mom a lot.

This trip was even timely. I had to get away from Baltimore, get away from him, Tobias Goldsmith. It was he who made the first butterflies twirl in my belly, the one who aroused the stress of seeing him, of approaching him, of feeling him near me, of receiving attention from him, the one who stole my heart. I was young and blindly I clung to him, to the nascent feelings that were inside me. As a lover and best friend, I have always been there for him, to cheer him up and help him in all the trials that were going his way, without having anything in return. But somehow, I didn't see him, only his happiness carried me away. I was so enamored of him that I couldn't see that it wasn't reciprocal and I was running straight into the wall. And after years of unwavering love, friendship and support, I discovered that I had given for him. So much that when I understood everything I didn't have in return, I felt horribly bad, bad in my skin because my world revolved only around him, bad in my head because she thought only of him and that I had fallen from years a vicious circle from which I had to go out ...

This trip also allowed Laurie and I to meet beautiful people who introduced us to their world and culture. We be friended the group of friends to my cousin, Valentina, to whom we promised to return and not to lose touch.Thanks to this journey and Laurie's unfailing support, I was able to discover a new facet of myself and thus find myself and understand certain things about my character. And I can now say that I'm more Vargas than Wheeler and I'm proud to have that Latin blood in me, which still explains a lot of things, yes even the swaying.

My sidekick, whom I know from the sandbox clearly since our mothers have known each other for so long, had a certain chemistry with a boy and followed me everywhere. I think I'd be grateful to him for the rest of my life. I'm so lucky to have it.

So almost having spent our 2 months vacationing across Latin America i.e., from Mexico via Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay and Argentina; It was high time for us to come homer, unfortunately. But hey, we missed our loved ones in North America anyway and our life there, especially Laurie, who is as close to her mother as I am with mine.

The goodbyes with my family were a bit difficult but we managed to come back something strong to my father's delight even though he will never say it. And I promised my grandmother that I would come back for the big holidays this time with Auxalia, the third person in our trio and whom I have known since I was born. We are a reflection of the friendship that still unites our mothers. So, I'd take Lia next time my grandmother met her so much we could talk about her, Laurie and I and all our nonsense.

In fact, this is the last one that takes me out of my thoughts and asks me to get attached because we are going to take off and tells me that she chose our favorite film "Pride and Prejudice". My parents chose a night flight so we wouldn't see the defiant flying hours.

**

We just landed, the flight went pretty well and during the stopover in Miami we were able to do some shopping including Laulau who enjoyed buying mists of Victoria Secret perfumes for her and her mother while my father and mother went to order drinks at Starbucks.

I get up from my seat putting my bag on my shoulder while waiting for it to finally impose itself in line to get out, it can really be slow sometimes. My parents are already out there waiting for us. Once my head is out of the plane, I feel the slightly cool air changing from the rather warm one in Buenos Aires despite the few rays of sunshine that pierce the clouds. I missed the fresh air; I tend to prefer the cold to the warm.

Once in the airport, my mother informs us that it is my aunt who comes to pick us up and we have been waiting for a good ten of minutes that our suitcases deign to arrive.

Meanwhile, I watch my messages about the conversation of our group of friends where I can read a debate about bodybuilding between the boys that makes us laugh with Laurie, before she tells them that we have landed but they do not answer us ... I suddenly see my suitcase in the distance and warn my father to take it from me because it is too heavy for me to lift from the treadmill, which gets me out of my phone. Quickly, our suitcases arrive one after the other and we can head to the exit of the terminal. I can only hurry: to go home in my bed and not to move.

We wait a few minutes before seeing my aunt's SUV arrive in front of us, she says hello to my father and takes my mother in his arms while my father loads in the trunk. She then hugs me and kisses me on the cheek while asking my mother how the robbery went by kissing my friend beforehand. My father struggles to get all the suitcases in and asks my mother for help while my aunt gets back behind the wheel, the less she does the better; That's his motto.

That's when I see the boys typing a sprint towards us, I emit a cry of surprise when I see them arrived and understand that this was why they hadn't answered, to make a surprise, but what a beautiful felling to see them arrived with a huge smile... I give a nudge to Laurie, too busy trying help my father but I don't have time to do anything else because I am carried away by a rampaging Emilio and probably happy to see me again after two months since my feet no longer touch the ground. I laugh out loud and my mother meets me quickly and I guess me father's head, with this eternal smile in the corner and his eyes that I rise to heaven. Driss simply takes Laurie by the shoulders and gives her a kiss to her head since he is all out of breath and she still shocked to see them. Emilio ends up dropping me to the ground and I give him a huge kiss on the cheek.

Emilio's been my friend for four years now, we've been in the same classes and we've been buddies right away. He has always been very teasing towards me and recently, after a few long discussions, we are much closer and he pays a little more attention to me and seeks to help me; Good in its way eh because it is also not very demonstrative but I now know that I can really count on it. As for Driss, he is Emilio's best friend and since over the years we have formed a single group, we have all at least heard each other and forged stronger ties than the others. I like him, he's a cool guy and personally I'm less close to him than Emilio but I like to tease him sometimes and vice versa.

To present them physically, it's pretty simple. Emilio is tall in size, brown. He gives off something that usually makes the girls find him incredibly beautiful, he is funny and never takes the head and does not take anything seriously either, finally it depends what anyway. He is very decanted and loves to piss off girls, especially Laurie but he is also quite tactile.

Driss, on the other hand, is a large chestnut, rather small level corpulence but it does its little effect and that does not mean that it is not strong, everything is muscle at home. It's funny too, they're pretty much the same with Emilio after all. 

They offer to go with them to the port to have a drink and talk about the holidays. Lio informs us that Eidan is not available when Laurie asks them because he spends the day with his father, and even Jaison is not there, he spends the day with his family but hey I tell myself that I would see him at the beginning of the school year... I turn my head to my mother to ask her for her consent and she nods, asking the boys not to take me home too late and to call Corinne to warn her. Emilio swears not to bring me back late and Laurie promises to call his mother by going to give him a hug and say goodbye to my father while thanking them for the umpteenth time for the holidays - I quote - awesome of death that kills. Once Laurie's thanks are finished, we are immediately carried away by the boys where this time Driss takes Laurie in a potato bag while Emilio holds me by the shoulders laughing with me, who is shooting our best friends.

So here we are back home, and it's a crazy good.

**

Three weeks later.

When I woke up this hand, I remembered that I was going to college, no but who would have thought, surely not me! I still can't believe it. At the end of last year, I was so afraid of not being accepted where I wanted that finally I was accepted everywhere and I had to make a choice. My mother helped me enormously as well as my father and it was, he who blew me the idea to go into the publishing industry because he knew that I was really capable, that in addition writing is my passion and then I had the good head of a literary to what he told me.

Today is the first week of the new school year. We had our homecoming day a week ago to explain how our first year was going to go and start our classes based on our programs and options. To explain, Johns Hopkins University is quite broad in studies if we can say it like that, so we're all in the same college but we're not in the same classes and I think it's great because at least we're all together despite our various studies.

I get up, lock myself in my bathroom and blow a shot of water on my face and make up slightly, so I draw my liner on my eyelids and then apply my mascara. I take a pink lipstick in a drawer on the side and head into my dressing room or I select a pink polo shirt and a destroy boyfriend jeans that I will complete with my pink and white vans. I take my denim jacket off from his hanger and pull my white bag or put on a notebook and a kit before putting on my wallet, charger and lipstick that I took earlier.

While I try in vain to hang my necklace alone, my phone rings telling me that I have just received a message and I see that it is a message from Auxalia that asks me to move because she is in front of my house and she is waiting for me. Damn s**t necklace... Are you going to tie yourself up, right?

I finally got there, after a few minutes of battle against my hair that got stuck in it but I finally managed to tie it to my delight. I slip it under my polo shirt as usual and look at me in the mirror to see if everything is perfect.

“Melora hurry up!!! You're going to be late. Auxalia is already downstairs. I'll leave you some money for this lunch and... Scream my mother from below. 

-      Thank you love mom. Is Dad gone already? I say, and I won't let her finish talking since I just hurtle down the stairs, sliding down the railing, yes.

-      I've already told you to stop this mania to go down like this, I'll have to touch two words to Jaison ...

-      yes, yes, of course, mamounette*. I say, listening to him with only one ear too busy to grip a piece of croissant placed on the worktop.

-      And yes, your father left early this morning as usual. She answered my question by pouring her coffee into her thermos while I put on my vans. Have a good day. Will you be on your own?

-      Yes, Mom, go easy. I said, taking the money from the bar and giving him a kiss on the cheek. You're closing behind you? Do I end by joking because I go out before her by taking my keys in the box next to the door?”

I hear him grumbling as I walk down the driveway to my blonde's car. I stop to put on my jacket because it's still cold. I take my bag off my shoulder so that when I open the door, I can put it at my feet. I open the passenger door and rush into it, this car still smells as good.

"Hey beautiful kid! She greets me, once she sits in the next seat. 

-      Hey doll! What I missed you! I said to him, kissing him on the cheek and embracing him as best I can.

-      You too, my darling!!! It was too long without you!!!! She replied, hugging me too, almost choking me.

-      We're going to be late. I would add by taking my lipstick in my bag and apply it to me through the mirror in the sun roam.

-      She then said that it will be because of her... She replied, laughing and starting. We'll pick up Laurie first.

-      I know baby. It's business as usual! I said to him with a wink.

-      How seriously I missed you...

-      If you knew how you too, but don't worry next time I'll take you with me!

-      It's a new year that begins... Finishes it, with a huge smile. »

I just have time to hear Auxalia start and press the accelerator as my phone tells me I have a message; I unlock this one and read my mom's little message:

Good luck on your first day of curry.

I love you

Once out of my field of vision, I feel Eidan my side. He makes me look a little saddened before pulling me by the arm to bring me against him, I do not fight back and gives in to his sudden embrace when he begins to caress me the top of the skull and realizes that this is what I need. But I'm still told by what just happened, was it really Tobias? The one I've known since I was 13 and who I loved? If it's him, I'm disappointed with what he's become in 2 months of time...

After this short moment offered to me by my friend, to whom I end up answering by passing my arms around his waist which makes me the greatest good, we join the others. I ask where Jaison is, he is Tobias' best friend and all three of us have been inseparable since A short age and I have a rather ambiguous friendship with him despite my feelings towards Tobias. Driss tells me that I narrowly missed him because he had just left when we arrived, the girls and I. Too bad, I would see him at the break, I really need him…

The bell rings and we part to go our respective class. Laurie takes the same path as Goldsmith's other jerk, Auxalia and Driss go to their basic and applied research course, Eidan leaves the building to join Harmony, the last member of the group, in mathematics while me and Emilio take an umpteenth corridor for me to go my publishing art class and he macro-economic which happen to be two amphitheaters glued to each other.

I do not say a word of the whole journey and he does not know what to say to me or where to start but I leave him in the plane, totally absorbed in my thoughts when I take the corridor to go to my amphitheater but anyway, we will see each other at the end of our respective 3 hours of classes.

And I see him from here, put a hand in his hair and blow watching me go, helpless, and enter his classroom.

**

I don't understand... How can my former "best friend" be so cold and distant? Distantly, it always was but cold it never was, never. Even if we were fighting a lot, I felt drunk and even angry ... but not like today. Not so sure of himself, or was it because I always turned a blind eye to who he really was and I didn't know him as well as I was saying...

Why is he like that? 

Our last conversation was at Emilio's party, three days before I went to Cancun with Laurie and our friend had insisted that we enjoy one last evening before we all go on vacation and celebrate the end of high school. I remember we were both together and I was able to tell him everything I had on my heart, without restraint. I was so tired of carrying behind me this dose of unconditional love towards him, his scripts that were constantly playing in my head and the signs that I could distinguish without being able to have the truth. I totally gave myself up, without faltering. I told him from the beginning of our friendship how I felt, what I was able to do and how I felt. I explained to him all the signs I thought I saw when I told of the hopes I had nurtured and the harm he had done to me.

At the end of my monologue, he did not address me any words, not a single sentence. I remember wiping my face because I cried and turned around. I'd been waiting so long for a moment like this. I had simply told myself, that by telling him all this in front of him, in tears, he would have finally opened up to me, to tell me how he felt and thought in turn instead of being eaten by the shell he had built around him and that I was fighting to shoot down, in vain... And while I was putting on my shoes, he finally uttered three words and I left taking them with me. Because he had no right to tell me, it was even more cruel than if he had said nothing. These three words were the answer that I had been waiting for 7 years, that I imagined a billion times in my head and turned in all manners and under the pretext that I let go of arms to finally be free, he had pronounced them waiting for me what I had always done, think only of him. Except it was too late.

I cut myself in my thoughts when I saw that I arrived in front of my amphi, I even fail to get into someone, what a stupid mania ... I finally walk in, looking at something other than my feet, and I let myself fall on the first chair that came, next to a brown girl with the hair running. She turns her head towards me, studying me slightly before saying:

"Hi! Me, it's Anastatia, Ana for the intimates and you? She introduces herself, speaking softly because she seems to see that I am disturbed.

-      Hey, I'm Melora, enchanted! I answered him with a smile as I got my notebook and kit out of my bag.

-      Oh, I really like your first name, it's pretty. She answered me, kind as anything.

-      Thank you that's nice. I say but cannot continue to talk to him because the teacher arrives and starts his course directly by explaining the course of it. »

While Mr. Bartholomew explains the course since I'am now, I start to pick up, as does my neighbor at the table, who is scribbling on his notebook. We laugh softly since there are already black eyes that turn to us and I'm about to offer him a crab when my phone emits a vibration telling me that I just received a message from Emilio, he already wants me to fail him school.

Melon: I assume you have thousands of questions, don't you?

Me: Oh yes, at least! What was that since when he's been snubbing you like that?

Melon: Aha yes... I am not sure what happened to be honest. But this summer, he didn't want to come with us, didn't want to hear your first name anymore, and I had a lot of arguments about it, not understanding the change. But already that he was not demonstrative, he ended up closing in on himself and he started hanging out with Damian. 

Me: Why him exactly?

Melon: Since the Harmony story, Damian has gotten close to Tobias by talking to him apparently, which gets me a lot drunk, as if Brett was having fun taking everything from me...

Me: You have things to confide in me, I presume?

Melon: We'll see what happens later.

Melon: To tell you the truth, we've all seen Tobias changed and even though he's still hanging out with us, he's not the same way so we let it sink. You can't fight too much against someone who snubs overnight... And he proved to us this summer that he had completely changed by hanging out with the g**g in Damian and dated girls to reject them after...

Me: I can't believe it...

Melon: These are the rumors of this summer, now will know if all this is true eh... Melo, what did you say to yourself that night at my party? That's when he changed completely, and that's what I thought. What did you do to her before you left? 

Me: I just put an end to what he had already broken.

Melon: He told me the same thing.

Me: It's between him and me, Lio... I can't tell you anything more, really.

Melon: I understand... But you know that if you ever need it, I'm here.

Me: I know Lio, thank you.

Melon: I'll leave you; we'll see you later.

Me: Thank you.

I lock my phone and refocus on the course; Mr. Bartholomew ends up starting the first chapter. I delve into his program and notice that we will need to go to a laboratory, which is frankly cool even if I do not necessarily like everything related to science. He asks us to form duets for the next time, my eyes meet Anastatia’s as if it were a no-brained and we both laugh. Mr. Bartholomew tells us that it is time for a break and that we only have an hour and a half left before we go to eat.

I tell my new friend that I'm going to the bathroom and she tells me that she keeps my things. I pick up my phone, by reflex, and get out of the room.

I look around a little while I go to the toilet, finally I hope to arrive one day at the sanitary because of how big the university is. This college is a maze, there are at least a hundred corridors and the buildings are rather spaced apart judging by the benches and the many paths that can be taken outside when I glance out the window. I didn't have time to look around this morning, since we arrived through the main entrance. I meet a lot of female students as I walk through several corridors, they are all more or less leaning on their lockers and talking, like in a movie. I feel like I'm going to like it here, I'm surrounded by all my friends and I really have the ambition to succeed for my parents on the one hand because I want to make them proud of me but on the other, for me, I want to prove that I am capable of succeeding and realizing my childhood dream.

The first bell rings and I finally get to see what can be the toilet. Bingo! When I go inside, a lot of girls get their make-up back and talk about all the gossip in the university and I think I hear the name Of Goldsmith and Brett several times, no wonder what Emilio told me. I do my business quickly so as not to waste time since I wander around and quickly return to class not without watching again all around me this college that is worthy of the American series that I watch on Netflix, smiling of course.

**

During the hour and a half, we have left, the teacher puts us in the workshop asking us to analyze several subjects of duet editing. Of course, I'm going with Anastatia. This one is a real work ably, and we analyzed everything in 30 minutes time validated by the teacher who already praises us. The rest of the time allows us to get to know each other a little more.

She's a blue-eyed brunette girl who's the same size as me. She is smiling and quite playful, I feel I will not get bored with her. She lives in Towson with her parents, her older brother who is a waiter at a gourmet restaurant and her little sister who is in grade 6. She is of French origin and is very attached to her origins as she travels to France every year during the holidays. Which she's bragging about. She also has a best friend, Maélla, who is also studying here but in law. Anastatia is headless, always taking the good side of things and giving a damn about the opinions of others according to what she tells me. We exchange our phone numbers quickly for courses and projects that we will have to do together and possibly out after school.

My phone vibrates while we talk about our favorite series, I watch from whom it comes from and it's Jaison asking where we meet for this lunchtime on the group by message created by the girls this morning.

Guapo: Well, guys, we eat together?

Driss: Well yes! Reserves a table I have the slab !!! :)) 

Eidan: You're always hungry anyway.

Driss: I'm you off Eidan.

Eidan: ??

Melon: When they're done with their love quarrel, we may be able to answer your question Mr.

Lia': Exact! Where do we meet? 

Me: I don't know, but an easy place I'm a little lost there... Like I had to take I don't know how many corridors to get to the toilet

Melon: There are toilets right next to our amphitheater Mel...

Me: You Chuuuut! I didn't know about it!!

Melon: You're just blinded!

Me: Nianiania.

Lia': ???

Laulau': We've already finished with Jaison, we're waiting for you at the coffee because your stomach on your paw wants you to keep a table for!!!

Driss: But I'm pissing you off! I'm hungry, I'm hungry, they never say anything to Jaison!

Guapo: Leave me out of this story, you'll be nice :)

Melon: I'll meet Mel' in front of his amphi since we're next door and we'll meet you at the Lia lockers?

Driss: Even my best friend ignores me!

Lia': Oh, poor cabbage!

Melon: Stop being your victim:)

Driss: Pffff!

Me: Thank you!

Lia: You manage Lio ;)

Ndl: Guapo is the nickname of Jaison in Melora's phone.

The bell rings at last and I quickly put my things away wishing Anastatia a good appetite, which does not eat coffee. We agree to meet in front of the building for our afternoon class. On my way out, I see Emilio leaning against the wall in front of him and I take his arm while waving to my new friend.

During the trip, I tell Lio about my three hours of classes and his. I tell him that finally it's amazing but I like my program rather well and he's happy if I judge how he listens to me while smiling at me. At the same time, I struggled so much during high school that no one expected me to be accepted in publishing and it was especially he who helped me with our last year's events. As my friend begins to tell me about his program in turn, we meet Damian and Tobias, whose animosity I feel between my friend and the blond, what could have happened during the holidays between them? I promise to ask him later.

When my eyes cross that of my old love, I do not recognize my childhood friend, he looks at me with disdain like this morning and I cannot tell myself that he has changed so much, besides it is I who should blame him and not the other way around, and this turn of events is beyond me.

When I saw him from behind this morning, I couldn't believe it. She's changed so much.

Melora.

It's changed in 2 months, it's crazy. How is that possible even?

She's not the girl I've known for 7 years who hid behind her curves and I thought I knew by heart.

She became so beautiful, she lost weight and her hair changed color.

She finally takes responsibility.

The brunette with red highlights has given way to a brunette with ebony hair. When she turned around it was as if my world had stopped spinning, she was beautiful: I can see that her facial features have changed and she breathes the Latin air with her tan. I kept smiling, I can't.

I then became aware of her departure and my words, words addressed to my best friend and who left with it.

I blame her terribly, so why do I feel the need to feel her against me for the first time?

Forgive me in advance Mel'.

- Tobias.