Zodiac (1 Saga)

Philadelphia, New Jersey, USA August 2025 - winter That day was like any other, Nieves always got up early enough to get ready, she took a long shower to be able to wake up from her drowsiness, she dressed in the uniform; gray dress pants, a white shirt always rolled up to the elbow, a tie of the same color as the pants, a gray sweater and a jacket with the school logo; black shoes, her hair combed, although she almost never dedicated herself to it because they were always unruly. After getting dressed, she left her room, passed the hall and went down the stairs, heading to the kitchen where she prepared her daily breakfast; Cereals with milk and toast spread with grape jam. At the time of leaving the house with her backpack on her shoulder and her headphones on, she always stayed a few seconds looking at the clouds, she was impressive. Her walk was always the same, she greeted the neighbor; Mrs. Gordon, a plump woman of about 67 who loved cats, her husband had died in the Civil War, being one of the most important soldiers, she had been told once when she visited her on her mother's orders. Near the house two blocks away there was a square where the little ones went with their parents to have fun or relax, in the square there was a large oak tree, they say that it was planted 300 years ago by a strange foreigner named Wilmur Hanson, who colonized the country for 30 years. He smiled a little when he felt the cool wind against his face, it was inevitable not to. - Snow!. -I turn her face a little to meet her friend Gabi of hers. (taking off his headphones and putting them in his backpack) - Gabriela. -I greet when he was already next to her. - Such was your vacation?. Her friend asked, placing a strand of hair behind her ear, blushing at the look of her dark hair. - Nothing new, we went to Canada to visit grandma. -She said, bored, she sighed- And you? She-she returned her question by leaving the backpack in her locker, only taking out the literature book and her notebook and her holster. -We went to Italy, mother had already planned to go after my birthday, she brought you a gift. -With enthusiasm she took out a small box wrapped in neon paper, Gabriel's gum. Taking the box a little awkwardly, I keep it in the locker. - I'll open it at lunch. -I add so as not to disappoint her only friend. It was that she didn't like it, it was that her behavior with her made her uncomfortable, it was that she already knew her friend's s****l orientation and although she wasn't against the LGBT community, it made her uncomfortable since for her she only saw her as a friend, nothing more. Entering the Literature room, they took the front seats like every school year and got ready for class with Mr. Richmond; a quite handsome Italian man, although quite conceited since she liked that the girls in the class sighed for him, which made her laugh, but not her friend. After a long and boring Literature class, they went to History classes with Professor Gómez, one of her favorite subjects after Geography. At lunch, as she had promised, she opened the present; it was a bracelet with a heart-shaped charm, the ones that didn't surprise her was the kiss on the cheek from her friend, she just had to smile a little to thank him for her gift. At the time of departure they said goodbye going by different paths. His way home was the same. When she got home she just greeted her little sister Anna who was playing in the living room with her dolls, she went up to her room where she left her backpack on the bed, took off her jacket and sweater, closed the door before getting dressed. Going back downstairs, she found her mother concentrated on the computer and on some files, lately her parents and she were not on good terms, her change was something they did not like, if she loved dressing in wide pants and shirts, the She had liked the tomboy theme for a year, she had explained it to them but they did not want to understand, they only commented that her rebellion would lead her in a bad way, that she should set an example for her younger sister and be a woman like she had come to the world and not behave like a man She went to the kitchen for a glass of water. - Who are you going out with? – I hear her father from the kitchen door. It was rare to see him home at this hour, when she should be at work. - I'll go to Gabriel's house to finish the Literature work that Professor Richmond sent us. - He answered sipping the liquid from the glass. She wasn't lying to a great extent, she was going to go out, but she wasn't going to go to Gabriel's house, she wanted to relax a little, get away from the house and the problems, besides that visitors would come; her cousins ​​the troublemakers with their annoying parents, she didn't want to be there when they arrived. "You should remember that your cousins ​​are coming today," she mentioned with a smirk. "Besides, I had already told you not to get together with her or that her abnormality would hit you," he pronounced with disgust. He looked badly at his father, he also didn't like that about them, they were homophobic and two-faced racists and he was beating his sister, his way of raising her was not correct, she was only a 5-year-old girl but with a very great intelligence, which can absorb everything in its little head. -That's not my problem, it's you who invited them, not me, and I won't change my only friend because she's a Lesbian, she's the only one who understands me. He put the glass away after washing it. She left the kitchen with a frown and a scowl on her lips, she went back to her room for her backpack with something other than her things from her school that were on the bed; she had placed inside it her cell phone, the computer where she always wrote, a book to read in case she gets bored, her headphones, an extra jacket in case the weather got worse, although she didn't think much would happen. He looked around so as not to forget anything and he slung his backpack over his shoulder, he went back down to the first floor and without warning that he was leaving the house, although he was not saved from seeing his uncles' car park in front of the house, his uncles they came out first with their heads held high, he also saw his 10-year-old cousins. With annoyance on her face, she walked away from the house. Her walk took her to the square where she approached the large oak tree, there were a few benches around so that people could sit under the tree, an act she took, she took a long breath feeling the cool pass through her nose, she smiled as she felt the peace in his being, he loved that place because of the oak, it was as if it calmed you down. She took her cell phone out of her backpack along with the headphones which she connected directly, she put them on to play her favorite music, DOMELL, a new rock band, on her cell phone. She took out the computer, she didn't worry if it was stolen, today's security was very good. She spent her time writing, it was her daily routine to relax, sometimes she did it at home, other times in the square or in the center of the city having a coffee, it was not common to see a girl alone on the street and drinking coffee, many women criticized where their parents were, why they were left alone etc, etc and it was annoying to hear them, she was old enough to take care of herself. Lately he loved to write, he started in a small notebook since that time he did not have a computer, it fascinated him so much that when he had his laptop on his birthday, he published it on a trusted page, scammers were common all over the world, viewers went up a lot that his book ended up selling, which surprised him because it was only a 40-chapter book. - Excuse me miss. – He looked up from the computer, finding himself with a middle-aged old man, his forest green gaze bothered him a lot. - What do you want sir? – He asked closing the computer. - Would you know where Lombard Street is? – He stared at the old man for a moment before pointing. - That's two apples, right sir. – He replied. She looked down to put away her computer still with the man's gaze on her and the awkwardness was still there. - Oh well, thank you very much miss. – The old man spoke with a smile, he turned to leave but I stood there looking at him. – Be careful with him or you will end up in the dark. As fast as he heard that phrase, he looked up, finding himself alone, the old man had disappeared out of nowhere as if he hadn't been in front of her. She would go home and lock herself in her room so she could think about what the old man had said.