Chapter 3
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Fernanda was dancing with Facu ... weird. I don't like to dance very much, and it's not because I don't know but because so many people together suffocate me. So I went out to the patio where there was nobody.
I sat on the edge of the pool without my slippers and my feet in the water, there were some already inside but I wasn't going to get wet.
I've been there for a while when someone sits next to me, and when I see him I realize that he is the boy today. Hernán? Ian? Paul? Valeria? No ... that's a girl ... Valentine! Valentine?
"Yes, is Valentine".
"Whoops, did I say it out loud?"
"Yes" he laughed. "There's no problem".
"I don't understand why there should be one" I answer defensively.
"You're cute".
"Thank you?"
"I mean, you're pretty ... but, I said ..."
"Yes, yes, that's it".
"What are you doing here?"
"But how direct, I came with some friends".
"Ah ... who did you come with?"
"With ..." I can't finish speaking since I feel like they want to throw me into the water so I hold onto the hands that are on my shoulders. Looking up I see my best friend; " ... with him" I finish answering him.
"Hello gnome, hello ... you" he says insignificantly looking at Valentine.
"Valentin" he is going to shake his hand but Alex does not pay attention so he lowers her slowly looking at me.
"Let's go?" asks me.
"Do you want to go?" I ask him raising his head since he is still standing and I sitting, I see him nodding so I get up. "Well, bye Valentine".
"If you want to stay, I'll take you later".
"No, I'm taking her so bye-bye" Alex says practically dragging me by the hand.
"Hey ... are you okay?" I ask him as we look for his car.
"Yeah, I just ... wanted to go".
"Okay, you don't like Valentine right?"
"Did you see how he looked at you?"
"Okay, if I didn't know you I'd say you're jealous" I speak without thinking, but he meets his lips in a straight line and keeps looking for his car.
He sighs and grabs his hair, what's wrong?
"There it is" points to the car.
"Shall we go for some pizzas and watch movies at my house?" I ask him, he's never like that, maybe he's stressed or something and that's how it passes.
"It's a good idea" he smiles as he opens the door for me to go up.
We got to the pizzeria but I didn't feel like walking.
"Take me in your back".
"No".
"Why?" I look at him sad.
"You're not going to convince me".
"But ... ok" we get out of the car and he stands next to me.
"Ok, go up".
"Thanks" I get on and we go into the pizzeria.
While we order the pizzas and they make them, we go to the next door ice cream parlor with me still in his back.
"What are you going to want?" Alex looks at me and I just nod, that's how we understand each other
"1kg. of chocolate and lemon".
"I already prepare them".
"And that's why I love you" I say in his ear while I give him a kiss on the cheek, he just laughs.
"Here it is".
He pays, we take the ice cream to the car and go back to the pizzeria.
"They already have their pizzas in the box".
"Thank you" we say at the same time.
We go to the cashier, this time I pay and we go back to the car.
"What movie do you want to see?"
"Mmm ... let's do a marathon of fast and furious" I say as a little girl.
"And that's why I love you" he speaks repeating the words that I told him today.
We carry the pizza to the couch, lie down with some blankets on top and put the ice cream aside as we like it half melted ... I know, weird.
We look for the movies since I have them all on DVD and we put them aside. We put the first one, we settled down and we put it on play.
The first movie ends and I'm going to throw away the pizza box.
"Bring scoops for the ice cream!" Alex yells at me from the couch, I grab them and go back.
We are about to put play when my cell phone rings.
"Hello?"
"Oh, and she deigns to answer" Fer speaks.
"Oh ... hello Fer".
"Hello Fer? Didn't you forget something?"
"Of what?"
"I'm going to let you figure it out alone".
After what it seems like a long time I look at Alex and realize that we are gone. Whoops ... we left them at the party
"Uh ..." I stammer and don't know what to say.
"We see that it was true that they were going to leave us here" Facundo shouts from the bottom.
"No! That was a lie, we swore it".
"It doesn't matter, we are going back with a friend of Facu".
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we're really sorry".
"Nothing's wrong, silly".
"Sorry" now I want to cry, my period dropped and I'm sensitive.
"Nothing happens Eli, see you tomorrow".
I say goodbye and a tear comes out. I can't believe we left them at the party, I feel like the worst friend in the world.
"Why are you crying?" I just look at him and hug him. "Oh oh ... sensitive ... weeping ... Andres came?"
"Yes" now I cry louder, he knows how I get. "We leave the boys at the party, we are bad friends".
"No, we are not, we forgot and they understood".
"Not the same".
"Do you want ice cream?"
"Yeah".
"Can I serve it?"
"No".
"Do you eat it from the pot with me?"
"Yeah".
"Are we still watching the movies?"
"Yes".
"Do you want more blankets?"
"No".
"Are you going to say something else than yes and no?"
"No".
"I love you".
"Yeah".
"Yeah?" I smile at him. "I wanted to see that".
"I to you old man".
"Shut up gnome" we laugh and continue with the movies.
I forgot to say a detail, I live alone. My parents along with my little brothers (a girl and a 3-year-old boy, Ignacio and Renatta, are twins) live in the upper apartment but I live completely alone down here. Since this summer I started living like this because the apartment was on sale and my parents want me to know how to live alone, keep up with taxes and continue with school, I like the way the way they think.
"Would you stay to sleep?" I ask him.
"Is that an invitation?"
"I think so. But why would I ask you?"
"Oh sure, if I stay".
We are now on the third movie but I started to get a little sleepy so I lean on Alex and I close my eyes little by little.
POV ALEX
The third movie ends and I see Eliana who fell asleep on my shoulder, she looks so beautiful asleep ... and calm.
I turn off the television. I prop her up against the couch, climb a few steps to her room and open the bed for her; I go down it and raise her in my arms, I arrange it well on the bed and finish covering it. I go downstairs and settle on the couch to sleep, I bring sheets and use the blankets that we had brought to watch the movies.
Eli has been my best friend for years, we have always been close and our families know each other. We always feel good being with each other, wherever they are.
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