ALEX
I went for a walk aimlessly, releasing my pain, I asked for a ride back to my apartment.
I started crying lying on my bed, clinging to my pillow, the pain and emptiness I felt was immense.
At that moment, my friend Jime called me, we do our internships together. I answer almost without energy, drying my tears.
📱Alex, hello, let's go out.
She tells me energetically and cheerfully as always, I have to take the phone away from my ear, it stuns me.
📱I'm not in the mood.
I answer her in a muffled tone.
📱Come on, Manuel is away, go out with me and Debora, she has permission, my father lifted her punishment.
She tells me happily, Debora is her younger sister, she was punished for her bad grades.
📱Really, I'm not in the mood.
I tell her and I can't stop crying.
📱Are you crying? What happened?
She asks worried.
📱No, nothing.
I tell her and she hangs up.
A second later it rings again, she makes a video call to me.
📱Look at how you are, we're going to your house right now.
She tells me and hangs up.
I reluctantly leave the phone on the bed, I look at the drawer where Manuel had a couple of clothes, for the days he stayed.
I wiped away the tears, took a bag and took all his things out of the drawer, putting them in the bag, I went around the apartment taking everything that was his, I went into the bathroom, I tremble from the pain of his betrayal, but I clean the medicine cabinet throwing away his medicines, he took everything, for allergies, and others that I don't even know what for.
He had his apartment, where he hardly was because of his work, the times I looked for him I didn't find him, he only came to mine and we met at my work. Now that I think about it, I didn't know much about him, he hardly talked about his past life or what he did when he wasn't with me, he told me that it wasn't important, that only the moments we spent together mattered.
When reflecting on it, I fall sitting on the floor feeling the weight of disappointment, I was very naive and trusting, he was clever in having good oratory to convince me, and not telling me anything, he had everything very well planned.
Then I hear a knock on the door, I get up reluctantly.
"HURRY UP ALEX, WE'RE GETTING OLD" Jime shouts.
I open the door for them, as soon as they enter they squeeze me between the two of them.
"What's got you like this? You're more subdued than usual. Debora comments."
Because I work a lot I'm always tired, I don't talk much and I don't make myself noticed like them, who are scandalous when talking, it seems to be a family thing that they are like that.
"Manu... He's cheating on me with my half-sister. I told them in a thread of voice and the crying flowed more strongly."
The two hug me tenderly.
"HE'S A DAMN S@N OF A B*TCH!"
"HE DOESN'T DESERVE YOUR TEARS!"
They tell me in chorus.
"WE'RE GOING OUT, YOU SHOULDN'T STAY HERE CRYING FOR THAT IDIOT WHO DOESN'T DESERVE IT."
Jime tells me decisively.
"They've been going on for three months... And he spent the wedding savings on her... He buys her clothes, shoes, and who knows what else. I tell them blowing my nose on the handkerchief that Jime gave me."
"UNLOAD, CRY, BUT YOU'RE NOT STAYING HERE LOCKED UP, WE'LL GO WHERE YOU GET RID OF THAT BAD VIBE. Debora tells me."
"It hurts a lot... I never imagined this... I was sure we were meant for each other. I confess to them what I believed."
"HE ONLY USED YOU, DON'T SUFFER FOR THAT WRETCH, LET US FIX YOU UP, I'LL GIVE YOU A TUB OF ICE CREAM. Jime told me."
The three of us went out together, I left the bag with Manu's things in the garbage container on the corner, before getting into Jime's car.
They took me to their house straight to their room, Jime handed me the tub of chocolate ice cream, while I ate to sweeten my sorrow, they checked their closet looking for an outfit for me.
"It's a Halloween party, at the disco, so we have to dress up. Debora tells me looking through her things."
"I thank you girls for what you want to do, but I'm not in the mood. I repeat to them."
Debora turns around and kneels before me.
"Please Alex, come with us, you're the most level-headed, after a long time I can go out again, without you they won't let me go, please do it for me. She asks me in a pleading tone."
I knew that her parents were strict, and they felt safe when they were with me, my way of being gave them that confidence that I wouldn't allow them to get into trouble.
I sigh deeply and release the air.
"Okay, I'll take a bath and join you. I told her finally agreeing to her request."
"Thank you, thank you, you're the best. She tells me giving me a hug."
I stayed for a long time under the shower releasing myself, I felt like my soul was tearing apart, but I couldn't melt down like that, I tried to do everything right, to follow the steps of how to have a relationship, I gave my best, and for him to pay me like this wasn't fair, besides I'm melting down in tears and for sure he's walking around happily with Reina, that just remembering her name makes my head hurt.
"DON'T WASTE ALL THE WATER" "COME OUT THAT WE ALREADY HAVE THE OUTFITS" I hear Jime shout to me.
When I came out I was surprised to see them changed and they had an outfit for me.
"What are you supposed to be? I ask seeing them."
"We are cowboys of the Wild West. Jime answers, who puts an image on the screen of her flat TV, which covered a whole wall, as if she were in that era and poses for the photo that Debora takes of her."
(Jime Kim)
"I'll publish it on our profile right away. Debora announces when she finishes taking the photo."
"Stand there, so I can take the photo and we take care of dressing Alex. Jime tells her hastily."
"Tell me what my outfit is and I'll put it on myself. I tell them with shame."
"Wait for me to take the photo. Debora tells me."
(Debora Kim)
Debora was a fan of the color red, but she took it to the extreme by dressing from head to toe in that color.
When they finished with their photo session, they took care of getting me ready.
They put a lot of cream on my hair and took care of doing a hairstyle, they braided my hair, they raised it forming a bun and leaving one end loose. When they finished they did my makeup.
"We'll leave you different, a new you will be born, so it will be like a disguise for you, of an attractive girl. Jime tells me."
"Thanks for the stick, does that mean I'm not pretty. I tell her offended."
"Ha, ha, don't take it badly, you are gorgeous, very beautiful inside, now we will bring out your inner beauty to the outside. She tells me amused."
"Do you realize that you insult me, you're telling me I'm ugly. I remarked to her."
They wouldn't let me see myself in a mirror, between the two of them they passed the brush as if they were painting on a canvas, but it was my face.
"Do you remember that dress you liked and wanted to wear for the day of your dance audition, but you didn't buy it because your younger sister wanted it, well guess what, I bought it and you'll wear it. Jime told me leaving me surprised."
I put it on with a knot in my stomach, I remember when I was eighteen, I liked dance, I always went to classes, and when I wanted to audition for a very prestigious institution, Reina went ahead asking my father, so I didn't go, the money wasn't enough to send the two of us and I continued my studies as a veterinarian because I liked animals. In the end she didn't finish, she didn't like it, she only did it to annoy me as always.
The dress fit me perfectly, it had a slit in the left leg that gave me the freedom for the turns I wanted to do back then and the lightness of the fabric when turning seemed to have wings.
The girls applaud and whistle for the result they obtained, they took photos of me from all angles.
"WE ARE READY, WE ARE GOING TO ROCK THE NIGHT. Jime shouts."
As we went out we met her father at the door, he looked at us from head to toe with his mouth open, he cleared his throat coming to his senses, when Jime spoke to him.
"WE'RE GOING TO A HALLOWEEN PARTY DADDY."
"I SEE." He said recovering his seriousness.
"WE'LL BEHAVE. Debora told him."
"DON'T COME TOO LATE, MAKE SURE THEY DON'T DRINK. The gentleman entrusts me handing me the keys to his car."
"Don't worry, I'll take care of them. I assured him with a smile, her father was very serious, I could never guess when he was happy or angry, but now I realized that he was surprised to see our costumes."
Jime drove the car, I didn't know how to do it, but she lied that she did, so he would let her drive the car.
We arrived at the disco, everyone was wearing a different costume, the girls were very suggestive, my friends seemed more covered than the rest.
"Let's go to the bar. Jime tells me in my ear."
The truth is that I wasn't used to that kind of place, I always dedicated myself to studying and the parties I attended were more family-oriented than of this kind.
There was no shortage of boys who came up wanting to chat, but Jime and Debora had a way of keeping them at bay that surprised me.
"THEY WANT TO TALK" said a boy next to another one approaching Debora and Jime, I was drinking my juice watching the scene.
"STOP" Jime was telling him putting her hand in front.
"CROSS ON THERE IS NOTHING HERE FOR YOU" was her phrase
Some left without problems others got more pushy, but they all knew how to run them off.
"Let's go to an area to drink peacefully, here the crows abound. Jime tells me who knew that I wasn't up for any boys, I just wanted to drink my juice."
We went to sit in an area where they had high chairs with a high table.
We were so quietly chatting, when commenting on the costumes, when among those who were dancing I see Manuel with my half-sister.
"RELAX ALEX, THEY ARE NOT WORTH IT. Jime blocked me when she saw that I wanted to go and confront them."
"BETTER TAKE YOUR JUICE. Debora tells me tenderly."
Without thinking I grabbed a drink that Jime was taking.
"MINE HAS ALCOHOL, YOU'RE NOT USED TO IT. She tells me."
"Give me more," you said that a new me was born, well a new me is born. I told her, when I wanted to drink more, I felt that a hand bigger than mine grabbed me preventing me from drinking.
"YOU SHOULDN'T DRINK, YOU ARE TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THAT. I heard that voice so deep and grave that made my skin crawl, he smelled so good, he looked very attractive that I was mesmerized to look at him."
"DON'T YOU INTRODUCE US. Jime called my attention."
"I'M HECTOR (He introduced himself) THEY ARE MY FRIENDS, DANTE AND SAM." He said when two more attractive and tall appeared on the scene, the one named Sam was young like Debora, he greeted her without wasting time by shaking her hand and Dante to Jime.
"IT'S A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU" They said in a tone so provocative that gave us goosebumps.
I realized that, my friends were smiling with drool two meters from the floor.
"I'M JIME" She tells Dante
"Jime, what a nice name" he told her in a deep and bewitching tone.
"I'M DEBORA" She introduced herself to Sam
"Mmm, I love it" Sam replied.
"What are you dressed up as, if it's not rude to ask?" Hector asked me keeping his attention on me by looking me straight in the eyes, I liked that.
"For being Halloween night, we dressed up, for my part as a dancer, my friends as cowboys. I told him, he was holding my hands between his that felt hot, I didn't mind."
"I had no idea. Tell me what it's about." He asked me.
"Here because of the music I have to speak louder and it makes my throat hurt. I confessed to him, for some strange reason I felt comfortable talking to him."
"Yes, we can go where you feel comfortable. He told me."
"The coast is nice at night and there are places where we can eat something."
"I invited him to a date being that I just met him" I think biting my lip, I see him smile and nod, he turns to tell something to his friends who nod.
When I stand up I feel small next to him, he is tall, muscular, like a huge double door closet, I love his long wavy hair that covers almost his eyes, it seems that he wanted to fix it with some gel but his hair seems to have its own life.
"They are hot and polite" Jime whispered to me excited.
She had a sense of knowing when the boys were jerks or not, she told me what she thought of Manuel and I didn't want to listen, so things ended as they ended with him.
Hector keeps his hand tight around my waist, preventing me from being bumped into, I noticed that Manuel was looking surprised at me, he froze when he saw who I was going with.
Before leaving I felt that they pulled me by the arm back, I turned around and it was Manuel, I looked at him seriously, Hector hugged me looking at him fixedly, my heart beats fast, I know Manuel's temper when he gets angry.
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