Chapter 2

All my insecurities lay in the fact that I had to leave home. 

I know it sounds crazy, but I was so afraid of running into my ex-fiancé on the street with that redhead that my body was starting to hurt. 

- Take off those glasses Rebecca, the day is cloudy as usual, the glare isn't hurting your eyes and they're not wandering around town! - said Anna. 

I took off my glasses and made her the ugliest face I could muster.

- Did I make it that clear that I'm afraid? No need to answer me, let's go into the cafeteria and get this over with, please! 

I didn't feel like eating, I didn't feel like being there at all. But I didn't want to be the annoying woman who leaves her friend talking to herself, especially a friend who is about to walk down the aisle. It was crazy to think that everything was going to change and that she was really going to tie up with Ian.

- Tell me, how are you? - I was trying to participate in some way in her life, and I didn't want her to think that I was going to kill myself all the time. 

- I'm fine Beck, the wedding is driving me crazy! - she said, cutting the subject and taking a sip of the house specialty chocolate milk shake. 

- Fine Anna, you can talk about the wedding without making me want to puke, girlfriend! - I said smiling

 

- Really? Oh, I'm sorry, it's just that I don't want to see you in a bad light, but this is the center of my universe right now. Ian is not participating in the details because I didn't let him and you know that I have dreamed about this since I was a child. 

- I know, we were planning our wedding in the attic of your house, beautiful dresses made out of your mother's old fabrics...

- And the blue novelty was always your father's old sock! - she said, laughing with the most beautiful smile in the world. 

I loved seeing her like that, it brought back memories of a time when I could laugh with willpower. 

Anna as always clumsy hit her hand on the glass on the table and I promptly got up to get a cloth or a napkin to contain the accident. 

I went to the counter and said, "Can someone help me? Please? 

I heard a male voice behind me. - he said with a blank stare, not looking directly at me, but his voice sounded like the greatest contempt. 

- Pardon me? - I said looking directly at him, just in time not to continue the discussion because the attendant finally appeared. 

- May I help you? - she said innocently.

As I started to speak to ask for the napkin he interrupted me - A number five burger and fries and a soda please, for the trip. 

He looked me in the eye and said, "I was here first! - Simply the most impolite human being I had ever met. 

- How rude! If you're having a bad day you should have stayed at your damn house! - I answered him. 

Anna came walking towards me, just as well, I bet she foresaw that I would be angry enough to hit him and was going over there to defend me. 

- SAM! - she said, a little too excited for my taste.

The strange man didn't crack a smile, he just greeted her without much warmth in his actions. 

- Hello Anna! - he said as if we were in the last century 

- You've already met my best friend, and coincidentally, your date to enter the church! I was hoping to introduce you tomorrow at the rehearsal dinner! - she spoke with a naturalness that made me hate her. So that was Ian's distant friend? Did he need to put me with the world's most imbecilic man? 

- Unfortunately I have met him! - I said looking into Anna's eyes, she had to understand my message, it was not possible! 

- Wow," she said with wide eyes, "what happened? 

- Nothing! - he said taking the bag with his food from the counter - Anna, see you tomorrow! - he left as if he hadn't been the rudest person in the world to me a few seconds ago. 

I watched as he left. 

- Hey, Beck what happened? 

- HIM? - I said indignantly - really? Is that my date? 

- Did you get a good look at him, Rebecca? I don't even know if I should say this when I'm so close to walking down the aisle, but he's gorgeous!

- Handsome he is, but handsome doesn't go with rude! 

- Do I want to know what happened?

- NO! Let's just clean up the mess you made. I don't want to talk about it. 

I cleared the table and she stared at me, with that smile that she had been giving me since I was a teenager and I knew what it meant. 

- What's wrong, Anna? 

- You won't admit that you felt even the slightest butterflies in your stomach when you saw Sam? 

- I didn't feel anything, I don't even know this guy! Don't make stuff up! 

- I would give strength to this relationship, but to tell you the truth, I have only seen him once in my life besides today. Ian assures me that he is his best friend, but he is so secretive that I don't understand how! 

- And, doesn't he live in the city? - I asked curiously.

- He bought a cabin in the forest above! 

- There is nothing in that place! Except for the river and ghost stories from our childhood - I smiled - why would anyone buy a cabin there?

- Ian says he doesn't like people very much! He is coming to our wedding because Ian insisted so much! 

- Surely people don't like him either! With that ugly face of someone who ate a lemon, he certainly won't be very successful in the town of the most boring and unbearably happy people in the world. 

- He matches you for that, the only two people in town who hate living! - she said, laughing at me. 

- Very funny Anna! - I threw a french fry at her 

- Oh my God... - she said, staring at me

- What's wrong Anna? You're scaring me! 

- Look at me and don't look away! - she said with wide eyes 

 I knew why, and hearing the voice made me sure of it - He's coming in, isn't he? 

- Yes, please forgive me! 

As I heard his voice coming from inside the cafeteria and in my ears my heart began to race! It kept beating faster and faster, I felt on the verge of fainting. 

- Hello girls! - he said approaching me, it was a level of maturity that I couldn't have in a thousand years. 

I stood up taking a deep breath and only heard this sentence before I walked out the door of the cafeteria

- VITOR, YOU ARE AN IDIOT! 

She ran to hug me as I tried to calm myself down 

- Breathe Beck, you can't let this idiot get to you like this! He doesn't deserve it! - Anna said, holding me close.

- Just get me out of here please! Me, I promise I'll start to react better, but I still can't! I want to go home!

- No, let's get you a dress to wear to dinner tomorrow. You can't wear these sweatshirts that you've worn a million times!

I accepted, because going with her was better than seeing my ex's current girlfriend arriving at the diner with a broad, carefree smile, while my heart exploded.