Chapter 3

“Don't worry, Leonardo, my friend. How have you been? “I never thought I would end up becoming friends with the nerdy boy, brother of the pretty girl, but my relationship with her was over, Ana had gotten herself another guy who, according to her, treated her as she deserved.

“Well, I have nothing to say, and your sister, how is she? “I asked smiling.

“She still hates you, if that's what you wanted to hear, but I'm not spiteful and what you had doesn't interest me at all. “He mentioned smiling, I think this guy will never leave me, I guess he thinks that by being by my side he will get to be as popular as me, but that wouldn't be his strong point.

“I understand. I have to go to my class. “I answered trying to avoid him. In the distance I spotted my friends, the guys I usually hung out with at recess.

“I was heading there too, do you think we could walk together to the corner? “I know the boys would bother him, but I wasn't going to say no either, I guess I felt sorry for Agustín and that's why I hadn't told him that I didn't like him at all.

“No problem. “I mentioned smiling reluctantly, although I don't think he realized it.

“May I ask something? “he asked, I nodded in response. “Where have you been these last few weeks? “he mentioned, obviously I was trying to dodge him, but that wouldn't be my answer.

“I was busy with some projects. “I mentioned. “My father sometimes asks for my opinion and my brother's opinion. “I mentioned again.

“My friend... if I didn't know you for more than a year I would think you were hiding from me. “He answered, I shook my head and we kept walking until we had to separate, it was very uncomfortable to be seen with one of the nerdiest guys in the university, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings.

Arriving to class I sat next to my friends and we started talking about the girls they had spent the weekend with, we loved to talk about these things, the more details the better.

“I was with a blonde... wow, she had some curves. “He was the son of one of my father's partners, so we had known each other all our lives.

Comments like that were the ones we heard every morning with the guys, I guess it was true that we were promiscuous guys, that we lived day by day without caring what consequences we could get thanks to that, but it didn't matter, each one of us was cautious, in his own way.

We got out of class, it was more exhausting than usual and we headed to my house, we had to finish a project that we had more or less almost finished, but we had to meet anyway.

Many times we did the same thing, after that we went back to comment on our new conquests, I guess it was a hobby or we wanted to show which of us was the best at conquering hearts and then end up breaking them, which was no more and no less for me.

Camila message: Hello “it was a message from that girl, Camila. I smiled, surely it would also fall into my hands.

Message Leonardo: Hello, what are you doing? “I answered while trying to pay attention to what Esteban was saying.

Message Camila: Nothing interesting. “ she answered.

She caused something strange in me, I couldn't figure out what, but that wouldn't stop me, I wanted to see her, if in her pictures she looks this exciting, I could imagine how she must be in person, to see her closely, to undress her and feel her skin rubbing against mine. My skin bristled just thinking about it.

We watched soccer on TV and after that we went home, at last tomorrow was the weekend, that meant that I would rest a little from all the spectacle of the university, but I would enter the world where dad wants to see me working, his companies, since I was little he has told me that together with my brother we will work there and that we will take the family business much higher than what he has achieved.

Camila Sáez

I was in my room, resting, thinking, trying to understand what had happened today, trying to understand why Leonardo had communicated with me, and even more, what had happened with Adrián, surely I did something that could have confused him, but I don't remember what it could have been.

I checked my phone and I had messages from him and also from Leonardo, but I wouldn't answer, not today, because I don't want to go to sleep with that feeling if something goes wrong regarding my relationship with my friend, Julian, for his part, has not even deigned to talk to me, I guess that, on that point, Adrian was right, I have no reason to continue with a relationship that leads me nowhere.

I didn't want to talk to him now either, because Adrián would probably realize it, so I decided that I would better face tomorrow those three men who were making me a bit hysterical and paranoid...

The next day, I got up as usual, prepared my breakfast and then sat down to read a little, I loved reading, especially those novels where love is always stronger and more lasting than the stones that are put in the way of those couples. I guess someday I will find a love like that, or so I hoped... I had the illusion that we are all born with the possibility of getting a love like that.

I took my phone and started to answer the messages I had left pending the night before, first I started with Julian.

Message Julian: Good morning, I'm leaving for work. “He mentioned, I knew I had to get it over with.

Message Camila: We have to talk, you know this is not working, this relationship will take us nowhere. “I mentioned.

Message Julian: Why are you saying that? “he asked.

Message Camila: Look at us, Julián, we haven't seen each other for more than two months and with luck you answer my messages, with luck you say good morning or good night, we can't call this a relationship, not even friends. “I mentioned, I could not prevent a tear from falling from my eyes, although my words sounded cold as ice, the truth is that I still had trouble saying them, I guess in the end, I did love him.

Message Julian: As you wish. “he answered.

Message Julian: Goodbye. “he added.

It didn't take ten seconds for him to block me on that social network, after that I tried to answer Adrian, I had about ten messages from him, but I only focused on the last one.

Message Adrian: I understand that you are upset or do not understand what I revealed to you yesterday, but if you want and if you want, you could forget it and think that our relationship remains the same, as friends, I hope you see this message soon. “I had said, I hoped that everything I said was true.

Message Camila: So, as a friend, I tell you that I just finished my relationship with Julian, but I don't want things between us to get confused, I love you as a friend or brother and that is not going to change. “I answered, I hoped he would take it in the best possible way.

Adrian's message: It's okay. Camila, I'm glad to know that you broke up with that asshole who never knew how to appreciate you as the good woman you are. “He mentioned quickly, sure he was happy about the news he had just told her.

Message Camila: Well, thank you for the emotional words. “I replied.

Message Adrian: It's the truth, any man would be lucky to meet a woman half as good as you. “He mentioned again.

Message Camila: Okay, I have to go do some things. “I finished saying, this conversation shouldn't get out of hand.

I left my phone on the table for a while while I went to get something to eat, I woke up with a horrible anxiety, and I didn't like feeling like that. The cell phone vibrated and I checked what it was about and it was Leonardo, I answered almost immediately.

Message Leonardo: Hello, you've been a little busy, apparently. “He wrote. I knew I should answer him before, but I had postponed it for some reason, I don't understand what, but well, now I would write him.

Message Camila: Hello, yes, a little busy, but I am already solving some issues, I just hope everything goes the way I want it to. “I wrote.

Message Leonardo: And what do you want? “he asked, what should I answer him, would he get confused?

Message Camila: That things don't get out of my hands. “I answered smiling at the screen.

Message Leonardo: What does that mean? “He mentioned again, I didn't know whether to explain why or just leave him in doubt, I didn't want to air my problems with someone else I didn't know.

Message Camila: Don't worry, I understand myself. “I answered.