10 Wednesday 08/06

Melissa

My 8:00 am alarm goes off, I pick up my phone and head to the bathroom to wash my face, down the stairs to the living room, Mom is cooking breakfast.

- Hi ma - I rub my face.

- How did you sleep? - She asks me.

- Well, I have a question, did she rain last night?

- Not because?

- Nothing - I sit in the chair. I have coffee.

- And dad?

- went to work.

I finish my breakfast and go get my things, to go with Lucia. I close the door to my room, go down the stairs and go to the door.

-Where are you going?

- I'm going to Lucia's house.

- Why did not you tell me?

- She was very tired yesterday, but can I go?

- Mmmm, it's okay. - Well, mom comes over to me, kisses my forehead and I say goodbye.

- Then I go to her house and I go to school.

-Are you going to have lunch with Lucia?

- Yeah, see ya mom.

- Bye.

I close the door, I start walking to Lucia's house, it is very far, it is about 10 blocks, I turn around and see Víctor coming, I stop to wait for him, he passes me, I outline a smile, we walk to Lucia's house , where he waits for us to go to Chippi.

We're almost there, Victor and I didn't say a word to each other, it's a very uncomfortable silence, we see Lucia come out of the door, which signals us to follow her, we walk a few meters and we see Aarón. We arrive at Chippi, Lucas is standing at the door, he approaches us, Lucia takes a map from her bag,.

- Very well, this is the Cortez field, we are here, it's about two kilometers, let's walk! - Lucia says to all of us, we started walking towards the field.

In less than half an hour we arrive, it is a large field, with a little house in the middle, there are several animals, we see some children come out of the house, an old woman and a man. We hide in the grasslands, we watch for an hour, but nothing strange happens.

- I told you Lucia, there is nothing here - I tell her.

- Something has to happen, I'm sure it's them.

- How do you know?

- I know.

- Oh please, we're late for school, we've been waiting for hours, and nothing happens - I emphasize.

- I think Melissa is right - Victor tells her.

- Okay, let's go. - We got up from the floor.

We walk to school, Lucia looks disappointed, we arrive almost a few minutes before the bell rings, we enter class, Victor heads to his class, he is a year older than us. I sit next to Lucia.

- We are going to be able to find the culprit, don't be bad - Lucas says close to her ear, apparently he says something else, but I can't hear him. We went out to rest, when we entered again, yesterday's teacher gave us the evaluations. I'm very nervous, I couldn't do much. The professor comes to our table and hands us our tests.

- I expected more from you, Miss Romano. - He hands me my evaluation, I got a 4. I hit my forehead with my hand. Lucia looks at me concerned. She shows me her evaluation, she got a 5. Neither of us pass. In this school, we are scored with numbers from 1 to 10, and we are approved with 7.

- We're fried- says Lucia.

- I don't - Aaron shows his proof, they gave him 8.

- What? Congratulations - I say.

After the teacher gave us a talk on the subject, and will talk about our notes and work, he leaves, after leaving the art teacher enters. She takes out several white sheets, and watercolors, on the front blackboard she writes the activity of the day. "Choose an object from the course and sketch it on her sheets, first make a sketch of it in pencil and then paint it with watercolor."

I'm not very good at drawing, but I'm going to try, I choose to make a window, it's an object and it's in the classroom, so you can't question anything. When finished, she signed it and voila, we all delivered the work to her, minutes before she rings the exit bell. Lucia offers to stay with me, so we go to the cleaning room, we look for all the items and we go to the sixth year classroom. Aaron comes up to us.

- See you girls - he greets us both and leaves.

- Are you going to go alone? - I ask Lucia.

- Yep.

He began to sweep, while Lucia was cleaning the blackboard, I don't see Victor anywhere, maybe his punishment is over.

Aaron

I say goodbye to Lucia, and I start walking home, it is six in the afternoon, as it is winter, it gets dark earlier, the street lights turn on, there are a few blocks to my house, I look back and observe a man, At first I did not notice anything strange, so I continue on my way. But for several minutes he has not detached himself from me, he is getting closer and closer, so I start to increase the speed, but this one does too, I stop short and turn to look back, he is gone. So I look forward and there he is standing in front of me, I can't see his face well, because he has a kind of sock, I look at the label of the brand and it says "Primark". The subject does not give me time to run, he puts a bag on my head, and loads in a truck, I don't know how I got here, he sits in the front, and he puts me in the back, I have my hands tied in front of me, I manage to take my phone, but I can't call Lucia, so I write her a message, but it's not sent, there's no signal here. In a jerk my head hits the back door, passing out and dropping my phone to the ground.

Lucia

Melissa and I cleaned 3 courses in 20 minutes, it's amazing how fast things get done when they help you. We go to the next course, and we see a fully written blackboard, it says repeatedly "I must not hit my partner, everything is resolved by talking."

Melissa, move closer to the blackboard, there is a phrase written at the bottom of the blackboard, Melissa reads it aloud.

- "I'm sorry not to be able to stay to help you, my punishment ended, I wrote this board this afternoon so that you would notice reading this ..."

Victor.

- Uhh, someone has a crush !!" I tell Melissa, she looks at me with a frown.

- He's not my crush, he's my friend.

- If of course, and a friend is left alone for you, to write a complete blackboard just for you to read a note that I leave you, oh please, you don't fool me.

- Okay, whatever you want - Melissa begins to erase the blackboard.

My phone rings, I think it's a message.

- Aren't you going to see who he is? - Melissa asks me. I take my phone, it's a message from Aaron.

- What does he want? - Melissa asks me.

- "Lu, a guy loaded me into a truck, I need your help, I had a Primark brand sock on my head" - I finish reading the message and look at Melissa, she looks scared.

- We should go to his house, who knows if it's a joke - Melissa tells me.

We run out of school, we run and we run, it seems as if we are moving away instead of approaching, we are a few blocks from Aarón's house, we are in front of the door.