Chapter eight

Anyway, i know that this story has a lot to tell; so, there will be time to show what i say... no, the devil is not going to leave me as the worst narrator of the history.

Back to the fantastic heart of a girl:

The park of legends is a historical complex in the province where Luz lives. In this enclosure there is a great biodiversity among plants and animals of different species. Not just any species, but a species that has been involved in some national and provincial historical event. They tell tourists all kinds of stories about the ancestors of these animals. Whether these myths and legends are true or not?

"Not all that glitters is gold"

All the students and the teacher get off the school bus to go through the entrance tunnel, as the top of the bus hits the top of the tunnel.

The teacher decides that the students will form groups of two; with the partner with whom they had been seated inside the bus, and will light their route with a flashlight per pair.

Yes, Luz and Alexis together again, what a timely professor, isn't it?

Naturally Luz felt that the darkness; being out of the field of vision, cared for her in the same way that the long 6 hours of solitude at school, helped her to reflect on many things.

"Philosophy is a pastime of people who are lazy with the body; but posses many demons in the head that need to get in shape... there is only thinking left"

Luz knows that her way of thinking is surely not the right one, nor the most recommended; but she had to do something to avoid being bored when she was not in class... talking to herself is her hobby.

Now the darkness is leading her to "The lion's den" because going to Alexis' side is synonymous with DANGER. As she gets off the bus, she tries to think to herself that the important thing is not that he is too atractive, but that inside he is more rotten than the Jora juice her mother makes... although she says that THE MORE FOULER IT IS THE BETTER IT IS.

Of course and now that comes to her mind... now that the rotten thing has a prince's shell.

They walk around the walls of the complex; until they reach the tunnel. In truth, the entrance would only be a little less than two meters high. Although the width is normal.

At the threshold of the tunnel, the professor and other workers of the compound give one of each duo a flashlight. A boy with a peculiar mole his lower lip, a worker of the place, gives Luz the flashlight and says:

"Because the girls iluminate better the way of the men"

Suddenly, she senses that someone is too close or is it her fantasies?

Was Alexis a little tense?

They walk only a few steps and the darkness makes everyone turn on their flashlights. Luz feels like in a horror movie; when she hears that, once the last row of her companions enter the tunnel, a large brown door slides off the side wall to close the entrance.

- There will never be an escape, will there?

Luz gasped when she heard Alexis' voice so low that no one could hear it.

- I only bother you, but your cheeks don't only light up with me- Luz expected a mockery not a jealous boy's claim because that's what it seemed like- With any young guy you get like that, you're frustrating.

- Me, frustrating?- she laughed dryly and, just like him, very low- and you, what, should i feel flattered because i'm "your favorite piñata"?

- You should be flattered because i know what your blushing, your shyness sounds like- he takes her hand and moves his finger as if it were forming a heart on the palm of her hand- like a finger that excites your heart without touching it.

Luz did not understand his atittude at all or maybe she did not want to understand. It is fine to use the perspective of the protagonist of a romance novel; but she could not believe it so much or, really, she was going to fall very deep... her life would be a tragedy... no, that will not happen because she is not willing.

-Shut up- Luz's ego didn't want to fall but her heart... yes- First i'm a deranged girl and then you talk like a "now it all"- Resist, that's the key- I don't like this stupid game, we're not 10 years old anymore.

Luz preferred to try to see with of her companions' flashlights; which already iluminated the darkness like the stars in the firmament.

As she spoke in a medium tone, some heard her and turned to look at the, according to them, "secret lovers".

Maybe one or the other murmured; but Luz had had enough of caring about the opinion of others.

Only a few minutes passed and Alexis began to subtly approach Luz.

- You don't know anything, only how to scream when you are alone, - his voice is painfully low- Don't get tired of me.

- You ask too much,- Luz arches her eyebrows- Wathever it is, it's not worth it.

- You're right- His shoulder brushes against Luz's, and although she should heed her dignity, she prefers to use her blind faith and be the protagonist of a romance... just a few minutes more- ; but there are certain things that, although they don't justify me, prevent me for teatring you as i would like... it's a bitter good for both of us, don't deny it.

- I still don't understand why so much insanity with me- Luz wanted to cry but she shouldn't...her heart must have been that of the protagonist of a romance not to break for secondary issues in a love novel- i haven't done anything to them...

Luz drops the flashlight and Alexis picks it up. Giving it to Luz, they both feel a "passive- aggressive" connection. Despite having spent years apart, when they look into each other's eyes, they seem like the same children who are too naughty for both of their own good... hopefully he thinks like you do, little girl.

She was going to walk away again; but this time, he wasn't about to chase her?... nor would he let her go.

- Alexis holds her wrist with a little force. Luz could easily pull her hand away and leave. She always went to a fantasy, why not now?- Ask me the doubts of your heart- A boy bumps Luz, so, they realized they were interrupting the passage and both laugh- The doubts that are not born from curiosity...

- But from emotion- Luz smiles as she moves forward- Did you think i had forgotten?

As she thought about her questions; she began to remember the time they paid attention to their hearts:

-Daddy said he would come early to go to the movies- Eight years old Luz cries sitting at the foot of the stairs and; although her mother tries to comfort her, she feels that her daddy doesn't love her- He never comes early to go with me, nor with anyone in this house anywhere

Little Luz goes up to her room and goes from crying to anger in a second.

At that time Luz and her family lived in a somewhat different house than the one they live in now; so, don't be too surprised with the differences ¿ok?

Little Luz goes up to her room and goes from crying to anger in a second. She called it a room; but, in reality, that house had only one habitable floor at that time, because the second one was for hanging wet clothes in the closet.

On that one floor was the bathroom, which instead of a door had a tree-meter tablecloth (yes, the bathroom didn't have a decent door).

The kitchen and bathroom were separated by a red wall. Right in the kitchen was a small plastic table that was Luz's desk. The sad little girl went to pick up the radio from her little white table and went up to the second floor. She hugged her radio and put a strange object that Alexis had secretly given her, a USB... finally, Luz knew what that little rectangular hole in the top of the radio was for.

She started singing all the songs from her only and best friend's playlist. The music was very varied and almost made her smile. On the second floor there was a room with no door (there was no tablecloth there, not even of a meter long), totally empty and dirty. It was there were Luz alluded that it was her room because it was going to be her room in the future, or so her father told her.

Luz began to think about the scene of Cinderella dancing with the prince and there they talked about how their hearts felt...Alexis could not have been there... she imagined it back then...

Was she imagining it now?