Episode 2

I wake up to the sound of my alarm, and the sadness comes as I recall what happened yesterday.

I get dressed and head out to work, I flag down the bus and get on, putting on my headphones. A call comes in from Miguel, one of my friends.

"Hello, we couldn't visit you, since Mario was expecting us to do that to follow us."

"Thanks, I'm on my way to work," I say, changing the subject.

"I still don't understand how he didn't know where you lived, but I think it was good after all."

"Miguel, I'm going to leave you, I'm about to arrive," I say, but he speaks again.

"Are you going for your things? Today is the farewell and we have to empty the lockers."

"Yes, see you there."

I end the call and get up to get off the bus, I enter my workplace and see them almost running.

"Mia, please, my pending tasks," my direct boss tells me.

I look in the agenda and take it to him.

"What's with that face, young lady," he says, looking at me and continuing to write, I'm about to leave when he speaks again. "Everything okay?"

"Sir, I wanted to talk to you about double shifts."

"Of course, we have more work this vacation."

"Thank you," I say, returning to my workplace, the hours pass and I hear the same thing wherever I go.

"Mr. Walter is returning from his trip today and we found out that he is looking for the best lawyer," I hear them talking.

"If he chooses our law firm, we will be the best in the city."

"Why is he looking for one?" they ask.

"Being such a large infrastructure, architecture and real estate agency, I know they also buy companies to demolish them, and since they are the largest in the country, they need to have one, you know, just in case."

"Mia, my appointments," my boss tells me and I get up to deliver them.

"If that's all, sir, I'll be leaving."

"And that?" He points, I look behind me and they come in with a bouquet of roses.

"How beautiful, Mia," the people who see it tell me.

The boy who brings them approaches and hands me a card, I open it to read it.

"I have tried to locate you, I spoke with my parents and they will not interfere between us, our plans are still on, I know I need to do a lot for you to give me another chance, I just hope you are willing to give it to me, I love you."

I grab the flowers signing for receipt.

"I already saw the reason for that sad face," my boss tells me, "I know, because that face is now very illuminated with happiness."

I say goodbye leaving and take the flowers with me, I take another bus to the high school, when I enter my classmates are happy, they tell me how Mario got angry with his parents and asked them where I lived but they didn't want to tell him.

"Thank you guys," I tell them.

"Hopefully Mario will do things right this time, because it seems that his parents are very special," Miguel tells me.

"Since this school is one of the best, it's for people who have money, maybe that's why they thought you came from a family like them," one of my classmates tells me but she realizes what she just said.

"Maybe, but I never pretended to have something I didn't have."

"That's true."

I walk to my locker and take out all my things, but I see something that is not mine, it is a white box, I open it and there is a ring inside, I turn around and Mario is standing there.

"Tell me you accept," he says, taking the box away from me and taking out the ring asking for my hand.

"We have a lot to talk about."

"But this is what we always talked about, when we graduated we would get married."

"It was before I realized that you don't know much about me."

"Now we will live together and there will be no more secrets, please, they are watching us, just accept the ring and we have to go somewhere else to talk, don't throw away two years of dating just because my parents don't know what you and I have been through."

He takes my hand putting it on, I am surprised by what is happening, I do not give answers but I do not prevent him from putting it on, we leave together to a coffee shop, we arrive and order, I put the bouquet on the table and anyone who sees it is surprised, he grabs my hand giving me a kiss, as he usually does.

"I will rent near the university, my parents don't want me to live in the rooms there, they want me to concentrate on my studies to achieve my dream of managing a large company like my uncle's."

"Your uncle who you say your whole family hates?"

"Well, not the whole family, just my father, since his brother managed to go further than everyone."

His cell phone rings and he gets up to answer it.

I get a message from my boss, that today I start doubling shifts, I look at the ring and take it off, the waitress leaves the desserts on the table and Mario returns.

"I'm sorry, there will be a meeting at my house, as you can see it's my family and I have to take care of them just so they don't think our family is going through a family crisis, but they won't interfere in our relationship."

"Ose that?"

"Mia please I don't want to argue."

"Mario we are not going to get married and we are not going back together, you don't know me, I don't know you, and last night when I saw your parents I realized that I don't want to have anything to do with people like that, and a wedding? Forming a family? nothing assures me that at any moment for any problem you will run to your parents."

"It won't happen, I love you and just imagining losing you, nothing is worth it."

"That's what you say now."

"You won't fight for this, for us?" He says trying to grab my hands.

But I move my hands away leaving the ring, I get up taking money from my wallet and leave it on the table, paying the bill.

"Don't do this," he says.

I turn around walking, I wanted to give him the opportunity but something in me says no, of course I love him but I don't want to hurt myself, his family will never accept me and he has his own plans and it's time for me to make my own.

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