Many years ago, when I was a child, when I didn’t know much about life, when I lived on my parents’ money and didn’t care, then, like each of us, we felt, for the first time, what it means. To be in love, but in love, not a joke. I couldn’t sleep at night, I was just thinking about the girl who had taken my mind, I wasn’t answering my friends’ questions or if I was answering, I was saying anything other than what they were asking me.
My parents sent me to buy something from the store on the street corner and I lied that I didn’t find what I was looking for, and I walked three more streets in the hope that maybe I would meet her!
I didn’t say who I’m talking about! It’s about Ana ! My classmate, from sixth grade, the blonde girl who came to school in the morning with her grandmother. Ok, no problem if you don’t know her, I forgive you all, and you were kind and left comments !!
I was “in the language” after her. I was intimidated even when we greeted each other in the morning, in school hallways. Many times, knowing where the class is, with that in mind, we get in there by mistake and I didn’t know how to find reasons to say what I’m looking for elsewhere in the hallway!
But the beauty of it is that Ana knew nothing about my love for her and considered me a regular friend, a neighbor, and that’s it!
Perfect occasion
At the end of May, as every year, the school used to organize a trip to a certain location, usually somewhere where we, the students, could visit museums and old churches.
The seats in the bus could not be taken by two boys on the same bench, there was a risk of doing nonsense, so we were arranged on the seats, a boy and a girl.
Ana was three times ahead, but at the first stop of the bus I exchanged with the boy next to her and I passed in his place.
I didn’t know what topic to talk about, I didn’t know if she would agree to talk to me, I had a fear in my heart that she would reject me at the first word out of my mouth.
More afraid, more emotional, I talked to her and found a common subject, cats. I had two cats, she was a cat. It was enough to go into the details of this subject and after an hour, if someone who did not know us saw us, said that we have been together for years, we decided to go together through the places we had to visit on that trip.
A memory that, now, after 30 years, makes me emotional when I think about how innocent I was at that age, how easy it was to treat things and how happy I was.
We have memories that we enjoy all our lives , we tell them whenever we have the opportunity!
Discussions, music, told memories, going out in the city, that’s how the friendship with Ana continued, until I finished school. The events made us go to different schools and over time, the idyll between us cooled.
We met after many years when we each had family, children, but even now we remember those beautiful days at school!
Whatever happened, happened ! And it was beautiful!!!
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