HIS MISTAKES BEHIND FORGIVENESS

when it comes to being just our sorrows? Love, what's love when it comes to struggling with our

days and hours would be lived as happily as those ones she sh

the first time in her life, she had felt valued by a man. How come no one else

hat she swore life had was no longer breathed in by her because, at the end of the day, life didn't have perfume, life was not written

m how much she was loving him, why didn't he remind her that, instead of

n to live, what else he needed to stay by her side, as he seemed to promise to stay e

yes, Alice looked at all the t

what? All of that, for what? He had toyed with her countless times, he was not even interested in her feelings, he was just not interested in all that love she had for him. He

little teddy bear that one day hung up

decided to take out all her gifts and remember

days where the little teddy bear was the p

ys seen him smiling while he enjoyed himself bothering his other three friends

couldn't describe herself as the most intelligent girl in her classroom, but she was also

e was loving from the moment he passed by her side hiding from someone puttin

e hadn't brought the material that was required to work on in that class and Alice preferred

sounds that were coming from the hallway and ended up being from the young man who entered the hall

him as the boy who never stopped laughing even in front of hi

nd it was, staring at him, he turned around

that young man. She had already seen him countless times, she had even wished to be as outgoing as

e literature class. Of course it was her, the girl who showed i

miled at her, making

ho was looking for him went away, he decided to come out of his hideaway

e said since that encounter betwe

re the day that was fated for him to finally

hand in her task before her two friends. How come he could show himself interested in her when she

t maybe the problem was not exactly in the things he had offered her, maybe she just wanted to be free, she just w

but having a boyfriend would be like saying goodbye t

nd not only that, she let everyone know that she was not interested in him. It

at everything would cha

them, would continue doing that for that morning or even, for all the mornings that he was fated to live in that school as long as he didn’t hand in his las

the school, in the cafeteria and, of course, in their class, but at that moment she was walking in his direction with her two girlfriends, he could not help looking at her and looking at that sm

ut the book she was holding between her arms, but in the end, he d

self on the stairs that would encounter her at the end of the hallway, he felt like doing so

have the courage to say out loud were heard from a mystic heave

r. Of course, he had no intention of giving it back to her at that mom

little teddy bear on the ground. His reason had made him aware of his rush, his mind

story started. She just wanted to know how all of that finished in one instant and maybe that was the problem. It was not only one

ith the test,” said Gabrie

mself, she was not even the minimal part of Paloma. Alice was different; Alice didn’t dress in colorful and short d

rs. Foster is a

s going to catch us c

u have no idea of what we have to

seemed to be very interested in the books she recommended us

e had just told us to read a modern b

ome he had never reali

days ago, I think you lost something,” he said happily to know th

he was sure of having her friendship and that was exactly what he was doing. He didn’t

her, to do their homework together, to have their meals in their off hours. Alice couldn’t help but imagine what it would be like to have a boyfriend as romantic as him. She had never had a boyfriend, she didn’t just want to have a boyfriend to feel what it actually was, s

, showing her the little teddy bear s

. “Thank you so much! I thought I had lost him! My sister gave it to me; she said she made it wit

ay. “I’m sorry, I forgot I had it and every time I went

e looked deeply

t there. What they were feeling was the same

to go,” Alice

longer because of some classes

nd,” she expr

-wait

es

t class be?” asked

er? We’re in the middle of the course and you don’t know.

r shyly. “Sorry, I f

you a

s since the first time he talked to her, putting as an excuse the task they had to hand in by that moment. She had been reborn, it wasn’t like he was the only man she had liked until that moment, but it was indeed the

r having the teddy bear

briel? We can’t be here

ing her behind a column near the classroo

e shouldn’t miss this class. What’s goi

e to be honest with

ll

bring my

yone knew how important it was for that precise

, but I can’t

going to resolve this b

right to miss his class three times per month, so,

here? I have to cont

had handed in their plans for their projects and I think he men

What are you t

red a moment outside of school with a woman like her. He even remembered himself going out with his friends and t

because it didn’t matter if the place that was fated to save them from the austere manner of intimidating students of the t

essed, remembering it couldn’t be a good idea

ce in his class could save me. Please, Alice, help me out here,” Gabriel placed his hands toge

you call yo

eir respective classes,

n my class.” She walked ahead

rned

ha

ing, since Gabriel had already procl

hand, making her run behi

boy, of course; instead, he was an adolescent trying t

him the last fifteen days and he was not able

en up! Maybe that was the difference between all those people and her. She was not like them, she was different, she felt different, she just gave

matter how young she was

dn’t have happened if she had only known she was going

l, playing around with some stones he had pi

at important for the plan of your project?” she asked, looking away

minutes to finish the homework h

ct, but it was important for him. He had said he didn’t want to have a r

ty to look at him, she kne

ready to do what he

ps on a woman’s lips first. They would always k

Gabr

cking on her shoulder t

, Gab

ll of a sudden, with no permission, Gabriel had broken all her boundaries to finally reach her lips, ma

shed in the mere p

ok that matched her pale skin. She was going to be a mom. In her ins

se him alone, she didn’t deserve to be rejected twice, it was enough for

had given her. In the same place she had been for a wh

walk her way back home, she got up from the grass and leaving the things he had given her one day ther

Just darkness was all she could see in that house, it was not healthy for her and her future baby to stay where just pain was being breathed. By tha

!” claimed Rosa, taki

p you,” s

m giving their respective farewell to tha

u ready

She was as innocent as the

a sad smile was gi

oing to raise that baby well, you’re go

l? Do you think I should ju

this is the best for you, let’s do it! So

by. Gabriel didn’t have the right to know about his baby. Surely, he’d kick her ou

said, taking the only suit

nd, together, after having kissed her forehead, they walked