Paula Rouco hesitated and texted Susana: “That, give me Severo Laris’ cell phone number for a second.”
“Didn’t he give you a handwritten heart?”
“A … washed one!”
Susana, on the other side, laughed unkindly and then sent him Severo Laris’ number.
And in passing, I joked, “See, it was me who had the foresight! If I hadn’t written it down first! Where would you have found the number now!”
Paula Rouco ignored her again and looked up the mobile number, which was supposedly Severo Laris’ Facebook.
Facebook name:.
Period. It’s a pretty simple and lighthearted Facebook name.
He supposed he was lazy to think of a name, but Facebook names couldn’t be blank, so he typed in a random dot.
And very intellectual, as usual.
He hesitated for a few seconds, biting his lip before finally nodding to add it.
I waited and waited until 12:30 p. m., but no red “1” appeared in the Facebook address book.
It looked like the other party had thrown out a random number to discourage her.
She fell asleep.
…
Early the next morning, the first day of school.
Paula Rouco got up, washed up and met Susana for breakfast in the dining room.
While getting dinner, Susana couldn’t resist asking, “Did you add Severo last night?”.
Instead of answering, Paula Rouco asked her rhetorically, “Has your Severo gotten to you yet?”.
Susana’s face fell, “I can’t afford to tease the high-flying beauty, I’ve added her twice and she doesn’t give a damn, this morning I looked at the phone again and it’s still not happening.”
Paula Rouco thought to herself that she hadn’t looked at her phone until now, but she guessed that the result was also a failure.
After buying steamed buns and congee, the two found an empty seat in the bustling canteen.
On the first day of school, there were heads everywhere in the school.
“Paulita, all of you in the English department are girls, right?”
“I think so, I hear there are only nine boys in my class of thirty-nine.”
Susana said amused, “Then you don’t have enough resources here, if you can’t take them, my sister will introduce you to the finance department. In the finance department there are a lot of good looking guys, especially of Severo’s caliber, and they are a scarce resource in the whole school.”
Paula Rouco scoffs, “Speaking as if you can introduce me to Severo, people ignore us.”
Paula Rouco’s phone rings, a Facebook post, and as she nibbles on her bun, she opens it and it’s a voice from Angelo.
“Paulita, I’ve told my dad to keep an eye out for exchange places at your school, and as soon as they become available, I’ll arrange to go there. It probably won’t be long before the two of us can study together.”
Susana looked at her gossiping, “This Angelo is really in love with you Miss Rouco, where you go, Angelo goes, a real fan.”
After Paula Rouco returned an emoji to Angelo, she slid out and saw that the address book showed -you and “.” has been successfully added as a friend.
She was stunned.
She didn’t know Severo Laris was going to add messages through his friends.
Susana approached, “What are you looking at, stunned?”.
Susana’s eyes glanced over and saw the blank Facebook dialog box, with a friend prominently displayed, “.”
“Gee, period doesn’t add me, it adds you! That Severo guy must have taken a liking to you.”
Paula Rouco’s little face warmed up a bit at Susana’s comment, “He only added me because I helped him, I guess, after all, I was the one who stepped in to help him, not you.”
Susana frowned, analyzing, “It seems to make a little sense if you want to put it that way, but either way, there’s something very special about you to Severo right now. ”
“…”
Paula Roucolita ducks her head and takes her porridge.
…
On the other side, inside the school auditorium.
Severo Laris, who spoke today as a representative of the students, has been very busy.
Busy until first thing this morning, he just glanced at his phone and made a point of clicking on the other person’s profile when he saw the red add friend message in his address book.
Facebook nickname: The RoucoPaulita family.
Sounds like a girl’s maiden name.
Severo Laris ghostly clicked on the other person’s avatar, which zoomed in to show the image of a girl.
The girl has bright eyes and white teeth, holds a sunflower in her hand and covers one eye, revealing eyes that seem to have rivers of stars, smiling radiantly and warmly at the camera, so innocent as to be haunting at first glance.
“Severo, what are you looking at, I’ve called you several times! The Department Head is looking for you!”
Lastra ran up behind him and punched his arm, and Severo Laris hurriedly locked his phone.
But how quick Lastra’s eyes were to see the Facebook photo on Severo Laris’ phone before he could rest his screen.
Lastra said in amazement, “Who is this? Severo, are you interested in girls?”
Severo Laris put the phone in his pocket, with a stoic face, and said in a light voice, “It’s not from any department, it’s just a picture from the internet.”
Severo Laris can look at pictures of beautiful women on the internet?
Lastra, smiling as if he had found a new world, hooked his arm around Severo Laris’ shoulders and joked, “Severo, you haven’t been bad lately, have you? I hear there’s a lot of those little movies at Rufio’s, want to see them?”.
Severo Laris paced the room with a cold stare, “See for yourselves.”
“That picture now, why does it look familiar?”
Lastra thought for quite a while and finally remembered and said excitedly, “Oh! Isn’t that Miss La familia Rouco? I thought that picture looked familiar! By the way, Miss La familia Rouco is a freshman in our school and is probably in school now.”
“No!” Severo Laris hastened to utter the words in a muffled voice.
Lastra continued to pester him with gossip, “How do you have that Facebook for Miss La familia Rouco, are you into her? Or is it that she … is into you?”
Severo Laris frowned slightly, feeling a little rumble in his ears, and pulled away from Lastra’s arm climbing over his shoulder. “Do you still want me to go see the Department Head?”.
“…”
Lastra shouted at Severo Laris’ back, “If you’re really interested in her, I’ll have Rufio investigate the schoolgirl for you!”
Severo Laris ignored him.
Pulling out the phone again and sliding the screen open, The RoucoPaulita Family sent a Facebook message.
“Severo, when are you free?”
Severo Laris frowned slightly at the message, and his thin lips couldn’t help but tingle softly again…. Are all girls these days so active?
…
In the dining room, Susana walks forward with Paula Rouco’s cell phone in her hand.
Behind her, Paula Rouco chased her with her school bag: “Susana! Bitch! Stop right there.”
“Not me! You had a hard time adding Severo, what’s wrong with him texting you to ask him out! Isn’t he handsome? Heavenly handsome tastes good! Sister I’m doing you a favor!”
“Susana, you’re giving me a good shot!”
Paula Rouco picked up the phone and tried to take back the message, but it was too late to do so.
But, come to think of it, this Severo Laris was so over the top that he probably wouldn’t respond to her messages.
Whether or not he would read her Facebook messages is another story.