Katarina’s news jumped one by one as Alba asked her.
-Micaela, do you know this person?
-Here’s a picture sent by my friend, the person in the picture paid our bill yesterday.
Seeing Micaela’s weird expression, Alba touched her and asked:
-Micaela, what’s wrong with you?
Micaela came back to herself, took another look at the picture and said:
-Nothing, I remember a classmate, who has a figure very similar to this man.
-Classmate? High school or superior?
Alba’s curiosity was piqued, because she knew all of Micaela’s college classmates who still kept in touch with her. Obviously, that person was not included.
-From high school. But she went abroad.
Alba became even more curious:
-Micaela, there’s a story, huh, what exactly happened?
Micaela smiled:
-What story would there be? I studied three years in the same class, can’t I remember some impressive ones?
-Wow, a person who gives you memories with just a back view, tell me, why were you so impressed?
Micaela replied to Katarina’s message:
-I don’t know him, do you?
While talking to Alba:
-When I just entered school, I worked very hard for the highest scholarship, but he always beat me and I had to come in second place. Don’t you think that would have impressed me?
Alba understood. When she was a student, Micaela was so poor that all her expenses depended on the scholarship. Apparently, it would be a hatred for stealing money!
Micaela paused, then said proudly:
-However, thanks to studying harder, I finally earned it in the second course. He became the second, while I, I got the scholarship and kept the first place until I graduated!
So many years had passed without realizing it, now they had all graduated from college and were going to attend the graduation ceremony in a few days.
Suddenly, something occurred to Alba.
“Micaela is always insensitive to love, I guess that classmate had an interest in her and lost to her on purpose.”
“Wow, poor thing, Micaela still doesn’t know his intention until now, how pitiful! This kid should be very sad and disappointed.”
Exactly, Micaela hadn’t thought about it at all. At that moment, her cell phone rang again, it was Carlos’ message:
-Ernesto is going to pick you up, I have to work tonight and will be back later.
Micaela was a bit doubtful, she asked him:
-Where are you going back?
She wanted to ask Carlos if he was going back to Nyisrenda or to Barrio Fanslan.
Carlos answered her right away:
-Wherever you go, I go.
Micaela blushed immediately. Then came Katarina’s message:
-I don’t know him either. According to my friend, that person didn’t order anything in the store, he left after paying our bill.
Saying, she sent another photo, it was the capture of the surveillance video when the man entered the store. But due to the influence of the angle and the fact that the figure had his head tilted, it could not be seen clearly.
Alba looked again carefully, but still did not recognize him.
She asked:
-Micaela, is he your aforementioned companion?
Alba thought it was him without a doubt. However, why did he leave directly after paying the bill instead of giving them a greeting?
Micaela denied it as she answered the message:
-I don’t think so, it doesn’t match the impression he left on me.
Katarina soon replied:
-Or is it possible that he has interest to one of us? I’m ready to get married, it can’t be me. And Micaela also already has a boyfriend. So, can it be Alba?
Micaela looked at Alba:
-She’s right. Alba, is he your suitor?
-Yes?
Alba was not surprised, and said smiling:
-Well, that’s fine, come on!
Micaela said without thinking:
-And Ernesto Mancebo?
Alba laughed:
-Don’t joke with me, there won’t be a result between Ernesto and me, he’s not my type, ok?
The man at the door stopped his act of entering.
-What do you mean, no? Alba, Carlos told me that, in his opinion, Ernesto treats you sincerely, because he has never seen Ernesto care so much about a girl.
-Ha, ha, ha, ha…. I’m dying laughing, Micaela, I really didn’t expect your boyfriend to be so gossipy. Ernesto is a playboy who was born to pick up girls, right? How can you trust him? Besides, honestly, Micaela, are you okay with leaving your best friend in the hands of such a womanizer?
Micaela paused. Yes, she hated men who flirted with women for the fun of it!
Nevertheless, Carlos said there was a relationship destined between them. She pondered a bit and said:
-Has he changed? To err is human. He will not continue like that, he will treat you with all his heart….
-Micaela, I trust he will be able to focus on a woman someday, but that woman can’t be me at all, do you understand?
Alba said it seriously, she had lost all illusions about men, and the only person she was interested in was impossible for her.
Maybe that she would have to be alone forever with respect to love.
Thinking about Alba’s inability to distinguish the face, Micaela was about to speak. Just at that moment, someone knocked at the door.
Alba got up to open the door. In fact, the door is not completely closed, there was still room left.
“Did the person at the door hear everything we said?”
She opened the door, it turned out that the people there was Ernesto. Alba felt an inexplicable uneasiness….
With a raised eyebrow, Ernesto glanced at Alba and said:
-Micaela, masculine, come on, I’ll take you home today -Saying, he observed the surroundings, especially the gift packages accumulating in front of Micaela, he murmured:
-Carlos has never chased a girl, no? Why does he know so many tricks?
Alba smiled:
-He does it with his heart, and you, with your desires, how can you compare?
Ernesto gritted his teeth and looked at Alba:
-Who says so?
With her arms crossed and a provocative face, Alba answered:
-Who do you think, Leonardo or Mr. Aguayo? -You have to be someone who gets along with you, to know how you really are, don’t you?
Ernesto was a little discouraged. It was his fault because he had been saying it for a long time, now he couldn’t even justify himself.
-Take it easy, I’d flirt with everyone but you, I’m afraid I can’t live until morning!
-Exactly, anyone who has bad intentions towards me won’t see the sun tomorrow!
Ernesto said angrily:
-I have no idea what genius has such a talent to captivate you!
But once he imagined that there would be a man capable of turning her violence into sweetness, his heart ached…