Seven years ago, when Andreo Fanta was 25, he was in the early stages of his career, traveling all over the country and spending very little time with Ciri Garzón, but even under the pressure of such intense work, Andreo Fanta still talked to her by videophone every night. Sometimes he was on a business trip abroad and they were so jet-lagged that Ciri Garzón would fall asleep with the phone in her arms.
They continued their long-distance relationship for many years.
Andreo Fanta is eight years older than Ciri Garzón, but they have known each other since childhood and are, by all accounts, true childhood friends.
Andreo Fanta grew up as an outsider’s son, while Ciri Garzón was an unruly little boy who was not good at school from an early age and had little talent when it came to learning. Since they lived near each other, Ciri’s mother often invited Andreo Fanta to the house to help Ciri Garzón with his homework.
“So, have you fallen in love?” asked Estrella Berrocal wistfully.
Ciri Garzón’s eyes light up when she thinks of her youthful days, a time and images that, though youthful, are the most delightful to remember.
Eventually, from some unknown source, they grew fond of each other.
At that time, Ciri Garzón was still young and had a secret relationship with Andreo Fanta, fearing that her parents would find out about their early love.
As Ciri Garzon got older, Ciri’s parents decided it wasn’t right to leave Andreo Fanta alone to tutor Ciri Garzon, especially when they occasionally delivered fruit and noticed that Ciri Garzon and Andreo Fanta often played with each other in a way that didn’t feel like tutoring, but in her parents’ eyes, that was an early…. In the eyes of the parents, it was an early… love.
Andreo Fanta received an offer from Harvard Business School to study in the United States after his high school exams.
Ciri Garzón recalls that when Andreo Fanta left that year, he told her at the airport, almost in a threatening tone, to study hard and not to fall in love with other boys.
Ciri Garzón is still too young to have a loving brain, but she is only filled with admiration and reluctance for the wonderful neighborhood brother; after all, Andreo Fanta has secretly helped her with countless chores in private, and once he is gone, there will be no one to help her with her homework.
The long-distance relationship lasted three full years.
During those three years, Andreo Fanta talked to Ciri Garzón every day by phone or video. Sometimes, when Ciri Garzón complained that she couldn’t finish her homework, Andreo Fanta would turn on the video without talking to her and watch her do her homework, and if she didn’t understand something, he would write the explanation and the answer on a piece of paper for her to read.
Ciri Garzón once said that it would have been good to take Andreo Fanta to the exams.
Andreo Fanta was outstanding, so much so that he received his diploma and degree ahead of schedule after completing the five years of studies and courses in three years.
Estrella Berrocal asked curiously, “Could I be in such a rush to finish the course because of you?”
Ciri Garzon looked outside the cabin at the bright starry sky with a look of despair in her eyes. “Maybe, if we had been so good, he and I would be married by now and I would be the envy of every Sra.
“And then what happened?”
Later …
After Andreo Fanta’s return, he was busy with family struggles and his own career, but continued to spend a lot of time with Ciri Garzón.
Andreo Fanta, the man, is domineering and overbearing to the extreme.
Ciri Garzon can’t get close to other boys, he can’t talk or laugh with other boys, and if Andreo Fanta crosses him, the man gets angry and is hard to cajole, and even when Ciri Garzon spends time with his own brother, Tavio Garzon, Andreo Fanta gets jealous and upset.
At that time, Andreo Fanta was very macho and moody, much less tolerant of her than he is now, and would become very aggressive if she did not answer his calls or messages, or if he disappeared for days.
When Ciri Garzón was a little older, she seemed to understand men and women a little more and began to feel that her relationship with Andreo Fanta was distorted and unequal, that girls are a little pretentious in their relationships, especially when it comes to a boyfriend as moody and possessive as Andreo Fanta.
Ciri Garzon started to break up with him, but in retrospect, she didn’t love him that much at the time, she just thought Andreo Fanta was good, handsome and charming, and she spoiled him enough to cling to him like a lapdog, and when it came to fighting and breaking up, she was never the one to bother.
He was young, and without Andreo Fanta in his life, he was just one less stunner, and he still would have been happy.
“And you broke up then?”
Ciri Garzón takes a deep breath and continues, “If we had really broken up then, there would have been no subsequent events, and if I had been a little more determined then, my life with Andreo Fanta afterwards, would not have been interrupted.”
When she broke up with him, Andreo Fanta was angry, but he treated her words as child’s play and ignored her, while Ciri Garzon was a person whose anger came and went quickly. She was too greedy for the material things Andreo Fanta gave her, and her feelings for him were not so deep at first, just like a child who always likes people who give him candy unconditionally.
When Andreo Fanta was twenty-five years old, he took a long trip to London for work and when he returned to Ciudad del Rey, Andreo Fanta asked him to pick him up, but Tavio Garzon’s classes were about to end and his parents asked Ciri Garzon to pick up her ten-year-old brother. Ciri Garzon rightly refused Andreo Fanta, but Andreo Fanta was overbearing and domineering, and always tried to take the first place in Ciri Garzon’s heart, even though he was the second in Ciri Garzon’s family.
Come to think of it, maybe it was Ciri Garzón again, because she never gave Andreo Fanta what she called relationship security, and that’s why he was so domineering and paranoid.
But who is a saint? People tend to prove their innocence and wrongdoing by blaming someone else.
Ciri Garzón was afraid of Andreo Fanta, she feared that he would get angry and that, if he broke up with her, she would no longer be able to enjoy the sweets he gave her, so, weighing the “benefits”, she went to the airport to pick up Andreo Fanta without her family knowing, but not her own younger brother. The young woman, who was still young, went to the airport to pick up Andreo Fanta, but not her younger brother.
Tavio Garzon was on his way home when he was hit by a car and was pronounced dead at the hospital upon arrival.
Ciri Garzón closes her eyes when the memory stops.
Estrella Berrocal knew he was crying and handed him a tissue: “Is that why you have been so cold to Mr. Andreo all these years?
“I couldn’t warm up to him, not even a little bit in a good way, and I would feel indebted to Tavio. ”
Estrella Berrocal nodded, “I know how you feel.”
He does not want to console Ciri Garzón by telling her that people do not come back from death, that one must look forward, that in the face of life and death, scars are eternal, and that although Andreo Fanta was not directly responsible for the death of Tavio Garzón, Tavio Garzón died because of him.
With reddened eyes, Ciri Garzón said: “If Andreo Fanta had been a little kinder and better, Tavio would not have died. The doctor who rescued Tavio said at the time that if he had been brought in a few minutes earlier, maybe he could have saved him, but he was too late…. If he had not gone to pick up Andreo Fanta, Tavio would not have died … ”
Ciri Garzón’s thin shoulders shook with choked sobs and Estrella Berrocal, not knowing how to comfort her, simply reached out and hugged her in silence.
“I lost my only brother because of Andreo Fanta, even my parents didn’t care about me all these years, they were so sad to lose their son, I lost my closest relatives, but over the years, Andreo Fanta probably felt so guilty that he became in a very good mood and put up with me, even though I had been fighting against him for seven years. The more I did it, the more I hated him, because the more I did it, the more I remembered that Tavio had died because of him.”
“It’s okay, Ciri, it will pass, it will all be over. I forgot to tell you that I just got divorced.”
The most effective way to comfort a friend is to tell him or her about your tragedy.
Ciri Garzón looked at her with teary eyes and laughed.
In the cabin, the two girls were sad and fell asleep in each other’s arms.