Esteban Zaragosa accompanied Dulcina Calvo for several days in the City of Ronda, and one night, after dinner, Mother Dulcina took Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo out for a walk.
Esteban Zaragosa went for a walk with Dulcina Calvo and the whole town found out what Dulcina Calvo’s boyfriend looked like.
Dulcina Calvo muttered, “I think my mother just wants me to drag you along to show off and tell everyone what her future son-in-law looks like.”
Esteban Zaragosa’s dark eyes sparkled as he looked at her, “What do I look like?”
Dulcina Calvo, who was going to say that of course he was the kind of man who was so handsome he couldn’t keep his legs together, looked at him and said deliberately, “Isn’t he just a man with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth? What’s so pretty about that?”
Compliment him for fear that he will be too proud.
Have the inhabitants of this town never seen a handsome man? Why are all eyes on Esteban Zaragosa?
The man deliberately mused, “So in your mind, I’m pretty ordinary, huh?”
In this city, in the evenings, there are mostly a lot of people out for walks and exercise, and we are all neighbors, so most of us know each other, even if we don’t, we all look alike.
Many people have already greeted Dulcina Calvo on this trip.
But they didn’t really want to greet her, they wanted to gossip about her future husband.
Not far away, two girls in tracksuits and gym shorts, running, were approaching Dulcina Calvo.
“Hello, Dulcina!”
“It’s been a long time! Is this your boyfriend? He’s really handsome!”
Both girls were daughters of Dulcina Calvo’s neighbors and were childhood friends, but as they grew up and went their separate ways, they had little contact with each other as they grew up and had nothing in common to say, and little by little their childhood friendship faded.
Dulcina Calvo unconsciously took Esteban Zaragosa’s arm, a small gesture that was undoubtedly a declaration of sovereignty.
“It’s been a long time coming.”
The two girls laughed and said, “Your boyfriend, why don’t you introduce him.”
Dulcina Calvo smiled: “This is my fiancé Esteban Zaragosa, we are getting married soon”.
“Ah, congratulations.”
Waiting for the two girls to leave, whispering as they run.
“Dulcina Calvo’s boyfriend is very handsome, he is a blessing in life!”
“Yes, I wonder what this man’s family is like.”
“Why, generally handsome families are not well off.”
…
Dulcina Calvo sighed, looked at Esteban Zaragosa’s handsome face and said with a white frown, “You attract a lot of butterflies too, look how many people look at you on the street.”
“It shows that your future husband is excellent and has a good eye.”
Dulcina Calvo wrapped her little arms around him, squirming like a little girl who’s had her candy stolen. “Anyway, you’re mine.”
Esteban Zaragosa saw a high school not too far away, called IES Ciudad de Ronda, “have you been to high school here?”.
“Yes, shall I show you?”
A satisfied smile appeared under Esteban Zaragosa’s eyes: “Good”.
He was not fortunate enough to participate in his youthful ignorance, but he had always wanted to know a little of what had happened to him when he was young.
Dulcina Calvo dragged him to Clear River High School now that the students had gone home so the janitor would let them into the courtyard for exercise.
Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo hold hands as they stroll through the campus at sunset.
Walking to her old high school class, Dulcina Calvo leaned out the window, pointed to one of the seats and said to Esteban Zaragosa, “I sat there my freshman year, in the second row.”
Esteban Zaragosa half leaned on the window sill and looked at her with an affectionate smile, “So my Dulcina, then, was still petite?”.
“I only grew in size when I was in college, I also sat in the second row in high school and I was only 5’10”. In college I grew surprisingly four or five centimeters. Eh … That must have been the time when my mother was withholding my pocket money and I couldn’t keep my food down, so thank goodness when I was in college, I knew I had a small amount of money saved from my part-time job and I bought everything to eat.”
The man looked at his girl with a gentle eyebrow, “I know.”
He has been watching her silently, since she was fourteen years old.
Dulcina Calvo didn’t answer for a moment, “What do you know about it?”.
“Nothing, let’s go for a walk in the yard.”
“Yes.”
Dulcina Calvo says as she walks away, “My first year was hard, I had to work hard to get into a good high school. Luckily, I got into La Ciudad Santa High School, and then I went to school with Estrella. ”
Hearing the girl’s soft, catchy voice, Esteban Zaragosa felt his chest fill.
That said, Dulcina Calvo asked, “By the way, when are we going back to La Ciudad Santa?”.
“We can come back tomorrow if you want.”
As we were talking, a voice sounded behind us.
“Is it Dulcina Calvo?”
Dulcina Calvo froze and turned to look at the head of her third-year class, “Professor Gilberto?”
Dulcina Calvo looked at the class teacher in surprise and asked, “Professor Gilberto, why aren’t you still at home?”
Professor Gilberto said with a smile, “I’m not taking another class of students, am I? I’m still a classroom teacher, so I’m a little busy. But I have to congratulate your class, it has really brought out a lot of top students, as nowadays, we don’t have much of an advantage in our city’s high schools anymore, there are fewer top students, and fewer and fewer students entering provincial high schools.”
Dulcina Calvo said sweetly: “Professor Gilberto, you are still young after all these years”.
“Where, you’ve aged quite a bit, you’ve gotten prettier and prettier, you used to be this tall when you were a junior and now you’ve turned out so well.”
Professor Gilberto looked at the man standing next to Dulcina Calvo and froze: “Dulcina, this is…”
Dulcina Calvo introduced herself: “Professor, this is my boyfriend, Esteban Zaragosa. ”
Esteban Zaragosa said kindly, “Professor Gilberto, hello. Dulcina and I are getting married soon and when we do, I will send you an invitation and you will come to our wedding banquet.”
“Well, well, well, I didn’t expect that in a jiffy, little Dulcina would be married, the days go by so fast. However, this Mr. Esteban always looks familiar to her, as if she had seen him somewhere before.”
Esteban Zaragosa naturally remembers this professor Gilberto, whom he came to see when he arrived in Ciudad de Ronda.
“Professor Gilberto, we met.”
Professor Gilberto was thinking for a while, but could not think of anything, when suddenly his cell phone rang, it was from home, and without talking to Dulcina Calvo and the others for a few more minutes, he said, “Dulcina, we’ll talk next time we have a chance, my family urges me to go home for dinner.”
“Well, goodbye professor.”
“Goodbye.”
Professor Gilberto walks off campus with his briefcase in hand, thinking for a long time before finally remembering where he has seen the man in the square.
The man was very handsome and had an unmistakable air about him, so Professor Gilberto was impressed.
Back then, when Dulcina Calvo was in her first year and he was the class teacher, he recalls that this man approached him and told him to take good care of Dulcina Calvo.
Professor Gilberto froze and turned to the couple strolling hand in hand through the courtyard, a smile in his eyes.
This man, it seems, has finally gotten what he wanted.