INSIDE THE CLASSROOM

There we are, Jorge Juan Institute and a new pupil sitting in a desk.
It is Emiliano on his first day of class. To him all is new, there is a long time since the last time he was sitting on a desk watching round him all the people who will be his partners, even the professor it is a new face.
He doesn´t know anybody, no that´s no true, there is a known face he knew from the mountains trips, yes Jesus, a nice boy who shared the
bed room sometimes when they go to the Hispano Club. 


That´s good, it is better to have a known face if you are a new comer that goes late, when the course has opened since a month o two ago.

Shake hands, how are you? and they sit together, that´s right.  
How long is he going to be here?, till june more or less, when first test at the Bank Office will be, if he pas the first it will be another test may be in September, close near to get his licence from the army that will be in December.

Emiliano´s mind was thinking all these subjects  while the professor was reading some writing works about a rubbish strike in New York.

A rubbish strike in New York?, funny, here in Spain strikes are forbidden by the law and it is difficult to imagine something like a rubbish strike, at least we are in winter he thinks.

Pelegrin, the professor, started to read another work and the new comer emiliano stop thinking and put some attention to the new reading.
Nice, a nice work with humor and very good written he thinks, let see who is the author.
No author, the girl who writes it has not come today, who could be? he say to him, I would like to know.

Next day Emiliano was again in the class and take a sit just behind a couple, a young boy and a very young nice girl, really nice he thinks.

He has arrived with Jesus who seems to know the boy and the girl, emiliano was sitting silence watching everything with his eyes looking at the nice girl who was also silence watching the two boys talk.

When the class was over, Jesus and the other boy, Jose Luis, left the class and the girl was alone, just the same like emiliano.

Suddenly she turn her body, relax on the wall, look at him and said:

He, you are a new comer, aren´t you?.
Yes, of course, it is my second day here.

After a while of some talk the new professor comes to the class and gives a paper to her saying it is a good work.

So, it is from you, emiliano says, it is very good, funny and very good written, I like it very much.

How do you know, says her.
Well, yesterday Pelegrín read it and I think it was the best of all.

Thank you very much, ....uhm, your name please?
Emiliano, and yours?
Maria Jose but friends call me Cuca. 

Nice to meet you Cuca, just a pleasure.

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Everything about this story started so, Cuca turning her body to the
right, relaxing her back on the wall and greeting emiliano with her
word, he, you are a new comer, aren´t you?.

Why she do such a thing?, there is not any explanation as Cuca was a shy girl that doesn´t speak with people she doesn´t know.
Why for she does such step?. 
Along years this couple has been for long thinking what happened to
her to do such a thing so odd in her way of doing.

She has done this gesture for the best, as the story of these two young
persons started just from this moment.

In Spanish could be,  Hola, tu eres nuevo, no?.
She knows perfectly well emiliano is a new comer so the real motive for
her could be she wants to talk with this boy.

Is this a mutual crush? a Cupido´s arrow?.

It could be, but we have to wait some months to see it.

Yes, of course, some moths because Cuca is dating with Jose Luis (in fact she was engaged with him) and emiliano is a serious boy that doesn´t want to interfere in a love relation, which ever kind of relation it could be. 
That´s not the way of emiliano actions and for him, a serious person, that kind of behaviour could be not ethic. 
Silly boy after all, as in love of war there are not rules. 

Evidently, he likes the girl, very much endeed, but she was dating another boy, such a problem, but to talk with her or going out with both it is nice for him and he doesn´t think in other subject that following their talking outside the Jorge Juan Institute.

In future he could repeat these actions some times, not very frequently
as he would like to do, but it wasn´t in his will as he doesn´t know the boy or the girl enough to ask them for a walk. It was always the other boy Jesus who likes to talk with Jose Luis about futbol and emiliano has his chance when the two boy where talking ahead walking up till Cuca, yes Cuca, house.

After two months everthing will be  finished as Cuca and the boy will change their desks in the class, and emiliano has less opportunities of talking with the girl.
Having this in mind, he goes back the class and watched the couple curiously asking by himself "what have seen this incredible nice girl
in a boy like Jose Luis", it is a mistery for emiliano and he thinks that
the boy is handsome, good looking, and physical attraction was the only motive for her.
Other reasons are unthinkable for emiliano as this boy Jose Luis seems very simple minded for him, but who knows girls?. What is in the soul of a girl?, what is the choice of a girl like this one, Cuca?, only physical attraction?.

 




I don´t think so, were the thoughts of emiliano, it have to be something more as the girl is inteligent, nice, beautiful, well she has everything I like in a girl and it is sure I WILL BE HAPPY WITH HER FOR EVER, if she choose me and love me as I want, just a pity she is dating already.
I don´t like to suffer it is better to put some distance, was his feelings without being alert about them.

Poor boy Emiliano, he is hard inside his heart about falling in love with the first o second girl he could meet, or the hundred or thousan, that is his way of feeling. 
Difficult to find a girl who could like him specially and the one he meets
is engaged?. There is not a reason for that, so many time alone without a loving one, and now.....nothing?.

Be in you boy, don´t lament anything, you are going to the bank soon and afterward you´ll be out of Spain and could know a blonde girl in Canada that make you happy.



to be continued....

 el gatufo