All started 11 years ago, when I was just a little man searching for a university that will teach him everything he need to be a really good person and professional, that little guy got to the campus of Stanford University, he was in a tour for the applicants to the university, then he saw her, the most beautiful person he ever known, she was applying to medicine, but all the aspirants were on the same tour, that was the first time they knew each other, but it wasn’t that love of soap opera that since the first they met, it was different, it was more beautiful because we took our time to knew each other, to fall in love slowly and wonderful, I remember that first words that we share like if it was yesterday.

 

-Which career? - I asked her.

 

-Medicine, and you?

 

-Economics, are you nervous?

 

-A little bit yeah, and you?

 

What a lovely voice she had at that moment, so sweet and full of all his beauty.

 

-Me too, but I felt more nervous at the first tour, in other university obviously.

 

I was actually more nervous than ever, because I meet a really beautiful person.

 

-Well yeah, you’re right but I’m more nervous because in the other universities didn’t accept me, is my last choice or I won’t start to study.

 

-Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll pass to this university and if I do it to we can still talking, can’t we?

 

-I really want that, I expect this friendship goes forever.

 

That hurt me, a lot, but if at that moment I knew what was going to happen in the next 10 years I’m sure that at moment I would be really happy.

 

-Oh, I didn’t ask you your name, you are…?

 

-I’m Helena, I’m really nice to meet you, and you are…?

 

-I’m Mark, it’s a pleasure, and can you give me your phone number?

-Of course I can.

 

That was a really awkward silence.

 

-Well… do it, please.

 

-hahaha, sorry, I really love to do that, take note, 212-324-4152, and your phone number is…?

 

-143-555-8972, would you call me?

 

-If you do it too.

 

-We’ll keep in touch.

 

-I expect that.

 

Then I lost her because the interview by careers started and she want to study medicine and I presented to economics.

 

That was the day I met she, what time, we were just two young people expecting for them life, after two weeks I received the accept letter of that and another university which I presented the day before I met she, I didn’t know what to do, then I received a call from she, I actually didn’t expect that because we didn’t talk since the day we met.

 

-Mark?

 

-Helena?

 

-Oh thanks god is you, I want to give you a notice, and do you know what is it?

 

-No, what is it?

 

Actually I knew what was because one hour earlier my accept letter so I thought she got her too, but I didn’t want to seem like a seer or something like that.

 

-THEY ACCEPT ME MARK; THE PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSITY WHERE WE MET ACCEPT ME TO STUDY.

 

-I’m proud of you, so we can see each other there, can’t we?

 

At the moment I heard she said that they accepted she I decide to go to that university despite all my family want me to go to the other university or the others 5 university I’ve got accept and not for that one.

 

-Seriously? You have got accept to!?

 

-Yeah, and to other five but I prefer that one.

 

-And one that suffer because just passed to one university, but I’m really happy that we are at the same university, we’ll talk at the university, I’ll call you when I arrive, got to go, don’t lose of the radar, see you.

 

-Expecting for that moment, don’t lose you too, see you.

 

That month left passed really slow, I count every moment to see she, but I didn’t accept myself that I was falling in love of she, but my heart was, and my heart was expecting that she was falling in love too.

 

Then that day came, our first day at university, the day that decide most of your friends and enemies of all your stay at the university, she call me at 4 am, thanks God I wasn’t sleeping, I couldn’t sleep thinking of what was going to happen that day, I answer the phone and I heard a scream of happiness, we talk since that moment to 6 am when my mum call me for breakfast, we talked about a lot of things, our family, our likes and dislikes, what we want for our future live, about stupid things, about everything, she told me that she already reserve a room at the student housing, and I told her that I did that too, I really wanted to share room with she, she called me when she arrived to the university, I arrived half hour earlier but I didn’t called she because I was with my parents and they were crying a lot because their “little baby” was leaving the nest then my dad made my mum went to the car and they left 2 minutes before she called me, she said she was going to the student housing, that her mum already left and that she would wait me at the entrance of the campus and we would go to the student housing together, when she said that word I felt really happy, we were like a team, we were together.

 

I went to the entrance of the campus like she told me and I saw her, she was more beautiful than the day I met her, she was with a pastel pink dress exactly at the knee and a white jacket, she had a perfume that smell like roses, that was her first name but she hate it, when she saw me she started to run right on where I was, I felt happy.

 

-Hi Mark - She said while she kissed my cheek, I gave back that kiss with all the love I had at that moment.

 

-Hi Rose - I said to bother her.

 

-Seriously?

 

-Hahaha, I’m sorry Helena, I got to do it, so, what’s up?

 

-Oh, nothing much, what about you?

 

-The same, let’s go to the student housing.

 

-Okay.

 

We walk through all the campus until we arrive to the student housing.

 

-Hi, I’m Helen, I’m the manager of the student housing, did you already book any room or you are just going to start the process.

 

-Hi -we said in unison, it felt really good.

 

-We two had already booked a room - she said.

 

-Are you boyfriends?

 

-No - We said in unison again.

 

-Well you look like - The secretary said while she made a corrupted face.

 

-But we are not, so, can you give us our room?

 

-Are you sharing the room? - She said with that face again.

 

-No, don't misunderstand the things, we book the room each other for separated, we just want you to tell us which are our rooms and how we can get there, so please do that - I had never seen she talking that seriously, I was a little bit scared.

 

-Yeah, don’t worry, I was just bothering you, so your names are…?

 

-Rose Helena Evans Stone and he is Mark Edward Anderson Owens.

 

-Ok, so, Rose your room is the 309 and the room of Mark is the 308 - and again that face, it’s starting to annoy me.

 

-Well thank you for your attention, I guess that if we need something we can call right?

 

-Yeah, this is my phone number - she gave us 2 letters with her name and her number- Your rooms are in the third floor the 2 at the end to the left, so thank you for choice us and enjoy your stay.

 

-Thank you- That was the only two words I could say in all our talk with the secretary, that was the first time I saw Helena being that mandatory, she didn’t let me talk but I don’t care, I felt safe.

 

Then we were preparing to go to our rooms when:

 

-Hi, I am Brian, forgive me but I was hearing your conversation and I realize that you-referring to Helena-are at the same room as me and two really good friends that I have so if you want I can help you with your things and I can present you with all your new roommates.

 

-Yeah, thank you, it’s a pleasure, I’m Helena by the way.

 

-And I’m Mark, nice to meet you.

 

-Oh I didn’t know you have a boyfriend.

 

-Don’t worry he is just a person that I knew at the tour, let’s go.

 

-I’ll go too-I said.

 

-Oh, don’t worry, I’ll call when I finish with my move into the room or you pass tomorrow but first call me, go to your room, don’t worry about me.

 

That hurt, a lot.

 

Okay, don’t worry about the time when you finish, call me to know that you are fine, see you, and nice to meet you Brian.

 

-Oh yeah, nice to meet you…, what was your name?

 

-Mark- I said while I put my eyes up.

 

At that moment the only thing that I want to do is to kill that man, I mean, first he interrupts us and then he took Helena from my hands like the president or the police or something like that, but okay, my hate to that man at that was nothing compare to my hate at the end part of our relationship.

 

As it is obviously she didn’t call me and in the next day I call her but she didn’t answer me, I saw her at the meeting of all the beginners but she was with her new friends, I got to admit that a was a little jealous.

 

After two months we started to talk again, I surprise because she was sharing a lot with her roommates, but I was starting to forgot she then we started to talk and I fell in love again, but this time it was a kind of different, she told that she fought with moon(the other woman at that room) and that Brian and Jacob supported moon, so I think that it is more that she at that moment didn’t have somebody to talk than she actually wanted to talk with me, but I didn’t care about it, because I used that time to made she fall in love to me.

 

Eight months passed and I felt ready to ask her if she wanted to be my girlfriend, but then she told me that Brian apologized to she and that she accepted it so she was very happy because of that, I felt really bad, my whole world was collapsing, the hard thing is that actually I became friend of Jacob, he apologized too, but like six weeks after they fought and she wasn’t that happy like at the moment of Brian but I was a kind of fine with that.

 

I didn’t care and three weeks after they became again friends I decided to do it, I was going to ask her to have a relationship with me, so I planned what I was going to do, with the support of Jacob, George and Steve.

 

-I really love her but I don’t know how to say it- I said.

 

-Well you can give her a letter and you wait for her answer- said Jacob.

 

-Too humiliating.

 

-You can make a placard with the words “I love you and I want you to be my girlfriend” and you wait him at the entrance of the student housing and you scream him “Helena, I really love you, be my girlfriend please”.

 

Too showy.

 

-Or you can just say it, you just call she and you tell him what you feel.

 

-Too simple, but it’s a kind of good, thank you guys but I will found the way to do it, but I’ll do it today that we are going to walk a while at the night, I am going to prepare for tonight, bye.

 

-Bye and good luck- said them in unison.

 

Then the time arrived. I was going to date with she in twenty minutes, but I was ready two hours earlier at 6 p.m., I went to the entrance of the student housing and I wait, I wait till 8 p.m. to quarter for 11, I was ready to left when she arrived, she was outside and had a tiredness face, I wave at she with a kiss and she did it to, I told her that don’t worry about me, that she could go to her room and sleep, that we could date later, but she said that no, that please go with she to her room, that were nobody there, all her partners where at a party of their career, they studied road engineering and then we’ll go outside, and I said that I was fine with that, she entered to the shower and then she set off in towel.

 

-You know, this bath actually remake me, it was so comfortable, I feel ready just wait I dress up and we will go out, by the way I had never asked you, who do you like?

 

I started to blush, but I knew that was the moment, I remember that she never take off her heart earnings.

 

-Well actually I like a person that at this moment had her heart earnings.

 

She blush, then she smile and I could see her beautiful green eyes.

 

-You like me too Mark, since the moment we met in that tour.

 

-So you want to be my girlfriend?

 

-Why not?

 

I moved she close to me, I hugged her and I kissed her, like I have never kissed somebody, I left my whole love in that kiss, and I could bet she did it too, then the towel fell and I could felt all her body closer to me than ever, we were like two person in one, it was beautiful, I felt the real love at that moment, after the kiss that it was long but I wanted more, I told her that dress up and we can go outside and walk with no direction in mind, and she was fine with that, she put the dress that she had the first day at university, she looks beautiful, with her wet hair and her face without any makeup, she looked wonderful, it was perfect to me.

 

We walked and walked and walked all over the campus, they talked like the first day in the university at the phone, about everything without any conditions or regrets, we were free of talked of whatever we wanted and we did it, I was very happy and she seems like she was happy too.

 

That day I didn’t sleep, but I didn’t care about it I was happy, I had girlfriend and at that moment I was expecting to love she for all our life, but now I know that no.

 

One year passed and we were like the couple of the year or something like that, I was really happy, I had the person who I loved right next to me, yeah it’s true that my academic efficiency, and obviously my mom scolded me, and with reason, that wasn’t good for me and for my life, but my mind was in she, just in she, but then she told me that Brian confront her I felt like my world was going down, again.

 

-It’s just that I don’t know why you are caring so much, if it is your friend she won’t let you go that easy.

 

-You don’t know how the things are, I really like him, and I don’t want to lose him, inclusive if the fight was because of you.

 

-You know, I don’t care. Do whatever you want. but have one thing in your mind, you got to decide, because if you think that he is more important than me, well go, and I don’t know, be his boyfriend, and love him, but if you really want to be my girlfriend, solve your things with Brian but don’t make me a less important thing than him.

 

Then I went to my room and I broke out for all the night, I just want her to apologize, but she didn’t, she stayed all the night with Brian, apologizing, and I was destroyed.

 

Two weeks later she went to my room at the early morning, like at 3 a.m. she was a little bit drunk, and she apologize, she said that she really loved me and that she didn’t want to lose me, and less for that stupid thing.

 

I forgave her and we start over but without broken, she asked for a change of room because she wanted to have a better relationship with me.

 

Three years passed and I were at me final year, and for live issues she asked for another change of room, she was coming back to her old room, at that moment I didn’t know why, but okay, Brian lost four semester, he was a idle, but Helena liked him as a friend, so I let her, I finished my career, and I started to work and to earn some money because I wanted to have a good economic position because I really wanted to have a family with she, I thought she was the love of my life, and I wanted to share my life with she.

 

Then the fights started, I knew that was going to happen, and that obviously it would be because of my jealous, but it is just that I couldn’t have the idea in my mind that she was at university sharing room with the man that since the moment we met. he started with his mission, steal my girlfriend, and how not to be worried if after all that things then your girlfriend stopped to call you every day and actually some weeks you didn’t talk with she, I was sick of that situation, so I decide to confront she.

 

-You know I don’t know what are you doing there, or why you decide to go back to that room it is just that I don’t think this is good for our relationship, so I don’t think this is good for us.

 

-No, please no, I really love you, I love you since the first time we talked, and I don’t want to end this just because of this.

 

-Well then fight for us, fight for this relationship, fight for make this works, or it wouldn’t.

 

-I’ll do it, but please, don’t end this.

 

-Okay. I love you.

 

-I love you too- she said while she gave a kiss.

 

The next 2 years where fine, then she finished her career.

 

-Hi sweetie, how are you?

 

-Hi dear, I’m fine, thank you for asking, what about you, how are you doing?

 

-I’m really good, I got something to ask for you, sweetie, we have been boyfriends since our first years in the university, and I want us to do the next step, sweetie, do you want to live with me?

 

-Dear, you know I love you, and I want to share my whole live with you, but I can`t live with you, I don`t feel prepare at this moment to do this big step in our live, sorry.

 

-But Helena you said you want to live me.

 

-Yeah, and I want it, but not at this moment.

 

-But don’t you think is better we do this now to start with our live together?

 

-Sorry baby, I love you, but I don`t feel prepare to do this now.

 

That day I felt that my life collapsed again, now that I think it, it was normal with she that that happened to me, that day our relationship started it final stage, the fights started, nothing was going well, she was tired of me and the love I felt to her was finishing.

 

Then I made a surprise visit a Wednesday.

 

-Hi baby, how is it go…

 

-Oh, Mark, what are you doing here, it is supposed you won’t be here till Saturday.

 

-I asked that for you, what is he doing here?

 

-Is, is not what you think- said Brian.

 

-What the hell were you doing with him?

 

-You know, I don’t love you anymore, I don’t want to know nothing about you, I hate you, we break up since know, it was a pleasure, bye.

 

-It was a really pleasure with you two, I expect this continue forever, goodbye Rose, goodbye Brian.

 

That day we broke up, as I said at the start of this story, it has been 6 months until that moment, it’s difficult but I realize that she was just another page in the book of my life and I decided to turn the page and continue writing that book, waiting for the right person.

 

THE END

 

By: David Santiago Alfonso Montañez

 

Ninth B