C1 The letter

Josef was going to open his locker when he saw that a pink envelope was stuck to the door of it. Quite doubtful, he tore it off and saw what it said "to: Josef Sandoval."

He quickly opened it and read:

"Dear Joseph.

I've wanted to tell you this for a long time, but I didn't have the strength to come up with the right words to let you know what I'm feeling right now. Maybe you don't know me, maybe you don't know what I'm talking about.

Every morning I see you from afar wanting to run and talk to you, but I'm very shy and I never find the courage to do it. Although, I can assure you that in this institute there is no other girl who knows you better than me.

I've known you since I was five years old, I know that your parents bought a house two blocks from the institute so that when you started studying it would be easy for you to go to class. Your best friend Tomás lives next door to your house and every night they go to his swimming lessons. Your favorite color is purple, you have a five-year-old sister named Sofia who you love and protect very much.

If I started to write everything about you, I would never finish, since I always repair even the smallest thing about you. I can assure you that right now you have to be ruffling your hair —that was what Josef was doing at that moment, he was so surprised that he read those last words again and opened his mouth in shock— you see, I only do all this for one Simple reason, I... I'm in love with you.

I have always dreamed of talking to you at snacks and being able to be a great friend to you, I don't aspire to something like love because I know you would never fall in love with me. But if these words caused something in you, it doesn't matter if it's pity... could you fulfill my only wish? I've always wanted to talk to you in person.

Att: Keidys Gonzales Pardo. "

Josef had loved that letter; He began to believe that those words filled with such tenderness could only have been written by a beautiful sweet girl. For the same reason, while walking home, he did not stop reading it over and over again.

That night he fantasized about what he would do the next day, he would look for her and ask her to be his girlfriend, surely his friends would die of envy when he told him about her.

When she woke up, she got ready and bathed in perfume. He went down to the dining room and his parents were surprised to see him so flirtatious .

—And so? asked her mother, Tatiana.

"When I get home I'll tell you." She sat down at the table and her mother served her some scrambled eggs with toast.

On leaving, he showed his friend Tomás the letter that had been written to him. So little by little his friends joined and were impressed by those words.

Everything was going very well in his day, he felt in love with that girl, even though he didn't know her in person! But he could already see himself with her: he couldn't stop fantasizing about her beauty.

All that morning he was impatient for the first break to arrive, and when it did, he gathered all his friends in the cafeteria to set out on a mission to find that girl; the good thing is that he left his name with his full last names.

Just as Josef was telling his friends where to start looking, a girl came up.

—Ex-excuse me ... —he said in a small voice.

They all turned to look at her and saw a fat girl with short hair (which didn't look good on her at all), she had her right knee bandaged and a blessed one on her forehead. His teeth were gapped and somewhat yellow; the fingers of his hands played with each other.

Everyone scrunched up their faces seeing how ugly she was.

—Josef... This... I... I am the one who wrote you the letter —she confessed with her head down.

There was a moment of silence and his friends stared at him, very skeptical.

Josef was shocked, "but how ugly..." he thought.

At that moment his friends burst out laughing.

—How ugly! They shouted and pointed at her with their fingers.

Keidys began to get scared by everyone's mockery and her tears began to come out of her eyes.

Josef was only immobile, he did not stop repairing it, in addition, the mockery of his friends made him angry. He felt humiliated: he was extremely beautiful; popular even with teachers; he had the best grades; the girls always fell in love with him and his parents bought him whatever was in style among children his age. It didn't seem fair to him that she was in that situation, he had to stop her right then and there.

—Who do you think you are? he asked suddenly and she was startled by the tone he used. Do you think I would be the boyfriend of something as ugly as you?! —He yelled at her—, go away, I don't want to see you!

All of Josef's friends would not stop making fun of him. Keidys couldn't believe that they were humiliating her like that: her whole body began to tremble, her heart was beating with great force and also, she was crying profusely.

The other children who were in the corridors began to see what was happening and little by little they were concentrating around her.

Keidys, no longer supporting what was happening, ran out of there, went to the entrance of the school while wiping her tears with her hands. At that moment it started to rain and she soaked her uniform in the heavy rain.

—I'm not so ugly, I'm not so ugly, I can be very pretty, I know I can be very pretty...! he repeated to himself over and over again as he ran down the long street.

Six years later:

Keidys was seventeen years old, studied abroad in a renowned elite school, had already lived for several years with his uncles, who owned a renowned magazine sold worldwide, in addition, his mother had created a clothing brand that she became very famous and the girl became the image of the magazine: several times she modeled on the catwalks of this brand.

Those last years good fortune knocked on the door of the Gonzales family.

The young woman was very famous for her beauty: tall, slim and with perfect sizes; any man would want to have her as a girlfriend.

Although, she was also known for being the model teen with the longest maiden years, the broadcast media couldn't make money from her because of those love scandals and stuff.

But, the truth was that the young woman did not have a boyfriend for something that she had never forgotten: Josef. That boy who had made fun of her when she was little: he wanted to make her life square, humiliate him, break his heart.

He had only waited all that time to be able to return to that school and see her shocked face when she told him that she was that girl. Humiliate him in front of his whole group. Surely he had become more arrogant than before; of course, as now the development had to have made him more handsome than before, although he was not the only one.

Keidys had finished bathing, was in front of the mirror and was looking at his new uniform.

"This is my big day." He gave a crooked smile and put his hands on her waist. He had to attend his first day of classes at that school where he had once given the letter to Josef.

When her parents found out that she was returning to the country, they let out a big cry, they had spent a fortune in her old school, it was expensive and renowned, they wanted her to graduate there, and now she was going out with those things. However, they accepted, since they needed to have her at home and, furthermore, even though they said no, Keidys would follow his plan to return to his native country, even if they prevented him; she was too stubborn.

Keidys looked closely at the school as he got out of the car. There was a large group of students waiting outside the school. She walked with a safe step to enter the institute, she saw that the students through the windows of the school looked and shouted with joy. Keidys had gained great fame, and she liked that, because she was no longer that shy girl who once hurt her heart: now she could look into Josef's eyes and trample on him, that's why she had come back.