With arms wide open

/ some friend's time /

It was Friday, and I was leaving to Boston on Sunday, in the afternoon both of my friends were coming over as a farewell party, it was 5.10 and we were waiting in class when I got a message from Chris:

Hey honey, u have 2 friends coming over right?

Yes, r u coming to get us or do we need to get there by bus?

Don't worry, I'll go to pick u up

Okay

Okay hon see u :)

Yeah, see u :)

I left my phone aside and went to where my friends were and I told them:

"¿Os venís conmigo no?" / "you're coming with me right?"

Both of them nodded with a smile on their faces and as soon as the bell rang we got out of the building, we got to the place in which Chris had been picking me up since the first day we met, once we got there he sat on the front side of the Ferrari, looking down at his phone, we go over to where she was and I say:

"Hi Chris"

He looks up smiling to me and he says while he hugs me:

"Hey honey how was your day?"

"It was good, had a lot of fun"

He smiled to me again and he said:

"Good to know"

He hugged me again and when he let go, he turned to my friends and said:

"Hi, I'm Chris, Lu's father"

They all shocked their hands, Carla always jumping a bit since she couldn't believe who she was meeting, once we were in, and then quickly we all got in the car, me in the front with my father, when we were out of the school I felt how one of my friends touches my shoulder, I turned around and I ask her:

"¿Si?" / "yeah?"

"¿Es todo así?" / "is everything like this?"

I frowned and ask her:

"¿Qué quieres decir?" / "what do you mean?"

"Que si todo lo que tienes ahora es así, en plan Ferrari, y más coches caros como Lamborghini, también casas grandes, Hollywood, vivir en Los Ángeles, poder irte de vacaciones a las Maldivas y a lo mejor no volver en mucho tiempo" / "if everything is going to be like this, I mean Ferrari and more expensive cars, along with expensive houses, Hollywood, go to live to Los Angeles, being able to go on vacations to the Maldives, and maybe not coming back in a long time"

I looked over to my Dad to see what face he had, he had a face like if he wasn't understanding what we were saying, and I just laughed, I looked back to my friends and said:

"Si, supongo, pero no pienses que porque vaya a tener todo a partir de ahora voy a ser una persona distinta ehh, series siendo mis mejores amigas y vendré a veros cuando pueda, que intentaré que sea muchas veces" / "yeah, i guess, but don't ever think that with me having all of this now I'm going to be a different person, you will still be my best friends and I will come visit you when I can, and I will try to make is as much as possible"

What I got as a response was them smiling and little tears falling from their eyes, I approached them and gave them a hug, the rest few minutes we were singing the lyrics of the song playing on the radio, and when it was over Carol said:

"¿Qué vamos a hacer?" / "what are we going to do?"

I turned around and told them:

"Pensaba quedarnos un poco en la piscina" / "I was thinking about staying in the pool"

Both of them nodded and so I added:

"Si no queréis hacer algo me lo decís y cambiamos de plan" / "but if you don't want to tell me and we'll change the plan"

"No, no, perfecto"

The rest of the trip home was with us talking about a lot of things, and when we got to La Finca fence, and stopped next the guard all that I was hearing was '¡no te creo!' '¡ostras!"

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We were already at home and I has showed them around, we were laying on the ground next to the pool, and I hear Carla say:

"Esto sí que es vida" / "this is life"

That made me laugh, and with that Chris came out of the house and asked us:

"Want anything to eat?"

I looked at him without bothering to stand up, and then I looked over to my friends and asked them:

"¿Queréis?" / "want anything?"

"Sii porfa" / "yes please"

I looked up to Chris again and said while standing up:

"Yeah, but we'll go with you"

He placed his hand on my shoulder and got me down again, making me fall to my towel again:

"I'm going honey, you stay here"

"But,..."he didn't let me reply because he disappeared into the house

"Oh Dios Jesús, de verdad" / "Oh my God, really"

My friends laughed at me and told me:

"Se ve que tienes una buena relación con él ¿eh?" / "looks like you have a great relationship with him uh?"

I looked over to see the place in which he had disappeared into the house and told my friends:

"Sí, la verdad es que lo está haciendo bastante bien" / "yeah, if I'm honest, he's doing pretty good"

Both of them nodded with a smile on their faces and we continued talking till Chris came out again with a tray full of a lot of different food.

Then we just started talking about a lot of things, time went through and without us noticing it was already 9.30 and Carol's parents called and when she hug up she told us that they were outside waiting for the both of them.

They were able to go in because we had given the car number to the guard, because otherwise they wouldn't have been able to go inside

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Carol's parents arrived to my house, and both of my friends got in and after saying our goodbyes, ones in were we ended up crying because we didn't know when we were going to be able to see us again.

And now I was left alone with Chris, and the only thing left to do was make our luggage for Sunday