The Military School (En)

Solitudine

Carina was in fetal position on the tarmac of the base. Andrea who had foreseen the blow was standing not far from there. Not that he had wanted to spy on his sister but he knew her. He knew that she would not go well.

He approached and gently placed his hand on the back of his sister: "Carina, Carina come you, you will catch cold".

- "she, she is gone" she said with a sob

- "I know... Come on."

All of Carina's energy had evaporated. Just as Maya had predicted, only a fleshy shell remained. Carina was no longer there. At least not the smiling, charming, playful Carina they all loved. Only the sad and depressed Carina remained, a lifeless Carina.

She didn't even know how her legs had managed to get to her house, but now she was in bed, the pillow Maya had slept on in her arms, pressed against her heart. Flooded with tears.

Andrea knocked on the door and entered.
The last person to do this was Maya, when she had arrived three days earlier with the worst news. Andrea was holding a package in his hands.

-"it's... it's... from Maya" He spoke in a quiet, unsure voice, not knowing what his sister's reaction would be.

She got up at three quarters. Wiped with a backhand a tear that threatened to join the others on the pillow. She sniffed: "what is it?"

-"I, I don't know Maya gave me this for you, to give to you after she left."

- "but when?"

-"Friday night"

She opened the package. Some things had been put there months before. Maya knew that there was a chance that they wouldn't stay together on the same base forever, so she had been putting in memories for the day when one of them would leave.

There were movie tickets, one for each, Maya had to keep the second one for herself. A package of marshmallows. A t-shirt with her scent on it, this one was recent, a bottle of her perfume, a teddy bear, a USB key and photos, photos of them, photos of Carina she didn't know existed and a love letter.

Carina plugged the USB key into her computer which was next to her.

There were several things. Videos, photos, songs, and a "to my love" album. Carina decided to start with that one. It was full of videos. She opened the first one titled "Day 1". Maya was on the screen talking to the camera.

- "Hi, I don't know if this is going to lead to anything but last night Carina and I made out. It was for a game, but I got chills, I've never felt like this before. I think that's a good thing, isn't it? If it wasn't for Jack... I could have kept kissing her. She's so beautiful. I can't stop thinking about her and that kiss."

She decided to open another video, not necessarily tracking the days. "Day 7."

- "this girl drives me crazy, but why hasn't she kissed me? Maybe she just wants to see if I like her. Maybe she's waiting for me to kiss her. And her smeeeeell" she said as she threw herself back on her bed before sitting back down. "She's driving me crazy, I need to know if she likes me. I could have sworn she was going to kiss me goodnight"

It was, like a diary, a diary of Maya's perspective on their story.
She opened another video.

- "She kissed me," she said ecstatically. "We're together. She liked me, she's so perfect."

Then another video.

- "I'm not going to last long, I want her so much. I've never felt like this before. I... I think I love her. That must be it, she haunts my thoughts, she's all I think about day and night, she's all I talk about. Have I talked to you about anything else since school started? I love her" she had just realized the video was still running with a frozen Maya.