Chris and Chiara - English

CHAPTER 3 - Chris - The Encounter

    Chiara had gone to Santa Maria, to her mother's house, about a week ago, it was Wednesday and the Sunday before, she had gone to attend a bike race, Cross Country to be more precise, returning home halfway through the race, just after one of the competitors crashed.

    Well, that competitor was me, and the one who was in the race with her foot, her leg actually, in cast, was her, but I didn't know that.

    Chiara recalled when she fell and at the same time felt depressed about not being able to compete. Chiara tried not to limit herself to cast, she did not stop going out, going to the Mall and her mother was very supportive of her, they went out for a walk every now and then.

    I had a store of security systems, alarms, cameras and etc. in the center of Santa Maria. There was a coffee shop about half a block from my store, and on Wednesday morning, as I was returning from a customer around 10:00 a.m., I spotted a young woman getting out of a car in front of this coffee shop. I'm very observant on a day-to-day basis, I noticed that this girl put her right foot out of the car, she came down the side of the car, then the crutches out.

    There was a woman who had opened the car door who then took her crutches, I was on alert after spotting the crutches, as it could be a woman wearing a cast, so I broke out in a cold sweat, my legs loosened, in anticipation of whether that woman was wearing a cast or not.

    She then turned to face out of the car, and revealed her other leg, displaying her foot in a white cast, driving me to ecstasy, and at that moment a thousand things went through my head, especially if that girl would be the same as the race last weekend. That woman who will accompany her was her mother, who reached for her crutches, then the girl stood up leaning on her armpits and takes her first steps, I watched with no reaction, she finally shows herself when she gets out of the car. She was a very pretty girl, with shoulder-length and reddish hair, a half-season blouse and a long skirt with a slit on the side of her leg in cast. Then I realized that her cast goes from her foot to the top of her thigh, she was wearing her sunglasses on the top of her head, she then talking to her mother, looks briefly to the side of where I was and smiles, showing off her metal braces, and then a thousand more things start going on in my head. The girl in the race was blonde, this one has hair with red locks, and I don't remember her wearing braces, but that detail didn't give her time to see, and she wasn't sure what leg her cast was on, and had only seen her foot in cast, and now she had seen her entire leg covered by a beautiful white fiberglass cast.

    Chiara moves inside the cafeteria with her mother, as she enters she sits further back and waits while her mother goes to the bathroom.

    Immediately I ran to the cafeteria and still with a racing heart I entered and saw the girl sitting at one of the tables, soon I look at her leg, I appreciate the texture of the fiberglass cast, white, probably should have put a short time, and despite being a little shy I got to the counter, I was waiting my turn and enjoying my muse of the moment, With its beautiful cast, something so unusual to be seen on the day, even more so that it was a cast on every leg.

    I noticed the small angulation of his knee and his nails painted bright blue, the table was right next to it. I ordered a coffee and a sandwich, which is why it would take a while to get ready, so I'd be there for a while, and suddenly I'd be able to pull a subject. At that moment she tried to pull out a cushion that was on the next table to put under her thigh, since the cast sometimes hurt when she sat down, stretched all over and then I promptly grabbed the cushion and reached for her.

- Here you are! I said with a half-embarrassed smile.

- "Thanks, sorry, with this cast it's hard to do some simple things," she replied.