Professional Prostitute (unedited)

Chapter 52

Guilherme: "You're such a liar" He laughed.

Manuela: "Haha" I hit him lightly on his arm- "He Just asked me to be his partner."

Guilherme: "you could be his partner if you want. I wouldn't want to keep you away from your boyfriend."

Manuela: "If I were to change partners, I wouldn't have agreed to be yours. And he's not my boyfriend." He laughed.. again.

Otávio started calling each partnered group to go outside of class to take the quiz. Then, it was finally Guilherme and I's turn. We stood in front of Otávio.

Otávio: "Guilherme, I want you to pretend as if Manuela was a waitress. What would you order? Answer in Spanish of course."

Manuela:  "Hola, como puedo ayudarte hoy?" (Hi, how can I help you today?")

Guilherme: "Si, yo quiero..." (Yeah, Can I have...")  Guilherme stopped and choked on his words not knowing what else to say. I tried whispering him some answers but he didn't seem to understand anything I was trying to say. Damn it. -"I'm not a Spanish speaker. I give up."

Otávio: "You may withdraw From the quiz then. I'll just continue the test with Manuela. And since you didn't answer anything, your grade is a zero."

Guilherme: "But Mr.Ramos...."

Otávio: "That's it. If you don't want to also hurt Manuela's grade I suggest you go back in the class." Guilherme opened his mouth to say something else but nothing came out. He went back into class and kept looking at me until the door completely shut.

"Ready Manuela?"

Manuela: "Yeah. ? "Que quieres esta buena tarde?" ("What do you want this fine evening?")

Otávio: "Yo quiero tu." ("I want you."
When he said, it actually surprised me. I was just here to get a good quiz grade. -"Oh lo siento, ¿puedo tener una hamburguesa con queso por favor."

We finally finished the verbal quiz, which was actually ridiculously easy. Otávio looked like he was Embarrassed by what he had said. Or maybe he was expecting a different response from me. I don't know, that was just weird.

He asked what he could do so I wouldn't tell anyone. I said no one would know if he gave Guilherme another chance on his quiz. He agreed. At least Guilherme would have some time to study and familiarize him with the basics of Spanish. We went to lunch break and Guilherme to looked around for me. Guilherme: "You know, you're starting to become a nerd. I'm boring with you. I'm a denial in English. I'm jealous of your fluent Spanish speaking. I'm in denial."

Manuela: "well guess what? ... I got you a second chance to do your quiz" I gave him a smile.

Guilherme: "How'd you do that?"

Manuela: "It's a long story that you don't need to know about. Just accept the second chance and leave it at that."

Guilherme: "Thank you stranger" He laughed and hugged me. I could smell his cologne radiating of of him and the warmth of his arms wrapping around my waist to hug me. Oh, I just wish we could stay wrapped around each other forever.

I soon pulled away from the the hug and we went to the lunch line to get our food.