THE STORYBOOK

H6: PART2 (ENGLISH)

IN A HOTEL ROOM ...

That morning began like any other ... or so it would have been if it was not the day of my engagement party.

Everyone was already in the hotel ... especially the person whom, from that day onwards, was going to be my fiance. The person with whom ... at the end of the year ... I was going to marry before the eyes of our families and closest friends.

But especially ... before the eyes of the entire nation.

Many had already called to congratulate us while others ... others had simply insulted us while turning their backs on us.

As in the case of most of my old friends ... those whom, I have never imagined previously, ended acting in that way after knowing the good news ... the same people who had been with me since Primary school ... almost all my life!

But they had preferred to abandon me to ... to accept my relationship with Him.

According to them, it was crazy ... the most stupid idea that I could have ... Something that I had to put a stop before it destroyed all my life and my future...

"Can't you see that you are going to lose everything you have achieved after all these years?" - They had told me as soon as I called them to tell them the news - "The best thing for you would be to go back to your ex ... Isn't she trying to talk to you? Stop acting as an idiot and put your feet on the floor..."

I sighed slightly, looking down at the soft sheets of the bed. However, seconds later, I straightened my back and, with a gleam of resolution in my eyes, I looked towards the mirror that was in front of me.

"No Krist ... you can't get depressed on a day like this ... it's the day of your engagement!" I repeated to myself a couple of times while, with both hands, I patted my cheeks until leaving them slightly flushed.

After all, although I had lost some friends and acquaintances, I had won many others ... people who, unlike my old friends... accepted me as I really am, and also approved my decision to marry the person who, since I knew him, had been like a ray of light in my life.

Someone who ... had always been there when I needed him.

Someone who ... had fought for me head on, telling everyone - my parents included - that he loved me and wanted to be with me forever.

Someone who ... since he reappeared in my life,  had managed to make me accept myself as I am. With my defects and my virtues.

Someone who ... no doubt ... I don't deserve.

"I have been very lucky ..." I though as I smiled slightly and, after getting up from the bed, took my clean clothes to go towards the bathroom.

A few minutes later I was already in the bathtub, enjoying the water and the aroma of the salts I had just used.

- "Hmmm ... I adore this" - I whispered as I let my body sunk into the tub even more ... allowing me to go under the hot water.

The truth was that I should be hurrying but ... I needed that bath. I needed that moment of relaxation to prepare myself for what was going to happen ... to gain enough mental strength so I will not become a bundle of nerves that would not stop counting every minute, every second until the start of the party.

As... I couldn't be more impatient.

"I just hope that with this ... those ... those women would finally understand that he is mine. Only mine!"

Because he hadn't told me but ... those women - and some men - kept trying to get close to him ... trying to seduce him.

- "As if I would allow it!" - I exclaimed while hitting the water of the bathtub.

But ... luckily, he didn't even notice them ...

"Since I saw you, I have not had more eyes than for you" - he had told me once and again and I ... I believe him.

Not because I loved him ... but because he proved it to me ...

Something very different from what that other man did ... my old friend who ... who sometimes seemed interested in me but ... the next day he acted as if I was just another friend, telling me about his last date or ... or telling me how sexy the person he had just met was ...

I do not deny that, after my breakup with my first girlfriend, I was excited ... I thought that ... that he wanted something with me but ... he never said anything.

And so time passed ... from one work to another... until I saw him again, my actual boyfriend.

A smile appeared on my lips, remembering how gray had been my days during those years... and how everything had changed now.

With him in my life, my days were filled with happiness... and, in a short time ... I had begun to realize that what I was feeling for him was not just friendship, but something much deeper.

That terrified me ...

I didn't want to go back to the same thing ... to those sleepless nights reading his messages ... to those days used in the search of his facebook and twitter accounts, seeing his photos with all those models and hating myself for not being able to stop the feeling of wanting to be them.

- "But finally it ended..." - I said as I stood up and, taking a towel, began to dry myself quickly.

After all, I had a party to go to ...