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At Break Time 012
" Do you dance? " A boy with hair dyed blue at the ends suddenly appears in front of us.I look at Loretta and shrug. Do we have to answer? Is he already on drugs or what? Loretta ignores him completely and turns towards me. " You're out of beer, excuse me. " She takes the glass from my hand and walks away, leaving me awestruck, confused and alone with the blue haired boy with the stupid face." Loretta is like that, you know. I don't exist for her. " He explains himself, even though I didn't ask. " Or you've done something that really displeased her, who knows…”" Not that I remember.”" Hmm.”We both stood there absorbing the awkward atmosphere without having anything to say. I hoped he would get over himself and leave, but he took a sip of his beer and continued to stand there in front of me. Maybe he was waiting for Loretta to come back. I couldn't understand what he was waiting for. And I also didn't have the courage to do like her and just leave. " Are you the ...? " He trie
At Break Time 013
The attitude surprised everyone. Several heads turned in the direction of the door, through which Max entered, dressed in casual clothes, as if it were possible to camouflage himself among the students. It was the first time I had ever seen him like this, stripped down, totally informal, and smiling a lot.His eyes quickly followed the whole environment, as if looking for someone. A very cheeky student soon offered him a glass of beer, and he accepted, nodding and smiling. That's exactly what it looked like. He just wanted to infiltrate, to relax, to enjoy a moment with the students, with the younger ones.I held myself back from staring in his direction for longer than was acceptable. Loretta nudged me and just with her features gave me a message to disguise myself."Soon you'll be drooling, control yourself. " She joked and Erick just smiled, somewhat confused."Where's Peter, huh. Isn't he coming?" I asked, to change the subject immediately.Suddenly I felt an inconvenient warmth,
At Break Time 014
" Are you really all right? " Loretta asks me as soon as we enter the room. She quickly puts together a new look for me from the clothes in her small closet. " This will look wonderful on you, better than the other one, put it on! I agree with her, after all I don't have much choice or head to choose a new combination. If I took too much time to think about the episode I might not even want to return to the party. " Tell me. What was that all about? " Loretta asks after a while watching me get dressed. " An incident. No big deal. That's what everyone saw. " I try to cover it up. I touch up my lipstick and take one last look in the mirror before I leave. But Loretta is still sitting on the bed, her gaze inquisitive. Since when had she become my mother?" What? " Aria, you have to be more careful. " Why are you saying this? " I don't need to state the obvious. I think you already know how much trouble you're in if you keep this up.Oh, come on... Moral lessons at this hour? Bes
At Break Time 015
Arriving at the room, making sure that no one had seen the three of us together in the hallways, I summarized the whole imbroglio to Loretta and Ethan." And to think I underestimated you. " Ethan mocked with a somewhat mournful tone." Just one last question for me, Aria. " Go ahead. " I say to Loretta." You're not brothers at all, are you? Ethan, who is all the time pacing back and forth across the room, suddenly stops and looks at me, curious about my answer. This was the part I hadn't made clear to her yet. " We are considerate brothers. He is the son of my father's wife. " That's right. Fate brought us together. " Ethan reiterates, making little hearts with his hands. What a stupid kid... And hot." And then you hit it off.Bingo. Loretta didn't miss a thing. There was no need for an answer. Our expression already gave everything away. " Your faces and mouths during the party were the biggest signs. And unlike you, Ethan, I never underestimated Aria. " Loretta completes, c
At Break Time 016
Loretta returns to her room around five in the morning. We wouldn't have our first class on this post"party day, even though she ideally wouldn't have seen me and Ethan like this. Half naked and cuddled, lying in the same bed. A giant question mark was drawn on her face. Surely, I was some kind of hopeless piranha even on her levels, in her head, of course. In my conception, I was and am just a free woman.Free of labels, free of the need to explain myself, giving satisfaction to one or another, free even of prejudices.But she came in without saying anything, just grabbed some clothes to get ready in the bathroom. She saw that I saw her, so I thought I had to get Ethan out of here before she even got back to her room." Come on, wake up, Ethan. " I move him as soon as Loretta closes the door. " Huh? What? He wakes up slowly, still trying to locate himself." You gotta get yourself home, come on. " There, okay, okay. He gets up, still a little confused, gathers his clothes and in l
At Break Time 017
With no answers, Max shuts me up with a kiss. He smells of sweat, tobacco, and alcohol. His attitude is consistent with his slightly altered state. Apparently while I was spending the night with Ethan in the bedroom, he had continued partying and had a few, or several, drinks. " Stop playing with me, okay? " he says, finally, after taking my breath away with his intense beer"flavored kiss. " I can't tell who is playing with whom." I think I'm going crazy, this has never happened to me before, with any student... " He brings his hand to his forehead, in a second of sobriety. " Then we are both crazy, because as far as I remember I have never even kissed a teacher before. We stared at each other in silence for a while, reflecting on what we were doing. A movie flashed through my mind. We didn't know where we were going with this. We couldn't even explain how it had started, or why it had started. The only thing I was sure of was that I wanted to continue this adventure that still h
At Break Time 018
Before she could answer, a movie flashed through my mind about the moment Peter and I first met. " Peter? Like Peter Parker?I had thought he was cute the first day, but so much had happened since then. At least now, I no longer saw myself in this position of being Peter's candidate for a boyfriend. I saw him more as a friend, almost a brother..." Do you really want to know? It happened. And it was a lot, baby! " Loretta finally confessed, snapping me out of my reverie. She was clearly excited about the news, to the point of infecting me with her happiness." Oh, tell me about it. How did it go? I want details! " Oh, sordid details, please don't! " she says, finishing her lipstick. Only she herself would not neglect her lipstick to go to class, so early in the morning. ". No, I won't. Tell me! You know all about me and my fumbles..." Wait, fumbles? I wouldn't put it that way... " Adventures? " I say, smiling, naughty. " All right, I'll tell you... but... " she says, in a whisp
At Break Time 019
The class went about as close to normal as you could consider normal, if you consider that I was in a notorious anxiety crisis the whole time. Every time Stephen looked in my direction, I tried to disguise my discomfort. I looked away, poked Loretta, contracted my leg muscles involuntarily in the motion of closing them. My mind wandered to places far away from verbs, pronouns, nouns.I think that if I had a surprise test today, I would get a zero. I don't think so, I'm sure." Hey, wake up. Class is over. " Now Loretta was nudging me, hurrying us to go. I looked one last time in Stephen's direction, I wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy, or that there really was a different atmosphere in this class. No other way. When I did, he looked back at me at the same moment and then turned away, trying to disguise it by coughing, as if he were scraping his throat. " See you next week, guys. " He concluded.Next week? That long?" I don't know what you're getting at, Aria. Are you going t
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