5

The long awaited day arrived, everything ready and prepared for Eva's surprise. I was getting dressed to go to school when I received a message from Ana, Eva's best friend, who said:

—Samuel, We came to the joint conclusion that we will do the surprise in the school parking lot to make it public that she is going to be your future girlfriend.

—Thank you for letting me know, Ana.

—You're welcome, don't forget to bring allthing, otherwise I'll kill you.

—okkk.

I arrived at school around seven in the morning and the first person I saw was Ana.

She was studying in the morning, just like me, she helped me to get all the stuff out of the car. My my mom had accompanied me and the car we went in belonged to a neighbor who did us the favor of giving us a ride.

We had a lot of things and it was impossible to walk with all that.

The plan was to have everything ready inside in the parking lot of the school and that Ana would be outside waiting for Eva with any excuse and she would send me a message to prepare everything and calm my nerves.

We had everything in the classroom where I was watching classes and when the chemistry teacher saw all of that

she said:

—Whose is that?

—Mine, teacher

—Who are you going to ask to be your girlfriend?

—Eva, i didn't know if you know her because she studies in the afternoon.

—Eva? That girl is beautiful and very judicious.

—Yes, and she's my future girlfriend too, or I hope she will be.

—Ha, ha, ha, ha, well, take care of her and respect her if she says yes.

—She will.

He gave his class which by the way was the last one and after that came the big surprise. With the with the help of some classmates, some of Eva's friends and Ana, I took all the things out of the classroom and took them to the parking lot.

We started to arrange everything and to stick balloons on some trees that were there.

There were a lot of people helping and telling me encouraging things to calm me down.

I was highly strung, so I calmed down a little.

Then Ana told me that she was going to go to the gate because Eva had sent her a message saying that she was on her way.

and that's when my nervousness increased threefold. After about fifteen minutes I got a message from Ana saying:

—We are coming in, take a deep breath.

After two minutes I saw Eva with a tape over her eyes asking Ana non-stop:

—What's up? You know I hate surprises Ana, take this out of my eyes now.

—I know, calm down, this surprise will be worth it, I swear.

Ana put Eva in front of me and removed the blindfold. The look of surprise on her face was the best I had ever seen in my whole life.

—Wow.

—Well I think it's obvious what I'm going to tell you next.

Just then my ex (Angela) comes in and screams:

—You can't be his girlfriend because the pictures you saw of him and I kissing are real, and they're not from when we were a couple. Those pictures are four days old, he lied to you and he who fails once fails twice and three times.

If you decide to tell him yes I don't care, being the horn is fun.

Eva turned and saw me and her eyes watered, she ran out, I didn't have time to react and go after her.

I wasn't understanding what was going on. She did all that for a reason and I wanted to know it.

I ran after Angela and grabbed her arm.

—Are you out of your mind?

— What's wrong with you?

—How are you going to tell Eva that? Do you have any idea how much time I spent making this surprise?

—I only told the truth.

—But what's wrong with you? You know very well that's not true, you're crazy.

—I got a good payment for that show I put on. Bye, have a nice evening.

—Good pay? Who paid you?

—I can't tell you that.

—Go to hell Angela.

—Well, Mr. Angry.

—I'm still going to find out and you know it.

—I left all the presents, the pictures, the balloons in there. I wasn't in the mood for anything. I left

I walked home thinking about who paid Angela to do that. I just wanted to cry because nothing was going right. I finally got home.

—Son, what happened to you? Why are you crying?

—Mom Angela is Angela.

—Angela what?

—She ruined everything.

—Explain to me why I don't understand anything, Samuel.

—Everything was going fine until she came in and said that the pictures of us kissing were not from when we were dating and that I was a liar.

—After all she told me that she had received a good payment for doing that.

—And you have no idea who could have paid her to ruin the surprise for you.

—I really don't know.

—But I'm not going to stay quiet until I find out for sure.

—A person with bad intentions ruined everything son.

—I am soon to come to light, nothing can be hidden for long.

—The only thing I ask of you is that when you find out who it was you don't react the same way you did with Pedro.

—I promise you that I will try to control myself as much as possible.

—I hope so.

The next day I went to the court that was near my house. I ran into a friend of mine and instantly told me he needed to talk to me about something important.

—Do you know who is behind all this?

—No, obviously I don't know, if I did I would be kicking his ass right now.

—If I'm going to tell you, you have to swear to me that you won't go crazy and even more relevant, that you won't say it was me that I did tell you it.

—I swear, now tell me.

—Pedro in revenge did it.

—That son of a...

I ran out of the court and went home. As soon as I got inside, I saw my mother and told her.

—I'll not stay calm and you know it, I'm leaving.