Lucrecia

While I leave my luggage in the hotel room, I decide to go to the supermarket to get some things that I will need to spend the whole week in this strange but great city. I come down from the hotel and everything is a bit difficult for me, if I even feel afraid of getting too close to people who in large numbers and in a great hurry pass me without even looking at me, without even saying hello. And I think what a horror it must be to live in a big city. I think that Buenos Aires is not the city where I would definitely live.

It must be around ten in the morning and I feel like I'm lost, I miss my little town, the noise of the buses passing by, the smoke that comes out of their exhaust pipes, everything bothers me, I look to the side and someone pushes me, and he insults me because being distracted I haven't seen him. I think that today is going to be a somewhat difficult day for me, even so, I put a good disposition and contemplate with surprise the immense current avenue, and its canopies. I once heard that in addition to theaters it is covered with bookstores.

  As I walk a bit nervous and try to adapt quickly to the rhythm of the crowd, my boss's words ring in my mind. Be careful with your things, it is not going to be stolen, it is full of pickpockets, secure the briefcase well, remember that this documentation is very important, and if you lose it or it is stolen it would be better if you do not return. I laugh because he's always been too over the top. Who can care about insignificant papers.              And thinking about it, I think that it is going to be time for me to think carefully about how long I am going to continue holding out in this job. They pay me so little. I have walked almost twenty blocks, and I am more and more amazed to contemplate this beautiful but very noisy city. Today I have taken the day to go for a walk and tomorrow morning I will go to court to take and deliver these documents that my boss has asked me to take care of as if it were my life ... It has become a bit late and my feet from so much walking, I decide to find where to sit and what better than a confectionery and, in the process, I will have an appetizing coffee.

  I am still surprised; how many people and places are immense. And the small bar in my small town comes to mind, I am ashamed when I make the comparison, there the waiter is a lame who takes several minutes to attend and usually has bad manners, on the other hand hear, hear. Oh, what a beauty I can't believe it.

I just hope that he takes care of me, to tell the truth, I am starting to like this city. I put my briefcase on one of the chairs and when I turn my head the surprise is total. There she is with her black hair matching her beautiful green eyes, standing with a notebook in her hand and her shiny green and black dress. I can't believe it! He comes closer to me and his deep, kind smile causes a feeling of sweet confusion in me. I don't know what to say, somewhat nervous I order a coffee and a sandwich. Now I know her name is Lucrecia.

   While I wait patiently for Lucrecia, my surprise is great, she has been replaced and a young man of about twenty-five with a dark complexion advances towards me holding a tray with my coffee and my sandwich. I cannot deny that something similar to disappointment takes hold of me, I try to hide it and kindly receive my menu, the man walks away and when I turn my head towards the window, I see it. She is no longer dressed in green and black, this time she wears a red leather jacket, tight black jeans and red shoes, my pulse accelerates noticeably, like a high-end black car with stripes came out of nowhere white colored parks, the door opens and Lucrecia climbs. The car gets lost in the city and I am somewhat sad and disappointed, to tell the truth, I was thinking of asking her what time her shift ended and then inviting her to walk around.

  Today is Wednesday, it is almost eleven in the morning, and among a crowded center of people I make my way as I can to get there, I think I am close to courts, I cross an immense avenue that I do not know very well what it is called unemployment along with hundreds of people at a traffic light. I catch a glimpse of someone approaching and when I turn around, his voice is unmistakable. There is! Lucrecia with her wide smile greeting me in surprise. We crossed the avenue and as if we had always known each other we walked slowly, I tell her where I am going, and she has no problem accompanying me. What is happening to me is incredible. At times, I think I'm dreaming. But no, what is happening to me is pure reality. That day was wonderful for the two of us, and in an incredible way at the end of the day our friendship had grown immensely. The following days, we saw each other every time she left her work, we went to the movies and even to a theater., and having dinner together.

  That morning when I returned to my town, I was too euphoric and happy. My mother waited for me like every time, I returned with enthusiasm and joy. I arrived and threw myself on my bed to rest, after a few hours when I woke up. My wild eyes watched with amazement at Lucrecia talking with my Mother in the living room of my house.