Ninth chapter

And the day of the expedition arrived.

I was carrying both my bags, and I checked everything so that nothing would be left behind. I was nervous, I didn't know what we would find on the trip. From the few comments I heard from the sophomores, it would be a village.

I looked at my watch and got off to meet the group on the small square. All my classmates were there. Several buses were waiting for us, we organized ourselves by rooms. And we left for the airport, we were dismissed by the principal and several people who administered the school. Little by little we moved away from there, and our journey began.

Once at the airport, we met up with the other schools that were going to the same place as us, there were about eight of them and they were grading us for years, putting bracelets on us, red for the second year students and yellow for the first year students. The place where we would go on this expedition was only for first and second year students. And specifically class one and two would go together.

And from one they started to integrate us, they stirred us up and they started with Alison, they sent her to sit next to the representative of class one. He just went ahead without saying anything, while Alejandra avoided causing any misunderstanding. He just moved forward without saying anything, while Alejandra avoided causing any misunderstanding. She had not participated in the fight between classes, but because she belonged to that class, she was nervous to be next to Alison.

Liz watched the scene without saying anything, hoping for a change of heart from the class.

And so we were all mixed up with that class, the atmosphere was a little uncomfortable, but we were all forced to behave.

The plane took off for the village.

It touched me with a certain rival, he was black-eyed and blue-haired, had a slightly upturned hairdo, he seemed to dislike my presence.

That's how the whole class looked except for the girls who seemed to have already integrated, they seemed to get along well.

When we arrived at the airport we had to get on a bus and we were again scrambled and arrived at that mining town was a little bigger than we had been told. We had to put our bags down and go on foot. To the place where we would stay, we thought it would be a big house or a nice place but we found a small posada.

We didn't know what to say, it was as if we were at war or doing military service.

The dormitories were big rooms but they gave us mats, the floor looked cold and in this part of the country it was almost winter. We were told that we would be integrated with a school where the majority were women, the name of that school was Young Promese, and they did it to balance the rooms because in our group there were many men.

And in the rooms there were 30 people left, the teachers would also sleep with us, the time went by and when we least thought about it. It was already about 6 pm.

They accommodated us as they did with the bus and the plane, but now with the other school.

I would be in a dormitory with a group where most of them were from class 1, and some from my classroom, like 4 from the other school.

And they called Alison, she seemed to be worried about something, and we went to the rooms.

-What's wrong with you Alison? -I asked her.

- It's nothing important, we'd better hurry and choose a place in this room.

When we arrived, those in class 1 grouped together on the left side and the others chose the missing places, Oscar a classmate, who belonged to the group of the scandals. He had talked to some of our classmates to keep us away from class 1 and we were left in a corner.

Alison quickly chose the corner.

I stood next to her, and we both put our bags in our respective places, and we were immediately called to the bathroom. Everyone left, but Alison was late.

When I got to the bathroom it was full, I asked one of the attendants what that place was, and he said it was a military base, but it was adapted to be an expeditionary site.

And as I went into the bathroom, there were a lot of men and I saw Alison sitting on one of the benches. Suddenly she got up and tried to get out, at that moment a girl opened the door, some people were bothered by this. He went out with the girl and everyone started to mumble, a few wanted to open the door, but it seemed to be stuck.

-That girl is a pervert, what if a man had done it, he would have been thrown out of the expedition by now," some shouted.

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In the corridor of that place, Liz and Samantha were looking for the women's bathrooms, but they couldn't find them, they had separated from the group, and were lost, a girl from another school was over there, and they talked to her.

-I'm sorry where the girls' bathroom is- -I asked Liz.

-In that door a few meters away," she said.

Samantha immediately listened to him, and headed over there.

While the other doubted that woman's answer and began to search through her memories as she walked away. By the time she could understand it, it was a lie, and a bad joke, it was too late Samantha was at the door.

-Don't open that door," Liz shouted, "but it was already late.

When she opened it, a boy came out, and prevented the others from knowing who he was, he hugged her to prevent anyone from seeing his face and immediately closed the door.

-Why are you trying to get into the men's room, looking for someone?

She had her head resting against Alison's chest. She was embarrassed and unable to look him in the eye.

-One girl...uh.... told us....that.... this was the girls' bathroom...-he replied.

-Okay, I understand, I'll take them there, don't be embarrassed, you didn't do anything wrong.

Liz came over and took Liz by the hand. They went to the girls' bathroom.

He left them at the door, and the blue-haired girl went in first, while Samantha stayed there, and started talking to Alison.

-How did you know what was going to happen?

-I didn't, I was just coming out of that place.

-You know what bothers me the most about you is that perfect guy and inexpressive attitude you show, diminishing things, you know maybe someone will tell Clouds what happened and I'll be called out on that.

-No one else saw you, they just know it was a girl, but not like it was, and if someone asks, I won't say it was you, just be careful, there are many unscrupulous people.

-Why are you doing all this, just because the director demanded that you help me?

-Samantha, you are my partner, I wouldn't want you to be bothered by those stupid people. And I'm not a perfect guy like you think.

Alison, without warning, took off her shirt, revealing her scars on her body.

Samantha was silent for a while and asked him.

-Who did that to you?

-They are small scars of life, it has been years since I made them and they disappear very slowly, I am not the perfect person you think I am trying to be

-Why are you showing me this?

-For several days now, I have noticed an indifferent behavior on your part towards me.

-Okay, put on your shirt and go, I don't need you to tell me your story.

He put his hand on her shoulder and I talk to her.

-I know there is some discomfort because of the internal competition at school, but Samantha, we are classmates, I will support you in whatever you need.

-Alison, let's not talk about it anymore, let's just pretend nothing happened," she said and went into the ladies' room.

Alison put on her shirt and walked out of the hallway, confused by Samantha's attitude.

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In the men's bathroom Alison was surprised by the other boys who were asking about the woman who had wanted to come in.

-I don't know who she was, she left as soon as I came out," he answered.

-We tried to go out and see, but the door was stuck for a while and you did it.

-I didn't do anything.

Several of them grabbed him by the shirt, seeing his negativity to talk.

-Hey, you're going to get in trouble if you hit him, if he doesn't want to talk, there's nothing we can do.

-If he doesn't want to talk, we can't do anything about it.

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When the bath time was over, everyone gathered in the living room, and they distributed the dinner in each table, well this time they didn't mix each one of us sat where they wanted but, the problems began, Alison was sitting next to Saul, at that moment a student from another school approached the table, at that moment we didn't wear a uniform, but by their corpulence and their size we could understand that they were second year, one of them was of purple eyes and orange hair with blond tones and a little pointed hairstyle, and he said

- You are Alison right?

-If I am," she answered.

-Well, half the men would like to know who that girl was, who wanted to go into the bathroom, if it was the other way around, you can guess what would have happened. We just want to apply gender equality.

-I don't know, she left as soon as she saw me, all I know is that she had blonde hair.

-You think we're stupid, obviously you know who she is, you locked the bathroom door, so we couldn't get out and see who she was.

-Search through all the blonde girls and ask then.

-We are one year older than you....resp....

Clouds intervened.

- Please leave, if you continue to bother us we will file a report, to your school, for trying to harass a girl.

-All right, we'll find out who it was.

They left, but Samantha was showing her concern about what had happened, and Clouds began to suspect it was her.

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