Chapter 4

Everything became blurry and little by little I could perceive another place. Now I was in the cemetery, the grass was wet and green, instead, the sky, representing my emotions: black and dark.

I looked at my mother, she was next to me, she was wearing a long black dress, and she was making a great effort holding back her tears. I wasn't very different, I was wearing black pants, and a shirt of the same color, but I wasn't crying, I was just looking at the tombstone, maybe in shock, or maybe I had already suffered so much that my heart had no more room to suffer for this.

Written on the stone of the tombstone you could see her name, “Carla Jones” and under, written smaller the phrase “Sadness also kills”, reading that, make me reminded me of all the days when I heard her cry in her room and I there was nothing I could do to help her, just know that she was suffering.

—I love you sister. —I whispered and turned, leaving my mother behind, we both needed to be alone.

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I woke up suddenly with a feeling of anguish and heat, I looked at the window and saw how the sun's rays flooded my room and burned me. I looked at the time on my cell phone, it was 7 am, Monday, it was just a short time to go to school, so I decided to prepare.

I got dressed and left my hair as it was, I was very sleepy and did not want to comb it.

I had Nectar of the Gods for breakfast, that is, coffee. Shortly after a knock on my door warned me that it was the time, it must be E. When I opened the door her eyes were shining with emotion, and she seemed to explode at any moment, I immediately deduced why.

—How was it with Mack? —I said expectantly and excited as a good teenager.

—I kiss, we kiss. —She laughed nervously—. He told me that he liked me—. I stared at him, I was proud that after so many years they could finally be together, they were, right?

—Has he asked you out? —She changed her big smile and pursed her lips.

—Do you remember when I told you that you didn't like that boy if you didn't feel the butterflies in your stomach and your heart racing?

—Yes, the best advice. —I replied smiling.

—Well, when I kissed him, I realized that I didn't feel any of that, it was all very monotonous

I looked at her and smiled at her.

—Someday we will have a literary love. —We both smiled

Then we went to school, the first class was with Mrs. Travis, she was the math teacher, one of the ones who hated me the most, and the feeling was mutual.

—Alice Jones. —She said in her typical arrogant voice. Tell me what your partner Jackson just said. —He had just read a sentence from the book of math that explained how to make an equation of second grade.

I was thinking for a long time, trying to remember what Jackson had read, but when he did I was in my world and had not heard anything. Jackson smiled.

—Weren't you listening Alice? —Said Jackson arrogantly on purpose to annoy me, I looked at his face, he wore a mischievous smile that marked his dimples, I looked into his eyes challenging him, he did the same action while smiling with amusement. I hated it.

—Too bad, Miss Jones. —Travis replied in disappointment, yet another for the collection of “teachers disappointed by Alice Jones”—. Next time I'm going to have to call your parents.

—Well. —I said without thinking, I immediately realized what I had done and my eyes snapped open.

—Out of my class! —she screamed—. I won't let you talk to me like that.

I listened to him and got up from my chair to go out the door, I walked straight trying to pretend that I still had dignity and before leaving I looked at Jackson with hatred, he had a big arrogant smile on his face, and me, I wanted with all my soul erase it.

I went to the girls bathroom and leaned against the mirror, trying to relax, I breathed. Shortly after I could see how someone entered as well.

—Hi Jones. —Said Jackson.

He and his smile stayed against the wall.

—What are you doing in here?! — I yelled—. You can not be here.

—I know. —He shrugged indifferently.

He stood still doing nothing, so I decided to say something.

—What do you want now? —I said rolling my eyes, we were alone, in the girls' bathroom. Did he have a brain?

—Didn't I tell you the other day? —I remembered his strange response from the day before.

—Do you want to kill me like the rest of your victims? —I replied almost sarcastically. He laughed heartily and looked at me smiling, accentuated his smile and left.

By the virgin with the abs I hoped that that was not a yes.

I came out of the bathroom when the alarm announced recess time, I sat where Emmy and I were always, we were going to different math classrooms, we had no choice, we talk so much that we distract the whole class.

—Hi. —Said É sitting next to me

—Hello, how about math? —asked

—As always. —She became serious—. But Mack was very boring, he doesn't stop talking. —I laughed

—Does the universe give you what you ask for and then you reject it? For that, give me your luck. —I laugh

—The universe gave it to me to show me that I didn't like it ... I think. —He answered, but I was no longer listening to him, I had been hypnotized looking at Tyler, he was wearing a white T-shirt, jeans and his hair was disheveled, he noticed my look and smiled at me, I blushed but also I smiled.

—Who are you looking at? —Said E

—Tyler. —I'd already told Emmy everything that happened to us the day before. I turned to him again and realized that he was coming towards us.

—What's up? —Tyler introduced himself.

—Not much. —Replied E.

We talked for a long time until the alarm went off to go home, I said goodbye to Emmy and Tyler, I didn't feel like going with someone along the way, I wanted to think.

I left the institute and chose the shady part of the street to go home, it would take more or less half an hour.

Along the way I started to think. I didn't understand why I had turned red when Tyler had looked at me, I cursed my body several times for putting me through that in front of him. She also didn't understand why she was nervous when he was around, it was all very confusing. A phrase that my mother said before she fell into depression due to Carla's death came to mind “From love to hate there is only one step”, I shook my head, pushing that thought away from all corners of my mind. I opened the door and entered the house, but once inside it closed itself, that shocked me and I turned to her prepared to discover that she had closed it.

—Hello Alice. —Said Jackson smiling in front of the now closed door of my house.

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Is it well translated? Hope so.

Well, in the next chapter everything begins. And then the intensity will go up.

I hope you really like it :')

-Venus