Chapter 18: Memories Part 18 / Revelations

Rodrigo was taken to the infirmary with the help of the girls, who left him lying on a stretcher. The nurse was not there and Ana checked him and said that it was nothing serious and that he only fainted from fatigue. This made Alice and Caroline feel calmer. The girls waited several minutes, but Rose was already very bored, because they were just sitting doing nothing, so she suggested that they go to see the clubs around the school to pass the time and Ana said that would be a good idea.

"Are you coming Alice?" -Asked Rose-

"I don't know ... I'd like to stay and wait for him to wake up ..." -Alice answered-

"The Mr. Pervert will wake up when he has to wake up, you won't get him to do it any faster by staying there, we're going to see the clubs for one or two hours and then we'll come back" -said Ana trying to convince Alice-

Alice wasn't quite sure about leaving, but in the end she relented. The girls tried to convince Caroline too, but she refused, she felt guilty that Rodrigo was exhausted and fainted, so she wanted to wait for him to wake up.

"Then I'll stay too" -Alice said, but she was dragged by Ana and Rose-

"You said you would join us, so let's go Alice" -Said Ana-

"I want to see what the photography club will do" -said Rose-

The girls left and left Caroline and Rodrigo alone, the infirmary room was quiet, it was quite spacious. Through the window you could see the third years competing in activities and the sun was close to their highest point, as it was 12:30.

Caroline gave a slight sigh, approached Rodrigo's stretcher and sitting next to it, on a chair, she began to speak in a low voice.

After a few hours, Rodrigo began to wake up, he felt that under his head there was something soft and at the same time hard, he did not understand very well what it was, but it was a somewhat familiar sensation, it seemed that he was lying on someone's lap and He lightly said Alice's name, hearing a complaint, he opened his eyes and saw that he was lying on Caroline's legs.

"At last you wake up" -said Caroline with joy-

Rodrigo was surprised by the situation and tried to get up, but his fatigue prevented it and he leaned back on Caroline's legs.

"Don't get up, you're very tired, rest for now and ... then if you want, get up ..."

The situation was very embarrassing for the two of them, Caroline had given her legs as a pillow to Rodrigo because she saw that he felt uncomfortable with the normal pillow and now they were both ashamed. Silence abounded, but Caroline decided to speak.

"My legs feel so bad" -Asked Caroline-

'It's not that… it's uncomfortable'

"Why? If before you looked so calm sleeping in them"

'… Men things'

"I see ... You know ... I didn't think you were the pink haired boy" -said Caroline to try to change the conversation-

'Yes… well… I didn't think you were the Tree girl, you've changed a lot since that time'

"Heh ... yeah ... you too ..."

'Yes…'

The awkward silence reappeared, neither of them knew exactly what to say, but Caroline decided to speak first.

"I… I want to thank you… for that day… it is one of my favorite memories… because thanks to that day I am here talking to you, if you had not suddenly appeared I would be dead and I would not have seen that this world has kind people, like Ana, Rose, Alice and you of course "

'Well, okay…'

"Rodrigo ... I want you to be honest ... What is happening?"

"What do you mean? And why do you change the subject so quickly?"

"I change the subject because I'm nervous and I don't want this to be uncomfortable, and… we haven't had time to talk… and… I have some doubts, what is happening between you and Alice? Rose and Ana talk from time to time about a situation of yours, and Ronaldo mentioned something about your aura, I don't understand anything, is there something you are hiding from me? "

"I ... yes ... but I can't tell you ..."

"I understand ... but ... if you don't tell me ... it's because you don't trust me, right?"

'It's not that, it's just that'

"Rose and Ana know it, Ronaldo too, even Alice has to know it, because I'm the only one who doesn't ..." -Caroline said with annoyance-

"Because if I tell you, you will walk away from me, you will not see me the same way and possibly I will lose you forever ... and I don't want to lose any friends ... not again ..."

"I understand ... but ... you must not think that ... I promised you that I would be with you right?, so you can tell me"

'This girl... I suppose it is better for her to know it from me than from someone else... I'll say it all... and if she walks away... I won't do anything...'-Rodrigo thought- 'Okay, I'll tell you, it happened almost a year ago, the The reason why things are uncomfortable between Alice and me, is because we used to be a couple, in a loving sense, I declared my love on the anniversary of the school and we started dating... Together, with Ana and Rose too, we were a very close-knit group, they annoyed me when I was with her and they got into our moments alone, but we all got along very well... all the good things were at school, because in my house alone there were bad things, except for my mother, my stepfather was the worst, alcoholic and his job was a bad job, in the neighborhood they spoke badly of me and it was really a great luck that the rumors did not reach the school, I hated my house and I had a great time at school, but one day everything changed, my stepfather was trying to kill my mother and I tried to confront him but failed and my mother embedded a piece of thick glass in his back, with which he fell to the ground and bled, the next day the police took the dead man and my mother went to jail, but days later she committed suicide and I don't know how, but someone leaked a video, in which they showed the moment when I faced my stepfather and my mother killed him, and they sent it to all the students, there It was when my situation worsened and the girls left, Alice ended our relationship and I was alone, I received threats for being the son of a murderer and the same murderer, and my life got worse; a and the aura that Ronaldo was referring to is the assassin aura that other students see in me; ready, that's all'

Caroline fell silent after hearing Rodrigo's story.

'How was it? Very crazy right? '

"Yes ... but things are not like that anymore, Alice and the girls came back, things got better"

'Maybe, but that doesn't mean that the things won't change again, so I can't allow myself to become attached to someone again, I'm sure you want to get away from me right now, so I'm not going to stop you I was preparing myself for this moment, so you won't have to worry about me '-Rodrigo said with a fake smile-

"I'm not going to or get away from you"

'Eh? Why?'

"I already told you, I promised that I would be by your side, and even more so now that I know, that at that moment when you needed the most company, you were alone and that is why you cannot fall in love with someone again, so I will stay by your side and I will not leave you, because, even if no one is with you, I ... "

'Nobody was, because they knew I was a Murderer, because they didn't want to be with someone like me, that's why Alice left me, that's why Rose and Ana left me, that's why everyone I trusted left, that's why I can't trust nobody ... that's why you should also go, forget that stupid promise because I'm a bloody murderer '-Rodrigo shouted-

Caroline slapped Rodrigo hard.

"... blame all you want ... push them all away if you want, insult all you want ... but for nothing in the world do you dare to insult the promise and the most important person in my life" -Caroline said with tears in her eyes-

'Hey…'

"You shut up and listen to me, that promise, that promise that I made with you is the most valuable thing for me ... I care if it comes from a murderer or not, what matters to me is that it came from you ... you are the most important person for me. ... because you did many things for me ... many good things ... you included me, you accepted me, you put up with me, you had fun with me, you showed me that there are good people in the world, you made me want to live, I don't care if you killed someone or no, that does not change who wants to be with you ... many people could have left, but I will never do it, you understand !, NEVER "

'Yes, I understand ...' -Said Rodrigo, who, the moment Caroline finished saying that, shed tear after tear, he himself did not understand why he was crying- 'I don't know why I'm crying ... maybe I wanted someone to tell me say that for a long time '

"I know ... sorry for the blow, you just really pissed me off"

Rodrigo continued crying with relief and Caroline hugged him, placing his head on her chest while she consoled him, Rodrigo felt as if they were the only 2 people in the world and it was possible to de-stress and remove all their doubts.

Outside the infirmary, Alice had overheard all the conversation they had and feeling bad for hurting him, she cried too.

It was already 3:30 pm and they had to leave, Alice was in classroom 2B talking with Ana and Rose about what happened and all the girls felt bad, while Rodrigo and Caroline just came out of the infirmary, Caroline told him that she had to pick up something and that she would go home later and Rodrigo went ahead and left the school. After saying goodbye to Rodrigo, Caroline, with an annoyed look, went to classroom 2B to speak with a particular girl ... and this girl was ... Alice.