Light post
- Dad was taking us to school that morning, I was inside the car with my friend, we saw people, a bunch of em in circle and they we’re all criying and huging each other... i got scared, something wasn’t right. Dad came to us and said “you both stay here” he wasn’t just saying, it was an order so we stayed in safe gound.
- what do you think it is?- i told to my friend -
- I have no idea, i’m going to check
- I remind him what dad just sayed but he went running quietly away from my dad view. I stayed in silence and a bit angy, i tryed to see closer without gettin’ away too much from the car and i start walking into the sidewalk i wasn’t looking then i crash so hard into something that felt like a light pole, a very sharp feeling shook my body until my right shoulder was in a total pain, I was about to scream when i saw that it wasn’t a light pole, it was a person. A male
- careful about what you crash with girl! - he looked bleak and departed from my side to follow his path
- i’m sorry!– i gave him an angry shouting.- can you tell me what’s going on?- i was in pain for my shoulder but i wanted to know what was going on.-
- some idiot form futbol is dead, i guess, he might be unconscious tho – he told me with half smile, i though he was really mean.-
- I enter into panic, I totally forgot the pain of my shoulder i knew i couldn’t stay there anymore so I ran up to the crowd, looked to see who was lying on the floor, the ambulance arrived.
- It was Richard Prior - Hannan said approaching me noticeably pale in shock .-“is awful. - Said this time crying.
- Then I could see it, he was thrown on the floor bloodied, his clothes were intact, but his blond hair was dyed in blood, his face was panic, horror… he was dead.
- nobody knows how this happened - said my friend joining the group- has been very fast and strange, they’re interrogating his girlfriend, saying that the only thing she saw was him like falling from the roof of the school, suicide!
- I heard as Hanna lost control, first whispers inentendibles things, then hyperventilation, then burst into tears, it was clear:
- Hanna had a secret love, met him in the summer but hoped that their relationship lasts longer than that. "I hope not suffer a disappointment like in the movies" I laughed as she told me by the phone "I will only tell you one thing, he’s from school, but I do not want to say anything yet, not until things are confirmed among us first, you understand me? "," Of course" I lied, i was diying to know, Hanna was on holiday in San Francisco and had been found with the boy who was studying at the same school with her in Rhode Island and were in a summer amori, who envy!
As we enter the new and last year Hanna was somewhat scattered, as the boy, who had arrived about two weeks earlier that she had not called and she was unable to locate him, she felt melancholy but never really sad, it was difficult to remove the smile from Hanna
"I met him in one of the parks, i was with my cousins doing a picnic and he was doing the same thing with his family and then I recognized him and waved him, I don’t know why i did it, i had never greeted him before" confessed a bit blushed, was the afternoon before starting classes when she finally had mercy for my soul and decided to tell me everything but without revealing the name , she said "it is impressive that he also salute me and approached! 'What are you doing here?" He said smiling, then I told him that I had family there and he was surprised because their uncles lived close to the direction that I gave to him and confessed that he was staying with them, very close to me, ‘magical’ I told him ‘unbelievable’ responded, had never seen him with eyes that I saw him that afternoon, perhaps was the thrill of seeing him in a state so far to ours, not expecting to see anyone from school, much less to him "amazing" i said, "it doesn’t matter that much now, he haven’t call, tomorrow we start class if I see him in the corridors i’m not going to greet him… not if he doesn’t salutes first."
- Returning to the moment that hanna lost control… it was more than clear
- oh Hanna, I’m so sorry! – i huged her strongly and start to cry a bit-
At that time my father approached.
- Apparently slipped from the roof - said with sadness .- is a tragedy indeed, his last year, so young.
- dad please - I told him beckons .-Hanna met him.
- Oh, I am very sorry Hanna, had no idea- said very embarrassed .-
she continued crying with deep sorrow, I tried to console, but not wise to say anything, then I saw him again he was among the crowd and as if they pass a swicht in my body, the shoulder hurt me terribly again.
- I do not understand how anyone can be so serene, almost smiling at a time like this. - I said with annoyance.-
- What do you say?
- the new student, is almost smiling, i don’t understand - answered watching him still .-
- You know what they say, he’s insane. -Hanna said without giving much importance-
- Apparently he is - then I felt how he watched me , and I thought that he might hear what we said, but we was far enough to be heard, then he signs with his arm and I read his lips "How is your arm? " And showed a mocking smile .- I think I'm seeing things Hanna... – i told her confused.-
- What happens?- she asked me.-
- I crash with him, when I approached the crowd, and it was like hitting against a post.
- I do not understand
- Me neither”- I confess .- he shouted some things, then walked away, I ask him what was happening- I hesitated for a moment, then hanna moved his head in a gesture of approval and I said, "Some idiot form futbol is dead, i guess, he might be unconscious tho"
- I told you he’s nuts!- Said angry by his words-
- After that dad take us to the hospital. Josh approached me and gave me a hug then I could not stand it.
- this is bloated!what did you hit against?
- A post -lied-
- Oops! But you were running or what?
- Aha
- Let's you see your dad
- not!- I scared-, my dad can not know
- Okay, it's okay!, Then what are you going to do?
- take a muscle relaxant i guess
- How you know that this is not broken?
- Is not- I told him.-
- But I wasn’t sure, the inflammation could be hiding a broken bone- you’ll be more quiet if i go tho another place to check me out? Dad woks here you know I don’t want to get in trouble”
- ok, do that
- I left immediately and told josh to stay and keep Hannan ok, with the uproar my father would not have much time to see me. I left the hospital without even believing that meeting I had left me an inflamed shoulder, it was ridiculous, all the day seemed like that, Richard, the new student, Hanna... Why he was such a good mood? was he really nuts?. I was on my way to the radiologist at the center when I saw him, was walking toward, then I shout.
- HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!
He saw me with suprise and continued walking in the direcction of a shop
- I mean it man, stop there!
He stopped, but he wasn’t looking at me.
- Are you following me? – said this time a litte frantic scratching the back of his neck-
- are you serious? I’m not following you I’m going to the doctor!
- yeah right – he gave me a bad look.-
- hey, don’t look me like that, i’m not following you tho i should make you pay for my radiologist
- what?! Is not broken! – he said lifting the eyebrow, unbeliever.-
- and how the hell ydo ou know that, hah?
- belive me I know – still unbeliver.-
- explain it to me
- You do not want to hear anything coming from me. Remember what they say at school, I'm insane! - And made a gesture with the hands .- Now, seriously - took two steps toward my .- I must go.
- but...-I interrupted-
- I MUST GO! – he yelled
- And went walking angry.
- really? What an idiot!
- i know.
I also angry looked for the radiologist, after a short waiting the x-rays were ready…
- there is no fracture – he said noting the plates against light .- inflammation there, and there, quite severe what happened?
- crash against a post. – I said for the 942545 time.-
- Well you must take a desinflamar and some pills for a headache… you’ll be in pain for a while.