Love sign / Fiction story

      A boy is in his room reflecting in a mirror elongated vertically on the wall, he practices the diction with the objetive not to fail at the crucial moment. His hands make involuntary movements of nervousness.

     -¡Aahh! ¿What am I doing? That won't happen ... -he tells himself when his interpretation fails, annoyed by his clumsiness and inability.

     He lies down tired in his bed after a long sigh, closes his eyes and sleeps after a few minutes.

     On morning, after having prepared and go for the institute where he studies, the young man enters the building to see his history class. He arrives in the classroom and in about ten minutes all students arrives, the class starts and the teacher come in on the classroom and pass list.

     -¡Diakow Stephan! –the teacher consults.

     -¡Present! – The boy responds.

     The teacher continues with the list and after a dozen names he calls the last one.

     -¡Logueman Katrin!

     After being notified by touching one of his classmates on her shoulder, the girl who won Stephan's love a couple of years ago gets up answering the call. The teacher finishes the list and starts his class. Later having finished four hours of classes with division of subjects, lunch time begins, but Katrin and Stephan do not run into each other.

     -¡Hey, Stephan! –call Alex, the Stephan's best friend.

     -¡Alex! –Stephan salute back him.

     Both are in the hallway, walk to the cafeteria of the institute to find a table and have breakfast.

     -So ... will you do it? - Alex asks after taking a sip of his soda.

     -What do you mean? - Stephan says while taking out his food.

     -Come on ... you know what I mean, brother. You were repeating that to me yesterday. Where did your determination go?

     -¿Ah? Oh… that. Yes, I'll do it. I think she leaves the next year, I can't postpone it more.

     -That's right. I'd swear go with you if I didn't have a club after class.

     -¿¡What!? ¿¡Why would I want you to come with me!?

     -Sh ... lower your voice ... - Alex says while he points the people looking at them.

     -….Sorry man.

     -Anyway, I hope you do well -says his friend while patting him on the shoulder.

     The break ends after about fifteen minutes, everyone returns to their classrooms to continue their classes. The last hour of classes Stephan thinks about when he could talk her, because he doesn't have much time before everyone leave of the institute, something he didn't think about in the morning.

     The last hour finish and Stephan is the last one leave of the classroom.

     -“Shit… I have to do it now or never” –think Stephan frustrated.

     He leaves of the classroom and get see Katrin, who is chatting with a girl, Stephan stays there, thinks about whether he should go regardless of the presence of her companion.

     -Ah… ¡fuck! I can't –He says while walks in direction opposite.

     Stephan part of the institute, in front of the door he sees the window of the music club and notices Alex, who is playing his violin, Alex notices Stephan's presence, he changes his posture and greets him.

     The next day the young man arrives just at the beginning of the first hour, notices that Katrin is absent. During the break he can't see Alex.

     He sits at the same table of day before and starts eating.

     -Hi, brother –Alex says while to sitting at the same table.

     -Ah, hi Alex. I thought you'd don't come today.

     -No… the teacher had important things to say ... and we stayed a little longer -Alex says as he pulls out his food, he adds. ¿How was it?

     -Uhm ... it went pretty well, better than I thought.

     -¡Oohh! ¿really did you it? –he says while coil his arm in Stephan's neck, he adds whispering -. ¿And something happened?

     -¿Ah? No man, nothing happened.

     -Mmm… I see –Alex says as he returns to his chair, adds after eating and take a look the clock -. Stephan, this hour is almost over, I'll go back to class.

     -Right ahead.

     Alex retires and Stephan walks down a hall to get to his classroom, he is solemnly surprised, but he successfully represses him when he sees Katrin in one of the class seats, who crosses eyes with him and greets him waving his hand from her seat, Stephan salute back her.

     After a few seconds that the young man enters the classroom, the teacher enters and begins his class.

     -"...She's look me, ¿what the hell is going on? ¿Why does she do it so much? -he thinks -. "Calm down ... calm down ... fuck, the teacher is erasing something I didn't write..."

     The class ends, Stephan quickly leaves the classroom and walks through the halls to leave. He goes out the front door and when he's turning the corner, someone pulls his sleeve.

     -¿Eh? –Stephan turns, adds while raising his hand to greet -. H-Hello, Katrin.

     -(Hi Stephan, hey ... Alex told me yesterday, while we were practicing at the music club) - Katrin says in sign language, because she's mute.

     -(He told you ... But, ¿ what are you doing in the music club?) - Says Stephan, who knows the language equally.

     -(Play instruments, of course. But that doesn't matter now ... Stephan, I ... accept your feelings and ... well ... I want to try it).

     -¿¡Eh!? –says Stephan surprised out loud, adds in sign language -. (¡I will strive to you fully correspond me! ¡I promise!).

     From that moment, Stephan and Katrin were together, both had to change school, there was a fire in the previous institute after a few days of the declaration, it was a solution for Stephan, Katrin would leave there after a year. The grateful couple went to the cemetery once or twice per week to thank Alex Pahl, who died in the fire.

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