The Teacher.

her wanting to snatch the cigarette from her lips, but she doesn't move or do anything. Doesn't she see that I'm a teacher? This lousy uniform should mean something. Maybe something like

, not in a park. I think you're old enough to know that.

mber that I smoked with Johan in a classroom near the window. And I feel guilty because I'm not being fair and I'm getting involved where I'm not wanted. This girl is nothing to me, I'm n

ou want, M

e to smoke? What kind

ever, I don't want to deal with you. I've already told

live wi

be a number at the

first time, what Johan said is true. I didn't believe him because he didn't seem like a very sincere guy, he just seemed like someone who lives ruining his life, but that's not true. Just because he smokes doesn'

rip more relaxing. I think about the friends I had and how much I want to go out with them, but I can't, and that annoys me. Why were all my friends my ex's friends? What did I do wrong in my past life? I'm determined to stop by Kamila's house to pick up some things I left behind, and my heart beats very fast, my hand's sweat

ask her to marry me

r's, and the furniture I liked so much. Next time I have a partner, I must remember not to make my life revolve around her. I feel very frustrated and

't, because the words won't come out. Because of her, I've lost everything I worked for a long time, my friends, my job, my house, and most of my belon

stop you, but I'll tell you something Kamila, I'm tired. I won't allow you to keep humiliating me, mu

pay for the dama

I broke in anger a few seconds ago?" Kamila nods more ca

ar. I thought she would start telling me things about her life, but she hasn't said anything, she's been silent watching TV. I see her from behi

the last box to take out. I look around and feel an immense

m the floor. She stands up to look at me and a small s

mber you like kids, you alway

would be worse and today a girl was being a pain in class, but I gues

ight," sh

e it again. I give up on the idea of saying anything else and rush out the doo

g about having to cook when I get to Jeremias' house puts me in a bad mood, plus I should start looking for an apartment, if I keep living with

" he asks, doubtful, and

a program on TV that would catch my attention, but nothing worked, nothing seemed good enough for today. Amid my desperation to have someone to go out with, I turned to Johan, the guy I m

er club and watches movies on her phone at lunchtime, she never looks at me, or the people around her, it's just her and what she's doing at the moment. At fir

wn, the sound of the wood hitting the f

couldn't be friends

nderstand how there are people who think that being a teacher is the best thing or that it will

sighs. "They say you're like another stud

he cafeteria and talk about the people who work there and buy sweets that we both like. I don't feel like part of the teacher's club because most of them are much

n so they don't think they can do whatever they want with me. It's part of the job, every time I remember Kamila's eyes, I fee

courses already, and he likes to do individual assignments and doesn't talk muc

ad, just not in my class, everyone has their groups and t

is a sm

nerd," he ro

yone who studies is a nerd, I'm

nerd in co

re one of the best, but he acts out of it, he smokes, drinks, gets tattoos, and now and then he uses stronger toxic sub

cause I dare say that few people type as fast as he does. I am curious to know what makes him so good at it, or what he

u learn to ty

says nervously. "I

e a beast, he has feelings. I try not to laugh and focus a little more on what he has told me. I didn't know there was a writer

ead how your student and n

" I smile. "I